61. 1433 г. марта 11. Послание нареченного на митрополию епископа Ионы в нижегородский Печерский монастырь, о соблюдении иноческих обетов и с известием о поставлении иеромонаха Павла в архимандриты

From the synodal collection No. 562, l. 205–206, was published, according to the same list, in the first volume of Historical Acts under No. 37. Letter from Bishop Jonah to Novgrad, Nizhny, Pechersk Monastery Blessing of Bishop Jonah, named to the most holy Russian metropolis, to Novgorod in Nizhny, to the lovely monastery of the Ascension of the Lord God and our Savior Jesus Christ, to the Pechersky Monastery, to the holy monks and monks, to all the monks of that honorable monastery. You know, my sons, how, by the insight of your spiritual eyes, you have abandoned the participation of this short-lived life, and desiring these future eternal blessings, and according to the Gospel of Christ, follow the Lord Christ, taking upon yourself the good and easy yoke, and put on the holy and great angelic image, with your vow made to God, and bearing it, and that the Lord Christ will come on the day of his great, terrible and unpaid judgment, and for the deeds of everyone, giving bribes, to those who worked - the kingdom of heaven, and to the lazy and liars - condemnation, like a careless slave who hid his talent in the ground. And for this reason, son, according to your vow, reaching that ethereal refuge of that honest monastery, which is rest and joy: and I pray your love, according to my vow given to you before God and before his chosen angels, to keep your confession given to God in every way and to seek that future endless stay; and I pray to God, who loves mankind, according to your confession, that deeds also follow words, even as he says: “The kingdom of God is not in natural words, but in power”; and: “not everyone, say to me: Lord, Lord! and he will enter into the kingdom of heaven, but do the will of my Father who is in heaven.” And for this reason, son, I briefly say to your love, to remember your vow to God, which you promised not to the earthly king and prince and ruler of this age, but to the King who reigns and the Lord who lords, and you must naturally fulfill it and fulfill it, according to your vow, and show you deeds that are worthy of your monasticism. The abbot of your venerable monastery must first take due care of his own spiritual benefit and present a good image to everyone, and also take care of your spiritual benefit; and you would have spiritual submission and obedience to him with all spiritual diligence, and without his command and blessing your departure from the monastery would never happen; having love and peace in Christ among oneself, remembering the supreme Lord’s word, saying: “about this speech, everyone understands, as my disciples are, if you have love among yourself.” And they naturally sent to the noble Grand Duke Vasily Vasilyevich and to his mother the noble Grand Duchess and to me, with their petition, the elders Isaac, Gerontius and Job, and beat them with their foreheads on behalf of all of you, that your Archimandrite Nikandr left the Archimandrite and you need to be without an abbot; and those elders of yours beat their foreheads from all of you about the holy monk Paul, asking him to be archimandrite in that honorable monastery of the Pechora Monastery: and God put it on the hearts of the noble Grand Duke and his mother, the noble Grand Duchess, according to your petition, they commanded me, your pilgrim, to bless that holy monk Paul to you for archimandrite, and I blessed him and about everything He punished him spiritually, and released him to you, and you would be obedient to him about everything. And may God’s mercy and my prayer and blessing be with him and with all your God-united spiritual regiment. And the letter was given in Moscow, the month of March 11, in the summer of 6941, indictment 11. You might be interested in: