The son of an employee of the Russian Blue forgave pardoned. Prayers to the Lord. Is the current pardon system good?
Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me, a sinner.
Forgive everyone who offended me in some way, slandered me, did some harm to me - I forgive them, according to Your word. Have mercy on them and me according to Your great mercy.
Forgive those whom I offended, grieved, condemned and offended in any way - forgive me, a sinner, and repay good to those who suffered from me.
Forgive those whom I have tempted to sin, and those who have tempted me - and have mercy on them and me according to Your great mercy.
Forgive and have mercy on all my benefactors and all who commanded me, unworthy, to pray for them.
Forgive and have mercy on all those who hate and love me.
Lord have mercy! Lord have mercy! Lord have mercy!
1967
Lord Jesus Christ! Forgive my past sins and teach me to always be a meek and humble follower of Yours. Knowing that all Your words are holy and directed to my good and salvation, I always strive humbly, with love to fulfill all Your words.
Whirlwinds of temptations emanating from the world, the flesh and the devil overwhelm me and excite me. Fearing, contrary to the word of Your Holy One, to incline my heart to some kind of sinful passion, and through it to be in bondage to the devil, I now humbly resort to You, my Lord and Savior, with a prayer for help. Intercede, save, have mercy and save me, O God, by Your grace. Lord, have mercy on me and grant me Your holy grace, so that henceforth I could, without temptation, lovingly keep Your words and commandments and follow humbly along the path You have shown us, to Your glory. Amen.
God! Forgive everyone who offended us, insulted, scolded, slandered us or did us any harm. Forgive, Lord, all those who have sinned against us. We forgive them; have mercy on them and us, Lord, according to your great mercy.
Lord Jesus Christ! Forgive our past sins: in deed, word, thought and all our feelings. Strengthen us with Your Holy grace so that we continue to live according to Your will and not sin, calling on Your All-Holy Name for help and salvation, doing everything to Your glory. Amen.
Lord Jesus Christ! Vouchsafe each of us with humility and love to follow You, patiently and meekly, until death, to carry that cross that You, by Your Providence, in proportion to the forces of our love, deigned to give us. Grant us, Lord, to have compassionate love for those who are at war with us, to forgive them and pray for them, to Your glory. Amen.
God! Have mercy on us sinners who are now praying to You, and have mercy on the perishing peoples of Russia in sins, and “in the image of fate” lead us all onto the saving path of Christian life in the Orthodox Church. Vouchsafe, Lord, to fulfill with love what You commanded, to abide in Your Love, in unity with You!
God! Be with me always!
1983
God! Forgive me, a sinner, and those who are at war with me. Crush the deceit and malice in the unbelief of the living. Enlighten me, O Lord, to pray with love for the salvation of the souls of those who are at war with me and have departed from You. Teach me, Lord, how I should thank You and what I should do for Your glory.
God! Accept our prayer for those Christians who, either due to illness or life circumstances, could not now come to church for church prayer, for conciliar prayer. Have mercy on them and us, Lord, and do over all of us, for our sanctification, for our salvation, Thy holy will. Amen.
1988
We know, Lord, that Your will is always done for good over us, over our country and over the whole world. Therefore, humbly entrusting ourselves to the decision of Your holy will, Lord, we ask: have mercy on us, Lord, and forgive our sins and the sins of our ancestors. Spare, Lord, the Russian land! “Have mercy, O Lord, on your people” (Joel 2:17); crush Godless evil yourself, so that it does not reign on earth; and deliver us from the ungodly and evil, to Your glory. Amen.
1975
God Great!
Forgive me that many times I turned to You with requests for worldly blessings, in order to satisfy my sinful desires.
Do not listen, God, to my requests such.
God Great! Deprive me of everything that I have in the world, but do not deprive me of Your merciful forgiveness and the grace of Your Holy Spirit. Lead me on the saving path of Christ to You (I want it, humanly, or I don’t want it). Save me for Your glory. Amen.
1960
God! You know my deeds, words, thoughts and feelings. You also know my heartfelt contrition for the sins I have committed in the past. Repenting for them, I pray to You: Lord, have mercy! Lord, forgive me! Lord, save! Strengthen me, Lord, to continue to follow in Your footsteps, fulfilling Your holy will.
God! Teach us humbly, lovingly to forgive those who slander us, offend us and do evil to us. Teach us also to pray with love for them, for all those who have gone astray and who live in sinful passions. Teach us not to grumble at the severity of the circumstances of our earthly life, but humbly, with love to endure and endure everything, knowing that all of them are sent to us with love by Thee, Lord, and providentially are always directed for our good, to our greater perfection, to the speedy achievement of us salvation in the blissful union of love with Thee, O Lord, to Thy glory. Amen.
Lord our God! You love everything that exists and have “care for all” (Wisdom 12, 13). We wholly entrust ourselves to You, Lord, for we know that You love us with “eternal love” (Jer. 31:3) “and rule over us with great mercy” (Wisdom 12:18). For us sinners, the action of Your Providence is incomprehensible, but we believe that You, Lord, always wishing us well, direct us to righteousness and salvation. Therefore, even when You allow us to fall into mournful circumstances, painful and painful states, You, Lord, we believe, always mean to put us on the saving path of Christian life, leading to eternal life in union with You. You expect from us repentance for our sins, you expect from us the determination to humbly, lovingly fulfill Your holy will and live in piety and purity, meekly enduring everything that happens to us.
Lord our God! Accept our gratitude to You for Your loving goodwill towards us, for everything that, according to Your will, happened to us in life. Forgive us, many sinners, and forgive all those who were at enmity and at enmity against us; we forgive them. Have mercy on them and us, according to Thy great mercy, to Thy glory. Amen.
December 11, 1990
God! We realize that for our sins You, Lord, bring on us mournful circumstances, infirmities and illnesses. And we know that You call all those who sin to repentance and to a righteous life, according to Your commandments, according to Your will. Therefore, lamenting the sins we have committed, we humbly repent of them and implore You: Lord, have mercy and forgive us, Thy sinful servants. After all, Lord, we still strive to fulfill Your word, commandments and Your holy will.
We sincerely desire to live righteously, to live without sin. Help us, Lord! Bless us with Your grace-filled help to carry out in life these good intentions of ours, to Your glory. Amen.
01/06/1993
Lord, "philanthropic and merciful, longsuffering and merciful"! (Ex. 34, 6) Accept our humble prayer for the salvation of people in our country, and now drowning and perishing in the sins.
“Oh my God! Have mercy" (Amos 7:2), have mercy on Christians who have departed from life according to the gospel teaching of Christ and have enslaved themselves to passions and vices. Have mercy on people who have gone astray, who have lost faith, and people who do not believe.
God! spare them for the sake of Thy image in them, and bring them to repentance and faith “in the image of fate”; scatter “the haughty in the thoughts of their hearts” (Lk. 1:51), humble them by works (cf. Ps. 106:12), and lead them away from the evil, wicked, and pernicious path of life.
“Oh, Lord, save me! Oh Lord, hurry up!” (Ps. 117, 25) May the peoples of Russia come to their senses, may they come to their senses, may they believe in You, Lord, and repent. May they emerge from the abyss of sin and, by Thy mercy, rise up and board the church ship for the Christian life, so that together with us and them they will cross the stormy sea of \u200b\u200blife and reach the harbor of salvation that we all desire in Your eternal Kingdom. Amen
God! Hear our prayer for those who, out of lukewarmness, evaded the life of faith, departed from following in Your footsteps, who did not resist the temptations emanating from the flesh, the world and the devil, and found themselves in the slavery of their pernicious passions: pride, voluptuousness, wine drinking, love of money… Lord Jesus Christ, our Savior! Do not let them die in the obsession of passions, have mercy on Your fallen creatures and save them in the image of fate, to Your glory. Amen.
God Great!
Grant me unceasing prayerful communion with You. With the fire of Your great Love - ignite my prayer, so that I will be in unity with You. Indeed, without You, I cannot resist the temptation, I cannot endure the test, I cannot be preserved from evil.
Don't let me stay without you. I am Your servant, do not leave me.
Do not give me such temporary, worldly blessings (wealth, success and glory), through which I can lose Your eternal heavenly blessings.
Do not give my flesh such health, so that by its passions the “right spirit” in me is lulled and enslaved, and so that I do not appear before You as a crafty and lazy slave, a slave of vice and sin.
Do not give me such knowledge of the wisdom of this world, which can remove me from the perfect knowledge of You, the One true God and Jesus Christ sent by You.
Destroy in me the rudiments of those human talents, through the multiplication of which I can - for my own glory - pervert and move away from the simplicity of the heart, childish faith in You and from the humble "in spirit and truth" worship of You, my God and Master.
God! Be with me, and make me humbly live according to Your will in You, to Your glory. Amen.
May 18, 1960
God, Father! In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, hear us who humbly pray to You, and send down on us the grace of Your Most Holy Spirit, to Your glory. Amen.
And make us worthy with a pure heart to praise You here to death, and there for endless ages to sing to You: Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia!
1955
God help me!
Help me to make bad habits unusual, and help me get rid of everything unnecessary on the road that leads to You.
Help me to bridle my flesh in such a way (by prayer, labor, prostrations, vigil and abstinence), so that it does not hinder, but helps me follow the narrow path to eternal life.
Help not to be seduced by the temptations of this world and avoid worldly fuss.
Help me to distinguish evil and good unmistakably, and in behavior to choose and do only good.
Help me to know Your holy will and humbly fulfill it with love.
Help me to live according to Your word, according to Your commandments, and to abide in Your love.
Help me to keep to Your path, and in the phenomena of the world - everywhere, always - help me to see the deeds of Your all-good will.
Help me to imagine You so closely and so clearly, so that there is no distraction of the mind during prayer, and so that I can always be and live in Your presence and not sin.
Help me, Lord, in acquiring the grace of Your Holy Spirit. Amen.
1955
Lord, who listens to the words of our prayers, fulfill them for our good.
Lord, who reads in the hearts of His servants, bless the realization of our good aspirations.
Lord, teach me how to pass life here on earth in order to achieve eternal life in You.
Lord, let the light of Thy truth burn in my heart with love, so that the darkness of malice and falsehood does not embrace me.
Lord, may the spirit and life of Your word be in my soul, so that I can reflect the soulless carrion of godless verbiage.
Lord, may Thy Seraphim be with me always, so that my life may be directed to Thee in a straight path.
Lord, send me Your holy grace, with it it is so good to fulfill Your will, and love, and suffer.
April 1956
God be with me!
You were with Jacob when he was tending Laban's cattle, and you did not leave him.
You were with Joseph when his brothers sold him into slavery, and you did not leave him.
You were with Daniel when they threw him into the lions' den and saved him.
You were with an innumerable host of those who pleased You, and you led them into Your Kingdom.
And now I pray to You: God, be with me! Do not leave me, O Lord, my God, do not depart from me, come to my help, O Lord of my salvation.
Save me, Lord, for Your glory. Amen.
October 1945, in the penal camp st. Dry anhydrous, Unzhlag.
Be with me, as you were with our fathers once ...
Bless my thoughts, words and deeds.
Bless my meetings and my partings.
Bless my entrances and exits.
Bless my desires and sanctify my dreams.
Bless my inhalations and my exhalations.
Bless my search for Thee and make me worthy of Thy mercy, to Thy glory.
God forgive me and teach me.
God be with me always!
1955, Omsk.
God! Taking into my nature the Holy Body and Blood of Yours, I, a sinner, am filled with grace-filled union with You and thereby I am sanctified and spiritually wise so that I try to recognize in the events of my life the traces of Your holy will and its direction. And since without You I cannot achieve this knowledge, now I humbly turn in prayer to You.
God Great!
My soul languishes and yearns for You: it constantly seeks You, peers intensely to see, and listens to hear You.
In anticipation of what You Yourself will say in me, all my feelings are tense: and my thought explores and tests restlessly the phenomena of these days, looking for in them a trace of Your holy will and its direction.
Oh, let me know Your holy will and follow it unswervingly until death. To your glory!
Lord our God!
You love everything that exists. And we wholly entrust ourselves to You, for we believe in You and know by experience how You, Lord, love us with eternal and unchanging Love. Forgive and have mercy on us sinners. Teach us to willingly, lovingly accept Your will and humbly do it.
The action of Your Providence, carrying out Your will with love, is incomprehensible to us sinners. But we believe that in all manifestations of Your will, You, Lord, wish us well and guide us to righteousness, to holiness. And therefore, even when You allow us to fall into mournful circumstances, painful and painful states, You, Lord, we believe, always mean to put us on the saving path of Christian life, leading to eternal life in union with You.
From us, those who mourn, those who are sick, those who are in torment, You, Lord, are waiting for the humble acceptance of all that It was Your pleasure to bring upon us. You are waiting for our repentance and our prayerful appeal to You for grace-filled help, so that with patience, without a murmur, we endure everything that happens to us.
Lord our God! Accept our gratitude to You for Your loving goodwill towards us, for everything according to Your will that happens to us in life. Forgive us, many sinners, and forgive all those who were at enmity and at enmity against us - we forgive them. Have mercy on them and us according to Your great mercy, to Your glory. Amen.
God, Omnipotent!
My soul is gloomy from the multitude of sins committed ... Reflecting Your heavenly light, it shines with a barely noticeable, insignificant spark in the darkness of the lawless environment. But a passionate desire glimmers in her: both hot and bright, like a large torch, to blaze, to shine before Your unearthly glory on earth.
I humbly entrust myself to you, I tremblingly pray:
God! Forgive me my past! Cleanse, sanctify me by Your grace, Great One! Make me a herald of Your words to the world today and make me worthy in Your right hand to become an obedient instrument of Your all-good will.
Oh God of Love, hear me! Hear! And make sure that Your great love always leads me to You as a guiding star; always, until my soul rests in You. Amen.
God! May that evening hour be always blessed when I first heard You, - You, to Whom "there is no name worthy among mortals!" - I thank You for the years of trials, for hardships, for exile. Thank you for allowing me to be reviled and persecuted. Thank you for the slander, ridicule and contempt… I believe: You are always kind to Your servants, You will strengthen me and will not leave me. Test me with suffering, constrain me with enemies, but do not deprive me of Your favor and Your holy grace, to Your greater glory.
God, always be with me!
1955, Omsk.
Lord Jesus Christ! You are the One Truth. Alive and Eternal! Vouchsafe me to speak with love about this holy Truth - about You, our Lord and Savior, to those who have not yet heard of You and do not know You, so that those who hear believe in You, repent and, living according to the Gospel teaching, rejoice and be saved.
God! Wise me with Thy grace and be with my mouth, so that I know to whom, when, what and how to preach Thy word, to Thy glory. Amen.
1941, Butyrskaya prison.
God Almighty!
The soul aspires to grief, and the flesh clings to the earth under the weight of a sinful burden ...
Oh, deliver me from my iniquities!
Accept my repentance and grant merciful forgiveness!
Forgive my shameful past deeds and my memories of them, which now plunge my soul into temptation.
Forgive the involuntary desires of violent flesh and excessive attention to it.
Forgive the soul, carefree peace in the midst of worldly vanity - both dirty and destructive.
Forgive me for the fact that, negligent in worshiping You alone, I honor that which is completely unworthy of worship.
Forgive me for having lost my fear of You in my insolence, yet I am afraid of nothingness - like myself - in this world.
Forgive me for the fact that, hating evil, I do not find the courage in myself to expose it and fight it.
Also, forgive me for my unreasonable requests to You - for the fact that, dejected by a long test, about vain things, about worldly blessings for myself, I sometimes ask recklessly.
Do not heed, O God, such requests, but at Your own discretion, at Your will, decide my fate for my good.
God! With my soul I want to achieve Your heavenly purity, but with my body I drown myself in the dirt of the earth.
Forgive me, Lord, forgive me! And by Your grace, cleanse and sanctify me, to Your greater glory, Great One.
1954, Omsk.
God be with me!
When envious people slander me,
When my comrades laugh at me
When my enemies are chasing me,
I have one prayer before You:
God be with me!
When I am separated from the society of my relatives,
When I am despised by power and country,
When imprisoned or imprisoned, -
I have one prayer before You:
God be with me!
When I'm exhausted at work, I'm in the forest,
When from the cold I'm numb under a blizzard,
When I'm sick in bed, -
I have one prayer before You:
God be with me!
1954, Omsk.
Turn me away from pride and vanity. Deliver me from temptations and temptations. Die in me carnal unrest and do not let me become a slave of passions.
Dispel and resolve my doubts. And humble my sinful will before Thy holy will. Affirm and multiply in me the faith of a child, a simple one. Fill me with Your love and grant me Your holy grace.
God! Hear my prayer now and open the path for me to follow to You; and strengthen my will, and give strength to come to You. Amen.
January 21, 1956, Omsk
God Almighty!
By your command, the ravens brought baked cakes and pieces of meat into the wilderness for Elijah. By your command, Habakkuk delivered dinner to Daniel in the lions' den...
I recognize my unworthiness before You. And I know that I am not worthy of Your caring goodness. But I pray to You with the rest of my strength:
Lord, have mercy and reveal to me Your will for me. Reveal what and how I must do in order to achieve peace in You as soon as possible, to Your greater glory. Amen .
June 18, 1951, Aban
God! Rule my way. I do not pray that You send me an Angel, I am not worthy of this, send me a person who would instruct me how to be where I am directed by Your will.
God be with me!
1944, Unzhlag.
God! By Your word, make me wise for salvation and teach me to humbly walk in life according to Your will to You, in order to more quickly achieve the union of love with You. Amen.
November 1955
Who were pardoned by the Russian rulers?
Shuisky
Perhaps the most unique case in the history of pardons is the case of Vasily Shuisky. He was not only pardoned, but later became king. During the reign of False Dmitry I, Shuisky actively dismissed the fact that "the king is not real." For this he was sentenced to death. June 25, 1605 was appointed for the execution of the sentence. Shuisky was taken to the chopping block, a fairy tale was already read to him, or a declaration of guilt, he had already said goodbye to the people, announcing that he was dying for the truth, for the faith and the Christian people, as a messenger galloped up with an announcement of pardon. The execution was replaced by exile to the Galician suburbs, all the Shuisky estate was taken to the treasury.
Novikov
Nikolai Novikov was the most prominent representative of the culture of his time, a journalist, writer, and publisher. With his active work, Novikov was not convenient for everyone, including Catherine II herself. A thunderstorm began to gather over him, Novikov was accused of a "vile schism", of mercenary deceptions, of Masonic activities, of relations with the Duke of Brunswick and other foreigners.
Emperor Paul I pardoned Novikov on the very first day of his reign. Novikov was imprisoned in the fortress while still in the full development of his strength and energy, and came out of there "decrepit, old, bent." He was forced to abandon all social activities and until his death on July 31 (August 12, 1818) he lived almost without a break in his Avdotino. Novikov's estate was put up for auction
Radishchev
Alexander Radishchev was pardoned twice. Condemned and exiled by Catherine II, he was first pardoned by Paul the First, but not completely pardoned - he was ordered to live in the Kaluga province. Radishchev was finally released by Alexander the First. The disgraced writer was summoned to Petersburg and appointed a member of the commission to draw up laws. He neither worked nor lived long. According to rumors, he persistently continued to talk about the equality of all before the law, but they did not hear him, and those who heard reminded him of Siberia. Radishchev drank poison.
Decembrists
Alexander II pardoned the Decembrists in honor of his coronation in 1856. For the history of Russia, this was an unprecedented step: mercy was shown to those who wanted to overthrow the regime and the tsar. For Alexander II himself, such liberality ended up sideways. In addition to the Decembrists, he pardoned the Petrashevites and participants in the Polish uprising. The emperor died in 1881 at the hands of "revolutionaries".
Ulyanov
Alexander Ulyanov, a Narodnaya Volya member, the elder brother of Vladimir Ulyanov, was one of the organizers of the assassination attempt on Emperor Alexander III. After his arrest, he was kept in prison. His mother wrote petitions for clemency to the emperor, and Alexander III even signed the petition (taking into account the merits of Ilya Ulyanov), but the prisoner himself refused the pardon. He compared his relationship with the emperor with a duel and said that it was not appropriate to deny the right to shoot an opponent. Alexander was hanged, and his brother did not forget this.
Korolev
Sergei Korolev was accused of wrecking in 1938. Moreover, he went in the first category, that is, he was in hit lists. Korolev "passed the Kolyma", and then worked in Tupolev's "sharashka", took an active part in the creation of the Pe-2 and Tu-2 bombers and at the same time actively developed projects for a guided air torpedo and a new version of a missile interceptor, worked in a prison-type design bureau.
Anonymous 6 557Maternal petition for pardon of the convicted. The petition of the mother with a request to pardon her son is drawn up in the name of the President of the State, but it is considered by a specially created commission. In every town Russian Federation There is a commission to consider such applications.
Priority in consideration will be given to the petition of the mother, which is supported by the petition of the convict himself with the conviction of his sincere repentance for the crime committed.
It is in the mother's petitions that arguments are often present, in view of which the commission makes a positive decision.
The petition for clemency must be written by hand in free form. However, lawyers recommend adhering to the following sequence of presentation:
- information about the addressee (President of the Russian Federation, full name) and about the applicant;
- an introduction describing the identity of the convict, the reason for depriving him of his liberty, the date of his conviction and the term of the actual serving of the sentence;
- a petition for pardon (you need to indicate the reasons for which the convicted person should be pardoned);
- list of attached documents;
- date and signature of the applicant.
Also, in the mother's petition for pardon, all weighty arguments that will incline the commission in favor of making a positive decision should be indicated.
Mother's petition for pardon for a convict
Chairman of the Moscow City Court
from Kultaeva Nina Arkadievna,
mother of the convict
Kultaev Sergey Petrovich, born in 1980 , Art. 228.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation,
term 2 years 6 months
l / freedom from 10.11.20__, c.s. 09.05.20__
Petition
I, the mother of the convicted Sergey Petrovich Kultaev, am a pensioner, I have an only son, and I am serving a sentence in IK No. __. Since I am a disabled pensioner, I need constant care and outside help. He is my only son. I pin my hopes on him. He served 1/2 of the sentence imposed by the court. During the period of serving the sentence, he has no penalties, he has 3 rewards. He is a very kind, sympathetic person. First time in jail. According to the verdict of the court, he fully admitted his guilt, he repents of his deeds. Has no claims. I ask you to consider his case in the city court on the issue of granting parole from serving a sentence.
Annexes to the application: _________
Date ________
Signature _________
In the event of the transfer of the convicted person who filed a petition for pardon to another institution executing the sentence, his release from serving the sentence, as well as changes in other circumstances that are essential for resolving the issue of pardon (representation of the convicted person for parole, replacement of the unserved part of the sentence a milder form of punishment, committing a malicious violation established order serving a sentence or a new crime), the administration of the institution in which the convicted person served his sentence shall immediately notify the territorial body of the penitentiary system, the commission, the highest official of the subject of the Russian Federation (the head of the highest executive body of state power of the subject of the Russian Federation), as well as the Administration of the President of the Russian Federation. When a convicted person is transferred to another institution executing punishment, the notification must indicate the new address of his location.
The administration of the institution additionally informs about the court decision in connection with the consideration of the issue of conditional early release of the convict applying for pardon, on replacing the unserved part of the punishment with a milder type of punishment or on the termination of criminal prosecution against him on rehabilitating grounds, by telegraph or facsimile communication to the territorial body of the penitentiary system, the commission, the highest official subject of the Russian Federation (head of the highest executive body of state power of the subject of the Russian Federation), as well as the Administration of the President of the Russian Federation.
The notification is registered by the administration of the institution in the pardon application register.
This is evidenced by public opinion polls and the entire popular movement. The Russian people are ready to look today for the Tsar in Vladimir Putin, and in the descendants of the Royal Family of the Romanovs, and among the descendants of the Grand Duke Rurik of Novgorod. The Russian people are waiting for the Tsar.
We are waiting for the Chosen One of GOD, like the Holy King and Prophet David, and not the chosen one of the people like King Saul. Saint Theophan of Poltava and many ascetics prophesied about the coming Russian Orthodox Tsar.
“The Monarchy, Autocratic power will be restored in Russia. The Lord has chosen the future King. He will be a man of fiery faith, a brilliant mind and an iron will... God Himself will place a strong King on the Throne.”
Who is the Tsar for the Russian people? And why is there such a thirst for an earthly Tsar in the depths of the people's soul and in the depths of the heart of every truly Russian person? As you know, from the very beginning of the history of mankind - the King, the royal family meant the elder over the people, the elder in flesh and blood. That is, both the eldest in the family (that is, the eldest son from the eldest son), and the eldest in spirit, as, for example, the Lord revealed King David, the eighth son of Jesse - by no means the eldest in blood, but invisibly anointed by the Lord from the womb of his mother on reign over Israel, the people of God, for the fact that David loved God and glorified Him from the heart with his songs-psalms, sung to the golden-stringed harp-psalter.
In those “last” times, when the world was already perishing in pagan debauchery and suicidal pride, the Jews were waiting for the King of the earth, the King over Israel as their Messiah, the Savior of the world! But the Messiah, Jesus Christ, did not come to earth the way the Jews expected him: not in the form of an earthly King, not in the form of a strong in the flesh King, but in the form of the King of spiritual Israel. Although, undoubtedly, Jesus Christ is the King of Kings both in heaven and on earth, and his Kingdom possesses all.
The One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church, created by our Lord Jesus Christ and moved by the Holy Spirit, another hypostasis of the Holy Trinity, for some three centuries transformed the universal Roman Empire into the Kingdom of Christianity, and Equal-to-the-Apostles King Constantine became that “Retainer” about which the Apostle speaks Paul in the Second Epistle to the Thessalonians (For the mystery of iniquity is already at work, only it will not be completed until He who now restrains 2, 7 is taken from Wednesday), became the Orthodox Emperor over the entire Roman ecumene. And for the next 1150 years, under the leadership of the Roman Emperors, the Orthodox faith, the Orthodox ecumene, flourished and multiplied. But after the renunciation of Orthodoxy at the Ferrara-Florence Cathedral by almost all the bishops of Rome and Emperor John Palaiologos VIII, after the conclusion of a union with the Catholics, the Orthodox Roman Emperors soon disappeared into history. And instead of them, in the 16th century, in the place of the Restraining One, the Lord put the faithful - the Russian people, headed by the Tsar - the Anointed of God, the first Russian Tsar Ivan Vasilyevich the Terrible.
The mercy of the Lord descended upon us for the fidelity of our ancestors to the Orthodox faith, for the fact that the Grand Duke Vasily Vasilyevich expelled Metropolitan Isidore, a Greek who signed the Union of Ferrara-Florentine, from the Dormition Cathedral of the Moscow Kremlin in 1439 and kept the Russian Orthodox Church pure. And now the small Grand Duchy of Vladimir-Moscow, in just three centuries, has turned into a great mighty Orthodox State, the Russian Empire. According to Orthodox teaching, the Orthodox Emperor, the Orthodox Tsar is a living icon of the King of Heaven, our Lord Jesus Christ. And just as the Lord our Father in heaven, so the Russian Tsar is our earthly father. Alas, it is difficult for us, who now live in the cities and towns of Russia - in Great Russia, Little Russia and Belarus, to understand and realize what it means to live in the Russian Empire, what it means to be a servant of the Emperor and a servant of God. All “equality of rights”, all “freedoms” must be laid down by us in order to be servants of God — our Lord Jesus Christ and associates and subjects of the Orthodox Tsar of the earth. This is happiness for any Russian.
It is difficult for us, living today, to realize this, but try it! Imagine that we are members of a large patriarchal family, and there is a father who takes care of all family members, pays one or another attention to all of them, you can seek protection from him, you can seek advice from him, you can seek justice from him, which is always above the law. He is merciful and he cares about his family. This is how the Russian Tsars were, and now the Russian people have no earthly father, no earthly protector, no earthly icon of the King of Heaven, and this is God's punishment for the sin of perjury to Tsar-Martyr Nicholas and Tsarevich Alexei, heir to the throne. Every man in the Russian Empire took an oath of allegiance to the Emperor for himself and his family; military and clergy officials took a special oath to the Emperor. Most of the people closest to Tsar Martyr Nicholas - the highest military, state and spiritual ranks - disgustingly and vilely betrayed him in February 1917, and in the end they handed him over to be torn to pieces by the Gentiles, allowed the ritual murder of the Emperor and the entire Royal Family, which took place on the night of July 17 (according to the new style) in 1918. In one way or another, not only the highest ranks of Russia were involved in this connivance. And you and I, now living, physical and spiritual heirs of our ancestors who committed this sin, which is akin to the sin of condoning parricide. No matter what we do, no matter how we turn away from obvious facts, the sin of condoning the regicide lies with us, our people.
Think about it, Emperor Nicholas II, who did nothing bad for the Russian people, could not be accused and condemned of anything real even by his most arrogant opponents - the Gentiles, Freemasons and Bolsheviks who came to power in 1917.
The Royal Family was imprisoned for a long 16.5 months. And now 150 million subjects (more than 120 million Russians) could not find any worthy forces to free the Tsar and the entire Royal Family, in order to save the innocent Tsar, Tsaritsa, Tsarevich, the youth Alexei, Tsarevina Olga, Tatiana, Maria from execution, Anastasia. For no reason, for no fault, but only because they served as an obstacle to the ruin, plunder, strangulation of Russia and the Russian Orthodox people, they were subjected to torment and death. The vast majority of their killers did not even know the Russian language and were not Russian people, which is already well known. But they acted in a Russian environment - in the Russian city of Petrograd, in the Russian city of Tobolsk, in the Russian city of Yekaterinburg.
The king forgave all of us - both those who were directly guilty, those who were indirectly guilty, and those who were almost innocent. He did not renounce us, from his service as the Orthodox Tsar, but he did not cling to power and did not consider it necessary to drown the country in the blood of civil war in order to preserve personal power. He measured all his actions with the service of God. And seeing that the people did not want to serve Him, he prayed for this people, for our ancestors, who - some by silence and inaction, and some by actions - violated the oath and betrayed the Sovereign. The sovereign was blocked, actually arrested, first in Pskov and Mogilev, then He and His Family languished under arrest, first in Tsarskaya Selo near Petrograd. Our ancestors had to flock from all over the country, interrupt this illegal arrest, beg the Sovereign to return to the Throne, take their father's place and rule over us again.
But our people, foolishly and greedily succumbing to the false promises of freedom, equality, brotherhood, well-fed more bread, new orders that will give happiness to mankind, desired to exchange the riches of heaven for riches of the earth ... and lost everything.
The bloody massacre of the civil war claimed dozens of times more lives than the First World War. Mass starvation and devastation instead of allowances and prosperity, the ruin of industry and agriculture for many decades, the occupation of the territory by the enemies of the Russian people - these are the fruits of perjury.
The Lord is merciful, and the holy Royal martyrs pray for us sinners. They, the only innocent in the sin of perjury, pray to the Lord God to forgive Russia.
It has been 22 years since the fall of the God-fighting government began, which seemed to us, who lived in the Soviet Union, eternal and unshakable. Already in many cities, idols are being overthrown from the pedestals - statues of the ghoul Lenin. Already Patriarch Hermogenes in bronze from the Kremlin walls appeals to the Russian people, as in 1612, to protect the Kremlin from foreign invasion, from the occupying power.
So let us pray to the Lord to have mercy on the Russian country and accept our repentance for the sin of perjury and the connivance of the murder of the Royal Family.
Pray to God for us, Holy Royal Martyrs - Holy Tsar-Martyr Nicholas, Holy Tsarina-Martyr Alexandra, Holy Tsarevich-Martyr Alexei, Holy Princess-Martyrs Olga, Tatyana, Maria, Anastasia!
Vasily Boyko-Veliky
Pastoral hour on the Orthodox Radio of St. Petersburg
with priest Roman Zelensky 9.10.11.
Leading Elena Badyanova.
Transfer subject:
The Russian people are not a regicide! He is the prodigal son!
In the Name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit!
Dear brothers and sisters!
What common denominator can there be between people holding completely different points of view? If some argue that the Russian people are allegedly guilty of the regicide, while others firmly stand on the position that the Russian people are not guilty of this sin? In order to understand this complex controversy, it is necessary to turn to the Lord Himself with the repentant Royal Prayer and ask Him to judge us in such a difficult dispute.
Key moment This dispute lies in the desire to fully repent before the Lord. This is especially worrying now for many Russian believers, and sometimes even non-believers.
Brothers and sisters, I will not hide from you, as a priest of the Russian Orthodox Church, I have taken a clear position, according to which I cannot accept these unfounded accusations against the Russian people, that they are guilty of the sin of Regicide, or, as these unreasonable accusers still claim, that the Russian the people are guilty of complicity in the regicide.
All these ridiculous statements are also based on the accusation of us, supporters of the innocence of the Russian people in the murder of the Tsar, also in the fact that we supposedly impede the true repentance of the Russian people. If the people do not repent of the regicide, then this means, in their opinion, the Lord will not have mercy on Russia and will not grant us His Anointed One. Agree, brothers and sisters, this is a serious accusation against us, and therefore it is simply necessary to answer these spiritual Kingslayers clearly and clearly that we think about their false position built on sand.
Here, just overloaded with his own sins, and even taking on someone else's sin, the Russian person will fall spiritually off his feet and will not reach true repentance! This is what our enemies are striving for. This is called OVERLOAD, a Russian person simply does not have the strength to bear the YEKATERINBURG CRIMILITY.
“Interesting,” say those who want to stigmatize the Russian people in the regicide, “in which case would you recognize the participation of the Russian people in the regicide: if 1 Russian person participated in it, 2, 100 or a million? And the important thing is that no one knows for sure how this ritual villainy was actually committed: with the participation of at least one Russian person or not, but it is known for certain that the Russians arrested the Royal Family, guarded, i.e. kept in prison - Russians, got rid of the bodies of the Tsar's Martyrs - Russians, rejoiced at the overthrow of the Tsar - Russians, etc. Why don't you explain your position to us, relying at least on a simple example of a woman having an abortion: she does not kill the child herself, but the so-called. doctor. But according to the Church rules, she is a murderer. She agreed or did not prevent (if she was forced to do so) the murder of an innocent child and her sentence is one - the murderer. And how does the Russian people differ from it in this case? In our firm conviction, nothing.”
If we talk about the arrest of the Royal Family, keeping them under guard in Tobolsk, then this does not at all apply to the sin of regicide. The Sovereign Himself clearly indicated this sin: “There is treason, cowardice and deceit all around.” As for the burning of the bodies of the Tsar Redeemer and the Royal New Martyrs, this question is answered by the well-known spirit-bearing elder Father Nikolai of Pskovoezersky:
“The sacrifice of Tsar Nicholas,” said the priest, “complete co-crucifixion with Christ, the Sacrifice for Holy Rus'.” It is necessary to comprehend the greatness of the Tsar's Sacrifice, it is exceptional for the Russian Church.
The great Elder of the Russian Land Nikolai constantly wept and prayed for forgiveness about this Sacrifice, and the Lord revealed to Batushka that He had mercy on Russia, had already had mercy, and the Russian people were forgiven - for the Redemptive Golgotha of the Holy Tsar ... “The Holy Tsar did not renounce, there is no the sin of renunciation. He acted like a true Christian, a humble Anointed of God. He needs to bow at the feet for His mercy to us sinners. He did not deny, but was rejected.”
“The sword of a terrible war constantly hangs over Russia, and only the prayer of the Holy Tsar Nicholas takes away the wrath of God from us. We must ask the Tsar that there be no war. He loves and pities Russia. If you only knew how He is there crying for us!”
The Blessed Elder spoke of what he saw with the eyes of a soul purified by suffering. The angelic world, the world of dark spirits, was clearly seen by his eye. It was unbearably painful to hear the Elder’s revelations about the bloody torments of the Royal Angels: he said: “The children were tortured in front of the numb Holy Sufferers, the Royal Servant was especially tortured ... The Queen did not utter a word. The sovereign has become all white. The father cried: “Lord! What have they done with them all! Worse than any pain! Angels couldn't see! The angels wept what they were doing to Them! The earth sobbed and trembled... There was darkness... They tortured them, cut them with terrible axes and burned them, and drank the ashes... With tea... They drank and laughed... And they suffered themselves. The names of those who did this are not revealed... We do not know them... They did not love and do not love Russia, they have satanic malice... Cursed Jews... After all, they drank Their Holy Blood... They drank and they were afraid to be sanctified: after all, the Royal Blood is Holy ... We must pray to the Holy Sufferer, cry, beg to forgive everyone ... We don’t know their names ... But the Lord knows everything!
