According to various revelations there are twenty such obstacles, the so-called "toll-houses," at each of which one or another form of sin is tested; after passing through one the soul comes upon the next one, and only after successfully passing through all of them can the soul continue its path without being immediately cast into gehenna. His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros (Lambriniadis) of America was born in 1967 in Bakirky, Istanbul. I've visited St. John's relics in San Francisco twice in 2011.The healing of my soul and body started when I first stepped into church and still continues today. My grandmother passed away 2 months later, I was with her and I am so grateful that I could spend these last weeks with her.Elena LewisCranial abnormalities disappear overnight!Received August 14, 2013, TestimonialDouglas WirnowskiResuscitation of our son at birthReceived June 19, 2013, We've chosen to have home births for several reasons, and the first two experiences were wonderful so we found another midwife in 2011 during seminary for our third child. The next thing I found out was that driving to the Holy Virgin Cathedral "Joy of all who sorrow" would take me about a couple of hours. Before thy firm support of prayer, we cry with faith:Rejoice, sight to those who are blind.Rejoice, thou who by the power of prayer givest life to those on their bed of death.Rejoice, thou who with divine wisdom dost enlighten those in confusion and doubt.Rejoice, refreshing water to those perishing in the heat of sorrow.Rejoice, loving father to the orphaned and abandoned.Rejoice, holy teacher of those who seek the Truth.Rejoice, O holy hierarch, Father John, speedy helper amid misfortunes! Saint John Maximovitch, pray to Christ our God for the Holy Orthodox Church, for the world, and for us all. We believe that Saint John prayed for us along with other saints. I am writing this miracle that happened through the intercession of Saint John Maximovich to glorify God that works through His saint and also to give thanks to Saint John for not forgetting us the sinners and helping us. My son Daniel is now 10 months, he is a healthy and happy baby, and we constantly thank St. John for helping to bring him in this world.VeraGratitude to St. JohnReceived June 24, 2014 , . And in this too, there is much uproar and great and indescribable turbulence as to who shall take that wretched soul. But just as at the hour of death the dead body is surrounded by relatives and friends, so also is the soul, which abandons the body and is directed towards its heavenly homeland, accompanied by the spiritual beings related to it. We went to every possible doctor to determine the cause of not having a child. Deliver us also from bondage to sin and the invisible foe, that, rejoicing, we may cry out to God: Alleluia! Valentina A. recounted that her daughter, an architect by profession, had a swelling in her breast. , , . My eye hurt terribly. For several days, her son would occasionally cough, but the convulsive fits did not return, and he became quite well. By the time we got home the headaches were in full force again. A few years ago we lived in San Francisco and that's where I first heard about St. John. The completely opposite happens with those who have repented: for near the holy servants of God there are now angels and good spirits standing by, surrounding and protecting them, and when they depart from the body, the choir of angels receive their souls to themselves, to the pure aeon. Eph 6:12), the writings of all the Church Fathers (both ancient and modern) and throughout the prayers of the Church. KONTAKION IVOverwhelmed by the tempest of perils, we know not how to praise thee worthily, O Hierarch John. OIKOS XThou art a wall sheltering us from adversity, O father John, for through thy heavenly intercessions are we delivered from the attacks of demonic passions and from afflictions which beset us on earth. You can also read about many of his miracles and responses to his letters here. Have faith and the Lord will heal you. 11 views, 1 likes, 0 loves, 1 comments, 0 shares, Facebook Watch Videos from St. Mary's Episcopal Church: St. Mary's Episcopal Church was live. * Hence, thy name is glorified throughout the East and West, * for thou didst shine forth with the grace * of the Sun of Righteousness, O John, our beloved shepherd. And it was close to kids' school as well. * As a hierarch filled with grace and zeal for piety, * do thou save us from the foes of apostolic truth, * for we cry to thee: * Rejoice, O great wonderworker John. I asked her why she was weeping and all she could say was that everything was fine. ", This same Father also teaches us: "When the soul abandons the body a certain great mystery is enacted. Little Savas John's eye now appears clear and healed. Wherefore all thy children look to thee with love in gratitude cry out to God: Alleluia! This day is continued, in as much as the death of man is also continued at the same time, Sunday, however, is the "day of the Resurrection, the eighth day, which symbolizes the anticipated age of eternity, the resurrection of the dead and the endless kingdom of God.". Many people write St. John letters asking for his intercessions about their many worries, concerns, and illnesses. It was a temporary job with a very long term that was eventually extended beyond what would be normally expected. Seeing the beauty of thy virtues, we cry out to thee:Rejoice, thou who from earliest childhood wast adorned in piety.Rejoice, thou who didst ever live in fear of God and do His holy will.Rejoice, thou who didst manifest the grace of God through good deeds done secretly.Rejoice, thou who dost hearken to the prayers of those in distress.Rejoice, thou who didst hasten, full of love, to save thy neighbors.Rejoice, joy to all who fall down before thee with faith.Rejoice, O holy hierarch, father John, speedy helper amid misfortunes! Get down. Yet offering to God what we have, we cry out to thee thus: Rejoice, thou who didst protect thy children by thine unceasing prayer! 2023Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America. Child was healthy. ", St. Theophan, in writing to the brother of a dying woman, says: "Your sister will not die; the body dies, but the personality of the dying one remains. What is the significance of having a strong group of Orthodox friends as a college student? After living there for a few years the landlord said he didn't want to rent it out anymore and we needed to find another place and fast. I am so thankful to Saint John for hearing my prayers and knowing my hearts desire of being able to get into this school. O beloved Hierarch John, while living amongst us thou didst see the future as if present, distant things as if near the hearts and minds of men as if they were thine own. For example, in Small Compline we ask THE MOTHER OF GOD to "be merciful to me not only in this miserable life, but also at the time of my death; take care of my miserable soul and banish far from it the dark and sinister faces of the evil demons. St. EUSTRATIUS THE GREAT MARTYR (4th century), St. NIPHON OF CONSTANTIA in Cyprus (4th century), St. SYMEON THE FOOL FOR CHRIST (6th century), St SYMEON OF THE WONDROUS MOUNTAIN (7th century). We anointed affected skin, lesions began to disappear and in two weeks Maria got well, no scars at all!Alexander and Irina YakovlevsMoscow, Russia, Help received with a baby delivery billReceived on June 29, 2011. Archbishop Johns abundant miracles both before and after his death testify to his love for the people. Get yourself to dark Hell. We were looking for a miracle to happen in San Francisco. As thou once didst hear the mental petitions of thy far-scattered flock even before they could speak to thee, so now hear our prayers and bring them before the Lord. During his time here, he helped to inspire and build many churches and orphanages in the Orthodox communities of Shanghai. Margaret McFadden Mueller. Elissa Bjeletich and Kristina Wenger tell about a beloved saint. KONTAKION IChosen wonderworker and pleaser of Christ, who pourest forth inexhaustible streams of inspiration and a multitude, of miracles upon the whole world, we praise thee with love and call out to thee:Rejoice, O holy hierarch, Father John, speedy helper amid misfortunes! . I saw what I can only describe as a miracle and it has changed my life. We find this teaching in Holy Scripture (cf. Therefore, at the next church service, Olga wept from gratitude and was too emotional to tell us by herself. Product Description. These are the wondrous miracles of Blessed John. We can do nothing better or greater for the dead than to pray for them, offering commemoration for them at the Liturgy. People in America, Europe, and the other places of his pastoral labors have long known of the power of his heavenly intercessions. 3) Some time later, after Divine Liturgy, a Moleben was served with a Blessing of the Water. St. MARK further explains the state of the departed in this way: Rather, both the one and the other must necessarily take place after the Judgment of that last day and the resurrection of all. Linda, St. John has become like a grandfather to meReceived April 23, 2012, Healingfrom burnReceived December 16, 2011, About a year ago, my eye was badly burned when a lid from a pot of boiling water popped up and hot steam shot out at my eye. St. Dorotheos (6th century) summarizes the teaching of the early Fathers in this way: "For as the Fathers tell us, the souls of the dead remember everything that happened here -- thoughts, words, desires -- and nothing can be forgotten. Glory to God! But before we went there, we should go to venerate relics of St. John of Shanghai & San Francisco. Being put to shame here means that the soul itself is thrown into hell.". This teaching is also given by St. Isidoros Of Pelusium, St. Symeon The New Theolgian and St. Gregory The Theologian. Such a person discerns in his beloved friends' tears of pain their love and sincere dedication. [7] The Apostolic Constitutions (1st/2nd century) teach that Memorials for the dead be served with "psalms and readings and prayers" on the third day after the death of