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Welcome to the Community of Saint Silouan and All Saints of Britain & Ireland

Saint Silouan was a modern-day elder who has much to teach us about living the Christian life today. Our co-patrons are all the Saints who shone forth in the islands of Great Britain and Ireland.

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We usually meet on the first and third Sunday and fourth Saturday of every month.

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On occasional evenings, we also meet to pray specific services, akathists or canons. Anyone is welcome to join us and pray for specific needs or people. You may also send names to be commemorated during these prayers.

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See below for our latest activities and news:

At Crowland Abbey, we visited the Orthodox chapel, which is tucked away at the top of a staircase in the belfry. The chapel has not yet been consecrated, but will be so soon. It is intended to be a pan-Orthodox chapel, can hold about 30 (all standing!), and will be a permanent Orthodox presence at the abbey.

Family days out at Crowland Abbey.
With the relics of the Martyr Theodore of Crowland (right) and the Apostle Bartholomew (left).

The saints are shown to be fair blossoms of the Garden of Eden, laden with the nectar of good works and the sweet scent of Orthodox teachings, whereby our souls are fed and our spiritual thirst is quenched, Come ye therefore, let us hasten beneath their shade and let us bless them as the delight and adornment of the Isles, and as a model and pattern for our lives, for they have received unfading crowns of glory and all together they beseech the Pre-Eternal God for us.

☦ Thou art a spiritual paradise, O Island of the Saints, bringing forth a multitude of spiritual blossoms, O blessed fathers and mothers, whose number it is not possible to reckon. We therefore praise and hymn the One Master for all the throng of the saints of these Isles. ☦

On Saturday 9th June in 597, the predicted year of his repose, Saint Columba and his servant Diarmait went to bless the nearest barn. The venerable Elder said that he was glad to know that the monks would have enough bread to last for a year, in case he had to "go away somewhere." Diarmait was saddened by his words and said, "Father, this year you have made us sad too often by speaking frequently about your passing."
Saint Columba said that he would speak more plainly about his departure if Diarmait promised not to tell anyone until after he had reposed. When Diarmait had given his word, the Saint explained that the Sabbath is a day of rest, and on this Saturday he would go the way of his fathers. "I shall go to the Lord when He calls me, in the middle of this night. The Lord Himself has revealed this to me."
At these words, Diarmait began to weep. Then they started back to the monastery, but Saint Columba had to stop and rest when they reached the halfway point. Later, a cross was set up on that spot and set in a millstone. Then a white horse, which used to carry pails of milk to the monastery, came and placed its head on the Saint's bosom. Tears fell from its eyes, and the horse mourned like a person. Diarmait would have driven the horse away, but the Elder stopped him saying, "Leave him alone! Let him who loves us pour out the tears of bitterest mourning here at my breast. Behold, though you have a man's rational soul, you would not know of my departure if I hadn't told you just now. According to His will, the Creator has revealed to this brute and unreasoning animal that his master is going away." Then he blessed the horse as it turned away.

#AllSaintsGBI

St Columba (+597) was born to a prominent noble family, the Ui-Niall clan of Ireland, but he forsook all worldly things and became a monk at a young age. He founded the monasteries of Derry and Durrow, and traveled as a missionary in Ireland for almost twenty years. In 565 he settled on the island of Iona, off the coast of Scotland; there he remained for 32 years, establishing the famous monastery of Iona and continuing in his missionary labours around Scotland. He reposed in peace at Iona.

Canon to the Saint: https://www.orthodoxchurchsheffield.com/post/canon-to-st-columba-abbot-of-iona-and-enlightener-of-scotland (copy and paste link into browser)

Innocent in soul, thou didst mortify the passions of the body,
Soaring on high to the mansions of heaven
As on the wings of the dove, whose namesake thou wast, O God- bearing father Columba.
And having by grace restored within thee the true image of God, thou didst teach multitudes of the faithful the ways of repentance;
Wherefore, we glorify thee as our father in the Holy Faith, O venerable one.

