6 ноября. Житие - Арефа, в Ближних Пещерах почивающий, преподобный - текст песни, слова, перевод, видео

Truly, it is worthy and righteous to always thank God, not only about good deeds, but also about the misadventures, because such thanksgiving not only the righteous multiplies grace, as IOVA once, but also makes a great sinner. All this turned out on the reverend of our father, about whom his self -witted bishop Simon, so says: there was one Chernorian in the Pechersk monastery, the name of the Aref, originally from the city of Polotsk. Living in a monastery, he had a secretly great wealth in his cell and was distinguished by such stinginess that he had never served a single small coin and never spent anything for himself. One night, thieves stole his whole estate. Then the Khonok fell into such sorrow that he almost destroyed himself and began to attack many innocent in this matter. Brotherhood begged him to st the penalty, saying: “Brother! Elew your sadness to the Lord. ” But he did not want to listen to anyone and answered with rudeness to all beliefs. A few days later he fell into a heavy ailment and was already close to death, but he did not stop from Ropping and his blasphemy. But the human loving Lord, with all the man he wants to be saved, showed his mercy on him. Once a sick, lying on the bed, like a dead after a long silence, began to appeal: “Lord, have mercy! Lord, save! Lord, sinned! Yours are and I do not regret it. " He got up from the Odra and told the gathered brethren about the phenomenon that had been to him. “I saw,” he said, “how the angels and the demon regiment came to me. They began to argue among themselves about the wealth stolen from me. Demons said that since I did not glorify God for the crash, but blasphemed, therefore, it should be transferred to them. The angels told me: “The unfortunate man! If you thanked God for your property stolen from you, it would have been charged to you in alms, like Job. A great thing before God if someone creates alms in their arbitrariness. But if they are gratefully suffering a loss, then the fight against temptation replaces the work of willing arbitrariness, when it gracefully betrays everything to God. ” When the angels told me this, I cried out: “Lord, have mercy! You do not regret yours. ” Then the demons disappeared. The angels rejoiced. " Since then, the blessed Aref has completely changed. The one who could not be kept from the murmur could only praise God and repeated with Job: the Lord Dada, the Lord will be removed, as the Lord deigned, such as it is (Job 1, 21). He also repented of his other sins, taking care of the poor about the poor, succeeding in obedience, cleansing internally, striking in prayer, post and many other virtues, especially in the virtue of thanksgiving. Saint Aref died no later than 1190. His relics were laid in the nearby caves, and his memory is performed together with the reverend of the neighboring caves on September 28/October 11 and in the 2nd week of Great Lent, especially on October 24/November 6.