Passion week before Easter in 2017 continues from 10 to 16 April. During this period, special attention should be paid to its spiritual state and devote time to prayers.
True faith will help the soul of everyone to free themselves from negativans to let in the heart of the Lord.
Prayer in the Great Monday
"Jesus Christ! The soul and heart is always with you every sinful on this earth. I reaches you, remembering your victim for the whole human race. By the grace of yours, you will find peace of mind, get rid of the demons, we are from the right way to seduce. Life is sinful, but you managed to get rid of the darkness and non-reflectivity. Amen".
Prayer to the Great Tuesday
"The source of our lives, Lord! Hear my prayers, addressed to you. Clear me from the sins, save me from the virtues of unclean. My source I found myself in prayers to you, Lord. I repent and humbly ask for my actions ungrevious, I appeal to the Holy Trinity about protection and patronage I need. Amen".Prayer in the Great Wednesday
"Lenosta is realized, I am glad to every day, lived in the cross. Great my repentance. Darui, Lord, the suffering for us who took, save us. Your mercy will spread over the brow of everyone, will enter the soul, smirriting confusion and cry of Diavolsky. He illuminates the light of the heavenly path in the darkness, and he will guide us by geldly. Amen".Prayer in the Great Thursday
"Glory to you, Lord! Remember me, sinful, in your kingdom. I do not allow the misfortunes of unclean to tell the secrets and secrets of yours, the locks on the castle are the mouth of my daring. Let us enjoy the light, from the heavens outgoing, imbued with wisdom in the eyelids and teach the sons and daughters to live in righteousness and scenes. Amen".Prayer in Great Friday
"The prayer is righteous and humming of Christian praying you, Lord. Bless me, sinless, give my strength to fight the manifestations of negative, do not blame their offenders and put their punishment to the will. Righteous prayers I resurrect you daily, I pray for the whole way of human, give us all-sucking. Amen".Prayer in the Great Saturday
"Thank the Lord for our cross, for the death of Christ, for the resurrection of the holy. There is no more barrier to the soul of the righteous, for death is only sleep and rest. We pray for our souls, for peace on the sinner, against the goose devilish. Yes, the Lord will not leave us in our throwing, will indicate the way through the darkness yes to the Light of God. Bless us, Lord. Amen".
Completing the passionate week of bright Easter, the feast of the Resurrection of Christ. On this day, Orthodox Christians rejoice in this event, glorify the Lord and welcome each other with the words: "Jesus Risen! Truly resurrected! "
Prayers and appeal to heaven every day give us great power to confront the negative that surrounds us. With their help, we ask for forgiveness and blessings, protect ourselves from diseases and timidity, help our children.
Passionate week is the last days before Easter, the path of suffering, the godfather of the Savior and his bright resurrection. Read more about this in our article!
How to spend a passionate sadmitz?
About how to spend a passionate week, how to live it in a complete measure, portal correspondents asked well-known priests.
Archpriest Valerian Drafs, the confessor of the Moscow Diocese:
Commit the Savior
Archpriest Valerian Krchetov
The time of the post, which was given to a person to achieve repentance, ends on Friday the sixth week. The whole point of the repentant feathers committed, as the holy fathers say, consists in cleansing the heart.
And John the Forerunner, and the Lord himself began her sermon from words: " Open, for the kingdom of heaven approached" And when, as stated in the Canon Andrei Cretoch, "the prophets have already been exhausted," the church prepares the holiday, showing the last days of his life, when the Lord suffered for our sins. Like God, he knew about everything that would happen, but as a man he asked compassion: " And he told them: My soul is mourned deadly; Stay here and awake"(Matt 26:34).
Prepares us for the holiday of Easter and shows that another path to the resurrection than through the cross and suffering is not. Therefore, the simple people said: "The Lord endured and ordered us."
The worship service of the passionate week is calling for a person to empathize, compassioned the Savior.
The first three days it is supposed to re-read all the four evangelists in a reminder that the Lord has created, and we will be crucified by our sins. And although it is drawn to the Jews of the time, this applies to each person who will crate with their sins.
In a passionate week, if there is such an opportunity, it is advisable to be more likely to be in the temple, especially in, and on the eve of Wednesday evening. In the morning, believers are sorted at a secret evening and are commuated, and in the evening the gospel of the passions of the Lord are read. Then goes - the crucifixion of the Savior, the burial and already starting the joy of bright Saturday.
The first of the Sunday of Christ the Angels learned, as well as about his birth, so the church sings: " The resurrection of your Christ Savior Angeli sing in the sky. And we are on the ground with a pure heart of Slaviti" Why is the "pure heart"? Because it is believed that the person is as far as possible to clean his heart to this bright day.
Passionate saddemic is precious time
Service of the passionate week is the most top Services from everything church year. I think that people did not create anything better at all than passionate services. This is the most beautiful, the deepest, most talented, the most ongoing out of everything born by the human genius.
If these services are committed reverently, if a person is trying to participate in meaningful, they will transfer it to the reality that appeared on Earth two thousand years ago, will help with saints, together with God's mother and apostles, pass the path of the sufferings of Christ and meet the bright Christ's resurrection.
If a person tries to delve into them, it will be able to overcome the space and time and become a member of the Gospel events. If sincerely, with faith and love to participate in these church services, then you will definitely feel all the Gospels, aware of the Christianist in a new way.
In addition, these services, as any work of art, act not only at a rational way - on the consciousness of a person, they act directly, figuratively speaking, on the heart of a person. By participating in them, a person is aware of something, but even more he feels that his vera opens the spiritual reality that exists out of time and space. The victim of Christ, his suffering and death, his victory over the forces of evil, over death, the celebration of His Resurrection is everything belongs spiritual peacestaying out of time and space. And through church services, we can join this reality.
A lot is a secret, which we cannot understand rationally. It is natural, because the spiritual, the divine world is higher than us, he does not open our mind quite, not impressed by him. And he opens the heart. If this happens, it becomes a great achievement in our lives. We will understand later, not immediately that there was nothing higher in our life. And there can be nothing higher than life with Christ, than the opportunity to find Christ and be with him. Therefore, passionate saddemic is a precious time.
Of course, you can always be with Christ, and you should always be. But the false person is very difficult. Our heart is not capable of this, it will be exhausted, it cannot clean himself, can not prepare himself to always be with God. And here the Lord himself takes our heart into his hands, leads his powerful hand and makes the job that we would have to do themselves, but have become unable to it. The church introduces us to a powerful procession to Christ, in life with Christ, so in worship to come closer to Christ, feel much easier to feel much easier than alone.
The circumstances of our lives are such that they impede participate in all services. We in the Temple of Nikola in the Blacksmiths try to serve two services per day: the greatest services to double, so that all family members can replace each other and participate in these, not even services, but events.
Every day the passionate saddemic, as well as the story about these days in the Gospel, is the way to suffering that was accomplished on Calvary. Our entire journey through the days of passionate saddemitsa looks like the way to passion that the Lord himself passed.
Here we see how the Lord came to Jerusalem, then leaving and came again, spoke his last teachings to the people and students. Services make us satellites of Christ, his listeners. I remember passionate Thursday, ... it seems to me that comments are not needed here and not even impossible. It is so higher than the words that, as it comes in the service, "Mind is insets." It is better to come to the temple and take part yourself.
It is very important that these services are leisurely, so that everything is clear to come to the heart, so that complicity in suffering with Christ united the entire community, the people and clergy, so that it was a general procession with Christ.
Archpriest Vladimir Shafostov:
Do not give yourself to live this time relaxed
Archpriest Vladimir Shaforetov
Passion week - time is special. These days can not be lived relaxed, to live as if Christ did not cut the sake of our salvation.
Unfortunately, many seek to take everything, forgetting about the main thing. Rejecting Christ, without responding to the godfather of Divine Love, people deprive themselves the graceful joy and meaning of life. Let me remind you to readers of the Portal "Orthodoxy and the World" about the so-called Pascal Parcale: a person who believes in Christ wins the life of eternal if he is right, and does not lose anything if he is mistaken; The man unbelieving does not win anything, if he is right, and loses eternal life if he is mistaken.
It correctly noticed that: "Not so much is grieved God who have done our sins, how much our unwillingness to change."
On the days of passionate saddemitsa, everyone who wants to be a faithful student of Christ, must do everything possible to renounce sinful desires, put prayer communication with God above all.
Do not require love to yourself, do not hurt the neighbor, and it is better to suffer for Christ for the sake of Christ and try to live these great days so that the content of our life has become the true ministry to God and the neighbor.
It is important not just to "defend" the service and remember the suffering of the Savior, but to prayer to complain, to speak with Christ. Give God all of us the strength to save and increase all the bright, that is given by grace to us, and defeat the sin that removes us from Christ the Savior.
