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The Church New Year is a special event, unusual holiday in the Orthodox calendar. An alternative name is “the beginning of the indict,” that is, the beginning of a new church year.

Absolutely all holidays in the church calendar are looped, that is, they go in a circle. Many people mistakenly believe that the new year for the church begins on the day of the Nativity of Christ, but this is not so, despite the fact that according to the chronology of events this seems to be correct. Previously new church year started on September 1 - now it happens on the 14th of the same month. Thus, the first major holiday in the new indictment is the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary - September 21.

history of the holiday

Indict is a period at the end of which taxes were collected from the population in the Roman Empire, that is, taxes. Then September 1 in the empire turned into New Year. Even later, the Eastern Christian Church adopted the New Year as the beginning of the church calendar. Because of this, September 1 became a real church holiday, on which liturgies have been held since the 6th century. People prayed for blessings for the new period, for health, for happiness.

As soon as Christianity came to Rus', replacing paganism, the New Year holiday was immediately adopted from eastern church, so he exists all the time Orthodox history. The regular calendar also began to begin on September 1. It was an analogue of the New Year, differing from the modern one in that people went to church and prayed at home, and did not walk and indulge in fun.

This was the case for about 700 years, until Peter I decided to celebrate the New Year on January 1 - the day of the Nativity of Christ. To this day, we celebrate the New Year on January 1, but the church celebrates the New Year on September 14, as before. One does not interfere with the other, so no one was left offended after the start of the calendar was postponed.

The beginning of the indictment in 2018: holiday traditions

Now this day is a little late due to the transition to a new style. On the 14th, in the church you can meet many parents with children, whom the priest blesses for successful studies and guides them on the right path.

On September 14, all major gardening work and harvesting are completed. On this day, it is customary to read prayers to Sergius of Radonezh for help in work, study and business. Autumn encourages you to finish important things and start something new.

Confession and communion are one of the main traditions for the New Year. The beginning of the indictment is associated with purification, with the next stage of life. You need to enter a new period cleansed and free from sin. Church officials strongly recommend that the whole family take communion on this holiday.

The church service remembers how Jesus Christ entered the synagogue in Nazareth and said: “I have come to heal you who are brokenhearted.” On the evening before the holiday it is served Great Vespers. The clergy recommend that everyone who can spare a couple of hours of free time be present in the temple. If for some reason you are unable to do this, then read the prayer at home:

“Our Lord, bless Your sinful servants (names) throughout next year, give us strength, strengthen our faith and heal our wounds, so that we can follow Your instructions without complaint. Be merciful to us and forgive us all our sins, voluntary and involuntary. Amen".

Read the prayer on the evening of September 13 before going to bed, preferably in solitude, peace and quiet. You can read it on September 14, if you suddenly forget to do it the day before.

This is a bright and important holiday, on which it is customary to give gifts and help each other. Spend time with your loved ones and loved ones. Read prayers for the coming sleep to receive a blessing for the entire next church year. Good luck and don't forget to press the buttons and

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The beginning of the indictment. Church New Year September 14th, 2016

September 1 (September 14, new style) is celebrated by the Orthodox Church church new year(the beginning of the church year), also called the Beginning of the Indict. The last holiday of the ending year is the Assumption, and the first holiday of the new year is Christmas. Holy Mother of God.

History of Indict

Even in the Old Testament, the Lord our God commanded that every year we especially celebrate the onset of the seventh month, so that people on this day, freed from the vanity of life, would serve To the One God. In this particular month, when the waters of the flood began to subside, Noah’s ark stopped on the mountains of Ararat.

In the same month, the holy prophet Moses came down from the mountain with his face illuminated by the glory of the Divine, and brought new tablets on which the Law given by the Lord Himself was inscribed. And in the same month, the consecration of the Temple of the Lord, created by King Solomon, took place, and the Ark of the Covenant was brought there. In the Old Testament there are many other indications about the great significance of the seventh month (current September), considering the creation of the world in the month of March according to Biblical chronology.

In the 6th century, during the reign of Justinian I (527-565), in Christian Church calendar reckoning is introduced according to indicts or indictions (from the Latin indictio - announcement), 15-year periods of imposition of tribute. In the Roman Empire, indictio was understood as the designation of the number of taxes that should be collected in a given year.

Thus, the fiscal year in the empire began with the emperor’s “indication” (indictio) of how much taxes needed to be collected, while every 15 years the estates were revalued (according to V.V. Bolotov, indictions were of Egyptian origin). The official Byzantine reckoning, the so-called indictions of Constantine the Great or the Constantinople reckoning, began on September 1, 312.

In Byzantium, the church year did not always begin on September 1 - both in the Latin West and in the East the March calendar was well known (when the beginning of the year is considered to be March 1 or March 25 (the date of the Feast of the Annunciation)). In general, the solemn celebration of the New Year on September 1 can be considered a late Byzantine phenomenon.

In Rus', each new year of a fifteen-year period, and the fifteenth anniversary itself, were called an indict. In addition, after 532 years, the circles of the Sun and Moon begin together again, that is, the natural situation of the day of the exploit of Jesus Christ is repeated, when the full moon occurs on Friday. The time interval of 532 years is called an indiction. September 1, 2016 (September 14, new style) marks the year 7525 from the creation of the world.

Since 1492, Rus' has celebrated the New Year as a church and state holiday. The meaning of the New Year's service was the remembrance of the Savior's sermon in the Nazareth synagogue, when Jesus Christ said that He came “to heal the brokenhearted... to preach the acceptable year of the Lord.”

In Rus' in the 17th century, Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich, and after him the boyars and all the people of Moscow, dedicated New Year's Day to works of mercy. Not a single beggar left home without consolation - they were all richly provided with alms, clothes and shoes, and fed a hearty holiday dinner. The common people were given gifts and gifts, and visited prisoners in prison.

The cessation of the rank of summerkeeping is associated with the publication by Peter I of a decree on postponing the start of the civil new year to January 1. IN last time The rite was performed on September 1, 1699 in the presence of Peter, who, sitting on the throne installed on the Kremlin Cathedral Square in royal clothes, received the blessing from the Patriarch and congratulated the people on the New Year. On January 1, 1700, the church celebration was limited to a prayer service after the liturgy, but the rite of summer service was not performed.

Since those times, the celebration of the church new year on September 1 is not celebrated with the former solemnity, although the Typikon to this day considers this day to be a small Lord's holiday “The beginning of the indictment, that is, the new summer,” connected with festive service in honor of St. Simeon the Stylite, whose memory falls on the same date.

On this day, the Church remembers how the Lord Jesus Christ read in the synagogue in Nazareth the prophecy of Isaiah (Isaiah 61.1-2) about the coming of a favorable summer (Luke 4:16-22). In this reading of the Lord, the Byzantines saw His indication of the celebration of the New Year's Day; Tradition connects this event itself with September 1st. The Menology of Basil II (10th century) says: “From that time on, He gave us Christians this holy holiday” (PG. 117. Col. 21).

According to Typiknu O Great Church and the Byzantine service Gospels, the rite of summer conduction has the following order: after Matins, the bishop proceeds with a procession to the city square while the “big” Trisagion is chanted. When the procession reaches the square, the deacon proclaims the litany and 3 antiphons are sung. After the antiphons, the bishop pronounces an exclamation, blesses the people three times and sits down on the seat. This is followed by the prokeimenon and the Apostle; According to the Apostle, the bishop, having blessed the people three times, begins reading the Gospel. Lithium petitions are then pronounced; at the end of the petitions and the head-bending prayer, the singers begin to sing the troparion in 2 voices: All creation to the Creator..., and the procession goes to the temple to perform Divine Liturgy.

Troparion of the Indicta (Church New Year), tone 4:

Give thanks to your unworthy servant, O Lord, /
about Your great blessings upon us, /
glorifying You, we praise, we bless, we thank, we sing and magnify Your compassion, /
and slavishly we cry out to love: /
Our Benefactor, our Savior, glory to You.

Glory: voice 3:
Your blessings and gifts to Tuna, /
like a servant of indecency, you have been honored, O Lord, /
We earnestly flow to You, we offer thanksgiving according to our strength, /
and to You, as the Benefactor and Creator, we glorify: /
glory to You, Most Generous God.

And now: voice 2:
To the Creator of all creation, /
setting times and seasons in His power, /
bless the crown of summer of Thy goodness, O Lord, /
keeping your people and your city in peace /
through the prayers of the Mother of God and Savior.

"The Lord's Favorable Summer"

Without a doubt, everyone knows well that we celebrate the New Year in January, and twice, and our high logic is inaccessible to rational foreigners who cannot understand how this “new” year can be “old” at the same time? But it turns out that that January New Year was Peter’s innovation, and today’s date has a long and venerable tradition for us. It is no coincidence that in some churches the prayer service for the beginning of the teaching is repeated today, because in our church () calendar it is only September 1st. Indeed, here we read: “The beginning of the indictment is the church new year.” Based on the title, we can assume that the starting point of this purely church New Year is associated with some mysterious “indication”. What is it?

Historians know that indicator- this is the serial number of the year within a regularly repeating fifteen-year period of time (the so-called “indiction”), from one indication (census) to another. The indiction cycles themselves are not numbered, but are used to correlate with another dating system.

Initially, “indication” (Latin indictio - “proclamation”) is an announcement of mandatory supplies of food supplies to the government. The origin of the index cycle remains unclear (possibly of Egyptian origin), but already under the persecuting emperor Diocletian (284-305), who radically reformed the system of government, property was revalued every 15 years in the Roman Empire to determine the amount of tax levied. Need for the population to know tax year and led to the calculation of years by indicts. Officially, this calculation of time was introduced by the emperor (in 312/3). At first, the indictment began on September 23 - the date of birth of the first Roman emperor Octavian Augustus, but in 462, for practical reasons, the beginning of the year was moved to September 1. Dating of years according to indictments became mandatory in 537, becoming widespread in civil and church records management. It was used by the Supreme Tribunal of the Holy Roman Empire until its collapse in 1806 and is still used in some calendar systems. For applied chronology, dating by indices is of great importance. “Among the chaos of medieval dating, these were at least stable” ( Bickerman E. Chronology ancient world. M., 1975. P. 73).

In the modern Russian Orthodox calendar, as already mentioned, September 1/14 is marked as “The beginning of the indictment - the church new year,” celebrated in churches with a thanksgiving prayer service. This New Year (the so-called “September style”) - together with the era from the Creation of the world, “after the cosmos, after the Adam” - was at the same time the state year in Russia until 1700. It should be remembered that this Church New Year according to the Julian calendar falls on September 14 according to the Gregorian only in the 20th-21st centuries (in the 19th century it fell on September 13, and from 2100 it will fall on September 15, etc.).

The year indicate corresponds to the remainder of dividing the number of the year of the Byzantine era from the creation of the world (with a starting point of September 1, 5509 BC) by 15. When using the calendar from the Nativity of Christ (AD), 3 is added to the number of years and the result is the same divided by 15. (Since the change of indict occurs on September 1 according to the Julian calendar, when working with dates according to the January and March calendar styles, it is necessary to make appropriate amendments.) So, September 14, 2000 AD. e. = September 1, 7509 from the creation of the world, 9th year of indictment; September 14, 2006 = September 1, 7515 from the creation of the world, 15th year of indictment; September 14, 2007 = September 1, 7516 from the creation of the world, 1st year of indictment; September 14, 2017 = September 1, 7526 from the creation of the world, the 11th year of the indictment, etc. (See also on the concept website, Era.)

Lit.: Klimishin I. A. Calendar and chronology. M., 1990; Bolotov V.V. Lectures on the history of the Ancient Church. M., 1994. T. 1.

Yuri Ruban,
Ph.D. ist. Sciences, Ph.D. theology

Application

From the holiday service

Apostolic reading (new years)

And He rolled up the scroll, gave it to the servant, and sat down; and the eyes of all in the synagogue were fixed on Him. He began to tell them that today this word of Scripture was fulfilled before them.

And everyone confirmed (testified) this to Him and were amazed at the words of grace that came from His mouth, and asked: “Isn’t this the son of Joseph?”

Commentary on the Gospel reading

"Summer of the Lord" in the Russian Synodal Bible (both in the prophecy of Isaiah and in the quotation of this prophecy in the Gospel of Luke) is an untranslated Slavic word literally meaning "year". In the biblical context, it refers to a time called “the Day of the Lord.” This is the time when “God will visit His people,” that is, He will send the long-awaited Messiah, and He will establish a theocratic Messianic kingdom on earth. When the familiar “son of Joseph” (who until recently was a carpenter here and carried out their orders!) makes it clear that the famous prophecy refers to Him, this is perceived as blasphemy and causes indignation (“everyone... was filled with rage”). They drive Jesus out of the city and even want to push him off the mountain. We read about this a little further in Luke. The nationalistic and politicized consciousness of the Jews cannot accept the “Kingdom that is not of this world.” “Lord, has the time come when You will return the kingdom to Israel?” (), - the apostles ask their Teacher with hope even on the day of His Ascension!

“The word of the prophet Isaiah, which the Lord Jesus reads in the Nazareth synagogue, is one of the most famous messianic prophecies. For centuries it was read in Jewish congregations and filled the hearts of believers with joy and hope. Through all the vicissitudes of history, through all the disasters and tragedies, falls and uprisings, Israel carried the hope that Someone would come who would give healing to the brokenhearted and liberation to the captives, who would set the tormented free. Over the centuries of foreign oppression, such prophecies also became a banner of painful patriotism, which understood the “favorable summer of the Lord” in too mundane a way. And now, not for the first time, a preacher appears in Israel, performing miracles and proclaiming the unheard of.<…>And therefore, when He sat down, everyone's eyes were fixed on Him. The Greek text speaks more clearly here synodal translation: “The eyes of all were fixed on Him.” Everyone is waiting, What He will say further. And on this day from the lips of Jesus comes what has been awaited for centuries: “Today this word of Scripture has been fulfilled.” In Him the expectation of people was fulfilled, and in Him our hope for life, truth and love is fulfilled to this day.

And then something terrible happens. As soon as Jesus, the Savior sent by God, says that salvation is given to everyone, and not just to the Jews, He is kicked out to kill. This is a dire warning to all of us.<…>"("Thinking Out Loud" on).

Word on the first day of indictment, or new year

King of ages, Lord our God, "put the times or summers in his power"(), He Himself established various holidays during these times for His glorification and for resting people from their worldly affairs. Even in the Old Testament, He commanded to especially celebrate the onset of the seventh month every year, so that people, freed from the vanity of life, would serve the One God on this day. For this is what is written in the books of Moses: “The Lord spoke to Moses, saying, ‘Say to the children of Israel, “In the seventh month, on the first day of the month, let you have rest: you shall not do any work on that day in all your dwellings, and you shall offer a sacrifice to the Lord.” (). Just as the Creator Himself, who created the world in six days with His Word, once blessed and sanctified the seventh day, resting from the works of creation ( ; ; ); and as he later gave the commandment to man: “Six days you shall work; on the seventh day, which is the Sabbath of the Lord your God, you shall not do any work.”(), so He blessed and sanctified the seventh month and commanded people to rest from worldly affairs at this time. The Lord commanded Moses about this again, “Saying, in the seventh month, when you gather in the produce of the earth, celebrate the feast of the Lord.”() .

For what reason was this celebration established?

In this particular month, when the waters of the flood began to flow, Noah's ark stopped on the mountains of Ararat.

This month, the holy prophet Moses descended from the mountains, with his face illuminated by the glory of the Divine, and brought new tablets on which the law given by the Lord Himself was inscribed ().

This month the construction of the Tabernacle of the Lord began among the camp of the Israelites ().

In the same month, the high priest entered the Holy of Holies for the only time during the entire year. “Not without blood, which he brings for himself and for the sins of ignorance of the people.” .

This month, the people of God, humbling their souls with fasting and bringing a burnt offering to the Lord, accepted cleansing from their sins committed during the year.

This month, the solemn consecration of the magnificent Temple of the Lord, created by King Solomon, took place, and the Ark of the Covenant was brought into this temple ().

This month, all the tribes of the people of Israel from everywhere flocked to Jerusalem for the holiday, fulfilling the commandment of the Lord: “This is a Sabbath of rest for you, and mortify your souls.” ().

From this month they began counting the years, special for every fifty years. While the people of Israel were entering the Promised Land, the Lord commanded that the people especially celebrate every fiftieth year; and not only themselves took part in this celebration, but also the servants and cattle; even the very land where the Israelites settled was commanded to be left alone, not to plow, not to sow, not to gather ears of corn, grapes, or garden fruits: all this was provided as food for poor people, as well as animals and birds. This is written about this in the books of Moses: “Blow the trumpet throughout all your land and sanctify the fiftieth year, and proclaim freedom in the land to all its inhabitants; do not sow or reap what grows on it, and do not reap the grapes from its unpruned vines, so that the poor of your people may eat, and the beasts of the field may eat the remains of them, do the same with your vineyard and your olive tree" ( ; ). In this fiftieth year, debtors were forgiven their debts, slaves were set free, and each person took special care of himself, so as not to anger the Lord with any sin, so as not to sadden his neighbor. It was a year of forgiveness and cleansing from sins. This fifty-year circle, by command of the Lord, was divided into seven annual weeks (that is, seven times seven years) and every seventh year was called Sabbath or rest. The Lord gave the following command about this through Moses: “Six years you shall sow your field, and six years you shall prune your vineyard, and gather in the produce thereof; in the seventh year there shall be a Sabbath of rest for the land, a Sabbath of the Lord; you shall not sow your field, and you shall not prune your vineyard. If you say: “What shall we eat in the seventh year, when we neither sow nor gather our produce,” I will send My blessing upon you in the sixth year, and it will bring produce for three years” (). All these years, in which the Lord established festive peace both for people and for the earth, began, also by command of the Lord, from the month of September. "And blow the trumpet", - said the Lord, - "a year of rest in the seventh month"(), i.e. in September, since September from March, the first month from the creation of the world, is the seventh month.

But the year began on the first of September not only according to the Old Testament laws, but also according to the pagan indiction. This indiction is described as follows.

The New Year holiday was established by the holy fathers at the First Ecumenical Council in Nicaea. This was at the same time when Tsar Constantine the Great, having defeated Maxentius, enlightened the universe with the light of piety, eradicated idolatry festivals, freed the faith of Christ from severe persecution and established his indictions. Then the holy fathers established the celebration of the New Year as the beginning of Christian freedom, in remembrance of Christ’s visit to the Jewish synagogue on this day and His preaching about the pleasant year of the Lord. Since then, we have been celebrating the first day of September. But this is no longer a holiday of the Old Testament, but of new grace. For on this day the Lawgiver Himself, who descended from heaven and carried within Himself the Spirit of the Father, revealed Himself to the world and inscribed the law of God not with a finger, but with His Divine tongue and sweet lips, and not on tablets of stone, but "on the fleshy tablets of our hearts"(). Creating His Church, which was only typified by the Old Testament tabernacle, He offered God the Father a sacrifice for our sins, not without blood, namely Himself. The Great High Priest Himself, who passed through heaven (), having cleansed us from sins with His blood shed for us, made us holy temples, according to the words of the Apostle: "The temple of God is holy, and this temple is you" () .

Bringing thanks to the Lord for all these, we celebrate the summer of the Lord is pleasant: We have received from Him many unspeakable blessings, but let us hasten to be pleasing to Him ourselves. After all, we celebrate the indiction, not established by the Roman kings, but legitimized by the Heavenly King of glory - Christ. Christ's indiction is His holy commandments, which we must observe and fulfill. Our King Christ does not require from us either copper, or iron, or silver, or gold, as David explained, who once said: "You are my Lord; You do not need my blessings"(). But instead of iron and copper, the Lord requires from us virtue that is solid and strong, Orthodox faith into God. For our faith is based on the blood of the holy martyrs tortured with iron and copper weapons, of whom it can be said that "iron pierced his soul"(). The Heavenly King and our God commanded us that we believe in Him with a right heart and piety: "for with the heart they believe unto righteousness"(). Let us also defeat the enemy with this faith, like a weapon with an iron and copper shield. Let us follow our holy forefathers, who “by faith conquered kingdoms, did righteousness, received promises, stopped the mouths of lions, quenched the power of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, were strengthened from weakness, were strong in war, drove away the armies of strangers” () .

Instead of silver, our King Christ demands from us a second virtue, undoubted hope in God. This virtue, more than silver, provides a person with a prosperous life. If one who has become rich in a lot of silver is confident that he will receive all worldly blessings, and, trusting in wealth, spends his days cheerfully; then, all the more, he who is rich in undoubted hope in God and in Him alone, having placed all his trust, will receive everything he desires and will live in joy, neglecting all the disasters and sorrows that come from the world, the flesh and the devil, and enduring all this with pleasure for the sake of reward V future life. Often silver deceives its master and, accidentally disappearing, leaves him in poverty; and the one who hoped to see abundance in everything until the end of his life suddenly loses daily bread. - He who trusts in the Lord, "as Mount Zion shall never be moved"() : “does not put to shame, because the love of God is poured out”(). It is this immaterial silver that the Lord desires from us and commands that we should not place our hopes in fleeting wealth, "but against the living God" (), "the words of the Lord are pure words, like silver tried for refinement"(). He unfailingly promised us unspeakable eternal blessings in His Kingdom, so that we would greatly benefit from His goodness, which we believed in our hearts, confessed with our lips, "but with the mouth they confess unto salvation"(). Let us, like good soldiers of Christ, encourage ourselves to great deeds with the hope of reward. After all, the hope of a reward excites a warrior to fight, as St. John of Damascus says about the passion-bearers: Thy martyrs, Lord, having been confirmed in faith and strengthened by hope, defeated the torment of their enemies and received crowns.

Instead of gold, Christ our King demands from us the most precious virtue, unfeigned love for God and our neighbors. Due to its high meaning, love is always presented by the Teachers of the Church under the image of gold; for just as gold is more precious than silver, copper and iron, so love is more precious than hope and faith. "Now", the Scripture says, “These three remain: faith, hope, love; but the greatest of these is love.”(). This is exactly the kind of gold that the Lord desires from us and commands us to pray to Him unfeignedly, not only believing in our hearts and confessing with our lips, but actually showing this love. We must be ready to lay down our souls for Him and accept death for His sake. Divine love to us. Moreover, we must love our neighbors, as Christ’s beloved disciple John the Theologian teaches. "My Children", he said, “let us begin to love not in word or tongue, but in deed and truth”(). Such love is accepted for adornment by the most beautiful Himself, more than the sons of men, Christ our God, as the Wisdom of God Herself says: it was adorned and became beautiful before the Lord and people; this is unanimity between brothers and love between neighbors ().

This is the kind of Christian indiction that the Orthodox Church celebrates today, instead of the ancient pagan one, “having put off the old man with his deeds and put on the new one, who is renewed in the image of the One who created him” (). Let us celebrate the new year as the apostle advises us: we walk in newness of life, so that we may serve in "by renewal of the spirit, and not by the oldness of the letter"(). Let us celebrate the indiction, obeying the commandments of the Lord our God given through Moses, in whose books it is now read: “If you walk in My statutes, and keep My commandments and do them, then I will give you rain in its season, and the earth will give my growth, and I will send peace to your land, and you will drive out your enemies, and I will look upon you, and I will bless you, and My soul will not abhor you, and I will walk among you, and I will be your God, and you will be My people" () .

Zion is the mountain on which Jerusalem is built.

The words of God are pure from all admixture of lies and deception, like pure silver refined through fire.

What is required of a Christian for his salvation is not only faith, but also its expression, which in the abundance of faith is (professes) itself.

These words of Holy Scripture are read during services on the day of indictment in one of the proverbs, of which there are three. 1st from the book. prophet Isaiah 61:1-9 is a prophecy about Jesus Christ as the Anointed One, Teacher, Savior and restorer of all those who suffer on earth, about the spread of His Church among the nations, about the bliss and glory of those who belong to it. This particular prophecy, as we saw above, was read by the Savior Himself in the Nazareth synagogue. - 2nd proverb (from) contains the Lord’s promises to those who fulfill the Lord’s Commandments and threats to violators; Zealous fulfillment of these commandments is the main condition for prosperity on earth, which we usually wish at the onset of the New Year for ourselves and our neighbors. - The 3rd proverb (from) relates to the memory of St. Simeon the Stylite, who carried out the lessons of true wisdom in his life and demonstrated the triumph of piety glorified in the Book of Wisdom. - In the 8th century. St. John of Damascus wrote many hymns on the 1st day of September.

By the grace of God we are entering a new Church summer...

The holiday of the Church New Year was established by the holy fathers of the First Ecumenical Council, who determined that the calculation of the church year should begin on September 1 (in the new style - September 14).

Emperor Constantine the Great, having won a victory over Maxentius on September 1, 312, granted Christians complete freedom to practice their faith. The Fathers of the First Ecumenical Council (in 325), in memory of this, determined to begin the New Year on September 1, as the day that was the beginning of “Christian freedom.”

In Rus' in 1492, the Moscow Council adopted the calendar from September 1 instead of March 1 in honor of this great event.

