Gaponiada-2

Pharisee cries. "God, bast and other crazy verbs (9th song led by the canon of St. Andrew Cretan)

No one is sorry

The blogosphere boils sarcasm over the "anathema" of diomide. I personally do not find anything funny in all this. There was a tragedy. Even one person. But one person in the eyes of God is "more expensive than the whole world." This is time. Second. What happened is far from accidental. These reasons, it seems, is enough to not have fun too much.

Although, of course, the severities are not too funny. In them, rather, a feeling of shock and attempts to sublimation. I myself experienced this when I saw this "anathema". "Nightmare! - That's all that I could pronounce to myself.

And then, of course, the question is - how could this happen?

Yes, it could: madness on madness, anger at anger, "truth" on the "truth". And all - for one. They brought a person, produced - both “friends” and “enemies”. Some are endless cladding, pushing. Others - hysterical screams about the orange threat, the machinations of enemies. And so on, so on. Supposed - with processions, etched - censer. They ousted - from Anadyr, from the temple - to the apartment, from Partizanskaya Street - to the Cape of Lieutenant Schmidt. The result is paroxysm, hysteria, the madness of a produced person.

Everyone is to blame. And those who knocked out diomide on provocations, and those who brought “ours” to the CSS, inflating the situation on the cathedral to indecent, and those who, succumbing to an evil flash, made a hasty, fatal decision on the eruption.

Is it possible to say what Metropolitan Cyril said: “Everion from the dignity means simultaneously the death of the soul” - addressed to a person who is clearly deduced from balance, which is clearly in clouding? These are too irresponsible words, pronounced by the same person, whom in the church people they do not consider virtue as a model of virtue.

Or, finally, the last pearl of Andrei Kuraev: "Let the pus flow out of the church." If our empire is historically characterized by the attitude to man as manure, then here is the attitude of the church. The churches not only do not give a damn about all “working and burdened” (nevertheless the salvation of human souls, and not the acquisition of power and wealth - the main thing on Earth is a matter), but its own members for her are nothing more than pus. Here you have the main reason for what happened is the complete absence of love inside the body of Christ. Catastrophe!

And no one is ashamed. Well, maybe in the first second vague remorse. And - all. And everything is new, all the same, further, further, further.

Some importantly comment on the process of revolutionization of the masses: "The Lord of Diomid will support a quarter of the ROC believers, because he remained the only faithful church canons of the bishop." Others are thoughtful of the strategic prospects of "recent decisions." Still others complain about the "error of diomide" and stigmatize "backstage puppeteers." The fourth joyfully twist a finger at the temple: "Well, we said, this is Shizik." And the fifths are buzzing about a destroyed thunderstorm on the night of the 18th monument to the young Ulyanov in Moscow: "Not otherwise - in anathematical anathematical. That's what the Life -giving cross does!"

And what is heard in the Patriarchate? As always - it's okay. It's just a tantrum. The small part of the marginals will follow him. Sleep, the inhabitants of Baghdad, everything is calm.

Meanwhile, supporters of diomide report: “Antimin is abducted from the episcopal department in Anadyr as a priest Vladimir (Mordovov), consecrated by Bishop Diomid, so that he does not go to a devoted anathema, i.e. the wicked associates of Alexy Ridiger. And he will be exported to where the episcopal departments of the expelled ruler of Diomide. His church. It may be everywhere, even in a stable - and no matter how magnificent the decoration of the temples of the Russian Orthodox Church Ridiger may be, for supporters of the diomide service in them will become invalid, and the sacraments will not be performed. "

Antimins is a board with sewn particles of relics, consecrated by the bishop on a special rank and located on the throne of the temple. Without antimins, it is impossible to commit a liturgy (this tradition originates from the custom of the Liturgy on the tombs of martyrs that has arisen in early Christian times). With the acquisition of antiminations, the Church of Diomide receives everything necessary for its foundation. She now has a bishop who has the right to believe priests and the opportunity to perform a liturgy. She already has the beginning of legend: a wolf cathedral. persecuted saint. Antimins, torn from the clutches of heretics. This is a legend! Maybe for a year, or maybe for centuries. The split from now on is a failed fact. And some year and a half has passed!

The most adequate that I read these days, left Hieromonk Agafangel (Belykh) in his LiveJournal, assistant to the Khabarovsk Bishop Mark, who was flying with him to Anadyr: “The story is terribly and tragic now in the Russian Orthodox Church. Perhaps the story after years will give a full assessment of the cases and words that are now initiated in Moscow or where it is more fierce, sent from a sparks. Cape Schmidt pass through Orthodox hearts in Russia. "

So all this seems to me the same - creepy and tragic.

How could this happen?

I think the immediate cause of this breakdown (and this, of course, is, first of all, a terrible nervous breakdown) was an interview with the Vienna Bishop Halarion on July 14 “Komsomolskaya Pravda”, entitled: “Diomidovschina is a planned action in order to split the Orthodox Church”, where a young brilliant scientist calls the diomida a provocateur, a boor, a boor, a boor. He threatens him with excommunication and anathema.

This interview is something unprecedented in its unbridledness. “Diomidovschina is a political project. This is a deliberately planned and promoted action. Favorable to the forces interested in splitting and weakening., Etc.,” Hilarion plants his honed daggers full of sweet revenge in the heart of diomid. (Hilarion was called diomid among the main heretics.) And at the same time (and the brilliant bishop knows this very well, not stupid, because the person managed to write twenty books), all this is absolute slander. Diomid is a person, of course, a sick head, but sincere. Diomid, of course, is used by everyone who is not lazy, but he honestly defends his truth, which he sacredly believes!

And most importantly - well, they don’t say so with sick people. Yes, if there is even a grain of heart and conscience, you will think about before. If there is a drop of responsibility, you think that you can get in response.

No, of course, there is also a little tantrum in the level of hysteria: “Dziubani schismatics. A liberal conspiracy. While these bastards are trampling our land, it is impossible to sleep calmly !. Let the noble rage boils like a wave!. The enemy will be broken!. The victory will be behind us! Prolted the enemies of the Orthodox people!” - All these are the heavy accusations of Kirill Frolov from his LiveJournal (not the most cool). But this is already a clear clinic, and the question here is not to the sick, but to his superiors. In any decent company, taking care of the health of its employees, a person would have long been released on vacation, to the sanatorium, to the sea and pines, to look for lost spiritual balance.

The bishop of Hilarion is something completely special. This personality is amazing. Capital Vyunosh, conservative education, a refined intellectual. He goes forward, like a shining battleship to the music of "Passion in Matthew", leaving behind only smoking ruins. At the beginning of his journey, with one light wave of his hand, destroying the grandiose work of the whole life of the greatest of the preachers of our time of Metropolitan Anthony of Sourozh. In less than six months, the scandalous, wild, dumbfounded the whole Orthodox world of Demarsh in Ravenna, left the Russian Orthodox Church in complete isolation, follows. And now this is something completely incomprehensible, going beyond all frames.

Let us be honest and without abyss: here is our Mozart and Salieri - Hilarion, here is the Singer of Byzantism Tikhon Shevkunov, the apologet of the theory of "clash of civilizations" Vsevolod Chaplin, the painful Kirill Frolov, the creator of atomic Orthodoxy Yegor Kholmogorov, the dynamic diomid and so on, and so on. All these people are very, very young by church standards (and on all others). In today's infantile world, where youthful enthusiasm leaves only forty, and more or less begin to grow up to fifty, if they start at all, they are all real boys (I, of course, do not exclude myself from this series, however, thank God, I am not any “official representative”).

All of them, that is, - with unlimited conceit, hot blood (cars with frozen oil, as the Athos Elder Paisius said about youth). Someone has the presence of brains is compensated by an almost complete absence of conscience. Someone just selflessly plays the war. PIF-PAF, oh-oh-oh. And in the hands of these people, the steering wheel of a church ship! (Let the information field.) But this is like entrusting a modern warship to a team of homeless warship!

Actually, we have already passed all this in the 90s on the scale of the whole country.

Okay, move on. A dozen two thousand-year-old wax elders-first priests, immersed in the deepest narcissism. And the youthful Metropolitan Cyril. A smart, energetic, cunning politician with progressive views and a secretive soul. No one knows what he really thinks about. It is clear that first of all - a politician, ambitious, incredibly ambitious.

