Eastern Rite Catholic Filipinos: Cappadocian Fathers

Troparion (Tone 8)

Grace shining forth from your lips like a beacon has enlightened the universe.

It has shown to the world the riches of riches poverty;

it has revealed to us the heights of humility.

Teaching us by your words, O Father John Chrysostom,

intercede before the Word, Christ our God, to save our souls!

Kontakion (Tone 6)

Having received divine grace from heaven,

with your mouth you teach all men to worship the Triune God.

All-blest and venerable John Chrysostom,

we worthily praise you, for you are our teacher, revealing things divine!

Asking for guidance from this Well Known Eastern Christian Father of Church, venerated by both Catholics and Orthodox of the Eastern Rite. Famous for the Anaphora he made, which attributed to the main core of the Divine Liturgy bearing his name. His eloquent Sermons made him to be called Chrysostom (Golden mouthed). Amongst the Three Holy Hierarch and the Cappadocian Fathers, indeed St. John Chrysostom to be a continuing Influence to us all. For more about St. John Chrysostom, click here at his Hagiography

The principal theological writings of Basil are his Treatise on the Holy Spirit (Lat. De Spiritu Sancto), a lucid and edifying appeal to Scripture and early Christian tradition to prove the divinity of the Holy Spirit, and his Refutation of the Apology of the Impious Eunomius, written in 363 or 364, three books against Eunomius of Cyzicus, the chief exponent of Anomoian Arianism. The first three books of the Refutation are his work; the fourth and fifth books that are usually included to do not belong to Basil, or to Apollinaris of Laodicea, but probably to Didymus The Blind.

Troparion (Tone 1)

Your proclamation has gone out into all the earth

Which was divinely taught by hearing your voice

Expounding the nature of creatures,

Ennobling the manners of men.

O holy father of a royal priesthood,

Entreat Christ God that our souls may be saved.

Kontakion (Tone 4)

You were revealed as the sure foundation of the Church,

Granting all men a lordship which cannot be taken away,

Sealing it with your precepts,

O Venerable and Heavenly Father Basil.

Notice that on every icon of St. Basil, it is always depicted his hand the manner in which Eastern Christian Priest and Bishop, both Catholic and Orthodox, gives their blessing; the Priest using the right hand while the Bishops bless using two hands in the same manner as St. Basil's hand is depicted