#AllSaintsGBI

+ VEN. FATHER KEVIN, WONDER-WORKER of ALL IRELAND (+618) +
Feast Day: June 16 (June 3 in Church calendar)
Our venerable father Kevin of Glendalough, Wonder-worker of Ireland was the abbot of Glendalough Monastery. He was born in 498, and fell asleep in the Lord in 618 at the age of 120 years old. Many miracles are associated with the Saint during his life, and the monastery he founded also produced many saints.
In the link there is a downloadable version of a canon to the Saint, which also includes an expanded life of the Saint.

https://www.orthodoxchurchsheffield.com/post/canon-to-venerable-father-kevin-wonder-worker-of-all-ireland

#AllSaintsGBI

The Spirit-proclaiming Disciples of the Saviour
Having become, through faith, instruments of the Spirit,
And being scattered to the ends of the earth,
Sowed the venerable proclamations of Orthodoxy:
From their divine husbandry hath blossomed forth,
An army of Martyrs by grace,
Who inscribed the signs of their passion,
By sundry kinds of tortures, scourging and fire.
And with boldness they pray on behalf of our souls.

The Holy Spirit,
Proceeding from the Father, and glorified in the Son,
Which doth support and rule over all that is,
Maintaining life, and by Which
we live and are saved,
Thee do we bless:
O unfailing Comforter, grant
peace to Thy world.

+ RIGHTEOUS WALSTAN of BAWURGH & TAVERHAM (+1016) +

Feast Day: June 12 (May 30 in Church calendar)

St Walstan (+1016) was born in the village Bawburgh, near Norwich, to pious parents and may have had connections to the royal family of Wessex. At a young age, Walstan was greatly impressed with the words of Christ: Whosoever that forsaketh not all that he hath, he cannot be My disciple (Lk. 14:33). Thus, as the age of thirteen, with his parents' reluctant blessing, the young Walstan left his home to live life as a hermit.
He gave away his expensive robe to the first beggars he met, before taking up work as a labourer on a farm at Taverham, just a few miles from his parent's home. He gained a reputation for hard work and piety, developed an affinity with the poor, and was extremely charitable, giving both his food and clothing to all who needed them. He received a vision of his impending death and requested the local priest come to the fields where he was working to give him communion. He reposed immediately after, and was interred in a chapel in Bawburgh. His mother, Bilde, who outlived him, became a recluse also and was interred nearby. Both Ss Walstan and Bilde's relics were destroyed during the Reformation in the 16th century.

#AllSaintsGBI

The Holy Spirit hath ever been,
And is, and shall be,
Neither beginning nor ending;
But He is ever ranked and numbered together with the Father and
the Son.
He is Life, and life-creating;
Light, and light-bestowing;
By nature good, and the source of goodness;
Through Him the Father is known, and the Son is glorified;
And thereby all acknowledge a single sovereignty,
Single covenant,
One adoration of the Holy Trinity.

Today is the anniversary of the glorification (1988) of St Xenia of Petersburg who reposed in 1800. An Akathist to St Xenia is on our website: https://www.orthodoxchurchsheffield.com/post/akathist-to-blessed-xenia-of-st-petersburg-24-jan-6-feb

Blessed Xenia of St Petersburg was an 18th century "Fool-for-Christ" - a holy man or woman who appears mad to most of the world, but is later revealed to be living a holy life. St Xenia lost her husband when still a childless young woman and, in grief, gave all her possessions away and disappeared for 8 years; it is believed this time was spent at a hermitage learning the spiritual life.

Returning to St Petersburg, Mother Xenia appeared to have gone insane: she wore her husband's old overcoat, went by the name Andrei and wandered the streets with the paupers. Before her death, many residents of St Petersburg had come to recognize St Xenia's gifts for wonder-working and clairvoyance (lit: "clear-vision"). Her grave became a pilgrimage site immediately on her repose and even unto this day she has been known to perform miracles. She is especially prayed to for help in finding employment, finding a home or finding a spouse (three things she renounced on earth).

God is gone up in jubilation,
The Lord with the voice of the trumpet,
To raise the fallen image of Adam,
And to send the Comforting Spirit to sanctify our souls.

+ SAINT DUNSTAN of CANTERBURY (+988) +

Dunstan (c. 909 – 19 May 988), was an English bishop and Benedictine monk. He was successively Abbot of Glastonbury Abbey, Bishop of Worcester, Bishop of London and Archbishop of Canterbury, later canonised. His work restored monastic life in England and reformed the English Church. His 11th-century biographer Osbern, himself an artist and scribe, states that Dunstan was skilled in "making a picture and forming letters", as were other clergy of his age who reached senior rank.

Dunstan served as an important minister of state to several English kings. He was the most popular saint in England for nearly two centuries, having gained fame for the many stories of his greatness, not least among which were those concerning his famed cunning in defeating the Devil.

#AllSaintsGBI

🍀🌹 FESTIVAL of ALL SAINTS of BRITAIN & IRELAND (Sat 28th to Sun 29th June) 🌹🍀

We have services on Saturday evening (28th June) and Sunday morning (29th June) in honour of our co-patrons: the Saints of these Isles. [All Saints of Britain & Ireland (Все святые Великобритании и Ирландии)]

There are a number of significant British Saints commemorated in the weeks leading up to the 29th June, including Ss Mellangell, Brendan the Voyager, Augustine and Dunstan of Canterbury, Columba of Iona, as well as Saints not specifically "local" but still having associations with Britain and the local area (e.g. Ss Dymphna, Constantine and Helen).

We will be posting about these saints under the hashtag: #AllSaintsGBI over the coming weeks.

"Today the choirs of the saints who have pleased God in the Isles stand forth in the Church and unseen pray to God for us. With them the angels give glory; and all the saints of the Church of Christ make glad with them, and all together they beseech the Pre-Eternal God for us."

"Since my soul’s noetic eyes are blind and sightless,
I have come to Thee, O Christ,
As did the man who was blind from birth.
And in repentance I cry unto Thee:
Of those in darkness Thou art the most radiant Light."

-Kontakion for the Sunday of the Blind Man

Abba Athanasius says: "Be tortured by your conscience, die to sin, mortify your earthly members, and you will be a martyr in accordance with your wishes. The martyrs fought with emperors and princes; you have the king of sins--the devil and the demonic princes. Before, there were idols, pagan temples, and those who offer sacrifice to the idols. And now, they exist as thoughts in the soul. He who is a slave to debauchery worships the idol of Aphrodite [Venus]. He who becomes angry and enraged worships the idol of Ares [Mars]. He who is avaricious and ignores the pain and misery of his neighbour worships the idol Hermes [Mercury]. If you refrain from all of this and preserve yourself from passions, you have overcome idols, you have rejected an evil belief and have become a martyr for the true Faith." Therefore, a man need not especially yearn for persecution and martyrdom. Everyone in every age can endure martyrdom for the sake of Christ and His Gospel.
(Prologue of Ohrid)

O Christ, the Fountain, who bedews with the waters of healing,
In the all-honourable temple... thou today, through the sprinkling of thy blessing, expels the maladies of the ailing, O thou Physician of our souls and bodies.

[The lesser blessing of the waters for Mid-Pentecost; Sunday 19th May 2025]

☦️ MID-PENTECOST [Преполовение Пятидесятницы] ☦️

~At Mid-feast give Thou my thirsty soul to drink of the waters of piety;
For Thou, O Saviour, didst cry out to all:
Whosoever is thirsty, let him come to Me and drink.
Wherefore, O Well-spring of life, Christ our God, glory be to Thee. ~

On the Wednesday of the Paralytic, we celebrate the Feast of Mid-Pentecost. We have already reached the midpoint of the fifty days between Pascha and Pentecost, and the Church has appointed this present feast as a bond between the two great feasts, thereby uniting, as it were, the two into one, and partaking of the grace of them both. The coming Sunday we will remember the encounter of Jesus Christ with the Samaritan woman (Photini / Svetlana) at St Jacob's Well, and water is associated with this Sunday and the previous Sunday of the paralytic man.
Water also represents the Holy Spirit, Who descended upon the disciples at Pentecost, and the hymns for this day make many allusions to water.
Therefore, it is a practice to bless water - particularly wells and streams - on this day. As the Mid-Feast lasts for 8 days, the Sunday of the Samaritan Woman is part of Mid-Pentecost, and Fr Jonathan will bless water after the Liturgy. Please bring your own bottles and receive Holy Water.

Blessed feast! C праздником!

The Burial Shroud (Gr: Epitathios; Sl: plashchanitsa) is an embroided icon of Christ in the tomb. It is used during Holy Week at the Good Friday and Holy Saturday services and is placed in the centre of the church.
During the midnight office on Easter night, when the hymn is sung that begins: "weep not for me, O Mother, for I shall arise...", the priest takes the shroud and places it on the altar as shown.
The shroud remains on the altar throughout the 40 days after Pascha, representing the 40 days that Christ remained with His disciples after the Resurrection.
We don't have our own building, so in our parish the shroud is brought and placed on the altar before every service.

☦Weep not for me, O Mother, beholding in the sepulcher the Son whom thou hast conceived without seed in thy womb. For I shall rise and shall be glorified, and as God I shall exalt in everlasting glory those who magnify thee with faith and love.☦

“Suffer little children to come unto me, for of such is the Kingdom of God.”

[Divine Liturgy, May 4th]

🏺The women disciples bring myrrh unto Christ. And I bring a hymn as it were myrrh unto them. 🏺

+ On the third Sunday of Pascha, we celebrate the Feast of the Holy
Myrrh-Bearing women; and we also commemorate Joseph of Arimathea, who was a secret disciple, and also Nicodemos, who was a disciple by night.

+ Of these Saints, the women were the first and unerring witnesses of the Resurrection of Christ, while Joseph and Nicodemos were witnesses of His burial, which are the primary and most essential elements of our dogmatic teaching.

+These women were the first to behold the Resurrection, and it was they who announced the glad tidings to the Disciples; for it was fitting that the sex which has first fallen to sin and had inherited the curse should be the first to behold the Resurrection and to hear the joyous greeting, having formerly heard the words: “in pain thou shalt bring forth children.”

+ Because these women proclaimed the Resurrection and contributed greatly to assuring us, with utter certainty, of Christ’s Resurrection, the Church of God received the tradition of celebrating them after Saint Thomas, for they were the first to see Christ Risen from the dead, preached the message of salvation to all, and most excellently pursued the life according to Christ and as befitted women who were disciples of Christ.

☦️By the intercessions of the Holy Myrrh-Bearers, O God, have mercy on us! ☦️

☘️ Today is the springtime of our souls; for Christ, on the third day, shone forth from the grave like the sun, dispelling the dark winter of our sin. Let us praise Him, for He hath been glorified. ☘️

☦ Come and receive the light! ☦
Christ is Risen!
Хрїсто́съ воскре́се!
Hristos a inviat!

"We waited, and at last our expectations were fulfilled. When [we] sang "Christ is risen", a heavy burden fell from our souls. We felt as if we also had been raised from the dead. All at once, from all around, the same cry resounded like the noise of many waters. "Christ is risen" sang each in his own tongue, in his own melody. . . . Coming out from the service at dawn, we began to regard everything in the light of the glory of Christ's Resurrection, and all appeared different from what it had yesterday; everything seemed better, more expressive, more glorious. Only in the light of the Resurrection does life receive meaning."
Saint Nikolai of Ochrid

On Holy Saturday morning, we received a couple into the Orthodox Church, then together baptised their daughter. Many years to the newly-illumined James, Magdalena and Valeriya!

Thou who arrayest Thyself with light as with a garment; * was taken down
from the Tree by Joseph with Nicodemus, * and looking upon Thee dead, stripped naked, and without burial, * in his grief and tender compassion he lamented, saying: * “Woe is me, my sweetest Jesus, * when but a short while ago the sun saw Thee hanging on the Cross, * it clothed itself in darkness: * the earth quaked with fear and the veil of the temple was rent in twain. * And now I see Thee Who for my sake hath willingly submitted to death. * How shall l bury Thee, O my God? * How shall I wrap Thee in a winding sheet? * How shall l touch Thy most pure body with my hands? * What funeral lament shall I sing to
Thee, O compassionate One? * I magnify Thy sufferings; * I sing the praises of Thy burial and Thy Resurrection, ** crying: O Lord, glory be to Thee.”

O Lord, who once didst show forth an olive branch unto the abating of the Flood, through thy divine command: Save us who suffer, through Thy mercy.
☦️

Behold, the Bridegroom comes in the middle of the night,
And blessed is the servant He shall find vigilant;
But unworthy is he whom he shall find neglectful.
Beware therefore, O my soul, lest you be weighed down by sleep,
Lest you be given over to death and be closed out from the kingdom;
But rise up crying out: “Holy! Holy! Holy are You our God;
Through the intercessions of the Theotokos, have mercy on us.”

☦ We have completed the forty days that profit our souls. Now let us beg the Lover of man: enable us to see the Holy Week of Thy Passion, that we may glorify Thy mighty work, Thy wonderful plan for our salvation, as we sing with one heart and voice:
“O Lord, glory to Thee!”

☦ Душеполезную совершивше Четыредесятницу, и святую седмицу страсти Твоея, просим видети Человеколюбче, еже прославити в ней величия Твоя, и неизреченное нас ради смотрение Твое, единомудренно воспевающе:
Господи слава Тебе.

☦"As we eagerly begin, O faithful, the sixth week of the Fast, let us sing a hymn of preparation for the Feast of Palms, to the Lord who comes with glory to Jerusalem in the power of the Godhead, that He may slay death. So with reverence let us prepare the branches of virtues, as emblems of victory; and let us cry Hosanna! to the Creator of all.”☦

☦ «Шестую от честных постов седмицу, усердно начинающе, Господеви предпразднственное пение ваий принесем вернии: грядущему во славе, силою Божества во Иерусалим, умертвити смерть. Темже уготовим благочестно победныя образы, ветви добродетельныя, осанна вопиюще Творцу всех.» ☦

"No advantages do you offer those who love you, O world, you dwelling-place of sorrows. All who draw near to you do you seduce with your treasures and with all your delights, but in the day of death both the fair countenance of the beautiful and the might of the strong will be cast down into the grave. Woe to him who loves you and is loved by you, for his joy will be transformed into cries."

(from the "Spiritual Psalter of St Ephraim")

Our Lady of Ravensbrück icon is based on an embroidery started by St Maria (Skobstova) of Paris whilst she was in the concentration camp. She never finished the work, as she was took the place of another and was led to the gas-chamber on the 31st March 1945.

“The Cross of the Son of Man, accepted voluntarily, becomes a two-edged sword that pierces the soul of the Mother, not because she voluntarily chooses it, but because she cannot help suffering the sufferings of her Son.”
- Mother Maria Skobstova

☦ "Having passed the middle point of the Fast, let us proceed with joy to that which remains, anointing our souls with the oil of alms-giving; that we be deemed worthy to worship the divine Passion of Christ our God, and arrive at His holy and fearful Resurrection." ☦

☦ «Преполовивше сей священный пощения путь, к будущему радостию потецем, благотворения елеем души помазавше, яко да сподобимся Христа Бога нашего, и Божественным страстем поклонитися, предварити и страшное и святое Воскресение.» ☦

#lent #orthodoxchurch #triodion

For as heaven is high above the earth, so great is the Lord's mercy to those who fear him.
As far as the East is from the West, so far hath he set our sins from us.
As a father hath compassion on his children, so the Lord hath compassion on those who fear him.

(the queue for confession and the queue for holy communion; at the Community of the Exalation of the Cross, Barnsley, UK, March 2025)

Meeting of Bishop Matthew of Sourozh (L) with Metropolitan Jean of Dubna at the St Alexander Nevsky Cathedral, Paris. (March 2025).

Епископ Сурожский Матфей встретился с главой Архиепископии западноевропейских приходов русской традиции митрополитом Дубнинским Иоанном

“O Lord all-merciful, in the multitude of Thy mercies blot out the multitude of my sins, and count me worthy with a pure soul to behold and kiss Thy Cross during the present week of abstinence, for Thou lovest mankind.”

“As we start upon the third week of the Fast, let us glorify the Holy Trinity, and joyfully pass through the time that remains. Causing passions of the flesh to wither from our souls, let us gather divine flowers, weaving garlands for the queen of days, that with crowns upon our heads we may sing in praise of Christ the Victor”

«Начавши, верующие, третью неделю поста, прославим досточтимую Троицу, с радостью проходя остающееся время; и иссушив плотские страсти, соберём в душе божественные цветы, чтобы сплести из них венцы для господственного дня*, дабы всем нам с венцами на головах воспеть Христа, как победителя»

Now the powers of heaven with us invisibly do serve.
Lo, the King of Glory enters, lo, the mystical sacrifice is upborne, fulfilled.
Let us draw nigh with faith and love and become communicants of life eternal.
Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia!

Liturgy of the Presanctified, 14th March 2025.

Do not demand from me worthy fruits of repentance, for my strength has failed within me.
Give me an ever contrite heart and poverty of spirit, that I may offer these to Thee as an acceptable sacrifice, O only
Saviour.
(Ode IX, Fourth part of the Great Canon of Repentance)

Where shall I begin to lament the deeds of my wretched life? How shall I begin, O Christ, to relieve my present tears? But as Thou art deeply compassionate, grant me forgiveness of sins.
☦ 🛐 ☦

Cheesefare Sunday - Divine Liturgy followed by the Rite of Mutual Forgiveness, whilst the Paschal Canon was sung slowly. It will be heard again with joy at the end of the Fast. Blessed and fruitful fast to all!
Before leaving, the church was decorated in Lenten colours for the upcoming services.

