Letter to Monk Ioannikios

Contents Letter No. 99 Letters from Monk Ioannikis (in the schema of Leonidas) to Saint Ignatius Letter No. 100 Letter No. 101 Letter No. 102 Letter No. 103 Letter from Hieroschemamonk John (Malinovkin) to Saint Ignatius Your Reverence! Most Reverend Father Ioannikios! I had the honor to receive your esteemed letter. Thank you for your congratulations, but I apologize for not responding to your last letter. What you call my hospitality to strangers is only my duty and a weak sign of gratitude, which feeling I must always preserve for you. Take the trouble to say about. My gratitude to the builder Moses for his congratulations. I will try to intercede with his letter. About the novice Nicholas Demoutier, whom he mentioned in the letter, I completely leave it to his will. I released this novice according to my rule not to detain anyone by force; but now that he has left me, I have nothing to do with him. The very age and temptation of the perverse circumstances of this world have! Also take the trouble to say my sincere bow to Fr. Anthony, the head of the monastery, my fellow countryman Fr. Macarius the silent, Fr. Makariy Ivanov, Fr. Abraham, Fr. Gerontius, Fr. Joseph, my favorite; tell me about it too. Gabriel, Fr. Vassian and Diomedes, so that they would not be sad when they see that I did not remember them. Our Fr. V. moved to Lubny, Fr. Seraphim the economy, and the other Seraphim the prosphyr, Fr. Mikhail and the other brothers bow to you earnestly. Wishing you good health and all the blessings of soul and body, asking for your Holy prayers, I have the honor to be Your Reverence's most humble servant and pilgrim Archimandrite Ignatius 1836 Dec 21 d. At this opportunity, the Most Honorable Fr. Leonid, allow me to express my sincere respect to you. I consider the time that I lived with you and used your instructions to be part of the most pleasant time in my life. And now I ask you to remember me, unworthy, in your holy prayers. Fr. Mikhail Chikhachev testifies to you his most zealous worship with respect. Letters of the monk Ioannikis (in the schema of Leonidas) to St. Ignatius 2 Through the prayers of the saints, our Fathers, Lord Jesus Christ our God, have mercy on us. Most Reverend Father Archimandrite Ignatius! After I left St. Petersburg on April 15th, I arrived with my companion Spiridon at our monastery on May 8th and, thanking God, I found everything safe; Father Leonid lives calmly and peacefully in the monastery, thanks you for the duckweed. And even more so for your love and memory for him. Father Builder bows to you and thanks you for your writing to him, he writes to you especially. And together with them, Spiridon and I fully feel your bread and salt, peace and all consolation flowing from you, and we wish you to receive from the LORD GOD peace, joy and everything you ask for your salvation and prosperity. And finally, we ask your Holy Prayers and blessings. I remain Your Eminence, your humble servant the sinful monk Ioannikis Maya 12th 1836. This most faithful opportunity and benefit, rendered by Your Reverence not according to my dignity, forced my despondency to express my most sensitive gratitude, may our all-merciful Lord Jesus Christ Himself reward with His grace and mercy for your such benefit and remembrance of my indecency. Your Most Reverend all-merciful father and benefactor, most unworthy pilgrim, many-sinner Hieromonk Leonidas, I most humbly bow at the same time. Your Reverence, Most Honorable Father Archimandrite! Last year, although I was at this time in St. Petersburg, but in my ignorance I did not fulfill my duty, I did not personally congratulate Your Reverence on the day of your Angel; for which I was guilty, I was later honored to receive forgiveness from you. But wanting to make amends for this mistake of mine, remembering the approaching feast of the Holy Hieromartyr Ignatius the God-Bearer, whose name you deign to bear, I make it my duty to congratulate you on it and wish you to celebrate this day for many years to come in health and spiritual peace and tranquility, which may the most merciful Lord bestow upon you. What you did to me when I was with my companion Fr. Spyridon in your holy monastery I try to keep hospitality and love unforgettable in my memory and feel my heartfelt gratitude. And when my prayers to God are weak, pray for your health and salvation. In the hope of your favor, I dare to most humbly ask for your blessing, and, committing myself to your holy prayers, with the highest reverence due to me, I have the honor to remain Your Eminence, most humble novice the sinful monk Ioannikis December 9, 1836 At the same time, I, the most insignificant, have the honor to congratulate you, your Reverence, on the upcoming day of your Angel, and may the most merciful Lord grant you to meet it and see it off in the desired health and prosperity - your unworthy Prayer Book the sinful Hieromonk Leonid. To my bad lines you honored me with your own answer; With all your activities, you also found time for me, the last one. Feeling such your mercy, I have long been inspired to offer you my most humble gratitude, but refrained from doing so, so as not to distract you from the most important subjects with my insignificant lines. But now I dare to dare to do this on the occasion of the approach of the highly solemn feast of the Resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ. And I consider it my indispensable duty to congratulate you on this all-joyful holiday. Accept my heartfelt desire, may the most merciful Lord comfort you in the days of this triumph with his imperishable consolation and grant you peace and tranquility of soul, with perfect physical health. Allow me, most respected father! remind you of the past year. This time will remain an everlasting memory for me, how my brother Father Spiridon and I triumphed in your monastery and enjoyed your fatherly love. I am unable to express my feelings of gratitude, but with my weak prayers I must pray to the most merciful Lord for your health and salvation. I dare to