our beloved one, on account of the Lord Jesus "who rose after three days. . But it is quite possible that the demons, instead of something frightful, might present something seductive. These works may not be further reproduced, in print or on other websites or in any other form, without the prior written authorization of the copyright holder: Reading Holy Transfiguration Monastery - Brookline, MA, Apolytikion Holy Transfiguration Monastery, Kontakion Holy Transfiguration Monastery. They might present something deceptive and seductive, according to the kinds of passions, to the soul as it passes through one after the other. I know that if it was not for St. John's help, the outcome could have been different. KONTAKION IXAll the angelic hosts rejoiced at thy soul's ascent to the mansions of heaven, marveling at the wonders thou didst perform on earth through the action of the Holy Spirit, to Whom we sing: Alleluia! He answered two very importent questions for me that will impact my life and that of my family forever.Wayne M.Knee healed fastReceived September 28, 2014I had knee surgery to re-attach my patellar tendon. ", This truth is confirmed by various liturgical services. St. John (Maximovitch), known as St. John of Shanghai and San Francisco, was born in 1896 grew up in pre-Revolutionary Russia. Certain individuals and institutions are presented for reference purposes only and may not be under the supervision or jurisdiction of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese. KONTAKION IIBeholding the abundance and variety of thy virtues, O holy Hierarch, we see in thee a living source of God's wonders in our time. When, during the course of life, the passions have been banished from the heart and the virtues opposed to them have been planted, then no matter what seductive thing you might present, the soul, having no kind of sympathy for it, passes by it, turning away from it with disgust. [2]. [1], But when it leaves the body, the soul finds itself among other spirits, good and bad. So when the labor stopped progressing, our midwife told my wife to get out of the pool and lay down so she could try pulling our son out. Amen. In addition to this, when Savas John was born he was in the NICU at the hospital, for several days due to a blood condition. Then if it be that that soul is condemned, the demons bear it off to below the earth, to a dark and distressing spot. Many modern saints personally knew St. John Maximovitch in some way, forming a brotherhood. My daughter Vanessa had high temperature.I had holy oil for 10 years and anointed the child, and fervently prayed to blessed John. Giving thanks to God for thine apostolic labors we cry out to Him: Alleluia! St. John helped me find a job and saved me from getting fired from that job when my boss set me up with false accusations. After a week, I asked Oleg about his hand. Of this they are always in need, and especially during those forty days when the soul of the deceased is proceeding on its path to the eternal habitations. map link here:https://goo.gl/maps/pFkcTumTgqfFKc9g6. I also anointed Olga. ,., ! ., Son's ankle healed immediately Received June 8, 2014, My son had pain in his ankle for a couple of weeks and I was unable to help him We rubbed the oil from St John on his ankle and asked for St John's help and the pain went away immediately. Those who knew him have described him as "a living source of God's wonders," "the embodiment of all Christian virtues," "a miracle of ascetic firmness," "a model archpastor," who had the gift of being able "to see into the human heart and draw it to Christ." Containing dozens of never before published photographs, and with interviews with many who knew St. John very well, this DVD is an inspiring and fitting tribute to this wonderworker who is loved by Orthodox Christians all over the world. For our deepest wish is to live forever with Him, with the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit, now and ever and unto ages of ages. Even those thoroughly familiar with the life of St John will find this documentary contains much that they . I was lying in bed for 8 months taking drugs and wiped over my belly the oil from St. John. Get going to that worm that never sleeps.'. OIKOS IIBeing filled with love and replete with theology, O divinely wise John, made wise by the knowledge of God and adorned with love for the suffering, teach us also to know the true God in love as we call out to thee in admiration:Rejoice, unshakeable stronghold of Orthodox truth.Rejoice, precious vessel of the Holy Spirit.Rejoice, righteous denouncer of impiety and false doctrine.Rejoice, zealous fulfiller of the commandments of God.Rejoice, ascetic who didst not allow thyself to rest upon a bed.Rejoice, beloved shepherd of the flock of Christ.Rejoice, O holy hierarch, Father John, speedy helper amid misfortunes! KONTAKION XDesiring to save the world, the Savior of all hath sent unto us a new saint and through him hath called us forth from the dark abyss of sin. My husband and I were getting discouraged by the search but deep in my heart I knew we would find a place that we needed. There was a swelling on it the size of a chicken egg. 01 Mar 2023 01:13:17 It grew and the daughter turned to a doctor for help. It only goes over to another order of life. With great gratitude to the church.Veselina,Ruse,Bulgaria, House helpReceived June 7, 2012Last year my mother's house needed urgent sewer and bathroom repairs due to sewer gases escaping in the house. She is in another place. About a month before Easter this spring, our priest came to our house to talk with Dayna and to give her communion. st john maximovitch prayer of healing St John the Wonderworker - Orthodox It involved a godly woman of Russian descent who was a member of the New Martyrs of Russia Orthodox Church, where Father Sergei Sveshnikov is the priest. And now, with the publication of Blessed John the Wonderworker and other books and articles about him in the Russian language, the people of Russia are beginning to know, too, and have already experienced healings through his prayers, as the following accounts testify. As a result, he made the decision to dedicate his life to serving God. On 3 June, 1934 (despite his own protests), the Hieromonk John (Maximovitch), at the age of 38, was ordained to the Holy Episcopateby Metropolitan Antony (Khrapovitsky), together with many other Russian hierarchs and Serbian delegates, such as his contemporary, Bishop Nikolaj (Velimirovi)of Ochrid. Glory be to God through His saints!Valentina Bowden, Help from St. JohnReceived August 11, 2012, I want to share my help from bishop John. I know, one should not make promises, but I made a promise to improve my Christian life in a certain way. Vladyka, please, pray for is sinners. Forgetting about food, he spent the night in prayer with tears and groanings, reflecting on the multitude of man's enemies, on the battle against such an army, on the difficultly of the path to heaven through the air, and on the words of the Apostle who said: 'Our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against the principalities and powers of the air' (Eph 6:12; Eph 2:2). In the evening he would begin to fall asleep but the cough continued to torment him. In the Church prayers are ever offered for the repose of the dead, and on the day of the Descent of the Holy Spirit, in the kneeling prayers at vespers, there is even a special petition "for those in hell. Let us take care for those who have departed into the other world before us, in order to do for them all that we can, remembering that "Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy.". Maximovitch was a patriot of his fatherland and was profoundly disappointed by what he saw as human weakness and impermanence during the tragic events of the 1917 Revolution. It was a clearly a miracle after so many years of trying! She tried all the usual medical procedures and pumped him with oxygen, but nothing was working even after several minutes. Also I was pregnant in first and second year after we married and I lost both babies at 8 and 10 weeks. I have no doubt that St. John's intercessions were responsible for my mother's survival beyond the prognosis for large cell lung cancer.St. We pray to St. John to help us to have this child. [1] But his soul continues to live. Born: June 4, 1896 Died: July 2, 1966 Glorification Date: July 2, 1994 Commemoration Dates: July 2 How can each of our college degrees help our mission as Orthodox Christians? And the first remain in every joy and rejoicing, already expecting and only not having in their hands the Kingdom and the unutterable good things promised them; and the second, on the contrary, remain in all confinement and inconsolable suffering, like condemned men awaiting the Judge's sentence and foreseeing the torments. In December 2012 both my mother and my mother-in-law came visiting from Russia.The most important thing for them was to take a pilgrimage to St John The Wonderworker. [5] Some souls find themselves (after the forty days) in a condition of foretasting eternal joy and blessedness, and others in fear of the eternal torments which will come in full after the Last Judgment. glorified in Imperial Russia, St. John of Tobolsk was the distant ancestor, heav-enly patron, model, and guide of the newly-revealed Saint John (Maximovitch), Archbishop of Shanghai and San Francisco, the Wonder-worker. * Wherefore, cease not to entreat Christ, that He show mercy and redeem our souls. Phone: (212) 570-3500Contact, Download VCFJoin our Mailing ListsDonate. Thou dost refresh with thy love and miracles all who cry in faith to God: Alleluia! ", St. Gregory The Dialogist writes: "One must reflect deeply on how frightful the hour of death will be for us, what terror the soul will then experience, what remembrance of all the evils, what forgetfulness of past happiness, what fear, and what apprehension of the Judge. [6], How important commemoration at the Liturgy is may be seen in the following occurrence: Before the uncovering of the relics of St. Theodosius of Chernigov [7], the priest-monk (the renowned Starets Alexis of Goloseyevsky Hermitage, of the Kiev-Caves Lavra, who died in 1916) who was conducting the re-vesting of the relics, becoming weary while sitting by the relics, dozed off and saw before him the Saint, who told him: "I thank you for laboring with me. What manner of ordeal doth the soul endure when it is parted from the body! Let us therefore be ourselves merciful to the dead. I had Unction served over the daughter and later gave her cotton saturated with oil from Archbishop Johns lampada. I was sure I will see my baby for this time because of St. John. Hasten thou to make supplication, we cry to thee with tears, O fervent advocate; visit us, who are orphaned, scattered over the face of all the world and in our homeland, astray in the darkness of the passions, yet who by our feeble love are drawn to the light of Christ and await thy fatherly instruction; that, having acquired piety, we may be shown to be heirs of the kingdom of heaven, where thou abidest with all the saints, glorifying our Lord Jesus Christ, to Whom be honor and dominion, now and ever, and unto the ages of ages. In the first two months of the new year I had some interviews, but didn't get a job. The skin around my eye had red and purple blotches. At the time of its accounting the angels offer in turn the soul's good works. I had prayed about it to St. John and I even made the sign of the cross with the Holy Oil of St. John on my paperwork I mailed to the school. ", They prescribe Memorials on the ninth day "as a reminder of the living and the dead," as well as "on the fortieth day after death according to ancient practice.". In addition to these Memorials, our holy Church has ordained that the Sabbath (Saturday) be a day of commemoration of the Holy Martyrs and of all the deceased. Usually it inclines toward those which are more akin to it in spirit, and if while in the body it was under the influence of certain ones, it will remain in dependence upon them when it leaves the body, however unpleasant they may turn out to be upon encountering them. Our Patron Saint A longer biography can be found [here.] Every apartment I saw was either too expensive, or the owners didn't want to rent out to a family with small kids and a dog on top of that, or it was too far away. PRAYER to our Holy and God-bearing Father Hierarch John Maximovitch the New, Wonderworker of Shanghai and Western America. The mother was very thankful to Archbishop John for the healing of her son and continues to pray to him with gratitude. Wherefore, we trust in thine intercession before God, and cry out to thee:Rejoice, thou who dost avert the dangers of the elements.Rejoice, thou who by thy prayer deliverest from need.Rejoice, inexhaustible giver of bread to the hungry.Rejoice, abundant wealth for those who live in poverty.Rejoice, consolation for those in sorrow.Rejoice, quick uplifting for those who have fallen.Rejoice, O holy hierarch, Father John, speedy helper amid misfortunes! So, again with The Saint's Oil,and the prayer, I anointed her for separation of body and soul. Therefore, in the person whose heart is pure and a stranger to passion, they cannot find anything to wrangle over; on the contrary, the opposing quality will strike them like arrows of lightning. He was a member of the Little Russian noble family of Maximovitch, to which St. John of Tobolsk also had belonged. In thee we see the living likeness of our Maker, the living spirit of the Gospel, and the foundation of our Faith. Probably the clearest and most comprehensive account of the toll-houses is that given by an angel of the Lord to St. Macarius Of Egypt: The angels then show whatever good the soul has done, charity or prayer or liturgies or fasting or anything else. . 5 . ( ) , , . [5] According to the revelation of the angel to St. Macarius, the Church's special commemoration of the departed on the 9th day after death (apart from the general significance of the ranks of angels) occurs because up to then the soul is shown the beauties of Paradise, and only after this, for the remainder of the forty days, is sown the torments and horrors of hell, before being assigned on the fortieth day to the place where it will await the resurrection of the dead and the Last Judgment. Thou shouldst truly be praised from the heavens, and not from earth, O father John, for our words are feeble beside thy deeds. The sight was awful. His work as an apostle, missionary and miracle worker continues even now." - "St. John Maximovitch of Shanghai and San Francisco" St. Herman Press Glory to God, His Mother, Virgin Mary and His Saint John! The souls of the dead do not lose their consciousness, they do not even lose their dispositions -- that is, hope and fear, joy and grief, and something of that which they expect for themselves at the Universal Judgment they begin already to foretaste.". I know for sure that every woman who has not yet had children and who truly believes in intercession of St. John to God can live the happiness that I and my husband live now.Georgiana Zaharia. This word is read during the epistle for funerals in The Holy Orthodox Faith. 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