Akathist by Mykhayl

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(STAND)

STEPSISTERS… 101-120 (1250)
MEDITATION 7

(CHANTER:)
The coins of Caesar seductively entice with their golden glisten. * Too often they are rendered unto neither Caesar nor God but are horded by power greedy ministers * hidden behind glitzy church banners are coffers magnetizing cash. * Absolute power does not confirms infallibility but rather camouflages inability.

CHANT 7

(CLERGY:)

Attention! A reading from Saint Matthew.

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

(CLERGY:)
“Asking “ To sit on Your right hand and the other on Your left, in Your kingdom.” * Jesus answered “ You do not know what you ask. * Are you able to drink the cup I am abut to drink, * and be baptized in the baptism I am baptized with?” (Matt 20:21-2)

(ALL:)
Glory be to you Our God glory be to You

Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia!

(MAY SIT IF FATIGUED)
(ALL:)
101 Rejoice in the resolve that most monasteries of Scythia are bi-ritual housing but headed by Basilian abbots * like the great Saint Procopius who sustains the orthodox faith for the catholic Greco – Roman church of Prague (1053).

The 4th (fourth) Lateran Council calls for suppressing the “old ritual”, dividing it in order to conquer it, * commencing with stifling the multicultural Cyril and Methodius church as legislated in its restrictive Ninth Constitution (1215).

102 Rejoice yet be advised that the Bulgarian organizational bastion of Slavonic Christianity * was destroyed for affairs of state by its orthodox godmother Byzantium.

Slavonic manuscript inscriptions are stopped and scribes enslaved * as their texts and manuscripts are burn while the scriptorium at Peremysyl is disbanded. (1018)

103 Rejoice while considering that the Germans are protectors of the Papacy * so in return they expect due privilege and influence.

Sides are openly drawn, now when the patriarchs are mentioned in public prayers in the east, * none are offered for their brother patriarch of the west, the pope (1054).

104 Rejoice realizing that the trading post of Moscow * is only established in the year 1147 (eleven – forty – seven).

Glory be for Rusyn Prince Roman secures a red (western) safe haven * in Galicia Rus’ (west of Kyiv) in the year 1198 (eleven – ninety – eight).

105 Rejoice despite the shock as Prince Andrei Bogolyubsky connives * establishes his own independent state with its own independent church.

In doing so he sacks the cream of the crop, the venerable treasurers of Kyiv is stolen to Vladimir * along with the present day museum acquisition of the Theotokos icon Pyrohoschna (1169) (Tretyakov Gallery Moscow; Vladimir Mother of God 11c.).

106 Rejoice while deliberate that like father like son our Christian Rus’ Major (far from Kyiv) * will yet again sack Christian Kyiv Rus’ while manipulating a hushed scandal (1203).

In retrospect parallel reports the next year shout out loud of Catholic Venetians sacking Orthodox Constantinople * bellowing with undying agitation to our day as if it happened yesterday (1204).

107 Rejoice even though you query over why Alexander Nevsky knowing * in chasing two rabbits you are likely to catch neither.

What is the strategy to keep Rus’ Minor (near Kyiv) as a Mongolian vessel rather than a Papal ally * further emphasised by driving from Rus’ Major (far from Kyiv) the white (northern) Teutonic Knights Templar out of town (1245).

108 Rejoice despite the perplexity that after the Mongolian Tartars raid the venerable dame (“daum”) Kyiv * the Grecian Metropolitan to Kyiv stages a kidnapping north seemingly by Moscow (1299),

With his spiritual orphans unwelcomed the great westward migration begins * as the Ukrainian brethren gravitate into Galicia-Volynia.

109 Rejoice while pondering why the Patriarch of Constantinople would now forbad * the ordination of Slavic slaves after the Mongolian raids upon Kyiv (1242),

Being kicked while down the Mongol raids not only obliterate great church monuments as the Tithe * but Rus’ itself escalates into an annual enslavement of fifteen myriads (150 thousand, 1439).

110 Rejoice as Danylo of Galician Rus’ (western Rus’) is crowned king, * a sovereign through a Papal bull “as a last resort”.

Unification of Greco and Roman Christians of Bohemia, Moravia, Serbia and Pomerania even if only on paper * join with the Rus’ as one united Christian force to oppose the Islamic Turks (1254).

111 Rejoice and marvel that the first martyrs at the hands of the Tartars * are finally glorified by a gasping church of Ruthenia (Rus’).

This so moved the Tarter Khan into offering concessions of sanctuary to Christians on Ruthenian lands * and respect for Christian houses of worship (1262).

112 Rejoice as interdenominational equality becomes the norm in Lviv * as cathedrals for the Slavonic, for the Latins and for the Armenians operate as good neighbors (1353, 61, 63).

Tandemly the Polish and the Russian clergy autonomously set out to sabotage * the Slavonic Ruthenian orthodox catholic church of Galicia. (1375)

113 Rejoice for a practical solution for the temporal care of the eastern church in Galicia, * stewardship is taken on by the lay fraternals called brotherhoods and sisterhoods (1439),

Glory be while knowing palaces are not built with wagging tongues but with waving bills Constantinople sends their Galician metropolitan through Rus’ Miner (near Kyiv) * soliciting funds before being snagged, sacked, suppressed and supervised in Moscow by Rus’ Major (far from Kyiv).
(1375).

114 Rejoice even while monitoring alternatives after Constantinople’s fall, * while to the conquering Turks old Byzantium is merely an Istanbul (any common metropolitan center)(1453).

Before the corpse is even cold Moscow declares it self the new center not only of Rus’ * but of all Christendom, assured of being the final Rome (1480).

115 Rejoice in the first ever visit of the Patriarch of Constantinople * as he travels the breast of Rus’ Minor (near Kyiv) soliciting gifts,

Better late than never this visitation foreshadows a celebration * of the 600th (six hundredth) anniversary of the baptism of Kyiv Rus’ (Kyiv central, 1587).

116 Rejoice and beware of Greeks bearing gifts * as a new patriarchate is in the air.

Even while Moscow usurps the apostolic linage of metropolitan Kyiv, * Constantinople shuns the mission of Saints Cyril and Methodius as church complicity (1588).

117 Rejoice regardless that the apostolic ormophorea (pallium) of Kyiv is of no significant value to Constantinople * who accepts a bribe not worth the paper to record it for 200 (two hundred) Muscovite gold pieces and 40 sables (1685),

Their new pope and tsar Peter the First of Moscow will enslave the church * by shackling all printing under the control of his autocratic state (1721)

118 Rejoice although scandalized as all Romes were on the move * the first to Avalon. The second to Istanbul and the third to Saint Petersburg (1309-77, 1453-????, 1712-1918).

In front of Saint Isaac’s of Petersburg the equestrian monument of Peter the First point his cossack troops towards Europe * while in front of Kyiv’s Sophia the equestrian tribute of Bohdan the scourge points his kossack knights to engage the First.

119 Rejoice but noy without suspicion as all are again double – crossing themselves * Moscow claims being not only the “new Rome” but even decreeing its local monastery the “new Jerusalem” (Aug 1 1652).

Meanwhile the free Kossack knights secure an omophorion (pallium protection) from the patriarch of Jerusalem * while the shackled Rus’ turns to the first Roman before Nikon’s third Roman episcopal agents infiltrate.
(1620, 1596, 1654)

120 Rejoice considering how wax was once an useless byproduct * of the successful honey export trades of Rus’,

It became a valued profitable commodity in devotional candles and votive tapers * as the burnt offering of the Christian church becomes ever popular.