Does it be necessary to go to the vigil vigil? What worship is obliged to visit a Christian.
The question asks Andrei - Altai Krai, Russia
Denis, please, express your opinion on the following situation. Is the Christian acceptable to work at such a job, where there is a sliding schedule for a job? And sometimes it falls on Sunday. Accordingly, you have to skip Sunday worship 1-2 times a month.
In the church, of course, there are various meetings during the week, but Sunday worship is a special time. Believer is not the first year, the minister.
May the Lord bless you and your family.
Responsible Denis Zaigorozhenny:
Hello Andrey!
Let's just say very desirable. Scripture says that she worries six days, and give the Lord one day: "Remember the day of Sabbath to sink it; six days work and do any things about yours, and the day of the seventh - Saturday, the Lord, your God: Do not do anything to you, nor your son nor your daughter, nor your servant, nor Your slave, or your cattle, nor the alien who in your dwellings; for the Lord of the sky and the land, the sea and all that in them, and on the day of the seventh, soil; therefore blessed the Lord's Sabbath day and consecrated him. "(Ex-20: 8-11).
For the Jewish people, all this was an important commandment. The Lord wished for people to find the day for the Lord, when they will be in his rest.
I believe that every believer is good for a week to have one day, when it can be completely devoted to the Lord, in order to approach him, to know him.
If we are talking about those people who are forced to work on Sunday, if there is no other work and if it is not possible to choose, it is certainly necessary to proceed from what is.
But in this case, I would advise that during the week you could choose one day in order to be at some other church ministry when you can dwell with Christians. If there is no such possibility, while being at home, devote more time than usual, prayer and the word.
I will note that I answer you, bearing in mind that you have the opportunity to visit the church within a month.
The questions of your ministry in the Church should be resolved with the leadership of the Church. In all cases, try to keep the balance in the need to communicate with God, to be communicating with Christians, to be responsible for the ministry, and for the family that you need to provide financially.
God may bless you!
Yours faithfully,
Denis Zaporozhnoye
Why come to the all-night vigil? Is it possible to skip this service? What to do those who have no time?
Does it be necessary to attend the evening service? You can confess because it is possible right during the liturgy. Or all the same, the presence on the all-sleeping occasion should be for believers as mandatory as the presence on the liturgy?
Our victim of God
The liturgical day is a set of all the worship services of the daily circle, whose crown of Liturgy becomes the crown.
Why is it so difficult to pray on a whirlpool and so easily on liturgy? Because the all-night vigil is our victim to God when we sacrifice it with your time, some external circumstances. And liturgi - the victim of God. And it is often much easier to take it. But oddly enough, the degree of adoption of this victim from God depends on how ready we are willing to sacrifice it.
Veligid vigil in a formal plan - mandatory worship in front of communion.
The whole building of worship reminds us of the events of the divine world order, he must make us better, to configure us to a sacrifice that Christ prepares us with the Holy Communion.
But there are different circumstances at which a person cannot get to the whirlpool: a grumpy wife, a jealous husband, urgent work and so on. And these are the reasons that can justify a person. But if he is not present on a whirlpool due to the fact that the football championship or beloved series is watching, I do not speak here about guests - after all, it is a little different), then, probably, the man internally sin. And not in front of the church charter, not even before God. He just plays himself.
In general, drying the church, the temple is impossible, even if you bring all the icons from there and some material values. The spiritual world is not a bank and not the store. You will not apply the church of the damage to our unworthy behavior. But for you the internal consequences of this - disadvantage.
Everyone must think. If he has the opportunity to visit the whirlpool, then you need to do it. If there is no such possibility, then it is worth thinking: and how can I adequately spend this evening before communion to prepare for the adoption of the Holy Tyne. Maybe you do not need to watch TV, but should focus on spiritual reflection?
If a person wants to pass every Sunday and is experiencing if he is still every Saturday in the temple and will remain without holiday, without rest, the question arises - why does he come with every Sunday?
The Lord says: "Where is your treasure, there will be your heart" (Matt. 6:21). If your treasure in the cinema, the TV, in the stadium - postpone the communion to the best time: on a week, for a month, for a year.
Motivation, which moves by man is very important here. If you are used to coming every Sunday, and it does not change spiritually for you, does not transform, then why do you need it?
Maybe then take the measure of frequency, which is in the church charter: Communions - once every three weeks. The preparation time for communion in the Charter is defined as follows: a week - you are preparing, fasting, you read prayers. Then - we are taking apart, the week internally store the received one, we rest and get ready for a week and again. There is an option when the form of preparation for communion does everyone talks with his confessor.
If a person establishes a certain sacrament schedule, is good. Only then should he treat this sacrament, respectively.
Not only a debt ...
First of all, it is necessary to say about the beauty of the vascular, meaningability, spiritual and actual saturation: the history of the holiday is revealed in worship, and its meaning, and meaning.
But since, as a rule, people do not understand what is read and hides in the church, they simply do not perceive much.
It is surprising that the Russian Orthodox Church retained a very difficult, thoughtful worship service. For example, in Greece at the parishes there is no longer no. There were adjusted under modern lifeAnd it is justified in its own way. There is no evening service, the evening does not serve, morning begins with the uterine.
We serve and evening, and morning in the evening. This is a certain convention, but it is thought out, and those who have decided precisely about such a service, we were better understood by the charter and decided that it would be more correct to preserve the loyalty of the tradition.
Greece has taken another solution. The morning there will serve as a rule, one type. We have a vigil vigil - a solemn, bright, colorful, during it there are many chants. In Greece - more monotonous, but quickly. The whole service, together with Liturgy, takes two hours. But this is precisely in parish temples.
In the monasteries, and even more so in Athos, the charter remains in all rigor. All night vigil is really all night.
We do not have, and this is also some convention, some reduction. But those who developed this decide to reduce on the basis of certain circumstances, after all, they wanted to preserve the beauty of Orthodox worship for the laity.
But there is difficulty - we live in the 21st century: busy, the distances are large, people are tired, the ecology is terrible, health, and better to say, unhealthy, it corresponds to it. Although I think that the peasants who worked in the summer from morning to evening do not downtrend, physically tired more than our. But still, they had enough strength so that on Saturday the working day to finish earlier, wash in the bath and go to the temple on the vigil, and in the morning on Liturgy.
We may have something more difficult for us than our recent ancestors, physically we are much weaker. But, nevertheless, we urge not to hide for our weaknesses, but find strength and walk on the vigil vigil, especially those who want to compete. So that they could write themselves on the eve of the liturgy, not occupying the time of Sunday service.
But if people have little children who have no one to leave, or have any other objective reasons, you will not tell them: "If you were not on the all-sleeping occasion, you won't come across." Although it is possible to say to someone: if a person showed that the sluggishness, the baldness, relaxation ...
It is important to strive for our parishioners to love the worship of our church and considered not only a debt, but also to attend the temple.
Without "social protection"
There is a certain circle of worship, and the all-night vigil is the necessary part of the Sunday service. But there are vital circumstances of a certain level when a person is unable to go to the vigil. But he can go to the liturgy and coming around the Holy Tyne.
A completely ordinary practice of worship services in our Russian Orthodox churches abroad is such that most parishioners living in different cities come only on Sunday worship. Therefore, in most cases, only Sunday liturgy exists in the temples.
This is due to the fact that if the priest is not only a liturgy, but also to add to it, let's say, morning, the worship service will be made around four hours. It is not just hard for perception, but also associated with the schedule of transport, parking fee ...
But the fact that only liturgy is served is not for the parishioners who come to communion, an obstacle to the adoption of the Holy Tyne.
But if a person has the opportunity to visit the whipping vigil, and he just doesn't want to go, then it does not want to go, then it can become an obstacle to communion.
Yes, it turns out that the temple "occupies" both weekend usual working five days per week of man. But only living in XX, XXI centuries Accustomed to such things as two weekends. Previously, people had no "social protection." They worked for six days, and the seventh devoted to the Lord God.
The question is not whether it is possible to hang on the couch instead. Here the answer is unequivocal. Another thing is that people can have quite justified family worries. In the end, it is at this time that the ordered furniture from the store should be brought. Or - invited an expensive person to the anniversary for the whole family. If we spent this anniversary of pious, why can he become an obstacle for communion?
But all this happens not every Saturday. And simply decide that the all-night vigil is an optional thing, and I will not walk on it, it's wrong.
(65 Votes: 4.57 out of 5)Often the priest asks the question given in the title, and begin to justify.
- We need to sleep, stay with your family, make homework, and here you need to get up, go. What for?
Of course, in order to justify your laziness, you can find and not such objections. But you must first understand what the point in the weekly walking in the temple, so that we are already compared with this our self-ration. After all, the requirement is not invented by people, but is given in ten commandments: "Remember the day of Sabbath to sink it; Six days work and do any things in them, and the day of the seventh - Saturday, the Lord, your God: Do not do anything to you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your servant, nor your slave or your own Neither donkey yours, not every cattle, nor the frank, who in your dwellings; For in six days, the Lord of the sky and the Earth, the sea and everything in them, and on the day of the seventh soil; Therefore blessed the Lord Saturday's day and consecrated him. "(). For violation of this commandment in the Old Testament, the death penalty was relying as for murder. In the New Testament, the big holiday was Sunday, because Christ, Reza from the dead, consecrated this day. According to church rules, the violator of this commandment falls output. According to 80 Rules VI Universal Cathedral: "If someone, bishop, or presbyter, or deacon, or any of those who have come to the Clear, or a laity, having no urgent need, or obstacles to which would be left to be eliminated from a silent church, but staying in Grada, in three Sundays in the continuation of three weeks, will not come to the Church Assembly: then the cleric will be erupted from the clearing, and the layer will be overcome from communication. "
It is unlikely that the Creator would have gave us ridiculous commandments, and the church rules were not written at all to torment people. What is the meaning of this commandment?
All Christianity grows out of the self-consumption of the God of Trinity, manifested through the Lord Jesus Christ. Entry into his inner life, participation in Divine Glory is the goal of our life. But since "God is love and abiding in love - in God is, and God in it"According to the Apostle John (), then you can only communicate with him through love.
According to the word of the Lord, the entire law of God comes down to the two commandments: "Love the Lord God of your God with all your heart and everything is your soul and yours and all the intelligence of yours: this is the first and the greatest commandment; The second one similar to it: Love your neighbor, like yourself; In this two commandments, the entire law and prophets are approved. " (). But can these commandments be fulfilled without visiting the temple? If we love a person, don't you strive to meet him more often? Is it possible to imagine lovers to avoid meetings with each other? Yes, you can talk and on the phone, but it is much better to speak personally. So and a person who loving God seeks him to meet him. An example for us will be the king David. He, being the ruler of the people, leading countless wars with the enemies, carried out justice, said this: "How your dwellings are linked, Lord forces! My soul was deceived, wishing to the courtyards of the Lord; My heart and my flesh are admiring to God to God. And the bird finds themselves housing, and the swallow's nest to himself, where to put their chicks, in your altars, Lord forces, my king and my God! Blessed in the house of yours: they will continually praise you. Blessed person who is power in you and whom the path of the path is directed towards you. Passing the valle of crying, they open sources in it, and the rain covers it with a blessing; Come from the strength in force, are before God in Zion. Lord, God forces! Hear my prayer, hurt, God, Iakovlev! God, our defender! Digesions and proud on your face anointed. For one day in your yards are better than thousands. I wish it better to be at the threshold in the house of God, rather than living in the tents of wickedness " ().
When he was in exile, I cried every day that I could not enter the house of God: "Remembering this, I pour my soul, because I went to the crowded, I got into the house of God with the eyes of the joy and the Slavs of the celebrating Sortman" ().
That's exactly this attitude and gives rise to the need to visit the temple of God and makes it internally necessary.
And it is not amazing! After all, the eyes of the Lord are continuously converted to the temple of God. Here he is his body and blood. Here he revives us in baptism. So - our small heavenly homeland. Here God forgives us sins in the sacrament of confession. Here he gives us himself in the Holy Communion. Is it still possible to find such sources of imperious life? According to the ancient devotee, those who have been fighting with the devil during the week seek on Saturday and Sunday to come running to the sources of living water by communion to church to quench the thirst for the heart and laundered themselves from the dirt of the deficiencies. According to ancient legends, deer hunt for snakes and devour them, but the poison begins to burn their insides, and they flee to the spring. Also, we must strive to the temple to jointly cool the irritation of our heart. According to the priest, "Try to gather more often for the Eucharist and the Slavs of God. For if you are often going together, the forces of Satan are lowered, and the misfortune of your faith is destroyed. There is nothing better than peace, for they are destroyed by every brand of heaven and earthly spirits " (Schchench. Ignatius Godpherd Message to Ephesians. 13).
Many are now afraid of the evil eye, damage, witchcraft. Many are covered by all shoals with needles, take themselves as Christmas trees, amules, smoky all the corners with candles and forget that church prayer alone can save a person from the violence of the devil. After all, he trembles the power of God and is unable to harm the one who resides in God's love.
How Tsar David sang: "If the regiment feels against me, my heart will not be crammed; If the war rises to me, and then I will hope. I asked me the Lord, it's only looking for to stay to me in the house of the Lord in all the days of my life, to contemplate the beauty of the Lord and visit the Holy Temple of him, for he would cover me in the tabernacle of his disaster, hid me in the captive place of the village His, ascend me to the rock. Then I would be ascended my head over the enemies surrounding me; And I would bring in his tabernacle of the sacrifice of the Slavs, began to sing and chanting before the Lord " ().
But not only that in the temple, the Lord protects us and gives us strength. He also teaches us. After all, all worship is a true School of God's love. We hear his word, remember his wonderful things, learn about our future. Truly "In the temple of God, he all announces its glory." (). Before our eyes are the feats of martyrs, the victory of devotees, the courage of the kings and priests. We learn about his mysterious nature, about the salvation that Christ gave us. Here we rejoice in the Light Resurrection. No wonder we call the Sunday worship "Malaya Easter". It often seems to us that everything is terribly terribly, scary and hopeless, but the Sunday service tells us about our foreclose hope. No wonder David says that "We reflected, God, about your goodness in the middle of your temple"(). Sunday service - best tool Against those countless depresses and seals that live in "gray life." This is a sparkling rainbow of God's covenant among the fogs of the universal fuss.
Our festive worship service has a prayer and thinking about the sacred scriptures, whose reading in the church has a special force. So one devotee saw from the mouth of the Dyakon, who read the Word of God on Sunday Liturgy, the fiery languages \u200b\u200brose. They cleaned the souls of praying and sealed to heaven. Those who say that they will be able to read the Bible and at home, as if for this you do not need to go to the temple, mistaken. Even if they really open the book at home, their removal from the Church Assembly will prevent them from understanding the meaning of read. It is verified that those who do not participate in the Holy Communion are practically not able to learn the will of God. And not surprising! After all, Scripture is like "Instructions" for heavenly grace. But if you just read the instructions, without trying, for example, collect a wardrobe or to produce programming, it will remain incomprehensible and quickly forgotten. After all, it is known that our consciousness quickly filters unused information. Therefore, the Scripture is not separated from the Church Assembly, because it was given to the church.
On the contrary, those who visited Sunday Liturgy and after this house took the Scripture, he will see in it the meanings he would never have noticed. It often happens that it is for the holidays who will recognize the will of God about themselves. After all, according to prep. . "Although God always awards the slaves of their gifts, but the most annual and gentlemen"(Word to the Shepherd. 3, 2). It is not by chance that those who regularly go to the temple somewhat different and appearanceAnd for mental state. On the one hand, for them virtue becomes natural, and on the other - a frequent confession prevents from making serious sins. Yes. Often, Christians are also exacerbated by Christians, because Satan does not want people to be eliminated from the dust to the skies, from where it was low. Therefore, Satan attacks us as on his enemies. But we should not be afraid of him, but should fight him and defeat. After all, only the winning inherits everything, the Lord said ()!
If a person says, he is a Christian, but does not communicate in prayer with his brothers, what kind of believer is he? According to the fair word of the largest connoisseur of church laws, the patriarch of the Antioh's Feodor Walsamon, "one of this opens one of two - or what such does not make any care about the fulfillment of divine commanders about prayer to God and chanting, or he is not faithful. For, why did he not want to be in church with Christians for twenty days and have communication with the faithful people of God? "
It is no coincidence that the Christians we consider exemplary, the Christians of the Apostolic Church in Jerusalem "They were together and had everything in common ... and every day unanimously stayed in the temple and, refraining the bread at home, took food in the fun and simplicity of the heart, the praise of God and being in love with the whole people" (). It is from this disposal and their inner force arose. They were in the life-giving power of the Holy Spirit, which was poured on them in response to their love.
It is no coincidence that therefore the new covenant is directly prohibited to neglect church meetings: "We will not leave your meetings as I have some custom; But we will exhort each other, and even more so, the more see the approach of the day of it " ().
All the best, thanks to which Rus is called the Holy, thanks to which other Christian peoples exist, gives us worship. In the church we get rid of the oppression of our fuss and break out of the crises and wars in God's peace. And this is the only right decision. Not swearing and revolution, no malice and hatred, and church prayer and virtue can change the world. "When the foundations are destroyed, what will the righteous? Lord in the holy church " (), And he runs away to him to find protection. This is not cowardice, but wisdom and courage. Only stupid will try to cope with the onslaught of the worldwide evil himself, whether the terror or natural disaster, revolution or war. Only the Almighty God will protect his creation. It is no coincidence that the temple has always been considered a refuge.
A truly temple is a heavenly embassy on Earth, where we, Wanderers, seeking heavenly hail, get support. "How precious is your mercy, God! Human sons in the shade of the wing of your deceased: satisfied from the Tuka at home, and from the stream of sweets you will see them, for you have a source of life; In the light of yours we see the light " ().
I think it is clear that the love of God requires as often as possible to resort to the house of the Lord. But the second commandment is also required - love for neighbor. After all, where can I contact the most beautiful in man - in the store, cinema, clinic? Of course not. Only in the house of our common father we can meet with the brothers. And our joint prayer will rather be heard by God than proud loneliness prayers. After all, the Lord Jesus Himself said: "If two of you agree on Earth to ask for anything, then what would be asked if they are from the father of my heaven, for, where two or three are collected in my name, there I am in the midst of them" ().
Here we go out of the fuss and can pray for our troubles, and about the whole universe. In the temple, we ask God to heal the disease of their relatives, to free the prisoners, preserve the travelers, save the perishes. In the temple, we communicate with those who left this world, but did not leave the Church. Dead, being, begged to pray for them in churches. They say that every remembrance for them is like a birthday, and we often care about it. Where then is our love? Imagine their condition. They are without a body, can not come true, external good deeds (for example, alms) can not do either. They are waiting for support from their relatives and friends, and only excuses receive. It's like saying a hungry mother: "I'm sorry. I will not give you to eat. It hurts to sleep. " But for the dead church prayer - this is real food (and not vodka, poured on the cemetery, not necessary to anyone, except demons and alcoholics).
