The Synaxis of the Three New Great Hierarchs: A Panegyric, Service, and Akathist in Honor of Saints Photios the Great, Gregory Palamas, and Mark of Ephesus

Publication Data: Etna, CA: Center for Traditionalist Orthodox Studies, 2009
Format: softcover
Number of Pages: 56
Dimensions (l × w × h): 21.3 cm × 13.8 cm × 0.4 cm
Additional Information: multi-color printing, full-color illustrations

   
Panegyric by Bishop Cyprian of Oreoi
Service and Akathist by Monk Gerasimos of the Small Skete of Saint Anna

“Today, on this first Sunday of November, when we celebrate the sacred Synaxis of the Three New Great Hierarchs—Saint Photios the Great (ca. 820–893), Saint Gregory Palamas (1296–1359), and Saint Mark Evgenikos (ca. 1394–1445)—we hear somewhat more clearly the exhortation of Saint Gregory Palamas: ‘Let us ascend to the school of the Fathers’! Today, when the Mystery of Tradition imparted through the Holy Fathers is openly assailed by the syncretistic heresy of ecumenism, it is opportune for us to stress, indeed with singular emphasis, that ‘the teaching of the Scriptures and of the Holy Fathers is truer than the teachings of men.’ Today, the Three Holy New Pillars of Orthodoxy sustain us Orthodox anti-ecumenists in our non-communion with the innovating ecumenists. who do not speak or act according to the Synodikón of Orthodoxy, that is, ‘according to the Divinely-inspired theological teachings of the Saints and the pious mind of the Church.’”
—“Panegyric for the Synaxis of the Three New Great Hierarchs: The Divine Mystery of the Primacy of Truth”

CONTENTS

Panegyric for the Synaxis of the Three New Great Hierarchs
   Bishop Cyprian of Oreoi
Service for the Synaxis of the Three New Great Hierarchs
   Monk Gerasimos of the Small Skete of Saint Anna
Akathist for the Synaxis of the Three New Great Hierarchs
   Monk Gerasimos of the Small Skete of Saint Anna