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Rejoice, thou who shinest upon the image of the resurrection (Akathist, Ikos 7). Miracle 24 in 1679, April 21 In the village of Yarilovichi, a man named Ermola had a son, Timofey. On Monday of Bright Week of the Resurrection of Christ, this Timothy, a little boy of twelve years old, suddenly died, without any reason for death, for he was healthy, did not complain about anything, but played with other peers in the evening, and from morning until noon he lay already dead... His parents cried inconsolably for him. It happened at that time that Father Bartholomew, the hieromonk of the Elias monastery, was there, and he advised: for their dead son, let them pray with faith to the Most Holy Theotokos to resurrect him, and let them make a vow to worship Her miraculous icon in the Elias monastery. And the parents, having accepted good advice, wept to the Mother of God, handing over their son to Her with good vows and praying for the return of his spirit. Glory to the wondrous and quick help of the Mother of God: suddenly the youth resurrected and spoke, and stood up healthy in front of everyone who saw and was horrified by this glorious miracle, and soon the father took his son to the Elias Monastery to worship his great Benefactor before Her miraculous icon. All sorts of illnesses are healed, but death never is. There is no doctor, no healing that could resurrect the dead: "Healings against death poison You won’t find it even in the middle of a helicopter city.” But listen to me, I will show you a Physician who can heal and resurrect the dead. The Most Holy Virgin, Mother of Life, Whom the grave and death did not hold, She knows how to restore from the grave and death. Once upon a time, death suddenly snatched away a youth, the son of a Sumantan woman, and she immediately went to the man of God on Mount Carmel, for at that time the prophet Elisha was in Carmel. Look, what wonderful destinies: why did the prophet, being the resurrector of a dead youth, hesitate? The secret, I think, is this: for a mother, going to the prophet for the resurrection of her son, to come to Mount Carmel, which marks the Virgin Mary. The Holy Spirit speaks about Her: “Your head is on you like Carmel” (Song. 7:6). Whoever flows to Her will “receive his dead raised again” (Heb. 11:35). Moreover, so that the prophet who is coming to resurrect the deceased will receive the miraculous power from the sign of the Mother of God in Carmel. Raising the son of a widow in the city of Nain, the Lord “touched the bed,” and with His touch death was expelled (Luke 7:14). Also, various diseases are cured by His touch: “Because power came from Him and healed everyone” (Luke 6:19). I am amazed at the life-giving power in the Most Pure Flesh of Christ: where it touches, it not only heals the sick, but also raises the dead. However, I ask: where does this Flesh of Christ come from? Was it not from the Virgin's womb? Yes, the Flesh of Christ was consumed from her, and therefore the life-giving power that revives the dead is already clearly visible in the Virgin Mary. With the flesh Christ took from Her, whomever he touched, he raised him up and healed him. Not in vain “one woman, raising her voice from among the people, said to Him (Christ): Blessed is the womb that bore You, and the breasts that nourished You!” (Luke 11:27). Resurrect me too, who died in sins, O Mother of Life! I, a sinner, although alive in body, am dead in soul. I call sinners like me with me: we come to the mental Carmel, to the mountain of God, the fat mountain, the strewn mountain, on which God was pleased to live (Ps. 67:16-17), - to the Most Pure and Most Blessed Virgin Mary, so that we may receive a saved resurrection, in order to “put off the way of life of the old man”, lying in the passionate sinful custom, “and put on the new” who rises by repentance (Eph. 4:22). This Giver of life, as soon as she sees us flowing to Her, will immediately revive us, leading us to the path of repentance, for Her very eyes shine with the image of resurrection, she will look at us and have mercy on us. There is one bird, strangely, not like all birds, that hatches its chicks: with its eyes, by diligently looking at them. Some natural force in the eyes of that bird conceives, revives, and brings forth the fetus. What do you understand about the eyes of the Most Heavenly Mental Bird, the Virgin Mary? Do they not have life-giving powers? Yes, they do! For whichever sinner he looks at, he will cause him to be conceived through correction, to come to life through repentance, and to enter the path of virtues. It is not in vain that in the Songs someone calls out to Her: “Avert your eyes from me, for they trouble me” (Song 6:5). As if he were saying: Thy eyes, looking upon me, created me as a chick, for they gave me wings for God-thought flight. Whoever Mary looks upon, even if he is crawling on the ground, only thinking about earthly things, will be corrected, given wings and soar high with the thought of God. I have read reflections from many teachers that when the Lord and His Mother were bodily on earth, both of them converted many sinners to repentance just by looking at them. So when the Lord looked at Peter, Peter immediately remembered the word of the Lord, “and went out, weeping bitterly” (Luke 22:61). Our Lord has only one peace - to resurrect the souls of those who have died in sin, that is, to turn sinners from their errors to the path of salvation. We know this from Saint Ambrose, who, discussing the words in Genesis: “God rested on the seventh day” (Gen. 2:2), says this: “God created the heavens, but it is not written that he rested after the creation of the heavens. He created the earth - and then he did not rest. He created the sun, the moon and the stars - and not then, I read, did God rest. But when he created man, then he rested, having someone to forgive sins.” Hear the words of the saint: “Then he rested when he had someone to forgive sins.” Do you see the peace of the Lord? Do you see His compassion? Do you see His goodness and gentleness, inexpressible and not overcome by the sins of the whole world? There is peace, freedom and joy in forgiving our sins. And for the Mother of God there is peace in the same thing: to see the forgiveness of our sins, to pray for us, to resurrect us from mortal sins by giving us Her grace to correct our lives. We know about this Her peace from the words that the Wisdom of God says to Her face: “I sought peace among everyone” (Sir. 24:7), as if saying: “I would like to be saved for everyone, not a single one - dead in soul, but for everyone to live virtuously. I look for joy in everyone’s repentance, I want to be in everyone’s hearts.” 5 Oh, the goodness of the mercy and love of the Mother of God! And let us not depart from Her, but let us always rest with Her with zeal - so that our soul, which died in sins, will be resurrected, and Her spirit will be in us when we, having turned away from evil, begin to do good. God is ready to forgive the repentant, but Mother begs Him for this. A certain many-sinful person had the daily custom of praying to the Most Holy Theotokos, often repeating the words of the angelic greeting: “Rejoice, full of grace!” One day, preparing to engage in nasty lawlessness, he turned to the image in order to first perform the usual prayer to Her, and then go on a planned evil deed. When he began to pray, fear and horror attacked him: he saw the image moving and the living Mother of God with her Son. He looked and saw that the Baby’s ulcers had opened on his arms and legs, and in his side, and blood was flowing from them in streams, like on the Cross. Seeing this, he fell in fear and cried out: “Oh, Lady, who did this?” The Mother of God answered: “You and other sinners are crucifying My Son again, like the Jews.” Then the sinner burst into tears, saying: “Have mercy on me, O Mother of Mercy!” She answered him: “You call Me the Mother of Mercy, but you fill Me with sorrow through your deeds.” And the sinner said: “No, Lady, may my malice not overcome Your ineffable goodness and mercy. You alone are the hope and refuge of all sinners. Bow to mercy, good Mother! Pray for me, Thy Son and my Creator!” Then the Most Blessed Mother began to pray to her Son: “My blessed Son, for the sake of My love, have mercy on this sinner.” But the Son answered: “Do not be angry, My Mother, because I will not listen to You. And I prayed to the Father that the cup of suffering would pass from Me, but I did not listen to Me.” Then the Mother said: “My son! Remember the one who fed You and forgive him.” The Son answered: “And the second time I prayed to the Father for the cup, and did not listen to Me” (see Matt. 26, 39, 42). Mother again asked: “Remember My illnesses that I endured with You when You were on the Cross in body, but I was wounded under the Cross in the womb, for the weapon passed through My soul” (see Luke 2:35). The Son answered: “And for the third time I prayed to the Father, but he carried the cup past, but he did not deign to listen.” Then the Mother sat the Son down and wanted to fall at His feet, but the Son cried out: “What do you want to do, O Mother?” “I will,” he says, “lie at Your feet with this sinner until You forgive his sins.” Then the Son said: “The Law commands that the Son honor the Mother, but the truth wants the Lawgiver Himself to be the executor of the law. I am Your Son, You are My Mother, and I must honor You by listening to Your prayers. Let it be as you wish: now his sins are forgiven for Your sake. As a sign of forgiveness, let him kiss My wounds.” Rising, the sinner reverently touched His most pure wounds with his lips and came to his senses. When the vision disappeared, he felt his heart filled with trembling and joy, he began to cry and sob even more, falling to the image of the Lady, thanking and praying that he would always be pardoned, as he saw in a terrible vision the goodness of the Lord, forgiving sins. And since then he has corrected his life. Look at the diligence of our Intercessor for the forgiveness of our sins! Glory to Her mercy, glory to Her ineffable compassion, glory to the wealth of Her bounty, now and ever, and unto ages of ages. Amen. Glory to Thee, Mother of God, refuge of the faithful and Deliverance in cruel things, divine Consolation to my soul. I entrust my all-cursed soul, O God-gracious one, wounded by the shooting of a warrior, to Your omnipotent intercession, so protect, protect, and save me from demonic snares unharmed, and I call You: Rejoice, Unmarried Bride. The end of the book, but not the miracles of the Most Holy Theotokos, for who can count them? There are many of them. Here there are only twenty-four, according to the number of hours of day and night, I put it not without reason. I happened to read such a thing in the book of Peter Damian. A certain cleric of the Nivirna Church was seriously ill with a mortal illness. And it was his custom, every hour when the clock struck, to praise the Most Holy Theotokos with the angelic greeting: “Rejoice, full of grace!” - adding to this a certain prayer to Her and doing this day and night. If he ever fell asleep, he woke up at the striking of the clock and performed the usual prayer. And so much did he honor our Lady as such a ruler, how many hours passed in the days and nights. And when he was lying on his sick bed and preparing for death, our Most Holy Lady Theotokos suddenly appears to him and, slightly opening Her virgin nipple and squeezing it, sprinkles milk on the sick person’s lips and becomes invisible. As a result of this incident, the sick man jumped up, quickly put on his clerical vestments and ran to church. Entering the choir, he took his place among the singing clergy, amazed and trembling at the sudden change in him and the unexpected recovery - after all, no one expected to see him alive. When they asked about the reason for his health, then he opened it before everyone, glorifying his Most Merciful Healer, how She sprinkled his lips - traces of that milk still remained on his lips... Oh, glorious miracle! After all, the Most Merciful Healer could have healed Her servant in another way, with a word or a touch, but she revealed this strange method of healing: she sprinkled those lips of the Maidens with milk, which every hour they praised the Most Pure Maiden, here on earth, giving them a bribe. So that everyone, seeing and hearing, would give thanks with one mouth and one heart to the glorified Virgin Mary. Having read this, I marveled at such goodness of the Mother of God and the zealous feat of this cleric, but, being lazy and despondent, I could not follow his virtue. Having accepted the order from my Eminence Shepherd to try, with the help of God and the Mother of God, to describe the miracles that occurred from the miraculous image in the Elias Monastery, I decided, at least a little imitating that blessed cleric, to describe twenty-four miracles with conversations and moral teachings for the praise and glory of the Virgin Mary, according to the number of hours that day and night contain. Let the most blessed name of the Virgin Mary be glorified every hour not only through prayers, but also through readings, from now until forever. A BRIEF COUNT OF THOSE HEALED from various diseases at the miraculous image of the Blessed Virgin Mary in the Elias Monastery Those cured from blindness and eye diseases: Andrei Rachkevich, in the Chernigov castle of the captain, the youngest daughter, blind in both eyes from the veil, received her sight. Leontia Polubotka's daughter Maria was blind from illness, but she regained her sight. Pavel Klevts, a Chernigov tradesman, daughter Tatyana, blind in her right eye, received her sight. Tarasy Petrovich Zabelenko, who had an eye problem, recovered. Pyotr Makarovich from Starodub, blind, received his sight in one eye. Those cured of lameness: Anna Penskaya from Bragin region. Stefan Bondar from Korop. Vas il Larchenko from the village of Bobrovitsy. Those cured from radiculitis: Ekaterina, wife of Peter Voroshila. Anna Rozsudovskaya from Bragin region. Tatiana, daughter of Andrei, priest of Borzensky. Wife Vera from Mozyr district. Delivered from demonic torment: One of the girls is from the village of Mokishina. The other is from the village of Zhovvinki. Klim, Vasily Boldakovsky's servant. Stefan Skrypka, Chernihiv. Tatyana, an orphan from Sednev, Kirill Davidovich’s servant. A small fellow, Ivan Lyubartovsky, male, named Procopius. Ermola Kirillovich from the village of Syadich. Simon Karpovich from Chernigov. Stefan Serdyuk, Gerasimov's regiment. Ivan Pavlovich, Muscovite, drummer of Gavrilova’s hundred, Bashov. Those who received deliverance from twisted heads, dreams, and demonic fears: Kondrat, Swiss from Chernigov. Alexandra, nun of the monastery of St. Friday. Anna, a novice of the same monastery. Lavren Opanasenko, Swedish from Chernigov. Petro Drobyazka, Swiss from Chernigov. Anthony, hieromonk of the Elias Monastery. Danilo from the village of Chortoryski. Vasil Onishchenko, Chernigov tradesman. Foma Ivanovich from Chernigov. Nikifor Dubroza, Chernigov tradesman. Job Kopacik from Chernigov. Stanislav Mozhutevich, servant of His Grace Pan Colonel of Chernigov. Adam, ataman of Garma, regiment of Chernigov. Alexander, tsilyurik of Chernigov. Those who were healed from various serious ailments and diseases: Marina, wife of Pavel Klevets, a Chernigov tradesman. Pavel Domontovich. Hieromonk Joasaph, treasurer of the same monastery. Costantius, son of a Chernigov inhabitant, named Theodore. R Anna, wife of Stanislav, a Chernigov inhabitant. Agafya Ulasovaya from Sosnitsa. Marina, wife of Andrei, a subject of the monastery. Anastasia, priest in the village of Korovnitsy near Romny. Anastasia, wife of Andrei Skozelets. Philip Oblaikevich, tradesman of Slutsky. Lavrentiy Gavlovsky, hieromonk of the Brotherhood Monastery of Kiev. Feodor Ivanovich Golovlenkov, steward of the Tsar's Majesty, former governor of Chernigov, was cured of yellow disease. Ivan Ivanovich Kasperov, lieutenant of Sladatsky’s regiment, received healing from the same illness. John Andreevich from the city of Sosnitsa. Finally, in the village of Yarilovichi, a dead youth was resurrected. For all of them, glory to God and the Mother of God! You might be interested in: