VESPERS PROPERS: 09-01_Indiction_Vespers_pod
DIVINE LITURGY PROPERS: 09-01_Indiction_DL
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The Gospel Reading, for the Beginning of the Church Year, is Luke 4:16-22, in which talks about Christ’s mission. When Jesus goes to the Synagogue and reads from the Propet Isaiah the following from which he proclaims after reading it that “Today this Scripture is fulfilled in your hearing.”:
“18 “The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me,
Because He has anointed Me
To preach the gospel to the poor;
He has sent Me [a]to heal the brokenhearted,
To proclaim liberty to the captives
And recovery of sight to the blind,
To set at liberty those who are [b]oppressed;
19 To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord.”
Information from the Metropolitan Cantor Institute regarding the Boyzantine Catholic Church Year: https://archpitt.org/the-liturgical-year-according-to-the-byzantine-tradition/
Among the ancient Mediterranean cultures, it was common to begin a new year in the autumn, with the end of the previous year’s harvest. From at least the time of the Emperor Constantine, the civil year of the Byzantine (Eastern Roman) Empire began in September, and September 1 became the first day of the Church’s year as well. On this day, the Church’s readings from the Old and New Testament announce “a year of grace of the Lord”, and encourage Christians to pray for the needs of all. In the Troparion of the New Year, we sing: “O Lord, maker of the universe, who alone has power over times and seasons, bless this year with your bounty, preserve our country in peace, and keep your people in peace.”
Also, on September 1st, we commemorate Simeon, Venerable. Saint Simeon Stylites, also called Simeon The Elder. He was a Syrian monk who was the first known stylite or pillar hermit. He was called Simeon the Elder in order to distinguish him from a 6th-century stylite also named Simeon.