But holy worships worthy of our glorification are waiting for us in the temple. The holy images give them to see, their words are proclaimed in the service, and they themselves are often visited by the House of God, especially in their holidays. They together with us pray to God, and their mighty gloriousness as eagle wings are assessed by the church prayer directly to the Divine throne. And not only people, but also disembodied angels participate in our prayer. Their songs sing people (for example, "tris and"), and they sing our anthem ("worthy"). According to the church legend, in every consecrated temple over the throne there is always an angel whoars the prayer of the church to God, as well as the entrance to the temple there is a blissful spirit, which follows the thoughts of those incoming and emanating from the church. This presence is felt quite tangible. No wonder to many unskilled sinners becomes bad in the temple - this power of God rejected their sinful will, and the angels punish them for lawlessness. They need to not ignore the church, but to repent and get forgiveness in the sacrament of confession and not forget to thank the Creator.
But many say:
- Okay! We must go to church, but why every Sunday? Why such fanaticism?
Answering briefly, it can be said that since the Creator says so, the creation should be unquestioned by obedience. The Lord of all time gave us all day of our life. Is it really not to demand that we make four of the week from 168 hours? And at the same time the time spent in the temple is good for us. If the doctor prescribes the procedures to us, do not try to accurately fulfill his recommendations, wanting to heal from body disease? Why do we ignore the words of the great doctor of souls and tel?
Here you need to think about the words that are given at the beginning of our reflection:
"Sunday is the only day off, you need to sleep, to stay with my family, to make homework, and then you need to get up, go to church.
But no one makes people go to the early service. In cities, they almost always serve early and late liturgia, and no one sleeps on Sunday for a long time. As for the metropolis, no one bothers to come on Saturday from the evening service, talk to his family, to read an interesting book and after evening prayers to go to bed around 11 - 12 o'clock in the morning, and in the morning to get up in half and go to Liturgy. Nine hours of sleep can almost everyone to restore forces, and if this does not happen, then we can "peck" the missing day sleep. All our problems are not connected with the church, but with the fact that the rhythm of our life does not correspond to God's will and there is so cold. And communicating with God is the source of all the forces of the Universe, of course, only can give a person and spiritual, and physical forces. It has long been noticed that if you develop internally internally, the Sunday service fills the inner force. And this power is, including bodily. It is no coincidence that the devotees who lived in the inhuman conditions of the desert, lived to 120-130 years, and we barely reach 70-80. God strengthens those hoping for him and serving him. Before the revolution, an analysis was conducted, which showed that the longest life expectancy was not at the nobles or merchants, but for priests, although they lived in much worse conditions. This is a visible confirmation of benefits from weekly walking in the house of the Lord.
What concerns communicating with the family, then who prevents us from going to the temple of the full composition? If children are small, then the wife can come to church later, and after the end of the liturgy, you can always walk together, go to the cafe, talk. Does it compare with the "communication" when the whole family is very sinking in a black box? Often those who do not go to the temple due to the family, do not exchange with close and ten words per day.
As for homework, the Word of God does not allow to fulfill those cases that are not essential. Cannot be arranged general cleaning or washing day, billet canned for a year. The time of peace lasts from Saturday evening until Sunday evening. All hard work must be transferred on Sunday evening. The only kind of hard work that we can and should do on Sunday and holidays are mercy. To arrange a general cleaning in a patient or an old man, help in the temple, to prepare the products of the Syrote and a large family - this is a true and pleasing creator the rule of respect for the holiday.
With the question of homework on holidays is inextricably linked the problem of summer visits to temples. Many people say:
- We will not be able to withstand the winter without those billets that we grow in our sites. How can we go to the temple?
I think the answer is obvious. No one bothers to go to the village temple to the service, and work on the garden or on Saturday, or in the second half of Sunday. So our health will continue, and the Will of God will be observed. Even if there is no temple nearby, we must dedicate Saturday evening and Sunday morning prayer and Scripture. Those who do not want to fulfill the will of God receive his punishment. Expected harvest devours locust, caterpillars, illness. When it is necessary to rain - drought comes when you need supu - flood begins. So God shows everyone who in the world of the owner. Often God punishes both the contemplations of his will. Familiar doctors told the author about the phenomenon of "Sunday death", when a person is plowing all the weekend, without raising her eyes to the sky, and in the same place, in bed and dies from stroke or infarction, face to earth.
On the contrary, those who fulfill the commandment of God, he gives unprecedented yields. For example, in the optical desert of yields exceeded the harvest of neighbors four times, although the same land use technique was used.
Some people say:
- I can't go to the temple, because it's cold or hot, rain or snow. I will feel better at home.
But about a miracle! The same person is ready to go to the stadium and under the open sky in the rain to hurt for his team, until it drops to dig in the garden, all night dance on the disco, and only to the house of God to reach his strength he has no! The weather is always only an excuse for her reluctance. Can we really assume that God will hear a prayer of a person who does not want and something small to sacrifice for him?
Also ridiculous other, often occurring objection:
- I will not go to the temple, because you have no benches, hot. Not that Catholics!
Of course, this objection cannot be called serious, but for many considerations of comfort, more important than the issue of eternal salvation. However, God does not want death and rejected, and Christ will not break and dismissed the rod and the flax of smoking. As for the benches, this is not fundamental question at all. Orthodox Greeks have seats throughout the temple, there are no them among the Russians. Even now, if a person is sick, then no one bothers him to sit on the benches located behind in almost every temple. Moreover, by the litrorship charter of the Russian Church at the festive evening service, parishioners can sit seven times. In the end, if it is difficult to stand all the service, and all the benches are busy, then no one prevents the folding stool with them. It is unlikely that someone will condemn for it. It is only necessary to get up for the reading of the Gospel, the Kheruvim Song, the Eucharist Canon and about a dozen of the most important points of service. It seems that this will not be a problem. Disabled people do not concern these rules.
I repeat once again that all these objections are not completely serious and cannot be the cause of the commandment of God.
Also does not justify the person the following objection:
- You have all such evil in your temple, angry. Grandmas are hissing and swearing. And Christians! I don't want to be like this and therefore I will not go to the temple.
