The Meeting of Our Lord, God, and Savior Jesus Christ.
Martyr Agathadorus of Tyana in Cappadocia. New Martyr Jordan of Trebizond, at Constantinople (1650). New Hieromartyr Gabriel, hierodeacon, of Constantinople (1676). St. Anthimus of Chios (1960).
Repose of Schemamonk Seraphim of Valaam (1860).
Tuesday. [Jude 1:1–10; Luke 22:39–42,
45–23:1]
The Meeting of the Lord. At this meeting the Lord is
surrounded on the one side by Simeon—righteousness
which awaits salvation, but not in righteousness itself,
and Anna—a life of strict fasting and prayer, made
alive by faith; and on the other side by substantial,
comprehensive and steadfast purity—the Virgin Mother
of God, and by humble, silent submission and devotion to
the will of God—Joseph the Betrothed. Transfer all
of these spiritual attitudes to your heart and you will
meet the Lord; not carried to you, but coming to you
Himself. You will take Him into the embrace of your heart,
and you will sing a hymn which will pass throughout the
heavens and gladden all the angels and saints.