| Падшее состояние человека делает для него неизбежной борьбу за временное и ограниченное выживание. И борьба эта столь же неизбежно ведется за счет ближнего, слабого, за счет самой природы, которая, будучи сотворена Богом, заслуживала бы лучшего использования. Человек не может не быть озабочен едой, одеждой, своим здоровьем, своей физической безопасностью, даже если эта его озабоченность вредит другим, даже если он понимает, что его выживание может быть лишь временным. А Воскресение Иисуса Христа — событие, свершившееся во времени, — дает христианам их основную, решающую надежду. Как же можно не заботиться для души своей, что нам есть, и что пить, и во что одеваться (см.: Мф. 6:25)? Возможно ли для человека жить как полевые лилии (см.: Мф. 6:28)? Не является ли Нагорная проповедь всего лишь нереалистическим сентиментализмом? Конечно, является, если не рассматривать ее в контексте этики воскресения. Во Христе побеждена смерть, а вместе с ней исчезли и основания для страха, для постоянной борьбы за выживание. Уничтожен закон падшего мира, который был основан на самозащите, самоутверждении, на претензиях к другим. Новый Завет категорически утверждает, что «блаженнее давать, нежели принимать», не оговаривая никаких условий. Великая суббота есть провозглашение «осуществленной эсхатологии». Человеческой свободе, вере, человеческому опыту сделались доступными тот конец, та цель творения, где смерти не будет уже (Откр. 21:4). Начался Переход, началось Избавление, началась Пасха! The Time of Holy Saturday Опубл. в: Orthodox Synthesis: The Unity of Theological Thought/ed. J. J. Allen. Crestwood, NY: SVS Press, 1981. P. 51—63. Впервые на рус. яз. в: ЖМП. 1992. 4. С. 33—37 (перевод авторизован; статья напечатана с учетом авторской правки 1991 г.). Также опубл. в: «Благословенная суббота»: (Богословское осмысление Великой субботы). М.: Крутицкое Патриаршее Подворье; Общество любителей церковной истории, 2001. С. 17—32. Публикуется по тексту ЖМП с небольшими уточнениями. |
| Tweet Нравится Egyptian Christians receive right to paid pilgrimage leave previously only for Muslims Moscow, February 8, 2017 Photo: Asianews.it Egyptian Christians were granted a little more freedom and equality over the weekend as the country’s High Constitutional Court ruled that Christian civil servants should be entitled to paid leave to go on pilgrimage, just as Muslims receive to go on Hajj. Muslims have been allowed a one-time visit to Mecca and Medina since 1978. Judges ruled on Saturday that it is unconstitutional to exclude Christians from this right, reports Russia Today . The current Egyptian constitution, in effect since 2014, grants equal rights to all religions. However, in reality it is still a battle to enjoy those equal rights. Lawyer Naguib Gabriel has waged a three-year battle to win this decision. “The ruling is a major step towards full citizenship rights for Egyptian Christians,” he said. Over ten percent of Egypt’s 93 million-strong population is Christian, the majority of them being members of the Coptic Church. Egypt is also home to the ancient Alexandrian Patriarchate of the Eastern Orthodox Church, the successor throne to St. Mark the Apostle. Despite this new freedom, members of the Coptic Church have been banned from visiting Jerusalem since 1980. Pope Shenouda proclaimed the ban at the time as a protest of Israel’s occupation of Palestinian lands, although the denomination does not forcibly prevent its members from traveling to the Holy Land. Conditions for Christians were especially bleak in 2011 after Islamists rose to power in the aftermath of the Arab Spring, though the current rule of law is relatively secular in comparison. 8 февраля 2017 г. Оценка: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Подпишитесь на рассылку Православие.Ru Рассылка выходит два раза в неделю: Предыдущий Следующий Смотри также Government and Christians against US interference in Egyptian Church reconstruction Government and Christians against US interference in Egyptian Church reconstruction US Congress discusses a law authorizing the supervision of the work of reconstruction of churches and buildings destroyed by Islamic extremists. |
