Материалы 17 апреля 2013 г.

4 / 17 апреля 2013 г. Среда 5-й седмицы Великого поста. Сретенский монастырь. Утреня с чтением Великого канона Андрея Критского и жития прп. Марии Египетской. Хор Сретенской Духовной Семинарии. (MP3 файл. Продолжительность 3:04:37 мин. Размер 133 Mb)

Книга большого формата, в ней множество цветных рисунков и фотографий. Она могла бы стать прекрасным подарком к Пасхе.

Протоиерей Сергий Правдолюбов об истории Великого покаянного канона святого Андрея Критского, его церковном бытовании, особенностях текста, возможностях перевода.

Должно ли служение священника ограничиваться исключительно пределами церкви, или же его деятельность может простираться за пределы храма?

Патриарху Алексию I выпала задача исключительная по своей сложности – укреплять Церковь в период сталинской диктатуры и хрущевской «оттепели». 17 апреля – день памяти этого предстоятеля Русской Церкви.

Через 20 дней пешего пути, когда святой остановился прочесть молитвы шестого часа, он вдруг увидел человеческую фигуру, убегавшую при его приближении.

О духе и силе песнопений преподобного Иосифа Песнописца его жизнеописатель диакон Константинопольской Церкви Иоанн так писал ок. 890 г.: «Когда он стал писать стихи те и слух поражал чудной приятностью звука, и поражал сердце силой мыслей… Чудное отдохновение находят здесь те, которые стремятся к жизни совершенной…

On Wednesday evening a very special service is celebrated in Orthodox churches—the Great Canon with the Life of St. Mary of Egypt. This is the only time in the year when the Great Canon of St. Andrew of Crete, which was read in four parts during the first week of Great Lent, is read in its entirety, along with the canon to St. Mary of Egypt. This canon contains every motivation toward fasting and repentance, and the Church repeats it in the fifth week in its entirety in order to inspire us with renewed strength to finish the course of the fast. The Life of St. Mary of Egypt is also read to that end—to motivate us to be attentive and repent.

There is no other sacred hymn which compares with this monumental work, which St Andrew wrote for his personal meditations. Nothing else has its extensive typology and mystical explanations of the scripture, from both the Old and New Testaments. One can almost consider this hymn to be a “survey of the Old and New Testament”. Its other distinguishing features are a spirit of mournful humility, hope in God, and complex and beautiful Trinitarian Doxologies and hymns to the Theotokos in each Ode.

The experience of Lent is a spiritual journey whose purpose is to transfer us from one spiritual state to another, a dynamic passage. For this reason the church commences Lent with the great penitential Canon of St Andrew of Crete. This penitential lamentation conveys to us the scope and depth of sin, shaking the soul with despair, repentance, and hope.

In his interview with the German Hurriyet newspaper, the Mufti of Trabezon (Trabzon) confirmed, "that work on conversion of the Orthodox Church of St. Sophia to a place of prayer meetings for Muslims is continuing at an accelerated pace".

Four Copts who were inside St. Mark's Cathedral when Islamists attacked it on April 7, have been arrested by Egyptian authorities.

After the prayer for salvation of Cyprus, his Grace Archbishop Chrysostomos gave a sermon in which he stressed that those who encroached on economic and national sovereignty of Cyprus would collapse.

The chairman of the Russian State Duma Sergei Naryshkin stated that there is a need in our society for reinforcement of legislative protection of religious sentiments, and it is necessary to work out common rules for both believers and atheists.

Such are those who really want to be saved: this is what it means to bear the yoke of temptation with humility of wisdom and to pray for the life of Nebuchadnezzar. This is why the Prophet said, In the life of Nebuchadnezzar is our salvation. The same thing is implied in saying, "I see great fruit coming to me from this labor" as "in the life of Nebuchadnezzar is our salvation." This the Elder confirms by saying, "Today I know that you are in the way to making progress and you will surpass me."

Потписивању Протокола присуствовали су и други представници три општине, али и Мирко Крлић, помоћник директора Канцеларије Владе Србије за Косово и Метохију која је и била иницијатор успостављања сарадње општина Оџаци и Бач са општином Ораховац.