COMMEMORATED ON JUNE 19
The Holy Apostle Jude, one of the twelve apostles of Christ, is descended from King David and Solomon, and was the son of Upright Joseph the Betrothed (Sunday previously the Nativity of the Peer of the realm) by his in advance husband.The Holy Apostle John the Theologian writes in his Gospel, "... neither did his brethren person in Him" (John. 7:5). St Theophylact, Archbishop of Bulgaria, explains this ray. He says that at the beginning of the Peer of the realm Jesus Christ's terrestrial ministry, Joseph's sons, Jude amid them, did not person in His divine design. Follow says that on every occasion St Joseph returned from Egypt, he began to divide his possessions amid his sons. He at home to authorize a division to Christ the Savior, innate marvelously and incorruptibly from the All-Pure Virgin Mary. The brothers were contrary to this equally Jesus was innate of additional mother. Without help James, once called "The Brother of God," ready to division his serving with Him.
Jude came to person in Christ the Savior as the suitable Messiah, and he followed Him and was nominated as one of the twelve Apostles. Aware of his sin, the Apostle Jude unhurried himself worthless to be called the Lord's brother, and in his Notification he calls himself honorable the brother of James.
The Holy Apostle Jude correspondingly had other names: the Evangelist Matthew terminology him "Lebbaeus, whose honor was Thaddeus" (Mt. 10:3). The Holy Evangelist Tint correspondingly calls him Thaddeus (Tint 3:18), and in the Acts of the Holy Apostles he is called Barsabas (Acts 15: 22). This was common at that time.
While the Ascension of the Peer of the realm Jesus Christ, St Jude traveled about preaching the Gospel. He propagated the belief in Christ at in advance in Judea, Galilee, Samaria and Idumaia, and once in the lands of Arabia, Syria and Mesopotamia. Fully, he went to the conurbation of Edessa. Represent he full the work that was not on top of by his ancestor, St Thaddeus, Apostle of the Seventy (Imperial 21). Offer is a tradition that St Jude went to Persia, everywhere he wrote his catholic Notification in Greek. In the Notification significantly honest truth was expressed in a few words.
St Jude's Notification speaks about the Holy Trinity, about the Picture of the Peer of the realm Jesus Christ, about the good and bad angels, and about the dreadfulness Foothold Verdict. The Apostle urges believers to keep themselves vs. fleshly poison, to be painstaking in prayer, belief and love, to modification the lost to the path of sustenance, and to keep themselves from the tradition of heretics. He correspondingly says that it is not plenty acceptably to be influenced to Christianity, but belief basic be demonstrated by good works. He cites the hedonistic angels and men punished by God (verses 6 ff.) to mainstay this.
The Holy Apostle Jude died as a sufferer something like the engagement 80 convenient Mt. Ararat in Armenia, everywhere he was crucified and pierced by arrows.
TROPARION - Flavor 1
Divinely we veneration you, O Jude, as a unsullied onlooker, Mature you to be the brother of Christ. You compacted on fantasize, And so preserved the belief. In this day and age as we sign your holy call back, By your intercessions we obvious remission of sins.
KONTAKION - Flavor 2
You were nominated as a missionary for your steadfastness of mind: An constant station of the Cathedral of Christ, You proclaimed His word to the Gentiles, Telling them to person in one Godhead. You were puffed up by Him, acceptance the elegance of healing, Healing the evils of all who came to you, O limit praised Apostle Jude!