| Met. Hilarion supports proposal to restrict shopping on Sundays Moscow, May 10, 2017 Photo: ria.ru The head of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations Metropolitan Hilarion (Alfeyev) stated on Russia-24’s television program “The Church and the World” that he supports the Federation Council’s initiative to restrict shopping on Sundays, reports RIA-Novosti . Earlier it became known that the Federation Council, the upper house of the Russian parliament, had completed preparations of a bill amending the law “On Trade,” according to which supermarkets would no long be open 24-hours, but would close at 9 PM on weekdays, 4 PM on Saturdays, and would not operate at all on Sundays. According to the metropolitan, shopping deprives Russians of too much time. “Maybe one of the reasons so many of our families fall apart is that people have absolutely not enough time to just be with one another,” he said. Moreover, he noted, employees of major retail stores are deprived of having a full weekend, including their time to go to Church. “The question here is about those people who work in these organizations. They do not have the chance to go to church on Sundays, and are deprived of the chance to be with their families on Sundays. And this around-the-clock conveyer, working all week without a break, turns people into robots,” His Eminence declared. 10 мая 2017 г. скрыть способы оплаты скрыть способы оплаты Смотри также Комментарии Phillip I Jospeh Hanna 13 мая 2017, 23:21 Barekmor Your Eminence! A brilliant idea to clamp down on spending culture, allocating more time to family and most importantly restablishing Our Lord " s day holy and work free. Our Lord doesn " t ask for much, He has given us 6 days for work and only asked 1 day for Him. Christ willing the bill is passed through Parliament. Bless O, my Lord Bishop! Your servant in Christ, Phillip Подпишитесь на рассылку Православие.Ru Рассылка выходит два раза в неделю: Мы в соцсетях Подпишитесь на нашу рассылку |
| Princess Irina Bagration, 1926-2015 Paul Gilbert New York, July 9, 2015 Princess Irina S. Bagration with her mother-in-law, Mother Tamara, Abbess of the Mount of Olives Convent in Jerusalem Princess Irina S. Bagration passed away this morning July 9th at 2 am in New York. The funeral will be at 10 am on Saturday, July 11th at Holy Trinity ROC in Astoria, NY. Burial will be at the Novo Diveevo Convent in Nanuet, New York following the service. Born Irina Czernysheva-Besobrasova on 21 Sep 1926, at Neuilly-sur-Seine, France, the daughter of Sergei Aleksandrovich Besobrasov and Countess Elizabeta Cheremeteva. She became the second wife of Prince Teymuraz Constantinovich Bagration, at the age of 23 in 1949. Prince Teymuraz was born at Pavlovsk on 21 August 1912. His father, Prince Constantine Bagration-Mukhransky (1889–1915), a member of the Mukhrani branch of the Bagrationi family, formerly a royal dynasty of Georgia, was an Imperial Russian Army officer and was killed in World War I. Teymuraz " s mother, Princess Tatiana Constantinovna of Russia (1890–1979), was the third child and oldest daughter of Grand Duke Constantine Constantinovich of Russia and his wife, Elisabeth Mavrikievna, née Princess Elisabeth of Saxe-Altenburg. After her children were grown and married, Princess Tatiana took the veil at Geneva in 1946. She died as Mother Tamara (named so after the medieval Georgian queen Tamar, a remote ancestor of Tatiana’s first husband), Abbess of the Mount of Olives Convent on 28 August 1979 in Jerusalem. Teymuraz Bagration left Russia after the 1917 Revolution. During World War II, he served in the Royal Yugoslav Army. After the war, he emigrated to the United States and joined the Tolstoy Foundation in 1949. His marriage to Princess Irina took place on 27 November 1949 at New York. They had no issue. He became Executive Director in 1979 and led the organization from 1986 until his death at New York on 10 April 1992. On 5 July 2007, Princess Irina presented her husbands’ unique archive to the National Parliamentary Library of Georgia. I made the acquaintance of Princess Irina in the late 1990s, and enjoyed numerous telephone chats, in which she shared her memories of her cousins, Grand Duke Gabriel Constaninovich (1887-1955), author of Memories in the Marble Palace , and Princess Vera Constantinovna (1906-2001) —both children of Grand Duke Constantine and Grand Duchess Elisabeth. Paul Gilbert 10 июля 2015 г. Смотри также Комментарии Мы в соцсетях Подпишитесь на нашу рассылку |
