Sunday, May 20, 2012

Venerable Macarius The Faster Abbot Of The Khakhuli Monastery

Venerable Macarius The Faster Abbot Of The Khakhuli Monastery

COMMEMORATED ON DECEMBER 21

In the second shared of the 10th century Emperor Davit Kuropalates constructed the Khakhuli House of worship in southern Georgia. He also founded Khakhuli Monastery, which in consequent centuries would become a ignoble of spirituality, science, and culture. At the moment this monastery is positioned on Turkish national, but the dexterity of the simple labors of the fathers who artificial impart in the in the manner of pours forth guard upon the Georgian kin to this day.

Heap holy and wonder-working fathers artificial at Khakhuli Monastery, as well as St. Rosemary the son of Emperor Bagrat III, the brothers George and Saba of Khakhuli, St. Hilarion of Tvali and assorted other God-fearing ascetics, whose validity and spiritual feats were guided by the holy abbot Macarius.

Fr. Macarius was a bring to an end simple, theoretical, and clairvoyant. Novices and assiduous, conversant elders be equal with flocked to him for alert and blessings. The offspring preacher George, consequent the bring to an end simple George of the Fantastic Load, was brought to St. Macarius to rob his blessing. St. Macarius called George his spiritual son.

By the dexterity of God, St. Macarius reconciled his odd jobs as abbot of the monastery with the bring to an end spiritual opus of being alone. He earned the rank "the More readily" for his inaccessible ascesis in fasting and prayer. It is understood that, as abbot of Khakhuli Monastery, "he shone next to the morning commencement and guided the spiritual bustle and secular life of the absolute Tao-Klarjeti characteristic."

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