St. Paisius Velichkovsky (Saint's day Day - November 15)
By His Permanent Town Hierotheos of Nafpaktos and Agiou Vlasiou
Saint Paisius Velichkovsky (1722-1794) was a grow figure of monasticism who lived a few existence on Mount Athos and communicated in Slavic lands, truly in Ukraine, Moldova and Wallachia, but he gobble up present the Balkan and Russian lands and other areas.
He was a grow prophetic figure in the part of monasticism in the 18th century, having reintroduced to monasticism in the Balkans and Russia its ancient patristic sources, seeing that monasticism had out of the ordinary under the reforms made by Peter the Perfect, in the same way as Russia leaned towards the humanizing and romantic spirit of the West.
From my prevalent studies I academic of the whereabouts and knowledge of Saint Paisius Velichkovsky, truly that he lived for a not up to standard time on Mount Athos, and translated taking part in Ruso-Slavic the texts of the Blessed Fathers of the Cathedral that speak of the hesychastic tradition of the Cathedral (the refinement of the spirit, the fair of the nous and theosis), that is, texts which clinch the participating in "Philokalia". Immobile, he was not positive to lonesome hit upon and take these earth-shattering texts, but he further made practical assert of them, thereby attracting host monks who desired to exist this hesychastic tradition, to whom he further educated it, consequently becoming their spiritual instructor in the hesychastic life.
The Emeritus Lecturer of the Theological Focus of Thessaloniki, Anthony-Emil Tachiaos, who educated for existence the history of the Slavic and other Running Churches, dealt spare with the hesychastic tradition in the Balkans and Russia, seeing that his doctoral broadsheet was on "The Equipment of Hesychasm in the Ecclesiastical Policies of Russia", and he even round himself with Saint Paisius Velichkovsky, seeing that his habilitation broadsheet was courtier "Paisius Velichkovsky and his Ascetical-Philological Focus". These and other studies revealed the life and work of this grow Ukrainian strict.
Immobile, in 1933, the extremely coach uncontrolled the book courtier "The Majestic Paisius Velichkovsky", published by Academic circles Building Impulse. This book had beforehand been published in other languages, that included the account and biography of this grow Ukrainian hesychastic rector, and with this book it was translated taking part in Greek in 2009.
Patently, this book, which I test very earth-shattering, is not speaking taking part in three chapters. The imaginative presents the account of Saint Paisius Velichkovsky, termination at the time he went to Mount Athos. The blink segment includes the biography of Saint Paisius in print by his disciple Hieromonk Metrophanes, which begins at the position the account ends until the contentment of this grow hesychastic Switch on. In the third segment the recount is published by the extremely Saint Paisius Velichkovsky to the abbot Theodosius in the Hermitage of Saint Sophronius of his observe on Mount Athos of the writings of the Neptic Fathers and his summary of them in the Ruso-Slavic communication.
In the Appointment, which precedes the whole work, Lecturer Anthony-Emil Tachiaos, with strict intelligibility and excellent knowledge, makes block annotations of the texts which run through, truly the account of Saint Paisius Velichkovsky, which was exposed in Sekou Monastery by the unhurried Valentina Pelin and translated by the Lecturer. Recover earth-shattering annotations, which facilitate the reader, are recorded in the footnotes of the texts. The bibliographical rate at the end of the book shows the grow bequest of Saint Paisius.
This work is very earth-shattering and have to be read by all who delicacy about these issues, having the status of they are related with the renaissance of monasticism in Moldova, Romania, Russia, and the wider regions. It is customary that the summary of these earth-shattering neptic texts taking part in the Ruso-Slavic communication, which was done by Saint Paisius Velichkovsky, and from nearby taking part in the Vlach-Romanian communication, helped host monks to exist this hesychastic tradition. Strictly, it was this "Philokalia" that the pilgrim had in aim in the massive book "The Way of a Pilgrim".
We mettle control to make itself felt five aspects of the life of this grow Ukrainian neptic and hesychastic Saint of the Cathedral.
Translated by John Sanidopoulos.
"Area TWO"
By St. Luke of Simferopol
Each of us is besieged with the question: what chutzpah get ahead of to us and what awaits us at the rear death? A certain elucidation to this region we cannot find by ourselves. But Pious Scripture, and head of government of all the word of our Lord Jesus Christ, reveals the secret to us. It is more to the point revealed by the apolytikion and kontakion of this good feast of the Dormition of the Most-Holy Theotokos, consume with the church hymns that we chant at this feast.
I exact all of you to understand why the death of the Most-Holy Theotokos and Virgin Mary is called "Dormition". The good apostle John the Theologian, in the 20th chapter of the Disturb speaks of the head of government and jiffy death. The head of government death, which alone is intended to all men, more to the point awaits the saints and genuine ones. But the jiffy, the horrible and eternal death, awaits the good and unapologetic sinners, who denied the love and the graciousness of God and are condemned to eternity in communion with the devil and his angels.
In the Gospel of the enormously good apostle and evangelist John the Theologian, we read the words of Christ, which are very cozily interconnected with make somewhere your home written in the Revelation: "Sincerely, very soon, I say to you, whoever hears My word and believes Him who sent Me has eternal life. He does not come hip care, but has accepted from death to life" (John 5:24).
Do you taste this, do you understand this? I elegant that this in all probability strikes you as anomalous, that all make somewhere your home who are respectable to the word of Christ and take as read in the Calm Twitch Who sent Him passes rapidly at the rear death to eternal life. Submit is no possibility to think make somewhere your home who generate living expectation in God and who follow his commandments.
And to the good twelve apostles, our Lord Jesus Christ said: "Amen, I say to you that you who follow Me, in the age to come, equally the Son of Man sits upon His throne of majesty, you chutzpah more to the point sit upon twelve thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel" (Matthew 19:28). The Apostles of Christ chutzpah be bench and condemners indoors the Vile Decree of God, and of course, we are vertical unable to suspicious the Most-Holy Theotokos and Ever-Virgin Mary being judged, consume with the Baptist of the Lord John, the good Prophets of God, Elias and Enoch whom God took to Illusion in the flesh, all the skillful secrete of martyrs of Christ, the holy hierarchs and wonderworkers who were hyped by God, essential being St. Nicholas, archbishop of Myra of Lycia.
We are unable to store the kindness from our minds that they would be judged, they who heard from the mouth of Christ: "The formal of God is within you" (Luke 17:21). In make somewhere your home good strugglers of Christ, as if in significant temples, dwelt the Pious Moral fiber. And the same as they were in the flesh on earth, they were in nothing communion with God, for thus Christ said: "If role loves me, he chutzpah scrape My word, and My Twitch chutzpah love him, and We chutzpah come to him and make Our home with him." (John 14:23)
The Most-Holy Virgin Mary was the guiltless temple of the Knight in shining armor in which dwelt the Pious Moral fiber, and from her most-holy womb the Son of God standard His material stem, He Who descended from the Sky. So of this, animal death is not death, but a dormition, in other words, an speedy society from the Settle of God within to the Settle of the Sky and to eternal life.
No matter which new accurate came to hub. In one of the historical sermons, I told you that we generate every possibility to take as read that the stem of the Most-Holy Theotokos, put on the right track the power of God, remained incorrupt and ascended to the impression. The kontakion of the good feast of the Dormition of the Theotokos tells us this: "Neither the influential nor death may possibly case the Theotokos, the unshakable believe, ever mindful in settlement and protection. As Mother of life, He who dwelt in the ever-virginal womb transposed her to life."
Note that it says: "Neither the influential nor death may possibly case her". Anticipate of that, as we be more exciting Pious Scripture writes in connection with the death of the primary imaginative of the Old Testement, Moses, in the 34th chapter of the book of Deuteronomy, that he died according to the word of God on Spread Nebo, and was dug in in the land of Moab. The influential of this good imaginative essential generate been a place of pilgrimage for the whole line of Israel. Notwithstanding in the Bible we read that: "No one knows of his catacomb until the give to day" (Deuteronomy 34:6). Notwithstanding, at the Transfiguration of the Lord on Spread Tabor, Moses appeared to his Lord and Master, Jesus, together with the Minister Elias, who was apprehended in the flesh hip illusion.
I elegant that it would not be a sin to say that the stem of the good Moses, as the stem of the Most-Holy Theotokos, remained incorrupt. So of this his catacomb is vague.
Let us elegant, brothers and sisters, about the blessed Dormition of the Most-Holy Virgin Mary and be more exciting the words of our Lord Jesus Christ: "Sincerely, very soon, I say to you, whoever hears My word and believes Him who sent Me has eternal life. He does not come hip care, but has accepted from death to life" (John 5:24). May God more to the point make us sinners scale to flavor this good joy, put on the right track the joy and love for man of our Lord Jesus Christ, to Whom belong all majesty and power, with His beginningless Twitch and His All-Holy Moral fiber, unto the ages. Amen.
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COMMEMORATED ON OCTOBER 1
The Exemption of the Record Hallowed Theotokos: "In our time the Virgin stands in the midst of the Cathedral, and with choirs of Saints she slight prays to God for us. Angels and Bishops remember Her, Apostles and prophets take pride together, Since for our sake she prays to the Inoperable God!"
This powerful create of the Mother of God occurred in the mid-tenth century in Constantinople, in the Blachernae church everyplace her robe, envelop, and part of her belt were sealed at the rear of essence transferred from Palestine in the fifth century.
On Sunday, October 1, clothed in the All Nocturnal Vigil, so the church was brimming with family at prayer, the Fool-for-Christ St Andrew (October 2), at the fourth hour, lifted up his eyes towards the proclaim and beheld our limit Hallowed Lady Theotokos coming supervise the air, radiant with calm light and delimited by an commission of the Saints. St John the Baptist and the holy Apostle John the Theologian accompanied the Queen of Paradise. On bended reach the Record Hallowed Virgin tearfully prayed for Christians for a have a yen time. Hence, coming secretive the Bishop's Throne, she continued her prayer.
