Feast Day of St. Gregory the Theologian the Archbishop of Constantinople

Date: 25 January 2005 03:56:57

The sweet-sounding shepherd's pipe of your theology
overpowered the trumpeting of the orators;
for having searched the depths of the Spirit
eloquence was also bestowed upon you.
Pray to Christ God, Father Gregory,
that our souls may be saved.

Troparion

By words of theology you unraveled the complex webs of the orators, glorious Gregory,
and adorned the Church with the robe of Orthodoxy woven from on high.
Wearing it, she cries out with us, her children:
"Rejoice, O Father, supreme mind of theology."

Kontakion

Today is the Feast Day of St Gregory the Theologian (+ 389), one of the great theologians of the Church. And he certainly had the gift of speech, as the troparion for his feast day makes clear:

The sweet-sounding shepherd's pipe of your theology
overpowered the trumpeting of the orators