Reception into the Orthodox Church before the Liturgy on the Sunday of the Prodigal Son. Many years to the newly-illumined Theophan!

📿☦️RESOURCES for LENT☦️📿
https://www.orthodoxchurchsheffield.com/lent (copy and past link)

Useful information on the weeks leading up to the Feast of Pascha: prayers, Bible readings, homilies and the "Journey to Pascha" booklets.

Dates for the diary:
☦️LENTEN TRIODION BEGINS
+ Sun 9th Feb 2025: Publican & Pharisee (Воскресенье о мытаре и фарисее)
Fast-free week (Пост отменяется)

+ Sun 16th Feb 2025: The Prodigal Son (Воскресенье о блудном сыне)
Normal fasting rules

+ Sun 23rd Feb 2025: The Last Judgement [Meatfare] (Воскресенье о Страшном Суде [мясопустная])
Meat-free week (Из трапезы исключается мясо)

+ Sun 2nd March 2025: The Expulsion of Adam from Paradise [Cheesefare] (об изгнании Адама из рая [сыропустная])

🛐THE GREAT FAST (LENT) BEGINS Mon 3rd March.
First Week - strict fast (cухоядение [хлеб, овощи, фрукты])
+ Sun 9th March: Triumph of Orthodoxy (Торжество Православия)

Second Week
+Sun 16th March: St. Gregory Palamas (Свт. Григория Паламы)

Third Week
+Sun 23rd March: Holy Cross (Крестопоклонная)

Fourth Week
+ Sun 30th March: St. John of the Ladder (Прп. Иоанна Лествичника)

Fifth Week
+ Sun 6th April: St. Mary of Egypt (Прп. Марии Египетской)
(Mon 7th April is the Feast of the Annunciation)

Sixth Week
END of LENT (but fasting continues)
+ Sat 12th April: Lazarus Saturday (Лазарева суббота)
+ Sun 13th April: Palm Sunday or Entry of the Lord into Jerusalem (Вход Господень в Иерусалим)

🖤HOLY WEEK
+ Mon 14th April: Holy Monday
+ Tue 15th April: Holy Tuesday
+ Wed 16th April: Holy Wednesday
+ Thu 17th April: Holy (Maundy) Thursday, The Last Supper (Великий Четверг, воспоминание Тайной Вечери)
+ Fri 18th April: Holy (Good) Friday, Passion of Christ (Страстей Господних)
+ Sat 19th April: Holy Saturday, Harrowing of Hades (Схождение во ад)

🌅Sun 20th April: PASCHA (Пасха)
☀️WEEK AFTER PASCHA: BRIGHT WEEK

Distribution of holy water. Sun 19th January. THEOPHANY.
at Chesterfield.

Mon 6th January: Christmas Eve Liturgy
Christ is Born! Glorify Him!

"Grant unto me the robe of light, O Most Merciful Christ our God, Who dost clothe Thyself with light as with a garment."
(Baptism and chrismation; Sun 29th Dec 2024)

Sunday 15th December at Chesterfield @silouan_allsaintsgbi

There are 24 chapters in the Gospel of St Luke. By reading a chapter per day from the 14th December until the 6th January, we will come to the Christmas feast with a fuller understanding of why we celebrate the birth of Christ.

“If an earthly king, our emperor wrote you a letter, would you not read it with joy? Certainly, with great rejoicing and careful attention... You have been sent a letter, not by any earthly emperor, but by the King of Heaven. And yet you almost despise such a gift, so priceless a treasure. Whenever you read the Gospel, Christ Himself is speaking to you. And while you read; you are praying and talking to Him.”
- St Tikhon of Zadonsk (+1783)

☦️ Happy Feast! С праздником! ☦️

Today is the prelude of God's good will/ and the proclamation of the salvation of men./ The Virgin hath manifestly appeared in the temple of God/ and proclaimeth Christ unto all./ To her let us cry aloud:/ Rejoice, O thou fulfillment// of the Creator's dispensation!

Днесь благоволе́ния Бо́жия предображе́ние,/ и челове́ков спасе́ния пропове́дание,/ в хра́ме Бо́жии я́сно Де́ва явля́ется,/ и Христа́ всем предвозвеща́ет./ Той и мы велегла́сно возопии́м:/ ра́дуйся смотре́ния Зижди́телева исполне́ние.

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