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Cathedral of St. Archangel Michael and other ethereal forces This day is the main holiday in honor of St. Angelov. It is dedicated to St. Archangel Michael - the beginning-leader of the heavenly powers. For Archangel Michael in Scripture is called the Archangel of the power of the Lord (Joshua 5:14), one of the first elders, the great prince (Dan.10:13, 21, 12:1), Michael and his angels (Apoc.12:7). According to legend, Satan, once the brightest of all the heavenly spirits, and for this reason called Lucifer or luminiferous primarily, fell into self-love, pride and malice, “the fall of the Archangel’s power,” and carried away many other spirits with him. Then St. Archangel Michael, as a faithful servant of God, “gathering the faces of the Archangels,” who were not carried away by the destructive example of Satan’s exaltation, “said: let us listen, and become good before Him who made us; and let us not think against Him who made us. Thus, speaking to the entire angelic council, they began to glorify the Most Holy, Consubstantial, Indivisible Trinity of the one God, singing solemnly according to the song: Holy, Holy, Holy is the Lord of Hosts. Such wretched copulation of St. The angels are called “the council of angels” and expresses attention, unanimity, agreement, union, “as with one accord they glorify the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit” (Apoc. 12:7–9). Michael and his Angels, who glorify the Lord, are also the guardians of men. Lord, ever-worshipped and glorified St. Angels, demonstrating the wisdom, grace, power and greatness of His Divinity in the creation, governance and redemption of the world, were appointed by St. Angels are special guardians of people; – and a Guardian Angel for each of us. This view of God about man is repeatedly attested by the word of God. Patriarch Jacob, in the manifestation of special heavenly protection to him, saw the Lord and Angels above him (Gen. 28:12–15). Blessing his grandchildren, he said: May the angel who delivers me from all evil bless these children (Gen. 28:16). An angel led and guarded the armies of the children of Israel during their journey from Egypt (Exodus 14:19). The King-Prophet says: He commanded You with His Angel to preserve You in all Your ways (Ps. 90:11-12). Are not all (i.e., Angels), says the Apostle Paul, servant souls sent into service for those who want to inherit salvation (Heb. 5:14). And Jesus Christ Himself said about the humble believers: take heed, and do not despise one of these little ones: for I say to you, for their angels in heaven have always seen the face of my Father in heaven (Matthew 18:10). The first Christians, by revelation and experience, knew the intercession of honest, disembodied forces for themselves. When the Apostle Peter, miraculously freed by an Angel from prison, came to his disciples, they at first did not believe that the one who came was Peter himself, but said: this is his Angel (Acts 12:15). Based on Holy Scripture, the Church, since the times of the Apostles, daily prays to the Lord to give us “a peaceful, faithful angel, a guide, a guardian of our souls and bodies.” In the 4th century St. Macarius the Great composed a prayer to the Guardian Angels, which the Orthodox Church now encourages us to say as we go to sleep. The pious Greek kings dedicated St. To the guardian angels are the churches of God and with them cities and kingdoms. And our mother-throne Moscow, by our pious kings, was entrusted to the guardianship of the Angels, through the dedication of their name to the modern foundation of the capital of the Archangel Cathedral, founded in 1333 by Kalita, recreated and disseminated by the glorious John III. So, on the 8th day of November, the Orthodox Church annually celebrates the Holy Archangel Michael and the other ethereal forces that contemplate and glorify the incomprehensible greatness of the Most Holy Trinity and protect the militant Church, among whom the Archangel Michael is both the first praiser of God and the first guardian of men (Dan. 10:13, Apoc. 12:7). Therefore, the eighth day of November is popularly called Michaelmas Day, and the Orthodox Church calls this day the Council of St. Archangel Michael and other disembodied forces, imitating in this name the heavenly council of Angels, incessantly hymning the Lord. “To this end, says the Prologue, we will all praise this feast of the great Archangel Michael of God and with him all the Angels of the Lord sent from Him to the service of St. to His saints and to all the faithful, good things come from Him to those who ask. For the sake of the cathedral, this day is called the Cathedral of St. Michael the Archangel.” The establishment of a church council in honor of the heavenly cathedral of St. Angels dates back to ancient times of Christianity. Earlier than the 4th century, and especially in this century, churches were erected in honor of the Archangel Michael, in which services and celebrations were held in his honor, for example. in Khoni and in the main cities of the East - in Nicomedia, Antioch and Byzantium, and some places marked by the appearance of the Archangel Michael were called by his name. The establishment of a real holiday in honor of St. The Archangel Michael and other ethereal forces are attributed by others to Sylvester, the Bishop of Rome of the 4th century, and by others to the Patriarch of Alexandria Alexander, also of the 4th century. From this it can be seen that the celebration of the Guardian Angels was already in the 4th century in different places, and testifies to the general reverence of ancient Christians for the Angels - the glorifiers of the Lord and the invisible guardians of the weak person. In the 5th century, Anatoly - Patriarch of Constantinople, in the 8th century John of Damascus, in the 9th century George of Nicomedia, Studite, Byzantium and also Arsenius of Constantinople, Cyprian and Ephraim of Caria wrote many sacred songs on the day of the Council in honor of St. Archangel Michael and other ethereal forces. The month of November was chosen for the feast of St. Angels-Praisers of God because this month is the ninth from March, which was once the beginning of the year, and the number of the ninth corresponds to the nine Angelic ranks, and the eighth day of the month is appointed in relation to the second coming of Christ to earth, the day of which is called the eighth by church teachers. At the end of this world, turning in weeks of days, there will come, as it were, the eighth day, when the Full of Man comes in His glory, and all the holy Angels with Him (Matthew 25:31). During the Divine Service on the day of the Council of St. The Archangel Michael and other disembodied forces the Church glorifies them as servants of Divine glory and mentors of men, and prays to St. Angels on behalf of believers “protect us with the shelter of the wings of their immaterial glory and deliver us from troubles.” At the all-night vigil on the feast of St. The Church pronounces the Archangel Michael and other disembodied powers in parimations: in the first - about the appearance of the Archangel of the power of the Lord to Joshua (Joshua 5:13-16), in the second - about the appearance of the Angel of the Lord to Gideon (Judges 6:6, 11-24); in the third - about the fall of the star from heaven (Is. 14). In the Gospel, at the all-night vigil, the Church pronounces a parable about wheat and tares, which in real life are not plucked up only for the sake of wheat: lest when the tares are taken away, the wheat will be taken away together with them, and they will grow with the wheat until the harvest - the end of the age, and during the harvest, the reapers - the Angels - will gather all the temptations and those who create lawlessness: and throw them into a fiery furnace (Matthew 13:24–30, 36–43). At the Liturgy, by reading the Apostle, the Church proclaims the superiority of the Gospel over the Old Testament law, given under the Angels (Heb. 2:1-13); By reading the Gospel, he preaches about the fall of Satan from heaven, about the power of the name of Jesus Christ over demons and the power to tread on the serpent and the scorpion, and against all the power of the enemy, given to the Apostles and all believers (Luke 10:17-21). During the Divine Service on the day of remembrance of miracles and on the day of the Council of St. Archangel Michael and other disembodied forces The Church depicts primarily the spiritual and militant service of Archangel Michael for the glory of God and in defense of the faithful from temptations and evils. Since the fall of Satan, the Archangel has been in constant warfare with the ancient serpent, who is the devil, the flatterer of the universe (Rev. 12:7–9). As a military commander, Archangel Michael was once a special intercessor and patron of the people of Israel; “he appeared,” says the Church, “leading ancient Israel”; and in the book of the prophet Daniel it is written: behold, Michael is one of the first elders (Dan.10:13, 21), stand for the sons of his people (Dan.12:1). After crossing the Jordan, the Archangel Michael appeared to Joshua with a drawn sword and revealed to him the ways to conquer the Promised Land (Joshua 5:14). After the death of Moses, turning Israel away from every temptation and reason for idolatry, the Archangel, contrary to the machinations of Satan (Jude 1:9), arranged so that no one would know the burial of Moses (Deut. 34:6). The Christian Orthodox Church generally recognizes the Archangel Michael as his Divine adornment and the protection and affirmation of the world below. She teaches that St. Archangel Michael “with Divine fortress goes around the whole earth, taking away from the cruel those who call on his Divine name; calls him a shameless representative of the faithful, a guide and punisher of the lost; believes that he always walks with us and preserves everything from every devilish situation. As a warrior of God, Michael was depicted in ancient times trampling Lucifer with his feet, holding a spear in his right hand, with a white banner on top, and a green date branch on his shuyce, as a sign of victory.”