January: Day 30: Teaching 1:
Commemoration of the Holy Three Hierarchs:
Commemoration of the Holy Three Hierarchs:
Basil the Great, Gregory the Theologian and John Chrysostom
(Against the Fascination With Spiritualism)
By Archpriest Grigory Dyachenko
(Against the Fascination With Spiritualism)
By Archpriest Grigory Dyachenko
I. Long after the death of the Holy Hierarchs Basil the Great, Gregory the Theologian and John Chrysostom, whose memory is celebrated today, a dispute arose in Christian society about which of them was higher in dignity and closer to God. In order to allay this discord, which threatened the peace of the Church, the Saints appeared to John, Metropolitan of Euchaita, a learned and pious man, and declared to him: “We are equal before God. Inspire Christians to abandon discord and preserve unanimity. Set up a feast for us on one day; we will help all who remember us to salvation.” Having said this, they, illuminated by heavenly light, became invisible.
