THE HOLY PROPHET JEREMIAH (MAY 1ST)
The Weeping Prophet and Patriarch, Saint Jeremiah Edited by Bp. Joseph ( Ancient Church of the West ) In the days when the kingdom of Judah was nearing its fall, and the sins of the people cried out to Heaven, there arose from the priestly town of Anathoth a young man whom God had known before he was formed in the womb, and sanctified before his birth - the Holy Prophet Jeremiah. Born of the line of Hilkiah, a priest of the tribe of Levi, the Prophet was called from his youth to speak the word of the Lord, not only to kings and princes, but to a stiff-necked and rebellious nation. The Lord said unto him: "Say not, I am a child: for thou shalt go to all that I shall send thee…Be not afraid of their faces: for I am with thee to deliver thee." Thus, from the thirteenth year of King Josiah’s reign until the exile of Judah, Jeremiah stood as the weeping watchman on the walls of Zion. In his early ministry, he called for repentance with tears, during the last revival of the Law und...
