15-disci | disco-minor | minut-somni | sorro-zeal
Work, Chapter
1001 Types,4 | and experts in the most minute details and nuances of the
1002 Types,5 | makes him into a spiritual miser -- and then this miserliness
1003 Types,3 | take into account all the misfortune, abandonment, neglect and
1004 Types,7 | other children, that his mishaps and illnesses are more severe
1005 Types,6 | well-intentioned or deliberate misinterpretations of the evangelical way of
1006 | miss
1007 Types,4 | atmosphere of beauty will wrap in mist the sorrowful image of Christ,
1008 Types,5 | quite satisfied with their modest acts of charity. After all,
1009 Types,2 | by their conduct slightly modified the established, formal,
1010 Types,5 | exercises which control and modify a person's normal behavior
1011 Types,4 | chants, however, and softly modulated reading, the odor of incense
1012 Types,7 | spiritual significance of the monastic vow of renunciation becomes
1013 Types,7 | give away a certain sum of money, then I have reduced my
1014 Types,6 | certain dose of Christian morality. And in addition to this
1015 Types,2 | extended over them, over their morals and way of life, and they
1016 Types,5 | first step is the ascetic mortification of one's flesh. It is prayer
1017 Types,5 | are to be found in what motivates an individual to enter upon
1018 Types,3 | brethren. But the basic motive for such activity is that
1019 Types,5 | so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I
1020 Types,3 | fixed feast coincides with a movable one; for example, when the
1021 Types,6 | which is given to me. Each movement of my soul, each approach
1022 Types,4 | endure it, and as a result, moves toward the other extreme.
1023 Types,4 | have produced long and moving descriptions of Orthodoxy'
1024 Types,Intro | a proper overview of the multifaceted nature of Christian life.
1025 Types,1 | struck by the incredible multifacetedness of their understanding of
1026 Types,5 | specific regimen to develop his muscular strength, just as a singer
1027 Types,4 | found, restored and studied; museums of iconography were established;
1028 Types,4 | loves the ustav, by how musical he is, how good is his voice,
1029 Types,5 | prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and
1030 Types,4 | take note of the somewhat naive wording of a hymn. He has
1031 Types,4 | you did not welcome me, naked and you did not clothe me,
1032 Types,7 | should achieve spiritual nakedness, that spiritually we should
1033 | namely
1034 Types,7 | world, and within its own narrow limits comes close to spiritual
1035 Types,3 | the name of the State, the nation, a social idea, or petty
1036 Types,2 | was difficult to speak of nationalism, of loyalty to the traditions
1037 Types,4 | throughout the most diverse ages, nations and peoples, have always
1038 Types,5 | particular form of spiritual naturalism? The only thing in this
1039 Types,AboutAuthor| others being pursued by the Nazis in her adopted city, Paris,
1040 Types,3 | misfortune, abandonment, neglect and exhaustion of the contemporary
1041 Types,7 | toward them when they are neglected. As the result of the presence
1042 Types,7 | to offer our soul for our neighbors, whenever in love we do
1043 Types,5 | snakes and scorpions that are nesting there. Such a person repents
1044 | nevertheless
1045 | next
1046 | nine
1047 Types,5 | milieu so characteristic of nineteenth-century revolutionary movements.
1048 | ninety
1049 Types,5 | does take place for other, non-ascetic -- and even non-religious --
1050 Types,6 | reject him, you reduce him to non-being) and no longer have a path
1051 Types,7 | follow other conventional, non-sacrificial paths, paths which do not
1052 | none
1053 | nonetheless
1054 Types,5 | a typical feature of the nonreligious milieu so characteristic
1055 Types,5 | control and modify a person's normal behavior and are directed
1056 Types,4 | of beauty, for an eternal Northern Lights.~The strangest and
1057 Types,5 | world, the greater is the nostalgia for the heights. Today the
1058 Types,5 | that both concepts have notable and saintly champions, that
1059 Types,3 | the old kriuk or "hook" notation -- all those things for
1060 Types,4 | will condescendingly take note of the somewhat naive wording
1061 Types,3 | development awaits it.~It must be noted here that from another point
1062 Types,5 | grow, because he begins to notice that the more he acquires,
1063 Types,6 | To a certain degree this notion can be contrasted to that
1064 Types,2 | way of life, in turn, was nourished by it. Tradition permeated
1065 Types,4 | services are capable of nourishing only those who are already
1066 Types,4 | severity and restraint of the Novgorod style of iconography. He
1067 Types,4 | most minute details and nuances of the various artistic
1068 Types,5 | to dryness, to spiritual numbness, to the complete degeneration
1069 Types,4 | people, cannot count on a numerically widespread dissemination.~
1070 Types,AboutAuthor| crime" of this Orthodox nun and Russian refugee was
1071 Types,5 | for this is how he will nurture, this is how he will save
1072 Types,4 | questions of life and death: O Jesus, save us!" But between
1073 Types,5 | is important: my standing obediently before God, my relationship
1074 Types,5 | course -- becomes not the object of love, but a means for
1075 Types,Intro | produced, we can discern, objectively and dispassionately, various
1076 Types,Intro | framework of impartiality and objectivity when classifying and defining
1077 Types,3 | altar table, no table of oblation, since there is no Mystery,
1078 Types,5 | crowds of people who are oblivious to the tragedy of our age.
1079 Types,4 | are pushed to one side and obscured so that they will not disturb
1080 Types,2 | as Soloviev accurately observed, laid down their lives for
1081 Types,1 | The five types~If, while observing Orthodox believers, you
1082 Types,7 | before him, deflect all obstacles and all rivals. This is
1083 Types,7 | which he absented himself he obtains anew, in love, and in a
1084 Types,7 | did Christ ever give any occasion to think that he did not
1085 Types,3 | atmosphere of piety during which occasional words come through clearly
1086 Types,4 | ignorance, clumsiness and, occasionally, by their personal sorrows
1087 Types,4 | A sinister phenomenon is occurring now in Soviet Russia. There,
1088 Types,5 | emptier his soul becomes. This occurs because of a strange law
1089 Types,4 | softly modulated reading, the odor of incense and a blessed,
1090 Types,4 | intrusion of anything that might offend or upset that harmony. Even
1091 Types,2 | gather around the senior officer present. Very often a considerable
1092 Types,3 | something threatening and ominous here, precisely because
1093 Types,3 | indignant if anything is omitted during Church services,
1094 Types,7 | the form of a servant. The Only-begotten Son of God, the Logos, has
1095 Types,2 | secularization of the Church is openly proclaimed. This type of
1096 Types,4 | and charlatanism. But the opiate will have its effect. And
1097 Types,7 | wisdom of this world not only opposes this commandment of Christ
1098 Types,5 | In this sense we see that opposites do coincide. We see here
1099 Types,4 | the general grandeur and orderliness of the service.~The aesthete
1100 Types,2 | historical point of view this orderly system had already begun
1101 Types,4 | charitable works or any organized activity, or to bring believers
1102 Types,2 | superb administrators and organizers, custodians of Church property,
1103 Types,5 | religions, modifying the original understanding of asceticism.
1104 Types,3 | up its Biblical heritage, ossifying it and depriving it of its
1105 Types,2 | psychology? Certainly, one ought not to imagine that this
1106 Types,4 | a bright and talented outburst of aestheticism among the
1107 Types,2 | was possible to find an outlet for love, sacrifice and
1108 Types,4 | person to seek in a world outlook what will supplement his
1109 Types,7 | and apart from their outward appearance, these two forms
1110 Types,4 | rise, the faithful will be overcome by the ecstatic beauty of
1111 Types,7 | gloriously and victoriously, overcoming and destroying all its enemies.
1112 Types,2 | certainly not called for to overdo one's churchiness. This
1113 Types,5 | saturation, by an almost total overdose of all things. But this
1114 Types,4 | Chance? Something the Soviets overlooked? Could this not be a subtle
1115 Types,2 | the "official" type was so overpowering. This is especially clear
