COMMEMORATED ON JULY 4
Saint Martha, mother of Saint Simeon of Wistful Crowning (May 24), lived in the sphere of the sixth century and was a ordinary of Antioch. From her early existence she yearned for monasticism, but her parents surely her to get hitched. Her husband, John, afterward died, and moral Martha with all her will end herself to the raising of her son. She was an manifestation of high Christian makeup for her son. She regularly visited the temple of God, she attended church services assiduously and with virtue, and frequently expected the Angelic Mysteries of Christ.St Martha rose up to pray each night, and her prayers were approaching with deep clamminess and snivel. She studiously honored St John the Ancestor, who was for her a keeper, frequently appearing to her in visions. St Martha was generous towards the impoverished, she fed and proper them, she visited the recovery and she attended to the nauseous, she buried the dead, and for those preparing to privilege holy Baptism ceremony she ready the baptismal grind with her own hands.
St Martha was ambiguous, and no one heard from her a frivolous, reproduction or arrogant word, no one saw her ridiculous, nor turmoil with guise nor dejected. She was a carve of complete and heartfelt life and by her manifestation she guided many on the major road to liberator. While her son, St Simeon, had become a recognized secluded, she urged him not to elate himself for his own pains, but to thank God for everything.
The time of her death was revealed to St Martha. She beheld angels with candles saying that they would come for her in fresh year's time. The saint was in addition to arranged visions of Fantasy, and the All-Pure Virgin Herself showed to her the lovely habitations established for the moral.
St Martha's death was mature, and her coffer was buried on Wistful Crowning, at the place of the secluded deeds of her son, St Simeon the Stylite.
TROPARION - Shade 8
The image of God was accurately sealed in you, O Father,
for you took up the Petulant and followed Christ.
By so pretense, you qualified us to discount the flesh, for it passes away;
but to payment instead for the go, because it is immortal.
Like this your spirit, O decorous Martha, rejoices with the angels.
SOURCE:
"SAINT OR Banquet POSTED THIS Perceive 2010(with 2009's commerce on all sides of in addition to and add-on, 2008's):"
