Day of all saints who have shone in the Russian land. Holy lands of Russia - unexpected destinies

Council of all saints who have shone in the Russian land

Life

All Saints, in the Russian Land, have appeared, Week - the 2nd Sunday after the holiday of Five-de-ten-ni- tsy, sacred celebration in memory of all Russian saints.

The idea of a so-bor-no-go celebration pa-mya-ti rus. saints appeared in the middle. XVI century, after the pro-glory of the dream of Russian. Saints on the Moscow Cathedrals in 1547 and 1549. The first service in honor of the “new Russian miracle-creators” was co-hosted by Gri-go-ri-em, a foreigner in Suz-distance. skogo Spa-so-Ev-fi-mi-e-va mon-rya, and was presented for singing on July 17; this day became the first celebration of the Council of Russian Saints. The service was re-pi-sy-va-la in ru-ko-pi-syakh (Ser-giy (Spass-sky). Me-sya-tse-slov. T. 1. P. 385), but was not included in the printed Moscow divine service books of the 16th-17th centuries. From the end XVIII century she is from-da-va-las-old-ro-regular-che-ski-mi ti-po-gra-fi-ya-mi (Kra-kow, B. g.; Grodno, 1786, 1789; Su-p-rasl, 1786, 1787; M., 1911). After the 17th century. this celebration is preserved only in the old-fashioned environment and is most likely a week ( i.e. on Sunday) after the prophet. Elijah (July 20). Afterwards, the tro-parion of the 3rd chapter is included: “The Most Honest Ver-sta of God, beloved by God, the Holy Fathers -zhen-nii", kontakion of the 8th voice, in po-do-ben "Yako na-chat-ki": "Like the good-honor of the pro-wed-ni-ki and ungodly- stia obuz-da-te-li", ka-non of the 8th voice, ir-mos: "Song, let's go, people", beginning: "All the songs are spirits -mi, like-stom pro-si-yav-shay.” According to the singer ru-ko-pi-syam since the 17th century. we know the famous verses (glory) from this service. A selection of slavs (usually 6) is stable in the ru-ko-pi-syah according to the sea tradition (Singing- ski books. 2001).

OK. 1643 by Hierom. Me-le-tiy Si-rig, pro-to-sin-kell K-pol-sko-go pat-ri-ar-ha, at the request of Metropolitan. to-write the service to the most honorable fathers of Ki-e-pe-cher-sky and all the saints, in Little Russia pro-si-appeared ", i.e. Ukrainian an analogue of the service in honor of All Russian Saints. In con. 40s XVII century according to the example of serving as a priest. Me-le-tiya so-lovets-kiyom. Sergiy (She-lo-nin) started the service “to all the saints, like those in Ve-litsei Russia in the post of pro-si-yav-shim” (from the known -on the only rkp. XVII century - RNB. /987). Despite their names, the services of hiero-mo-na-khov Me-le-tiya and Sergius are sacred not only to the great, but also saints, famous in other places; The name is due to the fact that both services are modeled after the service in honor of All the Great Fathers in Sy -ro-empty sub-bo-tu (Pan-chen-ko. 2004). There are a lot of ras-stra-ne-niyas in God’s service practice after the hiero-mo- na-ha-mi Me-le-ti-em and Ser-gi-em, not po-lu-chi-li.

According to the gym-no-gra-fi-che-skih pro-iz-ve-de-niy, for the service of the Russians. saints created some texts. Thus, the monk Gri-go-riy of Suz-dal wrote “A word of praise” in honor of the new miracle-creators (Ma-ka-riy, ar-khim . 1997), Hierom. Ser-giy (She-lo-nin) - “A word of praise to the Russian pre-loved ones” (Pan-chen-ko. 2003).

Modern the celebration of All Saints, in the land of the Russian pro-si-s, was established by decision Locally -th Council of the Russian Orthodox Church of 1917-1918. At the meeting 7 (20) Aug. was heard before the treasure of prof. B.A. Tu-ra-e-va about the celebration of the memory of all the saints, new miracle-workers of the Russians (Act 146 - Co- Bor 1918. De-ya-niya. T. 10. P. 146-147). In the pre-clause, a brief review was made of the history of service to the new Russian miracle-creators, when -ry of additional services (vet-ho-za-vet-to-the-fore-fathers, pre-good-to-the-Athos, etc.) and offer-the-same-restoration but-vit celebration-but-va-nie pa-mya-ti russian. saints on Sunday after the memory of All Saints of the Week, following the example of the memory of Athos movements, from -cha-e-my on the Holy Mountain. Having heard the treasure, the council decided to re-establish the celebration of the day of remembrance of all Russians. saints on the 1st Sunday of Pet-ro-va one hundred, and the corresponding ot-the-last-to-va-nie (os-no-van -on-the-last-of-the-nation Gregory, but corrected and completed by the Higher Church Administrator -e) on-print at the end of the Colored Three-o-di. Were the articles transferred to the Re-dak-tsi-on-ny department of So-bo-ra and pri-nya-you with a few in-rights 13 (26) Aug. (Act 150 - Ibid. pp. 216-217). The completion and correction of the service would have been in the hands of Tu-ra-e-vu and the priest. (afterwards bishop, sacred-is-according to the ved-nik). The service was almost completely re-pi-sa-na, only a few remained from the old swarm. dog-no-pen-ny. The first var-ri-ant service from the bro-shu-roy civil press in Moscow in 1918; because of a large number of op-cha-currents. Holy Afa-na-siy re-dak-ti-ro-val service for the duration of his whole life. Its next edition was published in Moscow in 1946. The final text of the service, more complete than the text the first of them, was released into the company of Mi-ney, under-prepared by the Moscow Pat-ri-ar-hi-ey in 1978 -1989 (Mi-neya. (MP). May. Part 3. pp. 308-387; see also: Service-ba. 1995). The service has many special-ben-no-steys, due-to-the-words-of-the-sacred-no-sp. Afa-na-siya include her in the circle of holidays of the Russian Orthodox Church; she turns on the exact hymn-no-gra-fi-che-ma-te-ri-al, which po-s-lays with all its fullest confidence -sew it both on Sunday and on weekdays. Certain special-ben-no-sti with-established sacred-but-in-use. Afa-na-si-em service would not be entirely traditional: the name list of all Russians. saints on the lithium have no analogues in the ancient services (and after the pro-glorification of the dream-ma but-in-mu-che-ni-kov on The arch-hierical anniversary of So-bo-re 2000 became practically impracticable), the unity of 3 great -cha-niy, turned to God, God-she Ma-te-ri and to all Russians. saints, does not find correspondence in Ti-pi-kon.

Placed in Mi-ney after-the-va-nie includes the tro-pa-ri of the 8th voice: “Like the red fruit of Thy-e-th spa-si-tel-no-go se-ya-niya" and the 4th voice: "Jeru-sa-li-ma of the highest citizen"; kontakion of the 3rd voice, in po-do-ben “De-va today”: “Today is the face of the saints who have pleased God in our land”; ka-non morning of the 8th voice (ir-mos: “In the dark fa-ra-o-na with ko-les-ni-tsa-mi you grumbled”, beginning: “Everyone agrees with the spiritual songs”); small mo-leb-ny ka-non, composed according to the mo-leb-no-go ka-no-na Bo-go-ro-di-tse of the 8th chapter -sa (ir-mos: “Wo-duh passed like su-shu”, beginning: “Many-gi-mi with-hold-mi-on-the-mouths, coming to you” ); more than 10 sa-mo-glas-novs, 3 cycles of dob-news, as well as cycles of sti-khir on lithium, on ve-cherne and on eleo-po-ma-za at the end of the morning, turning on all the voices. Pa-re-mii ve-cher-ni: ; Gospel Matins: ; readings of li-tur-gy: pro-ki-men from (or), al-li-lu-i-a-riy with sti-ha-mi (or), pri-cha-sten; By the way, the service includes special tro-pa-ri on the b-wives.

The service is very popular (although, as a rule, some of its parts are prayerful singing on ka-nune, a number of songs, etc. - in practice, they are reduced or omitted), some of its texts (for example ., poems like "Russian Land") were among the most well-known and beloved in the Russian Church. in and.

Li-te-ra-tu-ra: Spassky I. The first service to All Russian Saints and its author // ZhMP. 1949. No. 8. P. 50-55; Service to All Saints, in the Russian land pro-si-appeared. M., 1995; Ma-ka-riy (Ve-re-ten-ni-kov), ar-khim. The era of new miracle-makers: (A word of praise to the new Russian saints of the foreigner Gregory of Suzdal) // AiO . 1997. No. 2 (13). pp. 128-144; Singing books you-go-lek-syn-sko-go letters. XVIII - 1st half. XIX century / Comp. F.V. Pan-chen-ko. St. Petersburg, 2001. (Description of the RO B-ki RAS; T. 9. Issue 1); Ka-zan-tse-va G. E. Oso-ben-no-sti tser-kov-no-slav. language of service “To all the saints, in the Russian Land pro-si-appeared” St. Afa-na-siya (Sa-ha-ro-va) // EzhBK, 2003. P. 377-380; Pan-chen-ko O. V. From ar-heogr. research in the field of so-lovets-books: I. “A word of praise in Russian. pre-pre-nem” - op. Ser-gia She-lo-ni-na: Question at-ri-bu-tion, yes-ti-rov-ka, ha-rak-te-ri-sti-ka author. editions) // TODRL. 2003. T. 53. P. 547-592; aka. From ar-heogr. research: II. “Ka-non to all the saints, like those in Ve-li-cei Russia in the post of pro-si-yav-shim” - op. Ser-gia She-lo-ni-na // TODRL. 2004. T. 56. pp. 453-480.

A.A. Lu-ka-she-vich
Article from volume 9 of the “Right-glorious en-cyclo-pedia.” Moscow, 2005

Prayers

Troparion to all saints who have shone in the Russian land

Like the red fruit of Your saving sowing,/ the Russian land brings to You, O Lord, all the saints who shone forth in that one./ By those prayers in the deep world// Keep the Church and our country with the Mother of God ́, Much merciful.

Translation: Like the beautiful fruit of Your saving sowing, the Russian land brings You, Lord, all the saints who have shone in it. Through their prayers and the intercession of the Mother of God, preserve the Church and our country in deep peace, O Most Merciful One.

Troparion to all the saints who have shone in the Russian land

Citizens of Jerusalem, the Most High,/ who have risen from our earth/ and have pleased God in every rank and every feat,/ come, let us sing, faithful ones:/ O all-blessed land of Russia, intercessors, / pray to the Lord, / that He may have mercy on this from His wrath, / healing her contrition, // and she will comfort her faithful people.

Translation: Citizens of Heavenly Jerusalem, who have shone in our land and pleased God in every rank and every deed, come, believers, let us sing: O all-blessed intercessors of the Russian land, pray to the Lord, that He may have mercy on her from His wrath, healing her troubles, and comforting His believing people .

Kontakion To all the saints who shone in the Russian land

Today the face of the saints who have pleased God in our land stands in the Church/ and invisibly prays to God for us./ The angels praise him with him,/ and all the saints of the Church of Christ celebrate him,/ they pray for us in si kupno// of the Eternal God.

Translation: On this day, a host of saints who have pleased God in our land stand in the temple and invisibly pray to God for us. The angels praise them and all the saints of the Church of Christ celebrate - for they all pray to the Eternal God for us.

Kontakion to all the saints who shone in the Russian land

Representative of the country of our vigilance, / intercede for us to the Creator of incessancy, / do not despise our prayers, / but, in advance of help, like our relatives, / hasten to prayer / and strive for supplication, // intercedingly for those who honor you.

Translation: Representatives of our country are tireless, constant intercessors for us to the Creator, do not forget about our prayers, but when you come to the rescue, like our relatives, hasten to prayer and worry about propitiation, always interceding for those who honor you.

Glorification of all saints who shone in the Russian land

We bless you,/ wonderworkers of our glory,/ who have illuminated the Russian land with your virtues/ and have clearly shown us the image of salvation.

Prayer to all saints who have shone in the Russian land

Oh, all-blessed and godly saints of God, with your deeds you have sanctified the Russian land and your body, like the seed of faith, left in it, with your souls standing before the Throne of God and eternal life Those who are praying for her! Behold, now, on the day of your common celebration, we, sinners, your lesser brothers, dare to bring you this song of praise. We magnify your great deeds, spiritual warriors of Christ, with patience and courage to the end you overthrew the enemy and delivered us from his deceit and wiles. We bless your holy life, luminaries of the Divine, with the light of faith and virtues shining and our minds and hearts divinely illuminated. We glorify your great miracles, the blossoms of the paradise, in our country to the north flourishing beautifully and the aromas of gifts and miracles are fragrant everywhere. We praise your God-imitating love, our representative and patron, and, trusting in your help, we fall to you and cry: all our holy relatives, who have shone from the ancient years and in the last days under appearances, appearances and non-appearances, knowledge and ignorance! Remember our weakness and humiliation and with your prayers ask Christ our God, so that we, having sailed safely through the abyss of life and preserved the treasure of faith unharmed, into the haven of the eternal We will achieve this salvation in the blessed abodes of the Mountainous Fatherland, together with you and with all the saints who have pleased Him from the ages Let us be established by the grace and love of mankind of our Savior Lord Jesus Christ, to Him, together with the Eternal Father and the Most Holy Spirit, befits unceasing praise and worship from all creatures forever and ever. Amen.

Canons and Akathists

Akathist to all the saints who have shone in the Russian land

The text was approved by the Holy Synod
Russian Orthodox Church
May 14, 2018 (magazine no. 38)

Kontakion 1

Chosen by God, the holy saints, who shone in the Russian land, and who adorned our Church like bright stars, having come together today by faith, we praise your most honorable memory. But you, who have boldness towards the Savior, free us from all troubles, calling:

Ikos 1

Angels and men, Creator and King, open now our sinful mouth, worthy to sing of all Thy holy things, whose grace has shone forth in the Russian land and to Thee, our God, with piety having glorified them, let us call them with love:

Rejoice, apostles of Christ Andrew, Bartholomew and Simon the Canaanite, who reached our limits and proclaimed the truth of the Gospel in them; Rejoice, Theodora and young John, first martyr of Russia, who suffered for Christ before the enlightenment of our country.

Rejoice, Olgo Equal to the Apostles, who illuminated the darkness of paganism with the light of Christ; Rejoice, Equal to the Apostles Vladimir, glorious land of the Russian Baptist.

Rejoice, Michael, the High Hierarch of the Russian Church and the installer of Orthodox piety and order in our land; Rejoice, O wise Hilarion, for the Law and Grace of the wondrous writer of the Word.

Rejoice, Boris and Gleb, holy passion-bearers, who sacrificed the purity of God for themselves; Rejoice, holy princes Yaropolch and Igor, who irrigated the Russian land with their blood.

Rejoice, all saints, who have shone forth in the Russian land.

Kontakion 2

Having seen the tribulation and oppression of His small flock, in our land embittered by the evil of idols, He gave His strong help, so that the deceitfulness of the enemy was put to shame, His faith in the faith of Christ is established and they continually sing to Him: Alleluia.

Ikos 2

Rejecting the reason of the rational people of this age and destroying the foolish wisdom of the wise, You have received, O Lord, like red fruit from Your new helicopter city, our land, all the holy ones, shone in her; whose work today is praising, let us please them in this way:

Rejoice, Leonty Hieromartyr, enlightener of the Rostov country; Rejoice, Isaiah, Ignatius, Theodore and Jacob, holy city of Rostov.

Rejoice, Kuksho, evangelist and holy martyr of the Vyatichi lands; Rejoice, Nikito and John, and other saints of Novagrad the Great, who have shone forth in the house of the Wisdom of God.

Rejoice, Kirill, Saint of Turov, great preacher of the word of God; Rejoice, Euphrosyne, joy to the city of Polotsk and radiance to the virgins.

Rejoice, reverend Ephraim, Novotorzhsky enlightener, with saints Moses and George, your brothers; Rejoice, luminaries of Vyazemstia, wondrous Arkady with glorious Juliana.

Rejoice, all saints, who have shone forth in the Russian land.

Kontakion 3

The power of God, which is accomplished in human weaknesses, strengthens you, holy saints, who have served our God in many ways in the land, and together with you I will sing to Him: Alleluia.

Ikos 3

Having surrounded us with so many clouds of witnesses, all the multitude of saints in our land who have shone forth, we triumph joyfully and spiritually rejoice, bringing them this laudatory song:

Rejoice, Simon, zealous builder of the Vladimir and Suzdal lands and the temples of God; Rejoice, Theodora, John and Dionysius, Hierarch of Suzdalstia and wonderworkers.

Rejoice, reverend Euthymia and Euphrosyne, bright stars of Suzdal; Rejoice, Murom country to the enlightener Constantine, with your children Mikhail and Theodore.

Rejoice, Peter and Fevronia, wonderworkers of Muromstia, with the righteous and merciful Juliana; Rejoice, Saint Basil, who received false reproach in Murom and naturally sailed to Ryazan.

Rejoice, Nikito the Stolpnich and Daniel, the buryer of the dead, Pereyaslavl, Zalessk decoration; Rejoice, God-wise Prince Andrei Bogolyubsky, despising the vanity of this world and showing wonderful humility.

Rejoice, all saints, who have shone forth in the Russian land.

Kontakion 4

The storm of idolatrous wickedness, even if it rises in our land against the Orthodox Church of Christ, is impossible to drown it: to this day it stands in its rank, victoriously singing to God: Alleluia .

Ikos 4

Having heard the saints’ sweetest voice of Christ calling for salvation, and having suffered His good yoke through all my life, I have now found painless and eternal peace in the heavenly abodes. For this reason they hear from us this:

Rejoice, Saint Anthony and Theodosius, founder of the holy Lavra of the Kiev-Pechersk Church and the life of monks in our land; Rejoice, Alipiya, chief of Russian icon painters, and Agapit, free doctor.

Rejoice, Nestore, for the memorable deeds of the writer, and long-suffering John, with all the face of the saints of Pechersk, glorified by the Lord; Rejoice, Job, Laurels of Pochaev, decoration, with all saints and wonderworkers of Volyn.

Rejoice, Anthony, John and Eustathia, Lithuanian martyr, who served the fire and brought many people to Christ through their suffering; Rejoice, Presbyter Isidora, with the whole cathedral, martyr in the Yuryev city of Livonstem, who suffered from the Latins for the Orthodox faith.

Rejoice, Athanasius, abbot of Brest, wonderful martyr; Rejoice, child martyr Gabriel, who shone brightly during his cruel suffering.

Rejoice, all saints, who have shone forth in the Russian land.

Kontakion 5

We praise the godly stars, illuminating our earth with grace, the saints of God: Ovii in holiness, friends in monasticism, others in the foolishness of Christ for the sake of laboring; Having all served God in honor and righteousness, we sing to Him in agreement: Alleluia.

Ikos 5

Having seen the saints of God who shone forth in the Russian land, unflagging patience in this world and in Heaven the unspeakable glory, we encourage ourselves and each other to imitate them, calling to them:

Rejoice, Sergius, miracle worker of Radonezh, founder of the monastery of the Holy Trinity, leader of the monks and warm prayer book for our entire land; Rejoice, Sergius and Herman of Valaamstia and Arseny Konevsky, teacher of monks and enlightener of non-believers.

Rejoice, Anthony the Roman, from your fatherland, floating on a stone to Novgrad the Great and there the image of the monastic life is revealed; Rejoice, Varlaam, miracle worker of Khutyn, praise to Novagrad and to our whole country, luminary.

Rejoice, Zosimo, Savvatie and Hermane, stars of the most luminous monasticism, with all the holy Solovetskys; Rejoice, Alexandra Svirsky, most glorious Mystery of the Holy Trinity.

Rejoice, like Father Kirill, like a prosperous creature in the desert; Rejoice, and all the Russian Thebaid: the deserts and wilds of Olonets, Beloyezersk and Vologda, the holy and glorious multitude of the holy fathers has increased.

Rejoice, all saints, who have shone forth in the Russian land.

Kontakion 6

Preachers of the faith of Christ and Christian piety quickly, holy ones, on earth; Moreover, now in heaven you stand before Christ with joy, and you ceaselessly sing to Him: Alleluia.

Ikos 6

Naturally, saints, many and varied gifts have arisen for us, richly decorated, in the image of whom the hero of the hero Christ crowns you. Having resorted to you, we do not labor in vain; we hope to gain God’s grace and mercy through your prayers. For this reason we cry out to you:

Rejoice, honorable sufferers of Chernigov, Michael and Theodora, who disobeyed the command of the tormentor and worshiped the One God; Rejoice, Alexandra Nevsky and Andrei Bogolyubsky, Georgie and Glebe, miracle workers of Vladimir, zealots of faith and defenders.

Rejoice, martyr Abraham, in the city of Bolgar you suffered for Christ and the city of Vladimir beautified; Rejoice, Daniel, patron of the city of Moscow, parental blessing to the heir.

Rejoice, Arseny, Saint of Tver, blessed Prince Michael and Princess Anno Kashinskaya, our prayer books; Rejoice, reverend Abraham and martyr Mercury, wonderworkers of Smolensk.

Rejoice, Paisius and Cassian, to the city of Uglich, the intercessor of mercy; Rejoice, O Reverend Irinarsha, well-pleasing to the Lord in the seclusion and chains of the Lord.

Rejoice, all saints, who have shone forth in the Russian land.

Kontakion 7

Although eternal salvation was achieved, the saints followed Christ in a sorrowful and close way and tried to please Him alone, and now, face to face of Him in glory, seeing, they sing to Him: Alli Luia.

Ikos 7

The new luminary, decorating the Orthodox Church, we see all the holy lands of ours, and we are confirmed in our faith, for we intercede with God for our salvation; We also cry out to them:

Rejoice, Peter, great saint, First See of Moscow; Rejoice, Saint Alexis, a warm intercessor for the liberation of the Russian land and a wonderful healer for the people of God.

Rejoice, Jono, teacher and representative of your flock; Rejoice, Philip, who denounced the king of fury and was killed for this reason.

Rejoice, Hieromartyr Hermogenes, who served the glorification of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God and gave his soul for the Orthodox faith; Rejoice, glorious Tikhon, patriarch and confessor, who labored for the Church in a fierce time.

Rejoice, Vasily, John and Maxima, wonderworkers of Muscovy, blessed fools for Christ's sake, ascetic of innocence and prayerful of warmth; Rejoice, righteous Alexis, good shepherd, and blessed Matrono, consolation to those who mourn.

Rejoice, all saints, who have shone forth in the Russian land.

Kontakion 8

It is strange for unbelievers to see how the power of God is made perfect in weakness; But we, who firmly hold the true faith of Christ, will rejoice in the glory of our saints and will unceasingly and diligently sing to the Lord, who glorifies them: Alleluia.

Ikos 8

Having put aside all the cares of this life and rejected oneself, one unswervingly follows Christ, the ever-blessed one; The tongue cannot depict and sing worthily your faith and love, labors and illnesses, patience and suffering, even in the joy of your Lord. For this reason we praise you:

Rejoice, Nikon of Radonezh, successor of the Venerable Sergius, and humble Micah, and Savvo of Zvenigorod, and Stefan of Makhrishch, and other disciples of the Sergius, of many monasteries of monastic dispensations telie; Rejoice, Macarius of Kalyazinsky and his namesake of Unzhensky, who pleased God in their labors.

Rejoice, Nile of Stolobensky, who labored tirelessly in prayers and labors; Rejoice, wondrous Nile, who loved the poverty of the monastery and watered the Sorsk desert with tears.

Rejoice, Joseph, Father of Volotsky, zealot of the monastic rank; Rejoice, Paphnutie Borovsky, who fell to the corrector, with Tikhon, the Kaluga miracle worker, who lived inside the oak tree.

Rejoice also, O holy Seraphim, our joy, wonderful ascetic of Sarov; Rejoice, Leo, Macarius, Ambrose, Barsanuphia and all the elders of Optinstia, spiritual guides to the people of God.

Rejoice, all saints, who have shone forth in the Russian land.

Kontakion 9

Every feat and every virtue has been corrected, saints, people have shown the image of Christian piety in themselves, so that seeing your good deeds, they will glorify our Father, who is in Heaven, according to Yesterday unto Him: Alleluia.

Ikos 9

You have exalted your art, you have revealed the holy and gracious power of the faith of Christ through your life and deeds to the whole world, and by the grace of God you have tirelessly trampled upon the invisible enemy. For this reason we call:

Rejoice, Saint Stephen, glorious apostle of the Permian country; Rejoice, the successor of the holy martyr Gerasima and Pitirim and Jono, wonderworkers of Ust-Vymstia.

Rejoice, O Reverend Tryphon, who brought the country of Vyatka to Christ from the evil of idols; Rejoice, Tryfon, Pechenga miracle worker, praise to your monastery, bringing the light of the faith of Christ into the darkness of the pagan lands.

Rejoice, O Guria, Barsanuphia and Germana, the city of Kazan and all the surrounding countries, most bright light; Rejoice, enlightener of the languages, wonderful Innocent and wise Sophronius, saint of Irkutsk, with John of Tobolsk, with your kindness the whole Siberian country has been illuminated.

Rejoice, Innocent, Holy Hierarch of Moscow and Reverend Germany, who performed equal-to-the-apostles service in America; Rejoice, O saint Nicholas, wonderful planter of the Orthodox Church in the land of Japan.

Rejoice, all saints, who have shone forth in the Russian land.

Kontakion 10

Although You have granted to save the people of our earth, O Lord, all the saints who have shone forth in it, like images of the life of salvation, and intercessors and helpers, may they cry out thanks to You: Alleluia.

Ikos 10

There is a natural wall and intercession for all who come running to you with faith, saints. For you have been given beneficial grace to give to all who need it: healing to the sick, consolation to the afflicted, deliverance to those in adversity; let us sing to you this:

Rejoice, meek Vsevolod and strong Dovmont, unassailable walls to the city of Pskov; Rejoice, O Nicandra the desert dweller and O venerable Euphrosyne, who labored in the country of Pskov.

Rejoice, blessed Prokopius, your city Ustyug has been delivered from the stone-throwing clouds; Rejoice, righteous Simeon, Verkhotursky prayer book and the whole land of the Urals affirmation.

Rejoice, blessed fool for Christ's sake, Nicholas and Theodora of Novogradstia and Isidora of Rostov, denunciator of unrighteousness and disgrace of the wisdom of this age; Rejoice, wise Ksenia, strong intercessor to the city of St. Peter.

Rejoice, wonderful John, Kronstadt prayer and miracle worker; Rejoice, blessed Paul of Taganrog, merciful in chains to the comforter.

Rejoice, all saints, who have shone forth in the Russian land.

Kontakion 11

Accept this song of praise and gratitude from us, the saints of God: for we come running to you, we trust in your intercession and help, and we cry out to God: Alleluia.

Ikos 11

The radiant rays of your diverse efforts have illuminated every Christian soul, inciting tenderness and zeal for salvation, and they are urging you to sing:

Rejoice, Mitrofan, Voronezh praise, to the most simple saint and the wise leader of souls to Christ; Rejoice, Tikhon, miracle worker of Zadonsk, honey-flowing mouth, sweetest broadcaster of Christ’s Gospel.

Rejoice, Theodosius, saint of Chernigov, most precious lamp; Rejoice, Russian Chrysostom, Rostov Saint Demetrius, who collected the lives of the saints and wrote for the edification of all;

Rejoice, Joasapha, Belograd man of prayer and great zealot of piety; Rejoice, Pitirim, country of Tambov, bishop and non-lazy intercessor before God.

Rejoice, Ignatius the wise, spiritual master, deeds to a wise zealot; Rejoice, Theophan, recluse of Vyshensky, translator of the Fathers’ writings.

Rejoice, all saints, who have shone forth in the Russian land.

Kontakion 12

Ask us for grace from the Lord, holy saints of God, so that by the power and action of the Holy Spirit we may protect ourselves from destruction, heresies and schism, always singing Orthodoxy: Alleluia.

Ikos 12

Singing your great and bright regiment, all the saints who have shone in our land, with thanksgiving we magnify the Lord who has glorified you, ask for His mercy and forgiveness for us sinners, and let us cry out to you earnestly:

Rejoice, Hieromartyr Clement, Bishop of Rome, your feat in our country has come to an end; Rejoice, holy martyrs of the seventh day, who through your blood in Chersonis Tauride established the Church of Christ.

Rejoice, O Reverend Father Paisius, who labored in the Holy Mountain and the borders of Moldova and translated the Holy Philokalia into the Slovenian language; Rejoice, before Silvana, Athos's fertilization and Russia's praise and intercession.

Rejoice, John of Shanghai and San Francisco, miracle worker, in the image of unceasing prayer and mercy; Rejoice, saints of our land, who labored in the gospel of Christ and planted the Orthodox Church in Siberia, America, China and Japan.

Rejoice, Vladimir of Kiev, Benjamin of Petrograd, Peter of Krutitsky and Kirill of Kazan, holy martyrs of Novia, who suffered in the time of persecution and established the Russian Church with their blood; Rejoice, holy royal passion-bearers and all the new martyrs of the Russian Church, who laid down their souls for Christ.

Rejoice, all saints, who have shone forth in the Russian land.

Kontakion 13

Oh, holy saints of God, who have shone in the Russian land! We now honor your all-honorable memory, we resort to your prayerful intercession and intercession, so that through your prayers we will be delivered in this time from the falls of sin, from the slander of evil people and from sudden aching death, and in the future we will be worthy to receive salvation, and eternal blessings of pleasure, together with you angelically singing to God: Alleluia.

(This kontakion is read three times, then ikos 1 and kontakion 1).

Prayer

Oh, all-blessed and God-wisdom saints of God, who sanctified the Russian land with their deeds and left their bodies, like the seed of faith, in it, with their souls standing before the Throne of God and constantly praying for it! Behold, now, on the day of your common triumph, we, sinners, your lesser brethren, dare to bring you this song of praise. We magnify your great deeds, spiritual warriors of Christ, who with patience and courage brought down the enemy to the end and delivered us from his deceit and snares. We bless your holy life, luminaries of the Divine, shining with the light of faith and virtues and enlightening our minds and hearts with wisdom. We glorify your great miracles, the blossoms of the region, in our northern country, beautifully flourishing and the aromas of gifts and miracles fragrant everywhere. We praise your God-imitating love, our intercessors and patrons, and, trusting in your help, we fall to you and cry out: our equal-to-the-apostles enlighteners! Encourage the people of the Russian land to firmly maintain the Orthodox faith you have devoted, so that the saving seed that you have sown will not be dried up by the heat of unbelief, but, watered by the rain of God’s haste, may bear abundant fruit. Saints of Christ! With your prayers, strengthen the Russian Church, destroy heresies, schisms and discord in it, gather the scattered sheep into one and protect those who enter the flock of Christ in sheep's clothing from all wolves. Reverend fathers! Save us from the charms of this evil world, and, having denied ourselves and taken up our cross, let us follow Christ, crucifying our flesh with passions and lusts, bearing each other’s burdens. Blessed Prince! Look mercifully at your earthly fatherland and consume all the wickedness and temptations that now exist in it as the weapon of your prayers, so that, as in ancient times, so now and in the time to come, the Name of the Lord will be glorified in Holy Rus'. Passion-bearers of Russia's glory! Strengthen us in courageous standing even to the point of blood for the Orthodox faith and the customs of our fathers, so that neither sorrow, nor hardship, nor persecution, nor famine, nor nakedness, nor misfortune, nor sword will be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus. Blessedness, Christ for the sake of foolishness and righteousness! Confound the wisdom of this age, which ascends to the mind of God, but help us, having been established by the saving violence of the Cross of Christ, the temptations of worldly wisdom to be unshakable, to always think about things above, and not to think about earthly things. God-wise women, who in a weak nature demonstrated great feats! Pray that the spirit of your love for the Lord and zeal for pleasing Him and for your own and your neighbor’s salvation does not become scarce in us. All our holy relatives, who have shone forth from the ancient years and labored in the last days, manifested and not manifested, known and unknown! Remember our weakness and humiliation and with your prayers ask Christ our God, so that we, having sailed comfortably through the abyss of life and preserved the treasure of faith unharmed, will reach the haven of eternal salvation and in the blessed abodes of the Mountainous Fatherland, together with you and with all the saints who have pleased Him from the ages let us be established by the grace and love of mankind of our Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, to whom, together with the Eternal Father and the Most Holy Spirit, befits unceasing praise and worship from all creatures forever and ever. Amen.

Akathist second to all the saints who have shone in the Russian lands

Kontakion 1

Chosen by God of the holy saints, who shone into the lands of Russia and our Church, like bright stars, having come together today, we praise your most honorable memory. But you, who have boldness towards the Savior, free us from all troubles who call:

Rejoice, all saints, who have shone forth in the Russian lands.

Ikos 1

Angels and men, O Creator and King, now open our sinful lips worthily to sing all Thy saints, who have shone with Thy grace in the lands of Russia and have glorified You, our God, with our piety, and with love we call to them this: Rejoice, holy martyrs of the seventh day, with your blood in Chersonese Tauride, having established the Church of Christ, we also received consecration from the non-consecration. Rejoice, Theodora and young John, first martyrs of Russia, who suffered for Christ before the enlightenment of our country. Rejoice, Olgo Equal to the Apostles, who illuminated the darkness of paganism with the light of the faith of Christ. Rejoice, Equal-to-the-Apostles Vladimir, glorious baptizer of the Russian land. Rejoice, Michael, the High Hierarch of the Russian Church and the installer of Orthodox piety and order in our land. Rejoice, Reverend Anthony and Theodosius, founder of the holy monasteries of the Kiev-Pechersk and the lives of monks in our land. Rejoice, all saints, who have shone forth in the Russian lands.

Kontakion 2

Having seen the Lord of sorrow and oppression of His little verbal flock, in our ancient land embittered by idolatry, His strong gift of help, so that, having put to shame the deception of the enemy, He would be confirmed in the faith of Christ and incessantly sing: Alleluia.

Ikos 2

Rejecting the reason of the rational people of this age and destroying the foolish wisdom of the wise, Thou hast received, O Lord, like the red fruit from Thy new heirloom, our land, all the saints who have shone in it, whose work is now praised, we bless them with this: Rejoice, Boris and Gleb, passion-bearers holy, offered as a pure sacrifice to God. Rejoice, Hieromartyr Leonty, enlightener of the country of Rostov, and saint of Isaiah, Ignatius, Theodore, Jacob, city of Rostov. Rejoice, Kuksho, evangelist and holy martyr of the Vyatichi lands. Rejoice, Nikito and John, who served as a sign to the Mother of God, to the other saints of Novograd the Great. Rejoice, Kirill, Saint of Turov, great preacher of the words of God. Rejoice, Reverend Ephraim, enlightener of the city of Torzhok, with Arkady and the virgin Juliana. Rejoice, all saints, who have shone forth in the Russian lands.

Kontakion 3

The power of God, which is accomplished in human weaknesses, has strengthened you, holy saints of God, who have served the Lord in many ways in our land, and together with you we sing to Him: Alleluia.

Ikos 3

Having surrounded us with a cloud of witnesses, all the multitude of saints who have shone in our land, we triumph joyfully and are spiritually rejoiced, bringing them this song of praise: Rejoice, Simone, saint of the Vladimir and Suzdal lands and zealous creator of the temples of God. Rejoice, Theodora and John, with the Monk Dionysius, Euthymius and Euphrosyne, bright stars of Suzdal. Rejoice, O illuminator of the Murom country, Constantine, with your children Mikhail and Theodore. Rejoice, Peter and Fevronia, wonderworkers of Muromstia, with righteous and merciful Juliana. Rejoice, Saint Basil, who received false reproach in Murom and unnaturally sailed to Ryazan. Rejoice, Nikito the Stolpnich and Daniel, burying the dead, I will reassign the decoration to Zalessky. Rejoice, all saints, who have shone forth in the Russian lands.

Kontakion 4

The storm of idolatrous wickedness, even if it has risen in our land against the Orthodox Church of Christ, is impossible to drown it: to this day it stands in its rank, victoriously singing to God: Alleluia.

Ikos 4

Having heard the holy sweetest voice of Christ calling for salvation, and having bore His good yoke through all my life, I have now found painless and eternal peace in the heavenly abodes. For this reason, they hear from us this: Rejoice, Nestor, for the memorable deeds of the writer, long-suffering John, Alypius, the painter of holy icons, and the whole face of the other saints of Pechersk, glorified by the Lord. Rejoice, Job, decoration of the Pochaev laurels, with all the saints and miracle workers of Volyn. Rejoice, Euphrosyne, joy to the city of Polotsk and radiance to the virgins. Rejoice, Reverend Abraham and Martyr Mercury, wonderworkers of Smolensk. Rejoice, Anthony, Joanna and Eustathia, Lithuanian martyr, who rejected the fire and brought many people to Christ through her suffering. Rejoice, Presbyter Isidore, martyr with the whole cathedral in the city of Yuryev, Livonstem, who suffered from the Latins for the Orthodox faith. Rejoice, all saints, who have shone forth in the Russian lands.

Kontakion 5

God-bearing stars, illuminating our earth with grace, we praise you, saints of God, Ovii in holiness, friends in monasticism, others in the foolishness of Christ for the sake of Christ, who have all served God with reverence and righteousness, and according to Him we sing: Alleluia.

Ikos 5

Having seen the saints of God who have shone forth in the lands of Russia, unremitting patience in this world and unspeakable glory in heaven, we encourage ourselves and each other to imitate those who sweat, calling to them: Rejoice, St. Sergius of Radonezh, wonderworker, commander of monks and warm prayer book for our whole land. Rejoice, Sergius and Herman of Valaamstia, Alexandra Svirsky and Arseny Konevsky, teacher of monks and enlightener of other faiths. Rejoice, Anthony, from ancient Rome, Thy fatherland, to Novograd the Great, sailing on stone and here the image of the monastic life is revealed. Rejoice, Varlaam, miracle worker of Khutyn, praise to Novograd and lamp of our entire country. Rejoice, Zosimo, Savvaty and Germane, bright stars of monasticism, with all the venerable Solovetskys. Rejoice, and all the Russian Thebaid, - the deserts and wilds of Olonetsky, Beloezersky and Vologda, - the holy and glorious multitude of the reverend fathers has increased. Rejoice, all saints, who have shone forth in the Russian lands.

Kontakion 6

Preachers of the faith of Christ and the piety of Christian holiness on earth, and now in heaven, with the joy of Christ, we ceaselessly sing to Him: Alleluia.

Ikos 6

Our holy nature shone forth, adorned with an abundance of many different gifts, in the image of the hero Christ who crowned you. When we come to you, we do not labor in vain: we receive God’s grace and mercy through your prayers. For this reason, we cry out to you: Rejoice, honorable sufferers of Chernigov, Mikhail and Theodora, who did not obey the command of the tormentor and who deigned to bow down to the One God. Rejoice, Alexandra Nevsky and Andrei the God-loving, George and Gleb, miracle workers of Vladimir, zealots of faith and defenders. Rejoice, Martyr Abraham of Bulgaria, who suffered in Kazan for Christ and the beautiful city of Vladimir. Rejoice, Daniel, patron of the city of Moscow, heir of the parental blessing. Rejoice, Arseny, to Saint Tver, Prince Michael and Anno Kashinskaya, our prayer books. Rejoice, all saints, who have shone forth in the Russian lands.

Kontakion 7

Wanting to achieve eternal salvation, you followed Christ in the sorrowful and narrow path of holiness and strived to please Him alone, and now, face to face with Him in glory, they sing to Him: Alleluia.

Ikos 7

The new luminaries, decorating the Orthodox Church, we see all the holy lands of our land, for with their glorification they confirm our faith and intercede for us with God for salvation, and let us cry to them: Rejoice, Peter, great saint, first throne of Moscow. Rejoice, Alexie, wonderful doctor, praise to the city of Moscow and all our land. Rejoice, Jono, teacher and representative of your flock. Rejoice, Philippa, who furiously denounced and fiercely killed the king. Rejoice, holy martyr Hermogen, who served the glorification of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God and laid down your soul for the Orthodox faith. Rejoice, Vasily, Joanna and Maxima, wonderworkers of Muscovy, blessed fools for Christ's sake, ascetic of truthfulness and warm prayer worker. Rejoice, all saints, who have shone forth in the Russian lands.

Kontakion 8

It is strange for unbelievers to see how the power of God is perfected in weakness, but we, who firmly hold the true faith of Christ, will rejoice in the glory of our saints and will unceasingly and earnestly sing to the Lord who glorifies them: Alleluia.

Ikos 8

Having put aside all the cares of this life and rejected oneself, one has unswervingly followed Christ, ever blessed; The tongue cannot depict and sing worthily your faith and love, labors and illnesses, patience and suffering, in the image of which you naturally entered into the joy of your Lord. For this reason, we praise you: Rejoice, Nikon of Radonezh, successor of St. Sergius, and humble Micah, and Savvo of Zvenigorod, and Stefan of Makhrishch, and other disciples of Sergius, who established many monastic monasteries. Rejoice, Makary Kalyazinsky and Makary Unzhensky, Zheltovodsky, who pleased God. Rejoice, Nile of Stolbensky, who labored tirelessly in prayer and labor, and Nile of Sorsky, who loved the poverty of the monastery. Rejoice, Joseph, Father of Volotsky, zealot of the monastery rank. Rejoice, Paphnutius of Borovsky, who fell to the corrector, with Tikhon of Kaluga the wonderworker who lived inside the oak tree. Rejoice, all saints, who have shone forth in the Russian lands.

Kontakion 9

Every feat and every virtue is correct, holy, showing people the image of Christian piety in themselves, so that seeing your good deeds, they will glorify our Father who is in Heaven, singing to Him: Alleluia.

Ikos 9

Vitiy's art surpassed, holy, the grace-filled power of the faith of Christ through his life and deeds revealed to the whole world, tirelessly trampling upon the invisible enemy by the grace of God. For this reason we call: Rejoice, Saint Stephen, glorious apostle of the Permian country. Rejoice, that successor: Gerasima and Pitirim the holy martyr and Jono, the Ust-Vymsk wonderworkers. Rejoice, Reverend Tryphon, who brought the country of Vyatka from the evil faith of idols to Christ. Rejoice, Tryphon, miracle worker of Pechenga, praise to your monastery, who brought the light of the faith of Christ into the darkness of the pagan midnight countries. Rejoice, O Guria, Varsanuphia and Germana, the city of Kazan and all the surrounding countries, the most bright light. Rejoice, Apostle of Siberia, Innocent of Irkutsk, first bishop, with Sophronius the Wise and John of Tobolsk, who illuminated the entire Siberian country with your kindness. Rejoice, all saints, who have shone forth in the Russian lands.

Kontakion 10

Although You have granted us the salvation of the people of our land, O Lord, all the saints who have shone forth in it, as images of the life of salvation and as intercessors and helpers for us, may we cry out in thanks to You: Alleluia.

Ikos 10

The wall is also the intercession of all who come running to you with faith, holy ones. For you have been given grace to all who require useful gifts: healing to the sick, consolation to the grieving, deliverance to those in adversity, let us sing to you this: Rejoice, Vsevolod the Meek and Dovmont, the insurmountable wall of the city of Pskov. Rejoice, desert dweller Nikandra and Reverend Euphrosyne, who labored in the land of Pskov. Rejoice, blessed Prokopius, your city Ustyug, delivering from the stone-throwing clouds. Rejoice, righteous Simeon, Verkho-Tursky prayer book and affirmation to the entire Urals. Rejoice, blessed fools of Christ for the sake of: Nicholas and Theodora of Novograd and Isidora of Rostov, reproach of untruth and disgrace of the wisdom of this age. Rejoice also, you, Russian Chrysostom, Rostov Saint Demetrius, who collected the lives of the saints and wrote down all your words for edification. Rejoice, all saints, who have shone forth in the Russian lands.

Kontakion 11

Receive this song of praise and gratitude from us, saints of God: for we place our hope in your intercession and help, and we cry out to God: Alleluia.

Ikos 11

The luminous rays of yours have moved your diverse souls, illuminating every Christian soul, encouraging you to tenderness and zeal for salvation, and you are encouraged to sing the following: Rejoice, Mitrofan, Voronezh praise, simple saint and wise leader of souls to Christ. Rejoice, Tikhon, miracle worker of Zadonsk, honey-melting lips, sweetest broadcaster of the Gospel of Christ. Rejoice, Theodosius, saint of Chernigov, most wonderful lamp. Rejoice, Joasapha, prayer book of Belograd and great zealot of piety. Rejoice, Pitirim, primate of the Tambov country and non-lazy intercessor before God. Rejoice also, O Reverend Seraphim, our joy, wonderful ascetic of Sarov. Rejoice, all saints, who have shone forth in the Russian lands.

Kontakion 12

Ask us, our saints, for the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God and the Father, and the communion of the Holy Spirit, so that by the power and action of the Most Holy Trinity, we may avoid destruction, heresies and schism, singing Orthodoxy: Alleluia.

Ikos 12

Singing your great and bright regiment, all the saints who have shone in our land, we gratefully magnify the Lord who glorified you, ask for His mercy and forgiveness for us sinners, and earnestly cry out to you: Rejoice, saints in our land who have labored in the gospel of Christ and the Orthodox Church in Siberia, China , Japan, America and India planted. Rejoice, having sealed all the evangelistic feat with your blood and laid down your soul for the confession of Christ. Rejoice, holy royal martyrs and reverend elders of Optinstia, and all the other holy lands of ours, not named by us here, but known to God, the Church, manifested and not manifested, but ever praying for us. Rejoice, Nino, Equal to the Apostles, with the many martyrs and saints of Iveron. Rejoice, apostles of Christ Bartholomew and Simon the Canaanite, who have reached our limits. Rejoice, Clemente of Rome, holy martyr, your feat in our country has come to an end. Rejoice, Athanasius of Constantinople, who came to us and left his relics for us in the city of Lubny as a blessing. Rejoice also, you, first-born of the Russian Church, Andrew, the First-Called Apostle, who now looks upon the abundant fruit of your first sowing. Rejoice, all saints, who have shone forth in the Russian lands.

Kontakion 13

O saints of God, who have shone forth in the Russian lands! We are now celebrating your all-honorable memory, we resort to your prayerful intercession and intercession, so that through your prayers we will get rid of the falls of sin, from the slander of evil people and from vain death, and in the future we will be honored to receive salvation and eternal blessings, pleasure, together with you angelically singing to God: Alleluia.

(This Kontakion is read three times, then Ikos 1 and Kontakion 1).

Prayer to All Saints who have shone in the Russian land

About the glorification and all-praise of the saint of God, all the saints who have shone forth in the Russian lands! Your names and talents are many! Now fulfilling your sacred and all-celebratory memory, we magnify Christ our God who magnified you: through faith and love through all your life you have served Him well and through your varied works and deeds you have pleased and glorified Him; By the holiness of your life, the Church of Christ is strengthened and beautified, the Orthodox faith is confirmed, our entire Russian land is sanctified, and we, as your spiritual children, brightly triumph: as truly, from the East of the sun to the West, throughout our entire land the name of the Lord is praised. Moreover, knowing our immeasurable iniquity, we condemn ourselves and to you, as our warm intercessors, we resort with love and humbly pray: with your favorable prayers, and with His love for mankind, Christ God will free the suffering Russian country from the evil atheists and free their power, and will erect a throne Orthodox kings. He will hear His faithful servants, who cry out to Him day and night in grief and sorrow, and will bring out our belly from destruction; May He grant us all a quiet and silent life in this world, to live in all piety and purity, delivering us from the temptations and seductions of the evil enemy, from troubles and misfortunes, and from all evil; at His terrible judgment may He make us worthy to stand on the right hand, and may He make us heirs of the Kingdom of Heaven, so that the most honorable and magnificent name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit will be blessed and glorified, now and ever, and to the ages of ages. Amen.

The prayer is different

Oh, glorified and all-praised saints of God, all the saints, known and unknown, have shone forth in the land of Russia! To you, as to our warm intercessors and representatives, we resort with love and humbly pray: beg the Lord God, with your favorable prayers, may He grant us (names) a quiet and pious life in this time of life, may He deliver us from temptations and temptations of the crafty devil and from troubles and misfortunes, and from all evil; at His Last Judgment may He grant us to stand on the right hand and become heirs of His Heavenly Kingdom, as the most honorable and magnificent name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit is blessed, now and ever and unto ages of ages. Amen.

On the portal “Orthodoxy and Peace” you will find the complete canonical text of the prayer to all the Saints who shone in the Russian land. You can also see the icon.

Prayer to all Saints who have shone in the Russian land

About the all-blessing and divine wisdom of the saint of God, who sanctified the Russian Land with their deeds and left their bodies, like the seed of faith, in it, with their souls standing before the Throne of God and constantly praying for it!

Behold, now on the day of your common triumph, we, your lesser sinners, dare to bring you songs of praise. We magnify your great exploits, spiritual warriors of Christ, with patience and courage to the end of the enemy, who overthrew the enemy and delivered us from his deception and wiles. We bless your holy life, divine luminaries, shining with the light of faith and virtues and enlightening our minds and hearts with wisdom. We glorify your great miracles, blossoming regions, in our country to the north, flourishing beautifully and the aromas of talents and miracles fragrant everywhere. We praise your God-imitating love, our intercessors and protectors, and, trusting in your help, we fall to you and cry out: our equal-to-the-apostles enlighteners! Encourage the people of the Russian Land to firmly maintain the Orthodox faith you have devoted, so that the saving seed that you have sown will not be dried up by the heat of unbelief, but watered by the rain of God’s haste, may it bear abundant fruit.

Saints of Christ! With your prayers, strengthen the Russian Church, destroy heresies, schisms and discord in it, gather the scattered sheep together and protect them from all wolves who enter the flock of Christ in the clothing of sheep.

Reverend fathers! Save us from the charms of this evil world, so that, having denied ourselves and taken up our cross, we may follow Christ, crucifying our flesh with passions and lusts, bearing each other’s burdens.

Blessed Prince! Look mercifully at your earthly fatherland and all the wickedness and temptations that now exist in it, consume the weapon of your prayers, so that, as in ancient times, so now and in the future the name of the Lord is glorified in Holy Rus'.

Passion-bearers of Russia of glory! Strengthen us in prayer even to the point of blood for the Orthodox faith and the customs of the fatherland, so that neither sorrow, nor cramped conditions, nor persecution, nor famine, nor nakedness, nor misfortune, nor sword will be able to separate us from the love of God, which is about Christ Jesus.

Blessedness, Christ for the sake of foolishness and righteousness! Confound the wisdom of this age, which ascends to the Mind of God. Help us, who have been strengthened by the saving violence of the Cross of Christ, to be unshakable by the temptations of worldly wisdom, to always think about things above, and not to think about earthly things.

God-wise women, who in a weak nature have demonstrated great feats! Pray so that the spirit of your love for the Lord and zeal for pleasing and for your own and your neighbor’s salvation do not become scarce in us.

All our holy relatives, who have shone forth from the ancient years and labored in the last days, manifested and unappeared, known and unknown! Remember our weakness and humiliation and with your prayers ask Christ our God, so that we, having sailed comfortably through the abyss of life and preserved the treasure of faith unharmed, will reach the haven of eternal salvation and in the blessed abodes of the heavenly Fatherland, together with you and with all the saints who have pleased Him from the ages let us be established, by the grace and love of mankind of our Savior Lord Jesus Christ, to whom, together with the Eternal Father and the Most Holy Spirit, befits unceasing praise and worship from all creatures forever and ever. Amen.

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As in every Orthodox Church, in Church in Victory Park To the right of the Royal Doors there is a temple icon. This image of “All Saints who shone in the Russian Land”. The name of the holiday was recently changed to All Saints in the Land Russian shone,” but the inscription on the icon remained the same, this is allowed by tradition. The only thing that has sacred meaning in an icon is the signature of the saint’s name next to each image. The name of the event to which the icon is dedicated does not have to be formulated exactly according to the church calendar: the main thing is that it corresponds true meaning depicted.

The temple icon “All Saints Who Shined in the Land of Russia” was painted in the tradition of the Moscow school of icon painting of the late 15th-16th centuries. The author of this wonderful image is the famous St. Petersburg icon painter Khristina Prokhorova. The icon came to the temple on January 27, 2012, on the memorable Day of lifting the siege of Leningrad. The icon seems too big for our church. And this is no coincidence. With the blessing of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill and by order of President V.V. Putin, a memorial temple should be built in Victory Park, which will adequately perpetuate the memory of the people burned and buried in it and will replace the current small temple-chapel.

Icon of “All Saints Who Shined in the Land of Russia,” painted by nun Juliania (Sokolova)

The iconographic concept of the image of all Russian saints was developed by St. Afanasy Kovrovsky, who corrected and edited the text of the service “To all the saints in the Russian Land who have shone forth” by decision of the Local Council of 1917-1918. According to his description, two different icons were initially painted, but only one, created by nun Juliania (Sokolova), became the canonical example. The icon of Mother Juliana formed the basis of the iconography created in the Russian Church Abroad, where it was supplemented with images of saints royal passion-bearers and Russian new martyrs. After the canonization of the holy new martyrs and confessors of the Russian Church by the Council of Bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church in 2000, the image of their cathedral was added to icons painted in Russia.

Next to the temple icon there are shrines that make our church a place of deep prayer for the Russian Land, which is so necessary for the Fatherland in these turbulent times. This is (for now only in the form of a reproduction) an image of St. blgv. book Alexander Nevsky, defender of the Russian Land, and the ark with the relics of the saints resting in the Kiev Pechersk Lavra. The very first Russian saints, standing at the origins of our spiritual history, mystically came to the site of the new Russian Golgotha of the 20th century. Here, among the thousands who were burned and buried in the park pond, lie the ashes of many innocently murdered passion-bearers. They are new branches of the tree of Russian holiness, which sent out its first shoots more than a thousand years ago in the caves of the Kiev Pechersk Lavra.

The icon of “All Saints who have shone forth in the Russian Land” is unusual. There are no other similar images depicting saints, where the earth would occupy the entire iconographic space, rising vertically upward. Usually saints are depicted standing on a conventional strip - ground - and their figures are surrounded on all sides by a gold or ocher background. This background symbolically indicates that God’s chosen ones appear only figuratively in our sinful world, but in reality they eternally reside in the Kingdom of Glory of the Lord Jesus Christ, in Heavenly Jerusalem. The earth takes the place of a symbolic background only when the icon tells about God’s presence on earth: about His Nativity, Baptism, Second Coming for the Last Judgment - after all, where God is, there is Heaven. The icon of “All the Saints Who Shined in the Russian Land” with its unusual composition testifies: God is with us! Our land, inhabited by saints, ascends directly to the Divine Throne. The saints did not leave the Russian Land. With their presence, their prayers, they fill it with the grace of the Holy Spirit, making it “Holy Russia”, which is alive and inseparable from Holy Trinity. The icon of “All Saints who shone forth in the Russian Land” is an icon of our holy Russian Land.

The abundance of the grace-filled gifts of the Holy Spirit, which are poured out on our land by the prayerful standing of Russian saints, is metaphorically represented in the icon as a stream of a deep river that flows from the throne of the Most Holy Trinity. This metaphor is taken from the Gospel, where Jesus Christ several times compares the gifts of the Holy Spirit to living water: “ TOthen he thirsts, come to Me and drink"(John 7:37). In a conversation with the Samaritan woman at the well, the Lord calls to Himself all those “thirst” for truth as a new, true source: “... Everyone who drinks this water will thirst again, but whoever drinks the water that I will give him will never thirst. but the water that I will give him will become in him a fountain of water springing up into eternal life(John 4:10,13-14).

The Russian land, filled with the living water of grace, seems to bloom on the icon with hundreds of images of saints. “They are countless in the entire history of Rus',” said the Pskov-Pechersk Elder John (Krestyankin), “manifested and unmanifested, many holy men, women, saints, wonderworkers, princes, monks... Miscellaneous properties They demonstrate Russian religiosity, but what they have in common is that they are all filled with one spirit - the spirit of holy faith and church piety, the Spirit of Christ.” The images of saints are interconnected into groups that merge into a single stream. The symbolic river of Russian holiness in the icon flows upward, rising towards the river, symbolizing the descent of the Holy Spirit onto the Russian land. The stream of saints in the center of the icon is divided into two sleeves that go around the white walls of the Assumption Cathedral of the Moscow Kremlin. Before his throne, overshadowed Vladimir icon Mother of God, Moscow saints are standing. First Peter and Alexy, followed by Theognostus, Jonah, Hermogenes, Philip, Job, Photius, Macarius... Next to them are the saints, the holy fools, the holy believers... The names of each are written in a halo around the face. The liturgical service of the Moscow saints at the main altar of the country reveals the main theme of the icon: the communion of the Russian land with God.

Drawings of Nun Juliania (Sokolova)

“The river of Russian folk life, giving birth to saints, flowed in a given direction, but sometimes quickly and fruitfully, sometimes slowly, sometimes so quietly that it was difficult to determine whether it was flowing forward or backward,” said John (Krestyankin). The Pskov-Pechersk elder divided Russian religious history into seven periods from Saint Prince Vladimir to this day, comparing them with the Seven Sacraments. “The first period - Vladimir - corresponds to the Mystery of Holy Baptism. It is short, but unusually significant, due to a radical revolution in the life and consciousness of the people, due to the striving for a new goal. Birth of water and Spirit. Then the first saints appear - mentors of the true faith and our intercessors to the Master.” In the icon, Equal-to-the-Apostles Vladimir, together with his family - his holy grandmother, Princess Olga, his passion-bearing sons Boris and Gleb and other Kiev saints - is depicted at the very bottom in the center, as if inside the oldest Russian temple - the Kyiv Sophia. This place corresponds to the place of the symbolic root of the spiritual tree of Russian holiness. On both sides of him in the dark caves are the Kiev-Pechersk monks. In the Kiev-Pechersk Monastery, the relics of the holy monks rest in two cave complexes - the Near and Far caves. On the left are the saints of the Near Caves, and in front of everyone is St. Anthony of Pechersk, founder of Russian hermit monasticism. On the right are the saints of the Far Caves. The first among them is St. Theodosius Pechersky - founder of the Russian cenobitic monasticism. The saints of the Kiev-Pechersk Monastery, together with the Kyiv saints and Equal-to-the-Apostles Vladimir, represent the foundation of the symbolic temple of Russian holiness, mark the beginning of the house-building of the Holy Spirit on the Russian Land.

Above the Kyiv saints, exactly along the axis of the domes of the Kyiv Sophia and the Moscow Assumption Cathedral, the Tsar-Passion-Bearer Nicholas II is depicted on a dais, surrounded by his family. On both sides of the royal martyrs stands a host of new martyrs: saints who gave their lives for their Christian beliefs during the years of godless persecution of the 20th century. Despite the fact that the holy new martyrs only recently entered the ranks of Russian saints, their place is at the bottom of the icon. With their blood they strengthen the foundation of the temple of Russian holiness.

It is no coincidence that the image of Nicholas II becomes the symbolic center of the holy new martyrs. He is not just a martyr - he is the murdered Anointed of God, and his royal throne, like the liturgical throne in the church, symbolizes the throne of the King of Kings and the Great Bishop Jesus Christ. The king is the image of Christ the Pantocrator, and his earthly kingdom is the image of the Kingdom of Heaven. " The king is similar in nature to all man, but in power he is similar to the Most High God“,” wrote the great Russian elder, Rev. Joseph of Volotsky (†1515) Therefore, in the icon of Russian Holiness, Nicholas II is the only one standing on a dais, dressed in red and gold clothes, like the covers of the throne of the Assumption Cathedral above his head.

St. Afanasy (Sakharov), Bishop of Kovrov, confessor.

When St. Afanasy (Sakharov) developed the composition of the icon of the Council of Russian Saints, the royal family and the council of new martyrs were not included in the ranks of saints and the majority depicted on the icon had yet to ascend to their Golgotha. The Bishop did not know that four years later he himself would take the path of confession, and would celebrate the celebration of All Russian Saints according to the service he had corrected for the first time on November 10, 1922 in cell 172 of the Vladimir prison. On the icon painted by nun Juliania (Sokolova), which has become an iconographic model, a number of new martyrs are not yet present. He appeared later. On the icons painted after 2000 there is also an image of St. himself. Athanasius - he is depicted third in the second row to the left of the family of royal passion-bearers.

Saint Athanasius conceived a circular composition of the icon, where groups of saints were to be located in the direction of the sun, successively displaying the south, west, north and east of Russia. The circular composition of the icon, replenished with a new row, became more complex, but it retained the image of perfect unity, the symbol of which is the circle. We see how the branches of Russian holiness rise on both sides of the center: on the left are hosts of ascetics sanctifying the western borders of the Russian land, on the right are the eastern ones.

To the left of the cathedral of the Kiev-Pechersk saints are depicted the saints of southern Rus', the Chernigov prince-martyrs Michael and Theodore, the Pereyaslav and Volyn miracle workers with the Monk Job of Pochaev. To the right of Moscow is the Holy Trinity-Sergius Lavra with St. Sergius of Radonezh and his closest disciples. Above are the saints who established Orthodoxy in Smolensk, Brest, Bialystok, and Lithuania. The Novgorod and Pskov dioceses became famous for the abundance of saints in the north-west of the Fatherland. The crown of the great Russian tree is formed by the Northern Thebaid, which is how the monasteries of the northern Russian lands are figuratively called. From left to right in the upper part of the icon are depicted Petrograd, Olonets, Belozersk, Arkhangelsk, Solovetsky, Vologda and Perm saints of God.

In the lower right corner, the branch of saints of the Russian Orthodox East begins to grow. At the very bottom we see an image of the saints of the ancient Churches of the Caucasus: Iberia, Georgia and Armenia. Above, a host of Tambov, Siberian and Kazan miracle workers stand in prayer to Christ. The Kazan revealed miraculous icon of the Mother of God overshadows the east of Holy Rus'. Above them are all the saints of the Central Russian lands: saints of Rostov and Yaroslavl, Uglich and Suzdal, Murom and Kostroma, Tver and Ryazan, ancient Vladimir and Pereslavl Zalessky. “In Holy Rus' “there is no difference between Jew and Greek, because there is one Lord for all, rich for all who call on him” (Rom. 10: 12). Russians, Greeks, Bulgarians, Serbs, Ukrainians, Moldovans, Germans, Karelians, Hungarians, Tatars, Aleuts, etc. - different peoples who lived on Russian soil and professed the Orthodox faith, regardless of nationality, entered Holy Rus' and sanctified it by his spiritual feat” (V. Lepakhin).

The Russian land, inhabited by saints, rises to the very clouds, to the Heavenly Jerusalem, where, sanctified by the golden light of Divine Glory, the Most Pure Mother of God and Saint John the Baptist, the holy archangels Michael and Gabriel, the apostles Bartholomew and Andrew, Saints Photius and the seven of Kherson stand before the Throne of the Holy Trinity. Hieromartyrs, Great Martyrs George and Demetrius of Thessalonica, St. Nicholas of Myra and enlighteners Slovenian Kirill and Methodius, as well as many other saints, one way or another historically connected with the Russian Church. They pray together with the saints of the Russian Land for everyone living on it, for everyone, righteous and sinner, believer and non-believer, for every person who walks on our consecrated blood of martyrs, prayed to the Lord and filled with the grace of the Holy Spirit of the Russian Land.

O.V. Gubareva.

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The Second Sunday after Pentecost is " Sunday of All Saints, who shone in the Russian land“The Church glorifies a host of righteous people and martyrs, both glorified and known only to God. This is a holiday of all Holy Rus'.

There were nowhere else as many saints as the people who lived on our land gave. The Gospel says: “The Sower went out to sow.” The Lord sowed the word of God in all nations, and each of them reacted to it in their own way. Holiness is man's response to the call of God.

God came to earth to call everyone. He said this: “Many are invited.” We live in an age when there is not a single person left on earth, with the exception of small children, who has not heard of Jesus Christ. The very sound of His name already gives rise to certain associations. In any case, everyone knows that This Man said about Himself that He was the Son of God, descended from Heaven. And everyone knows that He was crucified on the Cross.

But the reaction of a person’s heart to this event is completely different. Most people are not interested in this at all. They do not even give themselves the trouble to find out what Christ said while living on earth; what He did when He walked through Palestine two thousand years ago; How did it happen that, although everything showed that he was a good man, He was crucified. The life of Jesus is of no interest to the majority of those living on earth - that is, although the call reaches their ears, people do not answer it.
The Lord came to everyone. Of course, He began with His chosen, beloved people.

But this people for the most part rejected Him, just as now our people for the most part have completely rejected Christ - and, by the way, for the same reason. This, apparently, is generally the lot of humanity - to reject God. But there were people who responded to this call. How did their response to God take place? In the example of the apostles, these first saints of the New Testament, we see how this happens.

The Gospel of Matthew, which we read today, tells how the Lord called the apostles Andrew, Peter, James and John. He approached the Sea of Galilee, saw two brothers casting nets into the sea, and said to them: “Follow Me, and I will make you fishers of men.” They immediately left their nets and followed Him. So are the sons of Zebedee.

Imagine a picture - fishermen catching fish. This is the source of their existence: from this fish they eat, from this fish they dress and maintain their homes. And so He calls them - they give up this, completely, forever leave and follow Him. But James and John even left their father, and Peter left his wife at home and began to follow Christ. Few people can do this - like this, for the sake of Christ, give up everything. Therefore, few people can be an apostle...

Edifying history of the holiday. Since the 16th century, our Church has celebrated the memory of “All Saints and New Wonderworkers of Russia.” It took place on July 17 (according to the old style), i.e. on the third day of memory of the Baptist of Rus' - St. Prince Vladimir.

The traditional author of the service for this holiday is considered to be the monk Gregory from the Suzdal Spaso-Evfimievsky Monastery (he compiled its text, apparently, in the middle of the 16th century). There are two known editions of it entitled “Service to all Russian miracle workers” (Grodno and Suprasl, in the same year, 1786).

But in central Russia, for some reason, this holiday did not become widespread, was actually forgotten and was not included in the printed Monthly Books, and its text was not published. Obviously, trials sent by God powerful country and the state Church, many seemed surmountable on their own. Only the disaster of 1917 forced me to seriously turn to help from Above.

It is significant that the initiator of the recreation of the holiday was the brilliant oriental historian prof. Petrograd University (now St. Petersburg State University) academician. Boris Aleksandrovich Turaev (†1920), employee of the Liturgical Department of the Holy Local Council of the Orthodox Russian Church in 1917-1918.

In his report, he especially noted the fact that “the service compiled in Great Russia found particular distribution on the periphery of the Russian Church, on its western outskirts and even beyond its borders at the time of the division of Russia, when the loss of national and political unity was especially acutely felt.<…>

In our sorrowful time, when united Rus' has become torn, when our sinful generation has trampled underfoot the fruits of the exploits of the Saints who worked in the caves of Kiev, and in Moscow, and in the Thebaid of the North, and in Western Russia to create a united Orthodox Russian Church, it would seem opportune restore this forgotten holiday“May it remind us and our rejected brothers from generation to generation of the One Orthodox Russian Church and may it be a small tribute to our sinful generation and a small atonement for our sin.”

The Holy Council, at a meeting on August 13/26, 1918, on the name day of His Holiness Patriarch Tikhon, heard the report of B. Turaev and, after discussing it, adopted the following resolution:
"1. The celebration of the day of remembrance of All Russian Saints, which existed in the Russian Church, is being restored.
2. This celebration takes place on the first Sunday of Peter’s Lent.”

The Council assumed that this holiday, which has special meaning for us, should become, as it were, a temple for all Orthodox churches in Rus'.
Thus, it is no coincidence that this holiday was restored (and in fact reintroduced) at the beginning of the period of the most severe persecution of Christianity in its entire 19-century history.

It is characteristic that its content, as suggested by B. Turaev, has become more universal: it is no longer just a celebration of Russian saints, but a triumph of all Holy Rus', not triumphal, but repentant, forcing us to evaluate our past and draw lessons from it for the creation of the Church in new conditions.

The compilers of the texts of the service were B. Turaev himself, a member of the Council and an employee of its Liturgical Commission, and Hierarch. Athanasius (Sakharov) (later Bishop of Kovrov, +1962; now canonized as a confessor, commemorated October 15/28).

The initial version of the service was published as a separate brochure in the same 1918. Later the text was supplemented; Met. also took part in the work. Sergius (Stragorodsky) (the troparion belongs to him), priest. Sergiy Durylin and others.

The first church in honor of All Russian Saints was the house church of Petrograd University. Its rector from 1920 until its closure in 1924 was priest Vladimir Lozina-Lozinsky, who was executed in 1937.

After the cessation of direct persecution of the Church in the 40s of the 20th century. the text of the service was printed with censorship distortions that destroyed all references to the new martyrs (on instructions Soviet authorities this “edit” was zealously carried out by LDA inspector prof. L. N. Pariysky).

Only in 1995 was the separate book “Service to All Saints Who Shined in the Russian Land” published. Although this holiday actually continues the theme of the last celebration of the Colored Triodion (“All Saints”), they did not supplement this essentially Greek book. In 2002, the text of the service to All Russian Saints was included in the May Menaion (Part 3).

Prayer to all Saints who have shone in the Russian land

We bless your holy life, divine luminaries, shining with the light of faith and virtues and enlightening our minds and hearts with wisdom. We glorify your great miracles, blossoming regions, in our country to the north, flourishing beautifully and the aromas of talents and miracles fragrant everywhere.

We praise your God-imitating love, our intercessors and protectors, and, trusting in your help, we fall to you and cry out: our equal-to-the-apostles enlighteners! Encourage the people of the Russian Land to firmly maintain the Orthodox faith you have devoted, so that the saving seed that you have sown will not be dried up by the heat of unbelief, but watered by the rain of God’s haste, may it bear abundant fruit.

We magnify You, Trinitarian Master, who has illuminated the Russian land with the Orthodox faith and the great host of our holy relatives who have been glorified in it!

The Day of All Saints, who have shone in the Russian land, known and unknown, is a holiday of the Russian Orthodox Church

Today is the holiday of our local Russian Orthodox Church - the Day of All Saints, who have shone forth in the Russian land from time immemorial. This day, its hymns and readings, makes us think about the history of our Church, one of the sister Churches of Ecumenical Orthodoxy, about its destinies, its current state and about each of us as members of its body. Are we her loving and faithful children - or just casual visitors to her temples? Today, turning to the experience of our near and distant ancestors, it is necessary to realize that it is not enough to be a believer - one must be a church member, that is, live a regular spiritual life, regularly participate in the Sacraments of the Church, in its prayers, live its joys and pains. By becoming a church member, we gain support, make our lives richer and more meaningful, and approach complete joy.

The most important question of our modern life is the question of the Church, of its unity, of its internal, parish life. “I believe... in one Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church,” - this is how it is sung in Orthodox churches at every Liturgy; these words, rising from sleep, are pronounced by every Orthodox Christian, performing the morning prayer rule. Without this faith one cannot consider oneself Orthodox.

In the daily troparion today it is sung: “Like a red fruit (that is, beautiful) The Russian Land brings Your saving sowing to You, Lord, all the saints who have shone forth in that one. Those prayers in the world deep Church and protect our country through the Mother of God, O Great Merciful.”

In it we pray first of all for the Church, for its unity. We ask for prayers and help from all the saints who have shone in the Russian country. But it is impossible, while asking in prayer for the unity of the Church, to dismember it with your words and deeds.

There is no Christianity without the Church, there is only a certain semblance of it, just as there is no Church without a bishop - the bearer of a special gift of grace, successively and collectively transmitted to the elect since apostolic times. This church-wide consciousness has been preserved from the day of the descent of the Holy Spirit on the Apostles to this day. The selection and installation of bishops is the most important part of the activity of the holy Apostles; many of them were themselves bishops of individual cities and regions.

The disciple of the Apostle John the Theologian, the Hieromartyr Ignatius the God-Bearer, about whom during his life they said that Jesus Christ took him in his arms as a baby (Matthew 18:2; Mark 9:36; Luke 9:47) wrote in his Epistle to the Philadelphians: “Try to have one Eucharist, for there is one Flesh of our Lord Jesus Christ and one cup for the unity of His Blood, one altar.” He emphasized: “Without a bishop, do not do anything related to the Church. Only that Eucharist should be considered true, which is celebrated by the bishop or by those to whom he himself grants it,” that is, by the priest who has the grace for this, received in the sacrament of the priesthood.

Without a bishop there is no Church, therefore, with all the persecution of the Church - both in the first centuries, in the Roman Empire, and in the 20th century, in an atheistic state, the main blow was directed at the episcopate. Now, when there is no physical persecution, attempts are being made to undermine the trust in the bishop among the flock, using slander and lies. One should not be surprised by this, although, of course, not all church hierarchs are worthy of their rank, just as not all who enter the temple of God are worthy of the name of Christian.

According to the teaching of the Apostle Paul, the Church is the body of Christ, and we are all its members (see Col. 1:24; Eph. 5:30). The unity of the Church and the continuity of the grace of its priesthood from the Apostles is one of the cornerstones of the Orthodox faith. This is why our Orthodox Church is called Apostolic, Catholic, although it consists of separate local Churches that are in close Eucharistic communion with each other. This perception and understanding of the Church is empathized with, revealed, and explained throughout its history. This was taught by the Apostle Paul (I century), Saint John Chrysostom (IV-V centuries), Saint John of Damascus (VII-VIII centuries), Blessed Theophylact of Bulgaria (XI century), Saint Theophan the Recluse (XIX century) , Hieromartyr Hilarion (Troitsky) (XX century). The laymen of our Orthodox Church - Alexei Stepanovich Khomyakov (1804-1860) and others - tried to reveal this same simple, revealed truth for the Russian intelligentsia, carried away by the rationalistic philosophy of the West.

In the Church, the faith received from Christ and the Apostles has remained the same for centuries. It is only sometimes explained in new images and concepts in connection with the demands of the church people or the doubts of this world. This faith was cherished as a shrine, as a jewel by the saints who shone in the Russian land; it was protected by Russian Orthodoxy for a millennium. In an effort to preserve the purity of the Orthodox faith, we very clearly distinguish between revealed dogmas, historically established gracious canons and private theological opinions-theologumen.

Departure from church unity leads to sectarianism and heresies. Each new “teacher” preaches in his own way, and Christian teaching becomes something very vague, constantly changing at the request of the new teachers. This is clearly seen in the history of Protestantism and the Old Believers, in the example of the division of the newest religious movements into more and more warring sects and groups. The cause of schisms is human pride, although sometimes the reason may be the actions and deeds of persons who consider themselves to be in the Church.

“From the very beginning, Christians constituted the Church,” writes Hieromartyr Archbishop Hilarion (Troitsky), “and we can consider faith in its salvific power and in the truth that Christianity is not separated from the Church as given by the Lord Jesus Christ Himself<…>Christ is not only a great teacher, He is the Savior of the world<…>We have not only teaching from Christ our Savior, but life.” Christianity is the joyful fullness of life in Christ. The fullness of this life is impossible without participation in church sacraments.

Our Russian new martyrs suffered not only for the abstract Christian faith, but above all for the Church of Christ. They did not want to exchange perfect joy for the illusory happiness of this world.

From the first days of the “great” revolution, it was the Orthodox Church that began to be persecuted and destroyed. Lenin wrote supportive letters to Muslims; until 1929 there was no persecution of Baptists. Through the state publishing house they published Buddhist apologetics, in particular, the work of Roerich’s wife. After 1929, however, they began to persecute “everyone and everyone” for all kinds of differences of opinion. These facts must be understood both historically and spiritually.

From whom should we take examples of our attitude towards the world and the Church, if not from our Russian saints and ascetics of faith and piety, martyrdom and confession?

To whom should we turn for prayerful help in years of turmoil, national disasters and temptations, if not to our holy compatriots? And we ask God: “Those prayers will deepen the Church and our country in peace.”

From whom should we learn faith, hope and love, patience and Christian courage, firmness in faith and prayer, fidelity to the Mother Church, if not from the saints of our land?

Many of them lived in ancient times: the Slovenian first teachers Cyril and Methodius, Saint Equal to the Apostles Grand Duke Vladimir, Saints Anthony and Theodosius of Kiev-Pechersk, Sergius and Nikon of Radonezh. Others - just a hundred or two hundred years ago: St. Seraphim of Sarov, St. Innocent of Moscow, Theophan the Recluse. And some lived among our fathers and grandfathers. They prayed, talked, worked with them, they were taught by the holy righteous John of Kronstadt, the most holy Patriarch Tikhon, the holy metropolitan martyrs Vladimir and Benjamin, the lay martyrs Yuri and John and many others who have not yet been canonized. Among Russian saints there are people of all ranks and conditions, of different ages and gender, monks and princes, scientists and simpletons. From this host, everyone can choose examples to follow. Many articles and books have been written about Russian saints. In recent years, images of Russian holiness have attracted the theological thought of the West. Moreover, we, who live on Russian soil, consecrated by their holy relics, the churches and monasteries they created, need to know and love everything that has shaped spiritual world Russian Orthodoxy. This is humility, love for God, unity with the Church, this is a Christian attitude towards the world: it should be, in the words of St. Maximus the Confessor, “not sensual, not insensitive, but sympathetic.” “Acquire a peaceful spirit, and thousands around you will be saved,” taught the holy Venerable Seraphim of Sarov. The spirit of peace and prayer gathered around the Monks Anthony and Theodosius a host of Kiev-Pechersk ascetics, who, scattering throughout Rus', headed many bishops' departments.

The same spirit gathered around St. Sergius of Radonezh a host of disciples who created new monasteries throughout Russia. The monk gave impetus to the spiritual, cultural and state revival of Rus' - let us recall, for example, the monk Andrei the icon painter (Rublev) and the victory on the Kulikovo field.

The same spirit warmed the weak in the Martha and Mary community of the holy blessed princess-martyr Elizabeth Feodorovna.

Among the Russian saints are people of various nationalities: Greeks, Tatars, Bulgarians, Georgians, Germans, Jews - all united in Christ, they all labored in our Church, on our land. Its high priests were Greeks, Russians, Bulgarians, and Mordvins. "There is neither Greek nor Jew<…>but Christ is all and in all” (Col. 3:11).

Our ancient Russian piety was associated mainly with monasteries: they were centers of spiritual and cultural life. WITH late XIX V. Spiritual centers began to appear in city parishes. This is St. Andrew's Cathedral in Kronstadt, where the all-Russian shepherd served - the holy righteous John of Kronstadt and the wonderworker of all Russia. Orthodox people came to him from all over Russia for prayerful help and advice. He said to Muscovites: “Why are you coming to me - you have a father, Valentin Amphiteatrov.” How many tears and prayers were shed at the Vagankovskoye cemetery at the grave of this rector of the Kremlin’s Archangel Cathedral! And the Optina elders sent pilgrims to Father Alexy Mechev in the Church of St. Nicholas on Maroseyka.

The entire history of the Church is a history of persecution and short periods a quiet life: the martyrdom of the first centuries, the persecution of Orthodoxy by Arian emperors and iconoclast emperors... There were oppressions of the Church by Russian tsars and emperors, and then the Russian Church put forward martyrs and confessors. We pray to the Holy Metropolitan of Moscow and All Rus', the Wonderworker Philip, who was killed by Tsar Ivan the Terrible, and the Hieromartyr Patriarch Hermogenes. We honor the suffering of Metropolitan Arseny, walled up with his tongue torn out in a fortress* cell by order of Empress Catherine II. In the 17th century Russian autocrats did not allow Russians to be appointed bishops, fearing the unity of the people and the Church. Pushkin noted that Catherine, with her persecution of the Church, undermined the culture and morality of the Russian people. Later there was a period when, in the name of “Christian love,” criticism of Western confessions was limited, practically prohibited; For his holy word before the emperor, Metropolitan Vladimir was removed from St. Petersburg. Thus, under the faithful Tsar and Tsarina, the way of the cross of the Hieromartyr Vladimir began - and ended with torture and execution under the Bolsheviks. Despite the external splendor and external symphony, the life of the Church was difficult and complex - and there is no need to idealize it: the blasphemous orgies of Ivan the Terrible and Peter I, son-, husband- and patricides, adulterers succeeded each other on the Russian throne. Could they be spiritually rooting for the Orthodox Church! Both Lutherans and Masons were appointed Chief Prosecutor of the Holy Synod. The queens, raised in Protestantism, accepted Orthodoxy only for the sake of the crown. Western preachers penetrated Russia through court circles, and the imperial couple invited French “psychics” and dubious personalities from Siberia to the court. This is where it is, that “ecumenism” that supporters of the Romanov monarchy are supposedly fighting against.

After 1917, a heroic era began in the history of the Russian Orthodox Church - an era of mass martyrdom. The Russian Church, having withstood decades of persecution, has preserved the purity of Orthodoxy.

During the years of the revolution, many fled from Russia. When Bishop Alexy (Simansky), the future Patriarch, was begged by his father to flee to Finland, he said: “A shepherd does not run away from his flock. It is his duty to stay with her and accept all the hardships that befall her. I am a bishop and must remain with my flock, no matter what the risk may be for me personally.” This is what the future Patriarch Alexy I said.

The question was this: to flee the country from his flock, maintaining his visible purity, or to stay here and support the Orthodox faith among the people of his native country, being ready to pay for it with his blood. All five of my first confessors died “there” - some were shot, and some died from torture and disease. And how many acquaintances suffered and met death for the Christian faith. And the image of the young, cheerful beauty Nadya Bogoslovskaya, shot in the camp, her older brother, the talented engineer Mikhail, apparently executed, the stern appearance of the murdered Bishop Bartholomew [2] and many, many others, appears before my eyes.

Every Christian, layman or priest, and even more so a bishop, had to be ready to give up his personal career, to be ready to die for Christ and His Church.

And under these conditions, the shepherds had to remain among the Orthodox people, care for their flock and, if possible, lead those who did not have it and those who had lost it to the faith. Many in prison and in Stalin's camps found faith by communicating with priests and believing lay fellow inmates.

Clandestine churches and catacomb monasteries also arose; Liturgies were celebrated in camps on the chests of martyrs, and in communal apartments, and in caves in Central Asia, etc. And at many of them the name of the High Hierarch of the Moscow Patriarchate was commemorated. The monasteries of those years had a strict and very unique charter. Eucharistically, these churches and monasteries were connected both with Patriarch Alexy I and Pimen (and earlier, some - with Metropolitan Patriarch Sergius), and with those who disagreed with them, with the so-called non-commemorationists. New clergy were being trained under the most difficult semi-legal and illegal conditions. Particularly noteworthy in this field are the works of the future metropolitans Grigory (Chukov), Gury (Egorov) and the executed Archbishop Bartholomew (Remov).

If we canonize all our martyrs, then the host of saints in the Russian Church will be greater than in all other local Churches combined.

...They dug a ditch in Magadan, drove three hundred priests into it and buried them alive. The earth breathed with human lungs for three days. 40 priests were buried alive at the Smolensk cemetery in Leningrad. Thousands and thousands were shot, millions died in prisons and camps. When Metropolitan Vladimir was led to execution, he did not spew curses from his lips to the murderers, but sang chants of the rite of monastic burial.

These holy martyrs call us not to revenge and hatred, but to prayer, firmness in faith and love. The land of Russia is watered with their blood, and with their prayers the Russian Church is now rising. But let us ask ourselves: are we worthy of their blood? Are we worthy to be heirs of their memory? What do we ourselves want, what do we strive for? Our answer to this question lies in our future. Will we exchange our faith for the material wealth of the West and the spiritual false teachings of the East, or will we strengthen ourselves in Orthodoxy?

The past decades have been a glorious era in the history of the Russian Church.

In conditions of severe persecution and underground in circles and groups, they studied Holy Bible, history of the Church, liturgics; Theological works were written and circulated (usually anonymously) in manuscripts and typescripts.

When they began to talk about the need to go to the catacombs, Metropolitan Sergius (Stragorodsky) replied: “You can’t take everyone to the catacombs. It is impossible to leave these little ones without churches and the Eucharist, the Russian Orthodox people - without the Christian Sacraments.”

Our hierarchs and priests were required to live according to the commandment of Christ: “Be wise as serpents and simple as doves” (Matthew 10:16), and in the words of the holy Apostle Paul: “Brothers! Do not be children in understanding; be children in evil, but mature in understanding” (1 Cor 14:20). Of course, there were cases of apostasy, but Judas was also among Christ’s disciples.

Just as false witnesses spoke out against Christ, slander has been used against the Church throughout its history, and it often originates in a parachurch environment that calls itself Orthodox, and is then happily picked up by secular publications. Renovationists slandered, “guardians of Orthodoxy” and pseudo-democrats slandered.

We do not condemn those who left Russia during the years civil war. For many, it was a matter of momentarily saving their lives from today’s or tomorrow’s execution. Many were deported by force.

The emigration of Orthodox Christians from Russia was of great church-wide significance .

It can only be compared with the flight of the followers of Christ from Jerusalem during the time of the Apostles. One led to the spread of Christianity among pagans, the second - Orthodoxy among non-Orthodox peoples. English-, French-, Spanish-speaking and other Orthodox parishes emerged. The flourishing of Russian Orthodox theology was facilitated by a direct encounter with the theological thought of the West. The foundations and beginnings of this flourishing lie in Russia both in ascetic, and in liturgical, and in theological terms: Rev. Seraphim of Sarov, Saints Theophan and Ignatius, St. Equal-to-the-Apostles Innocent and Nicholas, Sergius (Stragorodsky) with his explanation of the Orthodox teaching on salvation, Khomyakov and his friends, Fr. Pavel Florensky, Fr. Sergius Bulgakov and others. We are filled with gratitude to the St. Sergius Institute in Paris, created by Metropolitan Exarch Eulogius, and to the St. Vladimir Academy in New York. With their works they contribute to the revival of Orthodoxy in Russia. We did not lose Eucharistic communion with them, no matter under whose jurisdiction they were. There was and is no split. Only the leadership of the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad caused and causes pain. Its origins began with politics: the white generals and the hierarchs who joined them set the task of restoring the Romanov family to the Russian throne, hence their friendship with “Memory”.

The enemies of Christ and the Church directly say: “We will not allow the unity of the Church,” - this is from the guidelines former Council for religious affairs. Just as during the years of the revolution they supported the renovationists, so now they create and support any schisms. In some areas Orthodox priests they are not allowed to go to school, because they say that the Church is separated from the state, but they invite Protestants, since they are not a Church, but a public organization. Former atheists very correctly assessed the difference between Orthodoxy and sectarians, heretics and schismatics, probably without themselves understanding the full depth of their conclusions. Just as the Bolsheviks previously seized churches from the Orthodox and handed them over (albeit temporarily) to the Renovationists, just as the German authorities previously took away churches from the communities of the Western European Exarchate and handed them over to the Karlovians, so now they are handing them over here and there to new schismatics (which is especially clearly evident in Ukraine) and provide cinemas and stadiums to dubious sects for dollars.

There is no need to be deceived by the West, especially America: many there are afraid of the unity of the Russian people. Back in the years of Khrushchev and Brezhnev, in response to the thesis that the national movements of the enslaved peoples of the East and West are a reserve of the world proletarian revolution, and in response to the decades-long military revolutionary intervention of the USSR in the countries of Africa, Asia and South America, anti-Russian propaganda was launched on on all continents, and above all in the “Soviet” republics.

Many in the West who do not want the revival of Russia understand that only Orthodoxy can unite the Russian people. Consequently, they will contribute to dividing the Russian Orthodox Church into many small sects and pseudo-church movements. This is one of the reasons for the anti-Orthodox and proselytizing activities of heterodox sects and foreign preachers. There are also sincere people among them, devoted to their confession, whose consciousness is clouded by religious pluralism: everyone is their own dad. We must respond to this with love and Orthodox preaching.

We live in difficult times: new sects are emerging, the likes of which have never existed before. "Bogorodichny" center cancels New Testament- The Testament of Christ, there is an offensive of non-Christian religions, Satanists are loudly declaring themselves.

They try to kill the feeling in us in a variety of ways, using cinema, television, radio, store windows, book stalls and the bustle of life. awe , for without reverence there is no Christian Orthodox faith, there is no Church. “You believe...,” writes the Apostle James, “you do well; and the demons believe and tremble” (James 2:19). The Apostle Paul warns: “Be careful, brethren, that no one leads you away through philosophy and empty deception, according to the tradition of men, according to the rudiments of the world, and not according to Christ” (Col. 2:8).

This seduction can be anthroposophy and theosophy, Eastern mysticism and Western occultism, the “Virgin” center and Western neo-Protestant sects. It can take the form of Christ-Vissarion, who appeared in Siberia, and the Mother of the World-Pantocrator, trying to unite occultism, mystical rationalism and the sensuality of East and West, North and South. The New Testament, the Testament of Christ, is being cancelled, they talk and write about the “third covenant,” the covenant of the Mother of God, through whom alone the Holy Spirit descends on people, or about the covenant that brings Christ-Vissarion into the world, which means “Giver of Life.”

Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior, warned: “Take heed that you are not led astray (Luke 21:8); For many will come in My name and say, “I am the Christ,” and will deceive many (Matthew 24:5). Then, if anyone tells you: behold, here is Christ, or there, do not believe it. For false Christs and false prophets will arise and show great signs and wonders to deceive, if possible, even the elect (Matthew 24:23-24; Mark 13:22); Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom, and there will be famines, pestilences and earthquakes in many places (Matthew 24:7); and because iniquity increases, the love of many will grow cold (Matthew 24:12); I told you this so that you would not be tempted<…>When that time comes, remember that I told you about these things (John 16:1,4).”

During the years of persecution and schisms, we especially prayed for the unity of the Church to Saint Alexy, Metropolitan of Moscow and All Rus', the Wonderworker, whose relics now rest in the Epiphany Cathedral, for during his lifetime he was sick about the unity of Rus'. Standing at his shrine, we appeal to him: “Holy Father Alexy, help the Primate of our Church, His Holiness Patriarch Alexy II, to care for our church ship, as in past years you helped Patriarch Alexy I.”

The historical merit of His Holiness Alexy I is that he brought together the Russian Orthodox Church, which was suffering from splits and even schisms. Outside it and outside Eucharistic communion with the Ecumenical Patriarchs, only the Russian Church Abroad remained in two hundred parishes scattered throughout the world.

We pray to the holy Patriarch Tikhon: “By your presiding power towards the Lord, keep the Russian Church in silence, gather her scattered children into one flock, convert those who have apostatized from the right faith to repentance, save our country from internecine warfare, ask for the peace of God for the people.” To strengthen our faith, our hope in the Lord, his holy relics were miraculously revealed.

Let us remember our new Russian martyrs and confessors. When according to the former Soviet Union atheism marched with drumbeats and fanfares, crushing churches and destroying the clergy and many lay believers, when its power spread on earth from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific, from the Arctic to the Indian, they and the Russian Church were not tempted either by the sounds of trumpets, or by the roar of tambourines and kettledrums . “On this rock I will build My Church, and the gates of hell will not prevail against it” (Matthew 16:18). And churches began to open, Sunday schools arose, priests came into classrooms and prison cells. But aren't we given the last word? Will we be silent in the fear of the Jews or will we speak when we can speak within the walls of houses and in the congregations of people? “Don’t be afraid, little flock! for it has been your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom” (Luke 12:32).

Let us intensify our prayers to the Lord, so that He will help us preserve the purity of the Orthodox faith and reverence, and, like Hieromonk Parthenius of Kiev, we will ask: “Teach me, Lord, to arrange my affairs so that they will contribute to the glorification of Your holy name,” - Let us learn from Russian saints the love of God, the Church, people, and our fatherland. We will not be tempted by heresies and schisms, by the rich preachers of the West and Korea, we will not sell the faith of our ancestors for lentil stew. Let us preserve the unity of the Russian Orthodox Church as the greatest treasure. Let us not abandon our Mother, who kept her faith in pain and illness and took care of us.

Today, the face of the saints in our land who have pleased God stands in the Church and invisibly prays to God for us. The angels praise him and celebrate him in the holy Church of Christ, for they pray to the Eternal God for us.

O. Gleb considered the day of All Saints, who shone in the Russian land, his patronal holiday, since the altar of his home church (catacomb) was consecrated in honor of this day. - Ed.

Archbishop Bartholomew (Remov, *1888-†1935) - vicar of the Moscow diocese, the last (before closure) rector of the Vysoko-Petrovsky Monastery. Shot on July 10, 1935 - Ed.

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