Archpriest Igor Fomin:
Putting a spirit of worship
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Easter Easter becomes a real holiday, it is advisable to spend a passionate week in the temple and soaked in the Spirit that the Church gives people believers in worship.
It is necessary to be removed from time to time, from our 21st century, mentally at least to move into those days, feel that the Lord experienced for us. Every day in this scary The sadmits are devoted to any day of the week before the resurrection of Christ, to our salvation, and is very important. So if we spend these days in the temple, with attention and trepidation, then Easter for us will be the logical conclusion of the passionate week.
If there is no possibility to stay in the temple these days, I could advise for people of the believers synopsis. In Orthodox synopsis there are gospel readings for every day passionate week.
These days you need to pay attention to those who are next to us. Be sure to create good things that would be a confirmation of our faith in Christ, crucified for us.
Archpriest Kirill Calheda:
Daily reading of the Gospel
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By the passion week we must prepare. Preparation for passionate sadmice is Great post.
To experience a passionate week without this preparation, probably impossible. Every day this week is devoted to the experience of those events that have occurred almost 2000 years ago. And therefore it is necessary to read the Gospel daily in order to experience these events with the church.
Of course, prayer is needed, because we don't just remember some historical eventWe participate prayerfully in it. Therefore, without prayer, the passionate week is impossible. Especially without the prayer of the church, because it is in church prayer that we are experiencing these such important days for our salvation.
If there is no opportunity to be on services this week, then the daily reading of the Gospel is needed. We can read the gospel and at home, and in transport, and at work, if it does not prevent the work.
The priest Andrei Lorgus, the Dean of the Faculty of Psychology of the Russian Orthodox University named after the Apostle John the Bogoslov:
Penetrate the atmosphere of holy days
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The best thing that could be done on the days of a passionate week is to visit all services. To be on the latter and then on everyone, that is, on Thursday morning and evening, and on the removal of the shroud and burial, on the Great Saturday, and in the Easter Southwest and Liturgy and the main thing - in Easter Evening.
For a passionate sadmitian to bring the most benefit to reveal the beauty and meaning of church worship - you need to visit all services. It would be good for this to add a lot of participation in cooking home. Prepare gifts, paint eggs and much more.
If there is no opportunity to go to the service, then you need to read the gospel, the corresponding chapters, read the training bible to figure out.
Much can be done to penetrate the atmosphere of those days. For this now everything is: Books, and movie, and radio, and television. Of course, if a person has time, forces - you can participate in some kind of charitable activities, and go somewhere in social institutions, and visit your own friends and home, relatives who need help, help in something for Easter, Buy something.
You can do a lot, but still it is better to devote it to yourself, my soul. Defend repentance and penetration into the meaning of what is happening. If a person is only harvested, that is, only begins his church path, then, of course, learn, learn and learn. And quietly the tradition to master. If a person already knows all this, then he can somehow devote himself to visit the needy and do something good.
It is better to focus on a passionate week, and not to spray for a hundred affairs. It is better to postpone what you can do at another time. Do not plan fuss, help yourself in maximum concentration, contribute to internal collidery.
Archpriest Maxim Kozlov:
So that life does not swallow being
Passionate week is the time when everything reaches its maximum. Therefore, the subtlety is not that it is necessary to make something special for it specially, but just need to try what it is important to do in the life of the usual, here to do to the degree of maximum development.
From us, on the one hand, it will be necessary, firstly, the most deep and responsible awareness of their participation in the worship services of these days, which, of course, really do not want to skip. It is clear that people who learn or work will not be able to be on all services. But nevertheless, most of us have the opportunity to at home or on the road, in transport, subtract excerpts from the trio of a post service of the passionate week, which were repeatedly published.
Of course, there are days in which all efforts are made to attach to get into services. To think in advance, transfer the offset, negotiate with the boss, take the ran away. This is the worship of the Great Thursday, when all of us calls to come together. , with the stead of the passions of Christ, with the removal of the shroud.
Often people miss the worship of the Great Saturday. They say that by this time there is no strength, but in fact there is not enough internal understanding that in this service you need to be. This worship, from which, actually, begins Easter. Which is such an amazing transition from the rest of the mortal to the rest of the resurrection of Christ.
Of course, on a passionate, everyone who does not have any absolute obstacles must try to join the Holy Taine of Christ.
Visiting worships in the maximum measure should not be something to be lulling. Our services are surprisingly beautiful. But you need to try not to bring it in sentimental experiences about. This is more sophistication.
It is very important these days not to forget the people around us. It is known that by the end of the post we all get tired. But we know that it happens and, accordingly, should be prepared for the fact that we can easier to break away, each other is to deprive the opportunity in the world to approach Easter. Here it is necessary to take it very much and very carefully.
If you ask to help get home to Easter - then you need, of course, help. But it will be very good if it will "help to crash" will not instead of service, but together with the service, say, instead own sleep And something else that we will allow ourselves. We need to try to push the most personal lessons from these days. But of course in each family should be, especially if there are small children, compromises. Someone will go to one service, and someone else. Somehow it is necessary to alternate, to negotiate, how to get each other.
And last. Life in the church of the church person is rich and diverse. In addition to being, it has life. In the life of each of us there will be prepache. For someone, this is a concern for gifts, for someone - preliminary care about Easter disorders that we all wait for one way or another. But only it would not be a priority. Well, there should be no Easter as curd food more important than Easter as the Christ of the Resurrection. Let it be on some hierarchically correct in life place.
Archpriest Maxim Promovansky:
On the days of the passionate week, be in the temple
Archpriest Maxim Prozvansky
Since the passionate week is the culmination of the entire church year, and the period when all events that happened in the last days of the Lord of our Lord Jesus Christ are remembered in the temples, then I strongly advised how much time you spend on stay in the temple.
All divine services of passionate weeks are built in such a way that we do not miss any of them.
On Sunday evening service, it is usually already served in the morning with the song "Se Groom comes in midnight" and read the gospel.
The morning of the next day is devoted to the stay of the Lord in Jerusalem in the period between His and passions.
On Wednesday evening and on Thursday morning, the worship services of the Great Thursday are committed.
On Thursday evening - the morning of the passionate heel and reading passionate gospels.
On Friday, three worship serves in the temples - this is a royal watch, an evening with a removal of the shroud and the morning with burial.
Then, of course, the Divine Liturgy and the worship of the Great Saturday.
It should also be noted that people make a mistake, trying again on the passionate week to confess, think again about their sins. Do not do this. Earlier, in the temples, the ads sometimes even posts that they would have to try to celebrate the entrance to the Lord in Jerusalem, and, starting from this holiday, for those who were confessed during the Great Post, it is already possible to communicate without confession.
Therefore, my chief advice is - if possible, visit as much as possible worship and coming up at least the great Thursday and Easter.
Natalia Smirnova prepared, Maria Abushkin, Alexander Philippov.
You read the article Passionate week - how to spend it?
After the celebration of the week, the tense climb on the steps of the passionate week to the top of Calvary. For Christians of antiquity, it was Easter - the godfather. Passionate week for us, Christians of modernity became the relevant experience of the Edema of Christ, necessary to adequately meet Easter solemn, Easter Resurrection.
Fresco Manuel Panselina in the Cathedral Temple of the Watoped Monastery (Athos), XIV century
For exclamations "Osaned in the High!" A calling to attention, concentration and prayer should be called. In the morning service of Monday, a passionate week is having a chant: "The semi-bridegroom is coming in the middle, and Blessed slave, Eaggember crashes his boyfriend: Instead of Paka, Energie is unwinding. My feast soul, my soul, not sleepy, but not death is predicted, and the kingdoms are awesome, but the renings are called: holy, holy, holy, holy God, Virginia. The trophari "Segiy is coming in the middle ..." Soon the first three days of the passionate week. These words refer to the evangelical parable about ten devices (Matt. 25. 1-13). The soul should not plunge into sleep in anticipation of the groom - Christ. The proximity to the kingdom of God depends on the degree of our attention and focus. And this is one of the most important meanings of passionate.
On this last segment of a great path, we are expected by passion and death of Christ. In ancient times, the last week of the post, prepastern, was called "Great." Abstinence this week intensified. The strictest post on bread, salt and vegetables were prescribed, a complete misunderstanding was advised on Friday and Saturday. "... These six days of Easter are usually all carried out in the dry gathering that is, you fell in the evening only bread with salt and water; Some diligently lengthen the irregulation: other and all week before singing roosters on Sunday are carried out without food "testifies to St. Epiphany Cyprus.
Every day of the passionate week is great. Grandmothers from the Kursk rustic depths call the passionate week of a terrible week.
Great Monday of the Passion Week: Joseph is a wonderful and awesome figure.
On this day, as Synaksar says from the lean trio "... The memory of the Blessed Joseph is beautiful, and the characteristic of the fig ohth ...".Joseph, the last son of the Old Testament Patriarch Jacob is a prototype of Christ. Envious brothers first hide him in the disheaval of Waterproop, and then sell the slave traders for thirty sober. Joseph, who became the head of the Egyptian land, gives its wheat brothers when hunger is rapid among the Israelites. Like Joseph, Christ suffered from the envy of the Jews only to him and was devoted to his student for thirty sobrennikov. The prisoner in the dark moat - the coffin, Christ rebel from the dead and, saving us from sin, just like Joseph distributed wheat, quenching our spiritual hunger by the sacrament of the Eucharist: "... Personantly reaches us with mysterious wheat, Yako himself for us granted, and Yako nourishes you with celestial bread, its lively flesh. " This is the first theme of Monday of a passionate week. In the sacred stories, more than 3,600 years old is manifested by the prevention of Christ and his passions. For us, time is compressed, it shrinks into a tight spring, which will unfold on Easter day. On the days of the passionate week we are experiencing what was at the dawn of history, and what happened two thousand years ago and is going on today with a constant feeling of novelty. The images of the sacred history are woven in the fancy and beautiful pattern.
One of the elements of this pattern is the image of the awesome figure of the Gospels from Matthew (MF. 21-22) and from Mark (MK. 11. 20 -23). The Lord cursed the fig tree on which there was no fruit. Holy Righteous John Kronstadtsky speaks in a conversation for the great Monday of the Passionate Week: "The fruitless figure for the road with the same leaves is me, and you, brother and sister, beloved. It often comes to us sooner and late and late the presence of our life, the Lord Jesus Christ, the striking of our salvation, comes to clean the Hunger of our soul, to become bread for her bread. And, alas, almost always finds in us only concerns about everyday - some leaves; The fruits of the faith, the all-minded care about the salvation of our shower is not as not. " And this is a warning for any Christian running through a passionate week, experiencing the betrayal of Christ, his passion and death on Calvary, we should not come to Easter without spiritual fetus. The image of the fig tree should be frightened by "... not making applied virtues of fruits", that is, "reassuring anyone who does not bring the fruit, virtues.". "
Refrain of phewing vehicles (surrounding at the end of the morning worship) of the Great Monday of the Good Week serve as the words that the Lord goes to the torment, which takes upon himself in his own will: "Grocery of the Lord to free passion ...", "Has the Saving Passion of Christ," , "Lord, Grocery to suffering." This thought is a reason for a pupil repentance: "The Freshness of Frames for Lack, the ads of the sinking breeding, the fruits worthy of repentance will bring Christ that gives us Grace." That is, the taste of the curse of the fruitless fig tree and bring the fruits of repentance. With this thought, we enter the great Tuesday.
Great Tuesday of the Passion Week: Parable of Ten Devs
"The Great Tuesday brings us ten maids who heard the verdict from an incorruptible Vladyka." These are poems that prevent Synaksar for the Great Tuesday. "In the Holy and Great Tuesday, we remember the parable of the ten girls, because these parables, the Lord, going to suffering, entering Jerusalem, told his disciples, and other acquired to the Jews. He said about the ten devices, calling for alms and at the same time learning everyone to be ready in advance to death. "In order not to be like five unreasonable devices, whose lamps began to go out when the bridegroom Christ approached: "... awake, because you don't know the day, no one in which the Son of Human" (MF 25. 13). Therefore, the second day of the passionate week begins with the same chanting that the Great Monday: "The semi-bridegroom is coming in the middle ...".
The soon crucifixion of Christ relates to the last time. In order to become a party of the first event and, without despair, meet the events of the second: "The tape of the distortion of the recess, and the bright mines of the surname fiance of Christ singing, bless, blatant, the lord of the Lord," the increasing stress of the prepacheal and at the same time terrible days of the passionate week involves leaving all laziness days and readiness To prayer.
The synaksar of the Great Tuesday of the passionate week simply determines the meaning and the task of this day: "So, for the instructions of the gantry fathers, it was established to put here about ten virgins here, who teach us to be awake and prepare for the meeting of the true groom with good deeds, especially alms, because the day is unknown and hour death; Just like (example) Joseph (teach) to turn chastity, and figs - always bring spiritual fruit. "
Such wake up is all the more relevant that we are expecting an environment of the passionate week, the great for the reason that the inevitability of Christ passions clearly opens on this day.
Great Wednesday of the Passion Week: Vfan Anointing.
Sinaksar of the third day of the passionate week, which reveals the liturgical topic of the Great Environment, begins with verse: "The wife, anointing Christ the body of the world, anticipates Smyrna and Aloe Nicodem." Smirna and Aloe - the attributes of the funeral ritual.On this day, they remember how in the house of Simone lepers, where Christ was also located and his disciples, the wife-harmnica came and anointed the world of Christ. Pupils began to indignant: "... what is such a waste? For it would be possible to sell this world for a big price and give a nourishment "(MF. 26. 8-9) .. However, Christ stopped the students:" By chaptering my world on my body, she prepared me for the burial "(MF. 26. 12 ). That is, anointing of the world was the prediction of the death of Christ and his burial.
The great environment of the passionate week - the frontier, on the one hand, the end of the quarter (on this day the last time the prayer of Ephraim Syrina is read and the last terrestrial bows are put). On the other hand, the liturgical texts of this day say that Jews are already thinking to kill Christ, and the accomplice is for them - Judas Israbiotky. "Juda Lestiets, Srebolubia Daughter, prettences to Lord, the treasure of belly, Forestly striking, left and dropping, flows to Juda, the verbolete for challenging: what are the mi of the Data, and Az you betray, in the hedgehog crucify it?": Verogenic Juda has been committed to Srebroluby, I knew to betray Christ and as if drunk hurries to the Jews and asked them, what could get for her betrayal. Passion is completely close. On the eve of the terrible and great events of the passionate week, the Holy Righteous John Kronstadtsky says: "Prove that you know how to answer love - love that you are true Christians, and you can beat him from love to Christ, that is, wander over your Heart, at least a few hours, in which he drank for us the bowl of heavenly. Enter faith in the hearts of your Christ of the Lord Hearing for us, suffer there - in your heart with him ... ". But before Calval, the events occur, which open the mystical depth of Christ's suffering.
The great Thursday of the Passionate Week: Foot Skill, Last Supper, Pallium in the Garden Garden and the betrayal of Judas.
The Grand Fourth is saturated with events and experiences. Before the Lord went to Calvary, he had a personal example of the form of meekness, established the sacrament of the Eucharist, to bloody sweat I prayed in the Greater Garden and there was also devoted to Juda. Sinaksar on the Great Quarter reveals the litrogenous topics of this day.The first event: "God's pupils on the evening, God's legs, the leg of which, then (Tree) relied, once forbidden in Eden." The incomprehensible greatness and self-deity is in the event of the skill of the feet of the apostles. The one who forbade a person to enter the paradise due to his overwhelming, his foot tramples an oath, but at the same time heats his legs with his students like a servant. The liturgical texts are narrowing about it like this: "Having resigned to the sake of the rich, from the evening of Having, Lente Reception, SIM was presented to Esi, and worship, I washed by the legs of the students and the traitor," "Whether the mind, and the mind of the height of your Jesus, who will not be surprised ! Simbo Breña appeared, promoted all sorts, washing the feet of his feet, otiyuya and Lentia. " For us, rich (lord of the world) in every sense, Christ has come torture, he, all the creator, presented by Lentia (towel), wash his feet to his students. And this is an event of a passionate week - excellent the opportunity to realize and understand the human mind. Christ "... reminded other students not looking for the championship. He taught it after the sense, saying: who wants to be first, will be the last of all, putting himself as an example "(in. 13, 15-16). However, even this does not stop the evil intention of Judah Icyariot. The topic of Judine betrayal is woven in worship: "The legacy of the friendship is a malicious Iskariot Quality forgetting, Lazh's mind, vote for a legend ...", the ill-fated sisterot decided to betray the one who washeled his legs, and it was his independent, free decision.
The second event of the long great fourth of a passionate week: "Double-to-evening: for she holds Easter with the Old and Easter new - the dominion of blood and body."
This meal carries a double meaning - it and the Old Testament, perfect according to the laws of the trapez, committed in the memory of Israel's outcome from Egypt, but also New Testament: "... when the night had come, the Lord, opening the disciples of the most excellent, he taught them in the hill and the sacrament of New Easter." The sacrament is to taste the body and the blood of the Lord.
The events of the great fourth of the passionate week begins, is devoted to the event of the skill of the legs, unhapping up in our submission of God and, to the same degree, the terrible event of the betrayal of Christ: "Always, the Sorry of the student at the skill of the evening enlightened, then Judas Ejacetful, Sreboluby And the lawless judgments of the judgment gives you a righteous judgment. Waving the arms to the radiators, the service for the removal! Bezh Besie the soul, teacher who daring to the teacher: others about all the good, Lord, thank you. " The disciples of Christ enlightened at the secret evening, Judas conceived and carried out betrayal. Why a student who saw the wondering of Christ, the one whom the Lord was washed her legs, so did it? The liturgical text gives an answer - the passion of Srebolubia darkens the soul of Judah. And the one who seeks to comply with the dishonest death - the help.
The third event, a great part-time of the passionate week - the prayer of the Lord in the Garden of Garden: "And he himself moved away from them to the versa of the stone, and, by stopping his knees, prayed, saying: Father! Oh, if you favored to bring the bowl of this past me! However, not my will, but yours will be. Angel came to him from heaven and strengthened him. And, being in a boring, it prayed gently, and it was sweat, like a drop of blood falling on the ground "(Luke 22. 44). This prayer of the Lord Verse Synaksar of the Great Quarter calls the prestantity-supernatural, it was accompanied by a bloody sweat of the Savior: "On the renewed prayer poems: Prayer and Strong (Prayer and at the same time, something terrible, something for us is terrible) Bloody Proceedings: Christ, Father Java Praying . Death, the enemy is impressive in this morning. " Christ, before the bloody sweat, his father was openly prayed, and in this prayer in humanity suffered and was afraid of close crucifixes and death, which deceived the enemy of the human race.
The long day of the great Thursday of the passionate week ends with an event as incomprehensible, as tragic - betrayal. So the verse of Sinaksar says this: "What is the requirement of knives, what are the woods, the people, on the thought to diligence in the deliverance of the world?" - "People's deceivers! Why do we need swords and stakes against the one who voluntarily die so that the world will save "? Kondak, having fun in the canon of this day, as if reflecting the perplexity of Judah, a traitor, but also emphasizes the mystical attack of this event: "Bread reception in the Ruta Traitor, the ceremony extends, and admire the price of the Human Human Humba, and is defective. " Having accepted bread from Christ, the same hands stretches for the fee, in which the life of Christ, who created a man with their own hands was appreciated.
A unique liturgy is committed to the great Thursday, since the sacrament of the Eucharist was established on this day. According to the charter, she must be performed at night. During the Great Post, the liturgy of the paid gifts are made, which according to the Charter should also be performed on the night. But they are not committed by the usual for the Liturgy of the Holy Insurance - Ancecry, sanctification of gifts. On the Liturgy of Thursday by a passionate week after evening (in modern conditions, it is committed in the morning) Complete, solemn liturgy of Vasily Great. At that moment, when the believers, the communion of the body and the blood of the Lord, were accustomed to hearing the "body of Christ ...", in the great Thursday of the passionate week, "Tweese Tweese, the Son of God, a Party, I accept, do not be the enemy of your mystery, nor lobsia Let the ladies, Yako Judas, but the Yako robbing confession: a rumor me, Lord, in your kingdom. " At this moment, we ask us at this moment today by partakers of the secret evening, which happened in the times of the earthly life of Christ, and confirm that our participation in this event is not wearing a character who has come, but not sanctified.
The great Thursday of the passionate week in antiquity
In the 4th century, two liturgies took place on this day. One in the morning, marking the end of the third, the other, which is a manner in the evening - closer to the evening. The ritual was very complex in the Jerusalem Church.About this day of the Jerusalem Church tells the pilgrimage of the 5th century Silvia. After the morning liturgy, the people had breakfast at home, then converged to the place where Christ and his disciples were on that day. Ancient Christians prayed and read the gospel passages corresponding to the case. This day was generally full of displacements and movements of Christians in places associated with the gospel history of the Great Quarter. The Eleon Mountain - Imuhon (the place of Ascension of the Lord) - Ghefsimania (the place where Christ prayed by the prestainable prayer and where His treacherously survived Judas). All this happens at night. "... due to so large number crowds, fatigue from the DAY and exhaust from daily posts, being forced to descend with such high mountain, go to Gethsemane with chants very slowly. And there are many church lamps for light to all people. And when it comes to Gethsemane, first pronounced prayer, then the song is sick and reads the place from the Gospel, where the Lord is taken. And when this place is read, then all the people with crying raises such a cry and moan that, maybe this moan of all the people is heard in the city. "
Great heels of passionate week: the memory of the saints of the saving passions of the Lord of our Jesus Christ
Poems from Sinaksar: "Live Ey God, and killed on the tree: About the Dead of Nagi, and God Zhivago Word!": "God, you are forever alive and you, killed on the tree! Dead body and with him - the word of the living Creator. " Sinaksar reveals the liturgical meaning of this day: "In the Holy and Great Friday we commit (submission) of the saints, saving and terrible suffering of the Lord and God and the Savior of our Jesus Christ, which he voluntarily has undergone. Democracy, beating, slapped, stagnation, ridicule, bugger, cane, sponge, vinegar, nails, spear, and after all this cross and death, - all this took place on Friday. "The Great Friday in the 5th century was the day of the most strict post and sorrow. In the Jerusalem Church, before the sun, he prayed at first at the pillar, where Christ was bichned, then in Calvary, in front of the Episcopian department, the table was put in front of the cross, on which the Holy Tree of the Cross under the protection of deaconov. The protection was necessary, since the people converged to attach to the Holy Tree and there was a case that someone was Otgby and kidnapped a particle.
In front of the Holy Tree of the Cross, Psalms were first read, which refers to the sufferings of the Lord. Then - excerpts of the tests from the apostle, where they tell about the suffering of the Lord his disciples. Evangelical narrations were read, where he suffers, excerpts were read from prophetic texts that foreshadow the suffering of the Lord. "So, from the hour of the sixth to the hour of the ninth (3 o'clock in the evening), there are still readings in this order and sangs, in order to show all the people that everything predetermined by the prophets about the sufferings of the Lord, it turns out both through the Gospel and through Scriptures of the apostles committed. So, during these three hours, the whole people are trying to say that nothing happened that there would be no predetermined, nothing that would not fulfill full. With readings, prayers are constantly alternate, which are adapted to the day, and with every reading and prayer there are such a sorrow and such a moan in the whole of the people, which excites surprise, for there is no one, nor old, nor small, which on this day, in these three hours I did not cry as much as you can not imagine, thinking about the fact that the Lord has undergone. After that, at the beginning of the ninth hour, I read the place from the Gospel of John, where he emptied the Spirit. " So tells about the worship of the Great Friday of the passionate week, Jerusalem pilgrimnitsa.
Nowadays, the tradition of Thursday evening will serve on the tradition of the Great Friday. This is a uniform called "the submission of the holy and saving passions of the Lord of our Jesus Christ." And this is the main liturgical topic, which reveals the mystical meaning of the great heel of the passionate week.
Twelve passages are read from the four Gospels, which discloses the whole picture of the most terrible moments of the Gospel History: from betrayal to his godfather death. Evangelical readings alternate with special, belonging to only this day on chants - antifones.
The first fragment of the text from the Gospel of John (In.13 31-8. 1) talks about the last conversation of Christ with students. It begins in words: "Now the Son of Man was famous, and God became famous in it" (John 13. 31). The Lord speaks directly about his divine dignity. Further, he gives his disciples to the commandment, which became central in the Christian dogma: "The commandment will give you a new one, but love each other ..." (John 13. 34). Love manifests itself in the church unity of believers. Jesus Christ in his bishop prayer about him and prays: "Yes, WSI will be uniform: you can, for me, in me, and Az in you, yes, and we will one in us; Yes, and the world of faith has, Yako, you sent Esu. And the Az glory, the southell made me, Dah them, will be one, we will be one of the ESMA. Az in them, and you in me: yes will be performed in one, and so it will understand the world, Yako, you sent the ESI and loved them to be eagerly loved by me "(Ine.17, 21-23). This unity has a beautiful poetic image: "I am a true grape vine, and my father is - grapework" (John 15. 1). The condition of this fruitful unity is unity with Christ: "Above me, and I am in you. As a branch cannot bear the fetus herself, if it is not on the vine: so you, if you do not in me. I am a vine, and you branches; who dwells in me, and I am in it, he brings a lot of fetus; For without me, you can not do anything "(in 15. 4-5). In the chants following the reading of the Gospel Text, the Church encourages believers on the most difficult cutting path to the Holy Easter to clear their feelings, and bring souls sacrificing for Christ. This victim lies in attention, curing from the everyday bustle: "The feelings of our chista of Christ will imagine, and Yako friends friends, the souls of our way for the sake of the sake of it, and do not merge everyday life, Yako Judas, but in our kleets we will reopen: ours, ours , from Lukavago to save us. " Estantic fumes these days seem dangerous, and this is indicated by another chanting, in which the words are served as a refrain: "the unplanned Judah is not an awesome of intelligence." That is, Judas did not get involved when the Lord raised Lazarus, neither then when Christ met the people with the cries of "Osanna!". Neither the skill of the legs, when, together with the rest of the students, Judas were the Lord was washed away and the legs of the legs, nor the fact that Christ made Judea, which knows about the plans of the traitor, did not stop him and did not make him think.
The second Gospel tells how in the Garden of the Garden after Judine, the kisses took the Lord, took to the high priest Anna, and the humiliations that he had undergone (John 18. 1-28). The fragment ends with a story about the three-year renunciation of the Apostle Peter, which was predetermined by the Lord. In the antifones following reading, heard bewilderment against Judah: "Kiyaa Image, Judo, a traitor to Sava siste? Food from the faces of the apostolic separation? Does Lisha Healing Diving Food? Food with Onemi Evening, you from the meal of otrinh? Food of other legs washer, your condom? About the number of benefits of the NEPMAYATIVE was! And your ungrateful work is defined by temper. The same immense is preached by long-suffering, and great grace. " How did the student turn into a traitor? After all, Judas were not deprived of the healing to give, was not deprived of the opportunity to compete with the apostles and remained the apostle even when the Lord knew about betrayal.
The third gospel fragment tells about the interrogation in the house of the high priest Caiafas, the Savior himself testifies to himself as a son of God: "And the high priest said to him: I trigger you alive, tell us: Are you Christ, the Son of God? He says Jesus: You said. But I tell you: From now on, you will see the Son of the Human, sternming on the right side of the strength and coming on the clouds of heaven "(Matt. 26: 57-75) and takes a certificate of exit and silence for this. In the same fragment, he was talking about the renunciation of the Apostle Peter and about his repentance. In the next antifone's gospel, the liberal suffering of Christ for us is chanting: "The Yema with the lawlessness, pretended by Sita, obeying the gentleman, and the wasting of the shepherd, and the wheels of Dzhasche, who are crowded, who are twisted by the alerts. But long-swing, yes will be fulfilled, Yavich Yavich you are the prophets, unknown and secret: Lord, glory to you "
Voltage is growing. Fourth fragment (John 18: 28-40, 19: 1-16) - a meeting of Christ with a pilot and the unimaginable behavior of a crowd that craves blood. The gentlemen will beat and betray him on tortured and execute after the unanimous words of independence of the high priests: "The high priests answered: we have no king, except for Caesar." (John 19. 15)
In the antifone, an incompatible situation is hammered into the human mind when the light is dressed as well as clothes, stood on the court among people nagim. He also takes strikes from human hands, which he himself created: "Fill in light, sneezing, the nag on the court stands, and in the lanit, the emphasis will come from the hands, ... Creating a lawlessness of the people on the cross of the priesthood of the Lord Glory: then the curtain of church The sun is firmly, not torture the critting of God the crude, the Eagle tremble all. That will bow. "
The sixth fragment of the gospel text complements the story of the previous reading. (Matt. 27. 3-32). To bring the Jewish managers, the people demanded the pardon of the criminal of Zaravva, and the innocent Christ demanded death: "Pilate says to them: what will I do Jesus, called Christ? They tell him all: will be crucified. The ruler said: what kind of evil did he? But they shouted even more: yes will be crucified "(Matt. 27. 22-23). Roman legionnaires are mocked by Christ, as described and at the end of the fifth reading and at the beginning of the sixth. The thorns of the crown, emphasis a cane on the head, a long way on Calvary with a cross on the shoulders and, finally, the crucifix ...
The chants surrounding this reading, disclose the meaning of the suffering of the Bogochover of Christ: "We redeemed the enemy from the oath of lawful, honestly, for the cross, on the cross, and there is a copy of the sample, our silence, fame to you." The Lord redeemed us from the curse by the fact that it was nailed on the cross and shed his blood for us.
The following gospel readings, seventh (MF. 27. 33-54) and the eighth (LC 23. 32-49) - a story about suffering on the Cross of the Lord. After the eighth gospel, the canon tripesman reads, at the end of which he serves a very famous text: "The Robber of Prudellongo in a single hour of Raevi did the ESI, Lord, and Mena, the Tree of the godfather, and save me." The prudent robber who confessed Christ to the king, he received the paradise "citizenship" for his confession.
The ninth fragment of the Gospel is the most terrible (in 19. 25-37). The terrible Lord entrusts the coniss of the apostle John his mother. Then it fulfills everything that it should have accomplished on prophetic books: having tasted vinegar, died before they began to interrupt the legs executed in order to accelerate death. The Lord remained with the bones not kitsove, which had in the prototype of the Old Testament Easter Lamb, whom the Jews should not have won his bones.
In one of the stimples after the ninth Evangelical reading, it is: "Kiyzho W. Holy Holy Flest, hacking for us for the sake of Prederpe: Turn, chapter; face, debris; jaw, exit; mouth, in the TsNA dissolved bile taste; Ushsa, Horing Eggs; shoulders, beating; and hand, cane; Total body stretching on the cross; membership, nail; and ribs, copies. Affected by us, and from passions of freedom of us, conducive to us to humanity, and the ascended by us, the All-Fivy Savior, have mercy on us. " Conceeding to us in humanity and the velocity and value of the human being, the Christ has undergone the dishonor of each part of his body. Turning his head was wounded, they were spoiled in the face, they beat their hands on the jaws, the ears listened to the coarse, they beat their eyes on their shoulders, their hands were punched with nails, and the ribs were punched with a spear.
In the tenth (MK 15. 43-47) and the eleventh (in 19. 38-42), gospel readings are narrated by the burial of the Savior. Secret Christ's students are Joseph Arimafi, ("the beneficial adviser") and Nicodemus - give their teacher the last honors.
The twelfth reading already brings us to the Easter events of the Great Saturday (MF 27. 62-66). The gentlemen put in the funeral cave, Judea questioned in Pilate the guardian to prevent possible deceivers who wish to paint the body of Christ.
The last chant of this service gives us hope: "You redeemed us from the curse of the law with a precious blood: to the cross is degraded and pierced, you have shattered immortality to people. Our savior, glory to you "!
Great Saturday of the Passion Week: Burial, Descent to Hell and Waiting for the Resurrection
Three trails open us the way to the mysterious events of the Great Saturday. The first one is about the burial of the human body of the Lord: "The plenious Joseph, with the Tree of SHIME, the preching body of yours, a clear whisker, whistling, and the winds in the coffin put it in place." Joseph removes the body of Jesus Christ from the cross, hecks him incenses, he wures a new loatching that he would tell the ritual regulations of the Jews, and puts into the funeral cave. The second troparman ends with the evangelical narration of the evangelist Matthew: "And here, the curtain of the temple burst into the top of the Donism in two; And the Earth shocked; and stones are zerosset; and the tombs opened; And many bodies of the departed saints rebelled; And coming out of the tombs on the uprising of him, they entered the Holy City and were many. " (Matt. 27. 51-53). These resurrected appeared to announce the victorious Fathest to the Hell of the Lord: "I've led to death to death, the abdomen is immellent, then hell has taken away the shine of the Divine. If okay, the deceased from the underworld, they resurrected the whole of the strength of the heavenly vice: the life of Christ God, glory to you. " The death of Christ became a winning procession to hell. The defeated hell let the righteous death connected by the law. The third trail opens to us a straight road to Easter: "Myrimosians are wives, at the coffin, representing an angel in the face: the world is decent, Christ is decent, Christ is an alien." The Mironosians who came to fulfill the law, anoint the funeral world of Jesus, was given to the angel that for Christ this anointing is not necessary, he is not subject to the law of death.The gaze, symbolizing the body of Jesus Christ, shot from the cross, is made on the middle of the temple. The singing of 17 kafisms, which comes on the burial, but on the Great Saturday - with special pick-ups. The theme of these praise is his burial and descent to hell, about the victory over death. About victory over death - one of the most amazing windy texts from the book of the Prophet Ezekiel is read in this service (GL37, Article 1 - 14). This is a prophecy of the bodily resurrection of the dead
The service of the Great Saturday begins on Friday evening at the modern practice of church life. In the ancient church, this service was night. Nowadays, the most, perhaps, long-term and rich worship services takes place in the morning of the Great Saturday. Then 15 paes are read, fragments of the texts of the Holy Scriptures, which contain prophecies or a conversion about the resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ. This is the history of human salvation, as a result of the fall of the raised paradise. Believers have the opportunity to step by step, the event for the event to survive this story during one worship.
The part of the first chapter of Genesis is read, where the world's creation is told; Excerpt the book of the Prophet Isaiah - about the glory of the Lord; Books Exodus - About Easter Lamb; The book of the Prophet ions, which by its three-day stay in the whale whale converted a three-day descent to hell of Christ; The exodus fragment telling about the wonderful pretends of Israelis through the Red Sea. The prophecies of Sofony, Isaiah, Jeremiah are read. The text from the book of Genesis on the sacrifice of Abraham (Gen. 22. 1-18) is read.
On the great Saturday, the passionate week on the liturgy comes: "Do not scold me, Mati, vigorous in the coffin, the Jegende in the womb, without Semen, I conceived the Son without Semen: I will be removed and I will be asleep with Glavovy, Yako, God, faith and love of magnitude." Although he sees the Virgin of the most mysterious manner of Christ laid in the coffin, he will rise.
In a conversation, said in the Great Saturday SVT. Gregory Palama says: "Thus, the deceiver was deceived, attacking the flesh of Christ, as susceptible to disease and death, and, so, against the will, brought the light into the dark and linedly for him, the hell, and presented the dreamer of life to the souls called by him by the spiritual killing ; Not only this, but also the body from which the resurrection and immortality spacked, he mixed up with the dead, having hurried to betray his death and grave. The Lord could, truly, and these his evil intent destroy, but did not, on the contrary, wished to raise the passion for us, for which he became a man. " Hell was deceived, waiting for the humanity of Christ, who wished to become a man and the suffering. And in the underworld, I excused light.
Passionate saddemic has come. What is the most important thing for a Christian these days? How to spend them to adequately meet? With these questions, we appeal to our shepherds.
In the passionate saddemice, you must try to be on all services to hear and remember all the fact that read and goes in the temple.
, Rector of the Russian Orthodox University:
And the bright weeks united, possess the unique spiritual potential, which, being used at least least, is able to change any person. Worship, the traditions of spiritual life in these special days church calendar History to the most important thing in his life - the secret of salvation and eternal life.
Those who have not fastened and now last week, I decided to prepare for the Easter holiday, we gladly welcome. The Lord prepared a rich meal and waiting for everyone with love. If a person has not fastened or fastened to bad, it does not impede him to prepare for the holiday of the Resurrection of Christ during the passionate week and coming up in the bright day of Easter.
It happens that some of those who have not fastened to the great post or fastened, in their opinion, is not diligently, thinking that if you refuse food, sit on the water and bread in the passionate sadmitz - that means the entire post "will start". It is hardly right. You can not be approached as an exam or test when many it turns out to learn everything in the last night and pass, having received a good assessment. In spiritual life there are other rules and laws, there is no need to "catch" someone. Open your heart to the Lord and join the traditional Christians. Both throughout the Great Post and to the passionate saddemice, the post should be made with prudence and its measure for everyone.
If someone has failed in full extent Make a preparation for Easter with the Church, then do not give up our overall joy about the resurrection of the Lord. Christ waits and takes into his arms of everyone who needs him.
The Days of the Great and Saints - have the power to cut off us from everyday fuss and immerse them in the expectation of the Easter celebration. But prepare for accommodation together with the church of these days it is not easy. Not easy, although the means and simple, and are known. We wrote the whole of the Holy Fourth to your soul, awakening it. Purified internally prayer. Having done, having done the path of the Great Post, look closely to look inside yourself, to get together, focus and choose a satellite on this time. It should be prepared here and to overcome all sorts of problems, which, as a rule, are unusually strengthened at the passing week, and it will take all sobriety and mind, and the souls not to experience bitterness from the time spent. In the passionate days we will help with impassivity. Do not be descedeable and empty alarms. We will not save before temptations. This week there is nothing more good to empathize the events of the Holy Scriptures, the events of our salvation - a secret evening, trial, crucifixes, Cross of Christ. But the tears in our eyes are not a sign of the tormented soul, but the sign of deep love, thanks and sincere Christian feeling. Having lived every day of the passionate week to the end, without a rest, we and Easter the Lord will meet in a spiritual celebration, and not in hysterical frenza, as sometimes you can notice. After all, we are not plentiful to talk in the end, but the joy of resurrection and victory over death and sin.
I remember when the film Mel Gibson "Passion of Christ", on many, especially non-church people, was released on the screens, he made a huge impression. One of my acquaintance went to watch this picture in a cinema, and after told that young people, which, as always before the session, prepared popcorn and different drinks, to have a pleasant time, until the very end of the film could not eat neither crumbs. All in the stupor sat silently the entire session. There are cases of coming to faith, the baptism of people after watching this film. The abroad were cases when people who have committed crimes and gone from punishment many years ago and came to surrender to justice. Such an impression on them made events of the passionate saddemians described in the picture. They realized: what a terrible sacrifice is brought for us and how great were the suffering of Christ. But Gibson as a Catholic, of course, made a chief emphasis on the human sufferings of the Savior. This is generally a feature of the Catholic doctrine "Commit", that is, compassion. Experiencing in place with Christ of his torment as a person. And therefore, Western church art is so naturalistic and realistic. Pot, blood, the explosive flesh of the Lord in the film are very realistic. But we, Orthodox, is given much more. Any believer that prays at the service of a passionate week can experience much more shock and experience than after watching the "Russian passions". And this experience will be completely different, spiritual nature. We are given to imagine and see the greatness of the victim. It's not just a compassion to the beaten and crucified person appears in our heart, and the sacred trembling in front of the Creator of the Universe, which is hanging from love now on the cross. And, of course, love and gratitude to God crucified. "You can hang on the tree, and in the waters of the Earth hung ..." and in our Orthodox service, in our chants the victim of Christ appears in all its greatness. And therefore, when in the Great Friday, after the preaching, parishioners are suitable to apply to the removal, many in their eyes are tears.
Great benefits for the soul can be obtained if you visit worship. Memories of the betrayal of Judas, the Last Supper, the reading of the 12 Gospels, the removal of the shroud and the rank of burial - all these services fill the soul with special feelings, and, while praying for the divine services of the passionate week, we meet with a special joy and Easter Christ. After all, the entire Holy Fourthist only prepares us to the memory of the Passion of Christ, and the passionate saddemic is preparing for the holiday of holidays, to Easter. During the Shestopsalmia, which is the memory of the night before Merry Christmas, the lamps are quenched, so that in the twilight, silence and concentrated prayer to meet the coming to the world of the Savior: "God of the Lord and come to us!" So before the resurrection of Christ, the church praises especially hard and prepare for the holiday.
On the days of the passionate week, it is necessary to try to visit the services more often, as well as strengthen your personal lean feat.
Repeatedly noticed that passionate - the time of special temptations, so you should be especially attentive to your soul, so as not to destroy all the work of the post. The fasting should be attentive and vigilant as a clock on postSo that and on the shot do not let the perfume of idleness, despondency, anger and quarrel. I wish you all the fortress, the help of God and forces for passing the passionate week. God forbid to live to Easter!
The great post ends, and the Holy Church appeals to us, having sneezing: "Songeless by committing a four-penal, and the holy sadmits of the passion of the passion, we ask for Victims, people's humanity." And this call is for us the result and a reminder that our personal lean feat was, first of all, the preparation of our soul and hearts for the mysterious immersion in the events of the passionate week, when the greatest secret of the redemption of the human race from our sake of salvation is committed The authorities of death and terrible slavery are devil.
Today, in our eyes, the spiritual field of Christianity is rapidly narrowing, and we are still takating closer and clear that the horror of the longing of the students of the Lord, who felt completely unexpectedly negandoned their defenseless loneliness in the midst of the power of Darkness and sin, who reigned in the world after the godfather death of the Savior. What happened 2000 years ago in Jerusalem is not a story, it is always today. The church has the power to do it visible and explicit.
And therefore, the opposition to the apostles and in the Zion Gornice, and in Ghefsimania, and in the courtyard courtyard, and in Calvary - not a simple participation in worship - this is our "skip" in Easter. For every Christian it is empathy - " yesterday, help you, Christ "- is a certificate of participation in another event - " arguing your dream is rising to you ", The condition for the joy of the resurrection of Christ. In passionate days, our whole life, its meaning and our heart should be here, at the feet of the Savior, next to the Bludnica, near the students, just away from Judas and his seductive journey. And therefore we will take care not to get carried away irretrievably in these holy days and nights inevitable pre-trust fuss, cooking, cleaning at home - things as necessary, so and mentally plundering. We will protect our house from the tribulation, from the symbol of the world of this - television, retention of the curtains, open the eyes of our soul, oum with their tears " like love to you. "
The old generation of church people, with a special jealousy, appreciated all household details of the celebration of Easter days, invariably calculated their time in such a way as to put all the main homemade cotton in the first days of the passionate week. And having completed the inevitable earthly worries, starting in the evening of the Great Environment, they began to the most important and sorrowful and sorrowfulness of the Cross of the Lord. Yes, and that another can do a Christian, seeing the crucible God - nothing earthly... And although this is the upcoming solely painfully for a loving heart, but this flour of love, faith and hope, without which there is no Christian life ... And if you do not have enough love and holy pain these days - warm the warm prayer and repentant reading of the Word of God, to cold Our heart is not overwheing fire and the light of eternal Christ Easter.
In the days of completion of the general post itself and on the eve of special days, the passionate saddemitsa is important to decide: what should I assimilate from what the Church of Christ offers for my perception and salvation?
The modern Orthodox Christian is important to prepare himself for personal experience in all of the fact that each of the days of the coming week will be devoted. During everyday busta, you should not lose the ability to remember the fate of the fruitless figure, thrown into the fire, asking himself about the fruits of his spiritual life. We listen to the Great Tuesday in parables, through which the Savior Claws the scribes and the Pharisees to find for themselves the right way of spiritual life. In the great Wednesday, together with his wife, washed by tears and the precious world of the Savior's legs, they will find the determination of the death of the heart and reject the words of Judas, who, through imaginary concern, revealed his soberly. We will prepare with a special reverence to the day of the secret evening - Great Pure Thong, I remember that we participate in the very secret evening in the Zion Gornice. The dying chin of the ablution of the legs, when the bishop, liketing the Savior, washes the legs of the priests, let us become the edge of Christ love and meekness. In the evening, the candles are gone, listen to the words of passionate readings of the gospel, in which the entire tragedy of the crucifixion of the Son of God is described. Returning home with his passionate candle, remember that Christians are designed to be the light of the world, scattering the darkness of the night. In the Great Friday, the knees in front of the Holy Dospider will throw their prayers during the crying of the Virgin, sobbing his divine son from the coffin. Let the worship of the Great Saturday, let them become a silent waiting for the resurrection of the Savior who came to hell.
I will say again: it is very important to find out for yourself, where are I in this plot of events experienced within a week? How strong I am willing to reject the inappropriateness and sin and become a rustic celebration of the resurrected Savior? When each of us consciously survives these great and tragic days, then a real reason for spiritual joy will appear: because Christ is really resurrected! Having survived the fight with its own sinful skills and aspirations, taste the joy of liberation from sin and the rich and nice and nice resurrection of Christ!
In the church helps us to get closer to God, to touch the very essence of Christianity, to the secret of life.
The essence of Christianity is in this sadmice. In the passions of the Lord - the mystery of our salvation.
The mystery is that the cross and humility is most changed to the world. Cross is weapons of the world, invincible victory.
The mystery is that our self-denial, our sufferings for Christ do not remain only suffering, but bring fruit.
If we are in these days in the church, we will be with the Cross of the Lord, then our soul will get great benefits. She will touch the Savior's suffering. She will become another. This is the purpose of the passionate saddemic.
It would be nice to postpone all the usual cases for this time, not to enter the Internet, even on Orthodox sites, and try to live these days quite differently than all other weeks of the year, because the days of this week are completely special. Each of them is referred to in the Church of the Great: Great Monday, the Great Tuesday ... Great Saturday. All these days, starting with Lazareva Saturday, correspond to the last days of the Savior's earthly life. There are no more such days in the church for a year. Therefore, it is best to live these days in the temple, it is desirable to be on all services, or even leave for this time to the monastery. Better these days do nothing.
Therefore, even before the onset of the great post, it would be nice to consider how it is better to organize your life in this great life-saving time of "general cleaning" of our soul. No wonder in the church there are preparatory weeks before the great post, when the relevant Sunday gospel readings are read, then the chants and reading of lean triodes begin, then the Maslenitsa with her gospel readings of the passionate week, and only then we are entering the great post. Best, praying, try to take a vacation for the first and passionate weeks - say, the next one (much more useful than lying on the beach in summer: there only the body will darken, here - the soul will be brightened). It will not turn out to be another - ask for at your own expense.
As for Kulukhai and Pashok, painted eggs, gifts for the holiday, pre-holiday cleaning, even in the temple, - then all these troubles are best finished on the sixth week of the post, so that only going to service on passionate.
Once in Moscow, at the Big Ordyanka, in the temple, where miraculous icon The Mother of God's "All Morning Joy", the honorary abbot was Archbishop Cyprian (grains: 1911-1978; the kingdom of heaven!) He somehow spoke to parishioners:
If you are at least one service of passionate weeks miss, the Lord of your kulukhae will not accept.
Services in the temples these days will go daily in the morning and in the evening, and even three times a day in Good Friday.
In the first three days, the only once a year in the temples are read by four Gospels (the first three - completely).
To the great Thursday - the day of memories of the Savior's secret evening with students - all Orthodox (the only day of the passionate week, when plant food is permitted vegetable oil).
In Good Friday, the most strict day day of the year, the only day of the passionate week, when even the liturgy of the honored gifts is not performed, we worship the great saving suffering of the Lord, we are with his cross with God's mother and the apostle John theologian. I love His Holy Damage.
The Great Saturday is this great day when a miracle of the harmful fire was performed in Jerusalem to the Merrian's coffin, "not just a day of preparation for Easter, this is a unique liturgical day performed by the Great Spiritual Joy, although a strict post continues. As in the great Thursday, on this day - the last time in the year - the Divine Liturgy of St. Vasily the Great is served. In the temples, everything is red, transformed into white. The gospel about the resurrection of the Savior is read by the Liturgy, although it still lies for our bodily gaze, flesh falling down, IKO is dead. But the victory over hell, over death has already been made!
- "Holy Spirit" (Acts, 15, 28), so that the soul, purified by repentance during the Great Post, survived the events. Without it, it is not possible to climb the vertices of the spirit.
The feat of the Godrifer of Jesus Christ extends to eternity. The mind and heart is always surprising for the possibility that the church gives, not just remember everything that happened during the last few days of the Savior's earthly life, but to become their participant. All church services, piercing space and time, transfer us to where everything happened.
Nothing acts on the soul is so beneficial as standing at the foot of the Cross of the Lord. Only here really understand the mind and feel the heart of the infinite love of God. It blooms clean flowers of gratitude to the Lord.
A modern man, burdened by a lot of worries, is difficult to visit all the ecclesiastical services of the passionate week, but at least at least one of them needs certainly. Without it, it is impossible to feel all the beauty and greatness of the holiday of Easter Christ. It would be nice at home at this time to read the passionate gospels and the Akathist of the Holy Divine Passions of Christ. And, of course, keep the post in the measure of the strictness that a person can suffer.
The compassion of Christ, participation in his grief and death - the necessary condition for our Easter joy. This is true both in terms of all life and in relation to the upcoming and coming light resurrection. But how can we deal with the participants of Christ's suffering and death? The Holy Church encourages us to spend these days in a strengthened post and prayer, and this is exactly what allows us to join Christ.
Abstinence in food will thin the flesh and exacerbates spiritual feelings. In the first three days, the passionate saddemic church calls us to the strictest post, however, on Thursday, for the sake of a secret evening, a small consolation is allowed, but on Friday there is a complete abstinence from food, to the memory of the godfather and the death of the Savior.
But the abstinence requirement refers not only to food, but to all at all that nourishes our carnal, dilapidated person. We are so accustomed to many things that they do not think without them their existence. We do not follow our inner life, while the holy fathers of the opposite head of the sinful thoughts and feelings, opposing them with prayer. We do not follow the expression of our emotions, we say a lot of superfluous, condemn, irritate or, on the contrary, having fun without retaining. We are accustomed to search for oblivion in all sorts of entertainment from the TV to the Internet. All this distracts us from another, spiritual reality, and from all this it is possible and you need to refrain at least to the passionate saddemice. And then in the resulting silence we will be able to hear the voice of eternity, the voice of Christ.
In the church these days are made particularly comfortable, heartfelt services: in the first three days, the liturgy of the paid gifts serve, on Thursday - in the memory of the secret evening and establishing the sacrament of communion - the Liturgy of Vasily of the Great is served, in the evening 12 evangelical texts dedicated to the suffering of the Lord are read. On Friday, the day is taken by removal of the shroud, and in the evening - the solemn rank of burial. On Saturday - the eve of the bright resurrection, the day, when "perhaps every flesh is silent," Liturgy Vasily is served. All these services help focus on the events of passionate week, survive them with the Lord.
But not everyone has the opportunity to be on these days in the temple. In any case, you need to remember the content of these saints and try to behave accordingly. And there can be no work or family responsibilities in an obstacle, because our goal is not performed by some ritual, but in the involvement of Christ.
When close person suffers, we do not need to talk about the need for fasting, because the piece does not climb into our throat, we do not need to remind you of the need to refrain from entertainment, because nothing pleases us, we do not need to call for the collaboration, because the love itself, the sorrow native person makes us detached from everything in the world.
Understand, we only need one thing - to be with the Savior, and these days especially, and for this you need to listen to your heart, remember Christ, search for it, contact him in prayer.
And the simplest of them: "Lord, Jesus Christ, nice me!" - It can always be with us. This prayer can be pronounced in the mind regardless of the circumstances of the place and time. The main thing is that the words of prayer are combined with the sincere, repentant aspiration to God, testified to our desire to be with Christ. And the Lord will surely answer this desire, let us feel at least a part of his grief so that we will also know and all the completeness of Easter joy.
For a Christian, the main thing is Christ. For any Christianity, on any days, under any circumstances.
