2/25/2014
Patriarch Tikhon (Bellavin)
What does one say to a city that has lost everything, including its best sons? The holy Patriarch Tikhon, whose memory we celebrate today, came to grieving Yaroslavl as its former archpastor, now Patriarch, to try to assuage their sorrow.
St. Tikhon of Moscow
This is the truly wise view of the Holy Church concerning eating meat. In its statutes it always has in mind not some sort of abstract, passionless, and discarnate person, whom various dreamers such as some vegetarians have in mind, but a living human being bearing flesh, a person with all his needs.
See what an alluring picture the vegetarians paint, and how easily all of this can be attained: We only have to stop eating meat and on earth there will be a real paradise, a life that is untroubled and without sorrows.
For archpastoral service is first of all a service of love. When a sheep is lost, the archpastor takes it upon his shoulders.
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The life of St. Mary teaches us that there is no sin that could overcome the mercy of God, there is no abyss of dissoluteness that we could not rise from by the grace of God and by taking the path of faith and repentance.
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We present this bold letter written by Patriarch Tikhon to the new rulers of Russia a year after the revolution.
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This is an article by St. Tikhon, Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia that has never been republished. It was written when he was still an archimandrite at the Kholm theological seminary, which is now located in the territory of Poland, and published in the periodical, Beseda (Discussion), printed in Warsaw.
Unfortunately, brethren, we do not like to acknowledge our transgressions. It would seem natural and easy for a person to know his own self, his own soul and his shortcomings. This, however, is actually not so. We are ready to attend to anything but a deeper understanding of ourselves, an in vestigation of our sins. We examine various things with curiosity, we attentively study friends and strangers, but when faced with solitude without extraneous preoccupation even for a short while, we immediately become bored and attempt to seek amusement.