| Russian patriarch prays for peace in Middle East May 4, 2013 Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia prayed for peace in the Holy Land on Holy Saturday. “During a liturgy conducted at the Christ the Savior Cathedral on Holy Saturday, the patriarch said the traditional prayer for peace in Jerusalem, the prayer offered each year at all Russian Orthodox churches ahead of Easter ,” the patriarch’s spokesman, Deacon Alexander Volkov, told Interfax. Before saying the prayer, the patriarch called on all Orthodox believers “to pray more vehemently,” especially on Holy Saturday, when the Holy Fire descends on the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, “for peace in the Holy Land, the place of exclusive spiritual importance for all Christians, the place where people are suffering and blood is being shed.” A delegation of the Foundation of St. Andrew the First-Called, led by the chairman of its Supervisory Board, Vladimir Yakunin, and Bishop Feofilakt of Dmitrov, travelled to Jerusalem on Saturday to bring back the Holy Flame for the patriarch’s Easter service. The delegation is expected to arrive at Vnukovo Airport at 10:20 p.m. on Saturday. The delivery of the Holy Flame to the domain of the Russian Orthodox Church is part of the Foundation’s program, titled “Pray for the Peace of Jerusalem,” launched in 2003. The prayer for peace in the Holy Land, which the Russian delegation says jointly with the patriarch of Jerusalem, is an important component of this program. Source: RBTH Code for blog Since you are here… …we do have a small request. More and more people visit Orthodoxy and the World website. However, resources for editorial are scarce. In comparison to some mass media, we do not make paid subscription. It is our deepest belief that preaching Christ for money is wrong. Having said that, Pravmir provides daily articles from an autonomous news service, weekly wall newspaper for churches, lectorium, photos, videos, hosting and servers. Editors and translators work together towards one goal: to make our four websites possible - Pravmir.ru, Neinvalid.ru, Matrony.ru and Pravmir.com. Therefore our request for help is understandable. For example, 5 euros a month is it a lot or little? A cup of coffee? It is not that much for a family budget, but it is a significant amount for Pravmir. If everyone reading Pravmir could donate 5 euros a month, they would contribute greatly to our ability to spread the word of Christ, Orthodoxy, life " s purpose, family and society. Also by this author Today " s Articles Most viewed articles Functionality is temporarily unavailable. Most popular authors Functionality is temporarily unavailable. © 2008-2024 Pravmir.com |
| The Holy Light, an Orthodox Easter tradition also referred to as the ‘Holy Fire’, is to be collected from Jerusalem this week by Archimandrite Jerome of the Church of Cyprus and made available to all the faithful during mass for Easter celebration on Saturday night. The ‘Holy Light’ comes from the ‘blue fire’ that is said to emanate from within the burial site of Jesus in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem. The Orthodox Patriarch then lights his candle from the ‘blue fire’ and passes it on to the congregation present at the annual ceremony. The light will be flown into Larnaca airport on a special flight from Jerusalem on Saturday, where it will be met with an official reception at 6.30pm. It will then continue its journey to the Archbishopric in Nicosia, where it will be made available to the faithful at 8pm. “Bishop Chrysostomos [of Kition] and I will fly to Jerusalem on Good Friday to bring the Holy Light for everyone to come and collect on Easter Saturday. Priests, clergy and the general public, Orthodox and non Orthodox, can all turn up,” Archimandrite Jerome told the Cyprus Mail yesterday. Bishop Chrysostomos will then take the light to the Archbishopric in Nicosia where it will be handed over to Archbishop Chrysostomos who will make it available to everyone during Saturday night’s service. People can keep their candles alight for 40 days after Easter, if they wish. The Holy Light’s ceremony in Jerusalem consists of three stages: the procession, the Patriarch’s entrance into the Holy Tomb and the Patriarch’s prayer in order for the Holy Light to appear. It is thought that the Holy Fire’s’ purpose is to “light the whole of mankind for a better tomorrow.” Saturday will see thousands of pilgrims gathering in Jerusalem to participate in or witness the annual event. Cyprus is one of several countries following this religious tradition, together with Armenia, Georgia, Greece, Serbia, Bulgaria, Russia, Montenegro, Lebanon, Syria and Jordan, all of which fly the Holy Light to their country on special flights. |
