Человеколюбие без человекоугодия

During the period of his inspection, Archimandrite Hilarion maintained friendly relations with the bishops who, after the revolution, became the heads of various church and anti-church movements. Among them are Archbishop Anthony (Khrapovitsky), later the head of the ROCOR, Bishop Theodore (Pozdeevsky), in the 1920s the leader of the moderate church opposition, rector of the St. Danilov Monastery and Bishop Evdokim (Meshchersky), future chairman of the renovationist All-Russian Central Council and the Synod (all three served as rector of the MDA). Archimandrite Hilarion was also on friendly terms with other hierarchs, many of whom subsequently ended their lives in martyrdom. He was on friendly terms, for example, with Archbishops Procopius (Titov) (“After all, he is my friend” 201), Juvenal (Maslovsky) (“This is a holy angel!” 202), Peter (Zverev) and with many other future holy martyrs. But using the example of friendship with the three above-mentioned hierarchs, I would like to show two valuable spiritual qualities of Father Hilarion, rarely combined in one person. On the one hand, this is openness and friendliness in relations with almost all people. On the other hand, independence of thinking, independence and firmness in defending one’s own position. This character trait of Bishop Hilarion can be defined as benevolence (or love of mankind) without people-pleasing. Archimandrite Hilarion met Metropolitan Anthony when he was Vladimir of Troitsky and since then has maintained warm, friendly relations with Bishop Anthony. It is likely that His Eminence Anthony to some extent influenced the decision of Vladimir Troitsky to become a monk. The latter recalled his conversation with Archbishop Anthony of Volyn on the Feast of the Intercession in 1912: “Are you still walking like a hazel grouse?” - the saint met me. We talked about a lot of things and generally felt quite comforted” 203. As an inspector of the MDA, Archimandrite Hilarion spoke of his senior fellow bishop as a “deeply revered saint” 204 who “tirelessly advocates for the cleansing of our theology from Catholic scholasticism” 205. Nevertheless, the friendship and mutual respect of both hierarchs completely coexisted with the independence of theological thought. As for the scientific value of Metropolitan Anthony's theological reasoning, Archbishop Hilarion spoke critically about it. According to the memoirs of S. Volkov, “the famous scientist Archbishop Anthony (Khrapovitsky) in those years responded quite harshly to Florensky’s work, saying: “Either I no longer understand anything about philosophy, or this is just Khlystov’s nonsense!” To this, the MDA inspector noted that he “is ready to agree only with the first half of his judgment, since, busy with the affairs of church administration and the public, Anthony has fallen far behind philosophy and underestimates its newest trends”” 206. The academy inspector had no less good relations with the rector of the MDA, Bishop Theodore (Pozdeevsky): “I am extremely glad,” he wrote in the first months of his inspection, “and I do not hide my joy that the Right Reverend Theodore treats me very well. Doesn't scold, even when he should. Our relations are extremely simple: such relations between the rector and the inspector in Moscow. there hasn’t been an academy for a long time, I don’t remember” 207. In 1915, Archimandrite Hilarion came to the defense of learned monasticism in response to the appearance of the “Notes of the Duma Clergy,” which will be discussed in more detail below. Without a doubt, this kind of action by the MDA inspector was welcomed by the rector of the academy, Bishop Theodore, a well-known apologist for monasticism. Nevertheless, in defending monasticism, Archimandrite Hilarion maintains a moderate position, and when at the All-Russian Congress of Learned Monasticism, held under the actual chairmanship of Bishop Theodore, the question of creating a “monastic” academy was raised, Archimandrite Hilarion, together with Hieromonk Bartholomew (Remov), opposed this idea, explaining his position by saying that “scientific monasticism at the present time, in in general, not close to theological science, and often, unfortunately, treats it without due respect” 208. Archimandrite Hilarion was also friendly with Bishop Evdokim (Meshchersky), rector of the MDA during the years of Vladimir Troitsky’s student there. He maintained this relationship later. For example, in June 1912, after spending two and a half days in Tula, Vladimir Alekseevich “saw few people, since he sat almost all the time” with His Eminence Evdokim, in those years Bishop of Kashira, vicar of the Tula bishop 209 . But this did not prevent Archbishop Hilarion (Troitsky) from fighting the Renovationist schism in 1923, of which Archbishop Evdokim (Meshchersky) became an active figure at that time. Hilarion (Troitsky), archimandrite. Letter from L.P. Arkhangelskaya dated November 24, 1914 – Archive of A.V. Nikitsky. His own. Letter from L.P. Arkhangelskaya dated October 15, 1914 – Archive of A.V. Nikitsky. Troitsky V.A. Letter to L.P. Arkhangelskaya dated October 30. 1912 – Archive of A.V. Nikitsky. Hilarion (Troitsky), schmch. 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