Sunday, June 18, 2017
Talmach
Reverend fathers, who shone forth in the Holy Mount
Athos
(Synaxis of all the venerable and God-bearing fathers who shone forth in the Holy
Mount Athos)
Synaxis of the Saints of Athos includes:
• St. Neophyte of Vatopedi (Athos) (XIV century, commemorated January
21)
• St. Gennady of Vatopedi (Athos), dohiar (economy) (XV
century, commemorated November 17)
• St. Philotheus of Athos (late X
- early XI centuries, commemorated October 21)
• St. Hesychius
Horivit (VI, commemorated October 3)
• St. Peter Athos (+ 734,
commemorated June 12)
• St. Pavel Xiropotamsky (+ 820, commemorated
July 28)
• Spanish. Basil of Thessalonica, archbishop. (+ c.
870, commemorated February 1)
• Rev. Euthymius the New, Thessalonica,
hierodeacon (+ 889, commemorated October 15)
• St. Daniel of Athos (+
980, commemorated July 5)
• 5 students of St. Athanasius of Athos (+ 980,
commemorated July 5)
• Rev. John of Mount Athos, Iberian (Athos) (+ 998, commemorated May
13, July 12)
• Monk of Karey, who was honored with the appearance of the
Archangel Gabriel (X, commemorated June 11)
• St. Gabriel of Mount Athos, Iberian (Athos) (X, commemorated May 13, July 12)
•
St. Euthymius of Dohiar (Athos) (X, commemorated November 9)
•
St. Neophyte of Dohiar (Athos) (X, commemorated November 9)
•
St. Thomas Malein (X, commemorated July 7)
• St. Athanasius of
Athos, Abbot. (+ 1000, commemorated July 5)
• Rev. Euthymius the
New, Svyatogorets, Iberian (Athos), son of St. John of the Holy Mountain
(+ 1028, commemorated May 13, July 12)
• St. Georgy Svyatogorets,
Iberian (Athos), ktitor (+ 1066, commemorated May 13, June 27)
• St. Anthony
Pechersky (+ 1073, commemorated July 10, September 2)
• Rev. John Kukuzel, Athos, domestik (regent) (+ XII, commemorated October
1)
• Rev. Agapius of Vatopedi (Athos) (+ XIII, commemorated
March 1)
• St. Simeon Myrrh-streaming, Hilendar (Athos), ktitor (+
1200, commemorated February 13)
• St. Savva I of Serbia,
archbishop. (+ 1237, commemorated January 12, May 6)
•
Rev. Simon Myrrh-streaming, Simonopetra (Athos) (+ 1257, commemorated
December 28)
• St. Arseny I Serbian, archbishop. Serbian (+
1266, commemorated October 28)
• St. Savva II Serbian,
archbishop. (+ 1271, commemorated February 8)
• St. Ioanniky I
Serbian, archbishop. (+ after 1272, commemorated May 28)
• Rev. Mr. Euthymius of Vatopedi (Athos), abbot (+ 1276 (1280), commemorated
January 4)
• Rev. Mr. Anthony Zografsky (Athos) (+ 1276 (1280),
commemorated September 22, October 10)
• Rev. Mr. Barsanuphius of Zograf (Athos) (+ 1276 (1280), commemorated
September 22, October 10)
• Rev. Mr. Dometian Zografsky (Athos) (+ 1276
(1280), commemorated September 22, October 10)
• Rev. Mr. Evfimy
Zografsky (Afonsky) (+ 1276 (1280), commemorated September 22, October
10)
• Rev. Mr. Jacob Zographsky (Athos) (+ 1276 (1280), commemorated September
22, October 10)
• Rev. Mr. Jacob Zographsky (Athos) (other) (+ 1276
(1280), commemorated September 22, October 10)
• Rev. Mr. Hilarion
Zografsky (Athos) (+ 1276 (1280), commemorated September 22, October 10)
• Rev. Mr. Ioanniky Zografsky (Athos) (+ 1276 (1280), commemorated September
22, October 10)
• Rev. Mr. Joasaph of Zograph (Athos) (+ 1276 (1280),
commemorated September 22, October 10)
• Rev. Mr. Job of Zografsky (Athos) (+ 1276 (1280), commemorated September
22, October 10)
• Rev. Mr. Cyprian Zografsky (Athos) (+ 1276 (1280),
commemorated September 22, October 10)
• Rev. Mr. Kirill Zografsky
(Afonsky) (+ 1276 (1280), commemorated September 22, October 10)
• Rev. Mr. Cosmas Zografsky (Athos) (+ 1276 (1280), commemorated September 22,
October 10)
• Rev. Mr. Martinian Zografsky (Athos) (+ 1276 (1280),
commemorated September 22, October 10)
• Rev. Mr. Mina Zographsky
(Athos) (+ 1276 (1280), commemorated September 22, October 10)
• Rev. Mr. Micah Zografsky (Athos) (+ 1276 (1280), commemorated September 22,
October 10)
• Rev. Mr. Pavel Zografsky (Afonsky) (+ 1276 (1280),
commemorated September 22, October 10)
• Rev. Mr. Parthenius of Zografsky (Athos) (+ 1276 (1280), commemorated
September 22, October 10)
• Rev. Mr. Savva Zografsky (Athos) (+ 1276
(1280), commemorated September 22, October 10)
• Rev. Mr. Sergius of
Zografsky (Afonsky) (+ 1276 (1280), commemorated September 22, October
10)
• Rev. Mr. Simon Zografsky (Athos) (+ 1276 (1280), commemorated
September 22, October 10)
• Rev. Mr. Thomas of Zografsky (Athos),
hegumen (+ 1276 (1280), commemorated September 22, October 10)
• 12
Martyrs of Vatopedi (Athos), from schmch. abbot Euthymius of Vatopedi (+
1276 (1280), commemorated January 4)
• 4 Martyrs of Zograph (Athos), lay
people who suffered from the holy martyr. Zografsky (+ 1276 (1280),
commemorated September 22, October 10)
• Rev. fathers, monks of the Iberian Monastery, martyred by the Latins in
the XIII century (commemorated May 13)
• St. Damian of Esfigmen (+
1280, commemorated February 23) • Venerable Martyrs of Karey (Athos) (+
1260–1281, commemorated December 5)
• St. Eustathius I of Serbia,
archbishop. (+ c. 1285, commemorated January 4)
• Rev. Gerasimus
of Euboea (XIV, commemorated December 7)
• St. Nicephorus of Athos
(XIV, commemorated May 4)
• St. Theodosius of Trebizond,
Met. (XIV, commemorated January 11)
• Rev. Nicodemus of Vatopedi
(Athos) (XIV, commemorated July 11)
• St. Gregory of Byzantium, Athos
(XIV, commemorated April 6)
• St. Gregory of Sinai (+ 1310 (1346),
commemorated August 8)
• St. Athanasius I, Patriarch of
Constantinople (+ 1315, commemorated October 24)
• Rev. Cosmas of Zografsky (Athos), hierome., hermit (+ 1323, commemorated
February 23, September 22)
• St. Nicodemus of Serbia,
Archbishop (+ 1325, commemorated May 11)
• St. Theoliptus of
Philadelphia, ep. (+ c. 1325)
• Rev. Nifont of Athos (+ 1330,
commemorated June 14)
• St. Daniel II Serbian, archbishop. (+
1338, commemorated December 20)
• Rev. Maxim Kavsokalivit, Athos (+
1354, commemorated January 13)
• Venerable. Gregory Domestik, Athos
(+ c. 1360, commemorated October 1)
• St. Gregory Palamas, archbishop Thessalonica
(+ c. 1360, commemorated November 14, 2nd Sunday of Great Lent)
•
St. Kallistos I of Constantinople, Patriarch (+ c. 1363, commemorated June
20)
• St. Romil Bdinsky (+ after 1375, commemorated January 16)
• Rev. Dionysius of Athos, ktitor of the monastery of St. John the
Baptist (+ after 1380, commemorated June 25)
• St. Dometius of
Dionysius, Athos, hegumen (+ 1380, commemorated June 25)
•
St. Kallistos II Xanthopoulos, Patriarch of Constantinople (+ after 1397,
November 22)
• St. Ephrem of Serbia, Patriarch (+ 1400, commemorated
June 15)
• St. Gregory the Serb, Silent, Athos, ktitor (+ after 1405,
commemorated December 7)
• St. Cyprian, Met. Moscow and All
Russia (+ 1406, commemorated September 27, September 16)
• Venerable. Sergius
Obnorsky, Nuromsky, Vologda (+ 1412, commemorated October 7)
•
Venerable. Arseniy Konevsky (+ 1447, June 12)
• Rev. Savva
Vishersky, Novgorodsky (+ 1461, commemorated October 1)
• St. Nifont II of Constantinople, Patriarch (+ 1490, commemorated August
11)
• St. Savva Krypetsky, Pskov (+ 1495, commemorated August
