Saint George Karslides, the New Confessor of Drama

Feast Day: November 4th

The Life of Saint George: During the Preparation of the elements [for the Divine Liturgy], God would inform him of the Spiritual state of those he commemorated, both the living and the dead. With great Pastoral discernment he would pass the information on to his Parishoners, either to encourage them to Pray more fervently for the Souls of the deceased or to bring sinners to repentance…

2021 – Sermon – He is a consolation and a comfort to all who call upon his name.

2020 – Sermon – With tears he would Pray for the repentance of this person.

Prayers

Akathist Hymn

Apolytikion: Let us the faithful honour with hymns Venerable George, the founder of the honourable Monastery of the Ascension, the teacher of the Prayer of the Heart, of humbleness and vigilance, as a new boast of the Confessors, crying: Protect by Divine support, O Passion-bearer, all those who pray to thee!

Kontakion: Let us worthily praise in pious hymns the untiring worker of virtue, who by the plow of love and true faith made souls fruitful and founded in the latter times the Monastery of the Ascension in Drama, crying: Rejoice, O blessed George!

Prayer: He who hid a most-healthy heart in a sickly body, and had continuous memory of death, O George, surnamed Karslides, the ever-memorable, let us sweetly praise him with hymns, for he took up the Cross of the Lord upon his shoulders unflinchingly, and passed through the stadium of Asceticism, founding the Monastery of His Ascension in Drama, which was shown forth as a workshop of Prayer and righteousness. Within her, he completed the struggle well, and from death proceeded towards life to be united with Christ, Who bestows upon the world the great and rich mercy.

Prayer: Come, O band who loves the righteous ones, let us praise the Righteous one among Confessors, and spirit-bearing teacher of piety, George, the founder of the Monastery of the Ascension, and cry out with joyous Souls: he who endured hardship and troubles in humility as an all-radiant lamp in years trying for the ranks of the Orthodox, enlighten my mind to meditate on the Law of the Lord, and to Confess the name of the Lord in every instance, Who grants to us through your Prayers the great Mercy.

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and to this day he is a consolation and a comfort to all those who call upon his name.