Feast Day: March 13th & May 29th
The Life of Saint Ipomoni: Saint Ipomoni was demonstrated as an outstanding person who gathered many great virtues, and Spiritual strength. She showed that she had a total sense of her position and circumstances, and her role and what was required, at all levels. She loved the people. She was the Great Mother whom anyone could approach. She shared the anxieties and concerns of her fearful nation and whatever she did was accompanied by Prayer, her meekness, sweetness and consoling words…
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Prayers
Apolytikion: The noble Queen let us Hymn, Ipomoni the Righteous, the pious dove who flew from the world’s disarray towards the dwelling place of Heaven, in unending love, asceticism and humility, crying, shatter, by your Prayers, the shackles of the lawless, O Queen.
Kontakion: Bearing the name of Godly-strengthened Patience, and the most-honoured of the Godly-wise rulers, who shone as a star in Byzantium and blazing among the choirs of the Monastics, with the rays of humility let us praise her, crying out fervently: Hail, O most-praised Mother.
Megalynarion: Hail archetype of patience, pillar of abstinence, unassailable of virtues, O wall and treasury of love, Ipomoni, glorify the horn of pious rulers.
“This Queen with much humility and perseverance appeared to address the two ways of life. Neither at the time of testing was she swayed, nor when she was granted rest, but in each case she did what was required. She joined together intelligence and bravery, more than any other woman. She was distinguished for her chastity. She had completely deep righteousness. We did not know her to do evil to anyone, either men or women. Instead we know that she did much good to many. With what other way can righteousness be shown in practice, other than to never do your own will or show evil towards anyone, but only show good to many?”
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