Here, brothers and sisters, what words: whoever raised his hand against the Tsar, know that such a person entered into an agreement with the devil himself. Such will be cut off from the Love of God in Eternity. This is a warning from the holy elder to all who wish to plead guilty to the Regicide. Wow "repentance" (in quotation marks) - repented and did not get into the Kingdom of God. There is something to think about.
It is also interesting, brothers and sisters, how the supporters of such false repentance imagine the very picture of the Regicide of the Sovereign and the Royal Family. They directly compare the Russian people and the Jewish people, based on the Gospel Events. And they call the Russian people the Kingslayer, and compare the enemies of Christ with those Roman soldiers who drove nails into the Honest Body of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Here is what one of the supporters of such a worldview writes to me: “It is also in our case. The Jews (Romans) “crucified” the Tsar and the Tsar’s family, and the Russian people, who betrayed the Anointed of God for crucifixion, are considered that the Jews are not guilty of the murder of Christ, then give arguments from the teachings of the Church and the Holy Fathers that would reject the guilt of the Jewish people in the murder of God. Only then why did the Lord punish the entire Jewish people, scattering them throughout the world, and not the Romans?"
This is what brothers and sisters, I answered, although of course I was immensely surprised at such a comparison of the enemies of the Lord with simple Roman soldiers simply doing their job: “So, of course, I don’t think the Jewish people were scattered, with the help of the same Romans, according to all over the world precisely for the sin of God-killing. Note that the Russian people were not dispersed like the Jewish people. And the Lord saved the Russian people through Joseph Stalin from complete extermination by the enemies of God.
But that the Christ-fighters, in your opinion, using the example of Yekaterinburg Golgotha, are Romans, and the Russian people are the Kingslayer, here I cannot agree with you. Well, think for yourself, how can Christ-haters be Romans when, according to Father Nicholas of Pskovoezersky, they killed not just the Tsar as a person, but again crucified the Image of the Lord Jesus Christ Himself? Wow, SIMPLE ROMAN SOLDIERS... Can this even be compared? They planned their plan in advance, they carefully selected the house for the execution of the Royal Family. And you say that they are just Roman soldiers, as an instrument of execution. Of course not.
And the Russian people? Well, what kind of Kingslayer is he, if he didn’t even stand nearby during the ritual slaughter. Russian people were not present and did not look at this atrocity. Did any of the Russians shout that His Blood is on us and on our children? Believe me, it's a completely different story. Do not confuse the Russian people and the Jewish."
Think for yourself, did the prodigal son, according to the parable, kill his Father? No, he did not kill, he just went to a country far away. And now the Russian people must return to the Tsar Father. Because the Russian people have become like this prodigal son.
And, finally, the sin of the Russian people is clearly defined by the Sovereign Himself: TREASON, CODENCE AND DECEPTION ARE AROUND. Here is the answer of the Holy Man to what exactly the Russian people are to blame for.
But even these arguments were not sufficient for lovers of false repentance. Here is what they write to me:
“Dear Father Roman, wasn’t the Russian people scattered around the world? Millions of Russians left Russia and scattered into exile. And this fact cannot be denied.
The fact that the Jewish "Romans" crucified not just a man-Tsar, but the image of Christ Himself, the Russian people are even more guilty of this. After all, read the same St. John of Kronstadt, who warned about the invasion and dominance of the Jews in Rus'. This was noticed and warned not only by clergy, the RUSSIAN aristocracy and intelligentsia, but also by ordinary Russian people. Or did the Russian people in their totality not know that the Jews were God-killers and enemies of the Church, the Tsar and Rus'?! Knew. He knew it very well, but he gave his Tsar to be crucified.
And why did you, Father Roman, get the idea that the Russians did not stand at the crucifixion of the Holy Royal Martyrs?! In front of Pilate's balcony, too, stood not all of Israel, not all of the Jewish people, but only a small part of it. But all the people became Godslayers.
The definition of sin always occurs after it has been committed. Therefore, at that time, the Sovereign pointed out those of the sins to which He was a witness - treason and cowardice and deceit.
To these categorical statements of theirs, I responded with the following objections:
“If you mean emigration, then this is not the scattering of the entire Russian people. Most remained to live where they were born and where their ancestors lived. Therefore, I do not agree with your arguments that the Russian people were scattered like the Jews.
And where did you get such an unreasonable term "Jewish-Romans"? It's either one or the other. It turns out that by calling the Christ-haters Romans you justify them, since the executioner, as a murder weapon, is less guilty than the customer of the execution.
The Russian people, according to you, the customer, and the performer, as a murder weapon, are the enemies of Christ. This means that the Russian people are guilty, and the Christ-fighters are either less guilty or not at all guilty, since they only fulfilled the order of the Russian people. This conclusion follows from your logic.
The fact that you gave the example of the Holy Righteous John of Kronstadt proves once again that the Russian people are LIKE A CHILD. Yes, children do not always obey their parents, in this case, shepherds who are in the Spirit. So what of it? This is no reason to accuse the Russian people of regicide.
The prodigal son, as a gospel example, which you reject because he does not fit into your false concept, also did not obey his Father, and his elder brother too.
But for the words that the Russian people KNEW EVERYTHING PERFECTLY, BUT GIVEN THEIR KING TO CRUCIFICATION, you will answer to the Lord.
I wouldn't be so categorical in your position. Of course, there was a sin of betrayal, but none of the Russian people knew about the impending Golgotha in Yekaterinburg. It was the mystery of iniquity, and there were not many who were initiated into it.
Under Pontius Pilate, the entire Jewish people stood, because the day before was a holiday, and most of the Jews were present in Jerusalem.
Your arguments are based on some unreliable sources that they say one or two scumbags, allegedly Russians, were doing something with the bodies of the Royal Family and supposedly were still on guard somewhere. All this is a complete lie of our enemies, and you all believe in it.
The Lord revealed to our Holy Sovereign Nicholas II the sin of which the Russian people are guilty. You say that He did not know, it turns out, although the Lord revealed a lot to him about the future of Russia through the Holy Saints of God (Rev.
The definition of sin always occurs after it has been committed, you write. But, this is only a temporary argument. And the Lord abides in eternity. And what He reveals to His Saints, Tsar Nicholas the Redeemer, concerns not only the present, but also the future. You can't help but know this."
But, let's leave, brothers and sisters, the polemics with anonymous people unknown to me.
Although, of course, the main thoughts taken from it will be useful for even deeper reflection on all this.
And now I would like to move on to vivid statements on this issue.Heads of the Union of Orthodox Banner Bearers Leonid Donatonovich Niksic, who writes and says the following:
“The Russian people really knew very little about the impending and accomplished regicide. How little he knew about where and who and on what tracks carries the royal family. Where did they take you: to Perm? Tobolsk? Ekaterinburg? Alapaevsk? It was very difficult to understand in general what was going on in the country at that time. And not only where they took the Tsar and His Family. There were rumors that they were saved, replaced, transferred to England, transported to the Caucasus, to Ukraine, that the SR scoundrels killed the Tsar, and the Bolsheviks tried and shot these SRs for this, etc. and so on. In addition, the people believed that the Tsar really abdicated the Throne, part of the people believed that the Tsarina was really working for Germany. millions of leaflets came from abroad, and illiterate peasants, reading them syllable by syllable, believed the printed word, as the Russian people generally believe it ... "
This statement of Leonid Niksic, brothers and sisters, fully corresponds to the historical reality that was then at that time.
“The anonymous authors of the article (note, like the anonymous authors of the Rite of Repentance for the Sins of the Russian People, our opponents do everything - from beginning to end - anonymously and often go for direct forgery) write to all of us: “Other arguments are also given, such as the opinions of the elders . With the blessing of THESE ELDERS, we turn to you, brothers and sisters.” What kind of "ONYH", gentlemen anonymous? You yourself are unknown, and even rely on unknown IT? You will clearly state their names. We are not afraid to write or speak openly.
Let's go further (on this article): “This question (about repentance for the sin of Regicide) isparamountbecause to lead a people away from repentance means to deprive them of their salvation.”
How! We are withdrawing the people - the Russian People! - from repentance. Wait, didn’t Lenin write this article, after all, his own words! Gentlemen unknown! Haven't we said many times that the Russian people need to repent of their apostasy and apostasy from God, their apostasy from the very foundations of Russian life - Orthodoxy, Autocracy, Narodnosti? Is it necessary to repent of breaking the 1613 oath of allegiance to the Romanov Family? Repent of betrayal, treason, cowardice, indecision?
Indeed, brothers and sisters, it is so. At least here it is at least clear what the Russian people are guilty of and we can conclude - for what He suffers.
“In the Orthodox-monarchist movement there is a tough debate on the issue of repentance of the Russian people. A certain author has prepared the "Order of Cathedral repentance for the sins of the Russian people", in which the entire Russian people is accused of the sin of regicide.
Although it is obvious that the text of the Cathedral repentance should be the subject of a long discussion at the Local Zemsky Sobor of the entire Russian people.
Such a discussion took place at several conferences, one way or another having the status of preparatory pre-conciliar meetings. The first such conference was held at the Writers' Union of Russia several years ago. When voting, 90% of those present were categorically against the sin of Regicide. On October 1 last year, a conference under the characteristic title "Orthodoxy and Russia in the Light of the Apocalypse" was held at the "Elbrus" cinema. Almost all participants (with the exception of five or six people) spoke out for the need for Repentance in the Apostasy, but not in the Regicide. However, in the press, anonymously signed by all the "participants of the conference," there were articles stating that all those present were for repentance for the sin of regicide. This, of course, is a direct forgery.
On October 8 last year, on the day of St. Sergius of Radonezh, the banner-bearers held a traditional procession in Sergiev Posad. We stood in front of the monument to the Reverend in a long line. It was beautiful. Big square. white wall Lavra with towers. Gold autumn. In the center is a monument to St. Sergius, around it is a platform, and on it are two huge black banners, on the sides - the Savior ... and Tsar John the Terrible with a sword, with a huge black braid strewn with stars and crosses.
In the middle between the banners and in front of the monument is our large icon of the Saints Royal Martyrs, decorated with thuja and roses by the monks of the Svyatogorsk Lavra ...
And on the other hand, facing St. Sergius and the white wall, there is a long line of Crosses, banners, banners, banners, flags, covering the entire area.
The power is big. If you set up such a line in Moscow, somewhere in a large space, you will have a very strong impression ...
I took two megaphones and started talking.
- Let our detractors answer one question: why the Russian people themselves, when they are asked whether they killed the Tsar, always answer categorically: "No!"
You say: He does not want to repent for the sins of his fathers! And we say that He understands in his gut, with all his Russian soul, that it was not He who killed the Tsar, that others killed the Tsar, that these others have been killing Him himself for at least a century and a half. He understands, still vaguely, that the Tsar was not killed so simply, not only for the sake of destroying the Royal Family of the Romanovs, but precisely in order to kill the Russian people. Having killed the Tsar, the people were cut off (cut off) his Mystical, Sacred Head, and then they began to destroy the body. For, in order for the power of the world elite headed by the Mashiach-Antichrist to be realized on earth, it was necessary not only to destroy the Russian Autocratic Monarchy, but also to destroy, decompose from within (replace) the Russian Orthodox Church.
First of all, it is necessary to destroy and exterminate (up to its complete disappearance) the God-bearing People itself - RUSSIANS. For the church (as an organization) can be liquefied, mutated, made obedient, entangled with power over the flock and powerful privileges in society, the monarchy can be made civilized and constitutional, again drawing the main royal families of the world into 500-600 main families ruling the world, mixing their blood with the blood of monarchical families, thus stealing the "Royal gene". But one cannot completely mutate Holy Rus', which is by no means the same as modern Orthodox Church. Holy Rus' is precisely and above all the Russian Orthodox people themselves. Those same men and women who, in sincerity and simplicity of soul, when asked whether the Russian People are guilty of the Regicide, immediately answer: "No!"
We, banner-bearers, have been walking across Russia in the procession for ten years now. And everywhere we ask ordinary Russian people a short and clear question: "Is the Russian people guilty of the murder of the Tsar?" - and everywhere and always we get the same answer: "NOT GUILTY!"
Because the people themselves sense the truth with their single Russian spirit. And once, on the platform of one half-station in the Yaroslavl region, there was an absolutely amazing case. They were waiting for the train. Nearby stood a gloomy-looking man. We asked him something. He us. We got talking. Well, we, wanting to show sympathy for him, say: “It’s bad for you now, they robbed you, ordinary people ...” And suddenly, for no apparent reason, he answers:
- Nothing. I stole, I stole. He lived as a wolf.
- What, unjustly lived? our Father asked him.
- Yes! You have to confess,” the peasant said unexpectedly.
And right here on the platform, moving a little to the side, Father confessed him. Covered with stole and absolved sins...
Later, on the train, our Father suddenly said:
- He repented of many sins very sincerely. And I suddenly asked him: "Do you repent of the regicide of Nikolai Alexandrovich Romanov and His Family?" And he replies firmly: "No. I didn't kill the Tsar!"
That's all. We receive this answer everywhere throughout the vast territory of the Russian Empire. So thinks the simple Russian People, that is, Holy Rus' itself. Simple, sinful and often even criminal. But in a childish way, with childish naivete, loving God. I'm not talking about hundreds of thousands of believers who are walking in processions through Holy Rus', on the centenary of the glorification of St. Seraphim of Sarov in Diveevo and Sarov in 2003, on the 250th anniversary of the birth of St. Seraphim in Kursk, in the almost constantly lasting Cross the course of the Union of Orthodox banner-bearers in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Serbia, Montenegro.
And everywhere we heard the same thing from ordinary people: "The Russian people did not kill the Tsar. They killed the Tsar ...", - then you yourself know. And we, banner-bearers, believe and confess the same thing. Because we are part of our people, because we cannot think otherwise than He. After all, it is well known that the voice of the People is the Voice of God. The voice of the common people. One who is pure in heart. And therefore he will see—he always sees—God. Lord our God Jesus Christ.
Nobody opposes repentance. But, firstly, repentance, the very concept of repentance, is understood in completely different ways. Some of them are like a kind of wailing and groaning of the entire Russian people and submission to their "spiritual fathers", while others are like an active action to liberate Russia and the Russian people from the power of the Grefs and Chubais, who are now striving at all costs to lead the Monarchist movement, for in order to prove to us that since the simple Russian people - that is, we ourselves - killed their Tsar, then we have no right to desire a new Tsar for ourselves, for what can the past Kingslayers understand in the matter of calling a new Tsar ?!
Then, turning to the question of regicide and repentance, I showed that the entire article in Russkiy Vestnik, all the statements of the Hierarchs of the Russian Church cited in it work for our point of view. Everyone except Ivan Maksimovich. Such as John Maksimovich, who, in order to somehow smooth over his guilt (since he also betrayed the Sovereign with all the higher clergy), while already in Yugoslavia, in 1938 demanded repentance from the entire Russian People ... Of course, how: there, in Royal Yugoslavia, surrounded by all the same White Guard liberals, it was high time to demand repentance from the Russian People, when this people was totally exterminated by the bloody Moloch of Bolshevism.
And it is not clear how our opponents cite quotes directed against them as proof of their correctness? Indeed, the Lord took their minds away from them!”
On this interesting thought of Leonid Donatonovich Niksic, I will stop, brothers and sisters. And I will try to read to you various authoritative statements that are brought to us by supporters of the repentance of the Russian people for the sin of regicide.
They tell us that they say they rely on the opinions of the Holy Fathers, on the Holy Scriptures and other spiritual fathers of our time, and they say that we (supporters of the innocence of the Russian people in the sin of Regicide) rely solely on our own reasoning. Let us see, brothers and sisters, how true their accusation is, based on their references.
Saint Tikhon, Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia, from the pulpit of the Kazan Cathedral on July 21 1918 ., on the day of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God, said the following words:
“But we, to our sorrow and shame, have lived to the time when a clear violation of the commandments of God is no longer only not recognized as a sin, but is justified as legal. So, a terrible thing happened the other day: the former Sovereign Nikolai Alexandrovich was shot ...We must, in obedience to the teaching of the Word of God, condemn this deed, otherwise the blood of the executed will fall on us, and not only on those who committed it...
". This quote is from the bookRussia before the Second Coming.
Ed. 2nd. M., 1994, p. 197.
Patriarch Tikhon, saying that we must condemn the Regicide does not at all call on the Russian people to repent of the Regicide. He simply asks to condemn this atrocity, otherwise the BLOOD OF THE SHOT WILL FALL ON US AS WELL.
This means that there is still no BLOOD of the Tsar on the Russian people.
Therefore, no, it would be strange to think that the Russian people can accept this heinous crime and not condemn it in their souls.
In fact, our opponents argue the opposite, that the Russian people are the Kingslayer and must repent of this sin.
But, isn't it obvious that it was after the words of Patriarch Tikhon that the Russian people just condemned the murder of their Tsar? And for decades, different generations of the Russian people, comprehending what happened to Tsar Nicholas and the Royal Family, even those who succumbed to communist propaganda about “bloody Tsarism”, still could not accept this terrible crime of all times and all peoples. Therefore, the very words of Patriarch Tikhon (Belavin) testify to the complete innocence of the Russian people in this terrible satanic deed.
Prince N.D. Zhevakhov, Comrade Chief Procurator of the Holy Synod Tsarist Russia, while abroad, in the article “The Causes of the Death of Russia”, he wrote: “The Tsar is above the law. The Tsar is the Anointed One of God and as such embodies the Image of God on earth. And God is Love.
The goodness of the King is His duty, His glory, His majesty. This is the halo of His Divine Anointing, this is a reflection of the rays of the Heavenly Glory of the All-good Creator.
The kindness of the authorities subordinate to the Tsar is treason, theft, crime. Whoever condemned the Tsar for His kindness did not understand the essence of the Tsar's power, whoever demanded firmness, severity and severity from the Tsar, he blamed his own duties on the Tsar and testified to his betrayal of the Tsar, to a misunderstanding of his official duty and to his unsuitability for the Tsar, no Russia...
Not a single Russian Tsar understood his Tsar's mission as deeply as the blessed Sovereign Nikolai Alexandrovich understood it ...This misunderstanding by the Russian people of the nature of Autocracy and the essence of the Tsar's ministry expressed the main crime of Russian thought, which fell into the Jewish Masonic nets, and penetrated so deeply into its thickness that it has not even been outlived to this day ...
Another crime of the Russian people was expressed in a misunderstanding of Russia itself and its tasks ... There is no Tsar - there is no Russia, and Russian State will inevitably deviate from the path foreseen by God ...
And until the Russian people understand the mission of the Autocratic Russian Tsar, until they realize what the tasks of Autocracy and God-anointedness were and should be, and do not make a vow to God to help the Tsar in the implementation of these tasks, until the Grace of God returns to Russia, until those until there will be peace on earth.”
Book. Zhevakhov N.D. Causes of the death of Russia.
"Novi Sad"
In these wonderful words of Prince Nikolai Zhevakhov, explaining the specific sin of the Russian people before God and His Anointed One, there is no accusation of the Russian people of regicide at all.
This is clear to any sane person who carefully reads this quote, for some reason taken by our opponents as the basis of their unfair accusations
The Most Serene Prince does not accuse the Russian people of the murder of the Tsar at all. He points precisely to the sin that really takes place until now. This is still the same sin of perjury, not understanding the nature of the Autocracy and the essence of the Tsar's Service and misunderstanding of Russia itself, as he writes.
If there is no Tsar, there is no Russia either, and the Russian State will inevitably deviate from the Path foreseen by God.
This example with Zhevakhov just serves for us as a reliable and weighty argument in favor of the Truth of God about what we really should repent of. To repent means to change one's consciousness in relation to the God-established Royal Power.
Thus, brothers and sisters, only John Maksimovich took on the role of judge and confidently accuses the Russian people of regicide:
From the speech of ep. John (Maximovich) at the All-Diaspora Bishops' Council in 1938:
« The Russian people as a whole committed great sins, which were the cause of real disasters, namely: perjury and regicide. Public and military leaders refused obedience and loyalty to the Tsar even before his abdication, forcing the latter from the Tsar, who did not want internal bloodshed, and the people openly and noisily welcomed what had happened, nowhere loudly expressing their disagreement with him.Meanwhile, there was a violation of the oath brought to the Sovereign and His legitimate Heirs, and in addition, the oaths of the ancestors fell on the head of those who committed this crime - the Zemsky Sobor of 1613, which sealed its decisions with the curse of those who violated them. Not only physical executors are guilty of the sin of regicide, but the whole people, who rejoiced at the occasion of the overthrow of the Tsar and allowed him to be humiliated, arrested and exiled, leaving defenseless in the hands of criminals, which already predetermined the end. Thus, the disaster that has come upon Russia is a direct consequence of serious sins, and its rebirth is possible only after cleansing from them.However, there is still no real repentance, the crimes committed have clearly not been condemned, and many active participants in the revolution now continue to assert that at that time it could not have been otherwise. Without expressing direct condemnation of the February Revolution, the uprising against the Anointed One, the Russian people continue to participate in sin, especially when they defend the fruits of the revolution.
Hieromonk Seraphim (Rose). Blessed John the Wonderworker. M., 2003, p. 836.
In his sermons, Saint John (Maximovich) more than once pointed out the grave sin weighing on the Russian people:
“It is a great sin to raise a hand against the Anointed One of God, and even the slightest involvement in such a sin does not remain unavenged ... Let us remember that this crime was committed on the day of memory of the creator of the Great Canon, St. Andrew of Crete, calling us to repentance. A deep consciousness of the sinfulness of the deed and repentance before the memory of the Tsar-Martyr is required of us by God's truth.But our repentance must be without any self-justification, without reservations, with condemnation of ourselves and the entire evil deed from the very beginning.
Hieromonk Seraphim (Rose). Blessed John the Wonderworker. M., 2003, p. 856 - 857.
In the Sermon after the Tsar-Martyr (1960), St. John, whose death in 1966 fell on the feast day of St. Job, Patriarch of Moscow (June 19 / July 2), who accepted repentance from the Russian people in 1607, says:
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That sin lies with everyone until it is washed away by sincere repentance...
In one day, the greatness and glory of the Russian State, the stronghold of peace throughout the world, collapsed. The signature of Sovereign Emperor Nikolai Alexandrovich on the act of renunciation of the Throne is a historical border separating the great and glorious past of Russia from the dark and painful position of her now ... What happened on that day? ..The retreat of the people from the Anointed of God, the retreat from power, obedient to God, the retreat from the oath given before God of allegiance to the Sovereign, the Anointed of God, and his betrayal to death.
Deprived of power, and then of freedom, is the one who gave all his strength in the Name of God to the service of Russia.
Before us, before the Russian people, the path of rebellion is the path of consciousness of sin and repentance. For the revival of Russia, all political and program associations are in vain: Russia needs a moral renewal of the Russian people.
Alferyev E.E. Letters from the Holy Royal Martyrs from Captivity. Jordanville, 1983, p. 438, 440.
These are such loud quotes, brothers and sisters, although in them the Truth is mixed with lies about the guilt of the Russian people in the murder of their Tsar.
It's like putting a fly in the ointment in a barrel of honey. Such honey is simply impossible to eat.
These words were spoken by a man whom the Russian Church Abroad has glorified in the saints, which is why all today's false repentants so much like to refer to him.
Alas, Archbishop John was mistaken in his such extreme Regicide conclusion. And not only in this he was mistaken, let's take at least his completely unfair words to the God-anointed Holy Blessed Tsar John Vasilyevich the Terrible, taken from his literarywork "The Origin of the Law on the Succession to the Throne in Russia".
I will briefly read, brothers and sisters, his erroneous opinion, which he apparently formed after reading Karamzin, and therefore other slanderers of the Sovereign. Here is what he writes:
“Seeing treason and conspiracy everywhere with his sick imagination, John began terrible executions, thinking that by doing this he was fulfilling the sacred duty of the Royal ministry assigned to Him by God: to give prosperity to his land, cleansing the state from evil people.
In search of treason, the Tsar devastated entire cities (Novgorod). No one could be sure that tomorrow the Royal wrath would not befall him. Died in 1569 cousin The Tsar, Prince Vladimir Andreevich with his family, and the widow of his brother Yuri, Princess Juliana. The state was divided into the oprichnina - the Tsar's region proper, inhabited by especially devoted, as it seemed to Him, servants-guardsmen, and the zemshchina - the rest of the State, was ruled in the usual way, through the boyars. Oprichniki plundered the zemshchina, slandered the Tsar and carried out reprisals, sometimes with extraordinary cruelty. It happened that the execution was carried out by John himself.
In 1581, Ivan the Terrible, in a fit of anger, killed Tsarevich John, who left no offspring. Theodore became his heir. John did not consider Him capable of firmly holding the scepter, since Theodore was more inclined towards the monastic cassock, "than the royal purple." “To be the ringer to you, Fedya, and not the Tsar,” Tsar John used to say to him.
Draw your own conclusions, brothers and sisters, believe or not believe the archbishop. John of San Francisco.
“Holy Elder Nicholas of Pskovoezersky said thatTsar Ivan the Terribledid not kill his son - Tsarevich John,And never did not allow even thoughtabout the murder of Saint Philip and Saint Cornelius : “It is impossible to even think, and not just say, that King John killed the Saints and his son! He didn't kill!This devilish lie!“Batiushka claimed that church chronicles testify to this, and the Church knows this, since Tsar the Terrible was a revered local Saint already in the 17th century. The elder also said that the relics of both Saints and the son testify to the truth - the innocence of the Tsar. (Elder Nicholas - Royal Bishop. P. 197 “If you hear that someone blasphemes Tsar John, immediately ask the Lord to forgive this person. He can be a terrible punishment! He can die without repentance! God save from this! ”
Here is another quote that our opponents use to prove their point:
“In 1934, the book “Russian Ideology” by Archbishop Seraphim (Sobolev) was published in Bulgaria. On the basis of the patristic teaching, the archpastor says that all the people as a whole need to repent of rebellion against the power of the Anointed of God and through this return to the humble and grace-filled faith of our ancestors:
“This humble faith will be a saving asset for us and for Russia only if we embark on the path of the first expression of humility, i.e.on the path of repentance for their sins, especially for our gravest sin, in which all Russian people are guilty actively or passively, - in the sin of rebellion against the Autocratic Power of our Tsar - the Anointed of God. This sin is so grave for us because it entails the loss of conscience by Russian people, their removal from the Church - its faith, teaching and grace. It is the height or fruit of those various religious and moral grave crimes that have been committed by Russian people for many, many years.
Archbishop Seraphim (Sobolev). Russian ideology.
M., "Ladder", 2000, p. 82–83.
In the next work "On the True Monarchist Worldview" ( 1941 .) Archbishop Seraphim again focuses on the need for repentance:
“... Showing the essence of the work of Christ, clarifying the mission of the Church and the need, according to Her requirements, to have the True Faith, which our ancestors had, we say that this Faith requires usrepentance for the grave sin of rebellion against the Autocratic Anointed Tsar ».
Archbishop Seraphim (Sobolev). Russian idea.
Archbishop Seraphim writes clearly that we must repent of the grave sin of rebellion, and not of the sin of regicide. It's obvious, brothers and sisters.
It is not clear at all why he is referred to when they try to accuse the Russian people of killing the Anointed One.
This sin is a consequence of the retreat of the Russian people from Orthodox Faith from the Church and from conscience”.
Here are the exact words. “Is it not because they want to take us away, to distance us from repentance for this main and genuine sin, the sin of rebellion against the Autocracy, so that in the era of antichrist globalization we come to terms with a cosmopolitan republic and the dominant anti-monarchist “legal consciousness”,” Leonid Donatonovich Niksic makes an interesting conclusion.
And so, in fact, it is, brothers and sisters. We are led away from true repentance when we are asked to repent of things we simply could not do.
Here are the words of schemamonk Nikodim (Karulsky) used for their unrighteous purposes:
“For the Russian people, for His liberation from satanic power, prayers alone, even the most zealous ones, are not enough, -public repentance is required
with a deep consciousness of a great and grave sin - the rejection of God's power over oneself in the person of the Anointed One.
Let's open up the Bible and see how God controlled people. An angel and a man sinned before God - God sent the first angel without mercy to hell for eternal torment, and left His mercy to man, sent him to earth to repent and promised to return to Paradise if he obeys God's laws and commands.
From that time, God began to control people who believe in Him with His power, and ruled from Adam unceasingly to Nicholas II, the Emperor, the Anointed of God: first through the patriarchs from Adam to Abraham and other patriarchs inclusive, then the prophets - from Moses to Samuel, and from David to Nicholas II, the Emperor, - through the Grace of the anointing in the Tsars ...
In our evil time, people, having lost faith in the Providence of God, asked for freedom for themselves, and rejected God's power in the person of God's Anointed One.
They rejected the Royal Authority, gave to kill the King, freed themselves from the Divine Authority - and fell under the satanic authority.
Oh! What a grave sin it is!.. And all the Russian people have sinned in it, some in deed, some in word, and some in thought, desire and consent. For this great sin, the whole world suffers, and the Russian people - more than anyone else.
According to the truth of God, "to whom much is given, much is required from him."
People who are free from direct satanic power should be charged with universal repentance.If these people do not see the need for such repentance, then they impose great guilt on themselves for the sin against the Anointed One…
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"Orthodox Rus'", No. 14 for 1953, p. 10
Schemamonk Nicodemus said that they HAVE GIVEN TO KILL THE KING. And from these words, our opponents conclude that it was the Russian people who killed the Tsar? Well, it is immediately clearly stated that he DID NOT KILL, but GIVEN TO KILL. It has a completely different meaning: GIVEN TO KILL, OTHERWISE BETRAYED INTO THE HANDS OF ENEMIES. The name of this sin is BETRAYAL, and by no means regicide.
Here is the personal opinion of the archbishop. Averky (Taushev) is used for Regicide evidence:
“Weak consolation for us is that the direct murder of the Royal Family was committed by non-Russian hands - by the hands of non-Orthodox and non-Russian people. Although this is true, butthe entire Russian people is guilty of this terrible, unparalleled atrocity, because they did not resist, did not prevent it , but behaved in such a way that this atrocity was an expression of the mood that by that time had matured in the minds and hearts of the undoubted majority of the unfortunate lost Russian people ...The entire Russian people bears the blame for this grave sin committed on Russian soil. ».
Archbishop Averky (Taushev). Modernity in the light of the word of God. Words and speeches. Vol. III, Jordanville, 1975, p. 298.
Note that Archbishop Averky is forced to admit here that the regicide was committed by non-Russian hands. This is a very important testimony for us. He writes that they say that this is little consolation for us. And we are guilty because we did not resist and did not prevent this atrocity. That is, they actually accuse the Holy Apostles of not hindering the crucifixion of our Lord Jesus Christ. Apparently, according to Averky Taushev, the Lord's disciples had to beat Him off with weapons in their hands from the tenacious hands of Anna and Caiaphas.
Let us not forget, brothers and sisters, to also emphasize that our Holy Tsar Nicholas Himself consciously went to the Redemptive Feat for the sake of all His subjects. Therefore, at that moment, no one could prevent Him from doing this. Any attempt to save Him would not have passed, for it was the Providence of God about His God-anointed One.
It was necessary to defend the Tsar while He was on the Throne, and after the Descent from it, after the Sovereign's self-deprecation for the sake of saving the Russian people and Russia, any armed attempt to save the Emperor no longer passed. So it’s not worth blaming the Russian people for saying that He didn’t save His Tsar.
Similarly, the Apostles can be called accomplices in the murder of God only because they did not hinder and did not oppose the Christ-fighters. You can also accuse them of silence and inaction when the Savior was crucified.
Here is another quote, another one, in fact, attracted by our opponents with great effort, supposedly an authority.
Bishop Nectarius (Kontsevich), a disciple of the Monk Elder Nectarius of Optina, (as it is loudly said). As a child, he lived in Ukraine, repeatedly visited with his mother Optina Hermitage, where he was fed by the elder Nektarios of Optinsky. He pointed out:
« The mortal sin of regicide weighs heavily on the entire Russian people, and therefore, to one degree or another, on each of us. ».
Yearbook "Orthodox way". Jordanville, 1985, p. 45.
During the Second World War, he lived in Kyiv, was the spiritual child of Fr. Adrian Rymarenko, was a member of the community he led.
Before the Red Army entered Kyiv in 1943, he left for the West, after the war he emigrated to the United States. He took monasticism.
From March 11, 1962 - Bishop of Seatli, Vicar of the Western American Diocese.
He was the closest collaborator of Archbishop John (Maximovich), supported him during his trial in 1963 . He ruled the San Francisco diocese for several years.
As you can see, again everything rests on one figure of John (Maximovich) whose bold opinion about Tsar John 4, you have already heard.
And how is this to be understood? Nectaria, his words that they say the sin of regicide weighs on the entire Russian people to one degree or another? So the severity of sin is already measured by mathematical units - degrees? One means the Kingslayer for a quarter, the other for two quarters, and the third for half, but the fourth is already complete? To be honest, this Kontsevich has a very strange opinion.
And finally, the opinion of Vladyka John (Snychev) is also used by the guardians of false repentance for their own purposes.
Metropolitan John writes:
Actually, Regicide in the spiritual sense is a rebellion against God, a challenge to His Providence, an atheistic outburst of satanic, dark forces...
Willingly or involuntarily, consciously or unconsciously, the entire people participates in the regicide, at least by allowing it, not seeking to make amends for the terrible sin of rejecting God by repentance and correction.
And only then, plunged into the abyss of disorder and rebellion, in suffering and sorrow, does he finally realize his mistake. At the beginning of the 17th century, it took eight years. In the 20th century, the eighth decade of unrest is coming to an end...
turmoil early XVII century gives us a textbook example of how popular discords and rebellions, overshadowed by the Regicide, almost plunged the country into final and complete ruin, putting it on the verge of death and foreign enslavement. Then consciousconciliar repentance in conjunction with the conciliar action to recreate the sovereign foundations of Russia, they revived it literally from the ashes, giving the State a fortress and grandeur for three centuries, which, it seemed, powerless Rus' could not even dream of. Numerous historical and spiritual, moral and religious parallels that arise when considering those ancient events can clarify a lot for us in the country's current problems ... ".
Metropolitan John (Snychev). Rus' Cathedral. St. Petersburg, "Tsarskoe Delo", 1995, pp. 38 - 41.
Vladyka John understands regicide as a rebellion against God, a challenge to His Providence, a God-fighting outburst of satanic, dark forces. In fact, he blames the dark forces for the Regicide. This is evident from his words.
Where is the direct accusation of the Russian people in the actual regicide? No, on the contrary, Vladyka emphasizes that this is not the sin of regicide, but the sin of the rejection of God, otherwise the sin of TREASON.
Yes, yet, brothers and sisters, our opponents cited a quote from Archimandrite Konstantin (Zaitsev) But, now, I don’t have time to read it out. One thing I can say is that he, like Prince Zhevakhov, does not accuse the Russian people of regicide at all. It's just our man!
And in conclusion, I would like to add only one thing, which, as the Word of God teaches us: ACCORDING TO YOUR FAITH, LET IT BE TO YOU. If, however, you, supporters of false repentance, believe that you are accomplices in the murder of the Tsar and the Royal Family, then you are such. Such false repentance will not help you whitewash yourself, and in fact you have already voluntarily taken upon yourself the BLOOD OF THE HOLY KING.
Did you want to stigmatize the entire Russian people in regicide? Truly, you DID NOT GO. As the proverb says: DON'T DIG A PIT FOR ANOTHER, YOU WILL FIND IT YOURSELF.
If your faith and your imaginary repentance consist in taking upon yourself this BLOODY CRIMION, ABOUT WHICH THE HEAVEN IS CRYING, then of course your will is here, but not mine and not the will of the overwhelming majority of the Russian people. And not just the vast majority, but all of our long-suffering people, who, like the prodigal son, begin to return to their Father.
WHO ARE YOU, THE RUSSIAN PEOPLE? PRODIGAL SON OR KINGKILLER? WHICH WAY YOU CHOOSE FOR YOURSELF, THAT YOU WILL GO. WHO YOU KNOW YOURSELF IS SO YOU WILL ACT,
“Do you hear, Russian people, the breath of the Holy Spirit?! You are not guilty! There is no blood of the Tsar and His Family on You,” he exclaims from the bottom of his heart. head of the ORTHODOX GORGENT BEARERS.
Holy Tsar Redeemer Nicholas and
Holy Royal New Martyrs - pray to God for us!
Amen.
