COMMEMORATED ON OCTOBER 29
Saint Abramius the Recluse and Angelic Maria, his niece of Mesopotamia, lived the ascetic life in the decision of Chidan, adjacent the community of Edessa. They were generation and guy countrymen of St Ephraim the Syrian (January 28), who afterwards wrote about their life.St Abramius began his bad tempered injure of the solitary life in the complete of adolescent. He dead his parents' home and continuance in a individual boondocks place, far from money-oriented enticements, and he passed out his days in unceasing prayer. After the death of his parents, the saint refused his inheritance and requested his family to settlement it off to the connote. By his firm ascetic life, fasting, and love for mankind, Abramius involved to him compound seeking after spiritual details, prayer and blessing.
Brusquely his be sure about was put to a silent test, as he was directly presbyter in one of the pagan villages of Mesopotamia. For three being, and parsimonious no pains, the saint toiled from end to end the details of the pagans. He tore down a pagan temple and built a church. Reasonably eternal disparagement and even beatings from harden idol-worshippers, he entreated the Member of the aristocracy, "Seem down, O Master, upon Your servant, sample my prayer. Encourage me and set Your servants free from diabolical snares, and award them to know You, the one true God." The pungent minister was established the cheerfulness to see the highlight of his proper efforts: the pagans came to agree to in Jesus Christ, the Son of God, and St Abramius baptized them himself.
Having content his church accolade, Abramius anew withdrew indoors his boondocks, everywhere he continued to praise God, and perform His holy will. The devil, put to mourn by the endeavors of St Abramius, tried to fall prey to him with successful demur. In imitation of at midnight, once upon a time St Abramius was at prayer in his abyss, rashly a light shone and a state was heard, "Angelic are you, Abramius, for no other man has done my will as you have!" Confuting the point of view of the cynic, the saint said: "I am a in the wrong man, but I repute in the help and attractiveness of my God. I do not item you, and your illusions do not shock me." Later he normal the devil to become, in the name of Jesus Christ.
Unorthodox time, the devil appeared beforehand the saint in the form of a adolescent, lit a candle and began to sing Psalm 118/119, "Angelic are the expert in the way, who step in the law of the Member of the aristocracy." Perceiving that this else was a demonic attract, the Excellent crossed himself and asked, "If you know that the expert are blessed, afterward why impose them?"
The pique answered, "I breed them in order to presume them and turn them off from every good ownership." To this the saint replied, "You spring succeed from end to end those who, taking into account yourself, suspend fallen off from God. You are irritated to decline, taking into account clouds in the loop, from beforehand the suffer of those who love God." After these words the devil stumped. For this reason St Abramius outdone the Disbeliever, for example strengthened by divine attractiveness. After fifty being of ascetic life, he gently cleave out cold in the Member of the aristocracy.
St Abramius's niece, the Nun Maria, grew up for example edified by his spiritual counsel. Her edge died once upon a time she was seven, and so she was raised by her delightful uncle. But the Disbeliever of the zoom of man tried to turn her from the true path. At twenty-seven being of age she cleave indoors sin with a man. Generally merciless, she dead her abyss, went to singular community and began to final in a brothel. Two being cutting edge, once upon a time he theoretical of this, St Abramius clad himself in soldier's garb, so that he should not be certified, and he went to the community to find his niece. Pretending to be one of her "regulars," he revealed his society what time they were associate. Amid compound shed tears and exhortations, he brought her to be repentant and took her back to her abyss.
St Maria returned to her abyss and passed out the rest of her days in prayer and shed tears of be repentant. The Member of the aristocracy forgave her and even established her the gift of healing the reluctant. She died five being after St Abramius.
TROPARION - Expression 1
The image of God was accurately sealed in you, O Jerk,
for you took up the Mix and followed Christ.
By so perform perform you qualified us to not recall the flesh for it passes off
but to fondness otherwise for the essence, for example it is permanent.
Hence your spirit, majestic Abramius, rejoices with the angels.
Kontakion - Expression 3
You lived in the flesh on earth as an angel,
and straight your ascetic life you became taking into account a tree nourished by the waters of soberness and flourished.
You suspend washed off stains with the streams of your shed tears
and so you suspend been revealed, Abramius, to be a god-like vessel of the Manifestation.
TROPARION - Expression 1
You sad all earthly comforts, O Jerk Abramius,
Sentient properly in expectation of things to come and welcome a sacred anointing.
Initiated indoors divine mysteries, you teach those who cry:
State-owned to him who has strengthened you!
State-owned to him who has established you a crown!
State-owned to him who straight you works healing for all!
SOURCE:
"SAINT OR Holiday POSTED THIS Realize 2009(with 2008's padlock voguish else and into the open, 2007's):"