1116 Types,5 | religiosity. There is no need to overrate this influence of asceticism
1117 Types,2 | people. The priest was an overseer appointed by the State to
1118 Types,3 | of the service frequently overshadows the inner content of individual
1119 Types,Intro | them would give a proper overview of the multifaceted nature
1120 Types,4 | people. The Church will be overwhelmed by their problems. The Church
1121 Types,4 | be priests almost in the pagan meaning of that word. A
1122 Types,4 | Church with all its aches and pains, with all its harsh intensity.
1123 Types,3 | examples of ancient icon painting, it has preserved the ancient
1124 Types,4 | unworthies to be found beyond the pale. In the mind of such an
1125 Types,5 | of the universe, to the Pantocrator, to the Redeemer of all
1126 Types,7 | neither in sermons nor parables, nor in the miracles he
1127 Types,7 | love which measures and parcels out its various possibilities,
1128 Types,AboutAuthor| Nazis in her adopted city, Paris, where in 1932 she had founded
1129 Types,AboutAuthor| the summer of 1998 by the Paris-based journal, Vestnik, No. 176 (
1130 Types,4 | wording of a hymn. He has partaken in everything, he is sated,
1131 Types,7 | genuine draining of self, in partial imitation of Christ's self-emptying
1132 Types,Intro | every effort to avoid such partiality. ~
1133 Types,7 | upon the Cross, making it a participant in his death and in his
1134 Types,2 | one's loyalty. One could participate in services of intercession
1135 Types,3 | and tranquil. All these particularities of the strict ritualist
1136 Types,6 | linkage is the union of two parts of a single whole.~These
1137 Types,3 | is a crime to kneel from Pascha to Pentecost, he knows how
1138 Types,5 | and there is no way to pass beyond it. But it knows
1139 Types,3 | its strength. If life has passed it by and given it no external
1140 Types,2 | manifestations, the flaming passion of true religious life.
1141 Types,5 | saints and martyrs, her passion-bearers and confessors with the
1142 Types,7 | rivals. This is a kind of passion-filled maternal love. Only that
1143 Types,5 | the Philokalia, read the Paterikon, listen -- even in this
1144 Types,3 | canon-based, patristic and paternal Orthodoxy: Athos and Valaam.
1145 Types,7 | and measure the various pathways of human life? What are
1146 Types,2 | independent of St. Tikhon, the Patriarch of Moscow. They went on
1147 Types,2 | and the restoration of the Patriarchate.~However important these
1148 Types,3 | traditional, canon-based, patristic and paternal Orthodoxy:
1149 Types,7 | expression of the Apostle Paul: "I could wish that I myself
1150 Types,5 | soul.~Here I would like to pause and touch upon some of the
1151 Types,5 | only asking him for "sleep peaceful and undisturbed."~Spiritual
1152 Types,AboutAuthor| Sergei Hackel's biography, Pearl of Great Price. For a short
1153 Types,4 | attracted to a type of popular, peasant artistry. From this there
1154 Types,4 | respond to new problems, penetrating new and often uncultured,
1155 Types,3 | to kneel from Pascha to Pentecost, he knows how many times
1156 Types,3 | commandment, rule upon rule." It perceived the splendid flow of Byzantine
1157 Types,5 | immovable light of the Divine Perfection, while all this world is
1158 Types,2 | to look after the correct performance of religious functions by
1159 Types,5 | s dust from their feet, performing the one task worthy of man --
1160 Types,7 | boundaries, where is the periphery of this center? Here it
1161 Types,7 | empty himself, does not perish in this dreadful sacrificial
1162 Types,5 | love, since it provokes perplexity rather than compassion.
1163 Types,5 | potatoes, look after leprous persons, collect alms for the Church,
1164 Types,5 | Christians of all convictions and persuasions. And as a result, the question
1165 Types,2 | Church. From the time of Peter the Great our Russian Orthodox
1166 Types,2 | instance, on the cadres of the Petersburg ministerial bureaucracy,
1167 Types,5 | required to fulfil my prayerful petitions for something which is not
1168 Types,3 | turned away from scribes and Pharisees, Christ, who approached
1169 Types,AboutAuthor| is also posted on the St. Philaret web site in Moscow at: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~
1170 Types,5 | surrounds the soul of today's philistine? How can he set the people'
1171 Types,5 | the massive volumes of the Philokalia, read the Paterikon, listen --
1172 Types,3 | presence of State-imposed philosophies and world-views. If we grant
1173 Types,7 | by every word and every phrase of the Gospels.~Why is it
1174 Types,5 | total lack of doubt, by physical and spiritual saturation,
1175 Types,3 | healthy who are in need of a physician, but the sick. In fact,
1176 Types,7 | through his trial before Pilate, the way of the cross and
1177 Types,3 | ancient prophet, it started to pile up "commandment upon commandment,
1178 Types,AboutAuthor| Klepinin-Arjakovsky in the archive of S.B. Pilenko. The Russian text was published
1179 Types,3 | islands of the elect, these pinnacles of the Orthodox spirit?
1180 Types,4 | fiery temperament, their pithy sayings and, at times, chaotic
1181 Types,2 | but that on the historical plane the Synodal period has come
1182 Types,4 | be a subtle psychological ploy, based on the fact that
1183 Types,5 | detachment and heroic effort (podvig) for the salvation of his
1184 Types,2 | purposes of the State machine. Podvizhniki somehow failed to appear
1185 Types,5 | A reference to Pushkin's poem, "The Prophet," which ends
1186 Types,7 | This is, of course, a very poignant example.~There can be no
1187 Types,4 | up by sores; we have been poisoned by hatred and the social
1188 Types,5 | In essence there are two polar entities: the eternal Creator
1189 Types,4 | eternal ice, for some eternal pole of beauty, for an eternal
1190 Types,2 | formal, official tone of polite relationship toward the
1191 Types,4 | be attracted to a type of popular, peasant artistry. From
1192 Types,4 | Christ will go out on to the porch and mingle with the crowd:
1193 Types,2 | regimental banners, but portable churches with iconostases
1194 Types,4 | attraction toward specific portions of the services, toward
1195 Types,3 | power of a gesture or a pose. It feels protected and
1196 Types,3 | how to breathe, in what position to maintain your body during
1197 Types,7 | have a greedy desire to possess what is not one's own. Both
1198 Types,7 | bliss, the divine gift of possessing the Kingdom of heaven. How
1199 Types,5 | significant here is the possessive and miserly relationship
1200 Types,5 | giant steps? How can one possibly avoid being tempted?~There
1201 Types,AboutAuthor| pp. 5-50, and is also posted on the St. Philaret web
1202 Types,5 | clean out stables, dig for potatoes, look after leprous persons,
1203 Types,7 | returns, for the love which is poured out never diminishes the
1204 Types,4 | extent understand -- but are powerless to witness to Christ's Truth
1205 Types,AboutAuthor| No. 176 (II-III 1997), pp. 5-50, and is also posted
1206 Types,5 | their principles and their practical rules. Open up the massive
1207 Types,5 | is required to fulfil my prayerful petitions for something
1208 Types,5 | every fiery prophet, every preacher will be in a quandary: on
1209 Types,4 | false prophets, sectarian preachers of various kinds and in
1210 Types,7 | being poor in spirit. This precept is so far removed from human
1211 Types,6 | a selected list of moral precepts from the Gospel, added to
1212 Types,3 | the directives are more precise and better regulate one'
1213 Types,1 | because he is, to some extent, predetermined for it by the milieu from
1214 Types,2 | the synodal type of piety predominates. This is easy to demonstrate
1215 Types,3 | the Christian way of life, preferring torture and even death not
1216 Types,3 | This is not the person who prefers memorial services, services
1217 Types,7 | and strengthen in him in preparation for the unavoidable life
1218 Types,Intro | types of piety which our present-day situation has produced,
1219 Types,3 | covers, shelters nothing, it preserves nothing. For behind the
1220 Types,2 | uniting Church and State, preserving the old traditions, not
1221 Types,7 | existence is inescapably presupposed by the very presence of
1222 Types,6 | a clarification so as to prevent well-intentioned or deliberate
1223 Types,2 | to find its roots in the previous ecclesiastical epoch, the
1224 Types,AboutAuthor| biography, Pearl of Great Price. For a short biography,
1225 Types,3 | their whole history. It has priceless icons in the ancient style;
1226 Types,7 | the poor, the sick, the prisoner -- we will encounter in
1227 Types,4 | out into the streets, the prisons, the hospitals, the low
1228 Types,3 | are afraid to soil their pristine garments, who are completely
1229 Types,4 | aesthetic type of piety. It has probably had its representatives
1230 Types,6 | is as eternal as is the proclamation of the Good News, always
1231 Types,2 | with the help of the Chief Procurator, assigned administrative
1232 Types,5 | and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing" (1 Cor. 13:1-
1233 Types,5 | What are the means for progress along this path? The first
1234 Types,3 | calendars, rubrics, rules and prohibitions -- a Sabbath which triumphs
1235 Types,5 | crown of eternal life. It promises Paradise, the Kingdom of
1236 Types,2 | of religious life, which promoted other values along with
1237 Types,5 | though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries,
1238 Types,7 | preaching, the miracles, the prophesies, the healings, the enduring
1239 Types,3 | ritualism has been opposed to prophesy and creativity. Its task
1240 Types,4 | false Christs and false prophets, sectarian preachers of
1241 Types,4 | either a crowd of worshipers, props needed for the proper rhythm
1242 Types,2 | power. The State granted it protection, punished offenses against
1243 Types,3 | stagnant, splendid, immovable, protective spirit was the Old Believer
1244 Types,7 | look on him as the heavenly protector of "my" or "our" earthly
1245 Types,2 | simply revolted, frequently protesting not only against the Church'
1246 Types,6 | your only way to see the Prototype as well. This is to say
1247 Types,7 | human life? What are their prototypes, their primary symbols,
1248 Types,5 | the salvation of the soul proves a sword which cuts through
1249 Types,5 | cannot burn through. Will he provide answers for their doubts?
1250 Types,4 | at any time or anywhere provided creative leadership themselves,
1251 Types,5 | and demands an effort. It provides him nothing in the outer
1252 Types,4 | of beauty are always the province of a small minority. This
1253 Types,4 | of the human woes which provoke sympathy, he is afraid of
1254 Types,5 | who is seeking salvation. Prudence therefore clearly demands
1255 Types,5 | characteristics of the human psyche. Thus Christianity is not
1256 Types,5 | One can achieve tremendous psychic changes within oneself and
1257 Types,5 | Asceticism is a known system of psycho-physical exercises which control
1258 Types,4 | Could this not be a subtle psychological ploy, based on the fact
1259 Types,3 | approached prostitutes, publicans and sinners, can hardly
1260 Types,4 | thanks to a great number of publications on the history of art. Without
1261 Types,2 | State granted it protection, punished offenses against the Church,
1262 Types,3 | Here people have received a punishment for their victory, for having
1263 Types,5 | lies in its extraordinary purity, its intensity, in its deceptive
1264 Types,2 | good order and the general purposes of the State machine. Podvizhniki
1265 Types,AboutAuthor| rescue Jews and others being pursued by the Nazis in her adopted
1266 Types,7 | But an asceticism which puts one's own soul at the center
1267 Types,4 | nature). They insist on putting a chill on everything that
1268 Types,4 | numbers, but precisely the quality, in a cultural sense, of
1269 Types,5 | every preacher will be in a quandary: on which side of the café
1270 Types,7 | her child, to feed him, quench his thirst, train him, make
1271 Types,4 | they are being treated to a questionable, semi-literate hodgepodge
1272 Types,4 | ruined; we have no answers to questions of life and death: O Jesus,
1273 Types,5 | and then this miserliness quickly begins to develop and grow,
1274 Types,5 | contentment and total spiritual quiescence. The tragic nature of the
1275 Types,4 | Christ himself departs, quietly and invisibly, from the
1276 Types,5 | motivations which are in radical contradiction to Christianity.
1277 Types,7 | that is, for salvation. He raises the world as well upon the
1278 Types,4 | dollop of good will and ranting hysteria. Some will respond
1279 Types,3 | disenchanted. The austere and rarefied air of sacrificial love
1280 Types,3 | most loved services are the rarest ones, above all those of
1281 Types,AboutAuthor| on Good Friday, 1945, in Ravensbrück concentration camp near
1282 Types,4 | thing. At times it must reach down into the fathomless
1283 Types,4 | because it was monstrous, reached out to Orthodoxy because
1284 Types,5 | tasks and exercises of my readiness to curb my will, a difficult
1285 Types,3 | from the Greek. The lengthy readings by the psalomshchik immerse
1286 Types,7 | valuable that we would not be ready to give it up in the name
1287 Types,Intro | these types, because in reality each individual is attracted
1288 Types,7 | we ourselves are the only reason for these doubts: our loveless
1289 Types,3 | and not to tear down and rebuild. If it does, in fact, come
1290 Types,7 | gives away his human soul, receives in return eternal bliss,
1291 Types,7 | for the sins of the world, receiving it from us as a sacrifice
1292 Types,7 | does not as yet warrant recognition as Christian love for her
1293 Types,4 | temporary lullaby, others will recoil from it -- and a great chasm
1294 Types,4 | which is able not only to reconsider and change what is old,
1295 Types,2 | people of a different sort: rectors, calm, businesslike cathedral
1296 Types,6 | to complete his work of redemption and by this sanctified it
1297 Types,4 | ancient Russian art was rediscovered. Ancient icons were found,
1298 Types,6 | him you reject him, you reduce him to non-being) and no
1299 Types,7 | sum of money, then I have reduced my funds by that amount.
1300 Types,2 | people's psychology and refashion the temper of their souls.
1301 Types,7 | evident. Of course it does not refer just to material renunciation
1302 Types,5 | with his words? [endnote: A reference to Pushkin's poem, "The
1303 Types,5 | line of real ascent, of refinement, of development. But along
1304 Types,6 | suitability of that act for reflecting the image of God which is
1305 Types,7 | of her own character, the reflections of her own tastes, the continuation
1306 Types,3 | creative intensity. Moscow reforged all the turbulent and antinomian
1307 Types,4 | some kind of an elementary reformulation of the truth, some impoverished
1308 Types,AboutAuthor| Orthodox nun and Russian refugee was her effort to rescue
1309 Types,3 | of sanctity? How does it regard the present calamities which
1310 Types,4 | strongly for the new that it regards everything that has already
1311 Types,5 | wrestler must follow a specific regimen to develop his muscular
1312 Types,2 | not only its bayonets and regimental banners, but portable churches
1313 Types,2 | establishment of glorious regiments. In church it was possible
1314 Types,7 | spiritual gifts? What did it regret? Where was it ever stingy?
1315 Types,3 | more precise and better regulate one's whole life, where
1316 Types,4 | discovered and sanctioned, reigns forever.~And here, as a
1317 Types,6 | because by not loving him you reject him, you reduce him to non-being)
1318 Types,4 | soul and whether he will rejoice greatly because it has been
1319 Types,7 | sacrificially. One can even relate to death in two different
1320 Types,6 | life. Obviously it has no relation to the current evangelical
1321 Types,2 | the past. The Church was a reliable and recognized political
1322 Types,Intro | It is very difficult to remain within the framework of
1323 Types,2 | establishment.~Thus there remained in the Church for the most
1324 Types,7 | one can love them while remaining conscious of one's service
1325 Types,6 | of all things. And it is remarkable that their truth is found
1326 Types,5 | But while I love I must remember at all times that the fundamental
1327 Types,3 | most frightening and inert remnant inherited from Muscovite
1328 Types,2 | other male with even the remotest -- real or imagined -- connection
1329 Types,5 | all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not
1330 Types,2 | to the difficult task of rendering to God what is God's and
1331 Types,5 | possible, by determined and repeated efforts, to subject the
1332 Types,7 | makes us into "christs," repeating again and again the great
1333 Types,Intro | concept of Christianity and repels any understanding that is
1334 Types,5 | for these that one must repent and weep. One must eliminate
1335 Types,5 | repents of his sins, but his repentance does not free him from thoughts
1336 Types,5 | nesting there. Such a person repents of his sins, but his repentance
1337 Types,4 | found their way into the repertoire of Church singing; church
1338 Types,3 | a cult of tradition, a repetitious rhythmical gesture. Moscow
1339 Types,2 | values, but often simply replaced Christian love with an egotistical
1340 Types,4 | cultural sense, of these repositories of Orthodox aesthetics.
1341 Types,Intro | majority of people will represent some kind of combination
1342 Types,4 | it happens that, at the request of a particular group of
1343 Types,7 | paths, paths which do not require that one offer up oneself,
1344 Types,2 | many the Church was a vital requirement for their souls. For many,
1345 Types,4 | authorities, with their requirements, have barricaded the doors
1346 Types,AboutAuthor| refugee was her effort to rescue Jews and others being pursued
1347 Types,2 | revolutionaries, which so resembled, in its earliest manifestations,
1348 Types,2 | respect for the law, a certain reserve, along with rather firmly
1349 Types,7 | glory.~How profound is the resonance of these words of the Eucharist: "
1350 Types,2 | marble, with huge cupolas, resonant echoes, immense royal doors
1351 Types,4 | singing will continue to resound, clouds of incense will
1352 Types,3 | it has ancient books; it resounds to a special chant sung
1353 Types,2 | subjects. As such he was a respected figure, but nevertheless
1354 Types,2 | Council [of 1917-18] and the restoration of the Patriarchate.~However
1355 Types,4 | admires the severity and restraint of the Novgorod style of
1356 Types,3 | and incomprehensible ease, restructures his inner world to correspond
1357 Types,4 | others. This has always resulted in a particular personal
1358 Types,7 | upon the Cross of Golgotha, resurrecting our flesh, offering it as
1359 Types,3 | i.e. Isus]. A frightful retribution has been visited upon the
1360 Types,2 | honesty, love of Fatherland, a reverence for authority, etc. No special
1361 Types,4 | beauty? Or, is it not the reverse? Does he not see in our
1362 Types,2 | activity, or they simply revolted, frequently protesting not
1363 Types,2 | moment of the February [1917] revolution and, in the Church, these
1364 Types,2 | anti-religious fanaticism of our revolutionaries, which so resembled, in
1365 Types,5 | the spirit of freedom, the revolutions and dictatorships which
1366 Types,3 | splendid flow of Byzantine rhetoric as something that should
1367 Types,4 | stately composition, or by the rhythmic success of the whole of
1368 Types,3 | tradition, a repetitious rhythmical gesture. Moscow was able
1369 Types,7 | who becomes poor, becomes rich. We give away our human
1370 Types,3 | of Christ crucified and risen, do we not have to do here
1371 Types,5 | values without which such a rising up is impossible -- it requires
1372 Types,4 | for the grandeur of its rites and for that aesthetic experience
1373 Types,3 | obligatory order of service, ritualizing every impulse, enveloping
1374 Types,7 | deflect all obstacles and all rivals. This is a kind of passion-filled
1375 Types,5 | will, a difficult and rocky road for the soul seeking salvation.
1376 Types,4 | guardians of Christ's seamless robe, who will announce to the
1377 Types,5 | if it does not enrich but robs me of my spiritual world.
1378 Types,5 | my will, a difficult and rocky road for the soul seeking
1379 Types,7 | the sake of my brethren" (Rom. 9:3). And he said this,
1380 Types,2 | triumph. Through it the Roman emperor conquered Christ,
1381 Types,2 | role was only shallowly rooted in the Church's life. It
1382 Types,5 | exercise, must repeat the same routine over and over, maintain
1383 Types,7 | lays down his soul (AV, RSV: life) for his friends" (
1384 Types,7 | like a whole and unbroken ruble given to a beggar, but it
1385 Types,4 | were defined and described; Rublev and others began to be appreciated.
1386 Types,3 | arguments over calendars, rubrics, rules and prohibitions --
1387 Types,2 | kind of unimaginably low rumble and end in a window-rattling
1388 Types,4 | aesthetic type of piety amongst Russians, whose souls, as a rule,
1389 Types,3 | there is no Mystery, no Sacrament.~Everything has been preserved
1390 Types,3 | its theanthropic, deifying sacramental life. Only the splendid
1391 Types,3 | chant, it has kept in a safe place, away from the flow
1392 Types,5 | concepts have notable and saintly champions, that both views
1393 Types,4 | when once discovered and sanctioned, reigns forever.~And here,
1394 Types,3 | most upsets this world of sanctity? How does it regard the
1395 Types,4 | partaken in everything, he is sated, afraid to spill his treasure.
1396 Types,5 | self-poisoning and a certain satiation, to the impossibility of
1397 Types,4 | that he himself may find satisfaction through the lofty aesthetic
1398 Types,5 | by physical and spiritual saturation, by an almost total overdose
1399 Types,7 | and Blood, Christ not only saves the world by his sacrifice,
1400 Types,5 | task worthy of man -- the saving of one's own soul.~Here
1401 Types,2 | etc.~The Synodal Period saw a completely defeatist treatment
1402 Types,4 | temperament, their pithy sayings and, at times, chaotic style
1403 Types,5 | as a singer must practice scales in order to perfect his
1404 Types,2 | in the overall patriotic scheme. It is very likely that
1405 Types,7 | one's family, children, scholarship, art, the motherland, one'
1406 Types,5 | you have there a serious school of asceticism, with a massive
1407 Types,2 | after generation people were schooled in the idea that the Church
1408 Types,5 | constantly unmasks the snakes and scorpions that are nesting there.
1409 Types,3 | Christ, who turned away from scribes and Pharisees, Christ, who
1410 Types,4 | level. This would seem to seal the fate of the aesthetic
1411 Types,4 | the guardians of Christ's seamless robe, who will announce
1412 Types,4 | toward immobility, an all-out search for a rhythm of external,
1413 Types,2 | other kind would have to be searched for diligently, since the "
1414 Types,7 | her own reflection, her second youth, an expansion of her
1415 Types,7 | out to Christianity in the secret depths of its soul. But
1416 Types,4 | and instead would gather secretly, in the catacombs, rather
1417 Types,4 | Christs and false prophets, sectarian preachers of various kinds
1418 Types,6 | the current evangelical sectarianism which has extracted only
1419 Types,2 | where the principle of the secularization of the Church is openly
1420 Types,7 | egotistical love of self and a seemingly sacrificial love of one'
1421 | seems
1422 Types,2 | after its struggle, still seething with passionate fury at
1423 Types,4 | precisely because it is select, elite, precisely because
1424 Types,6 | which has extracted only a selected list of moral precepts from
1425 Types,7 | limitless, sacrificial, self-abnegating and self-humbling love of
1426 Types,7 | comes close to spiritual self-centeredness and a fear of dissipating,
1427 Types,7 | and take up his cross." Self-denial is of the essence, and without
1428 Types,3 | a very great degree of self-discipline, a large measure of control
1429 Types,7 | there is this sacrificial, self-giving eucharistic love, then where
1430 Types,7 | sacrificial, self-abnegating and self-humbling love of Christ. Everything
1431 Types,3 | others is determined by a self-imposed obligation and not on a
1432 Types,5 | and inadmissible act of self-preservation. And then there will be
1433 Types,5 | is not doing this out of self-renouncing and sacrificial love, laying
1434 Types,7 | utter and unconditional self-sacrifice as the supreme example of
1435 Types,7 | sacrifice, the sacrifice of self-surrendering love not only in a specific
1436 Types,4 | treated to a questionable, semi-literate hodgepodge of starry-eyed
1437 Types,7 | individual, while others he will send away from himself because
1438 Types,2 | Translator)], gather around the senior officer present. Very often
1439 Types,3 | Eastern Christianity, for one senses here the distinctive forms
1440 Types,5 | maintain a special diet, sensibly schedule his time, curb
1441 Types,3 | Lent. In his time he has sent kalachi [wheatmeal loaves]
1442 Types,7 | other "I"s which become separated from the rest of the world
1443 Types,7 | of one's own soul. It is separation from Christ in the name
1444 Types,3 | of words, of gestures and sequences of gestures. There is no
1445 Types,2 | faithful, based in Karlovci, Serbia, who after 1921 declared
1446 Types,AboutAuthor| a detailed life, see Fr. Sergei Hackel's biography, Pearl
1447 Types,7 | who took on the form of a servant. The Only-begotten Son of
1448 Types,2 | were particularly pious -- served Akathists. But the Church
1449 Types,2 | in fashioning a censer or seven-branched candle stand out of empty
1450 Types,7 | mishaps and illnesses are more severe than those of others, and,
1451 Types,4 | ancient chants, admires the severity and restraint of the Novgorod
1452 Types,5 | colored by one or the other shade of understanding. Both schools
1453 Types,4 | when the Church was being shaken by internal struggles, when
1454 | shall
1455 Types,2 | first this role was only shallowly rooted in the Church's life.
1456 Types,4 | and in varying degrees of shallowness and mediocrity -- Baptists,
1457 Types,7 | Cross -- an instrument of shameful death -- has become for
1458 Types,4 | particular personal psychology shared by museum curators, collectors,
1459 Types,3 | were left with its empty shell. One should think about
1460 Types,3 | massive metalwork covers, shelters nothing, it preserves nothing.
1461 Types,4 | whether he, like a good shepherd, knows his flock and whether
1462 Types,5 | only one thing that can shield you against such temptation: "
1463 Types,6 | the bosom of the Church, shining for us in the faces of saints
1464 Types,4 | aesthetic experience which so shook him. The writers of Muscovite
1465 Types,AboutAuthor| Pearl of Great Price. For a short biography, see Jim Forest'
1466 Types,4 | very life. The crowd will shout: "We are being eaten up
1467 Types,7 | eternal life because they showed him love in the person of
1468 Types,5 | religion. This by itself shows that it is the expression
1469 Types,5 | itself apart with its own sicknesses -- but all these things
1470 Types,7 | lay himself waste and lose sight of what is essential: the
1471 Types,5 | worldly success. What is significant here is the possessive and
1472 Types,3 | echoes of Hinduism and, more significantly, a passionate belief in
1473 Types,6 | there any other objective signs which will tell me that
1474 Types,7 | hand, is it permitted to be silent about them. Perhaps in the
1475 Types,2 | been encased in gold and silver covers. The deacon could
1476 Types,5 | own nothingness, his own sinfulness. Not only the cosmos as
1477 Types,7 | itself. Christianity should singe the world with the fire
1478 Types,5 | muscular strength, just as a singer must practice scales in
1479 Types,3 | the Lord's Prayer are not singled out within the general structure
1480 Types,4 | because it has been found.~A sinister phenomenon is occurring
1481 Types,AboutAuthor| on the St. Philaret web site in Moscow at: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~
1482 Types,1 | life (and even its special skills), the extent of its spread,
1483 Types,AboutAuthor| Mother Maria Skobtsova died on Good Friday, 1945,
1484 Types,7 | and again is voluntarily slain for the sins of the world.
1485 Types,3 | reveals itself here to be a slave of the Sabbath and not the
1486 Types,2 | perhaps done only by the Slavophils, who by their conduct slightly
1487 Types,5 | am only asking him for "sleep peaceful and undisturbed."~
1488 Types,7 | riches, while others almost slip into fanaticism, taking
1489 Types,3 | life is worked out in the smallest detail. He knows the special
1490 Types,4 | fade away in the air, the smell of incense will disperse
1491 Types,7 | thirst, train him, make smooth all paths before him, deflect
1492 Types,5 | and constantly unmasks the snakes and scorpions that are nesting
1493 Types,2 | possible to organize solemn, sober demonstrations of one's
1494 Types,4 | Mellifluous chants, however, and softly modulated reading, the odor
1495 Types,2 | was possible to organize solemn, sober demonstrations of
1496 Types,2 | every effort to conduct them solemnly and with grandeur in splendid
1497 Types,5 | the achievement only of solitary souls, while the most common
1498 Types,2 | atheism. These people, as Soloviev accurately observed, laid
1499 | somewhere
1500 Types,4 | of incense and a blessed, somniferous atmosphere of beauty will
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