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Posted By Macedon on January 14, 2025

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DIVINELY-WISE TEACHER

OF THE UNIVERSE

Saint Basil is a fiery pillar of the Church, one of the three supporting pillars of the Church’s teachings, together with Saints Gregory the Theologian and John Chrysostom. He is the bearer of the Cappadocian school, which establishes the basic dogmas of the Holy Trinity, of God, on which all Pneumatology and Christology in the Orthodox Church will later be built, in defense against heresies.

It is enough just to say – Saint Basil the Great, and to get a clear idea of a holy man, a man of God, a righteous man, a living icon of Christ. Bishop, zealot and unwavering fighter for the Orthodox Church. Full of grace theologian and seer of God, teacher of the universe, guardian of dogmas and light of the Orthodox faith. Inspired through the breath of God, organiser of the Holy Liturgy and church worship, apostolic editor of the canonical order in the Church and the conciliar organisation.

Venerable ascetic and perfect monk, founder of monasticism, editor of monastic rules and father of monks. Tolerant (understanding) pastor, who converts the deluded, comforter of the weak and protector of the poor, and, orphans.

Few people receive the title “Great” in the Church, and Saint Basil is one of those few who received this epithet because of his holy and praised life. How Saint Basil was Great is shown by the fact that he received that title while he was still alive.

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Posted By Macedon on January 14, 2025

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БОГОМУДАР УЧИТЕЛ
НА ВСЕЛЕНАТА

Свети Василиј е огнен столб на Црквата, еден од трите носечки столбови на учењето на Црквата, заедно со светите Григориј Богослов и Јован Златоуст. Тој е носител на Кападокиската школа, која ја поставува базичноста на догматите за светотроичноста на Бог, врз која подоцна ќе се надгради и сета пневматологија и христологија во Православната Црква, во одбрана против ересите.

Доволно е само да се каже – свети Василиј Велики, и да се добие јасна претстава за свет човек, маж Божји, праведник, жива икона на Христос. Архиереј, ревнител и непоколеблив борец за Православната Црква. Облагодатен богослов и боговидец, учител на вселената, чувар на догматите и светлина на православната вера. Боговдахновен устроител на Светата Литургија и црковното богослужение, апостолски уредувач на канонскиот поредок во Црквата и соборната организација.

Преподобен подвижник и совршен монах, основач на монаштвото, уредувач на монашките правила и татко на монасите. Снисходлив пастир, кој ги обраќа заблудените, утешител на немоќните и заштитник на сиромашните и сираците.

Називот Велики малкумина го добиваат во Црквата, а свети Василиј е еден од тие ретки што го добиле овој епитет поради неговиот свет и восфалуван живот. Колку свети Василиј бил Велик зборува податокот дека тој назив го добил уште додека бил жив.

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Posted By Macedon on January 14, 2025

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Father Gavril, from the Lesnovo Monastery, was a great consolation to the few true Christian communities (Christians with their own spiritual father, with a rule for spiritual struggle, who regularly fasted, confessed and received communion), who at that time, from 1983 to 1987 (the years we spent together), in R. Macedonia were scattered like small oases of salvation in the desert of atheism and Christian nominalism (Christianity only by name). As far as I remember, such communities existed in Skopje, Prilep, Strumica and Tetovo. If I have left someone out, may they forgive me.

With what I have written, I would like to share with you some advice and moments from our life together with Father Gavril in the Lesnovo Monastery, as well as from his rare visits to Skopje.

God always sends consolation to His people, just as Father Gavrill was to us at that time. Each time brings its own difficulties in fulfilling God’s commandments and in spreading the word of truth, but also it brings its own reliefs. I would not go into the comparison of the conditions then and present conditions, but one thing is certain – The tradition of true faith and true works is one and the same, then and now. This twofold Tradition, on a personal-catholic (universal, congregational) level, comes down to the prayer of the mind in the heart – “Lord Jesus Christ, have mercy on me”, and on a catholic-personal level comes down to a concrete and living, compassionate participation in the Eucharist of the Church.

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Posted By Macedon on January 14, 2025

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 Отец Гаврил, од Лесновскиот манастир, беше голема утеха за малкуте вистински христијански заедници (христијани со свој духовен отец, со правило за духовен подвиг, кои редовно постеа, се исповедаа и се причестуваа), кои во тоа време, од 1983 до 1987 година (годините што ги поминавме заедно), во Р. Македонија беа распрснати како мали оази за спас во пустината на атеизмот и христијанскиот номинализам (христијанство само по име). Колку што се сеќавам, такви заедници постоеjа во Скопје, Прилеп, Струмица и во Тетово. Ако некого сум изоставил, нека ми прости. Со напишаново сакам да ви пренесам некои совети и моменти од нашиот заеднички живот со отец Гаврил во Лесновскиот манастир, како и од неговите ретки посети во Скопје.

Бог во секое време им испраќа на Своите луѓе утеха, како што и нам ни беше отец Гаврил во тоа време. Секое време си носи свои тешкотии при исполнувањето на Божјите заповеди и при ширењето на словото на вистината, но и свои олеснувања. Не би навлегувал во споредба на тогашните и сегашните услови, но едно е сигурно – Преданието на вистинската вера и на вистинските дела е едно и исто, и тогаш и сега. Ова двоедно Предание, на лично-соборно ниво, се сведува на умно-срдечната молитва – „Господи Исусе Христе, помилуј ме“, а на соборно-лично ниво се сведува на конкретно и живо, сострадално учество во Евхаристијата на Црквата.

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Posted By Macedon on January 11, 2025

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THE “INVISIBLE” OF THE SAINTS

Monks are strange people. Rather, they are not ordinary earthly people, but heavenly ones,

who deliberately hide the light of their soul under a dark garment. (…)

They are armed by God with strength to withstand centuries and millennia. (…)

For them, who have stepped out of time and stepped into eternity,

the time of 2000 years is like one day[1],

and how much can a person change in one day?

– Venerable Gavril of Velica [2]

Of the holy person whom I dare to write, I am not even worthy to think of, and yet, I even bear his name. I am asking the Saint to forgive me, but also to bless me, and to enlighten my thoughts so that I can successfully finish writing this short hagiography of him as one of my smallest gifts and expression of gratitude towards him.

We come from the same city and even from the same neighbourhood, and, unfortunately, I do not remember him. I know that when I joined the church and when I started going regularly to church, reading spiritual literature, fasting and praying, I was compared to someone like Mijalche, and I did not know at all that Mijalche was, in fact, Father Gavril the Athonite and that one day I will be honoured by God to be the inheritor of his name (God willing, also inheritor of the way of his holy life, but I am far from that).

I had heard about him from my parents and the closest neighbours who knew him. They told me that once, when he came to the house where he was born, he noticed our childlike curiosity and called us to his house together with my friend, gave us candies and spoke to us. That is how time passed for a few days, and then he left and never came back. To my joy or regret, it is my only meeting with this holy man, who was close to us, yet so far away.

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