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Apr 8, 2021 · Prayer of St. Basil the Great. Lord, Lord, who delivers us from the arrow that flies by day, deliver us also from every deed that walks in darkness. Accept the lifting up of our hands as an evening sacrifice. Grant that we may also pass through the stadium of the night without blame, untried by evils, and deliver us from every trouble and from ...
Jan 2, 2019 · In particular, Basil explained in his writings when a monk should pray. When you sit down to eat, pray. When you eat bread, do so thanking Him for being so generous to you. If you drink wine, be ...
This Liturgy of St. Basil the Great that is served every Sunday during Lent and on Great Thursday and Great Saturday has this long eucharistic prayer, and this long eucharistic prayer, it seems to me, is quite clearly intended to be not only a prayer but to be a prayerful catechetical contemplation. It’s a kind of a liturgical catechesis.
Liturgy of St. Basil is celebrated on the day of the feast, and the Litur-gy of St. John Chrysostom is celebrated on the eve. The Prayer for the Catechumens (See page 54) Priest: O Lord our God, who dwell in the heavens and observe all your works: Look down on your serv-ants the catechumens, who have bowed their heads be-fore You.
- The Byzantine Empire and Kyivan Rus’
- St. Sophia, Kyiv
- The Fragmentation of Kyivan Rus’
- The Rise of Moscow, “Third Rome”
- Rublev’s Trinity
- Contested Legacies
Kyivan Rus’ emerged as a powerful confederation of city-states during the second half of the ninth century in Eastern Europe, where rivers helped link the Baltic Sea with the Black Sea and facilitated trade with Constantinople, the wealthy capital of the Byzantine Empire. The capital of Kyivan Rus’ was Kyiv on the Dnieper River, which is today the ...
Wishing to emulate the Byzantine capital of Constantinople and its cathedral Hagia Sophia (dedicated to Christ as “Holy Wisdom”), Vladimir’s son Yaroslavexpanded Kyiv and built a magnificent new church to function as the city’s main cathedral, which he likewise dedicated to St. Sophia (“Holy Wisdom”) in imitation of Constantinople’s Hagia Sophia. S...
By the middle of the twelfth century, Kyiv lost control over its expansive territories, and Kyivan Rus’ fragmented into several smaller states, which sometimes fought amongst themselves. This fifteenth-century icon from Novgorod depicts a battle in 1170 when forces from Suzdal laid siege to Novgorod (view locations on map). The main subject of this...
In the middle of the thirteenth century, Kyiv and many of its former territories fell to Mongol invaders, bringing an end to Kyivan Rus’. But after two centuries of Mongol rule in the region, the city of Moscow emerged as a new center of power. Moscow was a latecomer among the older cities of Kyivan Rus’, emerging in the twelfth century and gaining...
In addition to the Virgin of Vladimir, one of Russia’s best-known artworks—an icon of the Holy Trinity attributed to Andrei Rublev—dates from this period of Moscow’s ascent. Rublev was an influential Russian painter who probably lived from the 1360s until around 1430. Texts describe him painting the Cathedral of the Annunciation of the Moscow Kreml...
The Byzantine Empire and Kyivan Rus’ do not survive, and their former territories are now divided among several states (as seen in the above maps). Consequently, the legacies of Byzantium and Kyivan Rus’ are often contested among these modern successor states, as the following two competing monuments illustrate. In Moscow, Russia, the 2016 unveilin...
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The name “Kievan Rus’” refers both to the state and its people. Kievan Rus’ was sometimes a trading partner and other times an enemy of the Byzantine Empire. But in 987, Prince Vladimir I of Kiev, ruler over Kievan Rus’ from 980–1015, formed an alliance with the Byzantine emperor Basil II (reigned 976–1025), converting from ...
Prayer to St. Basil the Great. Jan 1. O great and most glorious hierarch of Christ, divinely wise teacher of the Church in all the world, firm confessor and champion of Orthodoxy, all-blessed Father Basil! Look down from the heights of Heaven upon us who humbly fall down before thee, and entreat the Lord Almighty, Whose faithful minister on ...
