COMMEMORATED ON SEPTEMBER 13
The Determination of the Forehead of the New beginning of Christ at Jerusalem celebrates the dedication of the Place of worship of the New beginning, built by St Constantine the Huge and his mother, the empress Helen.Once upon a time the for love Initiative and Fatal outcome on the Troublesome of our Lord and Rescuer Jesus Christ, the holy place of His exert yourself was want very much compressed on by pagans. As soon as the Roman ruler Titus dominated Jerusalem in the year 70, he razed the metropolitan area and vanished the Forehead of Solomon on Elevation Moriah, departure offer not a stone upon a stone, as even the Rescuer foretold (Mt.13:1-2).
Later than on the fervent pagan ruler Hadrian (117-138) built on the site of the Jerusalem vanished by Titus a new metropolitan area named Aelia Capitolina for him (Hadrian Aelius). It was forbidden to title the metropolitan area by its original name.
He gave briefing to extension the Hallowed Sober of the Lord with earth and stones, and on that scrap to set up an idol. On Golgotha, where the Rescuer was crucified, he constructed a pagan temple stout to the goddess Venus in 119. Before the statues they accommodating pay to demons and performed pagan money, accompanied by conscious acts.
In Bethlehem, at the place the Rescuer was uneducated of the All-Pure Virgin, the shameless ruler set up an idol of Adonis. He did all this on purpose, so that staff would fail to take completely about Christ the Rescuer and that they would no loner venerate the places where He lived, qualified, suffered and arose in success.
At the beinning of the hegemony of St Constantine the Huge (306-337), the head of state of the Roman emperors to direct the Christian religion, he and his pious mother the empress Helen contracted to make well the metropolitan area of Jerusalem. They as well purposeful to build a church on the site of the Lord's exert yourself and New beginning, in order to reconsecrate and fumigate the places connected with storage area of the Rescuer from the angrily of opposed pagan cults.
The empress Helen journeyed to Jerusalem with a extensive plane of gold, and St Constantine the Huge wrote a take in to Patriarch Macarius I (313-323), requesting him to encourage her in every practical way with her errand of the renewing the Christian holy places.
Once upon a time her look in Jerusalem, the holy empress Helen vanished all the pagan temples and reconsecrated the places debased by the pagans. She was fervent to find the Troublesome of our Lord Jesus Christ, and she structured the target of the place where the temple of Venus stood. Give to they discovered the Sepulchre of the Lord and Golgotha, and they as well found three crosses and some nails.
In order to operate upon which of the three crosses the Rescuer was crucified, Patriarch Macarius gave briefing to place a dead body, who was seeing that carried to a place of assets, upon each annoyed in turn. As soon as the dead body was placed on the Troublesome of Christ, he immediately came bubbly. Together with the finest of joy the empress Helen and Patriarch Macarius raised up the Life-Creating Troublesome and displayed it to all the staff standing about.
The holy empress candidly began the border of a extensive church which encircled within its ramparts Golgotha, the place of the Crucifixion of the Rescuer, and the Sepulchre of the Lord, positioned finish each other. The holy Apostle and Evangelist John wrote about this: "Now in the place where He was crucified, offer was a garden, and in the garden a new catacomb, in which no one had yet been laid. So they laid Jesus offer to the same degree of the Jewish live out day, for the catacomb was reach" (John 19:41-42). The Place of worship of the New beginning was ten existence in compilation, and the holy empress Helen did not rise to see its tight. She returned to Constantinople, and reposed in the year 327. Once upon a time her look in Jerusalem, the holy empress built churches in Bethlehem, on the Elevation of Olives, at Gethsemane and in manifold other places connected with the life of the Rescuer and accomplishments in the New Testament.
The border of the church of the New beginning, called "Martyrion" in storage area of the sufferings of the Rescuer, was thorough in the incredibly year as the Council of Tyre, and in the thirtieth year of the hegemony of St Constantine the Huge. So, at the senate of September 13, 335, the dedication of the temple was particularly burial chamber. Hierarchs of Christian Churches in manifold lands: Bythnia, Thrace, Cilicia, Cappadocia, Syria, Mesopotamia, Phoenicia, Arabia, Palestine, and Egypt, participated in the dedication of the church. The bishops who participated in the Council of Tyre, and manifold others, went to the dedication in Jerusalem. On this day all the metropolitan area of Jerusalem was blessed. The Fathers of the Place of worship place September 13 as the commemoration of this nosy job.
TROPARION - Intonation 4
As You did dowry from on Fine the formality of the Space,So You did dowry on earth the formality of the home-made of Your Hallowed Glory!Make it stand frozen eternally, and corridor offer the supplicationsWhich we tender You persistently point the Theotokos,O Natural life and New beginning of All!
