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<div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiv3Lop51Cn9BQESeZxCRPEWAsMZuFH4LiJkuzmGsPuyJ8nseq5wkpMl0chG3LOPMlq8IhRww0aNO8swCxhn4OeoL590fG-70-lPSn8eEpFJ297rEPQyBqxgvV2EY2WkASGxJIvsVfHjSvk6ysEt6m3qquLDap90VGkb8hQRbvRQlJObF8lNZJtbMXclqI/s440/%CE%A6%CE%B5%CE%B2_06.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="440" data-original-width="293" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiv3Lop51Cn9BQESeZxCRPEWAsMZuFH4LiJkuzmGsPuyJ8nseq5wkpMl0chG3LOPMlq8IhRww0aNO8swCxhn4OeoL590fG-70-lPSn8eEpFJ297rEPQyBqxgvV2EY2WkASGxJIvsVfHjSvk6ysEt6m3qquLDap90VGkb8hQRbvRQlJObF8lNZJtbMXclqI/w426-h640/%CE%A6%CE%B5%CE%B2_06.jpg" width="426"></a></div><br></div><div style="text-align: center;">By Fr. George Dorbarakis<br></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br><i>Saint Boukolos from a young age sanctified himself and became a vessel of the Holy Spirit. He was found worthy and fit by the all-praised and Christ-beloved divine John the Theologian, who ordained him bishop and good shepherd of the Church of Smyrna. Boukolos, illumined by the Holy Spirit, led those who were in the darkness of error into the light of the faith of Christ, and through holy baptism made them sons of the day, saving them from countless savage beasts. Thus, before departing this life, he ordained and appointed as shepherd and Teacher of the rational sheep in the same city, Smyrna, the blessed Polycarp, and then he fell asleep in the Lord. And when his honorable body was laid beneath the earth, God caused a plant to spring up that provides healings to this day.</i><br><br>Saint Boukolos is not very well known to most of our Christians, although he belongs to the Apostolic Fathers, who shone by their life and preaching. Perhaps this is because he stood between two most eminent men, great stars of our Church, who overshadowed him with their brilliance: Saint John the Theologian and Saint Polycarp of Smyrna. And on the other hand, he is also commemorated together with another star, a universal father and teacher, equal to the apostles and confessor, great in his very title — Saint Photios, Patriarch of Constantinople. Yet despite all the radiance of these great and eminent figures, Saint Boukolos, according to our Church, never ceases “to flash forth with the light of his God-working virtues, being set as a light on the lampstand of the divine Church and making it radiant with his sacred teachings” (“Shining with the light of God-working virtues, most holy one, you were mystically set as a light on the lampstand of the divine Church, making it radiant, Father, by your sacred teachings” - Vespers sticheron). He is the man who, as Saint Joseph the Hymnographer notes elsewhere in his Canon, “shone as light, as radiance, as a great sun, as lightning in the Church of Christ, and illumined the minds of the faithful” (“As light, as radiance, as a great sun, as lightning you shone forth in the Church of Christ and illumined the minds of the faithful” - Ode 9).<br><br><span></span></div><a href="http://www.mystagogyresourcecenter.com/2026/02/saint-boukolos-of-smyrna-in-hymnography.html#more"></a>

<div style="text-align: center;"><b><br><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj83CmUez2K7jzqJPFctTB8PN1-D-QhZFCsXzkq0laGVC0Vv7bM1ebfsSGC9ZTJslr-NiSSrVwC0xrScvbv6lWOz2tnvZmyT2m_RDGcCgd1XKOm5VanJ7SSK2HUGgbvbSXZzDIodWrRKUBxGgIdxv3GfeUqUnB6b_YflP_uIFJAFB-tOwtbesF-rF8QAPI/s440/635ef28b0a94aec358bed34c637bcadc.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="293" data-original-width="440" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj83CmUez2K7jzqJPFctTB8PN1-D-QhZFCsXzkq0laGVC0Vv7bM1ebfsSGC9ZTJslr-NiSSrVwC0xrScvbv6lWOz2tnvZmyT2m_RDGcCgd1XKOm5VanJ7SSK2HUGgbvbSXZzDIodWrRKUBxGgIdxv3GfeUqUnB6b_YflP_uIFJAFB-tOwtbesF-rF8QAPI/s16000/635ef28b0a94aec358bed34c637bcadc.png"></a></div><br></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>To the Jurors</b><br><br><span style="color: #990000;">February 3</span><br><br><i>(From the Pandok:* “On Not Showing Partiality Toward People”)</i><br><br>By Archpriest Victor Guryev<br></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br>To some of you, brethren, the fate of the accused is entrusted, and it depends on you whether to acquit or to condemn this or that person. This duty, in our opinion, is very burdensome. For how is one to condemn the guilty when that guilty person has circumstances that speak in his favor? And how is one to acquit another when nothing good can be expected of him in the future? What is to be done in such cases?<br><br><span></span></div><a href="http://www.mystagogyresourcecenter.com/2026/02/prologue-in-sermons-february-3.html#more"></a>