§ 164. Пр. Орсисий Тавеннисиотский. Пр. Авва Исаия.

One of the most zealous students of St. Pachomius was St. Orsisius. Even in his young years, he managed to acquire so much spiritual experience that St. Pachomius entrusted him with the management of the Khenovos cinnovia 867. Once the great Abba, talking with his disciples, said about Orsisius: “I tell you that Orsisius shines in the house of God like a golden lamp” 868 . The Great Anthony spoke no differently about him: he said that Orsisius is “Israel who sees the Lord” 869. When St. Petersburg died Pachomius († 349): Orsisius, against his will, was elected chief of the Tabennisiot monks 870. Since the number of brethren gradually increased here, Orsisius chose St. Theodora as an assistant to himself; After some time, he completely transferred control of the Tabennisiots to him, and he himself retired to the kenobia of Chenovos 871. After the death of Theodore in 365, Saint Athanasius wrote to Orsisius and the brethren: “Do not cry, beloved brothers, for Theodore: he is not dead, but sleeping. Let no one cry, but let everyone imitate him. One should not cry for someone who has passed to a place of care... To you, beloved and dear Orsisius, I write: since he fell asleep, take upon yourself all the care, replace him with the brothers. While he lived, you were both as one” 872. Blzh. Orsisius fulfilled the will of the great saint and took over the management of the populous Tabennisiot monastery. “Not for a short time,” he remained after that as the leader of the Tavennisiot ascetics, and died in a ripe old age not before 376 873. Abba Orsisius, with high piety, was enriched with an extensive and deep knowledge of the Holy Scriptures and possessed the gift of speech: “The power of his word,” says his contemporary, seemed to grow in him for the consolation of the brethren” 874. Gennady writes: “Orsisius, a husband who is quite familiar with St. Scripture, he wrote a book seasoned with spiritual salt; in other words: almost the entire Old and New Testament is explained in it with brief reflections, for the needs of monks. He left it to his fathers instead of a will before his death” 875. The book was written by Rev. Orsisius in Egyptian, as well as the instructions of Abba Pachomius: but it was soon translated into Greek, and Bl. Jerome translated it into Latin 876. In the book of Rev. Orsisiya - two works: an instruction on monastic life, quite lengthy, and an instruction on 6 good thoughts, very short 877. In his instructions, the blessed Abba, urging people to live according to God’s commandments, first offers admonitions to the heads of the hostels and the elders of the cells: “do not stop, he says, admonishing every soul entrusted to you, teach a holy life, be yourself an example of good deeds, be very careful not to love one and hate another, be the same towards everyone, so that God does not hate the one you love...” He convinces the younger ones to obey the elders. Addressing everyone, he writes: “We must be careful so that someone, deceived by a stupid thought, does not say: when I die, what will I leave as a gift to my brothers! Stupid! where is this prescribed to you? Haven't all the saints, while serving God, renounced all temporal possessions? Didn’t they, according to the acts of the apostles, bring everything that they had to the feet of the apostles?” St. Abba rarely speaks in his own words, but for the most part repeats the words of St. Scriptures. To the south of the Nitrian desert was the Skitskaya desert; They walked across the shifting sands to her only at the direction of the stars. Abba Isaiah spent his hermit life here; this was at the same time as St. Petersburg lived. Orsisius, during the life of the great saint of the Alexandrian Church Athanasius: this is what Bl. writes about him. Bishop Ammon, in a letter to Theophan of Alexandria 878. Rufinus 879 and Palladium 880 spoke of him with respect, and several of his sayings were recorded among the memorable sayings of the fathers. Here Abba Isaiah says: “there is nothing more useful for a new monk than reproach: like a tree that is watered, so is a new monk who is reproached and who endures reproach” 881. John, Patriarch of Antioch, listing the soul-saving books written by the holy elders of the monastery, places among them the book of “Saint Isaiah” 882. The following writings of St. are now known. Abba Isaiah: a) 29 words in the Latin translation of the 16th century, their Greek text has not yet been published; 19 chapters published in Greek constitute an extract from the words of Abba Isaiah 883; b) 68 rules for new monks 884, c) Sunday reading is conveyed in the Russian translation by Abba Isaiah to the blessed. Theodora - sayings of the holy women 885. The content of the words is as follows: 1) Commandments for the brothers who lived with him; 2) about the natural mind. 3) Instruction for young brothers; 4) what to do during the journey? 5) What should those who want to live together in peace observe? 6) Those who want to be at peace should not be curious and should not, leaving the memory of their sins, spend time in useless activities. 7) About virtues. 8) Sayings of Abba Isaiah. 9) To those who have renounced the world. 10) To them. 11) About the mustard seed. 12) About wine. 13) To those striving for perfection. 14) Cry. 15) About renunciation of the world. 16) About the same thing. 17) About the joy of the soul serving God. 18) About forgetting grievances. 19) About diseases of the soul. 20) About humility. 21) About repentance. 22) About the affairs of the new man. 23) About perfection. 24) About peace. 25) To his disciple Abba Peter. 26) Sayings of Abba Isaiah, noticed by Abba Peter. 27) To the words: listen to yourself. 28) About the branches of sin. 29 Cry. Life of St. Orsisia, described by a contemporary, in Actis SS. Maii. T. III. § 76. About Orsisia, as a contemporary of St. Pachomius, Sozomen also mentions. 3, 14. St. Athanasius Oper. 1,868. Life of Orsisius § 95. Memory of St. Orsisiya, along with other Egyptian hermits, is honored on the Saturday of Cheese Veli; only in glory The triodion was named by mistake as “Porsisius the Great”, whereas it belongs to the list of names beginning with the letter O. (Triodion l. 66). His memory is especially honored on July 15th. Gennad. Devir. illustr. § 9. Praefatio ad libr. S. Pachomii. Both ed. Mine in Patrolog. T. 40, 869–895. Rule in Lat. language in Benedicti aniansis codice regularum (Patrolog. lat. T. 103). Acta SS. T. 3 Maii r. 357. gr. in fine p. 71. Rufin in Vit. Patr. lib. 2. p. 10. The hon. tale about mobile p. 81. Apophthegmata Patr. in volume. 65 Patr. c. 131. Memory of St. Isaiah on Saturday of cheese week and in the triodion he is called: “Isaiah the Great.” Both ed. in Patrolog. graec. T. 40. rub. 1105–1211, 19 chapters translated. in Chr. Thurs. 1832 Ed. in Patr. lat. T. 103. r. 427–434. Risen. Read 1856–1858 You might be interested in: