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Unmercenaries and Wonderworkers Cosmas and Damian · St Theodota, Mother of Cosmas and Damian

133. Формы благословенных и ставленых грамот: архимандриту, духовнику, протопопу (с поучением), священнику, протодиакону и диакону 3416

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The first is from the collection of Count A.S. Uvarov No. 512 (formerly Tsarskogo No. 366), l. 316: was printed twice in the Act. rel. to legal ancient life Russia, vol. I No. 25 and vol. II No. 166. The second is from the August book of the Makarievsky Menya-Chets (synod. sp. l. 763 vol. successful. sp. l. 1530): published in the same place, vol. I No. 24. The last four are from the Trebnik of the 16th century. synod. librarian No. 310, l. 283 vol.: were not published. I. How to give a letter to the abbot of a great monastery So Az Jonah, Metropolitan of Kiev and All Rus', granted grace and blessed the holy monk (name) to be an archimandrite in the most honorable monastery in the common monastery of St. Great Constantine and his mother Helen, in his monastery in Vladimir. And you, holy monks and monks and all Orthodox Christians, who come to that most honorable monastery, have obedience and obedience and obedience with spiritual love towards him, just as you did for the former archimandrite here; and he must also, by the blessing and punishment of our humility, have his spiritual love for you and care for your only-begotten souls and for salvation. And a letter was given (wherever, both summer and date). II. A letter to be given to the holy monk when his spiritual father is installed Our humility, for the sake of its writing, blesses the most honorable monk (name) as a spiritual father, as if he accepts the Christians who come to him through the confession. It is fitting for a calico not to be voluptuous, not money-loving, not food-loving, not glory-loving, not angry, not vain, not vindictive, not repaying evil for evil, but rather be meek, humble, not money-loving, hating all the sweets of this world, patient, fasting, cheerful, divine teachings always having the scriptures, the traditions known to be testing the apostolic rules, the dogma of correction, purity of heart, mercy and tenderness, the sacrament of the priesthood, the revelation of the divine mysteries, before it is possible to understand the mysteries of the heavenly kingdom, according to the word of the Lord; to test the hearts of those who come to him, and their sins and thoughts, to give answers according to the rules, to reprove them, and to pray for others, and to teach salvation to the souls who come to him. For this reason, he will knit, even the essence of the property, and decide again in the same way worthy, forgiving and this, as the monks want and will to be in their belly, or again to death, with care to create them monks, but according to the Gospel tradition. For this reason, this approved letter hastened and given to the most honorable one in the holy monks (name) in the summer... III. A letter to be given to a priest about when to appoint him as archpriest By the grace of the Holy Spirit given to us, and the blessing of the ordination of our lord and father, the Bishop of Turov and Pinsk (name). 3417 Having already found a reverent priest (name), we testify to all reverent purity, love God and fear God, and are deeply contrite in heart, bringing ourselves to the whole good and saving work, gives him our humility to be the archpriest who is for us enorii, called (name). One must, with all reverence and purity, consecrate the divine and holy churches, according to government tradition; The priests who find themselves there are to honor and listen to him and obey him, like the archpriest of our humility, but to custom. For this reason, this is our statement, a letter of our humility, and to submit to the most honest archpriest for approval, month... indiction... THE WORD OF SCIENCE OF THE HOLY SCIENCE TO THE PROTOPROP To the son and colleague of our humility (name). By the grace of the Holy Spirit given to us, we have made you the archpriest of our great cathedral church, an elder priest, for the consecration of the churches, with our blessing, and for the establishment of church correction: and you, be the archpriest, the divine church, be sawn, sharing the divine services, at the hour of singing, come and keep your brethren in the choir, so that the divine praise will always be full ceremoniously, according to the rules of the Holy Fathers and according to our humble orders and blessings. If you are the church of the divine sawn, you correct the number of church and priests, according to the rules of the cathedral church, then you will receive forgiveness of sins from the Lord God, and from our humility blessing and love, and from the princes and lords and boyars, our children, praise and honor will be given to you; If, through your laziness and carelessness and drunkenness, you begin to despise this and neglect my testament about this, then you will not only be deprived of your honor and dignity, but you will also suffer our spiritual punishment. IV. Certificate given to priests 3418 By the grace given to us, the humble bishop (name), they appointed the deacon, (name) as a reader and clerk and deacon, and made him a priest in our bishopric (name), to the church (name) in the city or in the village (name), with all torture and testing, on the instructions of his spiritual father, who is worthy priesthood; and if anyone from the spiritual children comes to him in confession, he has the power to knit and decide and do all sorts of priestly affairs, reasoning according to the rules of the holy Apostles and God-bearing Fathers and with our blessing of ordination; and by May it is completed and blessed for divine service. For this reason, this document of ours was given to him for his approval; Otherwise, if he happens to come to the metropolitan area, or to the bishopric, and he, reporting there to the present saint, or to the governors appointed by him, may demonstrate this charter of ours, and let him perform the liturgy according to this charter of ours. Written in the city (name), in the summer which, which month and which indictment will come in handy. V. [letter to the protodeacon] By the grace of the Holy Spirit given to us, and the blessing of the ordination of our lord father, Metropolitan of Kyiv and All Rus' (name). Till now you have found the humility of [our] reverent deacon (name), fit and worthy for the protodeaconry of this divine great cathedral church of the Most Pure Mother of God of Her Honorable Dormition, our bishopric (name), who is the head of all those who obey her, seeing him as honest and God-loving and fearing God and zealously contrite in heart, to divine service [diligent] and not drunk, bringing oneself into every good and saving work: we are given our humility to be an archdeacon (name), with all reverence and purity to serve and perform the service of the archdeacon, and I am obliged to be, and to obey and be obedient to our humility in everything, like our fellow minister. You priests and lay people are obligated to give him the honor, like a protodeacon, a minister of the great cathedral church, according to the ancient tradition of the honor of protodeaconry; and our humility has it completely and blessedly. VI. Certificate given to deacons By the grace of the Holy Spirit given to us, the humble bishop (name) appointed the deacon (name) as a reader and subdeacon and deacon, in our bishopric (name), to the church (name), with all torture and testing, on behalf of his spiritual father, whoever is worthy of deacon service; and we may be accomplished and blessed for divine service. For this reason, this document of ours was given to him for his approval. Written in the city... The ancient form of the deed (desktop) letter to the bishop is visible from the original, registered letters issued above under Nos. 49, 72 (II) and 91. The latter was the most common example of acts of this kind, and not only in the Moscow, but also in the Kyiv metropolitanate (after their division). Indeed, it appears in the form of a general form in a liturgical collection of the late 15th century, written in one of the Little Russian dioceses (Synod. Lib. No. 558, l. 194–195). Only at the end, after the words: “having no amusement (Collected “oblivion”) from anyone,” the addition is made: “as I confessed this before God and his chosen angels, and before our humility, and also to do nothing of the church business either in my metropolis, or in other bishops, except for the bishopric given to him from God and from our humility.” Wed. above the episcopal Confession (pp. 453–454). To the synod. Collection No. 562, l. 423 rev. the same letter has a different preface: “The word of the Gospel and the grace of the Spirit say: “for the light is not placed in hiding, but on a lamp”; For this reason, adornment adorns and glory reveals glory, and dignity comes to the worthy, and even more so when grace descends from above and the perfect gift comes from the Holy Spirit.” You might be interested in:
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