74. 1455 г. Повинная Феодосия, apxиепископa ростовского, по случаю неправильного разрешения им поста в навечерие праздника Богоявления

From the collection of the Synodal Library No. 562, l. 116 vol.–118; was published, according to the same list, in the Ι-th volume of Historical Acts under No. 57. Farewell letter to Theodosius, Archbishop of Rostov, about the temptation of meat: because the Epiphany of the Lord happened to be on a weekday, he himself allowed for cheese and milk and fish, and for the worldly people for meat I am the humble Theodosius, apxbishop of Rostov and Yaroslavl, by the temptation of the devil, and by his own feeble mind, or truly deciding, by inattention, and even more so by opinion, he dared to create disorderly conduct in the Church of God, contrary to the divine and sacred rules handed down to the 2736 Churches of God by the holy Apostles and God-bearing by the Holy Fathers, and through the established statutes, in the holy statutes of Jerusalem and in the Holy Mountain, and in Studite, and in other other statutes, written and spoken 2737: “if it happens, as it is said, on the eve of the Nativity of Christ or the Epiphany of the Lord on Saturday or a week, then you are not commanded to allow the monks to have cheese and fish, but to the worldly for meat, but it is commanded, after absolution, the liturgy, to partake of a little of the food; after the evening absolution, to eat completely, but fast food, as it says there, and not cheese, nor fish, nor worldly people - meat.” As I now received, seven thousand of the last hundred and 63rd year, the third indictment, on the eve of the Epiphany of the Lord, to be on the day of the week, but I, humble and thin, a sinner, having performed the liturgical and vesper singing commanded according to the church rules, and sat at the meal, and we do not know how, through the temptation of the devil, or through our sin, imputed to us tacos, as well as the pit itself, cheese and milk and fish, and the other monks were commanded to eat 2738 food, and meat to the worldly people. Having then received many from priests and monks, and from worldly prudent people, we were warned not to do many such things; I was overwhelmed by the devilish temptation, and by my own sin, I did not listen to them, nor heed their words, and answered them only in one speech, a week day, without committing a sin. And so, if I were a sinner, such a new ruler would create an evil outrage in the Church of God. Our lord and master, and our common father and shepherd and teacher Jonah, Metropolitan of Kiev and All Rus', in accordance with his holy duty, having care for my many-sinful soul, so that throughout the centuries my soul would not perish, nor would I be in endless eternal torment in the abyss of hell, but having gathered for myself a divine and sacred council, about the Holy Spirit of my sons and fellow servants, the Russian metropolitan bishops 2739, Bishop Philip of Suzdal, Efrosim of Ryazan, Gerontius of Kolomna, and archimandrites and other priesthood (then the great zemstvo sovereign, Grand Duke Vasily Vasilyevich of All Rus' with his synclitate, talked with them at that sacred council), and for me, a sinner and for the rude one was sent. And looking at the divine and sacred rules and the prescribed scriptures laid down by the law, they spiritually punished me, humbled by their holy teachings. I, the sinner Theodosius, came to my senses and realized my evil sin and my crime, and with zeal with all my soul, with many tears, I repented, and I repent, and until my final breath I have to repent about the evil that I created, and I cursed him, and I curse, and the imam cursed him until my exodus: but I believe in the Trinity, in the Father and the Son and the Holy I received the Spirit in tenderness and baptism, then I received the monastic image and 2740 priestly rank and the great rank of hierarchs, and about this I am strengthened by the divine and sacred rules and holy legislated scriptures devoted to the 2741 Church of God, and I read about everything and kiss them, and in this I remain until the end of my life. And whether through something I transgress, either in word, or in teachings, or in deed, or in embarrassment of someone, I will be anything from now on in faith, through divine and sacred rules and through statutory legislation: and those holy rules will condemn me, a sinner, according to my deeds, on the terrible and terrible and judgmental day of the second coming of Christ. And the humble Theodosius, Archbishop of Rostov and Yaroslavl, wrote this letter to himself. In the original, written, spoken. This is how it was corrected in the original from the rulers. In the original it stands here in – superfluous. You might be interested in: