Every day after the noon meal I recite this Troparion [Tone 4] to the Prophet Elijah:
25 January 2023
Archimandrite Seraphim (Alexiev) - 30 yrs since his Repose /26Jan1993/
BG https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wvX9gGmJaIkdMCVziq6MzNc3q_S7ryduwC3xjOQ7gd0/
EN https://docs.google.com/document/d/1UQOHES5unyBXqtDH95oXXp4MmBaTHfR_CPb6n4MF87U/
Стояние в истине вопреки соблазнам времени. Архимандрит Серафим (Алексиев)
Автор: чтецъ Мартинъ. Дата публикации: 04 июля 2013. Категория: Болгарская Старостильная Церковь.
WAR
The
sun in blood sets in the West.
The day of October fades despondent.
Quietly leaves crumble and drip...
After a sad day, my eyelids flap to close,
I think... with my head inclined in laps.
A read newspaper, dumped near me,
it stands and looks at me with stupid eyes.
It tells me of terrible battles,
of numerous killed, wounded, and captured,
And now it is listlessly silent.
The heart is covered in blood and it suffers
for those who are lying somewhere in blood.
Leaves are dripping... and the evening is setting...
I think how leaf after lead is now falling
amidst the storm where many are dying today.
O Lord, the earth here is at peace –
we breathe freely and sleep a meek dream.
But... how come the heavens are coloured in fire
over that end where the war rages
among horrors, crashes, fire and smoke!
How many mothers in this hour — O poor —
in sadness unspeakable wring hands,
waiting on the doorstep, all terrified
and their hearts tremble in the bright sunset
after a dear heart on the front!
O Lord, have mercy on Thy creatures –
on the quiet, meek, unknown souls!
Mortal trials are flaming today.
The world is swayed, burning in suffering,
but come Thee Thyself, and quench the fire!
The day of October fades despondent.
Quietly leaves crumble and drip...
After a sad day, my eyelids flap to close,
I think... with my head inclined in laps.
A read newspaper, dumped near me,
it stands and looks at me with stupid eyes.
It tells me of terrible battles,
of numerous killed, wounded, and captured,
And now it is listlessly silent.
The heart is covered in blood and it suffers
for those who are lying somewhere in blood.
Leaves are dripping... and the evening is setting...
I think how leaf after lead is now falling
amidst the storm where many are dying today.
O Lord, the earth here is at peace –
we breathe freely and sleep a meek dream.
But... how come the heavens are coloured in fire
over that end where the war rages
among horrors, crashes, fire and smoke!
How many mothers in this hour — O poor —
in sadness unspeakable wring hands,
waiting on the doorstep, all terrified
and their hearts tremble in the bright sunset
after a dear heart on the front!
O Lord, have mercy on Thy creatures –
on the quiet, meek, unknown souls!
Mortal trials are flaming today.
The world is swayed, burning in suffering,
but come Thee Thyself, and quench the fire!
14 January 2023
St. Seraphim of Sarov the Miracle Worker, 190th death anniversary
"Drink [water] where the horse drinks. A horse will never drink bad water. Place your bed where the cat is comfortable. Eat fruits that the worms choose. Plant a tree where a mole digs. Build a home where a snake basks in the sun. Dig a well, where birds nest in the sweltering heat. Look often up to the sky and not to your feet, and your thoughts will be clear and light. Keep more silent than you speak, and silence will come to your soul as well, and your spirit will be at peace and calm.''
St. Seraphim of Sarov the Miracle Worker
12 January 2023
Christ calls the sinful soul to Himself (from the book 'Our Prayer')
In St. Tikhon of
Zadonsk we find the following touching words with which Christ calls the sinful
soul to Himself:
"Why,
man, did you leave Me?
Why have you turned away from Me, Who loves you?
Why did you join My enemy?
Remember that for you I came down from heaven.
Remember that for you I clothed myself in flesh.
Remember that for you I humbled myself!
Remember that for you I endured slander, insults, desecration, dishonor, wounds,
spitting, slaps, ridicule!
04 January 2023
Faith - Only faith in true life is real.
...
Faith is that which lives by God, and not by
itself. Faith is a certain new air through which the objects of the world are seen
in a new way and everything is seen in a new way. Faith is more reliable than any
reality of this world; it is not only a conviction, but also a condition; and not
only a state, but also an ascent “from glory to glory”
(2 Cor. 3:18). Faith is good reality, and unbelief is a bad dream ... It is impossible
to live in disbelief, just as it is impossible to live only in the present on this
earth. And therefore, disbelief, in fact, is not. There is only faith, and there
is falsehood.
“Every man walketh
in a vain shew” [like a ghost] (Ps. 39:7). There
is no past, no future, but where is the present? Only faith in true life is real.
“I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world.
Amen." (Matt. 28:20).
Petty Sin Apocalypse, a collection,
ArchBp. John Shakhovsky, (About Christian Faith)
30 December 2022
In Words Relate the Prayer...
Разкажи
молитвата със думи…
Надеждите с поклон подзащити…
Сърцето бие сякаш гони
страха и черното от теб…
24 December 2022
St. Spyridon, Bp. of Trimythus, Akathist, Troparion, prayers (for various occasions)
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jy3ZJGkmEahYzqRgoC0KZWqGEASINQD82jMqH9kZ_t0
Troparion to Saint Spyridon, bishop of Trimythus
Thou wast the Champion of the First Synod and [thou appeared] a
wonderworker, / O God-bearing Spyridon, our father. / Thou didst speak to one
dead in the grave, / and transformed a serpent into gold, / and while thou wast
chanting the holy prayers / the Angels were serving with thee. / Glory to Him Who
hast glorified thee gave, / glory to Him Who hast crowned thee, / glory to Him
Who through thee works healings for all.
08 December 2022
Ukraine Condemned - Metropolitan Agafangel
Transl. from Russian
Author: Metropolitan Agafangel. Publication date:. Category: Author's column.
It is obvious that
today the Russian Federation is returning to the Soviet political system, where
the place of communist ideology is occupied by the pseudo-Orthodoxy of the Moscow
Patriarchate. But a new society is obviously being built in Ukraine, as well, but
what result this construction activities lead to, we can only guess. Let's look
at this question from several points of view.
Ukraine in the Field of Political
Structure
The first Slavic state-empire
of the Rurikhs, which united many nationalities, with the center in Kyiv – the Kievan
Rus, - began its existence as an Orthodox state from the moment of the adoption
of Christ in 988, and has, one way or another, existed as a single entity for 250
years, up until the Mongol invasion (1237-1240). Kievan Rus partially covered the
territories of the modern states of Ukraine, the Russian Federation, Belarus and
Poland.
18 November 2022
Spiritual Talk #325, #326
Spiritual talk #325
The first gift of the Holy Spirit is wisdom (fore-wisdom). More precisely, the wisdom that comes from above, about which the Apostle speaks: "The wisdom that comes from above is first pure, then peaceful, lenient, yielding, full of mercy and good fruits, impartial and not hypocritical." /James. 3:17/ The opposite of this wisdom is carnal wisdom, about which the Apostle says: " In simplicity and sincerity before God, not with carnal wisdom, but with the grace of God, we lived in the world ." /2 Cor. 1:12/ Borrowing testimony from the Old Testament / Is. 29:14/, the same Apostle speaks against this carnal and worldly wisdom in another of his epistles: "I will destroy the wisdom of the wise and reject the understanding of the prudent.” Where is the wise man? Where is the librarian? Where is the debater of this century? Has not God made the wisdom of this world mad?" /1 Cor. 1:19-20/
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