Commemoration of the holy righteous Ivan of Kronstadt about the Eucharist. John of Kronstadt - thoughts of a Christian about repentance and communion

“Oh, what great happiness! The Lord enters into the sinful soul and seals iniquity in it, and the soul of man becomes the house of God. Father, the Savior deprived us of any commandment to celebrate the liturgy and eat His life-giving body and blood. Liturgy is a miraculous gift of Jesus Christ. Liturgy is a place in which one can go through life forever. Remember: this is the commandment of Jesus Christ! Walk along this golden bridge, which hides from the burst of inferno. Do not listen, love, to these people who flow around the cup of the Savior. These unfortunate, lost, pitiful people, far from the river of Christ; the stench is falling at the break. My dears, love the Divine Liturgy, make it a point to spend that day of your life on which you did not attend the liturgy, especially with the saints. Saint John Chrysostom said that the Divine Liturgy is a great miraculous gift; The angels of God will greet us, people who have been granted happiness - to cherish the Divine body and blood.”

“The Lord, with whom I daily unite through Holy Communion, strengthens me. Otherwise, how would I have been able to gain strength for such constant efforts, through which I strive to serve for the glory of the holy name of God and for the salvation of my neighbors.”

“The Saints give great power to avenge themselves, for the stench is with the Body and Blood of the Lord God, the Word of the Almighty Jesus Christ, victorious at the liturgy of bread and wine with the Holy Spirit, so they themselves can correct, heal, sanctify the skin who is approaching the great sacraments."

“Bread and wine are brought to the Throne, and in the Divine Liturgy, by the Holy Spirit, they are transformed into the Body and Blood of Christ. And people who have consumed the Body and Blood of Christ reach the Divine Nature in such a way that the Lord and the soul will reach the home of the soul of God and become the Temple of God. Oh, what great happiness! The Lord enters into the sinful soul and seals iniquity in it, and the soul of man becomes the House of God. And so, having deprived us of the Savior’s commandment to create the Liturgy and the essence of his Life-Giving Body and Blood. Liturgy is a miraculous gift of Jesus Christ. Liturgy is a place in which one can go through life forever. Remember what Jesus Christ commands! Walk along this golden bridge, which hides from the burst of inferno. Do not listen, love, to these people who flow around the cup of the Savior. These unfortunate, lost, pitiful people, far from the River of Christ, stinks fall at the break. My love, love the Divine Liturgy, make it a point to spend that day of your life in which you did not attend the Liturgy, especially with the saints. Saint John Chrysostom said that the Divine Liturgy is a great miraculous gift; The angels of God will greet us, people who have been granted happiness - God’s Body and Blood.”

“Also I will feed you, people, since you feel the spiritual greed and spraga of life, the supernatural ear and grain of algae, natural life, - the Flesh and Blood of Christ the Living, the true heavenly Bread, which gives life to its tovi? If you do not feel this famine, then you are spiritually dead. The people of the cob are cheerful, because they are healthy and naturally resistant to hunger and sprague. How many people are there in Russia, in the Orthodox Church, who don’t feel this military sprague? - Dark, dark! The absence of untreated intellectuals never occurs at communion; it is rare for people to receive communion, although many only take communion once a day. And the Lord today wills: accept, go... drink from it all... (Matt. 26, 26-27) and there is no need to eat or drink!

Vchennya St. John of Kronstadt about Communion

The memorial of its St. John of Kronstadt attributed the blessed power to the Holy Mysteries of Christ, which he received.

Our creatures have spoken many times about the great miraculous and all-powerful power of the Holy Mysteries of Christ.

The axis is one of such instructions of St. John of Kronstadt:

“When you understand the severity of the struggle and make sure that you do not turn back to evil, run to your spiritual father and ask him to bring you the Holy Mysteries. This is the great and omnipotent spirit of the fight.” Axis other details:

“The Lord, with whom I richly unite through Holy Communion, strengthens me. Otherwise, how would I be able to draw strength for such constant efforts, through which I strive to serve for the glory of the Holy Name of God and for the salvation of my neighbors.”

And the axis is the prayer of St. John of Kronstadt, in this age, we will instruct, simply, like the Apostle Paul, to speak about the powers of God that are delaying him and to freely work miracles through the Holy Chambers.

“Thy Name has glorified me everywhere, O Lord! And to the throne of kings and to all the important and powerful of this world and to the rich and the poor, the sanctified and the simple: people; everywhere it brought Vono and inevitably bring joy, peace, order, order, health, peace, relief, I will overcome the enemy’s approaches. How wonderful is Your Name, Lord! How wonderfully, solemnly, solemnly does Thy grace prevail over all, even to the least wretched, as it dwells alive in me, through the frequent communion of the Holy Mysteries of Thy Most Pure Body and Blood, Lord! Thank you for the miracles of the Holy Mysteries that are happening in me and in the Russian people today. You pull me and everyone before You with a wondrous, omnipotent, insurmountable force. All of Russia is Orthodox and reaches out to You. Wabi, wabi, to the Word of God, our Creator, to our Vryatuvalnik, wabi to Himself everyone and everything.”

Dekilka povchan o. John about the zeal of communion of the Holy Mysteries of Christ and his own revelations about the healing of the dying and hopelessly ill after the communion of these people with the Holy Mysteries.

“The Goddess gave the all-good, wise, wonderful commandment to Her Church - to the end of the century to fully celebrate that most needed sacrament - the Body and Blood of the faithful. And we have the bliss of partaking of the Divine Brush even more often; And what is the best, the best mercury! “Eating My Flesh and drinking My Blood remains with Me and I am in the new. Eat My Flesh and Drink My Mother's Blood Lives Eternally. If only,” says the Lord, “you will not bear the Flesh of the Son of man, you will not drink His Blood, you will not have a life in yourself” (Ivan, 6, 53-56). Such love is poured out from beginning to end!

What a saved, God-creating sacrament the Lord gave to the hands of the priests, entrusting them to perform for the grace of the priesthood, by the power of the Holy Life-Giving Spirit, the sacrament of His most pure Body and Blood! How holy and blessed are the people who celebrate this heavenly sacrament and often partake of it, to be blessed and joyful also without regard for the people who partake! How bright and glorious is the Church, which contains such rites, given by the Lord Himself - the Self-Life of all, and instead, without interruption and sacredly, until now!

Glory to the Lord Jesus Christ and His Living Priests! How many times have I had the opportunity to treat sick people who stood like a wax, in the face of illness, who completely relaxed, faded away, and when I partook of their Divine Mysteries, the stench they smelled either for my joy, or for their heartfelt desire, a wonderful stench Shvidko was revived with rank. So, one old man, over 80 years old, who lives with his family, I gave communion to the two at different times, administered communion to those who were extremely ill, prepared a commandment and blessed all the household, and was offended. strike the other one third day, getting up from bed and getting dressed.

At the gymnasium, one student of the lower class was ill with a burning stomach for three months, without losing his appetite, and finally lost everything to the skeleton, even being close to death. I marveled at him, for the sake of him to partake of the Holy Mysteries, awakening his holy day; then the participles will come soon: having participles and becoming ill, you will eat, drink and drink, you will need to get up from bed and get ready to go to class. Another merchant lad fell ill for 6 days with fever, and was deprived of communion with the Holy Mysteries, having cooled down. It is miraculous that those with illnesses in their bodies react to the Divine Body and Blood, and after receiving them they immediately revive and see.

There are only three episodes that I can hardly guess. But I swear to God and my priestly conscience that the episodes of mild fatigue of the sick after the communion of the Divine Mysteries are incurable in the form of a majestic sickness. He lives, resting entirely in His Life-Creating Vaults, often bestowing health and life on the sick, close to death, in which way he seeks more good fruits. Why then should Christians be afraid to ask a priest before the sick, so that, as they think, they do not harm the sick with the thought of quick death, and allow him to sink in such a manner from his illness and be deprived of himself without the breath of Christianity, without the jelly of immortality , St. Body and Blood of Christ? Oh, malovіrstvo! Oh, blinding madness! Fear Christ the Life-Giver and the Life-Giving Prisoner! Fear our most youthful Savior! Do not be afraid of the demands of St. Secrets, and with all your soul, take them at the very beginning of the skin disease and first of all take medicine, God the medicine! I need to do this for myself and for the sake of doing this for others; then our ailments would have passed even sooner and would not have forced us to go to bed: they would not have given us different facial hair, money for doctors and money would have been lost at home and we could have lived on the measles of poor people and our needs. Daily consumption. I do not give out doctors and natural remedies: necessary doctors; The Lord has granted them these medicinal aids. The Lord has indicated that they will not be guilty after receiving the Life-Giving Miracle Medicine; For the first time, you should only take care of the disease if the disease is cleared up and endure the need for medical help.

It is hard for the soul not to receive Holy Communion for a long time. Darkness: the soul begins to stink with addictions, the strength of which grows in the world of the fact that we do not stay with our Liver for a long time.”

About communion

Oh, what great happiness! The Lord enters into the sinful soul and seals iniquity in it, and the soul of man becomes the house of God. Father, the Savior deprived us of any commandment to celebrate the liturgy and eat His life-giving body and blood. Liturgy is a miraculous gift from Jesus Christ. Liturgy is a place in which one can go through life forever. Remember: this is the commandment of Jesus Christ! Walk along this golden bridge, which hides from the burst of inferno. Do not listen, love, to these people who flow around the cup of the Savior. These unfortunate, lost, pitiful people, far from the river of Christ; the stench is falling at the break. My dears, love the Divine Liturgy, make it a point to spend that day of your life on which you did not attend the liturgy, especially with the saints. Saint John Chrysostom said that the Divine Liturgy is a great miraculous gift; The angels of God greet us, people who have been granted happiness - to cherish the divine body and blood.

He eats My flesh, and drinks My blood, dwells in Me, and I am in the new [Ivan. 6, 56]. This is clear, but the evidence confirms this. Blessed, blessed is that person who partakes of the Holy Mysteries with faith and repents of sins from the heart. - This truth is dotik, it is clear from what is unacceptable. If you approach the Holy Chalice without a deep repentance for your sins and with doubt, then Satan enters you and stays in you, beating your soul, and this becomes extremely surprising.

Appreciate the majestic wonder of Jesus Christ, the Son of the Living God, who is in communion with His divine Hinds. How amazing is that? Calm and revitalization of your heart, deadened by sin, is evident after the frequent participation of heart restlessness and spiritual death. Please don’t worry about anything that is trivial and unimportant: such thoughts and hearts will bring the wrath of the Lord upon you, and you will not be able to eat the world and live after communion. By diligently working for the gifts of revival, earn a life in accordance with the Lord, and let your faith grow more and more. Fear and anxiety arise in the face of anxiety. Guilty of them, at the hour of communion, take a sure sign that you are moving away from the life of the Chalice, and do not deprive them of respect. Oh faith! faith! You yourself are a wonder for us! You tell us: your faith will save you [Mr. 5, 34]. And after living our faith in the truth of God, we will forever come before the Lord in the world; However, after a lack of peace - forever without peace. Oh! Satan often enters after the inappropriate communion of the Holy Mysteries, and he always tries to plant his nonsense in the heart, then. unbelievable, because unfaithful is all the same, it’s nonsense. A killer of people from the beginning, he always tries to beat people with his nonsense and random messages, and, having sneaked into the heart of the blatant eye or whatever the bias, then reveals his own rank, more - impatience and anger. And you know, since you have a wife, you won’t often be reminded of him by rapt, so you are forced to close all the ways in your heart until you leave him - I’ll be angry, I’ll bake you with my other kin. You are working for me, ignorant archangel. I am a servant of my Lord Jesus Christ. You, you are exalted and proud, you lower yourself, so you are forced to fight against me, who is weak. So tell your thoughts to the evil spirit that it lies like a heavy burden on your heart and is drawn to you for evil of all kinds. To the proud spirit, like a fiery scourge, these words and wines are disgraced by your firmness and spiritual wisdom, however, before you. As soon as you start to feel better, you will experience a marvelous change in yourself: the heavy burden that weighs on your soul in your heart will no longer be, you will become so easily, easily, and you will understand that there are spirits of evil in the heavens, that fasting They are constantly searching for our death, for the disappearance of our frowns and evil thoughts that will open our hearts, that will try to destroy love for people and fall in love with them.

You have all the days until the end of the century [Matt. 28, 20]. So, Vladiko, You are with us all day, we live every day without You, without Your presence we cannot live. You are with us especially in the mystery of Your Body and Blood. Oh, how truly and truly you dwell in the Mysteries! You engage, Vladiko, in the skin liturgy in the forest for us, besides sin, body and live us with your living flesh. Through the Secrets, You will join us, and Your body will unite with our body, and Your spirit will unite with our soul - and we feel, we feel this life, the most wonderful, the most beautiful, We feel that, clinging to You in the Eucharist, we become one spirit is with you, as it is said: Cling to the Lord, one spirit is with the Lord. We love you, like You, kind, kind and humble, like You, saying about Yourself: He is humble and humble in heart [Matt. 11, 29]. True, the flesh is often deceitful and blind, or the prince of the world, who lives in our sinful flesh, whispers to us that in the Mysteries there is only bread and wine, and not the very Body and Blood of the Lord, and with evil testimonies he powers for this zir, savor and dotik. Ale we do not allow ourselves to hear his insinuations and we mourn like this: for You, Lord, all things are possible; You create the body for people, creatures, fish, birds, reptiles - all creatures; Do you not create flesh for yourself, through Soy and all the wickedness? What kind of sculptor, who makes statues for others, cannot create his own? Moreover, You transform a dead speech into a living one, like the club of Moses on a serpent, and there is nothing that is impossible for You. Why do you not create flesh from bread and wine, which are so close to our flesh, being absorbed in food and drink and transformed into our flesh and blood? You do not allow our faith to indulge in more than it can bear, you do not worry about Your earthly shaved in the purity of Your Body and Blood, and white, soft, clean, relishable bread; You do not create water with your blood, but wine, which is the color of blood (which is called the blood of grapes in the Holy Letter [Sirach. 50, 17]), is received for the relish and joy of the heart of a person; You know our Germans, the weakness of our faith and therefore allow you to live for the mystery of Your Body and Blood the most common words. Let us firmly believe that under the sight of bread and wine we partake of the true Body and true Blood of Christ, that in the mystery of communion the Lord is with us all the days until the end of the age [Matt. 28, 20].

The Lord, with whom I meet every day through Holy Communion, strengthens me. Otherwise, how would I have been able to draw strength for such constant strengths, through which I strive to serve for the glory of the holy name of God and for the salvation of my neighbors.

Just as after a worthless communion, so after a worthless, cold prayer, the soul is still rotten. This means: the Lord does not enter into our hearts, the images of our hearts with anger and coldness, and allows evil spirits to become angry in our hearts, in order to give us a sense of difference between His and their yoke.

The light and the abundance of life of the heart after communion is the greatest, invaluable gift of the Lord Jesus Christ, which surpasses all the gifts that the body meets and the bonds of marriage. Without spiritual light - with a tightness and tormented heart - people cannot acquire every blessing, neither verbal nor spiritual, for this reason there is no hope that resembles a sense of truth, goodness and beauty, which is oppressed and beaten the very middle of my life - heart, or inner person.

Everyday life - the purity of the heart has been thoroughly cleansed, which is most often closed, darkened by sin and the devil's breath, and sometimes - for the works of God's grace - it becomes clearer and worships God, uniting with He is generous in prayer and the Sacrament of Communion.

You have written a book, perhaps, about the Holy Trinity, and printed it in thousands of copies, or perhaps as many as you like. And in all these books you have not only one spirit, but the very words, the same form. So it is with the sacrifice of the Body of Christ. All over the world, in the unhealed impersonality of churches, there is one offering, in all churches of the Christian Church there is one and the same Trinity, in all lambs there is one and the same Christ and the Spirit of God (as in the Book of Changes), through one and the same form of offering, - And it turns out that this Holy Sacrament is one great sacred book of the love of the Lord for the human race, as in an indispensable number it is being prepared throughout the world in one and the same form with one and the same Spirit that lives in it, We love you, having taken upon yourself sins to the world, by the spirit of Christ. Another similarity: like the impersonality on earth of the many peculiarities of humans: they all have the same body shape, they all have the same soul, with the same, although not the same personalities, and all these individuals have one name - human. All people are like one person, and from one beginning they all grew up: from the beginning from God the Father and the Son and His Spirit, and then from one friend. To that, among others, God punishes the commandment to love everyone else as you love yourself, for the sameness as you. nature. Well, there are a lot of things going on, and one thing is due to the identical nature of the soul and the body. So the Lord, in His life-creating Mysteries, no matter if there were no stench, is the eternally united and indivisible Creator of one blood of every human race [Acts. 17, 26]. Through the One Holy Spirit, who lives in the Mysteries of the Body and Blood, which exists in all the churches of the world, who wants to unite us with Himself, who have fallen through sin and surrender to the devil. with Him, and those who are in our ears The one who separates from Him and from each other, separate and purify: let them all be one: as You, Father, are in Me, and I in You, both of them will be one in Us [John. 17, 21]. The axis of the purpose of communion!

Is it amazing that bread and wine are the Body and Blood of Christ, and Christ rests in them, like the soul in the body? Is it surprising if the devil nests in a worthless germ (in the heart) and the growth of the body grows stronger, so that then the devil comes to the world, which is nested in his heart? Oh, what infinite kindness and wisdom of the Lord is revealed in the most pure Mysteries of the Body and Blood given to us by the one who receives the stench of a Christian in his very heart! Respect, in your heart, where the devil nests, who wields the power of sin and death [Heb. 2, 14] - I will thoroughly wipe out my soul, to give us holiness and life and to drive away sin and death! Just as it is doubtless that the devil and every sin often nest in our hearts, so it is also doubtless that Christ the Living, our sanctuary, dwells in our hearts. Our Lord is more than the devil, since the devil is alive and active in our hearts through our greed for earthly things, so Christ cannot enter our hearts through faith and repentance, since He created it as the temple of God, and so does not enter our hearts. Our hearts to Christ, Himself in His flesh and blood, do we have the appearance of our spirituality and at the same time fleshiness? Also: how the devil can give spirit and word to icons of beasts [Rev. 13, 15], then how can Christ not dwell in bread and wine and not infuse them, not take them all into Himself, like body and blood?

By undoubtingly partaking of the Life-Giving Mysteries, I will deeply commune with the omnipresence of Christ. What rank? Yakim’s axis: in the skin of the leather, in the leatherette, I accept the whole Christ I, such a rank, Bachu Chercevimi Purima, the whole time at the same time, the whole parties, I wanted the Bulka, to the undeveloped. So, for sure, the Lord is all in every temple, in the Holy Mysteries and in the smallest part of every skin, and since Orthodox churches are found all over the earth, then the Lord is not only Divine, but in His soul and body He is present throughout the whole earth, as we see learning to believe all inseparably And licorice fruits bloom in them: the cleansing of sins, the sanctification of Christian souls and bodies, righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Spirit, uniting everyone with Himself, with the Father and His Holy Spirit. It is also known that He, through fervent prayer, dwells in the souls of believers with His Father and the Holy Spirit. Being tamed by this verbal light and at once reviving its entirety and the skin part of it, the Lord is more tamed to people and especially Christians, living in them: Do you not know that Jesus Christ is with you, even though there is not much of him? Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit, that you live?

Participants of the Divine Mysteries! know how widely you reach the Lord, as you receive communion well. How do you strive for the Lord and the Mother of God! Yaku cleanliness mother! Such kindness, humility, gentleness! Like impartiality to earthly things! Like the hottest fruit of the heavenly, purest, eternal feasts!

Too many people pray hypocritically, and this hypocritical prayer came to them as a disciple; They themselves don’t notice and don’t want to notice that praying is hypocritical, and not in the spirit of truth, so that if they had told them in the vikritt that it’s hypocritical to pray, they would have become angry at the one who dared to say such a thing to them nu thought, Uncertainty. People reach the point of hypocrisy not by rapping, but by step. From the very beginning, you can pray with your heart, but then, because praying with your heart will become a significant practice, until you need to be careful with yourself, for the Kingdom of Heaven, it is said, will be necessary [Matt. 11, 12], - he begins to pray more with his lips, from above, and not from the depths of his soul, which is much easier; And decide, when the struggle between the flesh and the devil is intensified, to pray with the lips, without bringing the power of the words of prayer to the heart. There are plenty of such people. The Lord speaks about them: People approach Me with their lips, and with their lips they whisper to Me, but their heart is far from Me [Mt. 15, 8 (ISA 29, 13)]. What has been said about prayer, then it must be said about the communion of saints, immortals and living Mysteries. Often, at first, a person receives communion out of living faith, out of a sense of love and reverence, and then, with the inevitable rejection of the flesh and the devil of the truth of God, he surrenders his power over himself and receives communion hypocritically, without the Body and Blood, ale, behind your heart's thoughts, bread and wine . The essence of the Mysterious Spirit lives [John. 6, 63], as the Savior said, it does not fit [Ivan. 8, 37] among Nyomu; You are robbed internally by Satan. God forbid everyone from such communion, from such destruction against the Lord! This happens with the sacrament of repentance.

Just as the Spirit of God is alive in the facelessness of Christians and in every mouth, all with the Father and the Holy One Jesus Christ, and at the same hour He is all through - in heaven and on earth - so is the Lord Jesus Christ at every part of His Body and His Blood, whole covito u all Christian churches and at the same hour all the horror in heaven and on earth; like God, He is all through, and there is no place, but He is not all. - I take one part of the sacrament: Vin is all here, I take another - Vin is all here; the third and so on, but in all ears there is only one and that same Christ.

The substitute for the tree of life is the bread of life; Instead of the fruit of the tree, the knowledge of good and evil is the same living bread of life. Todi is told: Don’t bother, you won’t die [Boot. 3, 3], Nina says: eat, and you will live [por. Ivan. 6, 51, 58]. Then they believed Eve and Adam in the name book and died; On the contrary, we believe the words of the Lord of life: this is My Body, this is My Blood [Matt. 26, 26, 28; Mrk. 14.22, 24] and revives; with whom we fell, we rose; They fell into disobedience and disobedience; they arose through obedience to God. There we met the devil against God and joined hands with him - a liar - to our own death; With all our hearts we yearn for the Truth Himself - God the Savior and the true heart, united with Him for a life of peace and joy. Ole terrible mystery! Ole grace of God! How I partake of the Divine Body and Blood of nonsense and am created incorruptible [canon before communion, Song 8]!

The Christian hope is our hope to unite with God in the coming century. In our Christian development, everything is consistent and straight forward to this point: both verbal and spiritual blessings: the grace of God in the Church, worship, rituals, conscience, inner Divine testing and purification, prayers, fruits prayers, sorrow, what to cleanse the heart, ailments (taking his cross (Mt. 16, 24; Mk. 8, 34)). The present union prepares for the heavenly union in ancient prayer, in the sacrament of the sacrament: in which the seal of the Holy Spirit in the hearts of Christians is chanted. For these reasons, any other united heart, except for God and not for God, is difficult for us to defend. For these reasons, we must guard ourselves against carnal greed, against all sin.

Koshti that strengthen Christian hope: prayer, especially often, more prayerful confession of one’s sins, frequent reading of the Word of God, especially frequent communion of the Holy Mysteries of Life of the Body and Blood of Christ.

It is important to place all your well-being and standing before God on the reading of all necessary prayers, without losing respect for the readiness of your heart for God, for your internal correction; for example, who reads the rule like this before communion. For an hour here we need to marvel at the correction and readiness of the heart to receive the Holy Mysteries; Since your right heart has become right in your womb, by the grace of God, since you are ready to receive your betrothed, then thank God, even if you were unable to hear all your prayers. The Kingdom of God is not in words, but in power. Good hearing from everyone, the Mother of the Church, but with prudence and, as much as possible, can accommodate - trival prayer - let him accommodate. But not everyone can contain this word [Matt. 19, 11]; Since prayer was not foolish with the fervor of the spirit, it would be better to say a short or fervent prayer. Guess what one word from the mitar, from the fervent spoken heart, really brought him to fruition. God marvels not at the faceless words, but at the heart. The head on the right - the faith of the heart is alive and the warmth of the heart is alive.

Christ Himself vouches for the truth of the Mysteries of Christ. The truth is that He created the light that stands at the bottom, visible and invisible, the cleansing of sins, peace and joy of the heart after communion.

Do not ever distrust the mercy of God, even if you are tied to the devil’s mischief by any sins, but pray with all your heart in the hope of mercy, you are at the door of God’s mercy - and it will be revealed to you. I, a sinner of God, give you an example: because I will not sin sometimes because of the devil’s actions, for example - sometimes you put yourself through the witchcraft to your brother, you want to get through the right, and you get all embarrassed, and you turn on your brother, and so on. The holiness of the world is unworthy , not through ignorance, but through unpreparedness and diabolical action, prote, according to the saying, everything, everything, Vladik forgives, especially after the holy communion of the Holy Mysteries: as the snow and snow was soaked in the Blood of Christ; the heavenly peace will linger in your heart; and it will be easy, easy for you to be in your heart, you will become blissful. You will forget all the storminess, anxiety and darkness of the devil, you will become completely new and rise from the dead. Don’t be embarrassed, brothers, no matter how much you have lost your sins, just repent with an open heart and a humble spirit. Glory to Your mercy, Lord! Glory to Your patience, Lord!

About this ascetic, fighters with partial sacraments write: “The Holy Righteous John of Kronstadt († 1908) called on the people to return to the currents of their spirituality, church life, the pre-tman fasting, the Father’s faith and, as a legacy, to more w frequent participle (more often, less than once at rik). At the same time, Father John Sergiev observed: “After the unprofitable communion of the holy mysteries, Satan is persecuted and enters among people... It is unworthy for those who approach the holy chambers of whom the Lord will not forgive, but he will not forgive, but he will not forgive.”

It’s hard to believe that their cronies have dared to write down the most beautiful preacher of the 19th century, what they call “above all the sacraments”! With this, I repeat, the quotes that stink are brought up to the point of communion, and the attempt to reconfigure the reader, St. John of Kronstadt exhorts everyone to receive communion “more often, at least once per river,” is amazing. Formally, this is true, but why not tell the whole truth about how often the parishioners of St. John received communion at one time? It’s not a secret: “some people took communion for hundreds of years, others for pain, and for two or three days; chernechi - shodnya.”

Why not tell those that Saint John of Kronstadt himself thought about receiving the Holy Communion? It’s really easy to know.

“When you eat malted bread, think about the fresh bread that gives eternal life to souls - about the body and blood of Christ, and what bread you want, so that you may partake of it more often” (“My Life with Christ” I. 6 ).

“The things that strengthen Christian hope are prayer, often more than prayerful confession of one’s sins, frequent reading of the word of God, especially frequent communion of the holy living secrets of the body and blood of Christ” (“My life with Christ.” II. 7 ).

“Blessed are you who often, with extensive repentance and extensive self-testing, begin before Holy Communion! Such people can become more comfortable with each day, they can come to the realization of their sinfulness and live out the surplus of a good life on what God’s mercy has given us - for cleansing and healing ourselves through repentance and faith above all else. x sins.

And thank God that in this holy temple there are communicants among you who often approach such a great shrine and find in it rest for the soul and health for the body. It is painful to be heartbroken when in rich churches the deacon calls to bring the holy gifts to the people: “Let us approach with the fear of God and in faith,” but no one is willing to accept them. For the rich, this view is essential, but for me, this view is unacceptable, because the Lord of the Lord calls to Himself, to all Christians, the words: “Receive, eat My Body... Drink all My Blood”” (New Terrible Words. I. X)

And as a righteous man of God, he rejoices about his testimony: “The first days of the priesthood, I did not often end the liturgy every day and therefore often relaxed spiritually; Then, having enjoyed the benefit of the liturgy and the communion of the holy mysteries, I began to serve and receive communion today” (“About Prayer.” 14). Saint Ivan did not drink the Holy Communion, unless due to his illness he could no longer celebrate the Liturgy himself.

About the idea that it is not good for anyone to receive communion often, the holy father was forced to say sarcastically: “People say that it is not a sin for the laity to receive communion often, that young people do not need to receive communion once a day, and only old people - every day.” and fasting, that they often receive communion to get out of my head. How stupid! Like blasphemy, blasphemy! What foolishness! And finally, during the liturgy, the voice of the Savior moons, calling before communion: “Receive, go... sing from it, all of you... for the loss of sins...” (Matthew 26: 26-28)? Isn’t it possible to spend all our time dwelling on sins and once again to be cleansed by repentance and spirituality? Every day we sin, we become corrupted, we become defiled by sins; Why don’t we need more cleansing, sanctification and renewal? Why not just accumulate sins and cleanse yourself once in a while? Chi tse lepo? Why don’t you often expose your body at the door or expose your face? Why don’t you wash your soul steadily, so that it becomes defiled by sins every day?”

And this is what opponents write about another holy preacher of frequent communion: “Approximately the same order to adhere to the commandments of St. Seraphim of Sarov († 1833) to the nuns of the Devine Monastery: “It is unacceptable for all saints to It's twelve, and for the birthdays it's all twelve. But this rule was given by Father Seraphim for the disciples, and not for the laity.”

Persher, Varto marvel at Tsilko Vosyslovann in the Monk Serafim about the involvement: “Entlessly strangled ry to the All -time post -і, krim of that, the more than fifty of the saint: Chim is often, Tim, not tormenting himself with a dump; And there is no need to miss the opportunity to profit from the grace that is bestowed upon those who receive the holy mysteries of Christ. The grace bestowed upon the rites is so great that it is as if unworthy and even though the human being was a sinner, except that only a humble person would have the knowledge of his great sinfulness, approaching the Lord, who troubles us all, even if he heads to toe covered with the expressions of sins, then If you are cleansed by the grace of Christ, your future will become brighter, you will be completely enlightened, and you will be saved.”

Apparently, the opponents, when quoting, omitted the important part of the proposition. In addition, the sacrament of all Lent plus the twelve is holy, plus all the greater ones - but it does not appear more than once every two or three times (previously up to the canons of the Church), the holy elder also adds the key phrase: “the more often, the more beautiful.” In connection with this, remember those in the midst of those who never stood up for those, so as not to often seem to be incorrect.

At that time, such a practice was truly “overfrequent”, through which the Monk Seraphim specially preached, after which he announced the frequency of the sacrament, telling the priestly community of Divivskoye Vasily Sadovsky: “I command them to receive the holy living mysteries of Christ , father, everyone has four posts and twelve Holy, I punish and on the great Holy Days: the more frequent, the better. You, spiritual father, don’t protect them, I tell you” (Chronicle of the Devine Monastery. 20).

In another way, the opponents’ interpretation of this fact suggests that “the rule was given by Father Seraphim for monks, and not for the laity.” Are there any signs that the laity cannot follow them? Even in the text of the Monk Seraphim there are no such affirmations, and the devotees of piety of the twentieth century spoke directly to the depths of his notes about the frequency of the sacrament.

Thus, Bishop Varnava (Belyaev) writes: “For the commandment of St. Seraphim of Sarov, given to the nuns of the Devevsky Monastery, it is necessary for everyone to observe all holy fasts, and for holy fasts, and for all twelve holy.” This commandment of the monk, since it is very friendly, is recommended to be accepted before church service and to all the laity, who generously and impersonally respect their priest. And more than the frequent communion of the holy mysteries, the testimony and testimony may put a skin-like attack on the spiritual father.”

Do you often take part in the traditions of the Russian Church?

Fighters with partial communions love to affirm that from the very adoption of Christianity in Russia and until the twentieth century, the uniform practice in the Russian Orthodox Church for the common people and the laity was communion from one to several times per year. ik. At this point, they are encouraged to bring their commitment to what is often associated with “renewal.” The absurdity of such a connection is obvious in itself, although it also rests on a false assertion.

The historical impossibility of this idea can be emphasized by paying more attention to ancient Russian monuments of church writing.

Thus, in the other half of the 11th century, Metropolitan of Kiev Ivan II († 1089) in his “Commandments of the holy fathers and daughters who are sworn” spoke about the communion of the great saints and all the week-long days of Lent, everything available up to 22 days of communion in roci. That's about once every two years.

And as we marvel at the “Nursed Cyric” - a document from the mid-12th century, which contains a record of a conversation between three priests and the Novgorod Bishop Niphon, then we can certainly refer to the practice of frequent communion in pre-Mongol Russia. So, responding to the question about how to give communion to those who are sleepy, Bishop Niphon says: “The Rule of St. Timothy: “Which one of the faithful will be sick, who will partake of the holy mysteries?” If you don’t want to ruin the prison, let him accept it, but don’t waste it, it’s enough for you once a week.” And I say the same to you” (“Nutrition of Kirik”. 17-18). From this addition it is clear that the practice of holy communion was a reality during the hours of Bishop Niphon. In another place, the bishop punishes the imposition of penance, which continues with the sacrament for a month (“Nutrition of Kirik.” 75). If in this hour it was the norm and tradition to partake rarely (once or three times per river), then this would not be a small sense of well-being.

We respect the same practice of frequent communion, since we have the utmost respect for those that appear in the lives of the saints, moreover, compiled during the synodal period - all of them are brought down below, after the blame of the remaining two, taken from the “Lives of the Saints”, compiled by St. Demetrius He is Rostov and the Archbishop Theodosius of Chernigov.

Blessed Prince Rostislav Mstislavich († 1168), spiritual child of the Venerable Polycarp of Pechersk, “they received communion of the Divine mysteries, prayed with tears, prayers of the heart and hundreds.”

Blessed Prince Dimitry Donsky († 1389) having received communion during the hour of Lent.

Venerable Sergius of Radonezki († 1391) I took monastic vows immediately after being tonsured, being a newly tonsured Chen 24 years ago from the people, “since these days I have been constantly at the church. Today, Abbot Mitrofan celebrated the liturgy and received the holy body and blood of the Lord.”

Reverend Yoasaph, Prince Andriy of Vologda in the world († 1453) “receiving the holy mysteries every week,” and even as a young man for 24 years.

Venerable Sava of Vishersk († 1460) “having set oneself and entering the new one, spending the entire day until Saturday on the new one in fasting and prayer; and on Saturday he went down to the brethren and partook of the holy mysteries with them.”

Venerable Herodion of Iloezersk († 1541), the teaching of St. Cornelius of Komel, “on Saturday we received the holy mysteries.”

Venerable Seraphim of Sarov († 1833), after being ordained as a monk, “participating every day with faith and reverence of the holy mysteries of Christ,” and later, when the sanctuaries were empty, about “the previous weeks and holy days and arriving at the Sarov monastery, hearing the evening, all-night feeling and early and during the early liturgy we partook of the holy mysteries.” And if, through an illness, one can no longer wait to go to communion, “many of the people were worried about this situation, wondering who was communing the holy mysteries, and therefore the alarm clock called the monastery cathedral with the elders and The monks, who presented them with the best food for the communion of the elder. . Afterwards, for the sake of the elders, they decided to ordain Seraphim, so that she could go, as healthy and with good legs, as before, to the monastery on weekdays and holy days for the communion of the holy mysteries; If your legs don’t serve you, then soon you will move to live in a monastery cell.” So the whole cathedral of the Sariv monastery heard a turbot about the need for the holy sacrament! And the Monk Seraphim obeyed him and, turning to the monastery, took communion with the saint until the end of his days.

Saint Ignatius (Brianchaninov) († 1867), when he was still a layman, a cadet at the Engineering School, and became a leader of the church, he responded to the dissatisfaction of the priest, who spoke about him. The authorities warned the future saint that it was not necessary for the laity to often go to church and take communion; Dosit, as it is transferred by the Viysk articles of 1715 to the rock, once on the river chi chotiri. As a result, young Dmitry Bryanchaninov and his friend Chikhachov had the opportunity to secretly run off to church services in other churches and receive communion there once a week.

To testify about such a norm in Ancient Russia and third-party observers, for example, in 1523, the Catholic Albert Campensee wrote to Pope Clement VII about the faith and the relatives of the Muscovites: “It is better for us to maintain the tradition of the Gospel... often (maybe skin time, if are getting ready) ... The churches do not know anything obscene or dishonorable, however, everyone, having knelt and forgiven nothing, prays with great diligence ... To fool one another is respected by them with greedy, vile evil, over-love, violence is even rare i, unnatural vadi There is absolutely no trace of oaths and blasphemy. It stinks deeply of God and the saints."

In addition, the norm about frequent communion, as the ideal of a Christian’s life, is to take place in the worship of Russian saints. Actions from them have already brought more attention to the analysis of the arguments of the opponents, but also to show respect for those who spoke about them from our other saints.

Venerable Gennady Kostromsky († 1565) in his commandment he did not deprive the Chinese, who partake of the Holy Mysteries more than once every day, of the yearning hope: “The holiness of God do not appear: if a monk does not partake of the six holy mysteries, then he is not a monk "

Saint Tikhin of Zadonsk († 1783) for the sake of the priests: “If you say: “With fear...”, think how Christ appeared after His resurrection to the apostles and all other brothers. Know also that with these words you are calling on believers to accept the holy chambers. And if you wish that you would not come, suffer in your soul, for the remainder of that hour, when Christ calls to Himself above all others, and to offer His most pure body and blood to others, or not to come to the supper of this great blessing.”

Venerable Paisiy Velichkovsky († 1794) writing: “Be very afraid of six things: 1) alcania, 2) spragues, 3) the prayer of Jesus, 4) the image of cherry... 5) frequent communion of the most pure mysteries of Christ- who should receive communion - and 6) unconditional hope in God. There is nothing terrible behind this defense against demons” (“Krini silny.” 38).

Righteous John of Kronstadt († 1908): “The truest and strongest sense that unites us with God, the more directly against the new ruinous action is the enemy of God and ours, who lives for whom everything is: and our body, which is stretched to the limit nights, and weakness of soul … There are too few generous and diligent prayer books; Therefore, it is even rare for Christians to worship and receive communion” (“My life in Christ.” I. 3).

Saint Oleksiy Mechov († 1923): “Take communion more often and do not seem unworthy. If you say so, then you never receive communion, because you are never a year old. Do you think that there is one person on earth who would like to partake of the holy mysteries? No one is worthy of anyone, but if we still receive communion, it is because of the special mercy of God. We were not created for the sacrament, but the sacrament for us. We ourselves, sinners, unworthy, weaklings, no one else will require this ritual ritual... I give you communion often, I want to bring you to the Lord, so that you can see how good it is to be with Christ.”

Blessed Matrona of Moscow († 1952), apparently, one sick woman ordered “not to miss the weekly service, to confess on your skin and partake of the holy mysteries of Christ,” and encouraged people to partake of the holy mysteries of Christ more often їн: “Protect yourself with the cross, prayer, holy water, part of the sacrament … Let the lamps burn in front of the icons.”

Well, a whole host of testimonies convince us that the Russian Orthodox Church knew the practice of frequent communion for priests and laity throughout its entire existence and never ceased invoking the voice of its saints until the final communion - not at putting this like a yoke on those who are not ready, but radyachy like those what you need to give up and what you can fully achieve with God’s help.

Apparently, all the statements about those who want to often say “the 900-year-old practice of the entire Russian Church”, as they seem, do not correspond to effectiveness.

How effective is Byzantium? Has the practice of frequent communion been stuck in the fifth century?

To show the impossibility of such a view, it is enough to marvel at those who write the Byzantine holy fathers in later hours.

Subject to statutes Venerable Theodore the Studite († 826), “if you don’t take communion on the day of the liturgy, you may indicate the reason, but if you don’t, you are obliged to fast until evening, making 50 prostrations... A monk or a layman who does not stop during the hymn and for his own for a period of 40 days no having arrived before communion, he is guilty of excommunication from the Church to the river.” The Monk Theodore himself studies to receive communion steadily, serving the Liturgy every day, still in a state of weakness.

Generous communion Venerable Simeon the New Theologian († 1021) writing: “Whoever does not openly reveal the darkness of his heart, whoever in them and in the fear of ignorance does not bring proper repentance, whoever does not go around crying and reproaching in the future and before what was said with reluctance does not escape, that truth і unworthy (of the sacramental communion) . And whoever works in this life and in the sorrows of his life, he will be a great participant in the Divine mysteries, and not only in the sacred, but also in the daily life - I would like to boldly say - from the very beginning repentance and certainty of yours" . .

Saint Simeon of Thessaloniki († 1428) saying: “The Divine Liturgy is a service that is the sacrament of the most holy body of Christ and the blood and so that it is given in the sacrament of all the faithful. And, as such, the meta they lie in the communion... Whoever has the strength and respect, do not hesitate to approach the communion of Christ as often as possible, and with dignity, especially the old and German people, for in whose spirit is our life and strength "

In this way, it is clear that the practice of frequent communion for the clerics and laity has always been preserved in the Church throughout all ages, and not just in the apostolic and Persian Christian hours, as some participants in the discussion about the frequency of communion try to repeat.

Of course, one cannot go to the other extreme and insist that all Orthodox Christians in Byzantium and Russia communed with the Holy Spirit. Opponents effectively argue that in Russia the practice of rare communion of the laity has existed for a long time. And not only in Russia, but also in Byzantium. And the story from pre-Byzantine times, from the 3rd century, reaches us through the life of the Venerable Martyr Epictetus with information about Christians who rarely received communion. Well, the practice of rare communion has been effective for a long time, just like the practice of rare giving to the temple or the practice of rare devotion to God with prayer. Only previously, everything was called not by the neutral word “practice”, but more by specific words - “laziness”, “spiritual relaxation” and the like.

This “practice” dates back to the 5th century Venerable John Cassian († 435) writing: “It is not our fault to share the Lord’s communion through those who we know to be sinners. But even more and more and more greedily there is a need to reach further for the rejoicing of the soul and the purification of the spirit, through such humility of spirit and faith, so that, respecting ourselves as poor people, we will receive such grace, and we will be more a feast for our wounds. Because of the deep-rooted hearts, which is believed and confirmed, we cannot easily repeat the holy mysteries, we decided to accept them for the cure of our ailments, and, having risen to the hustle and bustle of the heart, Rite that after the river term the year of their acceptance.” .

In recent times, a special work was written against the ideology and “practice of super-acid communion” Venerable Nicodemus of Svyatogorets († 1809) ta Saint Macarius of Corinth († 1805) - “The book is heart-warming about the innocent communion of Christ’s holy mysteries.” She collected the impersonal words of ancient great saints about the benefit of frequent communion and says: “Ah, my brothers, as if we would once like to fill our souls with the thought of what lofty and what great blessings we are wasting, not taking communion without taking it, then, initially, mi Let us use all our strength to prepare and receive communion, as soon as we are able.”

During the discussion on the side of the fighters, there was often a statement that “this book is based on a treatise by the Catholic author Miguel de Molino (1640-1696).” For clarification, I was eager to transfer the book to the Russian abbot Simeon (Gagatik) from the Okhtira Holy Trinity Monastery. I respect you for the need to inform me about this:

“Miguel de Molinos (and not Molino) having seen 1675 in Rome “A short treatise on the lost communion.” D. Stiernon in the dictionary article about St. Nicodemus (in the Catholic “Dictionary of Spirituality...”) simply indicates the foundation of such a treatise, seeming that the nutrition about those who may be related to the “Book of the most beautiful...” , and describes The very “Book of Souls...” itself, as the original work of Saints Macarius and Nicodemus, although it was “edited” from the book of Neophyte Kavsokalite, published in 1777. Ale I. Citterio, who is the best descendant of the work of the Monk Nicodemus today, although also striking, has given a miraculous historical analysis of “Spiritual Rights” and “Invisible Likes” in their Italian and Nicodemus versions, in the future I won’t remember Molinos’s treatise, talking about “The bottom of the soul-bark...”! This treatise is a consecration to frequent communion. The Book of Neophyte is completely different: a dialectically developed thesis of the opponents of the frequent participle, a thesis discovered in Greece, on the Holy Mountain and in the hours of Neophyte! The book is based on canon law and patristic works; The book is in no way similar to the treatise of the Spanish quietist.

And now “The book is soulful...” - and ready! I will also remind you that neither St. Nicodemus nor St. Macarius themselves read Italian or Spanish, the original books in their translation are formerly modern Greek versions, revealed by St. Macarius in the Patmoska bi books, books by Molinos in New Greek, as far as I know, I can’t sleep . Ale in any case, when asked: “What formed the basis of the Book ... Molinos’s treatise?” From a scientific point of view, the following is firmly evident: neither.

To what extent ... I would like to add that Saints Nicodemus and Macarius have little to say in this book to themselves; “The book is soulful...” - here we have an anthology of patristic texts about the sacrament. This book is a true consensus on this food. And the Orthodox people cannot rely on those whom they believe - the holy fathers or just the fathers (or even the laity). Even if it’s just the fathers (or laymen) who speak to the holy fathers (and for their own sake), then why do they base their ideas? Only one thing - we believe that the authorities are right. What do you choose to be Orthodox, who to believe – the saints or the self-singers?.. I think this is more rhetorical.”

Preparation before communion

As one of the arguments against frequent communion, opponents put forward those who, with such communion, recognize the short-term manifestations that have formed in them, about the possible preparations before holy communion, which, in my opinion, rely on those who need to fast for a whole day, and also read without lich canons and akathists, to be confirmed and conducted in advance of the divine service.

There is a lot of information in the book of the priest Danil Sisoev, but I would like to add more information based on what the Russian saints wrote about.

In the catechism compiled by St. Philaret (Drozdov), which is a symbolic book of the Russian Orthodox Church, the preparation for communion is discussed, and in which neither the traditional term shit nor the same Please read the texts in advance:

“Everyone who is about to begin the rite of communion is obliged to try (confess) his doubts before God and cleanse him by repentance for sins, which are covered by fasting and prayer.”

As can be seen from these words, the main and only preparation of the soul of an Orthodox Christian before the sacraments of the holy mysteries is the penitential station, and the post and prayer is Koshtami to bring the soul into this camp, and not to be self-sufficient. Unfortunately, during the time of discussing nutritional preparations before communion, it often appears that cats are getting lost in the matter. In fact, a scrupulous study of all the meanings we can - the reading of canons and akathists, daily fasting and so on - does not in itself guarantee that a person after this automatically becomes a good communicant. And the holy fathers point out that, inadvertently, the short or short process of communion before preparation for communion does not at all mean that a person automatically “takes communion before judgment.”

Because the main preparation is not at all based on the readable array of texts that have been prepared during the current period from the grub diet of meat, dairy and egg herbs. The axis seems to be Venerable Ambrose of Optina about the necessary preparations before communion:

“Since with faith we uncondemnably partake of the sacraments of the body and blood of Christ, then all the approaches of the enemies of our souls that are against us will be rendered worthless and empty. It is not condemned for those who receive communion if we approach the mystery of this, first of all, with broad and humble confessions and confessions of our sins, and with a firm resolve not to return to them, but in another way, as we approach without in memory, reconciling the heart with everything , that they embarrassed us” (Listi do chentsiv. 20).

Let us remind you of the greatness of the saints of the Russian Orthodox Church.

Venerable Seraphim of Sarov So saying to his school, the Yaki did not get involved in those who did not Viconov the Ulijah the PIDGOTOSKI: “Yakby Mi Ocean Pobvoni with our huts, then the Lord could not be over -the -food for those viliva tuni, Live of our pure factory that blood that washes, cleanses, revives and resurrects us. Well, attack without hesitation and don’t hesitate; Only believe that this is the holy body and blood of our Lord Jesus Christ, which are given for the healing of all our sins” (My Joy 2).

Saint Theophan the Recluse : “Holy communion reveals its power not through our goodness, but through God’s goodness. Preparedness before the good communion - the confession of sins with the worthy determination not to sacrifice sin and not to omit anything good that is due before the ceremony” (List. I. 189).

“You can take communion. It is not enough to honor nina’s wines to those born later, especially with inner feelings of contrition and gratitude to the Lord” (Leaves. IV. 662).

“You can receive communion first if your conscience is clear and peaceful. And the Lord always graciously accepts those who approach Him” (List. V. 829).

Venerable Macarius of Optina : “Ask for Yogo’s help, don’t tell the enemy’s approach, but depriving yourself of life’s secrets for a long time is very bad. If you want to practice humility for three days, perhaps, and God grant peace; where humility is, there is the mercy of God” (List. 212).

Righteous John of Kronstadt : “Dekhto puts all his well-being and justice before God by reading all the necessary prayers, without losing respect for the readiness of his heart for God, for his internal correction; For example, a lot of people read the rule before communion. Tim here for an hour first felt the need to marvel at the correction and readiness of the heart to praise the holy mysteries; Since your right heart has become right in your womb, by the grace of God, since you are ready to receive your betrothed, then thank God, even if you were unable to hear all your prayers. The kingdom of God is not in words, but in power (1 Cor. 4:20). Good hearing from everyone, the Mother of the Church, but with prudence, and, as far as possible, can accommodate - trival prayer - let him accommodate. But not everyone can contain the words of someone (Matt. 19: 11); Since prayer was not foolish with the fervor of the spirit, it would be better to say a short or fervent prayer. Guess what one word from the mitar, from the fervent spoken heart, really brought him to fruition. God marvels not at the faceless words, but at the heart. The head on the right is the living faith of the heart and the warmth of compassion for sins” (“My life with Christ.” II. 10).

All this, obviously, does not mean that fasting or prayer is collect no need. No, these minimal observances are good, as established by the Church: the Eucharistic fast from the evening and the inheritance of the sacrament; and for other people it can be true in such maximum variants as it appears among the people, if before the appointment by the Church various canons and akathists, as well as a rich fast, can be added. All of this may be considered a Christian himself under the spiritual guidance of a confessor.

Insanely, after recognizing the good and beautiful tradition of the Russian Church, it is obligatory to confess before the sacraments and try to save them, and those folds that call for their implementation at the richly populated parishes are not to blame and be seen as a reason for the suppression of such a bark tradition, but also as a reason for To find solutions to optimize your design.

I would also like to remind you that the priest has no right to receive a person from the sacrament at this stand, which seems to be “too often.” By doing this, the priests commit canonical evil. Nowhere in the canons of the Church is there any restriction on communion, just as there is no prohibition on those who are required to receive communion more than twice a month. Therefore, the priests who dare to do this fall under the lower canons.

The rule of St. Gregory, Bishop of Akragan, is to say: “All bishops and priests are prohibited from excluding anyone from Holy Communion until guilt is revealed, for which church rules punish excommunication. If you, without any respect for it, want to receive someone from holy communion, then, if you are allowed to receive it by the bishop senior to the rank, do not allow yourself to receive holy communion; It is unjust to be excommunicated by the bishop to whom he is subordinated, to the extent that the bishop respects the need.”

Saint Basil the Great himself says: “A bishop or priest who gives communion to anyone without a hymn reason, let him himself not receive communion for as long as the bishop says, who is beyond the bounds of order.”

About the need to revive these canons and the saints of the Russian Orthodox Church, please note, the Venerable Joseph of Volotsky, who is the 12th section of his “Enlightener” and provide the indicated quotations.

On the basis of all the information presented, it is clear that the Russian Orthodox Church has always been committed to including the practice of rare communion of the laity and clerics, and this is something that Byzantium has not done since the 5th century. There was no practice of frequent communion for the laity, and some Russian saints spoke out against the frequent communion of the laity do not demonstrate effectiveness.

In our opinion, the evidence from the Holy Fathers is more than sufficient for the reader to think about how the Holy Fathers, both ancient and new, were truly amazed at the nutritional frequencies of the sacrament.

PG. T. 150. Coll. 460 B.

Writings of the Venerable Father Cassian the Roman. M., 1882. P. 605.

Your Eminence, this year's Vladika Exarch, Your Eminence, the lords of the Vladiki, Your High Reverence, Your Reverence, dear fathers, brothers and sisters, the lords and lords, all high duties!

The Sacrament of the Eucharist was instituted by the Savior at His Last Supper with the disciples when He said the words: “Receive and go, this is My Body...”, “...sing from Her all this is My Blood...”, “...do this in my opinion...”.

Even long before the secret meal, the Savior revealed to the apostles the mystical sense of the communion of His Body and Blood - the Lord Jesus Christ, speaking at the Capernaum Synagogue His sermon about the Bread of Life. Whose Christ is born has two important thoughts: 1) the Eucharist is resurrected to live from it, and 2) the Eucharist is a collective unity of all its participants, members of the hidden Body of Christ.

Saint Cyril of Alexandria, Tlumachach of the VIth section of the Gospel of John, writes: “The fragments of the Life-giving Word of God dwelt in the flesh, It transformed His (the body) into a powerful yakness, so that life, and, having become completely united with him in an invisible rank ednannya, It made him live, as he himself is by nature. Therefore, the body of Christ gives life to those who become the servants of God, even though death is extinguished from among those who are dying, and decay is visible, carrying the Word within them, as it is who knows nothing of corruption.”

And St. John Chrysostom read: “The Old Testament was committed to longevity and wealth, but now it is not just longevity, but life that never ends.”

In this manner. The Eucharist is our sole connection with the dead. By partaking of the Body and Blood of Christ, we enter into close communion with their deceased clergy.

The Capernaum conversation reveals the ecclesiastical place of the Eucharist. The Savior says: “He who is My flesh and drinks My Blood abides in Me and I in him” (IV. 6:56). Kozhen, partaking of the Lord’s secret place, becomes a member of His secret body, that is, the Church. The Eucharist is the Body of Christ, and the Church, behind the Apostle Paul, is also the collective Body of Christ (Eph. 4: 15-16). In other words, the nature of the Church is eucharistic. The Eucharist is silent in the Church, because the body is silent in the body; And the Church cannot exist without the Eucharist. It is impossible for one to be a member of the Church unless he partakes of That which is the Body of Christ, or the Church Itself.

It can be said that the Divine Liturgy is a sacrament, as it is the only sacrament. The fathers called it “the sacrament of sacraments.” This is the repetition of the great mystery of piety, instilled and embraced by the Logos. God appeared in the body, God became human. God-man, not God-angel. We want to destroy the human race, or destroy human nature; having accepted a human body, raise it to the height of the heavenly Throne, above the angelic ranks. The nature of mankind, behind the divine plan itself, is so great, so miraculous, so richly considered as eternal, that we can talk about the divine walk of man. People are created by God, as Saint Gregory the Theologian began. “God infused himself and became human, in order to infuse flesh, and mortal flesh itself, so that the enlightened spirits did not dare to respect and think to themselves that they could deify themselves by inheriting their incorporeality and immortality, as it appears,” - so read St. Gregory Palamas. It is most beautiful and sweet that the patristic thought about people, about the deification of him, developed. On the one hand, based on the words of the Apostle Peter (2 Pet. 1:4) about those who have been given to us as “participants of God’s essence,” and on the other hand, developing an appreciation of Neoplatonic philosophy about those whose soul “fades, or rather, “God” and about those that the goal of our life is “not so much to be sinless as to become deified,” patristic anthropology gradually taught about this “feosis,” deification, maximum closeness to God. It is not less than moral catharsis, it is not less than justification for sins, it is not less than intellectual closeness to God, it is not less than the real, concrete deification of our nature. And it is only possible to fully commune this nature with the deified Body of Christ, the Eucharistic life. Living eucharistically means not only going to the daily mass, listening to other evil spirits and hymns, but receiving communion. Take part in today's Last Supper. Receive communion more than once per river or even less often, but most often, many times per river, as you can steadily, so as to remain in a steady, unbroken connection with the hidden Body of Christ, with the Church, so that you can become a church member and not fail. and don’t fall out of this close bond 'language with her. Let us partake with full awareness and daring tributes to the very adoration of our being. To receive communion, so that we may become one flesh with Christ, as the holy fathers of old taught, so that, following the honors of the Apostle Paul, we may become sons of God, and become sons of God in one with the Lord, the deified flesh of whom we eat in Eucharistic communion.

The Eucharist is a sacrifice. The sacrifice is “about everyone and for everything.” This is the result of what the Lord commanded to do in His favor. There are repetitions of the Golgotha ​​sacrifice. As such, there is a clue, and therefore there is a greater and more thorough understanding of all the Old Testament sacrifices, which were, in a faint shadow, prototypes that may appear as the true Sacrifice of the Syn of Man. This sacrifice transcends our understanding, as everything in the religious, spiritual sphere cannot be squeezed within the framework of Primus rational logic. Vaughn, like everything in theology, is characterized by antinomy and apophatic positions. She is hourly and at her hourly rate in one moment past today and tomorrow. We “guess” in it the creation of the world, and the redemption of humanity by the Son of God, and His Cross and resurrection, His presentation and yet another terrible coming. It is universal and consumes the whole world and unites in one sacrifice of the One Body all the disparate parts of the whole world. She has the Sacrifice and the High Priest, the Wine and the Offering and the Offering. This is the sacrifice of our tribute to God, our Eucharist for all the blessings He has shown and not revealed to the human race, blessings known and unknown to us. The words “according to the Lord” contain all the tension in all prayer collections. These are all guilty of acknowledging all their Eucharistic tributes to God.

The Divine Liturgy is a great symbolic event. The writers of the Church (St. Maximus the Spokesman, the Areopagists, Mykola Kavasila) more than once called the liturgy not only a sacrament, but also a secret place, a mystagogy. She not only communes us to a life of grace, not only to our sacrifices to God, but also, the theologian begins us, reveals to us in the dark. This is a kind of revelation, an apocalypse that is not revealed to the end, but the heart of the remaining believer is revealed, the fragments will be revealed to you. It comes out, let’s say, in the words of the Areopagicists, “for analogy,” for similarity, for our consonance. These and hymnal liturgies sanctify us, as Cabasilas says, in a twofold manner. For us, prayers themselves bring us closer to God, since prayer is a way of our union with God, the attachment of our mind, heart, soul, and will to God. Apart from prayers, songs and sacred deeds, and symbolic images of another, heavenly reality, which will never be revealed to us until the end. The Eucharistic inheritor will experience all the economy of our order, all commercial household work. At the proskomedia we are already present at the end of the day, at the hour of the slaughter of the Lamb, at the people of the Word of God at the hour of the Bethlehem manger; Then comes His going out to preach, His household redemption, His suffering, His supper, His death, resurrection, and ascension into heaven. The actions of the priest, songs from the choir, the priest's robe and the liturgical ceremony - all this is symbolic to represent the life of the Savior or His providence for us. The believer, present at the liturgy, reasonably reaches out to every symbolic manifestation. Before your glance there appears, prote, another revelation, and the very heavenly liturgy, the eternal Eucharistic sacrifice that began in the bosom of the Holy Trinity for eternity, and continues forever, never always and forever. This heavenly liturgy, where over eternity we will slay the Lamb, over eternity, which is performed as a sacrifice of divine love, silently bowed down, reaped by the Cherubs and Seraphim, covering their faces and in sacred trepidation they sing yelp, shout, call and pray holy. And this is our earthly liturgy, in which truly, the most pure Body and the most pure Blood of Christ is offered, and in the reflections of this eternal heavenly liturgy, which is steadfast from hour to hour and posture from place to place. appears there on the Throne of Mountain Glory. This is the fault of the Christian's religious gaze, whose duty is to take communion wisely and to commune before him.

The axis of this sacrifice is to its own deification, so that it participates in the divine essence, this is the purpose of taking part in the offered eternal and unceasing Sacrifice of the Divine Lamb, and this is not only the splendid service of the clergy to the man-made and the magnificent temple, and the thought and heart of the believer, which goes to liturgy. I am guilty of knowingly taking the fate of this terrible servant, taking the fate, since not only the sacraments of the Eucharistic Chalice, then rationally, spiritually, prayerfully taking the fate of the Eucharistic servant. And therefore, the liturgy requires, obviously, to understand and appease it, requiring it to take its part wisely.

The Divine Liturgy, like every church chamber, has its basis in the Holy Letter. The Sacrament of Body and Blood was established by the Lord Himself. For His commandment, the apostles and their followers continued to conquer this very darkness and passed on to subsequent generations how the knowledge about the Lord, about His earthly life, dormancy, the Last Supper, suffering and death, resurrection and ascension to heaven .

The Holy Church knows that there were many celestial saints and pastors who lived this Sacrament of the Eucharist, and who lived here on earth and performed this Sacrament with reverence. Among these is the shepherd of the Church of God, the great worker in the field of Christ, the holy righteous John of Kronstadt.

In 1999, the birth counted 170 births from the day of his birth, 90 births from the day of his blessed death, and in the year 2000, 10 births counted from the day of his canonization. The Holy Church honors him as a faithful follower and viconate of Christ, as, according to the words of the Savior Himself, yesterday, today and forever.

“Wonderful, majestic, divine service of the liturgy on earth” - these are the shortest words of honor said by Father John of Kronstadt about the Divine Liturgy. Their richly great, significant, miraculous words about those who truly loved the holy saint of God. It is important to marvel at the history of our Holy Church, then among the great ascetics, readers, saints, we are unlikely to find such a buried performer, lover, performer and glorifier of the Divine Liturgy, such as the holy and righteous John of Kronstadt cue, cream, rose, John the Golden-tongued. However, as Archbishop Veniamin notes, “it seems that this great teacher of the Church was hardly overwhelmed by the liturgy, talking about it, reaching out to it with heavy burps and, in other words, more than blessed. John."

The Kronstadt shepherd celebrated the Divine Liturgy every day and celebrated part of his daily experiences with his schodennik, “My life with Christ.” What is especially valuable is the fact that the smell is not of far-fetched joys, not of abstract thoughts, but of experiences, taken from authority, from our “life with Christ.” At the Liturgy, Father John will give a final conjecture about all the life of the Savior.

“The liturgy is the shortening of the entire Gospel, the depiction of the earthly life of Jesus Christ, the repetition of His Calvary Sacrifice, the constant slaughter, His death for the sins of the world, the legend of His Resurrection and ascension to heaven.”

All the “divine services of our Orthodox Church,” writes Father John, “are intended to represent... the entire course of the daily life of our church from the beginning of the world until the end of the century... Thus, the vespers represent goodness, wisdom and the all-powerful There is no God in the created world and people, the bliss of people, the fallen man, to God, is a priesthood about his redemption through the incarnation of the Son of God, prepared through prophecy and transformation until the acceptance of the Redeemer. Rankov's service depicts the miracles of God's housekeeping in the Old Testament from Moses until the coming of the Redeemer and the miracles of the New Testament housekeeping among the saints of God.

Decree, the liturgy to set the Lord a New Testament in this light, depicting His love of humanity, truth, righteousness, fidelity, by His habit you will determine all of His life from the swaddling clothes to the trembling. "Vona is a good night's sleep."

His words and moods were never at odds with his life. As we understand the liturgy, as we read about it, as we do it, and as we do it sublimely, we get used to the words of the vigils and prayers in our skin, and we indulge ourselves, inseparably, not only in conjectures about the Lord Who is at the liturgy. ї “і He Who Brings і Is Bringed , and sacrifice and bishops,” and also living worship. From the first days of his priesthood, Father John ceased to celebrate the Divine Liturgy most often and until the last 35 years of his priesthood he performed every day. The valuable service and communion was for him an act of steady devotion to the God of Spokutov. “During the liturgy, Father John silently poured that Cross, with the living suffering God, to the pierced rib of Whose angel himself brought the cup from the throne, again with the kissing blood, to bless that Glorious Queen of heaven, Who speaks with trembling words: , Most Blessed , Glorious Lady of our Mother of God and Ever-Diva Mary.” Speaking about the Divine Liturgy, Father John separated two main sides. This sacrifice is generous, laudatory, and the sacrifice is propitiatory, placid. Ale tsi understand that Father John is angry and buy more. In the new liturgy there is a tribute for spokuta, a praiseworthy sacrifice for the propitiatory sacrifice of spokuta. “The mystery of redemption is a mystery of the most profound, ever-memorable kind, a mystery of infinite goodness, of boundless kindness, of unhealed wisdom, of intangible power. This is the mystery that will be revealed at the liturgy! Moreover, this is repeated every day, because today the great, sacred, heavenly and terrible mystery of the most pure Body and Blood of the Lord is revealed.” Here, in the liturgy, there is a sad sacrifice that is repeated. Ale, at the same time, it is wrong to marvel at her and, as at this, I praise the sacrifice. “The eternity, holiness, vitality, immeasurable breadth of the terrible sacrifice of Christ is already revealed... at the proskomedia, for which the speech of the sacrament of the Eucharist is prepared - bread and wine, or the Lamb

God, who is always ready for the sins of the whole world and in such a sacrifice for all the saints, for whose honor pieces of prosphora are given and about them, so that in God’s service for them, as those who were bought from the earth and slain by the horseradish sacrifice of Christ and for the sake those at the Heavenly Church triumphant. Wonderful sacrifice! Truly Divine sacrifice! .

Father John not only clearly understood, but also experienced, with the knowledge of a special life, experiencing the greatest significance for his life and activity of the great rite of the Eucharist. Vin said and wrote that his vitality, his tireless energy, his positively unbearable primary human activity, which deprived him of sleep and peace of no more than four years to get, he explains to them that today, By God's grace, here comes a great mystery and communion of the Holy Mysteries. All the preaching works and works of Father John, the readings of which endure every day until the apostolic hours, revealing the inner workings of the soul and heart of this prominent shepherd of our Church, whose life with Christ clearly testifies to the significance of the greatness of the sacrament of the Eucharist, whose deep faith in the reality of the presence of this sacrament and What a boundless influx on the lives of people and the whole world.

For Father John, “the liturgy is everything in the world,” for whom the sacrament of the Eucharist is the alpha and omega of not only the people concerned, “the well-being of the living, the removal of sins and the repose of the saints, in This time in faith, the repentance and hopes of eternal life have ceased.” and have a safe sleep for the whole world. Father Ivan learned divine philosophy from the Eucharist. This is the deepest Orthodox thought we have about the Eucharist. In every word, sermon, and famous sci-fi writer, all Christianity is reduced to “one standard” - the Eucharist, and the Eucharist is considered “a trial settlement for rich Christians, on which faith is tested.” christians' faith."

In his numerous literary works, Father John gives us a lot of valuable passages necessary for understanding and understanding the rite of the Eucharist, revealing the subjective experiences of the Christian pastor who takes the part of the Eucharist ії, і indicates the result її flowing. Being a great, living pillar that unites heaven with earth, revealing the dogma about the Eucharist, Father John first focuses on the Eucharist, as the cause of the salvation of a fallen man, tempted by the devil and violating the commandment of God, in Don’t marvel at the Evachrist as at a “medicine” .

“The Lord, like a wise physician,” writes Father Ivan, “rejoices like one another. He himself deigned to become like a person and instead of the harrowed fruit that brought death to you and all posterity, giving to you and punishing you (people) to eat His Most Pure Body, suffered for us, and His Most Pure Blood, for us, at the ransom of us sins, curses and death, shed on the cross for our reconciliation with God; And just as through the cultivation of the harrowed fruit the devil entered into the people, so through the cultivation of the Most Pure Body and Blood of Christ, Christ God with the Father and the Holy Spirit enters into the people, cleansing the sins of people, sanctifying him and giving him the right and blessed blessings This is immortality."

According to Father John, “the administration of the Life-Giving Mysteries is subject to the immutable permissions of the Life-Giving Trinity from the folding of the mind, no matter what.”

Citing the necessity of the Eucharist, as “the immutable release of the Life-Giving Trinity in the formation of a mellow world,” Father John advanced a number of arguments.

The Eucharist is necessary, first of all, because “without Blood there is no purification and sanctification; The Lord poured His Blood on the Cross for purification and sanctification of the world,” and the sacrament of the Eucharist is “an image of the Most Pure Divine Blood of Christ in the New Testament, without which the cleansing of sins cannot occur”; in another way, that the Lord, “in order to reveal His fullness not only by the present appearance of the God-man in the world, aka people of “all ages,” - having given the all-good, wise, wonderful commandment to His Church in His Lord and in the found bathing with Him, until the end of the century, the sacramental sacrament of the Body and Blood will continue to be fully and fully in force, and, thirdly, because “without the sacrament of the Body and Blood, without liturgy I could have forgotten the greatest love, wisdom, omnipotence could have been spent Fruit Yogo the sufferer."

Through the sacrament of the Eucharist “Our Lord, having pinched us to Himself, like a wild flower, to Himself, the vine, to live us with His Flesh and Blood, just as the branches of the grapevine feed on their juices.”

From the very establishment of the sacrament of the Eucharist by Jesus Christ, “loudly, to everyone, this universal mystery is heard” and “The Blood of Christ was not only shed, but is being shed for us during the hour of the liturgy until the end of the world."

This blood of Christ “as an antidote to sin serves as a means of reconciliation with the Heavenly Father, the source of immortality, deification and strength against sin and death as a guarantee of immortality.”

As a shepherd, Father John, speaking about the Eucharist, separates two sides: the visible, the source of the sacrament and the creator of the sacrament, and the invisible, hidden side, which lies in the transmuted bread and wine in thee. lo i Blood of the Lord.

The visible side of the mystery consists of the words for the mystery itself - “wheat bread” and “grape wine”. Father Ivan explains that under the sight of bread and wine, the Lord gives us Himself “to the one to whom He appeared as a human body, with a human soul, so that otherwise people cannot unite with Him, as they apparently help Him ї that of wonderful nature. the most pure Body and Blood, which are transformed in essence and the very truth from bread and wine. Who has the greatest goodness and wisdom of God, who acts by the power of the Divinity of our sweet Lord,” Who “knows our weakness, the weakness of faith and thus favors the victoriousness for the mystery of His Body and Blood most of all” and speeches."

According to the words of Father John, “The Lamb himself, in the form of pieces of bread, is soaking and being propagated, and was purchased with His Blood, the people of Proskomedia will recognize the image of the pieces of bread obtained from the prosphora, which shows the unity of man.” The essence of the Divine, inseparably united in Jesus Christ and in us. Yogo communicants."

Speaking about the Eucharist, Father Ivan shows respect to those who in the Orthodox Church Christians are obliged to receive communion under the sight of the bread and wine - the Body and Blood of Christ.

“Necessarily and the Blood of Christ under the special appearance of wine, as the Lord has established, and not without Blood”, because “Blood in the sacrament of the Sacrament is necessary for the clergy and the laity.”

Father John worries about his duties and the moral qualities of the performer of the sacrament. The sacrament of the Eucharist is only effective if it is administered by “an Orthodox priest who is legally ordained and in the sight of God.” Father Ivan read about the height of the priest as a mediator between God and people; He is “a lad for the whole Church, for the whole world... At this (celebrant of the Eucharist) the angels marvel with reverence and act of zeal, seeing such mercy from God to us.”

The Kronstadt shepherd makes a fortune about the holiness and purity of the priest. “There are so many holy and blessed individuals who participate in this heavenly sacrament and often partake of it, and so many people are blessed and joyful that they partake.” More deeply, Father Ivan reveals in his people another side of the invisible mystery, the rebirth of bread and wine into the Flesh and Blood of Christ, knowing that we will “grasp the full magnitude of the blessing that is given to us by the Lord from that The essence of the Sacrament, no one at all can.. “For grace is boundless and intangible, like God himself.”

Continuing the devotion of the Orthodox Church, Father John began to teach about the mittivist of following the word of Almighty God.

“As He can, with one stroke of His hand, create from the elements whatever He wants, so from wheat bread and grape wine, He can create His Flesh and Blood, His entire Body, in which all God and Man dwells and is presented to the believers in that "Chambers of Communion" .

A miraculous transformation is known from the work of Father John through the drive of rebirth.

“What kind of sculptor, who makes a statue for others, does not want to make one for himself? “Why should God not create flesh from bread and wine, which are so close to our flesh, being infused into food and drink and transformed into our flesh and blood?” - writes the spiritual writer.

Father John orders at the time of re-revelation. “Having been filled with Thy Holy Spirit,” - after these words and the blessed cross, like a hand in the wash of the eyes, the bread and wine are transferred to the Body and Blood of Christ, and not before, for the Divine omnipotence checks the priest, who drinks Yoma, words: “God is a helper” ( 1 Cor. 3:9)."

“This terrible, great temple fears the sky, and the Angels of God are present at the most profound secret of mercy and love to people, at the most profound mystery of the Body and Blood of Christ - the incarnation of Christ and wine in the true Body, the Blood of Christ."

Contributing his devotion to the revival, Father John speaks about those who are infused into the bread and wine of the Son of God, I do not know that he was infused once - and which will last for all the ages - but will be infused by the same body as it was previously infused.

In his ancestry, Father John equalizes the communicants from the celebrants and followers of Christ, so to speak about how he experienced the sacrament of the Eucharist.

“Like happiness, like bliss came from the Heavenly King Himself! Congratulations to these happy people who lived during the hour of Jesus Christ's presence on earth. Don't be late! He is inseparable from us with His Divinity, His grace. Your Life-Giving Secrets, Your Divine Body and Most Pure Blood; Our anitrochs are not depicted in this regard, they are equalized with the companions of Jesus Christ, nothing has been subtracted, they have taken away more of them, so that there is no small bliss in cultivating the life of His Body and Shelter, and we eat here we go."

Father Ivan even though that Christians who lived after Christ and did not respect Yogo, are happy for those who, having received Yogo, followed Him and continued to stick with Yogo. “We are happy for Martha and Mary (sisters of Lazarus-I.H.), because we receive the Lord into our home, and today they closely unite with Him spiritually and physically,” we are happy for Elder Simeon (Luke 2, 29), for “the righteous old man, one might say, has placed Jesus in the scope of his life as a sign of the fact that those who believe in Christ after the hour, all the days until the end of this century, will lift and carry Him not in the arms of only one, but in the very to your heart" .

We are eager for the Lord during the hour of the liturgy, when at last they appear at the open royal gates of the Holy Chamber of the Body and Blood of Christ, and the choir sings: “Blessed are you who will come to the Lord “I, God the Lord, have appeared to us.”

Father Ivan testifies to the presence of the true body and the true Blood of Christ in the sacrament of the Eucharist.

As we speak about the Eucharist, we, like no one else, experienced moments of worship of this sacrament. Axis yak vin write about it:

“It is a truly terrible life to live in the Mystery of the Body and Blood of Christ, for us and for the whole world, painfully sacrificed to God and His Father, I marveled at the greatness of God’s kindness to us,” and “before you, with the heartfelt eyes of God in you,” li", I “Having held the holy paten with the Lamb and the cup of the Most Pure Blood in the hands of the harlot, like a harlot trembled at the feet of the Lord Jesus Christ,” and “with all our might we prayed to God for the whole world and the Holy Church.”

While speaking about the height, greatness and immensity of the Eucharist, Father John speaks about its great significance for Christians, both in their lives and in others. “We effectively become saints in this life, even if it is not necessary, as long as we regularly partake of the holy, most pure and living Mysteries of Christ; “Then we undoubtedly become saints of the holiness of Christ, and our soul beats more and more with the Blood of Christ.”

In honor of the Holy Mystery of the Eucharist, “The kingdom of heaven is approaching, it has come from the heights of heaven, for Christ is both in our mouths and in our hearts,” and we now begin to sit on the throne of the Savior, at the eternal right of the Holy Communion. “He who eats My Flesh and drinks My Blood, dwells in Me and I in the new” (IV. 6, 5 b).”

Father Ivan says that the Lord, through the Eucharist, gives us a “guarantee of immortality.” The sacrament of Communion is the sacrament of rebirth and immortality."

The Kronstadt shepherd, who performed the rite of the Eucharist, felt and experienced this truth of immortality. “The truth of the immortality of the human soul is as clear and obvious to us Christians as the sun. We are consuming the Body and Blood of Christ and through this we carry in ourselves the obvious beginnings of our immortality, and if the soul of this person is separated from the body, then it is time for those eternal lives to live forever, those who have taken shelter from her and brought before her the Life-Giving chimi Secrets. Such is the irrefutable guarantee of immortality that a Christian carries in his soul.”

Serving as a lock of immortality. The Eucharist, according to Father Ivan, gives to those who believe and receive the saints the same power of healing as Christ gave for life. “I have seen many sick people who stood like a tower in the face of illness, who completely relaxed, having partaken of their Divine Mysteries myself and the stench was smelled in a wondrous manner.”

The fruits of the Eucharist, according to the devotion of Father Ivan, extend not only to every person who receives communion, but also to the whole world, ruining the kingdom of evil. “The devil’s vengeance and the sins of people continually collapse through the generous offerings in Christian churches of the bloodless sacrifice of the Most Pure Body and Blood of Christ.”

When he spoke about the Eucharist, Father John spoke “about the spiritual fervor and sprague” of Holy Communion by the Christian and the need for diligent preparation before the final Communion of the Holy Mysteries. This “child’s simple-hearted faith in those who, under the sight of bread and wine, accepts the most pure Body and the most pure Blood of the Savior, completely, inexplicably trusting in the mercy of the Savior, who can burn with divine fire and purify His Blood in all the sins of the recipient, angelic love communicants to the Savior, a change of heart, a change for the better: self-respect and the tidying up of sinful obligations and wickedness,” “deep repentance, allowed sins with spiritual power and the participation of the Body and Blood of Christ - irrevocably and Blood under a special type of wine, as the Lord has risen, and not without Blood, the Orthodox priest is guilty of absolving sins, and not the Papist or Lutheran, who do not give the Blood of Christ.”

Father Ivan read about how a Christian is to behave after Communion: “Remember steadily. Who is in you and in New? And he also foretells about the inheritance of the wicked Communion and the hostility of Christ. The Hidden Places are burning: “... the wicked, the unfaithful, the crafty, the wrongful are scorched and disgraced by God,” writes the Kronstadt shepherd. “Not to receive communion at all,” he continues, “is even disastrous for the soul, because it begins to stink with addictions.”

Due to the close union of believers with Christ in the sacrament of the Eucharist, they “smell more, spiritual contention one with one, like members of the one body of Christ, like Christ, for the “one bread” is secret tsva, “One body is many: we all partake of one bread "(1 Cor. 10.17)." This sacrament “unites everyone into one union of brotherhood, unites heaven and earth - Angels and people - into one union,” so that “during this liturgy, the entire ranks of Christians and Orthodox are brought to a single standard, then to a single You la Christ ( The Church is the Body of Christ) and up to the one Head of Christ.”

This is the order of the Eucharist, after the devotions of Father Ivan, and the greatest proof of the omnipresent God.

“By unquestioningly partaking of the Mysteries of life, like Father John, I receive the omnipresence of Christ as a daughter... in every part of the Body and in every drop of Blood I receive the whole Christ and, in this rank, I'm heartbroken that you're in the same the same hour in all parts and drops, no matter how many there were, to the point of infinity.”

In his teaching about the Eucharist, Father John said that the sacrament of Communion is a blessing of true life and, “as if the light does not contain the Most Pure Body and Blood of the Lord, it does not contain the main good, the blessing of true life (“you do not carry life in you” (In 6, 53)), without the ghost of life, without the gift of sanctification, in a word, the totality of all true, imperishable blessings.”

The Eucharist, according to Father John, is this living “leaven like a woman,” so that the Church “took and put flour in three chambers, until everything was soured (Matt. 13:33).” So, “this is the true leaven of spiritual, heavenly, holy life, put into humanity, because the human soul is triple, for three forces: mind, heart, will; Truth, holiness, love of guilt permeated all the forces, burned all the lives of people, pray, honor the words.”

In this manner, according to Father John, “the abyss of mercy and generosity has opened up and continues to open up in the sacrificed offerings on the altars of Orthodox Christian churches, all-pervading, all-merciful, all-purifying, all-loving, all-pervasive.” a painful, living, terrible, immeasurably great sacrifice and the covenant of the Lord Jesus Christ for the salvation of all to the world. All the sins of the faithful, who truly pray and partake of the living Mysteries, are cleansed immediately after communion, all spiritual entanglements are dissolved, sorrows are assimilated - all the prayers, pleasing to God, are laid to rest, the prayers of the whole Church about all camps And stand, about shepherds and flocks. The light stands, strengthens, is not affected by the sacrifice, the city stands and does not fall apart and experiences prosperity and prosperity, families are strengthened, the approach of the worldly heretics and dissenters occurs idle, the underground of piety is strengthened, and the shepherds did a great job of repairing the most.

Summarizing everything that Father Ivan has said about the Eucharist, we can say that the righteous shepherd’s understanding about it is inseparable from his understanding about the Church. Because of the Eucharist itself, which unites the believers into one Body of Christ, the Church becomes the Body of Christ, and without the Eucharist there would be no Church. “The light would not have provided the main good, the blessings of true life, it would not have provided the ghost of life, it would not have provided the gift of sanctification, in a word, the totality of all true, imperishable blessings.”

Honored Father Ivan shows how great the significance of the Eucharist is in the right to obtain the fruits of the peace of our Lord Jesus Christ. The Eucharist represents the real union of people with God, through Christ “the Eucharist creates and supports the Church.”

“The remaining unification of the believers in the whole organism of holiness and love one to one about God (Church) is formed only in the Eucharist - a morally living union with love about the central point of the righteousness of Christ, the Cross and the Crucifixions on the yum, about the love of God ; really acquired the fullness of the blessings of peace and the infusion of the Son of God through union with Him, the participation of the one Divine life and Divine essence.”

“Father Ivan,” writes Archbishop Veniamin, “clearly emphasizes and emphasizes that in the sacrament of the Eucharist, grace is given, the power of my action is not thought out, in itself, by the faith of those who accept, therefore about bread and wine, after consecration they remain with Body and Blood In Christ, regardless of the faith of those who receive, the subjective action of the external and the objectively essential grace of the sacrament is entirely determined by the faith and the attitude of the recipient; grace disappears, becomes unmarked and does not exist for the one who approaches it without faith, just as a sound or a spoken word does not exist for a deaf person or closes his ear.”

This is the prayer of Father John about the mystery of the sacraments of the Holy Eucharist.

Vlasna, this was not only for these cherries: it was not only because the great righteous man thought so, because he felt so, he lives for these cherries.

About what you write about the certificate of service to Father John of the Divine Liturgy:

“Father Ivan in the Khvylini feels deeply emotional after the words of the liturgical vigil: “Infused with Your Holy Spirit.” This great reverence for the Holy Mysteries is manifested in the fact that many times, slowly, without a godly banner, bowing his head before them. The tears flowed clearly from his eyes... Why was this miracle man crying?

There are no tears without deep emotional congratulations. There are no tears without a hint of love and a living thought. If anyone wanted to move and analyze the words of Father John, then what kind of richest change could be found in it! The mood of Father Ivan is so high in this family that it is passed on to others and has a significant impact on the mood of everyone present at that time. I was informed that the deeds more than once stood over the throne at the moment of the rebirth of the Holy Gifts of the Angels. The celestial beings seemed to have served multiply in the mysteries created... Their appearance was shining, the sky seemed to be so. I guessed at the halo that is depicted on the icons of the white saints’ heads. Individuals close to him said that such a different change happens to him immediately when he approaches the holy chambers, because from the holy chambers he has drawn strength to carry out this task, which overcomes all human strength.” .

In this manner, analyzing the devotion of the holy righteous John of Kronstadt about the Eucharist, starting from the beginning of hundreds of our days, you can do the same.

“The great secret chamber of piety”, the incarnation of the Son of God, “the sacrament that has been revealed throughout the ages, and is unknown to the angel”, is found in the liturgical life of Christians today in the Eucharistic priesthood. The Eucharist was the central nerve of Christian life. Everything that occurs in the church and temple life of Christians is concentrated in the liturgy, is connected with it, and enters its warehouse. In fact, already in the ancient times of Christianity, the baptism of catichumens took place during the hour of the liturgy, on days, especially those recognized as: Great Day, Resurrection, Epiphany and others. Writers of the second and subsequent centuries speak about such “christian liturgies.” (Holy Martyr Justin the Philosopher, Sylvia of Aquitaine and others). Shlub and sanctification were also included before the liturgy; The wedding took place before the Eucharistic canon, of course, during the hour of the Liturgy of the Stunned, approximately during the hours of reading the Apostle and the Gospel, and after the young people received Holy Communion; The consecration, which recognized such a complex evolution of its rite, was also inserted into the framework of the liturgy: the consecration of the olive took place during the hour of the Proskomedia, and the anointing after the pulpit prayer. The world will now be consecrated during the hour of the liturgy, immediately after the consecration of the Gifts on the day of Maundy Thursday. The priesthood is not separate from the liturgy. In addition, all those that scholastic science does not seem to call a sacrament, although the created fathers and writers had a sacrament, such as: consecration of the temple, consecration of the antimens, Epiphany consecration of water, tonsure of the monks , so it would otherwise coincide with the hour of the liturgy It was entered before the warehouse. The funeral liturgy is preceded by the tributes and revival of the deceased. Later this year, during the process of pacified life, this unchurched life, this organic connection was broken, and all the rituals of the created believing people were transformed into needs, and the people from them began to fool around with simple rituals, and the Eucharist itself ceased be spiritual daily bread.

The holy fathers and writers of the Church provide ample confirmation of what has been said. Thus, the pseudo-Dionysius (“De eccl. hierarch.” 111.1) calls the Eucharist “the sacrament of rites” and respects that “from the hierarchical priesthoods, as the final bfelzh men phub does not affect the rest of the Our birthday. “The original schola of St. Maximus the Companion explains: “Incomplete means that every rite does not take place absolutely without the sacrament.” St. Gregory Palamas in his “Confessions of the Orthodox Faith” says: “... we love all church teachings, recorded and not recorded, and first of all the secret and all-holy priesthood, the sacrament and the prayer collection, in which everything is performed and priesthood." Simeon of Thessalonica reads that “the completion of any sacred service and the seal of every divine rite and sacred sacrament.”

In addition, it is necessary to remember that the nature of the Church itself is eucharistic. The Church is the Body of Christ. The Eucharist is also the Body of Christ. Therefore, without the Eucharist there is no churchliness, and there is no churchly life. Likewise, the Eucharist is an inconceivable position of the Church. The pose of the Church can only represent the Holy Supper, symbolize it, rather than imply the Eucharistic sacrifice. The position of the Church is graceless. The Eucharist, like the beginning of the hidden life, cannot exist without the sanctifying power of the Holy Spirit.

It is impossible to separate the concept of the church from the classical catechism: “the church is the union of the faithful, united by the common faith...”, etc. The Church cannot be reduced further to this canonical-administrative framework. Being on the parish list and taking part in parish meetings does not in itself mean living in the church. It is not possible, guess Yu.F. Samarina, only to be placed before the church and to be registered in it, the requirement is to live in it (or her). There is a need to urgently, truly, urgently take part in the life of the church, and in the life of the mystical Body of Christ. It is necessary to be a living part of this Body. You must be a participant, a participant in this Body. Saint Maximus the Confessor began in his “Taimnitsa”: “The Holy Church is like the image of the Feather-Image, which is to be done before us, similar to the acts of God. Because, as it is not great, it is almost inexhaustible, the number of people, squads and children that form one kind of one and even differ among themselves by genus, external appearance, generations, mine, so as well as rank, occupation, etc. knowledge, special advantages of the current state , character and mood of the soul, as there is not a great number and as not a diverse type of those inspired by it and through it, created and inspired by the spirit. The Church gives one message to everyone and bestows one image and name.”

Discourse on the Holy Communion

Receive the Body of Christ, Dzherela Eat the immortal.

(Claim)

Before you, christen the flock, in whose cup is the divine body and the divine blood of our Lord Jesus Christ, and you have prepared yourself for the devils and confessions until the reception of these holy, immortal and living Mysteries. In order to properly receive them, it is necessary for each of you: First, childish, simple-hearted faith, that you receive under the sight of bread and wine the purest body and the purest blood of the Savior, that you receive the Savior Himself with your lips your heart, you become one body and blood from Nim, one spirit, as it is said: You are Yogo's body, Yogo's flesh and Yogo's brushes(Eph 5:30); eat my flesh and drink my blood, my blood continues, and I am in new(In 6.56); i cling to the Lord, one spirit is with the Lord(1 Cor 6:17); for in this part of the body and blood of Christ God, which you receive, the whole Jesus Christ is found, like the soul in the body. The two of you need, I have thoroughly understood, the indescribable hope in the mercy of the Savior, who will burn with divine fire and cleanse with His blood all your sins; Therefore, every one of you, aware of your inability to accept the divine Secrets, grant yourself the absolute mercy of the Lord, so that He Himself, by His grace, will give you the yearly acceptance of His holy Mysteries; be kind to the skin; I’m not cowardly, I’m not cowardly, I’m not crazy, representing my wretchedness, lewdness; The mercy of the Lord and great forgiveness and cleansing of sins are given from the cup to everyone. Just believe and be confident. There is a need for 3, great, ardent, angelic love of the celebrants before the Savior; for the love of the Lord, the skin of you is guilty of witnessing love: for, let me say, what the love of God before us sinners was revealed in the fact that God Himself, having been infused for us, having suffered, died and resurrected, giving us His divine body and blood, and through them united with us in a perfect union, having formed and mixed with us, having made us companions of His divine nature! Like mothers, like fathers, they loved so much when they cared for their children, like the Lord who loved us? And will the Lord meet with us at the Holy Mysteries? In order to cleanse us from the defilement of sins, from the defilement of which there is no such thing and that which kills, in order to make known to us His holiness, His divine life, peace, joy, joy, lightness, sweetness, freedom, of which there is no what is precious and dear to the world; so that we, cleansed from sins, changes, renewals, can be taken to heaven, for eternal life, for eternal bliss: for with sins, with addictions, no one can be in paradise: Eat My Flesh and Drink My Mother's Blood Lives Eternally speak Lord , and I will resurrect him on the remaining day(In 6.54).

So, when you are about to partake of the Divine Mysteries, set your heart on fire with love for the Savior. Holy Soul, Comforter, Treasure of good things, pour Thy love into our hearts!

You need a 4-heart change. So many of you, having loved sin, have all succumbed to sin, willingly or unwillingly; Now try to hate him in every way: for sin is the birth of the devil, the support of God; try to change everything from the very depths of your soul. You are devouring the body and blood of the divine Lamb, the kind and gentle Lord Jesus Christ: be gentle lambs yourself, gentle, patient, submissive to the will of God, the Church, the will of your fathers, bosses, and elders. You will accept the body and blood of the Savior, and Vine is all love, and You will receive the magician’s guide and anger: Let us try to live with mutual love; Forgive, do not repay evil for evil, for I will give you justice for annoyance. Come to the Lord, the Heavenly King, who leads us all to heaven; try to think about the forge; be inspired by the heavenly calls; Lose your predilection for earthly speeches, which are corruptible and unwilling and corrupting souls; to love the countryside of the country, the city of Jerusalem, the Mother of God and the saints, and where all our guilt has gone; Eliminate all uncleanness and sinful addictions; show the skin a better change, show the skin a better look; everyone bring some good fruit of good deeds to Vladitsa; create the fruits of the year of repentance. God! You yourself will protect us, You yourself will protect us!

Decree, in order for us to preserve this heavenly gift - the pure body and blood of Christ, we must respect ourselves, our thoughts, our hearts, all our feelings and inclinations, the tidying up of sinful desires and the dawn, as well as the morning in Ezhi and petty; the morning of marsal, deeds, gods and all kinds of nonsense; in a word: everyone take care of everything that is like Christ, I will save our souls; remember that through the sacrament the Lord loves you, declaring you divine; live divinely and live in all holiness, righteousness and truth. You children of God and Christ: how should the children of God live?

May the Lord grant you all the grace and grace to receive the divine Secret. Who is the divine Body and the divine Blood it is not suitable, it is and is a condemnation of itself(1 Cor 11:29) even St. Apostle Paul. So, let us approach through faith and love, and we will be partakers of eternal life. Amen.