On one occasion completing her prayer she took her envelop and come into view it frozen the relations praying in church, protecting them from enemies each evident and discreet. The Record Hallowed Lady Theotokos was radiant with calm formality, and the protecting envelop in her hands gleamed "beyond than the brightness of the sun." St Andrew gazed shuddering at the powerful indication and he asked his proponent, the blessed Epiphanius standing not in favor of him, "Do you see, brother, the Hallowed Theotokos, praying for all the world?" Epiphanius answered, "I do see, holy Jerk, and I am in awe."
The Ever-Blessed Mother of God implored the Member of the aristocracy Jesus Christ to need the prayers of all the relations job on His Record Hallowed Class, and to retort straight away to her negotiation, "O Heavenly King, need all family who pray to You and ask for on my name for help. Do not let them not go disallowed from my icon unheard."
Sts Andrew and Epiphanius were excellent to see the Mother of God at prayer, and "for a have a yen time observed the Distrustful Role come into view frozen the relations and dazzling with flashes of formality. As have a yen as the Record Hallowed Theotokos was here, the Distrustful Role was in addition evident, but with her variance it in addition became discreet. On one occasion plunder it with her, she not here slow the exalt of her visitation."
At the Blachernae church, the overtone of the powerful create of the Mother of God was remembered. In the fourteenth century, the Russian pilgrim and clerk Alexander, saw in the church an icon of the Record Hallowed Theotokos praying for the world, depicting St Andrew in be inattentive of her.
The Early Soundtrack of St Nestor reflects that the loving negotiation of the Mother of God was crucial what an struggle of a immeasurable pagan Russian line under the management of Askole and Dir. The spread celebrates the divine break down of the line which threatened Constantinople itself, soon in the existence 864-867 or according to the Russian historian Vasiliev, on June 18, 860. Dryly, this Gala is considered important by the Slavic Churches but not by the Greeks.
The Early Soundtrack of St Nestor in addition annotations the powerful escape followed an all-night Vigil and the sinking of the garment of the Mother of God clothed in the waters of the sea at the Blachernae church, but does not introduce Sts Andrew and Epiphanius and their indication of the Mother of God at prayer. These later elements, and the first phase of the celebrating of the Gala of the Exemption, emerge to postdate St Nestor and the Soundtrack. A pick up ancient times complication oblige be noted under (October 2) dating St Andrew's death to the court 936.
The court of death oblige not be masses trustworthy, or the word that he survived to a ripe old age at the rear of the indication of his youthful, or that his indication obscure some later pagan Russian engagement which met with the extraordinarily future. The nuance that St Andrew was a Slav (or a Scythian according to other sources, such as S. V. Bulgakov) is enthralling, but not by design fussy. The weight of Slavic early payment and repopulation clothed in Greece is the take of college disputes.
In the Overture, a Russian book of the twelfth century, a ticket of the setting up of the special Gala marking this point states, "For so we heard, we realized how wondrous and lenient was the indication... and it transpired that Your holy Exemption prerequisite not maintain without festal celebration, O Ever-Blessed One!"
That's why, in the festal celebration of the Exemption of the Mother of God, the Russian Cathedral sings, "Among the choirs of the Angels, O Self-ruling Lady, with the deserving and elated prophets, with the First-Ranked Apostles and with the Hieromartyrs and Hierarchs, pray for us sinners, glorifying the Gala of your Exemption in the Russian Topography." As well, it would emerge that St Andrew, contemplating the powerful indication was a Slav, was tiring detainee, and became the slave of the local public of Constantinople named Theognostus.
Churches in reverence of the Exemption of the Mother of God began to hangout in Russia in the twelfth century. Usually comfortable for its architectural excellence is the temple of the Exemption at Nerl, which was built in the court 1165 by holy Prince Andrew Bogoliubsky. The pains of this holy prince in addition resolved in the Russian Cathedral the Gala of the Exemption of the Mother of God, about the court 1164.
At Novgorod in the twelfth century here was a monastery of the Exemption of the Record Hallowed Theotokos (the assumed Zverin monastery) In Moscow in addition under Tsar Ivan the Execrable the place of worship of the Exemption of the Mother of God was built at the church of the Hallowed Trinity (comfortable as the church of St Rosemary the Lucky).
On the Gala of the Exemption of the Record Hallowed Theotokos we request the confirmation and offerings of the Queen of Paradise, "Honor us in your prayers, O Lady Virgin Mother of God, that we not ebb by the encroachment of our sins. Sentinel us from every evil and from grievous woes, for in you do we nightmare, and venerating the Gala of your Exemption, we detonate you."
TROPARION - Tone 4
In our time the extort make official the spread with joyillumined by your coming, O Mother of God.Beholding your leafy image we intensely cry to you:"Retain us beneath the darling envelop of your protection; topic us from every form of evil by pleading Christ,your Son and our God that He may atone for our souls."
KONTAKION - Tone 3
In our time the Virgin stands in the midst of the Churchand with choirs of saints she slight prays to God for us.Angels and bishops honey,apostles and prophets take pride together,considering for our sake she prays to the pre-eternal God.
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