Akathist by Mykhayl

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UNIVERSAL CHURCH… 71-85 verses (999)

MEDITATION 5

(CHANTER:)
We worship the one solitary God of heaven Who is triune; + in the Father, + and in the Son, + and in the Spirit. * In the first Christian millennium the church was also one in holiness, while universally apostolic serving beyond the judicial Latin canons * and transcending the belief structure of the philosophical Greeks. As with the church of Saints Cyril and Methodius also incorporating * the individual’s desire of aesthetics so dear to the Slavs. Tradition is evangelically tempered for customary orthodox catholic usage.

CHANT 5

(ALL:)
+ Glory be to You O Lord glory be to You
Alleluia, alleluia!

(CLERGY:)
Attention! A reading from Saint John: (Looking up to heaven Jesus prayed) “I am coming to You thus no longer in this world, but they are and You are in this world, so I come to You. Father, * keep through the power of Your holy name those who You have entrusted to Me, * that they may be one as We are One.” (John 17-11)
(ALL:)
+ Glory be to you Our God glory be to You
Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia!

(MAY SIT IF FATIGUED)
(ALL:)
71 Rejoice in glory as Saints Constantine-Cyril and Methodius baptizes the King of Moravia, * Saint Rostislav whose christening starts an internal inferno spreading Slavic Christianity (863).

Glory be for the Khan of Bulgaria Saint Boras was too baptized Michael adding Bulgaria to Christendom,* spreading even into the Roman speaking lands of present day Romania (865).
72 Rejoice in gladness as Saints Constantine–Cyril and Methodius baptizes the King of Pannonia Kochel whose christening spreads * through present day Hungary reaching far into Serbia.

Glory be for after the apparition of the all holy Patroness the defeated co-regents of Rus’ Saints Askold is christened Nicholas * and co-regent Dyr takes the name of Wisdom, thus anchoring Christianity in present day Ukraine (861).

73 Rejoice as Saints Constantine–Cyril and Methodius carry on with the baptism of the Knize of Bohemia Borivoi and Saint Ludmilla * his martyred wife, starting the christening in present day Slovak and Czech lands (874).

Glory be for Latin preaching missionary bishops Saints Adalbert, * Adalbert and Boniface–Bruno likewise crusade onward establishing the boarders of Christ’s Christendom.

74 Rejoice with the understanding that Saint Ludmilla’s pagan grandson Vaclav * was instructed for baptism by the Benedictine monks who names him Wenceslaus (Wenceslas) (929),

Glory be as Mechislav of Poland embarrasses a royal Czech beauty * who embraces the new ritual, which he likewise embraces (966).

75 Rejoice in the historic resolve of the venerable dowry icon marks the event * of princess Anne of Byzantium who is betrothed to the servant of God Volodymyr of Kyiv,

This royal of icons is transferred from the Slavonic sanctuary of Belz to the Latin’s “Bright Hill” monastery, * where after inventive restoration is enshrined as the Chestahova Queen of Poland.

76 Rejoice with resolve that through Galicia Rus’ being annexed, * it becomes the Christian administrative responsibility of Saint Adalbert the bishop of Magdeburg (956),

It is he who answers the missionary request of the Kyivan Regent Saint Oil’ha * for instruction in the orthodox faith after Constantinople ignored her invitation. (961).

77 Rejoice with clarification that the student protégée of Saint Adalbert * Vojtěch takes the name Adalbert to become bishop of Prague.

He has strong objections to baptized Christians dealing * in the profitable trafficking of humans in the Slavic slave trade.

78 Rejoice celebrating Saint Adalbert of Prague who enthusiastically battles * domestic abuses resulting from polygamy and the deceptions of idolatry.

Glory be as this Saint Adalbert finds the first monastery in the Czech lands * securing the teaching of the orthodox faith through the catholic church (993).

79 Rejoice with resolve as Pope Sylvester II (the second) presents a crown * to the Hungarian royals who accepted baptism from Saint Adalbert,

Glory be as Vajk son of Geza is baptized Stephen to be the first new bi-ritualist glorified, * by both Eastern and Western churches after the rift excuse of 1054 (ten-fifty-four).

80 Rejoice acclaiming Saint Adalbert’s biographer Saint Boniface- * -Bruno of Querfurt who the west reveres as patron saint of Ruthenia.

He who was of great aid to the monarch of Kyiv Saint Volodymyr * with a peace of Christ treaty with the Black Sea residents of Petschenegens (1007).

81 Rejoice crediting King Boleslas of Poland who in turn asks Saint Bruno for like assistance * with a peace of Christ treaty with the German dominated Holy Roman Empire,

Sing a requiem for Saint Bruno who in route accepted martyrdom. His bones was ransomed * to Boleslas who entombed them in his cathedral church at Peremyshl with his companions (Przemysl 1008).

82 Pilgrims to the cathedral sanctuary and original sepulcher of bishop Saint Nicholas * in Myra (Turkey) are hassled by Muslim Saracen thugs to this day (2007).

Glory be as Venetian sailors pirate these relics of bishop Saint Nicholas to the bi-ritual Italian port of Bari on May 8th (eighth / os 21, 1087) * as celebrated on Slavonic Julian church calendars despite the scandalous schismatic excuses of 1054 (ten fifty four).

83 Rejoice as the Kyivan monarch Saint Volodymyr’s granddaughter Anna marries the King of French * Henry I (the first) pledging their troth upon Anna’s family Slavonic language gospel-book (1051).

Glory be as the only literate member of the French court she instructs her daughter the Blessed Edigna as a scribe, * who in turn taught from her Puch lime tree hollow hermitage in Germany (1109).

84 Rejoice contemplating the mission of Saint Hyacinth from Krakow * who brought the Dominican brothers and sisters to the monasteries of Pomerania (1217).

From here they evangelized throughout present-day Belarus, * as well as Denmark, Greece, Lithuania, Norway, Poland, Russia, Scotland, Sweden, Turkey, and Ukraine.

85 Rejoice being aware that Metropolitan Nykyta of Kyiv * endorses Byzantination while critical of Latinization in the liturgical ceremonies.

The bishop of Krakow reports: “the Rusyn’s believers are plentiful as the stars in Christ’s heaven * but follow rights invariable to neither the Hellenist’s nor Latin’s ways” (1155).