19 January 2005
DOXASTICON OF SAINT MARK
PLAGAL OF THE FIRST TONE
COME ALL YE ORTHODOX AND ZEALOTS OF PIETY, COME AND BEHOLD THE BATTLE AND UNHEARD-OF VICTORY OF THE DIVINE MARK THAT SURPASSES THE BOUNDS OF HUMAN STRENGTH.
O WONDER! ONE MAN ALONE, ATTIRED WITH THE ARMOUR OF ORTHODOX FAITH, STANDS IN THE HEART OF ITALY COURAGEOUSLY CENSORING JULIAN AND JOHN, AND TRIUMPHANTLY PREVAILING OVER ALL ADVERSARIES, BOTH ALIEN AND OUR OWN.
VERILY THIS IS THE VICTORY WHICH CONQUERS THE WORLD, OUR ORTHODOX FAITH: AND HE WHO IN IT AND BY IT IS WORSHIPPED, CHRIST, THE GOD AND SAVIOUR OF OUR SOULS.
+++++++++++++++++++++++
TROPARION OF SAINT MARK
ALL LAUDABLE AND MOST DIVINE MARK, IN YOU THE CHURCH FOUND A GREAT ZEALOT BY YOUR CONFESSION OF THE HOLY AND SACRED FAITH; FOR THOU HAST CHAMPIONED THE DOCTRINES THAT THE FATHERS TAUGHT AND THOU CASTEST DOWN DARKNESS’ BOASTFUL PRIDE. WHEREFORE PRAY TO CHRIST GOD FOR THEM THAT HONOUR YOU, THAT WE BE GRANTED THE FORGIVENESS OF SINS.
+++++++++++++++++++++++
KONTAKION OF SAINT MARK
CLAD O GODLY-MINDED ONE, WITH AN INVINCIBLE ARMOUR, THOU DASHEST TO PIECES THE PRIDE OF THE WESTERN REBELLION; THOU WAST BROUGHT FORTH AS THE CHAMPION OF ORTHODOXY, AS THE COMFORTER’S OWN INSTRUMENT AND PURE VESSEL. FOR THIS CAUSE, TO YOU, WE CRY OUT,
“REJOICE, O MARK, THOU BOAST OF THE ORTHODOX FLOCK”.
+++++++++++++++++++++++++
THE TESTIMONIES OF THE WESTERN TEACHERS I NEITHER RECOGNIZE NOR ACCEPT. I SURMISE THAT THEY ARE CORRUPTED. THERE CAN BE NO COMPROMISE IN THINGS OF THE ORTHODOX FAITH.
+++++++++++++++++++++++++
John
ps
Where are the Saint Marks of the Orthodox Church today?
Are there Orthodox that neither accept nor recognize the corrupted testimonies of the western teachers?
Are there Orthodox who accept and recognize the corrupted testimonies of the western teachers?
Are there Orthodox who compromise things of the Orthodox Faith?
j