Возвращение из ссылки. Борьба с обновленчеством

On June 26, 1923, Bishop Hilarion receives a certificate with which he is notified of the end of the period of exile and undertakes, upon arrival in Moscow, to “appear at the 6th department of the SOGPU.” On July 5 he arrives in Moscow 340. The energy accumulated during the period of forced inaction allowed Bishop Hilarion, upon returning to Moscow, to act with redoubled force. On July 5, 1923, on the eve of the feast of the Vladimir Icon of the Mother of God, he already served the all-night vigil at the Sretensky Monastery, having previously completed the rite of consecration of the church. Clergy who have returned from renovationism are not allowed to participate in divine services without repentance. The GPU reports pay close attention to this event. Anxiety and concern about what is happening is clearly audible in them: “In the church of the Sretensky Monastery on July 5, 1923, an all-night vigil was celebrated by Bishop Hilarion, a famous preacher, superior in his abilities to the famous preacher Khrapovitsky. Hilarion enjoys enormous popularity among believers and is loved for his sermons, imbued with pure Tikhonovism... Bishop Hilarion delivered a sermon in which he appealed to the priesthood who had joined the renovationist groups so that they would publicly repent of the Church, otherwise he would not allow them to serve at the altar. The clergy present publicly repented, and Hilarion sanctified the church from the desecration of heretics” 341. On July 6, Bishop Hilarion will concelebrate with the patriarch at the liturgy and deliver a sermon in which he again denounces the renovationist schism and calls those who have fallen away to repentance. The return of Patriarch Tikhon from prison, combined with the word of Bishop Hilarion, caused a massive return of lost children to the Church and, at the same time, panic in the camp of the Renovationists. One of the leaders of the renovationist schism, priest Vladimir Krasnitsky, complained about this to the GPU: “I earnestly ask you to pay attention to the extremely provocative counter-revolutionary activities of Tikhonov’s assistant Hilarion. On July 6, while preaching at the Sretensky Monastery, he delivered such a pogrom speech that physical clashes occurred in the crowd in the fence and on the street, and the matter ended with arrests. Over the ten days they have experienced, Tikhon’s followers have become extremely insolent, behave defiantly and are ready to proceed to beatings, and this mood - definitely pogrom and clearly anti-Soviet - is created by him, Bishop Hilarion. If a limit is not put on his clearly counter-revolutionary activities, then public unrest and the beating of church renovationists are inevitable” 342. The influence of the Bishop on his contemporaries at this time was enormous. It is no coincidence that he was nicknamed “the Great” by the Russian episcopate for his intelligence and firm stand in the truth. The renovationists themselves involuntarily developed respect for him, and some of them later recalled: “It was difficult to think of a better assistant for Patriarch Tikhon than Bishop Hilarion. A magnificent, fiery preacher who knew how to speak simply and emotionally, a zealous altar server, Bishop Hilarion enjoyed enormous popularity among the Moscow clergy and literally the adoration of the people. The very appearance - heroic height, blond beard, iconic fine facial features impressed with its majesty, strict grace, and peculiar picturesqueness. “This is a real Russian saint,” the thought involuntarily came to everyone who saw Hilarion. Quickly understanding the new position of the patriarch, the bishop immediately became its active leader. These days he spoke with hundreds of priests, laymen, monks and nuns. He agreed with the parishes on the order of their joining the patriarch, developed the order of repentance, and immediately received dozens of renovationists who came to the patriarch with repentance. Thanks to the indomitable energy of this man, the church organization in Moscow was restored in two days” 344. But, of course, among the majority of renovationists and, especially, among their leaders, one memory of Archbishop Hilarion caused a storm of indignation (Vladyka Hilarion was elevated to the rank of archbishop by a decree of His Holiness Patriarch Tikhon of August 27, 1923, the basis for which was his “zealous and diligent service to the Church of God” 345). Already in 1925, two years after the next arrest of the bishop and sending to Solovki, the false metropolitan Alexander Vvedensky, traveling around the Tula diocese, reproached her for the fact that she “gave, as is known, such a notorious Black Hundreds as Tikhon’s “pillar” - Hilarion of the Trinity" 346 [original spelling - Note. author]. John (Ludishchev), priest. Events of church life in 1923 and Sretensky Monastery. URL: hup: // www.pravoslavie.ru/sm/54512.htm Quote by: Damascene (Orlovsky), abbot. Holy Martyr Hilarion (Troitsky), Archbishop of Vereisky, Vicar of the Moscow Diocese // He. Martyrs, confessors and devotees of piety of the Russian Orthodox Church of the 20th century: Lives and materials for them. – Tver: Bulat, 2005. P. 416. John (Snychev), Metropolitan. Church schisms of the Russian Church in the 20s and 30s of the XX century... -Samara: [B.I.], 1997. P. 86. Levitin-Krasnov A., Shavrov V. Essays on the history of Russian church unrest. – M., Kusnacht (Schweiz): Krutitsa Patriarchal Compound, Institut Glaube in der 2 Welt, 1996. pp. 313–314. Quote by: John (Ludishchev), Hierom. Events of church life in 1923 and Sretensky Monastery. URL: http://www.pravoslavie.ru/sm/54512.htm Disputes of Metropolitan Alexander Vvedensky: 10. On the Tula diocese // Church renewal (newspaper). July 15, 1925 No. 11. P. 87.