{"id":188328,"date":"2023-02-19T00:00:42","date_gmt":"2023-02-18T22:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/basilica.ro\/?p=188328"},"modified":"2023-02-18T23:37:31","modified_gmt":"2023-02-18T21:37:31","slug":"orthodox-calendar-february-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/orthodox-calendar-february-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Apostles Archippus, Philemon and Apphia; Sunday of Meatfare of the Last Judgment"},"content":{"rendered":"

Saints Archippus, Philemon and Apphia, Apostles of the Seventy were students and companions of the holy Apostle Paul. In the Epistle to Philemon, the Apostle Paul names Saint Archippus as his companion, and mentions him again in the Epistle to the Colossians (Col. 4:17).<\/strong><\/p>\n

Saint Archippus was bishop of the city of Colossae in Phrygia. Saint Philemon was an eminent citizen of this city, and the Christians gathered in his home to celebrate church services.<\/p>\n

He was also made a bishop by Saint Paul and he went about the cities of Phrygia, preaching the Gospel. Later on, he became archpastor of the city of Gaza.<\/p>\n

Saint Apphia, his wife, took the sick and vagrants into her home, zealously attending to them. She was her husband\u2019s co-worker in proclaiming the Word of God.<\/p>\n

During the persecution against Christians under the emperor Nero (54-68), the holy Apostles Archippus and Philemon and Apphia were brought to trial by the ruler Artocles for confessing faith in Christ.<\/p>\n

Saint Archippus was brutally slashed with knives. After torture, they buried Saints Philemon and Apphia up to the waist in the ground, and stoned them until they died.<\/p>\n

Saint Archippus is also commemorated on November 22.<\/p>\n

Troparion \u2014 Tone 3<\/p>\n

With your whole heart you followed the way of holiness \/ and became a companion of the Apostles, O Archippus. \/ By your word you preached the Faith, \/ and by your life you uprooted evil. \/ Having proved steadfast in contest you were granted the crown of righteousness.<\/p>\n

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Sunday of Meatfare of the Last Judgment<\/h4>\n

Gospel (Matthew 25:31-46)<\/p>\n

When the Son of Man comes in His glory, and all the holy angels with Him, then He will sit on the throne of His glory. All the nations will be gathered before Him, and He will separate them one from another, as a shepherd divides his sheep from the goats. And He will set the sheep on His right hand, but the goats on the left. Then the King will say to those on His right hand, \u2018Come, you blessed of My Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world: for I was hungry and you gave Me food; I was thirsty and you gave Me drink; I was a stranger and you took Me in; I was naked and you clothed Me; I was sick and you visited Me; I was in prison and you came to Me.\u2019 Then the righteous will answer Him, saying, \u2018Lord, when did we see You hungry and feed You, or thirsty and give You drink? When did we see You a stranger and take You in, or naked and clothe You? Or when did we see You sick, or in prison, and come to You?\u2019 And the King will answer and say to them, \u2018Assuredly, I say to you, inasmuch as you did it to one of the least of these My brethren, you did it to Me.\u2019 Then He will also say to those on the left hand, \u2018Depart from Me, you cursed, into the everlasting fire prepared for the devil and his angels: for I was hungry and you gave Me no food; I was thirsty and you gave Me no drink; I was a stranger and you did not take Me in, naked and you did not clothe Me, sick and in prison and you did not visit Me.\u2019 Then they also will answer Him, saying, \u2018Lord, when did we see You hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or sick or in prison, and did not minister to You?\u2019 Then He will answer them, saying, \u2018Assuredly, I say to you, inasmuch as you did not do it to one of the least of these, you did not do it to Me.\u2019 And these will go away into everlasting punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Saints Archippus, Philemon and Apphia, Apostles of the Seventy were students and companions of the holy Apostle Paul. In the Epistle to Philemon, the Apostle Paul names Saint Archippus as his companion, and mentions him again in the Epistle to the Colossians (Col. 4:17). Saint Archippus was bishop of the city of Colossae in Phrygia.…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":415775,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[10012,14337,10011,10010,2104,6568],"class_list":["post-188328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-feasts-and-saints","tag-daily-saints","tag-february-19","tag-life-of-saints","tag-orthodox-saints","tag-saints","tag-saints-of-the-day"],"better_featured_image":{"id":415775,"alt_text":"","caption":"","description":"","media_type":"image","media_details":{"width":517,"height":799,"file":"2022\/02\/judecata-intrebarea-domnului-de-cate-ori-l-am-gasit-in-oameni-139295.jpg","filesize":123227,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"file":"judecata-intrebarea-domnului-de-cate-ori-l-am-gasit-in-oameni-139295-360x360.jpg","width":360,"height":360,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","filesize":41688,"source_url":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/judecata-intrebarea-domnului-de-cate-ori-l-am-gasit-in-oameni-139295-360x360.jpg"}},"image_meta":{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0","keywords":[]}},"post":188328,"source_url":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/judecata-intrebarea-domnului-de-cate-ori-l-am-gasit-in-oameni-139295.jpg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188328\/"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post\/"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6\/"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments\/?post=188328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188328\/revisions\/"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/415775\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/?parent=188328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/?post=188328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/?post=188328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}