But no one demands evil and angry. Does anyone in the temple makes it so? Did it require boxing gloves at the entrance to the temple? Do not seize and do not swear and then you can fix others. As the Apostle Paul says: "Who are you condemning someone else's slave? In front of his Lord it stands, or falls? " ().
It would be fair if the priests were taught to swear and smoke. But it is not. Neither the Bible nor the Church nor her servants have never taught it. On the contrary - on any preaching and in chants they call us to be Croes, merciful. So this is not the reason for the reliever in the church.
It should be understood that people do not come to the temple not from Mars, but from the surrounding world. And there it is just accepted to swear so that sometimes men and Russian words do not hear. One mat. And in the temple it is just not. It can be said that the church is the only place closed for the Materian.
It is in the world that it is taken angry and pouring their irritation to others, calling it a struggle for justice. Do not the old women do in the clinics, casting bones to everyone, starting with the president, ending with a nurse? And really, these people can enter the temple, how to instantly change the magic wand and become Croes, like sheep? No, God gave us freedom of will, and without our efforts can not change anything.
We are always in church only in part. Sometimes this part is very large - and then the person is called the saints, sometimes smaller. Sometimes a person keeps only a little girl for God. But the judge and appraiser are not us, but the Lord. While there is time, there is hope. And until the end of the picture, how can you judge it, except for the finished parts. Such parts are saints. According to them, it is necessary to judge the church, and not for those who have not yet finished the earthly path. It is not for nothing that "the end is crowned business."
The church itself calls himself a hospital (the confession says "Further came to the doctor, but not non-isdess"), so is it wisply to expect that it is filled with healthy? Healthy is, but they are in heaven. That's when everyone who wants to heal the help of the church, then she will appear in all its glory. Saints - this is who clearly shows the power of God acting in the church.
So in the temple it is necessary to watch not on others, but on God. After all, we come not to people, but to the Creator.
Often refuse to go to the temple, saying:
- You do not understand anything in the temple. Serve in incomprehensible language.
Let's paraphrase this objection. A first-grader comes to school and, overhearding the lesson of algebra in the 11th grade, refuses to walk to classes, saying: "There is nothing understandable." Stretch? But also ineffectively refuse to teach divine science, referring to incomprehensibility.
On the contrary, if everything was clear, it means that learning is meaningless. You are already already knowing everything that experts say. Believe that science live with God is no less difficult and elegant than mathematics, so let it have its own terminology and its language.
I think that it is necessary not to give up temple training, try to understand what it is not clear. In this case, it is necessary to consider that the service is not intended for missionary among unbelievers, but for believers themselves. We, thank God, if we pray attentively, everything becomes clear after a month and a half permanent walking in the temple. But the depths of worship can be revealed years later. This is indeed an amazing mystery of the Lord. We have not a flat preaching of Protestants, but, if you please, the eternal university in which the liturgical texts are tutorials, and the teacher himself is the Lord himself.
Church Slavonic language is not Latin and not Sanskrit. This is the sacred form of the Russian language. It is only necessary to work out a little: buy a dictionary, several books, to learn the fifty words - and the language will reveal their secrets. And God will reward for this work Stormice. - During prayer it will be easier to collect thoughts on the divine mystery. Thoughts will not pass through the laws of the Association somewhere in the distance. Thus, the Slavic language improves the conditions for the blasting, and it is for this that we come to church. As for the acquisition of knowledge, it is transmitted in the temple in Russian. It is difficult to find at least one preacher who would say the preaching of Slavyansky. In the church, everything is connected wisely - and the ancient language of prayer, and modern language Sermons.
And finally, for the Orthodox Slavic language itself, the fact that he gives us the opportunity to least hear the Word of God as accurately as possible. We literally can hear the letter of the Gospel, because grammar slavic language Almost identical to grammar Greek, on which the revelation is given to us. Believe me that both in poetry and jurisprudence and theology, shades of meanings often change the essence of the matter. I think that anyone who is fond of literature understands it. And in the detective, a random match is able to change the course of the investigation. So for us, an invaluable opportunity to hear the words of Christ as accurately as possible.
Of course, Slavic language is not a dogma. In universal Orthodox church Worship is made more than eighty languages. And even in Russia, theoretically refusal to the Slavic language is theoretically. But it can only happen when it becomes as far for believers as Latin's Italians. I think so far the question is not even worth it. But if this happens - then the church will create a new sacred language, which exactly as possible by the Bible and does not give our mind to elude the country of distant. The church is still alive and has the strength to revitalize anyone entering it. So start the course of the Divine Wisdom, and the Creator will introduce into the depths of his mind.
Others say:
"I believe in God, but I don't believe Popam, and therefore I will not go to the temple."
But after all, no one asks for a parishioner so that he believes the priest. We believe God, and the priests are only his servants and the instruments of his will. Someone said: "The current goes on a rusty wire." So grace is passed and via unworthy. According to the faithful thought of the saint, "We ourselves sitting on the department and students are woven with sins. Nevertheless, we do not despair in human-lithuania God and do not attribute to him a crucial. In order for God and painted the priests themselves to challenge the passions, so that they learned from their own experience to relate to others. " Imagine that there will be a sinful father in the temple, and Archangel Mikhail. After the first conversation with us, he would flash fair anger, and only a scoop of ashes would remain from us.
In general, this statement is comparable to the abandonment of medical care due to korestoloby modern medicine. The financial interest of individual doctors is much more apparent, as everyone who fell into the hospital is convinced. But for some reason, because of this, people do not refuse medicine. And when it comes to a much more important thing - about the health of the soul, they remember everyone and there were no disadvantages, just not to go to church. There was such a case. One monk lived in the desert, and a priest went to him to approach him. And once he heard that his priest's priest was blamed. And then he refused to take communion. And on the same night he saw the revelation that it was worth a gold well with crystal water and from it, the golden bucket draws the water leament. And the voice of God said: "You see how water remains clean, although it gives her a lee, so grace does not depend on who she is served through." And after that, the deserted again began to commit about the priest, not arguing, he was righteous or sin.
But if you think, then all these excuses are completely insignificant. After all, how can I ignore the direct will of the Lord God, referring to the sins of the priest? "Who are you, condemning someone else's slave? He stands before his Lord, or falls. And will be restored; For Silen God restore him " ().
- The church is not in the logs, but in the rhers, they say others, "so you can pray at home.
This saying, allegedly Russian, actually dates back to our home-grown sectarians, who, despite the Word of God, separated from the church. God really lives in the bodies of Christians. But he enters them through the Holy Communion supplied in the temples. At the same time, the prayer in the church is higher than the prayer in the houses. Saint says: "You are mistaken, a man; It is possible to pray, of course, at home, but praying as in the church, where such a lot of fathers, where the song is unanimously renewed to God, it is impossible at home. You will not be heard so soon, praying to the Vladyka at home, as praying with its brothers. There is something more like that: unanimity and consent, the Union of Love and Prayer of Priests. In order to come, the priests are coming so that the prayers of the people, how the weakest, connecting with their prayers are the strongest, together they were torn to the sky ... If Peter helped the prayer of the church and made this pillar of the church (), as you, tell me, neglect her by force And what can you have an excuse? Listen and God himself, who says that he is conserved by the reverent prayers of many () ... Not people alone alone terribly appear here, but the angels fall to the Lord and the Archangels pray. It's time to favors them, the most sacrifice contributes. As people, taking oilseed branches, amazed by them before the kings, reminding them by these branches about the grace and philanthropy; So exactly the angels, representing instead of the oil branches, the most body of the Lord, begging the lord for the human race, and as if they say: we pray for those whom you yourself have once honored such love that I betrayed your soul for them; We pour praying for those who have shed blood; We ask for those for whom you sacrificed your body "(Word 3 against Anomeev).
So this objection is perfectly unreasonable. After all, as far as the holy house of God's house is, as above the prayer, brings in the temple, the prayers of home.
But some say:
- I am ready every week to go to the temple, but a wife or husband, parents or children do not let me.
It is worth remembering here scary words Christ, who often forget: "Who loves his father or mother more than me, not worthy of me; And who loves her son or daughter more than me, not worthy of me " (). This terrible choice should always be done. - Choosing between God and Man. Yes, it's hard. Yes, it may be hurt. But if you chose a man, let that you think small, then God will reject you on the day of the court. And is it close to help you on this scary answer? Does your love for native justify you when the gospel says the opposite? Do not you be with a longing and bitter disappointment to remember that day when you reject God for the sake of imaginary love?
And practice shows that the one who chose someone instead of the Creator will be devoted to them.
Others say:
- I will not go to this church, because there is bad energy. I feel bad in the temple, especially from Ladan.
In fact, any church of the energy is one - God's grace. All temples are consecrated by the Holy Spirit. In all churches, Christ is the Savior with his body and blood. The Angels of God are at the entrance to any temple. Case only in man. It happens that this effect has a natural explanation. For holidays, when the "Possibles" visitors attend temples, those paes are clogged by people. After all, in fact the sacred places are extremely small for such a variety of Christians. And therefore, really it becomes just stuffy. Sometimes it happens that in poor temples are a poor-quality incense. But these reasons are not basic. It often happens that people get bad and in a completely empty temple. Christians perfectly know the spiritual reasons for this phenomenon.
Evil affairs in which a person does not want to repent, drive away the grace of God. This is the resistance of the evil will of the person by the power of God and is perceived by them as a "bad energy." But not only a person turns away from the Lord, but God himself does not accept the egoist. After all, it is said that "Gordy God oppresses" (). Similar cases are known in antiquity. So Maria Egyptian, who was a damnitz, tried to enter the temple of the Globe of the Lord in Jerusalem and worship Life-giving cross. But the invisible force dropped it from the gate of the church. And only after she repented and promised to never repeat his sin, God allowed her home.
There are also cases that hired killers and prostitutes could not bear the smell of Ladan and fainted. Especially often this happens to those who are engaged in magic, astrology, psychic and other demonic. Some force twisted them in the most important moments Worship, and from the temple they were taken to the "ambulance". Here we are faced with another reason for the rejection of the temple.
Not only a person, but also those who stand behind his sinful habits, do not want to meet with the Creator. These creatures are real angels, demons. It is these unclean entities that interfere with a person to enter the temple. They will take the strengths that stand in the church. It happens that the same person can sit for hours in the "rocking chair" and is not able to spend ten minutes in the presence of the Creator. Only God can help someone who is captured by the Devil. But he helps only the one who repented and wants to live by the will of the Lord Almighty. And so all these arguments are only an ill-conceived repetition of satanic propaganda. It is not by chance that the terminology itself is taken from psychics (and the church knows that they all serve the devil) who love to argue about some energies that can be "recharged" as if it were about the battery, and not about God's Chad .
Symptoms of spiritual illness are visible. Instead of love, people are trying to manipulate the creator. This is just a sign of demonism.
The last objection, related to the previous one, is most often found:
- I have God in the soul, so your rites are not needed. I just do it only good. Is God really send me to hell just because I do not go to the temple?
But what to understand under the word "God"? If we are just talking about conscience, then, of course, at any person, this voice of God sounds in the heart. There are no exceptions. Neither Hitler nor Chikatilo were deprived of him. All villains knew that there was good and evil. The voice of God tried to keep them from lawlessness. But really just because they heard this voice, are they already saints? And conscience is not God, but only his speech. After all, if you hear the voice of the president on the tape recorder or by the radio, does it mean that he is in your apartment? Also, the availability of conscience does not mean that God is in your soul.
But if you think about this expression, then who is God? This is an almighty, endless, omniscient, righteous, good spirit, the Creator of the Universe, who will not contain the sky and heaven of Heaven. So how can you accommodate his soul - it, whose face is afraid to see angels?
Is it really saying so sincerly thinking that this immeasurable power is with him? Let us doubt. Let him show her manifestation. The expression "God in the shower" is stronger than an attempt to hide a nuclear explosion. Is it possible to hide in secret Hiroshima or eruption of a volcano? So we demand from talking such evidence. Let him create a miracle (for example, will resurrect the dead) or tell God's love, substituting the other cheek - who hit him? Will he be able to love enemies - at least to the hundredth of how the Lord is our who prayed for them before crucifying? After all, to say: "God is in my shower," can only be saint. We demand from the speaker so holiness, and otherwise it will be a lie, whose father is the devil.
They say: "I just do good, really God will send me to hell?" But let me doubt your righteousness. What to consider the criterion of good and evil by which you can determine what you or I do good or evil? If you consider the criterion of yourself (as often they say: "I myself define for myself what kind of good and evil"), then these concepts simply lose any value and meaning. After all, Beria, and Goebbels, and the sweat fee considered themselves absolutely right, so why do you yourself think that they deserve censures? If we have the right to identify for themselves Merilo Good and Evil, then the same should allow all killers, perverts and violences. Yes, by the way, let me also help God disagree with your criteria, and you are not judged by yours, but by your standards. And then somehow it turns out unfairly - we choose Merylo ourselves, and forbid themselves to judge our own laws. But for them without repentance before God and the Holy Communion, the person will be in hell.
If you feel honestly, then in front of the face of God our standards of good and evil, if we do not even have the right to legislative activities. After all, we did not create any bodies, nor the soul, no mind, no will, nor feelings. Everything that you have is a gift (and not even a gift, but temporarily entrusted to preserve the property), for some reason we can decide that they can be managed with impunity in their will. And to the one who created us, we refuse to demand aware of how we took advantage of it. Doesn't this require a somewhat bold? Why did we take that the Lord of the Universe will perform our will damaged by sin? We violated the fourth commandment and at the same time believe that he is obliged to us something? Is it stupid?
After all, instead of a Sunday a day to devote to God, he is given to the Devil. On this day, people often get drunk, they swear, faster, and if not, then they are not having fun in a good way: they look dubious television shows, movies where sins and passions are beaten through the edge, etc. And only the Creator turns out to be superfluous in his own day. But was God who gave us everything, including times, does not have the right to demand from us just a few hours?
So hell awaits those contemptants who ignore the will of God. And the reason for this is not God's cruelty, but the fact that they, leaving the sources of water of life, began to try to dig empty wells for their excuses. They abandoned the sacred bowl of communion, deprived themselves in the words of God and therefore wander in the darkness of this evil century. After removing from the light, they find darkness by leaving love, they find hatred, throwing life, they rush in an embrace of eternal death. How not to mourn their stubbornness and do not wish them to return to the house of our Heavenly Father?
We, together with the king David, say: "According to the many grace of your, enter your house, worship the holy temple in your fear" (). After all "We entered the fire and into the water, and you brought us to freedom. Enjoy your house with all-in-laws, I will repulse the vows of mine who uttered my mouth and I say my tongue in sorrow " ().
I want to answer this question with God's help Examples from everyday life.
Imagine that the subordinate comes into the office to the boss, on which his life, career, earnings, etc. depends on. An important conversation begins. And suddenly, in the midst of him, the subordinate, not to say a word, with anyone, not passing goodbye, gets up and silently leaves. What will the boss think about him and what subordinate will be a reputation?
Or another example. The son did not see a mom for a long time, who loves him warmly. Finally calls her and says that he will come. Mom is preparing, bakes cakes, removes the house, covers on the table and so on. The son comes, but as soon as they sit at the table, they begin to eat or drink tea, suddenly it rises, without explanation leaves. Is it possible to imagine that? And what will happen to mom? What pain does he hurt her act?
Third example. In the midst of battle, the warrior throws weapons to the ground, leaves his comrades and runs from the field of battle.
Why did I take examples of the subordinate, son and a soldier? Because the high rank, value and mission of the Orthodox Christian have the features of all three social positions. In relation to God, we are subordinates who must infinitely thank him for the fact that he in his unfair love gave us life, this planet Earth, and all spiritual and material goods. We are also the children of the Most High. He, as they say in the prayer of the Lord, our loving father. From the third position orthodox Christian - This is a warrior located in an incessant struggle with himself, with his passions, sins, lusts, with the spirits of the Evil Primbate, that is, demons. And in this war, which, with God's help, the church is more than one millennium, it is impossible to leave the battlefield. It is tantamount to defeat.
And temple worship for us - and praise-glossy to our chief-Creator, and recognition in the love of our father heaven, and the spiritual battle for the salvation of his soul and the souls of their loved ones.
Do we have the right to relate to it? That is what the question is, as William Shakespeare wrote.
The priestly exclamation: "God is blessed ..." begins worship. We enter his lifeful verbal water, the grace of God begins to act, healing us. All daily divine services are established either directly by Christ, or the Holy Fathers of the Church on the suggestion of the Holy Spirit is not just like that. This is a kind of surgery that is being held by the best surgeon - God on our healing-rescue. Could the sick leave the operating table without waiting for the completion of the operation?
Each word, every movement, every rope of priestly hands is important here!
Love the service, dear brothers and sisters! Love service! How often have to see bored people on it. How often can you see written on their faces "Well, when will it all end?" Davit-gives the earthly old man, and in the sleep of his clone, and he wants him, and incense it prevents him from breathing, and they sing ugly, and some kind of some kind of father, and from the house they already call, ask where are you? Oh, so many factors against! How do you want to break out of the temple! Go home, sit down in a cozy chair with a sandwich and a cup of tea and turn on the favorite TV series.
But you stand, almost sleep, listen to the lot of incomprehensible words, is hard and difficult to fight with you. And, it seems that you will fly over and crash at the floor. But no, you stand, you courageously swing, listen to the Psalter, or Canon, or Liturgy, overcoming yourself.
One service, the second, third ... tenth ... This torment. "Katorga!"
But suddenly reluctantly, making the Giant-Giant Effort, you enter the temple in the eleventh time, you will go to your inner pouch and you start listening. And a miracle happens!
You are opening the verb of God. You suddenly with God's help you begin to understand if not all, then at least something. And the service from a dull-boring drizzling is turning into a slim brightly beautiful building. And the kingdom of God begins to open your soul. Words, as if warm tender rain, fall into your desired heart ground and revive it. Something awakens in your soul. You start to see the sky and be closer to it. Worship takes away you from the ground and builds our Savior to the Lord. And this happiness you already have no one will take. And you can no longer live without service. It becomes the center of your existence.
But for this you need to suffer. At the right moment, do not leave, pump, almost fall asleep - and you will definitely catch a paradise bird and feel the fertile touch of the Holy Spirit, fresh breeze bursting into the words of your soul.
You only need to suffer. After all, we tolerate and learn, spending tens of hours at a computer when we are trying to learn a new interesting game. And tolerate when we stand in a long queue in a supermarket with a package full of products, and tolerate when you study your favorite profession that can bring us money. And we also tolerate pain from the doctor, because we know that she is good.
So why don't we suffer from the Lord? Why we will not be patient until our inside will come with God's help to harmony - into the world, about which we often pray, until your body leaves from the first plan and the solo party will not give your soul, and itself, as it should be Will take a batch of assistant, the second violin. As it should be.
There are force majeure. Of course, then you need to leave. Everything in life can be: it's time to run to run, the child fell ill, my mother arrived at the train - this is understandable. For confessions, we will shift that they left the service earlier, and that's it. But do not arrange and invent force majeure yourself. Worth to the end of the service. And one day you will gain paradise. Wait him already here on Earth. Because the temple, Orthodox worship and there is a sky on earth.
We will remember the expensive brothers and sisters that the action when the priest at the end of the service goes to the ammon, autokes us with a cross (on liturgy) and says "Christ True God ... Igrow and save us, Jaco Goods and a humus", called letting go, t . e. We are released and we can go home. The life-affirming conversation with the boss took place. He gave us his benefits. Loving Father presented to us his precious gift - herself, his body and blood of Christ. And therefore our battle, this worship, ended with the victory. The operation was successful. And with a victory, healed, varying, we can go home.
Orthodox theology and tradition have many terms, which are still pronounced in the ancient Slavic language. One of these is the whirlpool. For each believer it is important to know your religion, and not just blindly obeying the priest. Faith, which is not solid foundation is not true. The Apostle Jacob wrote: "Even the demons believe," but their faith does not bring any benefit.
Each person has the opportunity to refer to the clergy for getting an answer to his questions. God created the church so that people come and receive knowledge and instructions in the truth.
What it is
Veligid vigil or vigil is a joyful holiday for all Orthodox Christians. It lasts this communication of believers usually from sunset to dawn. Therefore, it is called the occasion, since the parishioners and the minister of the church will be awake all night. How much worship will also last depends on the time seasons. For example, in winter from 18:00 to 6:00, and in the summer from 21:00 to 5:00.
The Slavic Church Tradition believes that in relation to this case, phrases will more spiritually use as: i am going to the vigil; I come back from the vigil etc. Sometimes people, in daily speech, can use the term "all-in-bed" in the sense of Easter worship, which occurs at night and consists of an ambitiousness, morning, easter hours and liturgy. The Roman Catholic Church celebrates similarly to Vigil (from Latin vigilia.).
All-night vigil has the custom of being spent on the eve of the following events:
- Sunday days.
- Twoled holidays.
- Holidays marked with a special sign in Tipikon.
- Days of temple holidays.
- Any other holiday in accordance with the abbot of the temple or with a local tradition.
In the interval from the evening to the morning, after the project, reinforced prayer is carried out. Christians are called upon to get rid of all extra thoughts and completely devote himself to writing to the Almighty.
History and meaning
Interpretation of the all-in-bed vigil is very simple - it is a night prayer made by Christians on his knees. Many of the great saints were considered, and still believe that prayer is the highest of virtues. Affairs can be helped by a person, but when we pray, God himself is descending and helps. On some prayer books in history it was said that the enemies were afraid of their prayers more than a ten-thousandth army.
Reading Scripture, it is easy to see the stories about this practice in the Old Testament Church. For example, Joseph, the son of Israel, had the custom to go out at night for prayer and reasoning. And also the king David often did not give himself to fall asleep in order to be alone and prays. The most important confirmation is the Lord Jesus Christ himself and his apostles.
But historically all-night vigil was determined and officially recognized Church in the times of John of Zlatoust. Over time, the order of this worship was improved and enriched with other saints, like John Damascus and Fyodor Studit. The vigility is often associated with the vocation of Christians to be always sober, it praises incentively and remember that the Lord is getting ridicule.
Especially in times of persecution, Christians were going to universal prayer at night. They were often accused of corrupt children, in atheism, cannibalism, and in other terrible things. Since I had to hide from the authorities, they chose more secret places in the catacombs and in cemeteries.
In the II-III centuries. Ekakh very much spread the movement of hermites and monks. In addition to asceticism, they often spent all night in prayer, singing and in praise. For the fathers of the church, ESChatological shades had eschatological shades. Vigil was considered a spiritual life. The Christian should always remember the Cross of Christ, about the Holy Gospel, about forgiven sins and about the award in heaven for loyalty. The Greek term "Agripnya" is found in the records of Vasily the Great. He wrote that this kind of meeting was held in many places in the east and took place on the eve of Sunday.
As happens
Prayer nights have a deep spiritual meaning. The church proclaims that the beautiful sunset light depicts the spiritual image of the world of Christ. And also the view of the praying people is heading for the future light of God's kingdom. The Lord promised that she would come for thosewho are waiting for him. And his coming will be in the presence of Holy Angels, who will bear the joy to those who believe, and disappointment and the court - rejected God's Son.
Compare the all-bedable vigil can with the principle that is present in our culture on New Year. People break up with bad and greet good. In the same way, Christians, with a day, celebrate a new beginning; Darkness goes away, and the light triumphs. It is impossible to leave not changed from such a ministry. Therefore, the vigility serves as a preparation for Divine Liturgy and the Eucharist.
How long does the service last
A canon on the all-in-bedway has its own characteristics and must comply with certain criteria. Such ministry has a rather long submission consisting of more than 20 actions.
At the moment, based on the fact that among believers there are old and weak, the tradition can be more indulgent to people. Thus, it is possible to be in service for several hours, and then return home.
Confession during a whipping vigil
One of the most important components of the prayers of the parishioners is confessing his sins before God. In addition to confession to the priest, every Christian must come to God with prayers and with confession. Confession has great strength. The apostle Ioan encourages us to live in the light, and do not stay in the dark. Sin in nature loves darkness. But we can win him only if we take it into the world. The light sanctifies people and shows them what they are. God wants to be confested by Christians. The church explains that the vigility can help a person get rid of bad and sinful habits.
The structure of worship
Such an ancient rite has historical importance and is a symbol of the Old and New Testaments. The structure that is applied on such worships is as follows:
Thus, the entire gospel is explained. People have the opportunity to understand who God is, as far as he holy and omnipotently; We dismissed him and sinned; But he, in his great grace, sent us the Savior. In a consequence, a person can assume in the most important teachings of Christianity and join the church.
The gospel can quench the need of our hearts completely and exclusively. Do not think that if we belong to the Christian religion and church, we no longer need it. God is the need of the heart of Christian. He created us for myself and our souls will not have peace, until they find him in it. In addition to salvationwhich is gained through faith in Jesus Christ, a Christian has the need for constant sanctification. Therefore, it should be praying and cleaned your souls every day until the Lord comes.