33. 1410 г. августа 29. Послание митрополита Фотия в Новгород о соблюдении законоположений церковных

From the manuscript of the Emperor. Public Library of the Pogodinsky Tree Storage No. 1571, l. 74–77. Verified with the list found in the manuscript of the Moscow Synodal Library No. 562, d. 425–427, and with the text published in Volume I of the Acts of Archeogr. Expeditions, No. 369 Various readings Synod. lists are designated by the letter C, printed text by the letter A. Letter of Metropolitan Photius to Novgorod Blessing of Photius, Metropolitan of Kyiv and All Rus', to Veliky Novgorod, the son of our humility, Archbishop John, and the mayor, and the thousand 1453, archimandrites, and abbots, and priests, and deacons, and all of Novgorod, and those named for Christ, the people of the Lord 1454, from small to large. Be aware that you naturally walk according to the Christian law, avoid excessive drunkenness and feasts, and more often than not there is fasting. By the inspiration of God, the Prophet says 1456 to this: “Wash yourself and you will be clean, leave the wickedness 1457 from your souls before my eyes, cease from your evil, learn to do good, seek 1458 judgment and deliver the wronged, judge the fatherless and justify the widow. And if you want and listen to 1459 me, the good earthly bears down: if you do not want, you will not listen to me, you will show off your weapon: for the mouth of the Lord speaks this.” For this reason, my beloved children in the Lord, he tells us not to wash our garments and adorn our corruptible bodies, but to wash away our spiritual feelings from evil thoughts, from deeds harmful to the soul 1460, and to walk along his path, decorating our lamps with almsgiving oil, so that we may 1461 be worthy to enter into his heavenly chamber. It is worthy 1462 for you to be sobered up, as if you were above, hostile to any deed, even coming to all kinds of fasts, even the divine scripture says: “Alms, mixed with fasting, delivers a person from death,” - not only giving alms and then returning to evil deeds, and drunkenness, and copulation with a feast and gluttony, but with He will wear out his body with alms 1463 with tears and contrition of heart, and diligently carry out the fasts that come, since, for our sins, the Lord brings execution on us. 1464 You 1465, priestly rank, are in keeping with the churches and every rule of the church: sing all mornings and evening prayers for the Orthodox Tsar and for the prince and for all Orthodox Christianity: and teach your spiritual children to resort to the Church of God, to keep fasts honestly and purely. And if a priest drinks before lunch, he will be without vestments. And those who do not live according to the law with their wives 1466, without the priest’s blessing, were understood to be subject to three years of penance, as for a fornicator, and again he would marry them, and teach them and lead 1467 them to Orthodoxy: with a blessing they would be caught with their wives; and they will not want to live with blessing, otherwise they will be separated; but they will not listen, and you, priests, do not accept their offerings, do not give them food, nor the bread of the Mother of God; and to those who listen to you, give the sacrament to them; Yes, they would give you guarantees 1468 that they will live chastely 1469 the rest of the years, and that they will listen to you. And at the feast, if it is shining, those who have to drink before dinner, do not give them the bread of the Mother of God. And whoever has a husband to live with a fourth wife, or a wife with a fourth husband, those divine rules, according to the word of the great Basil 1470, are excommunicated from holy communion and from all sanctification: do not go to church, do not take communion, until their lawless cohabitation is dissolved. 1471 And there would not be a third capture, but if someone is young, and he does not have children from his first marriage, nor from the second, therefore reasoning is necessary, with penance with great understanding of the third, not to enter the church for 1472 5 years, not to receive holy communion, neither dora, nor the bread of the Mother of God. If someone receives penance from these, fasting and prayer and prostrations, he also does alms according to his strength and keeps the Lord’s commandments with fear, and when he sees the confessor’s heartfelt tears and contrition, he will tell the apostle about these, and he will command him and the penance to be relieved. 1473 And also teach your spiritual children to stop using bad words like that, barking 1474 in the name of their father and mother 1475 is nowhere to be found among the peasants. Parents should also teach their children izmal so that they do not get used to saying dashing words. And those who 1476 do not have the ability to listen to you, excommunicate them also from the church, do not give Holy Communion, nor dora, nor the bread of the Mother of God. So teach them not to listen to fables, not to accept dashing women, not to accept knots, not to pray, not to use potions, not to cast spells, and this is how the wrath of God comes; and where such dashing women are, teach them to stop and repent, but they will not listen, do not bless them and order the peasants not to keep them among themselves anywhere, to drive them away from themselves, and to run away from them, as if from uncleanness. And whoever does not listen to you, you also excommunicate them from the church. And if you perform a wedding, then you get married in church at mass, but during the teaching, at noon and at midnight, do not get married or betrothed in your own courtyards, but in the church. 1477 And perform baptisms according to the tradition of the holy Apostles: do not pour water on them, but immerse them in water, in the 1478 cylinder of the same, three times, saying for the first immersion: “in the name of the Father,” and for the second immersion: “in the name of the Son,” and for the third immersion: “in the name of the Holy Spirit, now and ever and ever, Amen”; and then you smear the great world. And there would be one godfather, either male or female, but there wouldn’t be two godfathers, as before. And those abbots, or priests, or monks who traded before this, or gave silver for cutting, and that would not have come from these places, be deprived of it: the holy Apostles did not betray it, and the holy Fathers do not bless, and so on. And naturally they wouldn’t marry girls 1479 under twelve years old, but marry them as they do on the third summer. And in which monastery there are monks, there would be no monks here, but the monks would live in the monastery, and the monks would live in the monastery outside. And ask him: where the monks were from the beginning, there would be monks now; and where the monks were from the beginning, there would be monks now; and where there are monks, there would be monk priests, and where there are monks, there would be Beltsy priests elected as priests, but there would be no widower priest. This is also punished: if any person is called to the field, let him come to receive Holy Communion, otherwise he will not receive Holy Communion, nor the kiss of the Cross; and the priest who gives him communion is deprived of priesthood. And whoever kills 1480, climbing into the field, [and] destroys a soul, according to the great Basil’s word, is called a murderer: he does not enter the church, accepts neither the dora nor the bread of the Mother of God, does not accept the communion of a saint for 18 years, and does not bury the murdered one. 1481 And whoever buries him is deprived of his priesthood. And a letter was given for the Moscow summer of 6919 1482, indictment on the 3rd, month of August on the 29th day, of St. John the Baptist of the beheading. and mayor and thousand A. The Holy Spirit speaks to the Prophet A. your approx. A.; slyness S. In the original and C: corrected according to A. In authentic listen; corrected according to AC. In the original, harmful; corrected according to AC. In the original it will drown; corrected according to AC. God brings His execution on us. In the original you are; corrected according to AC. And who lives illegally with his wife A. According to the great Vasily, there is no word in the AS. In C this point is stated as follows; If his confessor sees him, if he keeps his commandments out of fear, and seeing his tender tears and heartfelt contrition, he will relieve him of his penance. paternal and maternal names AS. neither marry in your own yards, but not in the church in the AC. In the original the date is not set completely: ҂ѕ҃ѧ҃; in C: ҂ѕ҃ѧ҃и҃і. _ not sure about the correct number 6918, page orig.276. You might be interested in: