Saint
Silouan
September 11th
Troparion (Tone 8)
The barren wilderness thou didst make
fertile with the streams of thy tears; and by deep sighing thou
hast given fruit through thy struggles a hundredfold.
Accordingly, thou hast become a star for the universe, sparkling
with miracles. Therefore, O righteous Father Silouan, intercede
with Christ God to save our souls.
St. Silouan, was born in 1866, of devout parents in Russia. At the age of twenty-seven he received the blessing of St. John of Kronstadt and went to Mt. Athos where he became a monk at the Russian monastery of St. Panteleimon. He received from the Holy Theotokos the gift of unceasing prayer, and was given the vision our Lord Jesus Christ, in glory, in the church of the holy Prophet Elijah adjoining the mill of the monastery. And, like Elijah, he fell into the depths of despair after coming down from that great spiritual exaltation. He was oppressed by profound grief and great temptations for fifteen years, but he kept his faith in Christ. From that experience he wrote: "Keep thy mind in hell, and despair not." He wrote a great deal about the love of God and peacemaking. He reposed on September 24, 1938. His scroll reads: "And there is no end to the love of God."
This Icon is by the hand of Nicholas Papas. It is one of the "cloud of witnesses" at St. Philip Antiochian Orthodox Church in Souderton, Pennsylvania.
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