23 November 2023
Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night – Dylan Thomas (1914-1953)
Превод от английски
Не си
отивай нежно в добрината,
Пред края да бушува старостта;
Със ярост вий срещу смъртта на светлината.
Мъдрецът в заника си знай, че тъмното си е наред,
И защото словото му не избухна в мълния
Не си отива нежно в добрината.
И след последната вълна добрякът се вайка колко ярко
Бедните му дела биха танцували в зеления залив,
И с ярост вий срещу смъртта на светлината.
Дивакът, който в полет хвана слънцето и го възпя,
И се научи, твърде късно, да го ожалва по пътя му,
Не си отива нежно в добрината.
Гробарят, близо до смъртта, който ослепяващо провижда
Как слепи очи могат да пламнат като метеори и да са весели,
Със ярост вий срещу смъртта на светлината.
А ти, Отец мой, там на тъжното висине,
Моля Те: прокълни, благослови, ме сега със Своите свирепи сълзи.
Не си отивай нежно в добрината.
Със ярост вий срещу смъртта на светлината.
Дилън Томас
Прев. Владимир Джамбов
23 ноември 2023 г.
15 November 2023
Cecco Angiolieri - If I were fire
If
I were fire (Translation)
If I were fire, I would burn the world;
if I were wind, I would bestorm it;
if I were water, I would drown it;
if I were God, I would hurl it into the deep;
If I were Pope, I would be happy then,
as I would harry all the Christians;
if I were emperor, d’you know what I would do?
I would chop off all their heads completely (like a rotary scythe).
If I were death, I would go to my father;
if I were life, I would run from him,
and I would do the same for my mother.
If I were Cecco, as I am and have been,
I would take for myself all the young and pretty women,
and leave the lame and ugly ones for others.
S'i' fosse foco, ardere'
il mondo;
s'i' fosse vento, lo tempestarei;
s'i' fosse acqua, i' l'annegherei;
s'i' fosse Dio, mandereil'en profondo;
s'i' fosse papa, serei allor giocondo,
ché tutti cristïani embrigarei;
s'i' fosse 'mperator, sa' che farei?
a tutti mozzarei lo capo a tondo.
S'i' fosse morte, andarei da mio padre;
s'i' fosse vita, fuggirei da lui:
similemente faria da mi' madre,
S'i' fosse Cecco, com'i' sono e fui,
torrei le donne giovani e leggiadre:
le vecchie e laide lasserei altrui.
12 October 2023
A Recollection for Rangel Valchanov on his 95th birth anniversary
Rangel Valchnov (12.10.1928 – 30.09.2013).
Journalist Mila Kudrina with a recollection
for her father Rangel Valchanov
on his 95th birth anniversary
12/10/2023 Facebook
Journalist Mila Kudrina, who lives in Moscow with her
husband and son, published on Facebook her recollection for the great film
director Rangel Valchanov, who is her father, although she and her mother, the
singer Greta Gancheva, were not married. The commemoration is on the occasion
of the 95th birth anniversary of Rangel Valchanov, who passed away in 2013,
shortly before his 85th birthday.
This is what Mila Kudrina wrote on her Facebook
profile:
"Am I stupid, what am I, but I keep running as if
life will never end. It seems best not to stop.” Rangel Valchanov (wrote) would
have turned 95 today (October 12, 1928 – September 30, 2013). With him,
Bulgarian cinema has its own unique Artistry. No one like Rangel can charm so
powerfully with tradition and nihilism, with Shopian [shoppi] devilry and
fantasy shrapnels.
Today, Bulgaria has no particular reasons whatever to
be proud, but the mere mention of Rangel Valchanov is a signal to raise one’s
head. A carnival entertainer and frivolous sage, since the 1950s he has been
the embodiment of the Game as overtrumping between air and earth, spirit and
matter, intuition and thought. Few in Bulgarian culture are his equal.
He is our film colossus without a "Golden
Rose" [award], but with a popular conviction that he stands alone.
Rangel was the unique one of Bulgarian cinema, without whose volcanic fantasy
it would have been much more fragile. Between "On the Small Island"
(1958) and "And Where To Today" (2007), he created 17 feature films
and several documentaries, each conceived and completed [in full] as a
"restless bird", and most of them were volleys of freedom in a
society of ideological obedience.
Regardless of whether it was for the colorful and
vital stream of consciousness in his long-suffering masterpiece for the
Bulgarian doom "The Patent Shoes of the Unknown Warrior" (1979),
whether it was the headlong wandering through the absurd in "The Sun and
the Shadow" (1962), "The She-Wolf" (1965), "Last
Wishes" (1982), "Where Are You Traveling To" (1986), "And
Now Where To" (1988), "The Restless Love Bird" (1990) or
"And Where To Today", was it the experimentation with genres and
aesthetics in "The Inspector and the Night" (1963), "Escape to
Ropotamo" (1973), "With Love and Tenderness" (1978) or
"Fatal Tenderness" (1993), Rangel Valchanov breaks down barriers with
unforgiving ease and winged nihilism. Emerging in the motley tumult of images,
paradoxes, reminiscences, references, reflections and suggestions, is his
impressive universe of an Artist. Hundreds of pages have been written about it.
But now that everything is in the past, the great recapitulation of his work is
yet to come.
The legacy left to us by Rangel Valchanov is priceless
- not only as films, roles, productions and books, but also as a position, (and)
communication. His living charm is unique. To him, neither age nor illness were
a cause for despondency.
In 2019, Kosta Bykov created "Rangel
Forever" - his second documentary about Rangel Valchanov after
"Journey Between Two Films" (1998)...
26 September 2023
24 September 2023
What sayest thou? (Where are those accusers?)
