My Life In Christ — Part 1 by Saint John of Kronstadt

Author:Saint John of Kronstadt
Language: eng
Format: azw3, mobi
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

NOTES

1. In the Russian, it is clear that St John is making the point that the root of the word “vdokhnovenie” (inspiration) is “vdokh,” meaning “breathing in.” The English “inspiration” has the same connotation.

2. Exclamation taken from the Vespers.

3. From Metropolitan Philaret’s Catechism.

4. Ode 5.

5. A Russian proverb referring to the large Russian stoves that occasionally had to be swept clean of soot.

6. In pre-Revolutionary Russia, any person who had civil or military employment had to commune once a year by law.

7. The bread prepared for sacrament is called “The Lamb” in the Orthodox Eastern Church (Isa 53:7).

8. The Eucharist.

9. Akathist to the Mother of God, Kontakion 9.

10. According to Orthodox tradition, Jesus sent this icon, which was a perfect image of His face on a towel, to King Abgar of Edessa.

11. Kontakion at Matins on Holy Tuesday.

12. From the Te Deum Laudamus.

13. From the Troparia to the Holy Trinity in the morning prayers.

14. Speaking of a priest.

15. Taken from the invocation of the Holy Spirit at the Holy Liturgy.

16. Troparion from the burial service.

17. From the prayer said by the priest during the Liturgy before the Gospel.

18. Sunday Matins Antiphon, Tone 6.

19. From the Great Doxology at Matins.

20. Russian steam rooms, in this case “communal bath houses” popular in the big cities.

21. From the morning prayer of St Basil the Great.

22. From the prayer to the Most-holy Mother of God at compline.

23. Canon of the Fifth Tone.

24. Troparion for the burial service.

25. Prayer of Hannah, the mother of Samuel (1 Sam 1:15).

26. From the burial service of a priest.

27. Prayer of St John Chrysostom, from the evening prayers of the Russian Church.

28. Canon of the Archangel (Ode 3, Troparion 3).

29. Canon to the Guardian Angel (Ode 3 on the “both now”).

30. From The Divine Liturgy of Our Father Among the Saints John Chrysostom: Slavonic-English Parallel Text, 3rd edition (Jordanville, New York: Holy Trinity Publications, 2013, p. 75).

31. St Spiridon was born at Cyprus and, although of humble origin, was unanimously chosen Bishop of Tremithus on account of the holiness of his life. He was gifted with the power of working miracles and was among the bishops who took part in the First Ecumenical Council of Nicaea, convoked to refute the heresy of Arius. He died in 348.

32. Canon to the Guardian Angel, Ode 9.

33. From the Office of Confession, the words of the confessor to his spiritual child.

34. General Troparion to a Venerable Father (monastic).

35. Ninth Eirmos of the Canon for Theophany.

36. The great litany is a long series of petitions on behalf of the assembled in the Church and all the faithful that usually begins any major service.

37. Prayer at the Liturgy during the oblation.

38. From the Divine Liturgy.

39. From the Akathist to the Sweetest Jesus.

40. Taken from one of the priestly exclamations at Divine Liturgy.

41. The raised platform coming out from the altar toward the center of the church, from which the priest reads his sermon.

42. From the Akathist to the Sweetest Jesus.

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