Homilies on Holiness and the Saints - The Apostles (Metr. Hierotheos of Nafpaktos)

  

The Apostles

 

By Metropolitan Hierotheos of Nafpaktos and Agiou Vlasiou

Among the saints are the Apostles of Jesus Christ. These are the twelve disciples of Christ, whom Christ called to the Apostolic office, who after Pentecost ran throughout the world and founded the local Churches. The Apostles include the Apostle Paul, who did not know Christ while He was alive, but knew Him by the Holy Spirit and that is why He is also an Apostle and in fact a Foremost one, together with the Apostle Peter.

The word apostle comes from the verb "send" and denotes one who is sent by someone to fulfill a mission.

Saint Philip the Apostle Resource Page

St. Philip the Apostle (Feast Day - November 14)

Verses

Your feet were fastened on the cross O Philip,

Those feet that were washed by the Savior are avenged.

Philip on the fourteenth was lifted upside down.

Holy Apostle Philip, One of the Twelve

Saint Philip the Apostle as a Model for our Lives

November: Day 14: Teaching 1: Holy Apostle Philip

The Fate of the Relics of the Apostle Philip

Translation of the Sacred Relics of the Apostle Philip to Cyprus

The Tomb of the Apostle Philip Discovered In Hierapolis

Ecumenical Patriarch In Hierapolis, Where the Apostle Philip Was Martyred

How I Discovered the Tomb of the Apostle Philip: Interview With Archaeologist Francesco D’Andria

On the Mission of the Apostles (Hymns by St. Romanos the Melodist)

Saint Stachys, Bishop of Hierapolis

Synaxis of the Holy Twelve Apostles: Gospel and Epistle Reading

Synaxis of the Holy Twelve Apostles

June 30th

Prokeimenon. Mode Plagal 4.
Psalm 18:4,1

Their voice has gone out into all the earth.

Verse: The heavens declare the glory of God.

Προκείμενον. Ήχος πλ. δ'.
Ψαλμοί 18:4,1

Εἰς πᾶσαν τὴν γῆν ἐξῆλθεν ὁ φθόγγος αὐτῶν.

Στίχ. Οἱ οὐρανοὶ διηγοῦνται δόξαν Θεοῦ.

St. Paul's First Letter to the Corinthians 4:9-16

English

Brethren, God has exhibited us apostles as last of all, like men sentenced to death; because we have become a spectacle to the world, to angels and to men. We are fools for Christ's sake, but you are wise in Christ. We are weak, but you are strong. You are held in honor, but we in disrepute. To the present hour we hunger and thirst, we are ill-clad and buffeted and homeless, and we labor, working with our own hands. When reviled, we bless; when persecuted, we endure; when slandered, we try to conciliate; we have become, and are now, as the refuse of the world, the off-scouring of all things. I do not write this to make you ashamed, but to admonish you as my beloved children. For though you have countless guides in Christ, you do not have many fathers. For I became your father in Christ Jesus through the gospel. I urge you, then, be imitators of me.