The Lord wrote with a finger on the earth;
Meshulam - the kidnapper of church treasures,
Asher - committed adultery with his brother's wife;
Shalum - an oath-violator;
Eled - hit his father;
Amarnah - appropriated the estate of a widow;
Merari - committed Sodom sin;
Joel - worshiped idols.
13 July 2023
A Morning of Miracles - V.V. Barvenko (1943-2023)
died one month ago, and now turned 80
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wUO2TfjOIxNOam4fRINgIsYdFCnDkBAR5mg26oqBJtc/
01 July 2023
St. John Maximovitch
St. John (Maximovitch)
of Shanghai and San Francisco
A sermon in Varna
by Bishop Fotii of Triditsa
July 06 (June 23 O.S.) 2010
Delivered in the Church of “St. Xenia of Petersburg”, Varna
2014/02/03 RE-POST
Bishop Fotii [Photios]
In the name of the Father and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit!
Today, beloved, you and I commemorate St. John Archbishop of Shanghai and San Francisco the Wonderworker. Many Orthodox outside the Russian local Church also venerate sacred the memory of the St. John and assiduously revere him. A sad fact is, however, that some dare to employ the saint’s name deviously! For ‘ecclesiastical and would-be-politician’ purposes – no matter how ridiculous this last phrase may sound. The year is 2005. Negotiations are underway between Commissions of the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad with its then Primate – Archbishop Laurus, and the Moscow Patriarchate – an MP Commission, with the aim to achieve unification. Two ROCOR priests refer to places of texts by St. John of Shanghai and San Francisco the Wonderworker: one – [refers to] his decree [ukaz] of September 1945 and the other – to his address to the congregation of July 1946 – in order to prove that the Shanghai Saint participated in a unifying process of the ROCOR Diocese in China with the Moscow Patriarchate then – in the postwar years – a process similar to the modern one. I feel a particular sense of severity when someone or some [more] employ the authority or the memory of a God’s pleaser, of a holy man in order to defend their own ‘ecclesiastical and would-be-politician’ purposes.
Today, beloved, you and I commemorate St. John Archbishop of Shanghai and San Francisco the Wonderworker. Many Orthodox outside the Russian local Church also venerate sacred the memory of the St. John and assiduously revere him. A sad fact is, however, that some dare to employ the saint’s name deviously! For ‘ecclesiastical and would-be-politician’ purposes – no matter how ridiculous this last phrase may sound. The year is 2005. Negotiations are underway between Commissions of the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad with its then Primate – Archbishop Laurus, and the Moscow Patriarchate – an MP Commission, with the aim to achieve unification. Two ROCOR priests refer to places of texts by St. John of Shanghai and San Francisco the Wonderworker: one – [refers to] his decree [ukaz] of September 1945 and the other – to his address to the congregation of July 1946 – in order to prove that the Shanghai Saint participated in a unifying process of the ROCOR Diocese in China with the Moscow Patriarchate then – in the postwar years – a process similar to the modern one. I feel a particular sense of severity when someone or some [more] employ the authority or the memory of a God’s pleaser, of a holy man in order to defend their own ‘ecclesiastical and would-be-politician’ purposes.
03 June 2023
On the End of the World - St. Ignatius (Bryanchaninov)
Table of Contents
o 1. About the Reason for man’s Apostasy from God
o 3. About the second coming of Christ
o 4. Networks of the peacekeeper
o 6. Conclusion from the "Otechnik" [on Fatherland] compiled by Bp. Ignatius
About the end of the world.
1. About the reason for man’s apostasy from God
“He that believeth on the Son (of God) hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God abideth on him” (John 3:36).
So defines the unfalse Word of God. This determination of the Word of God takes place, in particular, over people, and takes place over entire nations. It happened with particular obviousness over the people of Israel, who were originally chosen by God's people, and subsequently became a predominantly outcast people. In the womb of the Israelite people, the God-man became human and accomplished the salvation of mankind; to no other people did he address his divine sermon; all His blessings He poured out exclusively on the chosen people; the chosen people rejected the God-man. In vain for fifteen centuries the divinely inspired legislator of Israel proclaimed terrible executions to him if he disobeyed God. In vain, for a whole millennium, the royal prophet of Israel delivered an exhortation to Israel about accepting the Redeemer granted by God to mankind: “accept the punishment (kiss the Son — according to the translation from the Hebrew), lest He be angry, and ye perish from the way, when His wrath be kindled but a little” (Ps.2:12). In vain was Moses recited every Saturday, in vain were the psalms of David sung at every divine service, in vain were the threats of the holy legislator and the exhortation of the holy king repeated: the Jews rejected the Savior, stretched out their god-killing hands on the incarnate God. They reckoned the All-Perfect God to the category of criminals and gave him a reproachful execution as a criminal, as a criminal among criminals.
Letter 235 [BG] - Hieromonk Seraphim Rose - Step One in any kind of Spiritual Life
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Letters 1976-61 / 1982-1977
235.
10/23
август 1976 г.
Архидякон
Лорънс
Скъпи
брате в Христа, Николае,
Поздрави в нашия Господ Иисус Христос. Благодаря за писмото Ви . Оценявам сериозността на това, което сте написали, и ще отговоря със същата сериозност.
Преди всичко трябва да Ви кажа, че доколкото ни е известно, днес няма старци, т.е. истински богоносни старци (в духа на Оптинските старци), които биха могли да Ви ръководят не със собствената си мъдрост и разбиране на светите отци, а с просвещението на Светия Дух. Този вид напътствие не е дадено на нашето време – и честно казано, ние в своята слабост, корупция и грехове не го заслужаваме.
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