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Prayer to God on the Day of the Baptism of Rus'
Trinitarian God, Father Almighty, Only Begotten Son, Savior of the world, and Holy Soul, enlighten and sanctify tribes and peoples! He who also guided the ruler of the Russian Land, Prince Vladimir, to the light of the true faith, and thereby enlightened our entire country with Baptism, and granted to shine with a host of saints, like the bright stars that adorned the sky of our Church! And to us, their humble and unworthy children, who now stand before Thy glory and offer thanksgiving prayers for all the good deeds that have happened in Rus' from ancient years to the present day. Look at Thy field, the Holy Church, at the countries and peoples who have successively received the Orthodox faith from the single font of Baptism in the waters of the Dnieper and now bring to You, like the beautiful fruit of the saving sowing of Thy Word, the faces of the saints. You have served the people with your faith, hope and love, in the way of speech and life, showing us the path to perfection according to the commandment of Christ: be ye therefore perfect, even as your Heavenly Father is perfect. Preserving this holy heritage of theirs, we pray to Thee, the Giver of Life: save and have mercy on us, grant peace to Thy world and to all Thy creation, which, through our sin, the sons of this age are trying to destroy. We know that you do not want the death of sinners, but rather turn and let them be alive; look upon us who are in sin, turn away Your anger, which is righteously moving towards us, grant us repentance and have mercy on us with Your ineffable mercy. Accept our prayers and labors for the increase of love among all the people of this world. Fence our land, make the authorities wise, comfort and pacify all, grow Your Church, preserve Your heritage, enlighten men and women and infants with grace, and establish all Your people in Orthodoxy and piety with the prayers of Your Most Pure Mother, by the power of the Honest and Life-giving Cross and All saints who have shone in our Land, so that in the unity of faith and love we glorify Thee, the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, forever and ever. Amen.
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Prayer at the baptism of Rus'
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REMINDER TO THOSE COME TO BAPTISM
With the blessing of His Eminence CHRISANPH,
Archbishop of Vyatka and Slobodsk.
The Holy Church teaches us strengths “for life and godliness” (2 Peter 1.3). Not a single member of the Church can live without grace-filled powers, and they are given to us according to the measure of our faith and love for God. The actions through which these powers are given to us are called sacraments.
Baptism is a sacrament in which the believer, by immersing the body three times in water, with the invocation of God the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, dies to a carnal, sinful life, and is reborn from the Holy Spirit into a spiritual, holy life.
RITES PRIOR TO BAPTISM
1. Prayers on the first day before a wife gives birth
Three prayers. They express joy at the entry of a new person into the world and at the same time sadness about the corruption of the world by sin. We were all conceived in sin, for lust became an inevitable element of conception. The birth of a child is joy, but at the same time it is “illness and weakness,” suffering and pain.
2. Prayer to mark the boy who takes the name on his 8th birthday
A person’s name distinguishes him from billions of other people and affirms the uniqueness and uniqueness of his personality, for our Lord Jesus Christ was crucified for him. The Son of God has a human Name because He is a Person, and the Church, in the rite of naming, recognizes the uniqueness of this particular child who has acquired the Divine gift of personality. Correlating it with the Holy Name of God for us, the Church shows that each name is holy, for it is sanctified by the human Name of Christ Himself. This is the name of a child of God, created and destined for personal communication with God, personal participation in the Kingdom of God, which will have no end.
3. Prayer to a postpartum wife, forty days at a time
Women in labor are prohibited from entering the temple “according to the ordinary law of natural purification” for forty days, which for her is like a seal of the original curse on the woman.
CONSEQUENCY OF THE ORDER OF ANNOUNCEMENT
1. Prayer to create a catechumen
A person who wishes to be baptized should study the Creed, the commandments of the Lord and examine his conscience about the seriousness of the decision being made. In ancient times, members of the Christian community brought the person being baptized to the bishop, who, after testing the sincerity of the person being baptized, entered his name into the list of catechumens. The person being baptized, as a sign of submission and humility, untied his belt, took off his outer garments, renouncing worldly pride and vanity, and stood barefoot on a hair shirt. Hands hanging down signified deliverance from slavery to the father of lies. A gaze directed to the east means waiting for the open gates of paradise, from where Adam and Eve were expelled after the fall (Gen. 2.8).
2. Three prohibitions against unclean spirits
The Church has always had experience confirming the presence of active demonic forces, according to which evil is not only the absence of good, but also the presence of a very real carrier of evil - an evil person - a demon, although his presence may not always be clear and conscious.
3. Renunciation of Satan
The priest turns the baptized person to the west - a symbol of darkness, dark forces. The person being baptized renounces Satan, that is, he renounces his previous sinful habits and way of life, renounces pride and self-affirmation, realizing that he was previously a captive of passions and Satan. The person being baptized is not afraid to do this, to stand face to face, for the expulsion of unclean spirits made him free, and raised hands signify readiness to submit to Christ.
4. Confession of fidelity to Christ
The priest turns the baptized person to the east, to Christ - the Light of the world. Like an oath, like an oath, the words of the baptized person “I unite” sound about readiness and consent to serve and follow Christ. This decision is made once and for all, it is not subject to revision or reassessment, for “he who puts his hand to the plow and looks back is not fit for the Kingdom of God” (Luke 9.62).
The Creed contains all Christian truths. In ancient times, before baptism, a person had to study them. And now this necessary condition at baptism. The responsibility for teaching the truths of the faith to infants lies with their recipients, and if they forget, they commit a grave sin.
And in one Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God, the Only Begotten, Who was born of the Father before all ages, Light from Light, true God from true God, begotten, uncreated, consubstantial with the Father, and by Him all things were. For our sake, man and our salvation came down from heaven and became incarnate from the Holy Spirit and the Virgin Mary, and became human. She was crucified for us under Pontius Pilate, and suffered and was buried. And he rose again on the third day according to the Scriptures. And ascended into heaven, and sits at the right hand of the Father. And again the coming one will be judged with glory by the living and the dead, His Kingdom will have no end.
And in the Holy Spirit, the Lord, the Life-Giving One, who proceeds from the Father, who with the Father and the Son is worshiped and glorified, who spoke the prophets.
Into one Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church.
I confess one baptism for the remission of sins. Tea of the resurrection of the dead. And the life of the next century. Amen.
SEQUENCE OF HOLY BAPTISM
The consecration of water for Baptism is one of the most important parts of the rite, which has the deepest connection with the sacrament itself.
In prayers and actions during the consecration of water for Baptism, all aspects of the sacrament are revealed, its connection with the world and matter, with life in all its manifestations is shown. Water is the oldest religious symbol. From a Christian point of view, three main aspects of this symbolism seem important. firstly, water is the primary cosmic element. At the beginning of creation, “the Spirit of God hovered over the waters” (Gen. 1, 2). At the same time, she is a symbol of destruction and death. The basis of life, the life-giving force - and the basis of death, the destructive force: this is the dual image of water in Christian theology. And finally, water is a symbol of purification, rebirth and renewal. This symbolism permeates everything scripture, is included in the narrative of creation, fall and salvation. Saint John the Baptist called the people to repentance and cleansing from sins in the waters of the Jordan. And the Lord Jesus Christ Himself sanctified the water element by receiving Baptism from John.
After the water is blessed, it is anointed with oil. IN ancient world oil was primarily used as a medicinal remedy. Oil, symbolizing healing, light and joy, was a sign of God's reconciliation with man. The dove released by Noah from the ark returned and brought him an olive branch, “and Noah knew that the water had departed from the earth” (Gen. 8:11). So, in anointing the water and the body of the baptized with oil, the oil signifies the fullness of life and the joy of reconciliation with God, for “in Him was life, and the life was the light of men. And the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not overcome it” (John 1:4 -5).
In the sacrament of Baptism, the fundamental truth of Christianity is clearly and truly revealed to the believing soul: having received Baptism, “you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. When Christ, your life, appears, then you also will appear with Him in glory” (Col. 3, 3-4). This baptismal death heralds the destruction of death by Christ, and our baptismal resurrection once again reveals the image of the Resurrection of Christ. The deepest mystery is being accomplished: the unity of the human and the Divine in “new life.” The grace given to a person in Baptism, as in other sacraments, is the fruit of the sacrificial death of Christ and His Resurrection. She gives a person the will to salvation and the strength to go through life, bearing his cross. And therefore Baptism can and should be defined - not figuratively, not symbolically, but in essence - as death and resurrection.
4. Vestment of the newly baptized
Immediately after being immersed in water three times, the newly baptized person puts on white clothes. Currently this is a new white shirt for infants and a white shirt for the newly baptized adult.
5. Godparents - godparents
The custom of having recipients at Baptism dates back to the most ancient Apostolic Tradition.
6. About the performer of Baptism
The right to perform the sacrament of Baptism belongs primarily to the parish priest, legally ordained and not under prohibition.
1. Anointing with Holy Chrism
After performing Baptism and putting on white clothes, the priest anoints the newly enlightened person with the holy Myrrh - seals him with the “seal of the gift of the Holy Spirit.”
2. Procession around the font
Solemn circumambulation of the font with the singing of “Be baptized into Christ.” “is, first of all, an expression of the joy of the Church about the birth from her of the Spirit of God. On the other hand: since the circle is a sign of eternity, this procession shows that the newly enlightened person expresses the desire to serve God forever, to be a lamp that he places not under a bushel, but on the candlestick, so that he may shine on all his people good deeds, and that he asks the Lord to grant him eternal bliss. Immediately after the procession around the font there is a reading of the Apostle and the Gospel.
RITES OF THE EIGHTH DAY
Currently, the final rites of Baptism and Confirmation - washing off the Holy Chrism and cutting hair - are performed on the same day, immediately after reading the Gospel. However, according to the Trebnik, they are included in the sequence of the eighth day, because in the early Church these rites were actually performed on the eighth day, and the baptized person wore white clothes for seven days.
1. Washing of the Holy Myrrh
The first rite of the eighth day is washing off the newly baptized holy Myrrh from the body.
2. Hair cutting
Since ancient times, tonsure has been a symbol of obedience and sacrifice. People felt the concentration of strength and energy in their hair. An example is the Old Testament story about Samson (Judges, Chapter 16). This rite is found both in the rite of initiation into monasticism and in the initiation of readers.
The man received Baptism. The sacrament is completed, and many calm down on this, believing that they have completed the necessary rituals and nothing more is required of them. Deep misconception! Baptism is only the beginning of the path of salvation. We must remember that Baptism washes away a person’s original sin and guilt for all misdeeds and sins committed before Baptism. But the germ of sin - sinful habits and the attraction to sin - remain in a person, and they are overcome by the efforts of the person himself, through the exploit of his entire life, for the Kingdom of God, according to the Lord, is acquired through effort. And other church sacraments (Repentance, Communion, Blessing of Unction), various prayers and services are means of sanctifying a Christian. In them, a Christian, according to his faith and need, receives Divine grace that contributes to his salvation. Without this grace, according to the apostolic teaching, we not only cannot do good, we cannot even desire it. (Phil. 2:13).
TEN COMMANDMENTS OF GOD'S LAW
1. I am seven, the Lord thy God; let there be no gods for you, except Men.
THE NINE COMMANDMENTS OF THE HAPPINESS
Lord Jesus Christ says:
9. Blessed are you when people revile you, and destroy you, and say all sorts of evil things about you lying to Me for my sake. Rejoice and be glad, for your reward is abundant in heaven (Matthew 5:3-12). The Ten Commandments were given in the Old Testament to keep people from evil. The Beatitudes were given to Christians to show what spiritual dispositions they should have in order to draw closer and closer to God and achieve holiness. Holiness, born of closeness to God, is the highest bliss that a person can desire.
The main means for fulfilling the gospel commandments is prayer. Prayer is the raising of the mind and heart to God, that is, a conversation with God. This is spiritual food, as necessary as air.
Our Father, who art in heaven! Yes, hallowed be Thy name, Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done, as it is in heaven and on earth. Give us this day our daily bread; and forgive us our debts, just as we forgive our debtors; and do not lead us into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one.
SONG OF THE HOLY VIRGIN
Virgin Mary, Rejoice, O Blessed Mary, the Lord is with You; Blessed are You among women, and blessed is the fruit of Your womb, for You have given birth to the Savior of our souls.
It is worthy to eat as you truly bless Theotokos, Ever-Blessed and Most Immaculate and Mother of our God. We magnify Thee, the most honorable Cherub and the most glorious without comparison, the Seraphim, who gave birth to God the Word without incorruptibility.
ABOUT THE SIGN OF THE CROSS
Another powerful weapon of a Christian is the sign of the cross, which is performed with the right hand. (If for some reason you cannot make the sign of the cross with your right hand, then you need to take a blessing to make it with your left hand - A.V.).
The rite of prayer singing on the feast of the Epiphany of Rus'
On July 28, on the day of remembrance of the Holy Equal-to-the-Apostles Prince Vladimir, the fraternal peoples of Russia, Ukraine and Belarus celebrate memorable date– Day of the Baptism of Rus'.
The joy of celebrating this event is shared with us by all those who are not indifferent to Slavic history and culture, for whom the experience of Christian ascetics ancient Rus' and the feat of the new martyrs and confessors of the faith of the 20th century are the visible embodiment of the image of Holy Rus' - our united spiritual Fatherland.
Since 2011, with the blessing of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Rus', solemn divine services should be performed annually on this day in all churches of the Russian Orthodox Church with a special prayer service performed at the end of the Liturgy.
The sequence of prayer singing on the feast of the Holy Equal-to-the-Apostles Prince Vladimir - memories of the Baptism of Rus'
Protodeacon: Bless the Master.
Primate: Blessed be our God...
Protodeacon: Glory to Thee, our God, glory to Thee
Protodeacon: God is the Lord and has appeared to us, blessed is He who comes in the Name of the Lord.
Poem: Confess to the Lord that He is Good, that His mercy endures forever.
Poem: Having bypassed me, bypassed me, and in the Name of the Lord I resisted them.
Poem: I will not die, but I will live and carry on the work of the Lord.
Poem: The stone that was built carelessly, this was at the head of the corner: this was from the Lord and is marvelous in our hair.
Also troparia: To the Life-Giving Trinity, tone 8
Blessed art thou, O Christ our God, / who are wise fishers of things, / having sent down upon them the Holy Spirit, / and with them they have caught the universe, / Glory to Thee, more loving than mankind.
To all the saints who have shone forth in the land of Russia, tone 8
Like the red fruit of Your saving radiance, / The Russian Land brings You, O Lord, all the saints who shone forth in that one. /Those prayers in the deeper world /Theotokos preserve the Church and our country, O Omni-merciful One.
Baptism of Rus', tone 8
Blessed are You, Christ our God, / who enlightened the Russian land with Baptism, / sending down the Holy Spirit to its people, / leading them to salvation, / Lover of mankind, glory to You.
Equal. book Vladimir, voice 4
You became like a merchant looking for good beads, / glorious Vladimir, / sitting at the height of the table, the mother of the cities, / God-saved Kyiv, / testing and sending to the Royal City / to lead the Orthodox faith, / you found priceless beads, Christ, / who chose you as the second Paul, / and shook off blindness in the holy font, both spiritual and physical. /We also celebrate your dormition, your people: /pray for our souls to be saved.
Chorus: Most Holy Trinity, our God, glory to Thee.
All saints of our land, pray to God for us.
Holy Equal-to-the-Apostles Grand Duke Vladimir, pray to God for us.
According to the chants of the prokeimenon: I have lifted up the chosen one from My people.
Poem: For My right hand will protect him.
Protodeacon: And we pray to the Lord God that we may be worthy to hear the Holy Gospel.
Primate: Reading from Matthew's Holy Gospel.
Gospel of Matthew, 55 conceived.
Chorus: Glory to You Lord, glory to You .
According to the Gospel choruses, then:
It is worthy to eat, as truly, to bless Thee, the Mother of God, the Ever-Blessed and Most Immaculate and Mother of our God, the Most Honest Cherub and the Most Glorious, without comparison, the Seraphim, without the corruption of God the Word, we magnify Thee, the real Mother of God.
Protodeacon: Have mercy on us, O God, according to Your great mercy, we pray to You, hear and have mercy.
We also pray for our great Lord and Father, His Holiness Patriarch Kirill, and for all our brethren in Christ.
Giving thanks with fear and trembling, as a servant of indecency, to Your compassion, O our Savior and Master, O Lord, for Your blessings, which You have poured out on our Earth from its Baptism until now, and we fall down and bring praise to You, as to God, and We cry out with emotion: deliver Your people from all troubles and always, as You are Merciful, fulfill our good requests, we diligently pray to You, hear and have mercy.
We also pray to You, our Savior, through the blessed Prince Vladimir, who has been pleased to choose our race as Your inheritance and to bestow the Holy Spirit in the font of Baptism, O protect our Holy Church from schisms and disorder, and establish it in the unity of faith, and protect it with peace, hear and have mercy.
We also pray to You, Lord Almighty, to look after and establish this grape, which Your right hand has planted and preserved from all the slander of the enemy; and in the coming summer, grant peace and tranquility to your inheritance, so that Holy Rus', which you have chosen as your dwelling, may not diminish or be shaken, may your Trisagion be glorified, hear and have mercy.
Having given Your commandment to us, to love You, our God, and our neighbor, so that hatred, enmity, resentment and other iniquities will cease, but let true love reign in our hearts, we pray to You, our Savior, hear and graciously have mercy.
Primate: Hear us, O God, our Savior, the hope of all the ends of the earth and those who are in the seas far away, and be merciful, merciful, O Master, for our sins, and have mercy on us. For You are a merciful and Lover of mankind, and we send glory to You, the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, now and ever and unto ages of ages.
Protodeacon: Let's pray to the Lord.
The Primate reads the prayer:
Trinitarian God, Father Almighty, Only Begotten Son, Savior of the world, and Holy Soul, enlighten and sanctify tribes and peoples! He who also guided the ruler of the Russian Land, Prince Vladimir, to the light of the true faith, and thereby enlightened our entire country with Baptism, and granted to shine with a host of saints, like the bright stars that adorned the sky of our Church! And to us, their humble and unworthy children, who now stand before Thy glory and offer thanksgiving prayers for all the good deeds that have happened in Rus' from ancient years to the present day. Look at Thy field, the Holy Church, at the countries and peoples who have successively received the Orthodox faith from the single baptismal font in the waters of the Dnieper and now bring to You, like the beautiful fruit of the saving sowing of Thy Word, the faces of the saints. You have served the people with your faith, hope and love, in the way of speech and life, showing us the path to perfection according to the commandment of Christ: be ye therefore perfect, even as your Heavenly Father is perfect. Preserving this holy heritage of theirs, we pray to Thee, the Giver of Life: save and have mercy on us, grant peace to Thy world and to all Thy creation, which, through our sin, the sons of this age are trying to destroy. We know that you do not want the death of sinners, but rather turn and let them be alive; look upon us who are in sin, turn away Your anger, which is righteously moving towards us, grant us repentance and have mercy on us with Your ineffable mercy. Accept our prayers and labors for the increase of love among all the people of this world. Fence our land, make the authorities wise, comfort and pacify all, grow Your Church, preserve Your heritage, enlighten men and women and infants with grace, and establish all Your people in Orthodoxy and piety with the prayers of Your Most Pure Mother, by the power of the Honest and Life-giving Cross and All saints who have shone in our Land, so that in the unity of faith and love we glorify Thee, the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, forever and ever.
We magnify you, holy Equal-to-the-Apostles Great Prince Vladimir, and honor your holy memory, who trampled down idols and enlightened the entire Russian land with Holy Baptism.
Priest : Most Holy Theotokos, save us.
Choir : We magnify You, the most honorable cherub and the most glorious seraphim without comparison, who gave birth to God the Word without corruption, the real Mother of God.
Priest : Glory to Thee, Christ God, our hope, glory to Thee.
Protodeacon: To our Great Lord and Father KIRILL, His Holiness the Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus' and the Holy Trinity Lavra of St. Sergius, the sacred archimandrite, our God-protected country, the authorities, the army and its people, the entire consecrated cathedral, piety zealot and teacher, and to all who strive in the Orthodoxy of our Land in words, scripture, teaching and godly life, and to all Orthodox Christians - many years.
1888 - 900th anniversary
The first widespread public celebration of the Day of the Baptism of Rus' took place in 1888. The idea of celebrating the 900th anniversary of the Baptism of the people of Rus' belonged to the Kyiv Orthodox townspeople, who approached Metropolitan Platon of Kyiv and Galicia with this idea. It was the Metropolitan of Kyiv and Galicia who presented his project for celebration to the Holy Synod in 1886.
Celebration of the 900th anniversary of the Baptism of Rus' on Vladimirskaya Hill in Kyiv, 1888
The idea of the Bishop was actively supported not only by the Kyiv City Duma, but also by the St. Petersburg “Slavic Benevolent Society”, in which, in the same 1886, the need to celebrate the upcoming anniversary was also hotly discussed. It was this society that ensured that the celebration of the Baptism of Rus' became not only Kyiv, but also all-Russian. At the same time, doubts arose about the appropriateness of such a celebration. In the monthly calendar of the Russian Orthodox Church there was no holiday in honor of the introduction of Christianity in Rus'. Nevertheless, the upcoming anniversary of the Baptism of Rus' received support from the top. The representative of the Holy Synod, Konstantin Pobedonostsev, who became an ardent supporter of the celebration, said that the 900th anniversary of the Baptism of Rus' is such a significant anniversary that it should be recognized outstanding event not only for Orthodox Rus', but for everything Orthodox world.
Festive celebrations on the occasion of the 900th anniversary of the Baptism of Rus'. Kyiv, 1888
Almost two years later, on February 17, 1888, the Resolution of the Holy Synod was issued on the celebration of the 900th anniversary of the Baptism of Rus'. The main day of events was announced July 15 (July 28 local time)- day of church remembrance of Equal-to-the-Apostles Prince Vladimir, the baptist of Rus'. The resolution approved the obligatory church order of celebration, recognizing special events not only on July 15, but throughout the week as indispensable. At the same time, Epiphany was celebrated not only in Kyiv, but throughout Rus'.
From that time on, preparations for the celebrations began. The holiday, according to the organizers, was supposed to cover the entire Orthodox world, but its main character was to be Orthodox Rus' and its history, in which Prince Vladimir played a special role. Evidence of that celebration has been preserved: “The city was decorated with flags and garlands with the golden initial of Equal-to-the-Apostles Prince Vladimir. As planned, the solemn procession was preceded by a festive service in the St. Sophia Cathedral. At the end of the liturgy, the procession with icons and banners, banners and guild signs moved under the ringing of the bells of the St. Sophia Cathedral to the monument to Saint Prince Vladimir. After this, the procession continued its movement and stopped at the font prepared on the banks of the Dnieper. By this time, thousands of people had already flocked to the place of water blessing. They filled all the squares, the tops of the city hills and the roofs of houses, and many ships accumulated on the Dnieper, including 20 large steamships, crowded with the public.” The celebration of the 900th anniversary of the Kyiv Baptism of Rus took place in Kyiv, St. Petersburg, Moscow, and Yekaterinoslav. This day was solemnly celebrated in those cities that were related to the life and work of Equal-to-the-Apostles Prince Vladimir: Chersonesus, Novgorod, Vladimir-Volynsky, Ovruch, Lutsk. In every major city, celebrations took place according to a pre-determined scenario, the scope of which depended on the possibilities local authorities- Odessa, Kharkov, Sevastopol, Kaluga, Vilna widely celebrated the 900th anniversary. They were printed and distributed everywhere, especially in educational institutions, books of patristic literature, the life of the holy Equal-to-the-Apostles Prince Vladimir, his icons were installed. A large number of restored and built new churches throughout the country increased the significance of the anniversary.
1988 - 1000th anniversary, or “Second Baptism of Rus'”
Celebration of the 1000th anniversary of the Baptism of Rus', 1988
For the first time since the establishment of atheistic power in the USSR, celebrations on the occasion of church holiday. From the memoirs of Valentin Falin, a direct participant in those events: “In the mid-1980s, I was assigned to head the Novosti press agency (APN). In June 1986, M.S. Gorbachev, with the participation of other members of the Politburo, held a meeting with social scientists, writers, and media executives. The goal is to identify what should be done to make the ideas of perestroika understandable to the intelligentsia? It should be noted that literally on the eve of this, several hierarchs of our Church turned to me and expressed great concern about the upcoming anniversary under the conditions of a godless government. In my speech, I formulated: the millennium of the Baptism of Rus' is coming. The anniversary should be celebrated as a national holiday, a significant stage in our history, the formation of Rus' as a state. The hall is silent, and that’s where they parted. The next day, I ask you to invite Metropolitans Pitirim and Juvenaly and other authoritative archpastors to the APN on my behalf. The invitation was accepted... Patriarch Pimen considered it necessary to take the chance to recreate harmony in society and heal previously inflicted wounds. It was a lot of prep work, but it worked! The celebration of the 1000th anniversary of the Baptism of Rus' changed the minds of millions of people. In the anniversary year of the 1000th anniversary of the Baptism of Rus', the Soviet government returned the St. Daniel Monastery, the Far Caves of the Kiev Pechersk Lavra, the Vvedenskaya Optina Hermitage, and the Tolgsky Monastery to the Orthodox Church, which meant the revival of monasticism. The following have returned to the Church from museums and state repositories: a particle of the Cross of the Lord, the right hand of the Apostle Andrew the First-Called, the head of St. John Chrysostom, particles of the relics of the Holy Equal-to-the-Apostles Prince Vladimir, the Holy Blessed Prince Alexander Nevsky.”
Delegation of archpastors of the Russian Orthodox Church at a meeting with Mikhail Gorbachev, 1988
Another eyewitness and direct participant in the Prayer service in honor of the 1000th anniversary of the Baptism of Rus' on Vladimirskaya Hill in Kyiv, now Bishop Jonah of Obukhov, recalls those anniversary celebrations this way: “My churching coincided with the beginning of the revival of Orthodoxy in our country. Increased interest in the Church and its life arose when the whole country was preparing to celebrate the 1000th anniversary of the Baptism of Rus'. After all, preparations for this event began somewhat earlier than 1988 - two or three years ago... On the eve of the celebrations on the occasion of the millennium of the Baptism of Rus', a discreet campaign to cover the celebration began in the media... Chapters of the Gospel began to be published in one or another Soviet periodical. I can say with confidence that these pages were read almost “to the holes.” As a result, when celebrations took place throughout the country on the occasion of the 1000th anniversary of the Baptism of Rus', this event was greeted not as something out of the ordinary and supernatural, but as a completely natural holiday... The celebration of the 1000th anniversary of the Baptism of Rus' made it possible to open churches , openly preach the Word of God and confess your faith. The result was a real turning point in history. Soviet Union. In fact, from this date the persecution of the Church ceased, and this historical moment truly became the second Baptism of Rus'.”
Celebrations dedicated to the celebration of the 1000th anniversary of the Baptism of Rus'. 1988
Prayer service on Vladimirskaya Hill on the occasion of the celebration of the 1000th anniversary of the Baptism of Rus'. Kyiv, 1988
2006- to organize the national celebration of the Day of the Baptism of Rus', an International public organization“Day of the Baptism of Rus'” from representatives of culture, clergy, science and sports from Ukraine, Russia, Belarus and Moldova.
2007- first in modern history folk celebration of the Day of the Baptism of Rus' in Kyiv.
Celebrating the Day of the Baptism of Rus' on the Singing Field in Kyiv, 2007
2008- celebration of the 1020th anniversary of the Baptism of Rus'. Festive educational concerts were organized in 24 largest cities of Ukraine, attracting more than one and a half million spectators. A religious procession with an icon and a piece of the relics of St. Equal-to-the-Apostles Prince Vladimir was organized in all dioceses of Ukraine.
2009- on the days of the celebration of the Baptism of Rus' His Holiness Kirill, Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', arrived in Ukraine for the first time on a pastoral, prayer and pilgrimage visit.
Patriarch Kirill during a festive prayer service on Vladimirskaya Hill in Kyiv, 2009
2011-2012- with the blessing of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Rus' and His Beatitude Metropolitan Vladimir, the celebration of the Day of the Baptism of Rus' was held in the capitals of three countries simultaneously - in Kyiv, Moscow and Minsk - with live TV broadcast on the main television channels of the countries participating in the celebrations.
2013- with the blessing of the Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus' Kirill, as part of the international celebration of the 1025th anniversary of the Baptism of Rus', a unique religious procession was held, in which for the first time in history the ark with the holy relics of the baptizer of Rus', Saint Equal-to-the-Apostles Prince Vladimir, was carried from Vladivostok to Kyiv throughout the territory of Rus' . The procession with the holy relics of the Baptist of Rus' ended on July 27 in Kyiv on Khreshchatyk, where a grand public celebration of the 1025th anniversary of the Baptism of Rus' took place with a live broadcast to the whole world.
Celebrating the Day of the Baptism of Rus' on the central streets of Kyiv, 2013
Patriarch Kirill and Metropolitan Vladimir during a festive prayer service on Vladimirskaya Hill. Kyiv, 2013
First hierarchs of the Orthodox churches during the festive celebrations in Kyiv dedicated to the Day of the Baptism of Rus'. 2013
Since 2014- with the blessing of the Primate of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, His Beatitude Metropolitan Onuphry, the procession in honor of the great date of the Baptism of Rus' and the holy Equal-to-the-Apostles Prince Vladimir becomes a tradition.
2016- for the first time, on the eve of the celebration of the Day of the Baptism of Rus', an All-Ukrainian religious procession of peace, prayer and love was held. Starting points The religious procession began with the Svyatogorsk Lavra in the east and the Pochaev Lavra in the west of the country. Hundreds of thousands of people took part in the procession, walked with miraculous icons and prayer across the entire country to ask God for peace for everyone. And on July 27, pilgrims united in Kyiv on Vladimirskaya Gorka to together praise the Lord and pray for God's Grace for our people. In total, more than 80 thousand people took part in the prayer service on Vladimirskaya Hill and the procession to the Kiev Pechersk Lavra. It is noteworthy that the celebration of the Baptism of Rus' that year coincided with the celebration of the 1000th anniversary of the establishment of ancient Russian monasticism on Holy Mount Athos. For this occasion, a unique icon “The Blessing of Holy Mount Athos” with the image of the Mother of God and the saints who came from the Kyiv baptismal font was specially brought to Kyiv. Believers had the opportunity to pray at this icon during the Prayer Service on Vladimir Hill. WITH Procession of the Cross On this day, the miraculous icons of the Mother of God - Svyatogorsk and Pochaev - arrived for a prayer service.
Procession with miraculous icons of the Mother of God, dedicated to the Day of the Baptism of Rus'. Kyiv, 2016
2017- the celebration of the Day of the Baptism of Rus' began with a traditional annual prayer service on Vladimirskaya Hill, which was led by the Primate of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, His Beatitude Onuphry, and a procession of believers to the Kiev Pechersk Lavra, where an all-night vigil was served. The 2017 religious procession was accompanied by 11 miraculous icons and the relics of Equal-to-the-Apostles Prince Vladimir. The event brought together a record 100 thousand participants, among whom were Orthodox believers from all dioceses of Ukraine, groups of pilgrims from Belarus, Russia, Moldova, Greece, Romania and other countries of the world.
Day of the Baptism of Rus' - 2017. Procession to the Kiev Pechersk Lavra
Prayer service on Vladimirskaya Hill on the occasion of the Epiphany Day of Rus'. Kyiv, 2017
His Beatitude Metropolitan Onuphry, Primate of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, during a prayer service on Vladimir Hill, dedicated to the Day Baptism of Rus'
The religious procession dedicated to the celebration of the Day of the Baptism of Rus' attracted 100,000 participants. Kyiv, 2017
Participants of the Procession of the Cross - 2017 on Grushevsky Street in Kyiv
July 27 - on the Inter TV channel from 7 am live - telethon "Our Faith", broadcast of the solemn prayer service on Vladimirskaya Hill and the religious procession, and in the evening broadcast documentary own production “Kievo-Pechersk Lavra. Photography of the Millennium."
Protodeacon: B Bless you, Master.
Primate: B Blessed be our God always, now and ever, and unto ages of ages.
Lik: A min.
Protodeacon: C Lava to You, our God, glory to You.
Face: C Heavenly Arya, Comforter, Soul of truth, Who is everywhere and fulfills everything, Treasure of good things and Giver of life, come and dwell in us, and cleanse us from all filth, and save, O Good One, our souls.
And the protodeacon proclaims:
B O Lord, and appear unto us, blessed is He that cometh in the Name of the Lord.
Poetry Confess to the Lord that He is Good, that His mercy endures forever.
Verse: O they had gone around me, and in the Name of the Lord I resisted them.
Verse: N I will not die, but I will live and carry on the work of the Lord.
Verse: K The stone that those who carelessly built, this became the cornerstone: this came from the Lord and is marvelous in our own hands.
Lick: B oh Lord... in voice 4
Tazhetropar Life-Giving Trinity, voice 8 :
B Blessed are You, O Christ our God,/ who are wise fishers of things,/ having sent down upon them the Holy Spirit,/ and with them they have caught the universe,/ Glory to Thee, more loving than mankind.
Troparion to all saints who have shone in the Land of Russia, the same voice:
I skin the red fruit of Your saving sowing, / The Russian Land brings to You, O Lord, all the saints who shone forth in that one. / With those prayers in the world deep / Keep our Church and country as the Mother of God, O Many-Merciful One.
Troparion of the Baptism of Rus', the same voice:
B Blessed are You, Christ our God,/ Who enlightened the Russian Land with Baptism,/ Who sent down the Holy Spirit to its people,/ Who led them to salvation,/ Lover of mankind, glory to Thee.
Troparion to the Equal-to-the-Apostle Prince Vladimir, tone 4:
U You were like a merchant looking for good beads, / glorious Vladimir, / sitting at the height of the table with the mother of the cities, / God-saved Kyiv, / testing and sending to the Royal City / to lead the Orthodox faith, / you found a priceless bead, Christ, / who chose you as the second Paul, / and shook off blindness in the holy font, both spiritual and physical. / In the same way, we celebrate your dormition, your people: / pray for our souls to be saved.
Chorus:
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Prokeimenon, tone 4: B I have cut off the chosen one from My people.
Poetry For My hand will protect him, and My arm will strengthen him.
Protodeacon: AND We pray to the Lord God that we may be worthy to hear the Holy Gospel.
Face:G Lord have mercy (three times).
Protodeacon: P wisdom, forgive me, let us hear the Holy Gospel.
Primate: M peace to all.
Face:AND to your spirit.
Primate: ABOUT t Matthew of the Holy Gospel reading.
Face:WITH Lava to You, Lord, glory to You.
Protodeacon: IN onmeme.
The Primate reads the Gospel of Matthew, beginning 55.
Face:WITH lava to you Lord, glory to you.
Starts:
P Holy Trinity, our God, glory to Thee.
IN in this holy land of ours, pray to God for us.
WITH Holy Equal-to-the-Apostles Grand Duke Vladimir, pray
B oga about us.
WITH lava to the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit.
AND now and ever, and unto ages of ages. Amen.
Hereby:
D It is fitting that we truly bless Thee, the Mother of God, the Ever-Blessed and Most Immaculate and Mother of our God, the Most Honest Cherub and the Most Glorious Seraphim without comparison, who gave birth to God the Word without corruption, we magnify Thee as the real Mother of God.
And the protodeacon says the litany:
P have mercy on us, O God, according to Your great mercy, we pray to You, hear and have mercy.
Face: Lord, have mercy (three times).
E We continue to pray for our great lord and father, His Holiness Patriarch Kirill, and for all our brethren in Christ.
Face: Lord have mercy (threewait) .
B giving thanks with fear and trembling, as a servant of indecency, to Your compassion, our Savior and Master, Lord, for Your good deeds, which You have poured out on our Earth from its Baptism until now, and we fall down, and we bring praise to You, as to God, and We cry out with emotion: deliver Your people from all troubles and always, as You are Merciful, fulfill our good requests, we diligently pray to You, hear and have mercy.
Face:G Lord have mercy (threewait) .
E We again pray to You, our Savior, through the blessed Prince Vladimir, who has been pleased to choose our race as Your inheritance and to bestow the Holy Spirit in the font of Baptism, O protect our Holy Church from schisms and disorder, and establish it in the unity of faith, and protect it with peace, hear and have mercy.
Face:G Lord have mercy (three times) .
E We still pray to You, Lord Almighty, to look after and establish this grape, which Your right hand has planted and preserved from all the slander of the enemy; and in the coming summer, grant peace and tranquility to your inheritance, so that Holy Rus', which you have chosen as your dwelling, may not diminish or be shaken, may your Trisagion be glorified, hear and have mercy.
Face:G Lord have mercy (threewait) .
D Thy commandment for us to love You, our God, and our neighbor, so that hatred, enmity, resentment and other iniquities will cease, but let true love reign in our hearts, we pray to You, our Savior, hear and graciously have mercy.
Face:G Lord have mercy (threewait) .
Primate: U Hear us, O God, our Savior, the hope of all the ends of the earth and those who are in the seas far away, and be merciful, be merciful, O Master, for our sins, and have mercy on us. For You are a merciful and Lover of mankind, and we send glory to You, the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, now and ever, and unto ages of ages.
Face:A min.
Protodeacon: G Let's pray to the Lord.
Face:G Lord, have mercy.
The Primate reads a prayer:
T O holy God, Father Almighty, Only Begotten Son, Savior of the world, and Holy Soul, enlighten and sanctify tribes and peoples! He who also guided the ruler of the Russian Land, Prince Vladimir, to the light of the true faith, and thereby enlightened our entire country with Baptism, and granted to shine with a host of saints, like the bright stars that adorned the sky of our Church! And to us, their humble and unworthy children, who now stand before Thy glory and bring thanksgiving prayers on this [thousand-year] day of the Baptism of Rus', bestowed great mercy, to glorify, praise and bring thanksgiving to You for all the good deeds that have been in Rus' from ancient years to the present day . Look at Thy field, the Holy Church, at the countries and peoples who have successively received the Orthodox faith from the single baptismal font in the waters of the Dnieper and now bring to You, like the beautiful fruit of the saving sowing of Thy Word, the faces of the saints. You have served the people with your faith, hope and love, in the way of speech and life, showing us the path to perfection according to the commandment of Christ: be ye therefore perfect, even as your Heavenly Father is perfect. Preserving this holy heritage of theirs, we pray to You, Giver of Life: save and have mercy on us, grant peace to Your world and to all Your creation, which, through our sin, the sons of this age are trying to destroy. We know that you do not want the death of sinners, but rather turn and let them be alive; look upon us who are in sin, turn away Your anger, which is righteously moving towards us, grant us repentance and have mercy on us with Your ineffable mercy. Accept our prayers and labors for the increase of love among all the people of this world. Protect our land, make the authorities wise, comfort and pacify all, grow Your Church, preserve Your heritage, enlighten men and women and infants with grace, and establish all Your people in Orthodoxy and piety with the prayers of our Most Pure Lady Theotokos and the Ever-Virgin Mary, by the power of the Honest and The Life-Giving Cross and All the Saints who have shone in our Land, so that in the unity of faith and love we glorify Thee, the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, forever and ever.
Face:A min.
Greatness:
IN We glorify you, holy Equal-to-the-Apostles Great Prince Vladimir, and honor your holy memory, who trampled down idols and enlightened the entire Russian land with Holy Baptism.
Protodeacon: Wisdom.
Priest: Most Holy Theotokos, save us.
Face: The most honorable cherub and the most glorious seraphim without comparison, who gave birth to God the Word without corruption, we magnify Thee as the real Mother of God.
Priest: Glory to Thee, Christ God, our hope, glory to Thee.
Face: Glory to the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, now and ever, and unto ages of ages. A min. G Lord have mercy (threewait) . B bless.
The Primate administers the dismissal.
And upon dismissal Abiye the protodeacon says many years:
IN to our great lord and father Kirill, His Holiness the Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus' and the Holy Trinity Lavra of St. Sergius, the sacred archimandrite, our God-protected country, the authorities, the army and its peoples, the entire consecrated cathedral, a zealot and teacher of piety, and to all who labor in the Orthodoxy of our Land with the word, scripture, teaching and godly life, and to all Orthodox Christians - many years to come.
Face: Many summers (three times).
A big holiday for the entire Orthodox world - 1030 years of the Baptism of Rus'. Large-scale celebrations are taking place in the capital. The liturgy ends on Cathedral Square, which is served by two patriarchs at once - Kirill of Moscow and All Rus' and Theodore of Alexandria and All Africa. Afterwards, believers will go through a religious procession to Borovitskaya Square to the monument to Prince Vladimir - the Baptist of Rus'.
Just like hundreds of years ago, festive bells are ringing on the Kremlin’s Cathedral Square. The beginning of the celebrations is announced by the bell from the bell tower of Ivan the Great. For the first time in the modern history of our country, the divine liturgy dedicated to the anniversary of the Baptism of Rus' is held in the open air on the Cathedral Square of the Kremlin. Thousands of believers have gathered here to, as the church teaches, offer prayer “with one mouth and one heart.”
A platform was erected especially for the service at the ancient walls of the Assumption Cathedral. The Liturgy was served in two languages - Church Slavonic and Greek. Together with Patriarch Kirill, Patriarch Theodore II of Alexandria also took part in the service on Cathedral Square. The heads of 11 foreign churches came to Moscow for the celebrations.
According to tradition, the Baptism of Rus' is celebrated on the Day of Remembrance of Prince Vladimir, Equal to the Apostles, who converted to Christianity in Chersonesos, on the territory of modern Crimea, and then spread the new religion throughout Ancient Rus'.
Today is a special holiday for believers. The 1030th anniversary of the Baptism of Rus' is historical date, and a day filled with special spiritual meaning.
“We all need a piece of faith in our souls, in our hearts, and it is very important that such holidays exist, and they are truly national,” the believer emphasizes.
“With faith we are united, we are all together, we can overcome everything, and we will have a wonderful future, with God’s help, of course,” the parishioner notes.
“It seems to me that this is a very big holiday, because it is the Baptism of Rus', everyone is joyful and cheerful. If Rus' had not been baptized, then we would not be an Orthodox country,” says the young parishioner.
The Divine Liturgy reproduces the main moments of the earthly life of Christ. The clergy are in festive attire.
Solemn services are held in all Russian Orthodox churches. The holiday is celebrated in Ukraine, Belarus, and Moldova. By the way, there are many representatives of the Ukrainian and Belarusian diaspora in Moscow. The Orthodox faith has become a spiritual principle for our peoples and the foundation of a cultural community.
The historical choice that was made 1030 years ago largely determined the vector of development of our country. The adoption of Christianity was reflected in the development of writing, architecture, and icon painting.
“Today is a special day for our people. 1030 years of history, which was filled with joys and sorrows, victories and defeats, but despite the difficult historical path, our people preserved their faith, their national identity, preserved their culture,” said Patriarch Kirill.
“Everything that the Russian people have become has its roots precisely in the adoption of Christianity and Orthodoxy. We know that this shaped Russian culture,” the parishioner noted.
After the end of the liturgy on Cathedral Square, believers walked in a procession to the monument to Prince Vladimir, where at this moment a prayer service is being held in honor of the Baptist of Rus'. And then all the Orthodox churches in Moscow and the Moscow region will ring the bells at the same time, announcing the great holiday.