Bishop Elisey made Great Vespers with the rite of forgiveness.
ON THE EVE OF LENT, THE HEAD URYUPINSK DIOCESE HAS MADE GREAT VESPERS WITH THE RITE OF FORGIVENESS.
In the evening of 26 February 2017, Cheesefare Week (forgiveness Sunday), remembrance of Adam's exile, the Bishop Urjupinsk and novoanninskiy Elisha made Vespers with the rite of forgiveness in the intercession Cathedral city of Uryupinsk.
His grace was co-served by: priest Rusticus Bisin, priest Kirill Shchegolev, priest Andrey Korchagin, acting Dean of the Pokrovsky Cathedral deacon Sergiy Kozlov, cleric of the Cathedral Church of St. Nicholas. Theophan the Recluse EP. . The town of novoanninskiy deacon Anthony Zolotarev.
Singing at the service was the choir of the intercession Cathedral running Sviridova I. S. According to tradition, after the singing of the great Proxima and closing of the Royal doors, the clergy preobrazilisj in the dark Lenten vestments.
On this day, all Orthodox Christians ask each other for forgiveness to begin fasting with a good heart, focus on your spiritual life and pure heart to celebrate Easter – the day of the resurrection of Christ.
At the end of great Vespers, the Archbishop headed the special kneeling prayers and according to Orthodox traditions first asked for forgiveness from the assembled congregation.
At the conclusion of which His grace addressed the faithful with archpastoral word.
During the rite of forgiveness Episcopal choir sang hymns to the preparatory weeks to Great lent, and at the end sang the stichera of Pascha.
"Repentance pray mi door, Thus," the choir sings, and at this time the congregation suited to the first bishops, then clergy and finally apologize to each other. We hear the familiar words: "Forgive me! — God will forgive you, and forgive me".
Forgiveness Sunday — the last Sunday before lent or the 7th Sunday before Easter.On this day the believers during the Liturgy have the opportunity to hear the Gospel reading, which speaks of the forgiveness of sins, about fasting and about gathering treasures in heaven (Matt 6:14-19).
At the end of the evening service of the Orthodox Christians ask each other for forgiveness to begin the post with "a good heart", focus on the spiritual life, with a pure heart to celebrate Easter — the Resurrection of Christ. On this day last vmeshaetsya non-Lenten food.
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The emergence of the Rite of forgiveness is related to the time when Christian monks lived in the desert of small communities whose life was very strict and difficult (V-VI century). Before the onset of lent, to enhance the feat of prayer and solitude, and thereby to purify your soul and prepare it for the Easter, the monks went alone through the desert for forty days of Fasting.
None of them could know exactly if he will return to his brethren in the monastery, will not be lost if in the desert from the ordeal, from want, from hunger, from wild animals. Because the cost to meet only at Easter, the monks asked each other for forgiveness for all voluntary or involuntary wrongs themselves heartily forgave all, refused any malice to anyone.
Everyone knew that their meeting on the eve of Lent may be the last, and how you can go from temporary life to eternal unreconciled, Unforgiven by his brothers in Christ? Over time the rite of forgiveness has ceased to belong only to the monastery's liturgical and prayer tradition, has spread to urban and rural churches, to all the parishes.
Come upon You, God's grace!
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