Конец 1877 г. 1878 весь и начало 1879-го года

Feodor Alekseevich Kirilov, a Revel merchant who was with my wife. Bogdanov, a former high school student, was given the book “The Ladder” by St. John Climacus on August 28, 1877. Our textbooks are just letters, we need to put our spirit and soul into them. December 7th, 1877. Rodin was given twelve books in the second grade. Chekaevsky or [B-v] twenty books. In fifth grade there are three or four books. [It is permissible] to take care of a good name. Take care of your name, for it will remain with you longer than many thousands of gold, says the Wise [Sir.41:15]. It is better for me to die than for someone to destroy my praise [1.9:15]. I will glorify those who glorify Me, says the Lord [1.2:30]. Grant me, Lord, to always glorify You with all my heart, so that You may also glorify me who glorify You. Amen. Ekaterina Al. Ratsch write a letter by November 24th. January 10, 1878 Forty kopecks were given to a fat young tradesman on bast shoes (would he drink? Note). The same number was given to the cross-eyed young man for the same. Notice. In general, aren’t many philistines deceiving me? Up to a hundred people ask me for alms every day from morning to evening, and everyone receives a little, sometimes I give a ruble at once. Gymnasium students need to be taught prayers well. This science is needed for the rest of your life, every day, every hour. Father Pavel Vasilyevich Trachevsky is a kind, gentle, even and calm old man. This is how I saw him at his home on November 17, when I came to sign the form list. Until November 3, Kononov was given seven lessons of sixty kopecks each. The main subject of worship, or the alpha and omega of worship, is the Lord, glorified in the Trinity, or especially the Second Person of the Holy Trinity, the Lord Jesus Christ, the wonderful works of creation and Providence, and then the Most Holy Theotokos, the holy apostles and holy saints of God - not as a subject of worship, for we do not idolize [them], but as a subject of veneration and glorification, invocation in prayer for us. I have the happiness of drinking the golden streams of Damascus every day. I thank the Lord. I drink the streams of life and many other holy fathers, whom the grace of the Holy Spirit moved and managed to compose song canons and stichera. Do you want crosses and distinctions? - Go to Bulgaria, stained with the blood of countless martyrs tortured by the Turks - here they are, decorated with true crosses!! Here are the crusaders! Seek, if you want, such a cross. But you are disgusted by this sight! This is how you reveal unbelief or lack of faith and effeminacy, empty love of glory, pettiness and earthliness of your soul. But they are true crusaders, and such is the Kingdom of Heaven. Christian love is an all-creating force, reviving, encouraging, comforting, pacifying, correcting, perfecting everything around it; on the contrary, pride, egoism, self-interest, hostility, ill will, envy - deadens, freezes, and instills a spirit of discontent, apathy, and hostility. Love your neighbor as yourself, have compassion for him, rejoice in him, be rich in love. This is lasting wealth. Hearing about a person who has been born again, rejoice about the new person, about the expansion of life, about the manifestation of the goodness, love, wisdom, omnipotence of the Creator, rejoice with your mother and father, as if God gave you joy, and pray to the Lord that He will give prosperity to the newborn at the age of 1, health and all prosperity. We are extremely proud; unfortunately, we are poor in love for God and neighbor. Due to the increase of lawlessness, it is said that the love of many will grow cold [Matthew 24:12]. Father, father, the chariot of Israel and his cavalry! [4.2:12]. Marvelous are the works of God! One man, Elijah, was the bearer of all Israel, his chariot and his horses. And our chariot now is the Most Holy Theotokos, and behind Her are the saints of God, prayer books and our intercessors with God, through whose prayers, God, have mercy on us. How great is the power of piety! What a close union were united the Prototype - God and the image of God - the Most Holy Virgin Mary in the Incarnation, and indeed in the very Person of the God-Man! Oh, miracle of miracles! God became man without ceasing to be God, and God and man in one Person! Oh joy! Oh hope! Oh, our glory! Understand, pagans, and repent, for God is with us! Even if you are able again, you will be victorious again, for God is with us! [Isa.8:9–10, etc.]. You were created in the image of God's holiness - be holy in everything. It is great to be in the image of God, [more expensive] than all the treasures of the world, more glorious than all earthly titles, ranks, orders, ranks, more glorious than royal dignity itself, for royal dignity is temporary, but the royal image of God is eternal; royal dignity, although great and beautiful, but the image of God is higher and more beautiful, just as God Himself is infinitely higher and more beautiful. When reading the prayer for victory at the liturgy, the enemy tormented me extremely, and I could not finish it due to cramped conditions; cry for the repose of Orthodox soldiers too. August 29, 1877. As a spiritual warrior and leader, the priest, when serving the liturgy, puts on the full armor of God in order to resist the machinations of invisible enemies [Eph.6:11]. The divine service of the Orthodox Church is an expression, enriched by the Holy Spirit from the holy apostles and holy fathers, of our reverence, wonder, thanksgiving, repentance, propitiation, our filial love, praise, joy, our various needs and petitions before the Most High Creator and Provider of the world - on the one hand, on the other hand, divine service is a gracious source through which heavenly goodness is abundantly pours out on those who serve her with a sincere heart all his gifts, gifts of mercies, peace, consolation, purification, sanctification, enlightenment, healing, renewal and, which is the height of God’s bounty, the gift of deification (in the liturgy, or communion). Our Lord Jesus Christ Himself showed us by His example our urgent need to serve God, often spending nights in prayer and singing psalms and spiritual songs with His disciples after the Last Supper in the upper room of Jerusalem [Mark 14:26], which served as the first New Testament church; He Himself established the Sacraments of Baptism, Communion and others; the holy Apostle Paul outlined [briefly] the very image of worship, exhorting newly enlightened Christians to be filled with the Holy Spirit through heartfelt service to God in psalms and songs and spiritual songs [Eph. 5:19] and, giving his disciple, the newly installed bishop Timothy, the commandment to make prayers, supplications, petitions, thanksgiving for all people, for the king and for everyone, those who are in power [1.2:1–2], which is carried out to this day in every divine service. The church and worship are the personification, the realization of all Christianity, here in words, in persons and actions, the entire economy of our salvation, the entire sacred and church history, all the goodness, wisdom, faithfulness and immutability of God in His deeds and promises, His eternal truth and holiness, His powers are proclaimed. There is a wonderful harmony in everything, an amazing logical connection in the whole and in the parts. This is true Divine wisdom, accessible to simple, believing, loving hearts, hidden from those who say to be wise [Rom. 1:22]. About repeating the same prayers. Why are they repeated? Why do we repeat and speed up our breathing? – It is necessary, it excites and supports our life. For the same reason, some frequent prayers are also needed, for example, Lord, have mercy: it strikes at our sinfulness and evokes the consciousness of our constant guilt before God, strikes at our pride and evokes in the meditator a feeling of humility, which is the basis of Christian virtues. This short prayer is the most necessary for every sinner, as his food and drink, as his healing, as an antidote to pride and insensibility, as a lesson in humility. That is why prayers to the Holy God ... the Most Holy Trinity are often read in church ... They, however, in addition, teach us the worship of the Trinitarian Deity, from Whom our belly and breath and everything. A brief doxology, Glory to the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, is used as our due tribute to God in the Trinity, whose glory is an inalienable attribute and property, for He is the God of glory, and all His works, all His creations preach His glory, - how much more should man, created in the image and likeness of God, glorify Him for his own blessedness. Many short doxologies are often used, in which the mercies, generosity and love of God, the power, the Kingdom and the power of God, which bring 3 Him, are glorified. They remind us that the Kingdom of God, to which we belong, is the eternal Kingdom of God, that, glorifying God in time, we will glorify Him in eternity, beginning here, and eternally continuing there to our own bliss. On the form of dialogic (or antiphonic) worship between pastors and flocks, clergy and laity or singers. How should you pray? - Calmly, slowly, from the depths of the soul, with a clear understanding of all prayers, rationally, with faith and undoubted hope, with a warm, loving heart, free from worries and passions, worldly cares or lusts, unanimously, with one mouth and one heart 4. Byahu them... heart and soul are one [Acts 4:32]. All-arrogant, all-pervading sin, all-destructive, disgusting, under the guise of sweetness brings corruption and death into the soul and body, depriving a person of the grace of God and communication with God. Therefore, despise the sweetness of sin as poison of soul and body. Take care of your divine dignity and incorruptibility, which you receive or have received from God in Holy Baptism, Confirmation and especially in the Holy Mysteries. Hate sin in all its forms as ugliness, abomination, stench, madness, as a monster, and absolutely, undoubtedly love virtue, which likens you to God and unites you with Him. Crucify the flesh with its passions and lusts, mortify the body so that you may quicken the soul [Gal.5:24]. I thank the Lord for His countless deliveries of me from sins during this one day and the days before, for sins constantly chill 6 me, defile me, invading my heart, and through my repentance the Lord continually delivers me from their delusion 7 and violence, cleanses, revitalizes, enlightens, strengthens. Glory to God, our Savior, forever and ever. Why does it happen that many do not find pleasure and nutrition in worship? From two reasons: either from the underdevelopment of spiritual taste (or from passion, vanity and depravity of the heart, finding pleasure only in worldly things or only in unclean pleasures), or from the poor performance of divine services by priests and clergy. And worship wonderfully nourishes, delights, enlightens, pacifies, enlivens, strengthens, and cheers the soul. Whoever is captivated by visible, external, temporary beauties neglects the internal, invisible, contemplative, believed, trusted, eternal beauties - the ineffable beauty of the Trinitarian Lord God, the angelic beauty, that is, all the orders of angels, all their countless hosts, the imperishable beauty of the forefathers, prophets, apostles, martyrs, hierarchs, saints, righteous and all saints, he neglects the incorruptible beauties of the future age and paradise. The same must be said about earthly, material, rough, perishable sweets, especially about unclean sweets, about soul-sweets, and about heavenly, spiritual, subtle, incorruptible, holy sweets, the same about treasures, or wealth, spiritual and material, heavenly and earthly, eternal and temporary. Lord Jesus Christ, you have given us eternal life through Your incarnation and free depletion for our sake! Grant us to love eternal blessings and despise temporary ones. In a person, in an amazing and strange way, two principles always struggle - good and evil, and often, often evil triumphs over good due to a person’s lack of faith or negligence or ignorance: from tears of repentance and reverence for God and the saints it is very, very close to blasphemy in the heart against God and the saints; from the high to the low, from the sublime to the ridiculous and absurd, one step - from wise thoughts to the greatest stupidity and absurdity in thoughts, from simplicity 8 to wickedness, from love to malice, from goodwill to envy, from fasting and abstinence to gluttony and delicacy, from humility to pride, from non-covetousness to greed, from holiness to abomination, from obedience to waywardness and stubbornness, from courage to cowardice, from joy to sadness. Oh, our grief, our damnation! Our depravity comes from nature, from science (skill) evil! Age (Church Glav.) – growth, increase. Paki (Church Slavic) - again. Ever-present (church-glorified) – eternal. The exclamation of the priest “And grant us...” from the Divine Liturgy. Flatter (Church Glav.) – to deceive, seduce. Stuzhati (Church Glav.) – bother, crowd, disturb. Prelest (church glory) – deception, seduction; wandering, evasion. Simplicity (church glory) – sincerity, purity; integrity, integrity.