The first day of the annual liturgical circle marks the “entrance of summer,” and the service of this day is of a festive nature, the culmination of which is the Gospel read during the liturgy, which tells about the beginning of the preaching of Jesus Christ after His Baptism and temptations from the devil in the desert. According to legend, this happened on the first day of the Jewish harvest festival, which was celebrated from September 1 to 8. In the Gospel we hear the Savior preaching to us the coming of the favorable “summer of the Lord.” On this day, Jesus Christ began preaching the Kingdom of God and for the first time witnessed the fulfillment of Old Testament prophecies about the coming of the Messiah (Son of God) and thereby the end of the Old and the beginning of the New Testament.

The New Year was celebrated on September 1 before the accession of Peter the Great to the throne, who in 1699 ordered the New Year to be moved to January 1. But in the liturgical books the arrival of the new summer remains for September 1.

Believers thank God for the past year and ask for blessings and help for the next one.

The first holiday in the liturgical church year is Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary - September 21.

Kontakion of the Indict (Church New Year) tone 2
In the highest, living, Christ the King, / all visible and invisible Creator and Creator, / Who created days and nights, times and summers, / now bless the crown of summer, / observe and preserve in peace / Your city and people, O Many-merciful One.

Troparion of the Indict (Church New Year) tone 2
To the Creator of all creation,/ having established times and seasons in His power,/ bless the crown of the summer of Thy goodness, O Lord,/ keeping Thy people and city in peace/ through the prayers of the Mother of God and save us.

Since man fell away from God and became mortal, time arose, which counts down days, hours and years to us. And all our worship lives in time. Today the church year ends, tomorrow Sunday coincides with the New Year. The whole circle church holidays starts again. And so, as always, when we think about time, we involuntarily turn back. We live in the present, but it is always a moment that cannot be grasped; The future is unknown to us, and therefore our mind turns to the past. Let's look back at the past church year and reflect on what we missed. Let's start with Orthodox worship . It is designed in such a way that one part of it remains unchanged all the time, while the other changes. The liturgical circle is repeated in full, thoroughly, every five hundred years or more. Therefore, no one, even if he goes to church every morning and evening all his life, can attend the same service twice; each service is unique. And upon careful contemplation, this difference is visible, although at first glance everything seems to be similar. It’s like two birch trees - they seem to be the same: the trunks are white, the leaves are green with teeth; but if you look closely, they are different: one has such knots, the other has different ones, and the leaves are different, and their number does not match. God has complete diversity in the Church, as well as in His creation. Everyone participates in worship - and it presupposes participation - to the extent that he is capable. For some, service evokes certain feelings, and he limits himself to this; the other participates in it by ear; the third only sees what is happening, but hears nothing. Someone participates with their minds - trying to understand the meaning of what is happening and the meaning of what is being read and sung. And others still leave everything in their hearts, that is, they do not just follow the service, but pray in spirit, every spoken word becomes his prayer. The Fathers called divine service life in the Holy Spirit, because the knowledge of God is accomplished in prayer, and through divine service we learn prayer and learn eternal life, which is also the knowledge of God. From this temporary life we will all move into eternity, but it will be different for everyone. Just as life here is different for everyone, so eternity is different for us. But if some changes are observed in earthly life: we grow old, smarter, or, conversely, become dumber with time, then there is no such change there. It is known that our eternal destiny depends on how spiritually we succeed here. What happens to a person, to his soul, when he leaves this temporary world? If he is worthy of eternal life, that is, the contemplation of God, then he continually glorifies God. That is why the Apostle Paul commanded us to work for a very long time. And then we will know what unceasing prayer, pure contemplation of God, true silence is. You can train yourself to constantly mutter some word, develop such a skill, but unceasing prayer is completely different. It must be cordial, the heart must participate in it. And it can participate only if it is cleared of passions. If a person tries to achieve heartfelt prayer without cleansing his heart, he often becomes possessed. Many people, heretics or deluded, try to enter some kind of spiritual state with the help of the Jesus Prayer, but they, apart from a madhouse, get nothing as a result, because they climb into the Kalash row with a pig's snout. That’s why even some eccentrics say: you can’t read the Jesus Prayer, you’ll go crazy. No, you won’t get off if you, together with prayer, cleanse your heart from sin. You must first cleanse your heart, and only then strive for the height of contemplation of the Divine. This state of a purified heart and persistent standing before God is holiness, because the Holy Spirit usually dwells in a pure heart. A person then becomes a prophet, becomes a servant of God, he, in fact, no longer lives for himself and, like the Apostle Paul, can say: “It is not I who live, but Christ lives in me.” His thoughts, words, deeds, and appearance are all Christ’s. He is like the living Christ, because he is part of the Body of Christ and becomes a wholly member of the Church. And if the Lord does not immediately take him to Heaven, it is only for one reason, that perhaps he has some special gifts with which he can serve God on earth, that is, people. God has only one concern: how to bring people to Heaven. And if someone has the ability to do this, the Lord sometimes leaves him in the world so that he can work. A person has already undertaken work to cleanse his heart, but he can still work to cleanse the hearts of others. Seraphim of Sarov said this: “Acquire a peaceful spirit, and thousands around you will be saved.” If a holy person appears somewhere, thousands are immediately saved around him. And the more holy a person is, the more he is blessed with the Holy Spirit, the greater the number of saved people around us. There are such dazzling saints who save hundreds of thousands and even millions of people. For example, Sergius of Radonezh. He had such grace that he saved not only himself and the monks, his disciples (dozens of them became saints), - he turned all of Russia upside down with his holiness, brought it together so that it was able to get out of the terrible impasse in which it was during the Tatar -Mongol captivity, allowed to the Russians for their sins, for apostasy from God, civil strife, violation of the law of love. The Lord allowed them to stay under the Tatars so that they would come to their senses a little, so to speak, and then sent Sergius of Radonezh, who gathered all the spiritual forces of Rus' together - and our state was created anew, in which you and I, thank God, live. This is the path we all face, only to each in his own measure. And its beginning is a visit to the temple. We are all students, we are all at the beginning of this path, and the future depends on this beginning. A house is always built from the foundation. By the grace of God, we all, each of us, are entering a new year, a new church year. Let this year not pass in vain, let it pass in such a way that we learn at least something. The Lord, through sorrows, through illnesses, through all kinds of life circumstances, will help us to assimilate this spiritual science, this theoretical knowledge that we acquire at worship services. What we don’t do enough: we don’t pray enough, we don’t fast enough, we don’t understand enough, we miss these theoretical lessons, we will learn already at practical exercises, living ordinary life . We will fall into sins, hurt our noses, slide down, climb up and start all over again. Maybe we'll stay for a second year. And many stay not only for the second year, but also for the third, and often for the fortieth year. Because, unfortunately, some careless people go to church for forty years, but no development occurs in them, love does not come to them. And if it doesn’t arrive, it means that they have not become Christ’s, they have not yet understood the most important law of Christianity - the law of love. Since this is not clear to a person, it means that going to church is still pointless. Because the Church does not exist to serve prayers and memorial services, to remember health and repose. Muslims also pray for health and peace - go to the mosque and pray. What is the difference between Orthodoxy? Orthodoxy is life in the Holy Spirit. We have been given a colossal treasure: being sinful people, unworthy of the Kingdom of God, not having even a bright spot on our souls, nevertheless, by the grace of God, we can stand in Heaven. And every time, entering the temple and participating in divine services, we stand in Heaven: “In a temple worth Thy glory, we stand in Heaven.” This is truly so, since Christ came to earth and founded the Church - this is Heaven that descended on the apostles in the Holy Spirit. The Lord founded the Church so that through it we could ascend to Heaven. Therefore, the more we delve into this church life, into churchliness, into its grace-filled law with our mind, heart, feelings, and our entire composition, the more we will partake of Heavenly life, the more we will partake of Christ, eternity, that is, what is prepared for us all and perhaps very soon awaits us. And God’s judgment, in fact, consists of this. Don’t think that they will count how many times you had a fight or how many times you gave someone an apple - no. The judgment consists of this: a person stands before the Father, and his heart is known to God, he is open to God. And the Lord looks to see whether this person can live in the Kingdom of God or not. If he can, the Lord takes him. If he cannot, He removes him from the Kingdom of Heaven “into pitch darkness, where there is weeping and gnashing of teeth.” You can say: oh, how terrible! No, it's not terrible, it's just natural. Let's take a fish and a bird - a fish swims in the water, it feels good there, and a bird flies in the sky, it feels good there. But if they switch places, both will suffocate. This is how it is with man: if a sinner is placed in the Kingdom of Heaven, he will burn; and if a righteous person is placed in the pit, he will burn. Therefore, to each his own; What a person’s soul is capable of, he acquires. If we want to achieve Heavenly life, contemplation of the Most Holy Trinity, we must cleanse our hearts in order to join Heaven here on earth. If we do not achieve this, we spend our lives in sins, then we will inherit the same sinful eternity. While we are still here on earth, we have the possibility of repentance, correction, purification, but when we pass beyond the grave, this opportunity will no longer exist. Like a person who graduated from school, if he didn’t learn anything there, it’s too late to learn, he should have done it earlier. Our life is also a school, a kind of university. Will we get access to the Kingdom of Heaven or will we not get it and will we be expelled from there from the second or third year? The Lord has done everything for us: He gave us the wonderful law of God, and He Himself helps us to teach these spiritual lessons, He Himself corrects us, guides us, supports us, He cares and takes care of us. If we have gratitude and love for God, then we will gradually develop and deepen this feeling until there is nothing left in our heart, only Christ alone. We will not love anything else, nothing will be so sweet to us, only He alone. We will cleave to Him alone, we will serve Him alone, and the whole multitude of all vanity in which we live will fade away. There, in eternity, there will be nothing of what constitutes our present life. There awaits us either eternal bliss or eternal suffering. Bliss comes from purity of heart, because a person with with a pure heart He does not suffer from anything, does not envy anything, does not strive for anything worldly, he does not need anything earthly - he possesses everything, he possesses God Himself. There is such a state, the completeness of all possessions, when nothing is needed - neither bread, nor treasures, nor any entertainment. Everything simply loses its meaning when a person has acquired God, because compared to God everything is nothing. What if a person has passions? Now you want to sin here, now there - but no matter how you sin, you will not sin. And when life ends, there will be no more sin. There will be only one desire left, which cannot be fulfilled. This is suffering. Imagine a person who is burning from fornication - not a year, not two, not a million years, not a billion, but eternity. How scary it is. And there is also love of money, gluttony, oversleeping, condemnation, anger, resentment - can you imagine what a tangle? What kind of life are we preparing for ourselves there if we don’t cleanse our hearts? Here we can weaken the fire of sin for a few seconds. I really want to drink - well, I drank, and that’s it, my soul is lighter. Here someone offended you - took a kick (usually to children who were not guilty of anything); I lost my anger and my soul feels better. But there you won’t be able to pick it off, there this anger will just boil inside you, it will burn you - here it is, fiery Gehenna. Sinful passions will remain, but there will be no opportunity to satisfy them. But a person who has only one passion - God, can satisfy this passion; he will unceasingly contemplate and glorify God, unceasingly admire God; he will live one life with Him. This, in fact, is eternal life, this is salvation, this is the Kingdom of Heaven, this is holiness - whatever you want to call it. WITH tomorrow we are entering new class. If we have learned something over the previous year, thank God, we will move on, we will not mark time, we will not waste time - it is very short. Our life, unfortunately, is negligibly short. Let us work for the Lord to achieve the Kingdom of Heaven. Amen.

Archpriest Dimitri (Smirnov)

Source - http://azbyka.ru/propovedi/read-offline/263/propovedi-dimitrij-smirnov.pdf

Indict – Church New Year

The decision to start the New Year on September 1 (old style) was made on I Ecumenical Council in 325. This was done in memory of two events. Firstly, in 313, the Byzantine Emperor Constantine the Great, by the Edict of Milan, legally granted Christians complete freedom to practice their faith. A year earlier, on September 1, 312, Emperor Constantine defeated his opponent Maxentius. After this victory, the persecution of Christians stopped. Secondly, in memory of the Savior’s New Year’s sermon in the synagogue of Nazareth, the city where he grew up. This was on the day that the Jews celebrated Rosh Hashanah (translation: chapter [beginning] of the year, or New Year).

What did this day mean to the ancient Jews? Rosh Hashanah always falls on the first day of the month of Tishrei - this is the day of the creation of the first man - Adam, the sixth day of creation. On the same day, Adam violated the ban and his trial took place - for the sake of his correction and return to the path to the Creator, the fulfillment of His Will. On the holiday of Rosh Hashanah, according to legend, all thoughts and actions of a person are considered and weighed by the Almighty. On the same day, the Heavenly Court pronounces a fair verdict. In any case, the Creator does not want the death of a person, but his correction. The coming year could be last year his life, or maybe - new opportunity for its correction and the establishment of Good in the world. This holiday is also known as Yom Truah - Trumpet Day. On this day, calling for repentance, they blow a hollow ram's horn - the shofar. It is noteworthy that the word “shofar” (שופר – in Hebrew words are written and read from right to left) comes from the root “shiper” (שפר), which means “correction”, “improvement”...

And it was on this day - the day of the call to repentance, correction and improvement - that Jesus of Nazareth entered the synagogue and read the words of the prophet Isaiah: “The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me; for He has anointed Me to preach the gospel...to preach the acceptable year of the Lord” (Isa. 61:1-2; Luke 4:18-19). Then Christ for the first time testified that the Old Testament prophecies about the coming of the Messiah were being fulfilled, that the end of the Old Testament had come and the New had begun. Therefore, it is considered that the day of the Church New Year is a favorable time to begin the path of spiritual salvation. By the way, at the festive service of the New Year, a passage from the Gospel is read, describing exactly this episode. The Optina elders recommended starting from the New Year, after praying for God’s help, to begin reading the Bible daily. According to their rule, if you read one chapter from the Gospel, two chapters from the Apostle and three chapters from the Old Testament per day, then for the whole year New Testament will be read four times, and the Old Testament – once.

It is interesting that the school year in Medieval Rus' did not begin on September 1, but three months later on December 1 in memory of the prophet Nahum. And the unlucky schoolboy, going to the sexton who taught him a pot of porridge, imagined his heavy right hand and muttered a rhymed prayer: “Prophet Nahum, guide him to the mind.” Both in the Roman Empire and in Rus', the onset of the New Year was celebrated on the first of March. Alexandrian scientists substantiated this tradition by the fact that God, according to their calculations, completed the creation of the world on the first of March, on the Friday that preceded the day of rest - Saturday.

The first of September, which replaced the usual March 1 in Russia in 1363, and in the Roman Empire during the reign of Constantine the Great, is a tribute to the civil Byzantine tradition. Since 1492, Rus' has celebrated the New Year as a church and state holiday. The main celebration took place in Moscow on Cathedral Square Kremlin. It happened like this. A platform was being built from which the Metropolitan and Grand Duke announced the end of the year and congratulated the people. The Metropolitan blessed the water and sprinkled it on the prince and the townspeople standing around, and everyone congratulated each other. In the New Year, it was customary to present the heir to the throne to the people for the first time when he reached adulthood (14 years old). The future prince gave a public speech from the platform. It was on the New Year of 1598 that Boris Godunov was crowned king.

In Rus', the New Year was celebrated on September 1 until the great reformer Peter I wanted to make changes to the calendar. In 1699, Peter ordered to celebrate the New Year on January 1, as was customary in Europe. But church tradition Celebrating the New Year on September 1st has survived to this day. By the way, the school year in parochial schools always began with the New Year. Subsequently, this tradition naturally spread to all other educational institutions.

From Byzantium to Rus' came the tradition of calling the New Year the beginning of the Indicate. Indict - (Latin indicto - assignment, tax, tax) - the Roman name for the first day of September and the 15-year period of time for collecting taxes in the Roman Empire, divided into 3 terms of 5 years. In the first five-year plan, the tax was paid in iron and copper - for weapons, shields; in the second five-year period they paid in silver for coins, and in the third five-year period the tax was paid in gold for the decoration of pagan deities and idols. In the Christian era, under Saint Equal to the Apostles Constantine The great 15-year period formed the basis of chronology, starting in 312. The year according to the indictment began in Byzantium on September 1. It was introduced to replace the pagan 4 summer period calculations for the Olympiads, as an intermediate unit of time between a year and a century. The indicator could denote either the period of 15 years itself or each year of this period. In this case, it was designated in combination with a serial number (from 1 to 15). Under Emperor Constantine, the tax on the maintenance of soldiers who retired after 15 years of service was also called an indict. The word "indic" was preserved in Church Charter and serves to mark the beginning of the church year.

Another concept is associated with the concept of Indiction or simple Indiction - Paschal, Great Indiction or, as it was called in Rus', the Peacemaking Circle. The Great Indiction, unlike the simple one, is not an economic quantity. This is a period of time lasting 532 years - this number is obtained if the solar circle, consisting of 28 years, is multiplied by the lunar circle, consisting of 19 years (28 × 19 = 532). After this cycle, all church times, months, dates, days of the week, as well as phases of the moon will follow in the same order as they followed in the previous period. This defines the Easter cycle, and with it the entire church calendar. The calendar is, first of all, a rhythm that connects a person’s individual life with the universe. At the same time, the calendar is also historical memory humanity. Satisfying these two needs, the Great Peaceful Circle includes World history V sacred history Churches.

Any New Year's celebration- a rather arbitrary date. Astronomers know that all points of the earth's orbit are absolutely equal, and it makes absolutely no difference which of them is taken as the origin. But what is indifferent to astronomers sometimes has great importance for people - those historical events, in whose memory we choose this or that date. The date can speak of worldly vanity, or it can remind of God and eternity. The first of September of the Julian calendar (14th - according to the new style) - has, as you can see, its own rich history and deep spiritual meaning- that is why the Orthodox Church carefully preserves this date. The major holiday closest to September 1 is the Nativity of the Virgin Mary. This is chronologically the earliest of the holiday themes, and it is with this that the annual cycle of church holidays begins.

TROPARION

Troparion, tone 2

To the Creator of all creation, having established times and seasons in Your power, bless the crown of the summer of Your goodness, O Lord, preserving Your people and your city in peace through the prayers of the Theotokos and save us.

Kontakion, tone 2

In the highest, living, Christ the King, all visible and invisible Creator and Creator, Who created days and nights, times and summers, bless now the crown of summer, observe and preserve in peace Your city and people, O Many-merciful One.

CANON

(Indict to the Church New Year)

Troparion, tone 2

To the Creator of all creation, having placed times and years in Your power, bless the crown of the summer of Your goodness, O Lord, preserving the Emperor in peace, and Your city, through the prayers of the Mother of God, and save us.

Canon, voice 1st

Song 1

Irmos: Let all people sing, from the bitter work of the Pharaohs of Israel, to Him who learned and in the depths of the seas with wet feet He taught a song of victory, as if He were glorified.

Chorus:

Let us all sing to Christ, in Whom all things were made, and in Whom He was perfected inseparably, as from the Beginningless One God the Father was born to the Hypostatic Word, a song of victory, as He was glorified.

Glory to Thee, our God, glory to Thee.

Let us sing everything to Christ, who appeared from the Virgin with the Father’s favor, and who preached the year of the Lord is pleasant, for our deliverance, a poor song, for he was glorified.

Glory:The Giver of the Law came to Nazareth on the Sabbath day, declaring to the Jews His ineffable coming: by whom the Merciful One saves our race.

And now:Singing all the faithfulness of the Most Beautiful Maiden, Christ who has risen up into the universe, and filled with every joy, the Everlasting Life, we always praise him, for he has become glorified.

Song 3

Irmos: Establish me, O Christ, on the immovable rock of Your commandments, and enlighten me with the light of Your face. There is nothing more holy than You, O Lover of Mankind.

Glory to Thee, our God, glory to Thee.

Establish, O Blessed One, whose love Thy right hand has planted on the earth, the grapes bear fruit, preserving Thy Church, O All-Powerful One.

Glory to Thee, our God, glory to Thee.

Colorful in spiritual affairs, God-red, this summer has come, O Lord, who by faith sing praises to Thee, O God of all.

Glory: Quiet, O Christ, give me a flying circle, O Generous One, and fill me with Thy Divine words, even as Thou didst appear to the Jews on the Sabbath.

And now:For the One who received grace above nature more than man into Your womb, and immaculately gave birth to Christ our God, we glorify You forever.

Lord have mercy. (Three times.) Glory, and now:

Sedalen, voice 8th

Since times were fruitful, and brought rain from heaven to those on earth, and now accepting the prayers of Thy servants, delivered Thy city from all needs: for Thy bounty is truly in all Thy deeds. In the same way, bless the entrances and exits, correct the deeds of our hands in us, and grant us forgiveness of sins, O God: for you have brought from those who are not all things in existence, as if you were strong.

Song 4

Irmos: I understood, Omnipotent, Your sight, and with fear I glorified You, Savior.

Glory to Thee, our God, glory to Thee.

The beginning of the year Your people bring You, praising You, Savior, with angelic songs.

Glory to Thee, our God, glory to Thee.

As a lover of mankind, grant that summer has begun and ends with pleasure in You, Christ.

Glory:Almighty One Lord, having calmed the years of circulation, grant peace.

And now:As now the refuge of our souls and our firm hope, let us all praise the Mother of God.

Song 5

Irmos: From the morning in the morning, we sing to You, Christ, the Father of the Self and Savior of our souls, grant peace to the world, O Lover of mankind.

Glory to Thee, our God, glory to Thee.

Fill all goodness, O Christ, with blessings and fruitfulness, crowned with blessings, grant a multi-circular summer to Your servant.

Glory to Thee, our God, glory to Thee.

Flight reward show us the transformation to the best: a peaceful dispensation for those leading You, the Word of God, becoming like a man.

Glory:You came to earth, without origin with the Father, as a captive, release, but to the blind, proclaiming sight from the Father, and the time was pleasant.

And now:We place our hopes, Pure Mother of God, and our desires on You, Give us mercy, O Virgin, Whom You gave birth to.

Song 6

Irmos: You saved the prophet from the whale, O Lover of mankind, and bring me out of the depths of sins, I pray.

Glory to Thee, our God, glory to Thee.

Begin life, it is pleasing to You, Master, with a flying undertaking, vouchsafe us. ( Twice)

Glory:Show that the spiritual days, in the teaching of Thy law, are fulfilled, O Generous Savior, singing to Thee.

And now:O Mother of God, All-Immaculate, who gave birth to the Lord, deliver from troubles those who sing to You, Most Pure One, by faith.

Lord have mercy. (Three times.) Glory, and now:

Kontakion, voice 2

In the Highest, living, Christ the King, all visible and invisible Creator and Creator, Who created days and nights, times and summers, now bless the crown of summer, observe and preserve in peace the Orthodox Emperor and your city and people, O Most Merciful.

Song 7

Irmos: The youths were educated in piety, did not neglect the evil command, did not fear the fiery rebuke, but stood in the midst of the flames: Blessed are you, God of the fathers.

Glory to Thee, our God, glory to Thee.

We begin the summer and create the firstfruits with song to the reigning Christ, the endless Kingdom, Orthodox people, piously singing: Blessed are you, God of the fathers. ( Twice.)

Glory:Formerly, forever, and evermore, Lord, to those who glorify You, O Christ, the source of goodness, fill this summer with Your good gifts: blessed are you, God of the fathers.

And now:As servants of the Lady, in prayer, we offer Thy Pure Mother to Thee, O Christ, from every situation Thy people, O Good One, deliver those who sing: Blessed art thou of the fathers.

Song 8

Irmos: Song-speakers in the cave who saved the children, and who turned the thunder-flame into dew, sing to Christ God, and exalt him to all ages.

Glory to Thee, our God, glory to Thee.

For the Head of salvation, Christ, the firstfruits are brought to you by the flying, honest Church calling: sing and exalt Christ forever.

Glory to Thee, our God, glory to Thee.

From those who do not exist, all wisdom has renewed the Creator, and the One who produces times of conversion by will, sing and exalt Him forever.

Glory:To God, who destroys all things, and changes times, for the manifold government of men, we sing: praise and exalt Christ forever.

And now:Mother of God, the Pure Virgin, who have been bypassed and converted for years, who have gathered together Orthodox humanity, we sing Thee as the Mother of God, and the salvation of all.

Song 9

Irmos: The image of Thy pure Nativity, the burning bush of display, unscorched, and now we pray to extinguish the fierce misfortunes of the furnace: let us unceasingly magnify Thee, Mother of God.

Glory to Thee, our God, glory to Thee.

The Word of God, and the Power, the true Wisdom and Hypostasis, containing and ruling all wisdom, and now the time has come for Thy servant, in the dispensation of this.

Glory to Thee, our God, glory to Thee.

All your works, O Lord: heaven, earth, light and sea; waters and all springs; the sun, the moon and darkness; stars, fire, men and animals, and angels praise Thee.

Glory:Thou art One, Eternal, as the Creator of the ages: and the reigning Trinitarian One inseparable Divinity, through the prayers of the Pure Mother of God, show a fruitful summer to Thy inheritance.

And now:Savior of all, and the Builder and Creator and Almighty of creation, through the prayers of You who gave birth without seed, grant peace to Your world, keeping the Church always serene.

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