Палестинский патерик - Часть 2 - текст песни, слова, перевод, видео

Vitaly Redko.

The book "Palestinian Patericon" includes manuscripts from the monastery of St. Sava the Consecrated in the translation (from Greek) of St. Theophan the Recluse (Govorov).

Saint Theophan the Recluse, as a hieromonk, stayed in Jerusalem from 1847 to 1853, as part of the first Russian Spiritual Mission. In the Lavra of St. Sava the Sanctified, which had a rich library, the young hieromonk became acquainted with the great and never interrupted tradition of ancient asceticism in the monasteries of the East: the skill of mental work and “reading in private and listening with attention and diligence to the word of God, the writings of the fathers and other soul-helping books.” Selfless service in Jerusalem, full of spiritual labors, played a huge role in the future fate of the future Right Reverend and largely determined the formation of the personality of an outstanding ascetic and theologian.

“When I was in Jerusalem, Elder Savvinsky gave me a very large Patericon, imposing obedience to translate it...” the Saint wrote to Archimandrite Andrew in 1892. “Now my thought regarding this is to print my Patericon. I worked on the translation. Why leave work useless?”

For unknown reasons, the translation of the Right Reverend was never published. Passing 116 years, we fulfill the wish and blessing of the Saint and publish all the surviving fragments of the translation of the Patericon, which were found in the cell of the Right Reverend after his death, considering it useful to supplement them in turn with his earlier translations from the same Savvinsky Patericon, which were prepared by the Saint still in Jerusalem, published for the first time in 1858-1860, and republished in 1891. According to the review of the Right Reverend, “what is written in them (these translations) is the fruit of personal experience and knowledge of those who wrote (the Savvinsky elders), and not adopted from previous ascetic writings.”