Tuesday
Oct. 14/27 ns / 2026
• Holy Martyrs Nazários, Gervásios,
Protásios, and Célsios;
• St. Cosmás the Hymnographer,
Bishop of Maïouma;
• St. Paraskevé the New of Epivat
Nazários was born in Rome of a Jewish father and a Christian mother. His mother, Perpetua, was baptized by the Apostle Peter himself. Confessing his mother's Faith, Nazários sincerely fulfilled all the precepts of the Church. Fearlessly preaching the Gospel, Nazários went to Milan. There, he found the Christians Gervásios and Protásios in prison, and ministered to them with great love. Learning of this, the local eparch ordered Nazários to be beaten and driven from the city. His mother came to him in a vision and told him to go to Gaul, and to preach the Gospel there; and this is what Nazários did.
After several years, Nazários returned to Milan-this time with a disciple, the young man Celsus, whom he had baptized in Gaul. There he found the brothers Gervásios and Protásios still in prison, and he was soon thrown in with them by the governor Anulinus. Christ's martyrs rejoiced because of this reunion brought about by God's providence. Emperor Nero ordered Nazários slain, and the governor brought Nazários and Celsus out of prison and beheaded them. Soon after that, General Astazius, passing through Milan enroute to battle against the Moravians, beheaded St. Gervásios along with St. Protásios. He had heard that these two brothers would not sacrifice to idols, and fearing that he might lose the battle by losing favor with his false gods, he commanded that they be executed immediately. Gervásios and Protásios were twins, born of the blessed parents Vitalius and Valeria, who were also martyred for the Faith.
The relics of St. Nazários were translated by St. Ambrose from a garden outside the city to the Church of the Holy Apostles. The relics of St. Gervásios and St. Protásios were revealed to him in a miraculous vision.
Colossians 2:20-3:3 KJV
20 Wherefore if ye be dead with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, are ye subject to ordinances,
21 (Touch not; taste not; handle not;
22 Which all are to perish with the using;) after the commandments and doctrines of men?
23 Which things have indeed a shew of wisdom in will worship, and humility, and neglecting of the body: not in any honour to the satisfying of the flesh.
3 If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God.
2 Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth.
3 For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.
Saint Luke 8:1-3 KJV
8 And it came to pass afterward, that he went throughout every city and village, preaching and shewing the glad tidings of the kingdom of God: and the twelve were with him,
2 And certain women, which had been healed of evil spirits and infirmities, Mary called Magdalene, out of whom went seven devils,
3 And Joanna the wife of Chuza Herod's steward, and Susanna, and many others, which ministered unto him of their substance.
Ascetical homlies are treasures from the saints that bring crucial clarity to our spiritual status and that greatly facilitate and expedites our transition from the Struggle to Illumination.
ON ETERNAL LIFE
St. John of Kronstadt
When you glorify a pious neighbor, you glorify God. When you do good to your neighbor, you do good to yourself, for we are one body.
Read on and don't miss a word.
When you do good to your neighbor, you make God your debtor, for your neighbor is God’s image and God is all in all. When you do good to a Christian, you make Christ, the Son of God, your debtor, for Christians are His Body and His members. When you lend to a Christian, you lend to the Holy Spirit, for Christians are temples of the Holy Spirit. “Do you not know that you are the temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you?” (1 Corinthians 3:16).
1. Lord, deprive me not of
Thy heavenly good things.
A MUTUAL EXPERIENCE DURING CONFESSION
While confessing to God from the heart before the priest, emptying it of sin with tears, whether wet or dry, in sincere sorrow and regret for our offences against LOVE itself - that Is CHRIST; who among us hasn't gently felt Him listening and already blessing us with a dew drop of forgiveness that lifts us from sorrow and then in the end, gives the treasure that confirms that He has washed us completely clean and we are void of everything and only He remains?
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