entrust myself to your holy prayers and with my deepest veneration and earthly worship I have the honor to remain Your Reverence’s most humble novice April 10, 1837 Most Reverend Father Archimandrite! Upon our arrival at our monastery on the 5th of this January, I dare to inform your Reverence about this. The benefits and mercies you have shown to me personally, as well as your intercession, which has given us the means to gain benefit for the monastery, remain impressed in my heart, and with happiness I decree that at the first, my poor inscription to you, I express my most humble and sensitive gratitude. Fulfilling obedience, being in the excitement of the world, we found a quiet refuge in your holy monastery; and your fatherly love and affectionate treatment served us as consolation; In your monastery we forgot the labor we had endured and completely calmed down. But without your intercession, it would be very difficult to begin to fulfill our obedience. Also, your love for Father Leonid, and compassion for his situation, touched me to the depths of my heart: feeling all this, I could not pass in silence, not express my feelings before your Reverence. Let me bring you my most earnest congratulations on the upcoming New Year, and I wish you new strength and new happiness; and both during this year and in many future years, I wish you bodily health and mental peace and all tranquility, and may the greatly gifted Lord bestow His blessing on you and on your entire monastery. I fall at your fatherly feet and ask for your holy prayers and blessings, and with my deepest veneration and devotion, I have the honor of Your Reverence, most humble novice January 24, 1838 Optina Monastery of St. John the Baptist Skete. At the same time, I, indecent Leonid, you, the Most Reverend Father Archimandrite, have the honor to greet you with my congratulations on the upcoming New Year and wish you health, Salvation and Prosperity, and for the acceptance of our Closest Brother, Father Ioannikios, we lack the strength and feelings of your love to express Gratitude and in the hope of your Goodwill, we have the honor of your unworthy som prayers. Allow me also to your Reverence to bring congratulations on the upcoming New Year, to wish you peace, health and salvation; With my highest regards, I have the honor to remain Your Reverence's most humble novice Letter from Hieroschemamonk John (Malinovkin) to Saint Ignatius 3 Your gracious attention to me, a poor old man, gives me the right to dare to present to you, with my deepest respect and respect for you, the evidence I have collected about the antiquity of the tripartite addition in the sign of the cross, and the name-bearing Hierarchal blessing, as well as the addition to it about the tripartite prayer, which were published with the approval of the Moscow Spiritual Censorship this year. God Himself sees my intention that I dedicated these works for the benefit of my neighbors, the brethren, who, although they are in the church, are ill with the sign of two fingers. Desiring to unite them into the Unity of the Spirit and the Union of Peace, so that with One mouth and One Heart our all-good God may be glorified both in customs and rituals according to Church tradition. In these Books it is mentioned that the double-fingered constitution originates from the Armenians, who are cursed by the Church and are even called damned, and this is in my small Book on page 18. For which the Armenians were offended by me, they presented this book to Lazarev, and he sent it to St. Petersburg. I am not at all afraid of this, for this is not my expression, but the Holy Church accepted it, and it was printed by the command of our Most Pious Sovereigns and the blessing of the Most Holy Governing Synod in the Lenten Triode, on the week of the Publican and the Pharisee. Sheet 10 on the back, and you are quite aware that large thousands of these books were published in Russia at different times. What I found necessary to bring to your attention and humbly ask, in the event that the benefits of sowing would not cease by holding back the flow of books through the secular government, put in a word where and to whom it should be; the Lord will accept your patronage and zeal for the Church of God. This is nothing more than Satan roared and was jealous of the benefits that could come from knowing the truth and uniting Orthodox Christians in unanimity. In addition, the schismatics of Moscow armed themselves against me for my assurance of the three-fingered constitution and with their council they condemned me. Committing myself to your holy prayers, I have the honor to remain with my deepest respect. Your Reverence, the most humble novice and Bogomolets the many-sinful Hieroschemamonk John. The above-mentioned books about the tripartite constitution were sent to you by this same mail. Father Ioannikiy and Father Hilarion, having celebrated the day of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker of Christ, with the blessing of Father Hegumen, intend to come to you. I also inform you that the brother of Abbot Father Anthony has been appointed by our Eminence Archpastor to Maloyaroslavets in the Nikolsky Monastery as abbot and God willing, on December 1 he must go to work. RSL OR. F. 213. K. 103. Father Ioannikiy (in the world Iakinf Tikhonovich Bocharov, 1780–1853) - a monk of the Optina monastery, in the schema of Leonid. But his mother was the nephew of the elder schemamonk Theodore, a disciple of the Monk Paisius (Velichkovsky). In 1807 he was tonsured into the cassock by Hieromonk Leonid (Nagolkin) in the Beloberezhnaya Hermitage. In 1809 he was tonsured into the mantle. In 1824 he entered the brotherhood of the Alexander Nevsky Lavra, where Dmitry Alexandrovich Bryanchaninov met him. In 1834 he moved to Optina Pustyn. On March 31, 1851, in the Kaluga Tikhonova Hermitage, where he was temporarily located, he was tonsured into the schema RSL OR. F. 425. K. 3. No. 45. RSL OR. F. 425. K. 3. No. 43 Here and below the letter numbers are given in the original numbering. ed. ABC of Faith portal