С Рождеством!!! Варлаамо - Хутынский женский монастырь. Великий Новгород.
#Рождество #праздник #православие #песнопение #монастырь #ночь #ВеликийНовгород #Christmas #holiday #Orthodoxy #songing #monastery #night #VelikyNovgorod
О Рождестве Спасителя и связанных с ним событиях мы знаем от евангелистов Матфея и Луки, а они, вероятно, — со слов Пресвятой Богородицы. Рассказы апостолов различны, но удивительным образом дополняют друг друга.
Матфей говорит не столько о Рождестве, сколько о событиях до и после него: как Ангел рассеял смущение Иосифа Обручника, узнавшего о беременности Девы Марии; как родившемуся Младенцу пришли поклониться волхвы. Лука же начинает с явления Ангела Самой Деве Марии: Ты обрела благодать у Бога, — возвестил Ей Ангел, — и вот, зачнешь во чреве, и родишь Сына, и наречешь Ему имя: Иисус. Он будет велик и наречется Сыном Всевышнего… и Царству Его не будет конца(Лк 1:30–33). Далее евангелист Лука описывает обстоятельства Рождества: …вышло от кесаря Августа повеление сделать перепись по всей земле… И пошли все записываться, каждый в свой город. Пошел также и Иосиф из Галилеи… в город Давидов, называемый Вифлеем… записаться с Мариею, обрученною ему женою, которая была беременна. Когда же они были там, наступило время родить Ей; и родила Сына своего Первенца, и спеленала Его, и положила Его в ясли, потому что не было им места в гостинице (Лк 2:1–7).
Варлаа́мо-Ху́тынский Спасо-Преображенский монастырь — женский (ранее — мужской) монастырьНовгородской епархии Русской Православной Церкви, расположенный на правом берегу реки Волхов в Новгородском районе Новгородской области, на северной окраине деревни Хутынь, в 7 км от Великого Новгорода и 3 км (по прямой) от Кречевиц.
Это место находилось в 10 верстах от Новгорода. Оно называлось Хутынь - в переводе гиблое, худое место..
Однажды произошло чудо: во время усердной молитвы Варлаам увидел светлый луч, который просиял из глухой чащи леса и указал место для будущей обители Божией. В том самом месте, на который пал чудесный луч, и основал Варлаам пустынь, соорудив в 1192 году келью.... Вокруг Варлаама стали собираться ученики. Первыми учениками были:Анотоний Дымский, Ксенофонт,Косма и Константин. По сию пору еще цел колодец, выкопанный самим Варлаамом на месте первой его кельи, и горка, землю для которой наносил преподобный в своей скуфеечке из леса.
We know about the Nativity of the Savior and related events from the evangelists Matthew and Luke, and they are probably from the words of the Blessed Virgin Mary. The stories of the apostles are different, but surprisingly complement each other.
Matthew speaks not so much about Christmas as about the events before and after him: how the Angel dispelled the embarrassment of Joseph the Betrothed, who learned about the pregnancy of the Virgin Mary; how the born Baby came to worship the magi. Luke, on the other hand, begins with the appearance of the Angel to the Virgin Mary herself: You have found grace from God, the Angel announced to Her, and, behold, you will conceive in the womb and give birth to the Son, and you will name Him Jesus. He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High ... and His Kingdom will have no end (Luke 1: 30–33). Further, the Evangelist Luke describes the circumstances of Christmas: ... a decree came out from Caesar Augustus to make a census throughout the earth ... And they all went to record, each in his own city. Joseph also went from Galilee ... to the city of David, called Bethlehem ... to sign up with Mary, who was betrothed to his wife, who was pregnant. When they were there, it was time to give birth to Her; and she gave birth to her firstborn son, and wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger, because there was no room for them in the hotel (Luke 2: 1–7).
Varlaamo-Khutinsky Transfiguration Monastery is a female (formerly male) monastery of the Novgorod diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church, located on the right bank of the Volkhov River in the Novgorod region of the Novgorod region, on the northern outskirts of the village of Khutyn, 7 km from Veliky Novgorod and 3 km (in a straight line ) from Krechevits.
This place was 10 miles from Novgorod. It was called Khutyn - in translation a bad, bad place ..
Once a miracle happened: during fervent prayer, Varlaam saw a light ray that shone from a dense thicket of the forest and indicated a place for the future abode of God. In the very place where a wonderful ray fell, and founded Barlaam deserts, having built a cell in 1192 .... Students began to gather around Varlaam. The first students were: Anotony Dymsky, Xenophon, Cosma and Constantine.
The Life And Death Of Irina Godunova
Irina Feodorovna Godunova later Alexandra (1557–1603) was the wife of Tsar Feodor I Ivanovich (r. 1584–1598) and the sister of Tsar Boris Godunov (r. 1598–1605).
The precise dates of some of the events in Irina's life are uncertain; most sources indicate that she was picked by Ivan the Terrible to be the wife of the tsarevich Fedor in 1580 or 1581, although some sources say this occurred as early as 1574. At 23 or 24 (assuming the latter dates), she would have been considered old for a bride in Muscovy, where the common age for marriage was in the mid-teens, and it is not certain why she married so relatively late in life. She became Tsaritsa upon the coronation of her husband in 1584.
Throughout her husband's reign (and, indeed, ever since her marriage), she was expected to produce a male heir. Fedor was physically and mentally frail and, were he to die without male issue, it was questionable whether his half-brother, Dmitri, would be considered legitimate, as he was the result of Ivan the Terrible's seventh marriage and the Orthodox Church recognized only up to four marriages as legitimate. Indeed, even with Dmitri as a possible successor, Irina was under pressure to produce an heir and in 1585, she traveled to the Trinity-St. Sergei Monastery north of Moscow in hopes of a miraculous cure for her alleged infertility, but still she did not bear a child—a daughter, Feodosia Fedorovna—until 1592, but the girl did not live long and died in January 1594. The couple's continued infertility led to court intrigue. Thus, in 1585, Metropolitan Dionysius proposed that Fedor divorce Irina, blaming her for being infertile and arguing that, for the good of the state and the dynasty, the Tsar ought to remarry and produce a male heir. The suggestion was seen as an effort on the part of the Shuiskies and other boyar clans to undercut the Godunovs. In response, Boris Godunov had the metropolitan deposed and confined to the Khutyn Monastery just outside Novgorod the Great.
With the death of Dmitry under strange circumstances in Uglich, north of Moscow, on 15 May 1591, Irina was placed under increasing pressure to produce an heir as the Rurikid dynasty that had ruled Rus and Muscovy since the ninth century would be extinct if Fedor died without a son, and a bloody succession struggle might ensue. The couple remained barren for more than a decade, although whether this was due to Fedor's poor health or to infertility on Irina's part was uncertain.
Upon her husband's death on 7 January 1598, it is possible that Irina herself could have taken the throne as the reigning tsaritsa (rather than a mere consort), since the Rurikids in the male line were extinct; that being said, no woman had ever before reigned in her own right in Rus' or Russia. Thus she retired (some historians call it an abdication) to the Novodevichy Monastery (Convent) on the south side of Moscow, where she took monastic vows under the name Aleksandra. In fact, it was at the monastery that Boris Godunov was asked by Patriarch Job of Moscow and the Zemsky Sobor to become tsar.
Irina died on 27 October 1603 (others sources give the date 26 September, still others the year 1604) in the Novodevichy Monastery.
Several embroideries created by Irina are in the collection of the State Russian Museum on Red Square (along with similar work by Sophia Paleologus, the wife of Ivan III, and Anastasia, the first wife of Ivan the Terrible.)