But our movement to it is different in different days, in different circumstances, and especially - for different persons. It is very unwise and directly dangerously impose by people those recipes of practical behavior that are not spelled out for them: the same thing happens sometimes when the patients are sharing with each other with their medicines ...
Therefore, I will answer your question as applied only to one life picture: you will easily recognize it. I myself fitted once in such a picture and was grateful when I was given such advice: stop and smalkni.
Try to minimize the list and scope of your affairs and external contacts. The necessary homework is usually cleaning at home - do it all together, but without unnecessary scrupulsiness. Present especially restraint on a culinary front ... Be each other, husbands and wives, parents and children, but do not need extra words. Let your prayer grows out of your silence and is resurrected by your love for the resurrection God.
That, to which we were preparing a great post or holy quarter. It is a memory and empathy of the last days of the earthly life of the Savior of the world of the Lord of our Jesus Christ. All days are called great. On Monday, the trial of a fig tree, her curse, a miracle, reminiscent of the future terrible court, where the righteous and curses of the souls that do not bring the spiritual fetus will be justified. Tuesday - the impact of the Pharisees in hypocrisy. Wednesday is the betrayal of Judas. Thursday - the memoir of the secret evening, at which the sacrament of the Eucharist was established - Communion; In the evening reading in the temple of the passionate gospel. Friday - the death of the Godhead on the cross, removal of the shroud and rank of the Savior. Saturday - Memories of the Descent to Hell and Victory on Him Christ. The nature of this day is expressed by the words: "Yes, every flesh of man is silent and nothing thrust in himself."
It is important to visit the passionate saddemits on all worst wednesday and spend this time as much as possible in reverence. Commanded by Christ the heart faith and love in church services, and we and the colosist!
First of all, you need to try to understand that the bright weeks mean personally for each of us. To do something, you need to evaluate the practical significance of these days. Most often we do not know that in the post and in the holiday for us the greatest value It has either a gastronomic aspect (prohibition-resolution of certain products), or ritualized household (baking cakes, egg painting, cleaning, applying crosses with reservoirs). And the actual reliable, ascetic and liturgical meanings are often often out of our attention. But this is the most important thing. It is practically possible to afford sometimes to forget about the gastronomic and ritual and household issues and focus on the main thing. How can I do that?
You can adequately meet the resurrection of Christ only in holiness. With our sins, coming to the Easter holiday, it is impossible to think about dignity. One can only be deeper and deeper to experience our unnecessary and no one. It was this experience that the past age should be facilitated. Otherwise, why were we prayed: "Lord, dranuy Miyi, my prejudice ..." and "repentance of the holes of the door ..."? It is here - in the depths of the experience of unpleasantness and born Easter joy. And only awareness of our own unnecessaryness can reveal to us an understanding of the passionate week. For a passionate saddemic is a testimony of the church about the greatest voluntary self-confidence of the Lord and the Savior of our Jesus Christ, with the mystery of which we must come into contact these days. In humility and the diminishing of themselves in the image of our Savior lies and our dignity.
Passionate and bright weeks are the liturgical icon of our salvation. The practical task of every believer these days is to capture this icon in your heart and keep it there by making the main paradigm of your life. It is for this that the church calls on these days of each baptized person! Recall the words of the Apostle Paul:
"... We, we, having broken in Christ Jesus, were baptized into death. So, we buried with Him with baptism in death, so as Christ is risen from the dead Father's dead, and we go to the renewed life. For if we are connected to him like death, it should be [connected] and [similarity] of the resurrection, knowing that the old man is crucified with him, so that the sinful body was abolished in order for us not to be slaves to sin ... "(Rome . 6: 3-6).
The prayer coolant of Christ and the coexist with him are not completed by the sacrament of baptism. It continues in everyday life And especially - in the experience of the experience of passionate and bright weeks. Therefore, in antiquity it was woven into the worship service of the passionate week. So even if a person is baptized in infancy, he still does not lose opportunities in the conscious age prayer to survive the sacrament of entering the church.
Now we have the opportunity to return, rethink all your spiritual life and live a passionate sadmits and Easter as we wanted to spend your baptism's days.
All about anyone in prayer with faith, get.
MF. 21, 22.
The days of the Great Sedmians since ancient times are devoted to the Church every special memoil and everyone is called the Great.
In the worship service of this day, the Holy Church invites believers to accompany Christ, cigaging him, die for his life pleasure to live with him. In the mysterious contemplation, approximate events of the Old and New Testament, she shows us the future innocent suffering of the Savior in the Old Testamentary sample of chaste Joseph, the envy of the brothers innocently sold and humiliated, but after God restored. "Joseph," says Sinaksar, "there are a prototype of Christ, because Christ becomes the subject of envy for their United States - Jews, is sold by a student for thirty silverings, lies in the gloomy and close ditch - the coffin and, the elder from it actually agrees Egypt, that is, over every sin, and the battle wins him, mastering us over the whole world, manually reaches us with the gift of mysterious wheat and nourishes heavenly bread - its lively bias. "
From the events of the Evangelical, the Holy Church is remembered. The feature of the figure, according to the gospel, was for the apostles a significant preaching about the strength of faith and prayer, without which a man before God is spiritually dead. In the midst of the Holy Church, the fruitless fig tree depicts the Sonmische of the Jewish, whose Jesus Christ found a true fetus, but only a hypocritical model of the law, which was implined and cursed; But this figure is also depicting any soul that does not bring the fruit of repentance. In addition to the narrative of the drainage of the fig tree, the morning of the Gospel tells us by the Savior on this day about the obvious of the grapes who killed the servants of Mr. Mr., sent behind the grapes, and then the Son of his Mr. In this parable, it is impossible not to see and terrible condemnation to Christians who dare violating the commandments of the apostolic and the patristic and the continuing to cut the Son of God with their sacrifices. In the gospel reading on the Liturgy, the Holy Church reminds the fate of the worst people of the Jewish and the death of the world, as they were pre-affected by Jesus Christ. The image of great and diverse disasters and signs of the destruction of Jerusalem and the death of a century, believers prompted among evils to generosity, impartiality, patience, prayer and the spiritual concern and comfort themselves by the promise of the Savior on the dissemination of the Gospel all over the world and stop the disasters of "elected sake."
"Law of God", publishing house "New Book"
Haming from service on Monday of the Great Post
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Gospel from Matthew
In the morning, returning to the city, Really. And, when he saw one fig tree at the road, she approached her, and, not found anything on it, except for some leaves, he says to her: but there will be no fetus from you. And the fig tree immediately dried. Seeing this, the disciples were surprised, and said: how did it seek the fig tree? Jesus said to them in response: if you have faith, and do not complete; Not only do what is done with the figures, but if it's a mountain of this: Lift, and plunge into the sea, "will be; And all that neither ask for prayer with faith, get.
MF. 21, 18-22.
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We are entering heavy days today: in the days when we remember the passion of Christ, in the days, when and we will not be easy to come to the temple to make long service, pray. Many pose a question: Is it worth going when the body is so tired when thoughts are scattered when there is no internal collence and present participation in what happens? ..
Remember then what was in the days of the passions of Christ: how much people were, and good and terrible peoplewho would have given a lot to escape from the horror and from the idolism of these days. Those who were close to Christ - how they had a tearing heart, as the last forces, bodily and spiritual, during these few terrible days ... and how hundreds of people probably would like to break out of this week, be free from What happened: from anger, from fear, from horror ...
And life did not give anywhere; Nowhere could not move away from the passions of the Lord's preching Virgin Mary; Not anywhere to hide from their horror, the disciples of Christ, even in those moments, when fear won and they tried to hide from the wrath of the people. They could not leave anywhere, to forget what is happening Nicodemus, Joseph Arimafi, the secret students of Christ, the faithful Miron's women, .. it was nowhere to leave, because the horror did in their hearts, because the horror covered them from the outside and inside. And it was also nowhere to get away from this that with hate, stubbornly, wickedly sought Christ's killings.
And so, when you remember it, - wouldn't you find yourself in the temple during these passionate days? And they prevented their thoughts, they had a heart, and they had forces depleted; But they lived this event. And what will happen on these days is not a dead memory of once past; This is an event that is in the heart of our days, it is based on the life of our world and our life.
Therefore, that you would not worry, no matter how little you are - we have been worried, we will go to these services, immersed in the fact that they are presented to us. We will not try to rapidly squeeze some feelings: quite see; pretty listen; And the most events - because these are events, and not a memory - let us break with the body and soul. And then, when, not remembering himself, and thinking about Christ, about what is happening in fact these days, we will achieve both the Great Saturday, when Christ was restored in the coffin - and the peace will find. And when we heard the news of the resurrection at night, then we will also be able to suddenly come around from this terrible stupor, from this terrible death of Christ, the dying of Christ, to whom we have at least someone engaged in passionate days. Amen.
Metropolitan Anthony Surozhsky
