Sunday, June 18, 2017


Rev. Fathers who shone forth on Holy Mount Athos
and in the land of Russia



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 Heaveninhabitants 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 

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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) 

Tuesday, June 6, 2017


ABC: The “Otherly,” Innovation, Baptism, and God’s Wrath


Metropolitan Chrysostomos's first posting placed first
and then his answers 
to questions about it
following the original - 
to make it easer ... 




God bless you. An interesting and short commentary
by Metropolitan Chrysostomos on a newspaper article
that was sent to him by a friend.
                                                      † Bp. Auxentios


On Jun 5, 2017, at 12:39 PM, xxx wrote



Innovative Orthodoxy
meets
frightful sectarianism.

Well, as usual, I am not on neither side. Nor am I in the middle. I am with the “otherly”: exactitude in tradition bound to moderate freedom in the Christian yoke of love.

The reception of the man into a new and innovative kind of Orthodoxy was by an extreme form of economy (as pictured in the photograph, a ritual unknown to us!), rather than a proper Orthodox Baptism, which is not only a Mystery specific to Orthodoxy, but one that represents something quite different than the western sacrament. Most Orthodox are so unaware of their own Faith that they cannot explain that fact, usually for fear of appearing sectarian or, again, because they lack a basic understanding of the ritual to begin with. Neither is sectarianism involved in our view of Baptism (“enlightenment”) nor, were it so, can I imagine ignorance and bigotry as its valid antidote.

The reaction to his conversion with ignorant and sectarian ideas about graven images (these poor people cannot distinguish veneration from worship?) and other backwater bigotry appalls me. The babble about cancer and linking it to conversion speaks of an irrational understanding of God’s “wrath” that would place me in opposition to whatever vision of God these people entertain. What an awful conception of God. Cult-like notions of “wrath” unwashed by mercy and Christ’s ministry of love are not worthy of our attention.

I remain astounded, at times, at what passes as the God of the universe which gives Christianity its force: an ontological force formed in love, bathed in mercy, conveyed in pious action inseparable from inner faith, and surely higher than the lowliness of a sectarian narrow-mindedness that ares not ultimately leave to Christ, Who is the Church, the judging of another man’s heart.

A “lose-lose” situation is all that I see. On all sides, I walk away from a sour taste in my mouth: “Ye have changed judgment into gall, and righteousness into hemlock.”

In Christ, † Bp. C.

/further replies:/

From: Bishop Chrysostomos 

The “Otherly,”
Innovation,
Baptism, and
God’s Wrath

Feast of the Holy Spirit, 2017

Dear Diocesan Clergy, Faithful, and Friends:
Evlogia Kyriou. Gospod’ blagoslovit!

Thursday, June 1, 2017


Bulgaria needs no living, crazed Botev (hero)
България няма нужда от жив, побъркан Ботев


T A L M A C H
so much and simple



/откъс от неиздадени мемоари "Обикновен живот"/

20. Към „Защо не съм“ – от Хр. Ботев
(из „Архива“ на един засегнат)


Но защо не съм аз Христо Ботйов
На прочут Владика зет
Нощем при Чу-Бу* да ходя
Да прескачам НЕЙ** ний плет.

2010 г.        „намерил“ Иван Джамбов

* чужда булка
** Ботевото стихотворение НЕЙ е едно от доказателствата, че Захари Стоянов не без основание е написал своя „Опит за биография“, в който Ботев е представен в не най-добра светлина. (Четѝ „Опит за биография на Хр. Ботев“ от Захари Стоянов и стохотв. „НЕЙ“ от Хр. Ботев.)



Защо не съм...?
Защо не съм и аз поет,
поет като Пишурката?
Ех, че ода бих направил
на баба си на хурката!

Защо не съм и аз поет,
като Сапунова трети!
Че запял бих, че възпял бих
на владиката конете!

Но защо не съм Владикин,
да напиша чудна драма –
за жабите, за мишките,
и боят им с цар Радана?

Защо не съм и Войников,
плодовит, прочут списател,
да съставя и молитви
на нашия цар-създател?
Защо не съм и Пърличев,
да преведа Илиада;
но с такъв превод, за който
и лобут да ми се пада?

Но защо не съм Славейков,
да заплача, да запея:
„Не пей ми се, не смей ми се,
от днес вече ще да блея“?

Но защо не съм и Вазов,
„Вярата“ си да възпея:
че ще стане вълк овцата,
а певците като нея?!

(Но защо не съм и Стамболъв,
Той трева не хрупа
и когато стане Лъв,
той богатства ще натрупа.
)*


 Хр. Ботев


Monday, May 15, 2017


OUR AZ-BUKI...
веди


T A L M A C H
so much and simple


Директорът на Националния исторически музей Божидар Димитров: Само след няколко дни за пореден път ще честваме денят на създателите на „славянската” азбука Светите братя Кирил и Методий

15 Май 2017 | 11:23 | Агенция "Фокус"
В огромния манастир – скрипторий, долепен до
Голямата базилика в Плиска, е била създадена българската азбука.


София. Само след няколко дни за пореден път ще честваме денят на създателите на „славянската” азбука Светите братя Кирил и Методий. Отново медиите ще ни залеят благоговейни слова на почит към делото на двамата братя. Може би отново тук-там ще избухнат спорове какви са по произход двамата братя – българи или гърци. В Скопие естествено ще ревнат, че са македонци. И ще бъдат прави, ако Зоран Заев е прав, че българи и македонци са един народ. Това се казва в изявление на директора на Националния исторически музей (НИМ) Божидар Димитров, изпратено от НИМ.

В изявлението се посочва още:

"И все пак не бива да забравяме, че ние не пишем и през Средните векове и днес (а също и руси, белоруси, украинци, сърби, черногорци и „великите” македонци) пишат на азбука, създадена, утвърдена и разпространена от други хора. Затова е редно като зряла нация да не изпадаме в онова умилително преклонение от годините на Възраждането само пред свети Кирил и Методий и да отдадем дължимото и на други лица, живели в онази епоха и допринесли решително за създаването и утвърждаването на нашата азбука. Ще изпиша имената им с ГЛАВНИ БУКВИ.

Патриарх ФОТИЙ

Thursday, April 13, 2017


A Future Monk


T A L M A C H
so much and simple


На Велики четвъртък (2017 г.) бъдещ монах - снимка с ембарго до 2030 г. -
провери силата на огъня от свещ с длан на около 3 см. за около 10-15 сек.

След около 5 минути повтори опита - вече с длан на около 15 см. от пламъка.

Очевидно остана доволен - и изрисува "свода небесен" с пламъка на свещта
за радост на всички сили... (прещракването от телефона ме сконфузи!)

Последва помазване за всеобщо успокоение и опрощение...

А ето и филм след около 9 часа:

Велики Четвъртък 2017



4U2C

4U2C

A Prayer Before Communion
by St Dimitry of Rostov


Open, O doors and bolts of my heart
that Christ the King of Glory may enter!
Enter, O my Light and enlighten my darkness;
enter, O my Life, and resurrect my deadness;
enter, O my Physician and heal my wounds;
enter, O Divine Fire, and burn up the thorns of my sins;
ignite my inward parts and my heart with the flame of Thy love;
enter, O my King, and destroy in me the kingdom of sin;
sit on the throne of my heart and [You] alone reign in me,
O Thou, my King and Lord.



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