| The Order of Saint Lazarus of Jerusalem Celebrates Orthodox Easter April 16, 2015 From Lazarus Saturday to Bright Monday of the Orthodox Christian Calendar, the Order of Saint Lazarus of Jerusalem fully partook in Easter celebrations with the Christian churches and communities of Jerusalem, Bethany, Bethlehem and Beit Jala. As with almost every Orthodox Church, the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem celebrates Easter on the Julian Calendar, in which Easter (also known as Pascha) and Holy Week falls on separate dates from the Gregorian (Western) Calendar two out of every three years. This year, Easter on the Julian Calendar fell on April 12th, with Lazarus Saturday being on April 4th. In the Orthodox Church, the Holy Fire service is the most significant event of Holy Week in Jerusalem, when the Patriarch of Jerusalem is sealed in the tomb of Christ in the Holy Sepulchre (a structure that is also called the edicule), and emerges only when two bundles of thirty-three candles held in each of his hands have been lit by what Orthodox, Armenian, Coptic and many other Christians hold to be a miraculous occurence. On Lazarus Saturday (April 4th), Mr. Dan Koski, Delegate for Christian Affairs represented the Order at an open-air service on the grounds of the Orthodox Girls School of Bethany, a mission school run by the Russian Ecclesiastical Mission and staffed by nuns part of the Convent of Saint Mary Magdalene of Gethsemane. On Holy Saturday (April 11th), His Excellency the Grand Chancellor, Count Philippe Piccapietra, was present in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre at the invitation of the Armenian Patriarchate of Jerusalem, while His Grace the Most Reverend Jovan Culibrek, Bishop of Slavonia of the Serbian Orthodox Patriarchate, spiritual protector of all Orthodox members of the Order of Saint Lazarus of Jerusalem, was the official delegate of the first reception committee for the service of the Holy Fire for the Serbian Orthodox Church. In Bethlehem district, the Order of Saint Lazarus of Jerusalem live-streamed the Holy Fire service to Bethlehem and Beit Jala, where in coordination with the municipality of Bethlehem and the Peace Center in Bethlehem and the Orthodox parish of Beit Jala, large screens were put up in Manger Square in Bethlehem and Virgin Mary Orthodox Church in Beit Jala for the benefit of those from Bethlehem district as well as international pilgrims who were unable to attend the Holy Fire service. |
| Holy Week and Pascha Schedule of His Eminence Archbishop Demetrios April 12- 27, 2014 Source: Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America Apr 11, 2014 Saturday of Lazarus April 12, 2014 – Orthros 9:00 a.m. – Divine Liturgy 10:00 a.m. Arch. Michael Greek Orthodox Church, Port Washington, NY – Tel.: (516) 944-3180 Palm Sunday April 13, 2014 – Archieratical Divine Liturgy 10:45 a.m. Greek Orthodox Cathedral of St. Paul, Hempstead, NY. – Tel.: (516) 483-5700 Holy Monday – Service of the Bridegroom (Nymphios) April 14, 2014 7:00 p.m. Greek Orthodox Church of the Transfiguration, Corona, NY – Tel.: (718) 458-5251 Holy Tuesday – Service of the Bridegroom (Nymphios) Hymn of Kassiani April 15, 2014 7:00 p.m. Greek Orthodox Church of Kimisis Tis Theotokou, Brooklyn, NY – (718) 788-0152 Holy Wednesday – Holy Unction and Service of the Bridegroom (Nymphios) April 16, 2014 7:00 p.m. St. Demetrios Greek Orthodox Cathedral, Astoria, NY –Tel.: (718) 728-1718 Holy Thursday – Vespers with Divine Liturgy of St. Basil the Great April 17, 2014 Orthros 8:00 a.m. – Divine Liturgy 9:00 a.m. Archdiocesan Chapel of St. Paul, Archdiocese Headquarters, NYC Holy Thursday Evening – Holy Passion April 17, 2014 7:30 p.m. St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church, Flushing, NY – Tel.: (718) 357-4200 Good Friday – Apokathelosis Vespers April 18, 2014 12:30 p.m. St. Michael’s Home, Yonkers, NY – Tel.: (914) 476-3374 Good Friday Evening – Epitaphios Service April 18, 2014 7:30 p.m. Greek Orthodox Archdiocesan Cathedral of Holy Trinity, NYC – (212) 288-2315 Holy Saturday Evening – ANASTASIS Resurrection and Paschal Divine Liturgy April 19, 2014 11:00 p.m. Greek Orthodox Archdiocesan Cathedral of Holy Trinity, NYC – (212) 288-2315 Sunday of PASCHA – AGAPE Vespers April 20, 2014 11:00 a.m. Greek Orthodox Church of the Holy Trinity, Hicksville, NY – Tel.: (516) 433-4522 Renewal Tuesday April 22, 2014 – 7:00 p.m. Great Archieratical Vespers for the feast of St. George Greek Orthodox Church of St. George, NYC. – Tel.: (212) 265-7808 |