28) • St. Theophanes the New, Athos, hegumen (+ XV, commemorated
August 19)
• St. Philotheus of Karey, Athos (+ late XV, commemorated
December 5)
• St. Domety Filofeyevsky, Athos (+ XVI, commemorated
August 7)
•
Venerable. Dionisy
Filofeyevsky, Olympian, abbot (+ XVI, commemorated January 24)
• St. Theon of Thessalonica, Metropolitan (+ XVI, commemorated April 4)
• Rev. Nektarios of Bitol, Karey, Athos (+ 1500, commemorated
December 5, December 15)
• St. Nil Sorsky (+ 1508, commemorated April
7, May 7)
• Rev. Mr. Joasaph of Athos, disciple of St. Nifont II
of Constantinople (+ 1516, commemorated October 26)
• Rev. Mr. Dionysius of Dohiarsky (Athos), student of St. Jacob
Kostursky (+ c. 1520, commemorated November 1)
• Hieromr. Jacob
Dochiarsky (Athos), hierodeacon, student of St. Jacob of Kostursky (+ c.
1520, commemorated November 1)
• Rev. Mr. Jacob of Kostursky, Dohiarsky
(Athos) (+ c. 1520, commemorated November 1)
• St. Innokenty
Komelsky, Vologda (+ 1521, commemorated March 19)
• Rev. Mr. Macarius
of Thessalonica, disciple of St. Nifont of Constantinople (+ 1523,
commemorated September 15)
• St. Theophilus Myrrh-streaming, Athos (+
1548, commemorated July 8)
• St. Maxim Grek (+ 1556, commemorated
January 21, June 21)
• Rev. Mr. Damian the New, Philotheus, Larissa (+
1568, commemorated February 23, 3rd Sunday after Pentecost)
• Rev. Gerasimus of Kefalon, New, Nataras, Athos, Hierom. (+ 1579,
commemorated August 16, October 20)
• Rev. Mr. Macarius the New,
Kiysky, Athos (+ 1590, commemorated October 6)
• St. Simeon Barefoot,
Filofeyevsky, Flamurian, Athos, hegumen (+ 1594, commemorated April 19)
•
St. Evdokim of Vatopedi (Athos) (+ XVII, commemorated October 5)
•
St. Leonty the Perspicacious, Athos (+ 1605, commemorated June 18)
•
Venerable. Nil Myrrh-streaming, Athos, hieromonk. (+ 1651,
commemorated May 7, November 12)
• St. Athanasius III Patelarius,
Patriarch of Constantinople, Lubensky (+ 1654, commemorated May 2)
• Rev. Mr. Cyprian the New, Constantinople (+ 1679, commemorated July
5)
• Rev. Mr. Damascus Athos, Constantinople (+ 1681, commemorated
November 13)
• Rev. Mr. Elijah Ardunis (+ 1686, commemorated January 31)
• Rev. Mr. Roman Karpenisiysky (+ 1694, commemorated January 5, February
16)
• Rev. Mr. Nicodemus of Albania, Ohrid, Myrrhotochets (+ 1722,
commemorated July 11)
• St. Akaki Kavsokalivit (+ 1730, commemorated
April 12)
• Rev. Mr. Pachomius Russian, Athos (+ 1730, May 7, May 20
(on Patmos), May 21 (on Athos))
• Rev. Mr. Constantius the Russian,
Hierom. (+ 1743, commemorated December 26)
• Rev. Hierotheus the
New, Kalamsky, Iberian, hierome. (+ 1745, commemorated September
13)
• Rev. Paisius of Hilendar (Athos), Bulgarian (+ after 1762,
commemorated June 19)
• Rev. Mr. New Damascus, Gabrovsky, abbot (+
1771, commemorated January 16)
• Hieromr. equal to Cosmas Aetolian,
Athos, Albanian (+ 1779, commemorated August 24)
• Mr. John the Bulgarian (+ 1784, commemorated March 5) •
Mch. Theodore of Mytilene (+ 1784, commemorated January 30)
•
Mr. George Athos (+ 1794, commemorated October 2)
•
Venerable. Paisiy Velichkovsky (+ 1794, commemorated November 15)
• Mr. Konstantin
of Rhodes (+ 1800, commemorated November 14)
• Rev. Mr. Luke Odrinsky,
Mytilene, Athos (+ 1802, commemorated March 23, 3rd Sunday after
Pentecost)
• Rev. Mr. Hilarion Krityanin, Athos (+ 1804, commemorated
September 20)
• Rev. Mr. Nikita Slavyanin, Athos, Hierom. (+ 1808,
commemorated April 4)
• Rev. Nikodim Svyatogorets (+ 1809,
commemorated July 14)
• Rev. Mr. Procopius of Varna, Smirnsky (+ 1810,
commemorated June 25)
• Rev. Mr. Euthymius of Constantinople, Dimitsansky,
New, Athos (+ 1814, commemorated March 22, May 1)
• Rev. Mr. Ignatius the New, Athos, Constantinople (+ 1814, commemorated May
1, October 20)
• Rev. Mr. Akaki Novy, Syarsky, Athos (+ 1816;
commemorated May 1)
• Rev. Mr. Gideon of Caracalla, Athos (+ 1818,
commemorated December 30)
• Rev. Mr. Onufry of Hilendarsky (Athos)
(+1818)
• Rev. Mr. Agafangel Esfigmensky (+ 1819, commemorated April
19, October 29)
• Me. Konstantin Afonsky (+ 1819, commemorated June
2)
• Rev. Mr. Timothy Esfigmensky, Athos (+ 1820, commemorated April 19,
October 29)
• Rev. Mr. Nectarius Vriulsky (+ 1820, commemorated July
11)
• Rev. Mr. Dionysius of Vatopedi (+ 1822, commemorated July
31)
• St. Gabriel of Athos, Archim. (+ 1901, commemorated July
9)
• Rev. Silouan of Athos (+ 1938, commemorated September 11)
• Rev. Porfiry Kavsokalivit (+ 1991, commemorated December 2, new style)
• Venerable. Paisios Svyatogorets (+ 1994, commemorated July 12,
N.S.)
Troparion tone 1
Fathers of the Athos Desert / Angels in the flesh, / confessors together and reverends, / saints and martyrs honored in singing, / imitating their virtue, / calling in concent to and saying: / glory to Him who glorified you, / glory to Him who
crowned you, / glory to to Him who showed you [as leaders] unto us in troubles.
Kontakion tone 4
Having made this Mountain into Heaven, / and showing in it the life of an angel, / and fathers who gathered many monks, / come, let us all praise, calling unto them: / deliver us from the
winds of misfortune and temptation, / you multitude of saints, / you Praise of Athos.
Magnification
We mitigate you, / Reverend Fathers of Athos, / who fasted in this Mountain, /
and we honor your holy memory, / mentors of the monks / and interlocutors of Angels
Prayer
O blessed and holy fathers, reverends, saints, Hieromartyrs and reverend
martyrs, myrrh-streamers and miracle workers, Angels of the earth and people of the Heaven, inhabitants and adornment of the Holy Mountains, after the Theotokos, intercession of ours before the Lord, benefactors and
edifiers, the royal victorious militia, who in the flesh have defeated the
incorporeal demons, myrrh-flavored flowers of the Queen of Heaven, the Most Pure Theotokos, the bright-fruitful trees of this mental paradise of the Ever-Virgin,
rivers of ever-flowing spiritual gifts! DO Accept this commendable word, that we bring to you, as the Lord accepted the widow's two mites, as well as DO embrace the
common feast, celebrated by us in your honor and comemoration, as aroma of
fragrance and a favorable offering: as we have nothing else to offer as our duty to our benefactors for the great good deeds we have received and have yet to receive from you. Hey, we DO confess for we are not worthy due to our sins for to live in this place and be called your sons, but out of your goodness, do not refuse to be our fathers. Do not forget us the humble
ones, but keep your holy monasteries and all the sketes and cells and us who live
in them, preserve and deliver from every temptation and misfortune in this
life, in the ages to come that through your holy we may be blessed together with you - sons with their fathers - the flock with its shepherds, the
disciples with their teachers, and that we may hear from you that blessed voice to
the Lord: behold, we all and the children which Thou hast given us, Lord! And,
rejoicing, may we give all glory, honor and worship to the Father and the Son
and the Holy Spirit forever and ever. Amen.
Original
and also (as in the Bulgarian lands)
Synaxisl of All Saints
Resplendent in the Russian
Land
The second Sunday after Pentecost is “the Sunday of
All Saints who shone forth in the land of Russia” — the Church glorifies the
assembly of the righteous and martyrs, as glorified and known only to
God. This is the feast of all Holy Rus'.
There were not as many saints as the people who lived on our land gave anywhere
else. The Gospel says: " The
sower went out to sow ." The Lord sowed the
word of God in all nations, and each of them reacted to it in their own
way. Holiness is man's answer to the call of God.
God came to earth to call everyone. He said: “ Many are called". We
live in an age when there is not a single person left on earth, with the
exception of small children, who have not yet heard about Jesus
Christ. The very sound of His name already gives rise to certain
associations. In any case, everyone knows that This Man said about Himself
that He is the Son of God, descended from Heaven. And everyone knows that
He was born from the Virgin Mary, who was crucified on the Cross ...
But the reaction of the human heart to this event is completely
different. Unfortunately, most people are not interested in this
topic. They do not even bother to find out what Christ said while living
on earth; what He did when He walked two thousand years ago in Palestine; how
it happened that, although everything shows that he was a good man, he was
crucified. The life of Jesus Christ is of no interest to the majority of
those living on earth - that is, although the call is heard to their ears,
people do not give an answer to it. The Lord has come to all. Of
course, He began with His chosen people, who already then knew the One
God. But this people in their mass rejected Him, just as now our people in
their mass completely rejected Christ - and, by the way, for the same
reason. This, apparently, is the lot of mankind in general - to reject
God. But there were people who responded to this call. How did their
response to God come about? In the example of the apostles, those first
saints of the New Testament, we see how this happens.
The Gospel of Matthew tells how the Lord called the apostles Andrew, Peter,
James and John. He came to the Sea of Galilee,
saw two brothers throwing nets into the sea, and said to them: “Follow me, and I will make you fishers
of men.” They
immediately left their nets and followed Him. So are the sons of Zebedee.
Imagine a picture - fishermen catch fish. This is the source of their
existence: from this fish they feed, from this fish they dress and maintain
their homes. And so He calls them - they throw it all away,
i.e. completely and forever leave and follow Him. And James and John
even left their father, and Peter left his wife at home and began to follow
Christ. Few people can do such a thing - for the sake of Christ to give up
everything like that. Therefore, few people can be an apostle ...
The history of the holiday
Instructive history of the holiday. Since the 16th century, there has been
a celebration in our Church of the memory of " All Saints New
Russian Wonderworkers ." It was performed on July 17 (according to the old
style), that is, on the third day of the memory of the Baptist of Russia -
St. Prince Vladimir.
The traditional author of the service for this holiday is considered to be the
monk Gregory from the Suzdal Savior-Evfimiev Monastery (he compiled its text,
obviously, in the middle of the 16th century). Two of its editions are
known under the title " Service to all Russian miracle workers "
(Grodno and Suprasl, in the same 1786).
But in central Russia, for some reason, this holiday did not become widespread,
was actually forgotten and was not included in the printed Monthly Books, and
its text was not published. Obviously, the trials sent by God to a
powerful country and the state Church seemed to many to be overcome on their
own. Only the catastrophe of 1917 made me seriously turn to help from
Above.
It is significant that the initiator of the recreation of the holiday was the
brilliant historian and orientalist prof. Petrograd University (now St.
Petersburg State University) acad. Boris Alexandrovich Turaev (†1920),
employee of the Liturgical Department of the Holy Local Council of the Orthodox
Russian Church in 1917-1918.In his report, he emphasized the fact that "the service compiled in Great Russia found particular
distribution on the periphery of the Russian Church, on its western outskirts
and even beyond its borders at the time of the division of Russia, when the
loss of national and political unity was especially acutely
felt. ... In our mournful time, when united Russia became torn apart,
when our sinful generation trampled upon the fruits of the exploits of the
Saints who worked in the caves of Kiev, and in Moscow, and in the Thebaid of
the North, and in Western Russia on the creation of a single Orthodox Russian Church,
- it would seem timely to restore this forgotten holiday, let it remind us and
our rejected brothers from generation to generation about the One Orthodox
Russian Church, and let it be a small tribute to our sinful generation and a
small atonement for our sin
.
The Holy Council, in its meeting on August 13/26,
1918, on the name day of His Holiness Patriarch Tikhon, heard the report of B.
Turaev and, after discussing it, adopted the following resolution
: 2. This celebration takes place on the
first Sunday of Petrovsky Lent. » The
council assumed that this holiday, which has a special meaning for us, should
become, as it were, a temple for all Orthodox churches in Russia. Thus, it
is no coincidence that this holiday was restored (and actually re-introduced)
at the beginning of the period of the most severe persecution of Christianity
in its entire nineteen-century history.
It is characteristic that its content, as suggested by B. Turaev, has become
more universal: it is no longer just a celebration of Russian saints, but the
triumph of all Holy Russia, not triumphal, but repentant, forcing us to
evaluate our past and draw lessons from it for the creation of the Church in
new conditions.
The compilers of the texts of the service were B. Turaev himself, a member of
the Council and an employee of its Liturgical Commission, and a
priest. Athanasius (Sakharov) (later Bishop of Kovrov, †1962; now
canonized as a confessor, commemorated October 15/28).
The original version of the service was published as a separate brochure in the
same 1918. Later, the text was supplemented; The work was also attended by
Mr. Sergius (Stragorodsky) (he owns the troparion), Fr. Sergiy
Durylin and others.
The first church in honor of All Russian Saints was the house church of
Petrograd University. Its rector from 1920 until its closure in 1924 was
the priest Vladimir Lozina-Lozinsky, who was shot in 1937.
After the cessation of direct persecution of the Church in the 40s of the XX
century. the text of the service was printed with censorship distortions
that destroyed all indications of the new martyrs (on the instructions of the
Soviet authorities, this “editing” was zealously carried out by the LDA
inspector Prof. L. N. Pariyskiy).
Only in 1995 was it published as a separate book “ Service to All
Saints, in the Russian Land Resplendent". Although this holiday
actually continues the theme of the last celebration of the Color Triodi (“All
Saints”), they did not begin to supplement this Greek book at its core. In
2002, the text of the service to All Russian Saints was included in the May
Menaion (part 3).
Faith and repentance - these are the foundations of spiritual life that turned
"original Russia", pagan into holy Russia, and while we are still
aware of our sinfulness and keep faith in the living saving God, we have the
hope that the expression "Holy Russia" for our time is not a
historical anachronism. The invincibility of the ideal of holiness and the
sense of their own sinfulness in the Russian people made it possible for the
conversion of the legendary Kudeyar Ataman and the real robber Opta, the
founder of Optina Pustyn.
There are much more unknown saints in Russia than those who have been
recognized and canonized. This also needs to be remembered. And when
we see today that everyday life does not coincide with the popular print, we
need to change the focus of vision - to notice innocence, sacrifice,
selflessness and courage in everyday life. After all, it was not in the
clothes, in the end, and not in the length of the beard that Orthodoxy was
hidden. It is in the fulfillment of the commandments, in the memory of
God. It is in the prayer that cannot be blown out, in the Liturgy that
will not cease to be served. In a word, happy holiday to you,
beloved! You, holy men of God, who have been brought up on our lands for
Paradise, pray to Christ for the gift of reason to distinguish the main from
the secondary, and the ability to extract the great from the
insignificant. Then, according to the word of Jeremiah, we will be like
the mouth of the Lord. Amen
Troparion Tone 8
Like a red fruit of Your salvific sowing, the
Russian land brings Thee, Lord, all the saints, to have shone forth in it. With those
prayers, keep the Church and our country in deep peace O Theotokos, Many-merciful.
Another Troparion of all Russian saints Tone 4
You citizens of the Most High Jerusalem, / having shone forth from our land / and having pleased God in every order /
and every exploit, / come, let us sing, O faithful: / O intercessor for the
all-blessed land of the Rus', / pray to the Lord, / that He
pardon us of His wrath, / heal its contrition, / and comfort His faithful
people.
Kontakion Tone 3
Today, the assembly of the saints, who have pleased God in our land, stands in the
Church and invisibly prays to God for us. Angels glorify with it, and all
the saints of the Church of Christ worship Him, praying for us all in one to the Eternal God.
Kontakion of All Russian holy Tone 6
You vigilant leaders of our country, / unceasing intercessors for us to the Creator, / do not despise our prayers, / but, come to help in in anticipation, like
our relatives, / hasten us to prayer / and try to beg, / always interceding about those who honor you.
Magnification of the saints
We bless you, / our glorious wonderworkers,
/ who by your virtues have illumined the Russian land / to also sacredly show / the image of
salvation to us.
Another
magnification of the saints
We magnify you,
/ all saints, who shone forth in the lands of Rus', / and we honor your holy memory, / DO pray for us / to Christ our Lord.
Prayer to all the saints of the Russian land
O [you] all-blessed and God-wise pleasers of God, who by your exploits of yours have sanctified the Russian land and in your flesh, as the seed of faith, have remained in it, standing with your souls before the Throne of God and praying unceasingly for
it! Now, on the day of your common triumph, we, sinners, your lesser
brethren, dare to bring you this laudatory singing. We magnify your great
deeds, you spiritual warriors of Christ, who overthrew the enemy with patience and courage to the end, and who deliver us from his charms and wiles. We bless your holy life, O Divine luminaries, shining
with the light of faith and virtues and illuminating our minds and hearts in divine wisdom. We glorify your great miracles, you flowers of Paradise, who have flourished beautifully in our Northern country, and wgo spread the aroma everywhere of your gifts and
miracles. We praise your God-imitating love, our
intercessors and patrons, and, relying on your help, we fall down to you
and cry out: all you holy relatives of ours, who shone from the ancient years and who labored in the last days, made known and not, known and unknown! Remember
our weakness and humiliation and with your prayers ask of Christ our God, that we, too, may safely sail through the abyss of life and keeping unharmed the treasure of faith, in the haven of eternal salvation we may also reach the blessed
adobe of the On-High Fatherland, together with you and with all the
saints who have pleased Him from time immemorial we may be vouchsafed to dwell in the grace and
love of mankind of our Savior the Lord Jesus Christ, to Him, with the Eternal
Father and with the Most Holy Spirit, unceasing praise and worship from all
creatures for ever and ever befits. Amen.
Преподобные отцы,
во Святой Горе Афонской просиявшие
(Собор всех
преподобных и Богоносных отцев, во Святей Горе Афонской просиявших)
В Собор Афонских преподобных входят:
• Прп. Неофит
Ватопедский (Афонский) (XIV в., память 21 января)
• Прп. Геннадий
Ватопедский (Афонский), дохиар (эконом) (XV в., память 17 ноября)
• Прп. Филофей
Афонский (кон. X - нач. XI вв., память 21 октября)
• Прп. Исихий
Хоривит (VI, память 3 октября)
• Прп. Петр
Афонский (+ 734, память 12 июня)
• Прп. Павел
Ксиропотамский (+ 820, память 28 июля)
• Исп. Василий
Солунский, архиеп. (+ ок. 870, память 1 февраля)
• Прп. Евфимий
Новый, Солунский, иеродиакон (+ 889, память 15 октября)
• Прп. Даниил Афонский
(+ 980, память 5 июля)
• 5 учеников прп.
Афанасия Афонского (+ 980, память 5 июля)
• Прп. Иоанн
Святогорец, Иверский (Афонский) (+ 998, память 13 мая, 12 июля)
• Инок Карейский,
удостоившийся явления Архангела Гавриила (X, память 11 июня)
• Прп. Гавриил
Святогорец, Иверский (Афонский) (X, память 13 мая, 12 июля)
• Прп. Евфимий
Дохиарский (Афонский) (X, память 9 ноября)
• Прп. Неофит
Дохиарский (Афонский) (X, память 9 ноября)
• Прп. Фома Малеин
(X, память 7 июля)
• Прп. Афанасий
Афонский, игум. (+ 1000, память 5 июля)
• Прп. Евфимий
Новый, Святогорец, Иверский (Афонский), сын прп. Иоанна Святогорца (+ 1028,
память 13 мая, 12 июля)
• Прп. Георгий
Святогорец, Иверский (Афонский), ктитор (+ 1066, память 13 мая, 27 июня)
• Прп. Антоний
Печерский (+ 1073, память 10 июля, 2 сентября)
• Прп. Иоанн
Кукузель, Афонский, доместик (регент) (+ XII, память 1 октября)
