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What does synaxis mean and what exactly is being celebrated on this feastday?
Dec. 26--Synaxis of the Mother of God
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A synaxis is an assembly for worship. In particular, it refers to certain commemorations falling on the day immediately following a great feast, and connected somehow with the feast itself. The Slavonic term is Sobor. For example, on December 26, we commemorate the Mother of God; on January 7, the day after Theophany, we commemorate St. John the Forerunner and Baptist; on March 26, we commemorate the archangel Gabriel. On June 30, immediately after the feast of Ss. Peter and Paul, we commemorate the Twelve Apostles. Each of these commemorations has proper prayers and hymns. The Menaion (such as the December [ metropolitancantorinstitute.org] volume on the Metropolitan Cantor Institute website) usually contains explanations of each. Yours in Christ, Jeff Mierzejewski
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Dear Friends,
In a number of our parish calendars, the feast of December 26 is dedicated to . . . the Holy Family (?).
A Latinization?
Is there Orthodox veneration for the Holy Family?
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November 8th is also the Synaxis of All the Incorporeal Powers as well as the Feast of St. Michael the Archangel.
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Originally posted by Orthodox Catholic:
In a number of our parish calendars, the feast of December 26 is dedicated to . . . the Holy Family (?).
On the one hand, the 1905 Sluzhebnik and Father Sherephy's "Liturgical Year of the Byzantine Slavonic Rite" both give December 26 as the Synaxis of the Most Holy Mother of God _and_ Saint Joseph her spouse, and also Saint Euthemius. Whereas the 1940's Roman reform of our rite just gives the Synaxis of the Mother of God, and Saint Euthemius. ON THE OTHER HAND, the Prologue from Ochrid adds a commemoration of the flight into Egypt on December 26, immediately after the notice of the Synaxis, so it looks like SOME kind of commemoration of the Holy Family is not simply a Latinization, but had an analogue in Orthodoxy. Yours in Christ, Jeff
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We don't have a commemoration of the Holy Family as such, but as Jeff suggests the theme is quite compatible with that of the Flight into Egypt, and of course with the Meeting of the Lord etc. It's a comparatively recent addition to the Roman Rite; as I recall, the Latin texts for Holy Family are quite nice.
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Dear Friends,
However, I am brought to understand that the Holy Family should NEVER be a subject of an Eastern icon (although it often is).
That St Joseph should be portrayed as a guardian to Christ only etc.
What say you, O Wise Men of the East?
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I would also like further explanation of why the Holy Family is not to be written as an Icon?
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