| The Beginnings: Second and Third Centuries By the second century, the very ‘structure’ of initiation in the early Church included instruction in preparation for baptism. The length of this preparation varied and often spanned several years. Then, “As many as are persuaded and believe that these things which we teach are true, and undertake to live accordingly, are taught to pray and ask God, while fasting, for the forgiveness of their sins; and we pray and fast with them” for one or two days—Saturday only, or Friday and Saturday—a fast without any food or drink. By the mid-third century, in many but not all places, the fast had lengthened to six days. Few could have kept a week of total fast. In some places, bread and salt were eaten Monday through Thursday after the ninth hour, then, those who could, kept a total fast Friday and Saturday. On Holy Saturday, those who had been elected as being ready for illumination would meet together as catechumens for the last time. Here they are “catechized” by undergoing a final exorcism; they renounce Satan, are anointed with the “oil of exorcism” which has been blessed along with the chrism the preceding Holy Thursday, and recite the Creed which they have memorized since hearing it in the fourth scrutiny [on the preceding Sunday]. They kneel for prayer, and are then dismissed, being told to go home “and await the hour when the grace of God in baptism shall be able to enfold you.” Dionysius of Alexandria, in writing his Letter to Basiliades around 260, provides us the earliest source for an incipient ritual of Holy Week. Dionysius takes great pains to link each day and hour of Holy Week to events in Christ’s passion, sojourn in the tomb and resurrection. The Syriac Didascalia do the same. Hippolytus’ Apostolic Tradition (ca. 215) and Cyprian (d. 258) both link the hours of prayer—for Holy Week and throughout the year—with specific events during Christ’s final week. The Formative Age: Fourth Century Cyril of Jerusalem, in the Catechetical Homilies he delivered ca. 350, makes no mention of daily commemorations and ritual. The Cross and the Resurrection, for example, were part of a single, united celebration on Saturday night, for which the six days of fasting were simply preparation. Friday did not yet specifically commemorate the crucifixion. But the “current of the times” in the fourth century was a historicizing one: eschatological notions were giving way to historical commemoration. |
| The Holy Fire is brought to Russia from Israel every year since 2003. This year it will be taken for the first time to Crimea, a former Ukrainian region that became a part of Russia last month. Every Orthodox church in Russia holds Paschal liturgies on the night of Holy Saturday that last well into Easter morning. Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia, who heads the Russian Orthodox Church, will lead the divine service in downtown Moscow’s Christ the Savior Cathedral, traditionally attended by top Russian officials. Preparation for Easter celebrations begins in the Russian Orthodox Church on Holy Saturday – the last day of Holy Week, also known in Russia as Passion Week. On that day, people come to churches in great numbers to have paschal cakes and eggs blessed by priests. In Eastern Christianity, the Holy Saturday is the mournful day on which Christians bewail the Jesus Christ, who died on the cross on Good Friday. The Easter divine service starts shortly before midnight. At midnight, the solemn festive procession with crosses and icons starts, with priests and believers going around the church and glorifying the Resurrection. The procession is often attended by nonbelievers attracted by its splendor. The service lasts into the early hours of Sunday. The Resurrection of the Savior symbolizes his victory over sin and death and the birth of a new world redeemed by his Passion. This year, it is marked by the Eastern Orthodox and Catholic churches on the same day, which sometimes happens although the churches use different calendars. Easter is preceded by a long period of fasting. The fasting period before Easter in Eastern Christianity lasts 48 days. The first 40 days of the period are called Great Lent, symbolizing Jesus spending 40 days in the wilderness before being tempted by Satan. In the Orthodox tradition, all days are included into the day count. The 40 days are followed by Lazarus Saturday, commemorating Jesus raising Lazarus of Bethany from the dead, and Palm Sunday, when Jesus entered Jerusalem, and then by Holy Week, the last week of the fasting period. |
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