Église dans la ville de Saratov
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Храм иконы Божией Матери «Утоли моя печали», г. Саратов
Каменная шатровая церковь на трех рядах кокошников с двумя симметрично расположенными притворами удачно вписалась в застройку архиерейской усадьбы и в архитектурный ансамбль центра Саратова. Изюминка архитектурного решения в том, что крупный шатёр окружён многочисленными пёстро разукрашенными мелкими главками, видимо, в подражание собору Василия Блаженного в Москве.
Архитектор: Пётр Зыбин
Дата постройки: 1904-1906 годы
Holy Apostle Matthew the Evangelist
Saint Matthew was a tax collector when the Lord saw him and said: Follow Me. Matthew repented of his sins, recompensed fourfold those he had overcharged, gave his remaining possessions to the poor, and followed the Savior. Matthew witnessed Christ's innumerable miracles and His suffering, death, and Resurrection and beheld His glorious Ascension into Heaven. Having received the grace of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost, he spent eight years preaching the Gospel in Palestine. At the request of the faithful in Jerusalem, Matthew wrote his account of the earthly life and teachings of the God-man Jesus Christ. Matthew brought the Good News to Syria, Media, Persia, Parthia and finally Ethiopia, where he built a church and appointed his follower Plato as bishop. When Matthew baptized the wife and son of the prince of Ethiopia, the enraged ruler put him to death. But after witnessing the miracles surrounding the Apostle's martyrdom, the prince was baptized and took the name Matthew.
Saint John Chrysostom
John was born in Antioch in 354. His father was an imperial commander. Studying philosophy, John became disgusted with paganism and adopted the Christian Faith as the one and all-embracing truth. He was baptized and his parents soon followed him in the faith. He was tonsured a monk and lived a life of asceticism. The Apostles John and Peter appeared to him, foretelling his life of great service and suffering. He was ordained and a shining dove was seen over his head. He was chosen as Patriarch of Constantinople by Emperor Arcadius and governed for six years with unequalled zeal and wisdom. He sent missionaries to the pagans, eradicated simony, shamed heretics, increased charitable works, wrote a Divine Liturgy and gave us many precious books of homilies. The people glorified him, the envious hated him, and the Empress exiled him. John spent three years in exile, reposing on the Feast of the Elevation of the Cross in Georgia in 407. His last words were "Glory be to God for all things.''
Synaxe de l’Archistratège Michel et les autres puissances incorporelles
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Holy King Stefan Milutin
A great son of the Orthodox Church, King Milutin rose up decisively against Emperor Michael Paleologos to stop an enforced union with Rome and with God's help saved Orthodoxy - not only in his own land of Serbia, but in all the Balkans. All his wars were successful, for he constantly prayed to God and hoped in God. When Milutin ascended the throne, he vowed that he would build a church for each year that he reigned and so he built 42 churches and several monasteries. Next to the churches he built hospitals for the indigent, where the poor would receive care for free. He especially loved to give alms to the needy from his own enormous wealth. The powerful and wealthy king would dress in the clothes of a poor man and walk among the people and ask about their misfortunes, and gave to them abundantly. Saint Stefan Milutin entered eternal life in 1321 and his body was soon discovered to be incorrupt and miracle-working and remains today in the Church of the Holy King in Sofia, Bulgaria.
Église dans la région de Karelie
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Церковь Покрова Пресвятой Богородицы, Кижи, Карелия
Церковь Покрова Пресвятой Богородицы — православный храм в Кижском погосте, расположенном на острове Кижи в северной части Онежского озера. Входит в состав музея-заповедника «Кижи» и Спасо-Кижского Патриаршего подворья. Памятник архитектуры федерального значения.
Высота церкви — 26 м, общая длина — 32 м, ширина — 8 м, материал — сосна, осина. Церковь — «зимняя» (то есть отапливаемая).
Être chrétien, c'est appartenir à l'Église
Selon les paroles de saint Cyprien, être chrétien signifie appartenir à l'Église visible et se soumettre à la hiérarchie que Dieu y instaura.
L'Église est la réalisation de l'Amour du Christ et toute séparation de l'Église est une violation de cet Amour, dans laquelle les hérétiques et les schismatiques pèchent également. Telle est la pensée fondamentale de son traité "De l'unité de l'Église catholique".
Cette même idée est constamment répétée dans les lettres du même Père saint. "Le Christ nous a accordé la paix ; il nous a ordonné d'être en harmonie et en unanimité ; il a ordonné que nous préservions, inviolablement et fermement, le lien d'affection et d'amour.
Celui qui viole l'Amour du Christ par une dissidence sans foi n'appartiendra plus au Christ : celui qui ne possède pas cet Amour ne possède pas non plus Dieu. Ceux qui ne veulent pas d'une manière unanimes, dans l'Église de Dieu, ne peuvent demeurer avec Dieu.
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Le saint du jour :
Saint Nikon, higoumene (abbé) de Radoniege (+1426), disciple de saint Serge de Radoniege.
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Saint Paisius Velichkovsky
Saint Paisius led a life of love and toil for God that brought the renewal of monasticism in Russia and the Balkans, a returning to noetic prayer and the teachings of the Holy Fathers. Born to a large pious family in 1722, at 17 he went to several monasteries and though he could not find the right spiritual father he acquired such wisdom and grace that he was called “young elder”. Refusing pleas that he be ordained, he went to Mount Athos, which was suffering under Turkish occupation. For four years he lived in isolation, alone with Scripture and the Fathers, eating only every other day. Guided away from eremitic life, Paisius accepted his first disciple and they were joined by 10 others. He received ordination and led the brothers in translating the works of the Holy Fathers. When they left Athos for Romania there were 64 brothers and before he died the brotherhood had grown into a monastic army of 1000. The fruits of Saint Paisius’ labors were published as the Russian Philokalia.
Holy Martyrs Galaktion and Episteme
These saints were born to pagan parents during a terrible persecution of Christians. Galaktion's mother was barren until she was secretly baptized. She baptized her son and raised him as a Christian. When Galaktion's mother died, his father betrothed him to the maiden Episteme. Galaktion did not wish to be married at all. He secretly catechized Episteme and she was baptized and became a nun at the same time he became a monk. They went to the mountain Publion; Galaktion to a men's monastery and Episteme to a women's. They became true lights in their monasteries and they never saw each other again until their deaths. Pagans found the monasteries and the two were brought to trial and mercilessly tortured. Their hands and feet were cut off and then finally their heads. Eutolios, a servant of Episteme's parents who was a monk with Galaktion, took their bodies and buried them and wrote the Lives of these wonderful martyrs for Christ, who received their heavenly crowns in 253.