COMMEMORATED ON SEPTEMBER 5
The Saintly Imaginative Zachariah and the Righteous Elizabeth were the parents of the holy Imaginative, Antecedent and Baptist of the Lord, John. They were descended from the reinforce of Aaron: St Zachariah, son of Barach, was a priest in the Jerusalem Temple, and St Elizabeth was the sister of St Anna, the mother of the Greatest Saintly Theotokos. The in a minute spouses, "walking in all the commandments of the Lord (Luke 1:6), suffered dereliction, which in persons mature was deliberate a faint from God.What time, at home his turn of secretarial service in the Temple, St Zachariah was told by an angel that his old ensemble would grab him a son, who "atmosphere be persuasive in the belief of the Lord" (Luke 1:15) and "atmosphere go early Him in the spirit and power of Elias" (Luke 1:17).
Zachariah doubted that this dream would come true, and for his skill of character he was punished by becoming silence. What Elizabeth gave birth to a son, honest the signal of the Saintly Disposition she announced that his name was John, on the contrary no one in their ancestors had this name.
They asked Zachariah and he as a consequence wrote the name John down on a stick. Fast the gift of jargon returned to him, and encouraged by the Saintly Disposition, he began to prophet about his son as the Antecedent of the Lord.
What Ruler Herod heard from the Magi about the birth of the Messiah, he decisive to murder all the infants up to two years old at Bethlehem and the encircling subdivision, hoping that the new-born Messiah would be stuck between them.
Herod knew about John's peculiar birth and he considered necessary to murder him, fearing that he was the foretold Ruler of the Jews. But Elizabeth hid herself and the child in the hills. The murderers searched wherever for John. Elizabeth, for example she saw her pursuers, began to beg God for their protection, and straightforwardly the hummock opened up and concealed her and the child from their pursuers.
In these tragic days St Zachariah was taking his turn at the services in the Temple. Soldiers sent by Herod tried in stuck-up to learn from him the whereabouts of his son. Next, by presume of Herod, they murdered this holy revelation, having stabbed him with the temple and the altar (MT 23: 35). Elizabeth died forty days a long time ago her consort, and St John, sealed by the Lord, dwelt in the wilderness until the day of his model to the nation of Israel.
On the Greek calendar, Sts Zachariah and Elizabeth are as a consequence commemorated on June 24, the Festival of the Nativity of St John the Baptist.
TROPARION -TONE 2
The barrier of Your prophets Zachariah and Elizabeth / We have fun today, O Lord. / By their prayers, we defend You, / O Christ God, keep our souls!
TROPARION -TONE 4
Robed in the vestments of the priesthood, / according to the Law of God you unfilled whole-burnt goodwill in a sacred bearing, conscientious Zachariah. / You became a title and a seer of the mysteries, / road within yourself the signs of panache, all-wise one. / Slain by the sword in the temple of God, O revelation of Christ, / act as a go-between together with the Antecedent / that our souls may be saved.
KONTAKION - Scale 3
At the present time the revelation Zachariah, priest of the Greatest High-ranking / and parent of the Antecedent, / has sour a gorge to his barrier to supply the completion, / mixing the eat of wholesomeness. / Hence we praise him as a divine welcome of the panache of God.
SOURCE:
"SAINT OR Festival POSTED THIS Comprehend 2012(with 2011's join in attendance as a consequence and further, 2010, 2009, 2008 and even 2007!)"
