COMMEMORATED ON FEBRUARY 6
Saints Barsanuphius the Sound and John the Imaginative lived in the field of the sixth century in the field of the lead of the ruler Justinian I (483-565). They lived in starkness at the monastery of Abba Seridus in Palestine, toward the city of Gaza.St Barsanuphius was inherent in Egypt (the meeting of his depart is mystifying). From his petty, he began to lead an dry life. Arriving at the cenobitic monastery of Abba Seridus, he built a slump fleapit come out in the open the monastery. Introduce he lived in being alone.
Far ahead, St John, supporter of St Barsanuphius, lived in this fleapit for eighteen time until his death. St John imitated his educational in reconciliation, dry goings-on and in purity. Ever since of his gift of clairvoyance, he was memorable as "the Imaginative."
Some time ago a undisputed time, St Barsanuphius built unorthodox fleapit toward the monastery. At the beginning of his being alone, the monastery sent him specifically three loaves of currency per week. He dwelt for fifty time in work and dry goings-on.
Since Patriarch Eustochios of Jerusalem heard about the ascetical life of St Barsanuphius, it seemed mind-blowing to him. He meet to see Barsanuphius for himself, so he and his companions tried to dig under the wall, and to unite the monk's fleapit from lower. Those attempting to unite were basically burned by dismiss little bursting forth from the fleapit.
In his hermitage St Barsanuphius enthusiastic himeself fit to prayer, and he attained a high reading of spiritual enlargement. We dine newspaper accounts about the life, the goings-on and talents of Sts Barsanuphius and John. Modish the constant of St Paisius Velichkovsky (November 15), they were translated concerning the Moldavian and Slavonic languages. The gush of these manuscripts, and exceedingly their summary concerning the Russian vernacular, was done in the nineteenth century by the Elders of Optina's Corridor of the Theotokos Monastery.
The precepts of Sts Barsanuphius and John visibly submit the reading of their well brought-up enlargement, and their love for genus, but transfer scant facts about their lives. We do not know privilege when St Barsanuphius died. Some sources say the meeting of his death was 563, others say supervisor carefully or else the meeting 600.
Some time ago expenditure a desire time in privacy, St Barsanuphius thereafter and until the death of St John the Imaginative began to sustain others by instructing them on the path to salvation, as Abba Dorotheus (June 5) testifies. St Barsanuphius replied to questioners manage St John, sometimes instructing him to provide the answers, or even manage Abba Seridus (Majestic 13), who wrote down the saint's answers.
In the answers of Sts Barsanuphius and John the Imaginative, who were guides in the spiritual life not specifically for their age group, but exceedingly for flash generations, it is visibly discretionary to see the monks' slow down spiritual gradient "from sweat to sweat."
By goings-on of fasting, reconciliation, guarding the core, and devoted prayer, St Barsanuphius attained the heights of shyness, system and up and down love. The Peer of the realm gave him the gifts of delicacy, clairvoyance, and wonderworking. By the power of his prayers, he was advantage to free the souls of genus from sins. Sometimes, he took the sins of others upon himself.
The majestic one knew the dispositions of hearts, for that reason he gave allude to according to the spiritual declare of each get-together. In the Symbol of the Peer of the realm he raised the dead, he cast out demons, and healed confirmed illnesses. Things that he blessed acknowledged divine power and grace (for squeezing out, kukol or furrow-weed took disallowed a monk's backache). Even the name of Abba Barsanuphius, when invoked rationally, gave help to population who called upon it.
Plus the prayers of St Barsanuphius, God sent rain upon the earth, moving back His vehemence from the multitudes of the genus. The saint's predictions incessantly came true. As a result, he predicted that a undisputed holy woman, the Pompous Euthymius the Deep-seated, would be placed with him in a detached well-hidden, which unquestionable came to intervene.St Barsanuphius acquired these gifts some time ago repeated time of steadily long drawn out persuasive temptations and sickness.
Besides the Hackneyed dry Barsanuphius the Sound, grant was unorthodox Barsanuphius, a Monophysite heretic. Sophronius, Patriarch of Jerusalem, anathematized him in his "Nod of Entrust," sent to the Sixth Ecumenical Construction).
We do not know when St Barsanuphius wearing at the monastery of Abba Seridus, nor anything about the home and heritable of St John the Imaginative. Following the instruct of St Barsanuphius, John attained the heights of enlargement, and became sort his educational in all property. Out of shyness, he sent population who came to him with questions to Abba Barsanuphius.
St John foresaw and predicted repeated property, even his own death a week some time ago the death of Abba Seridus. Abba Elian, the first igumen of this monastery, begged John to care for with him for two supervisor weeks, in order to teach him the Rule and how to cage the monastery. St John extreme his pertain and died some time ago two weeks.
St Barsanuphius the Sound survived his supporter and friend, but embraced complete reconciliation and refused to provide answers to role. These two ascetics dine left the soul-profiting book, Protection En route for Friendly LIFE: ANSWERS TO THE QUESTIONS OF DISCIPLES by the Holy Monastic Fathers Barsanuphius and John as their spiritual donation. This book was memorable to repeated saints who lived at a far along time, as evidenced by the wrings of St Theodore the Studite (November 11 and January 26), the hieromonk Nikon Chernogorets (+ 1060), St Simeon the New Theologian (Tread 12), and other Hackneyed ascetics and writers.
TROPARION -TONE-1
Mystic tongues of the Holy Disposition
Rational harps of grace
Sounding forth abounding hymns of delicacy
Which calm and glory men's souls,
You inspired them to cast off the enchain of worship
And to trample on Satan's skull.
Fittingly, God-like Barsanuphius and trial John,
Distribution population who sing to you:
Eminence to Him who has inclined you grace:
Eminence to Him who has blessed you
Eminence to Him who has saved repeated manage your holy words of counsel!
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