February 2 is a church holiday. Troparion to St. Lawrence, the recluse of Pechersk, in the Far Caves
Holy Cross, tone 4
Ascend to the Cross by your will,/ to your namesake new residence,/ grant your bounties, O Christ God,/ make us glad with your power,/ giving us victories for our fellows,/ your benefit to those who have ́ weapon of the world, // invincible victory.
Translation: Ascended to the Cross voluntarily, grant Thy mercy to the new people named after You, O Christ God; make your faithful people glad with your power, giving them victories over their enemies - may they have help from you, a weapon of peace, an invincible sign of victory.
Venerable Euthymius the Great
Troparion to St. Euthymius the Great, tone 4
Rejoice, the desert that does not give birth,/ be complacent, who does not suffer,/ for man, increase your children’s spiritual desires,/ by planting piety,/ by abstinence, raising virtues to perfection./ And through the prayers of Christ God,// Our peace lives.
Translation: Rejoice, you desert that does not give birth, rejoice, you who did not suffer from childbirth, for your husband has multiplied your children with spiritual aspirations, planting them, raising them to perfection in. Through His prayers, Christ God, save our souls.
Kontakion to St. Euthymius the Great, tone 8
In your honest Christmas, the creature will find joy, / and in your Divine memory, reverend, / the complacency will accept your many miracles, / from these, give richly to our souls, and cleanse sins of filthiness, // let us sing: hallelujah.
Translation: In your sacred birth, creation found joy and in your Divine memory, joy was fulfilled for the sake of many of your miracles; Give of them richly to our souls and cleanse us from the defilements of sin, so that we may sing:
Venerable Euthymius, schema monk of Pechersk
Troparion to St. Euthymius, schema-monk of Pechersk, tone 4
Euthymia, most honourable, / like a fellow zealot and an angel interlocutor, / receiving with them through his pure and silent life eternal good, / praying to the Lord for all of us, / and we too are blessed with the same blessings Let's fight.
Translation: Euthymius, revered, imitator of the saints and interlocutor with the angels, who together with them has earned eternal blessings with his pure and silent life, always pray to the Lord for all of us, so that we too may be rewarded with the same blessings.
Kontakion to St. Euthymius, schema monk of Pechersk, tone 4
As you accepted the schema, / I became quiet and silent, like a monk, / never with anyone, except a prayer to the Lord, / you said nothing, / and food, except the potion of no one, You ate of it./ By this you will find this day food that you did not have to wait for in Heaven, Euthymie, // pray for us to receive communion too.
Translation: You accepted and therefore you were always quiet and silent, reverend, you never said anything to anyone except prayers to the Lord, and you ate no food except wild grass. Therefore, Euthymius has now found inexhaustible food in Heaven, pray that we too may partake of it.
St. Lawrence, recluse of Pechersk, in the Far Caves
Troparion to St. Lawrence, the recluse of Pechersk, in the Far Caves
Having shut yourself up for the sake of the Lord in a dark cave,/ like Father Lawrence, for many years/ and pleasing to His goodness in it,/ grant us to shut up our feelings from all evil,/ and turn away the darkness of passions Hush, // and receive the lordship of the Kingdom of Heaven.
Translation: Having shut yourself up for many years for the Lord’s sake in a dark cave, Rev. Father Lawrence, and having pleased Him perfectly in it, grant us to close our feelings from all evil, and turn away from darkness, and receive the grace of the Kingdom of Heaven.
Kontakion to St. Lawrence, the recluse of Pechersk, in the Far Caves, tone 4
God, who made the light shine from darkness, / shines upon you from a dark place like light, / and is known to everyone, Lawrence, / and manifests you to the eternal Light, O reverend, // in the midst of rejoicing, remember us who praise you.
Translation: God, who commanded the light to shine from darkness (), shone you from a dark place (cave) like light, and made you known to everyone, Lawrence, and showed you to the unfading Light as a partaker, triumphant in it, remember us who glorify you.
Venerable Euthymius and Khariton of Syangzhem
Troparion to Saints Euthymius and Chariton of Syangzhem, tone 1
Your desolate and silent life has been carried forward by fasting, / Christ’s cross on the frame of the earth / and His footsteps diligently followed, / you courageously took up arms against the invisible enemy / and crushed his machinations O ste, / through prayers and tears, drawn near by the purity of God, / our venerable fathers Euthymia and Charitona ./ Like the sun, you shine with the radiant rays of your miracles,/ save all of us with faith who call you/ and create honorable memory of you,/ and, like those who have boldness towards the Savior,// peace of the worlds and ask that our souls may be saved.
Translation: You lived a deserted and silent life of fasting, lifting the cross of Christ on your shoulder and diligently following in His footsteps, courageously armed yourself against the invisible enemy and crushed him, with prayers and tears, approaching God in purity, our venerable fathers Euthymius and Chariton. Like the sun you shine with the radiant rays of your miracles and, as those who have come to the Savior, ask for peace for the world and salvation for our souls.
Martyrs Inna, Pinna and Rimma Novodunsky
Troparion to martyrs Inna, Pinna and Rimma Novodunsky, tone 2
Like the First-Called Disciple/ the First-Called One appeared from the Slovenes,/ and your brethren/ enlightening with the light of Truth,/ from the godless, fierce prince/ received a cruel end of nature,/ with monstrosity forged and strangled by ice,/ on the Danube river in the Scythian country./ But like souls for each other put,/ saints Inno, Pinno and Rimmo,/ and bring omnipotent prayers for us,/ all the Slovenian languages/ again turning to Christ.
Translation: As disciples, you were the first called from the Slavs and, enlightening your brethren with light, you accepted a cruel death from a godless, ferocious prince, bound in frost and crushed by ice, on the Danube River in the Scythian country. But as you laid down your lives for your friends (), Saints Inna, Pinna and Rimma, bring all-powerful prayers for us, turning all the Slavic peoples again to Christ.
Kontakion to martyrs Inna, Pinna and Rimma Novodunsky, tone 2
The great faith of correction: / bound in ice, as on the water of repose, / Saints Inna, Pinna and Rimma rejoiced, / the tormentor was senselessly furious, / trying to destroy the fruits of their grapes, / both to this day from the Slovenian language/ the holy bunch of Christ receives,/ and the first martyr of the Slovenes crowns the crowns./ For this sake we,/ the faithful youth raised by you,/ thank you and pray to you, saints:/ ask with warm prayers for us/ in Dus the truth according to Bo Don't be jealous.
Translation: A great feat of faith: bound in ice, as if on the water of rest, Saints Inna, Pinna and Rimma rejoiced, but the tormentor, maddened by foolishness, tried to destroy the fruits of their grapes, but nevertheless, to this day, Christ receives the holy grapes from the Slavic peoples, and crowns the first Slavic martyrs crowns. That is why we, the children of the believers raised by you, thank and pray to you, saints. Ask with fervent prayers, so that in the Spirit of truth we too may be zealous for God.
Hieromartyr Pavel of Ryazan (Dobromyslov)
Troparion to Hieromartyr Pavel of Ryazan (Dobromyslov), tone 5
The land of Ryazan is a decoration/ and vigilant in prayer for it to God/ for the faith of Christ, laying down your soul,/ as a martyr and shepherd you were glorified,/ Hieromartyr Paul,/ shed those I pray to the Lord for us,/the love of those who honor you,/may he save our souls .
Translation: The edge of Ryazan is an adornment and a tireless prayer book about it to God, having given your life for the faith of Christ, as you became famous, Hieromartyr Paul, pray fervently and earnestly to the Lord for us, who reverence you with love, that he may save our souls.
The Lord blesses the poor, the hungry, the crying, the reviled, under the condition that all this is for the sake of the Son of Man; It means that life is blessed, surrounded by all kinds of needs and deprivations. Joy, contentment, honor, according to this word, do not represent good; Yes it is. But while a person rests in them, he is not aware of it. Only when he frees himself from their charm does he see that they are not representatives of the good, but only its ghosts.
The soul cannot do without consolations, but they are not in the sensual; cannot do without treasures, but they are not in gold and silver, not in luxurious houses and clothes, not in this external fullness; cannot do without honor, but it does not lie in the servile bows of people. There are other joys, other contentment, other honor - spiritual, akin to the soul. Whoever finds them will not want external ones; but not only will he not want to, but will despise and hate them because they block the spiritual, do not allow them to be seen, keep the soul in darkness, intoxication, in ghosts. That is why such people wholeheartedly prefer poverty, sorrow and obscurity, feeling good among them, as if in some kind of safe fence from the charm of the charms of the world. What about those to whom all this comes naturally? To be in relation to all this, according to the word of the Holy Apostle, as having nothing.
How to contact monks? Monasticism is not a holy order or an honorary title, it is a special form of serving God, taking vows of celibacy, obedience and non-covetousness. Correctly address monks - brother, sister, according to tradition, - father, mother. The conversion that is widespread in our nunneries is mother it is more correct to use only in relation to the abbess.
The abbess (abbess) of a convent has the right to wear it and, accordingly, the right to bless with it: “ Mother Superior (or “mother”), bless!“Unlike the priest, she blesses with a pectoral cross, and you need to kiss it, not your hand.
When contacting monks, you need to keep in mind that not all of them may have the blessing to communicate with pilgrims, so do not be embarrassed if they do not talk to you.
Today the Church commemorates: martyr. Inns, Pinnas and Rimmas (I-II). Mchch. beginning of the 4th century Vassa, Eusebius, Eutyches and Basilides. St. Euthymius the Great, ascetic of the 5th century. Prpp. Euthymius the schema-monk and Lawrence the recluse, Pechersk saints resting in the Far Caves (XIII-XIV). St. Euthymius of Syangzhemsky, Vologda (XV).
Sschmch. Pavel Dobromyslov, presbyter who suffered in 1940.
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Brothers and sisters, again we are talking about the great ascetics of the first centuries. The Monk Euthymius the Great came from the city of Melitina in Armenia, near the Euphrates River. His parents, Paul and Dionysia, noble people, were pious Christians. For a long time they had no children, and finally, through fervent prayers, a son was born to them.
The father of the Monk Euthymius soon died, and the mother, fulfilling her vow to dedicate her son to God, gave him to be raised by her brother, Presbyter Eudoxius. He introduced the boy to the Bishop of the Melitene Church, Otrius, who lovingly took upon himself the care of him. Seeing his good behavior, the bishop soon made him a reader. Then Saint Euthymius accepted monasticism and was ordained to the rank of presbyter. At the same time, he was entrusted with the management of all the city monasteries. The Monk Euthymius often visited the monastery of St. Polyeuctus, and during the days of Great Lent he retired into the desert. The position of manager of monasteries was burdensome for the ascetic who sought silence, and in the thirtieth year of his life he secretly left the city and headed to Jerusalem, where, having venerated the holy places, he retired to the Faran Lavra. There, having found a secluded empty hut outside the monastery, he settled in it, earning food by weaving baskets. Not far away, the Monk Theoktist asceticised. Both had one desire for God, one will, one goal. Usually, after the feast of the Epiphany, they retired to the Kutilian desert (not far from Jericho). One day they stayed there, choosing a difficult place in the mountains, and settled in a cave. But soon the Lord opened their solitude for the benefit of many people: the shepherds, driving their flocks, found their cave and told them in the village. People seeking spiritual benefit began to flock to the hermits.
Gradually a monastic community arose; several monks came from the Faran monastery. The Monk Euthymius entrusted his friend Theoktistus with managing the emerging monastery, and he himself became the confessor of the brethren. The monk commanded young monks to combine physical labor with inner thought of God. “If the laity,” he said, “work a lot to feed themselves and their families and, in addition, give alms and make sacrifices to God, all the more should we, monks, work to avoid idleness and not feed on the labors of others.” Abba demanded that the monks remain silent in the church during services and at meals. He did not allow the young monks who wanted to fast more than other brethren to follow his will, but instructed them to eat common food at meals with abstinence, without becoming satiated.
The fame of the miracles performed by the Monk Euthymius quickly spread. People began to flock from everywhere, bringing with them the sick who received healing. Unable to bear human rumor and fame, the monk secretly left the monastery, taking with him only his closest disciple Dometian. In search of solitude, the monk went deep into the Zif desert, where he founded a monastery. At that time, the Monk Euthymius turned many desert monks away from the Manichaean heresy.
Visitors who came to the saint disturbed the peace of the hermit, who loved silence, and he decided to return to the monastery of St. Theoktistus, which he had left behind. On the way, the monk took a fancy to a secluded place on the mountain and stopped there; later his holy body was buried here. Blessed Theoktist and his brethren went out to meet the Monk Euthymius and begged him to return to the monastery, but the monk did not agree. However, he promised to come to the monastery on Sundays for general worship.
The Monk Euthymius did not want to have anyone nearby, nor to organize a monastery or monastery, but the Lord in a vision commanded him not to drive away those who came to him for the sake of saving his soul. After some time, the brethren gathered around him again, and he built a monastery based on the model of the Faran Lavra. In 429, when the Monk Euthymius was 52 years old, Patriarch Juvenaly of Jerusalem consecrated the Lavra Church and established monasteries for presbyters and deacons.
Two brothers at the monastery of St. Euthymius were burdened by the harsh lifestyle and decided to escape. Foreseeing their intention in spirit, the monk called them and for a long time persuaded them to abandon their destructive intention. He said: “We should not listen to thoughts that instill sadness and hatred for the place in which we live, and instill a desire to move to another place. Let the monk not think that by moving to another place he will achieve anything good, since a good deed is achieved not by place, but by strong will and faith. And a tree that is often transplanted to another place does not bear fruit.” For his ascetic life and firm confession of the Orthodox faith during the difficult period of heretical vacillation, Saint Euthymius received the title of the Great.
The time of repose was revealed to the Monk Euthymius by the special grace of God. On the day of remembrance of St. Anthony the Great, January 17, St. Euthymius gave his blessing to perform an all-night vigil and, calling the elders, told them that he would no longer hold a single vigil with them, because the Lord was calling him from his temporary life. He began to teach the brethren, saying: “No virtue is possible without love and humility. The Lord himself, for the sake of love for us, humbled himself and became a man, just like us.” Having dismissed everyone, the Monk Euthymius left one disciple Dometian near him and, having stayed with him inside the altar for 3 days, died on January 20, 473 at the age of 97 years.
Reverend Father Euthymie, pray to God for us!
Deacon Mikhail Kudryavtsev
Today, February 2 (January 20, old style), the Orthodox Church celebrates the Orthodox Church holiday:
*** St. Euthymius the Great (473). Saint Euthymius, Patriarch of Ternovo, Bulgaria (XIV). Venerable Euthymius of Arkhangelsk (c. 1523).
Martyrs Inna, Pinna and Rimma (I-II), Novodunsky, disciples of the Apostle Andrew. Martyrs Vassa, Eusebius, Eutyches and Basilides (303). Holy King Leo the Great (474). Venerable Lawrence the Recluse (XIII-XIV); Euthymius the schema-monk (XIV), Pechersk, in the Far Caves; Euthymius of Syangzhem, Vologda (c. 1465). Martyr Zechariah (1782). Hieromartyr Paul the Presbyter (1940).
Day of St. Euthymius the Great
Euthymius the Great - Christian saint, hieromonk. Along with Anthony the Great, Macarius the Great and Pachomius the Great, Euthymius is considered a pillar of desert living. At the age of twenty-nine, together with his friend Theoktist, he retired from public life and dug himself a cave not far from Jerusalem, where the famous Euthymian Lavra later arose. He served as a model for ascetics and had a great influence on the people to whom he distributed bread during famine. He managed to attract many people to Christianity, but few of his instructions have survived. Lived to be 101 years old.
Martyrs Inna, Pinna and Rimma came from Scythia and were disciples of the Apostle Andrew. Having become Christians themselves, they converted many pagans to Christ. When the prince found out about this, he forced the martyrs to renounce Christ and ordered them to be destroyed for their refusal. It was winter, and the saints were tied to piles driven into the Danube River, where they froze. (In some monthly texts these saints are called not martyrs, but martyrs. But this is incorrect.
Martyrs Vasya, Eusebius, Eutyches and Basilides were rich and noble people during the reign of Diocletian. Having witnessed the suffering of Bishop Theopemptos of Nicomedia for the faith (January 5), they believed in Christ. For this they were subjected to torture and death. They buried Vassa in the ground up to his waist and, beating him, killed him; Eusebius was hanged upside down and cut in half; Eutyches was tied to posts by the hands and feet and torn into pieces; Vasilida's stomach was cut with a knife. The holy martyrs suffered in the city of Nicomedia in 303.
February 2 (January 20 according to the “old style” - the church Julian calendar). In the Russian Orthodox Church today the memory of 12 saints known by name is celebrated.
Venerable Euthymius the Great. Saint of the 5th century, one of the founders of Palestinian monasticism. The future elder was born in the Roman province of Armenia Minor around 377 AD. At the age of twenty-eight, the young Father Euthymius, by that time already ordained to the priesthood, went on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem and, after worshiping its shrines, took upon himself the feat of hermitage. A few years later, a monastic community was formed around Father Euthymius; the monk himself, although he became the confessor of the brethren, continued to live in seclusion, only occasionally leaving it.
The image of Elder Euthymius, mentor of monks and interlocutor of angels, was loved throughout the Christian world. Russian monks also sought to imitate him, who founded a temple in honor of this great saint in one of the northernmost monasteries of Rus' - the ancient Kirillo-Belozersky Monastery. As the life of St. Euthymius narrates:
“In the middle of the 5th century, when a significant part of Palestinian monasticism sided with the Monophysite heretics, the already middle-aged Father Euthymius began to consistently fight for the purity of Christian doctrine. Moreover, it was he who returned the Empress Eudokia, who lived in Jerusalem, to Orthodoxy...”
The Monk Euthymius the Great died at a ripe old age in 473 from the Nativity of Christ. And today, one and a half millennia later, this saint still shows us an example of a strict and ascetic shepherd. And at the same time - a healer, miracle worker and wise mentor for all who have connected their lives with the Church of Christ.
Martyrs Inna, Pinna and Rimma. These holy sufferers for Christ and His Church (it is worth noting that the names belong to men) lived in the second half of the 1st - beginning of the 2nd centuries after the birth of Christ. They were originally from Northern Scythia, and therefore, according to legend, they were Slavs (or rather, their ancestors, in modern science called “proto-Slavs”).
Inna, Pinna and Rimma accepted Christianity during the years of preaching in the lands of future Rus' by the Holy Apostle Andrew the First-Called, becoming his disciples. Subsequently, these saints enlightened many pagans with the Light of Christ's Truth, for which they were captured and executed by the local prince, who ordered the martyrs to be immersed in an ice hole.
Martyrs Vassus, Eusebius, Eutyches and Basilides. Saints who accepted suffering and crowns of martyrdom at the turn of the 3rd-4th centuries during the period of the most severe anti-Christian persecution of the pagan emperor Diocletian (Diocletian), who reigned in the Roman Empire in 284-305 A.D. The sufferers themselves were courtiers of the wicked emperor.
Having witnessed the martyrdom of the Hieromartyr Theopemtus, Bishop of Nicomedia (whose memory is celebrated on January 18 in the new style), Saints Vassus, Eusebius, Eutyches and Basilides believed in Christ and accepted Holy Baptism. For this, the sufferers were subjected to severe torture, after which they were brutally killed in 303 AD.
Reverends Lavrenty, the recluse of Pechersk, and Euthymius, the schema-monk of Pechersk. Russian saints who performed spiritual deeds in the famous Holy Dormition Kiev-Pechersk Lavra in the XIII-XIV centuries after the Nativity of Christ.
Lavrentiy, the recluse of Pechersk
Evfimy, schema monk of Pechersk
Venerable Euthymius of Syangzhemsky, Vologda. The saint of the Russian North, who in the 15th century labored first in the Spaso-Kamenny Monastery on Lake Kubenskoye, and then moved for the purpose of monastic solitude to the bank of the Syangma River, which is 20 versts from the city of Vologda. Subsequently, Elder Euthymius founded a new monastic monastery in these places. The saint died around 1470 from the Nativity of Christ.
Hieromartyr Pavel Dobromyslov, presbyter. An Orthodox priest who suffered for his faith during the period of Soviet atheistic persecution and accepted the crown of martyrdom on this day in 1940. Glorified among the many thousands of new martyrs and confessors of the Russian Church.
Congratulations to Orthodox Christians on the memory of today's saints!
Through their prayers, Lord, save and have mercy on us all! We are happy to congratulate those who received names in their honor through the Sacrament of Holy Baptism or monastic tonsure! As they used to say in Rus' in the old days: “To the Guardian Angels - a golden crown, and to you - good health!”
February 2(January 20 according to the “old style” - the church Julian calendar). Friday Weeks about the Publican and the Pharisee(the first of three weeks of preparation for Lent). There is no fasting during the entire week, which in this regard is called “continuous”. In the Russian Orthodox Church today the memory of 12 saints known by name is celebrated. Next we will briefly talk about them.
Venerable Euthymius the Great. Saint of the 5th century, one of the founders of Palestinian monasticism. The future elder was born in the Roman province of Armenia Minor around 377 AD. At the age of twenty-eight, the young Father Euthymius, by that time already ordained to the priesthood, went on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem and, after worshiping its shrines, took upon himself the feat of hermitage. A few years later, a monastic community was formed around Father Euthymius; the monk himself, although he became the confessor of the brethren, continued to live in seclusion, only occasionally leaving it.
The image of Elder Euthymius, mentor of monks and interlocutor of angels, was loved throughout the Christian world. Russian monks also sought to imitate him, who founded a temple in honor of this great saint in one of the northernmost monasteries of Rus' - the ancient Kirillo-Belozersky Monastery. As the life of St. Euthymius narrates:
“In the middle of the 5th century, when a significant part of Palestinian monasticism sided with the Monophysite heretics, the already middle-aged Father Euthymius began to consistently fight for the purity of Christian doctrine. Moreover, it was he who returned the Empress Eudokia, who lived in Jerusalem, to Orthodoxy...”
The Monk Euthymius the Great died in old age in 473 from the Nativity of Christ. And today, one and a half millennia later, this saint still shows us an example of a strict and ascetic shepherd. And at the same time - a healer, miracle worker and wise mentor for all who have connected their lives with the Church of Christ.
Martyrs Inna, Pinna and Rimma. These holy sufferers for Christ and His Church (it is worth noting that the names belong to men) lived in second halfI- beginningIIcenturies from the Nativity of Christ. They were originally from Northern Scythia, and therefore, according to legend, they were Slavs (or rather, their ancestors, in modern science called “proto-Slavs”).
Inna, Pinna and Rimma accepted Christianity during the years of the saint's preaching in the lands of future Rus' Apostle Andrew the First-Called, becoming his students. Subsequently, these saints enlightened many pagans with the Light of Christ's Truth, for which they were captured and executed by the local prince, who ordered the martyrs to be immersed in an ice hole.
Martyrs Vassus, Eusebius, Eutyches and Basilides. Saints who accepted suffering and martyr's crowns at the turn III- IVcenturies during the period of the most severe anti-Christian persecution of the pagan emperor Diocletian (Diocletian), who reigned in the Roman Empire in 284-305 from the Nativity of Christ. The sufferers themselves were courtiers of the wicked emperor.
Witnessing martyrdom Hieromartyr Theopemtus, Bishop of Nicomedia(whose memory is celebrated on January 18 according to the new style), Saints Vassus, Eusebius, Eutyches and Basilides believed in Christ and received Holy Baptism. For this, the sufferers were subjected to severe torture, after which they were brutally killed in 303 from the Nativity of Christ.
Reverends Lavrenty, recluse of Pechersk, and Euthymius, schema-monk of Pechersk. Russian saints who performed spiritual deeds in the famous Holy Dormition Kiev-Pechersk Lavra in XIII-XIV centuries from the Nativity of Christ.
Venerable Euthymius of Syangzhemsky, Vologda. Saint of the Russian North, who labored in XVcentury first in the Spaso-Kamenny Monastery on Lake Kubenskoye, and then moved for the purpose of monastic solitude to the bank of the Syangma River, which is 20 versts from the city of Vologda. Subsequently, Elder Euthymius founded a new monastic monastery in these places. A saint has died around 1470 from the Nativity of Christ.
Hieromartyr Pavel Dobromyslov, presbyter. An Orthodox priest who suffered for his faith during the period of Soviet atheistic persecution and accepted the crown of martyrdom on this day in 1940. Glorified among the many thousands of new martyrs and confessors of the Russian Church.
Congratulations to Orthodox Christians on the memory of today's saints! Through their prayers, Lord, save and have mercy on us all! We are happy to congratulate those who received names in their honor through the Sacrament of Holy Baptism or monastic tonsure! As they used to say in Rus' in the old days: “A golden crown for the Guardian Angels, and good health for you!”