The patriarch remains. The only one of this company is a person who is really sorry. The only one who certainly did not deserve all this. A man is old, sick, but who nevertheless managed to restrain all these years all this years, which is flesh around the hysterical wave. Weak? Well, Patriarch Tikhon was also quiet and weak. And Metropolitan Philip, who was opposing the formidable, was not powerful. The power of God, as you know, is committed in weakness. And the trust of the Patriarch among the people - both Orthodox and in general Russian - this is more trust than the entire subcutaneous struggle, the entire lust and thirst for the power of all the bishops combined. That is the bosses, a well -known business. And he is the captain. The only one who can still keep this old schooner squeezing at the seams. And now it’s worth praying about. Because, if, God forbid, something will happen to the Patriarch, then the struggle for the body of Christ will unfold that it will not seem enough. Shreds of nooks will fly, and only shreds and feathers will remain from our beloved Russian Orthodox Church (recall the 90s).

There will be something

But what happened, then happened. You will not return the done. One small crash. One small catastrophe, which, probably thousands occur every day in the human world. And this one of them is just a symbol. But loud. Because after all - the church. Still, the "spiritual heart". Still, for a year and a half, this drama unfolded in front of everyone. A year and a half indifference, mixers, insinuations, hysteria. And one small crash in the end. You can throw it away and forget. "There will be nothing." "A miserable bunch of crazy people."

Well, nothing. Just another "small schismatic". A few hundred small disasters. Or - several thousand? Or maybe several dozen, hundred thousand? On a country's scale, something already means.

And there are also places where this "anathema" will be given loudly. In several hundred Russian monasteries, already today split into the parties of the "Diomids" and "patriarchal". Given - and how! Therefore, in the patriarchy, of course, shock. It’s not at all as noisy and fun as a year ago. Already a little uncomfortable. There will be nothing ... Why take out the sides of the hut? Let's, as always, slowly, as always, with omissions, as always, with a slope.

But something will be. Such things do not pass without a trace. Especially - in Russia. Where nothing goes without a trace at all. Where neither laws work, as in other countries, nor common sense, because everything is only on love and on truth. More often - on their absence. But - it is no longer long. It is worth it - on the illegal, on the slope, on the thread, on the snot, and then - one, and it will fall. All at once.

Like in 1905.

Then, too, everything stood for a long time. But for one historical moment it became clear - everything fell. Although ten more years - on a hobby, on a rope. And the "historical moment" of course, of course, was soon forgotten, obscured. But ten years later - responded. In a hundred and thousand times more loud. And for another hundred years he rushed with a booming echo - and everything spoke and spoke.

And now he responded again.

Yes, of course, times have changed. There is not so much a tragedy as a farce - tragedy ... But this cathedral and its hysterical skirmishes, and this is a fatal excommunication . And this flight to Chukotka . And this departure of diomide is farther to the north. And this is on the most, symbolic day for Russia, the day -icon of her most terrible tragedy, the forerunner of all her hundred years of bloody drama - a three -year anathema - will respond, I'm afraid, still all of us.

New Gaponiada

Gapon. The name, first of all, comes to the head, looking for analogies. Defender of the common people, priest Grigory Gapon - the first face of the first Russian revolution.

A young charismatic priest, a favorite of workers. Not a protege of the "world backstage", not a product of "orange technologies", by no means. The priest of the transit prison (and the transit prison of that time is a special topic). Having seen, in general, horrors - and in the cells of prisoners, full of men, women, children, and in the hostels of the workers, too. A sincere man, fond of, loyal to the authorities, dislikes the intelligentsia, turning away from revolutionaries. But its main quality was still adventurism. Typically Russian (crest - that is, the maximum, original Russian) type of adventurer. The ambitious, narcissistic.

At the beginning of 1905, the revolutionary parties looked next to the gapon "kutsi chicken", writes Eser Rutenberg, Gray Cardinal and the Dark Gapon Gapon. He recalls how the workers of his leader idolized, whose authority was indisputable. "All the greatness of the impending thunderstorm ... was associated with his name. Petersburg was full of gossip about him."

"Assembly of Russian factory workers in St. Petersburg", created by Gapon in February 1904, existed, as you know, with the money of the police department.

I am distracting for a second. The author of the "daily magazine", Svetlana Solodovnik, reflecting on the "casus of diomid" and quoting my words spoken in one of the articles, that the authorities are time to "think about an organ that can streamline and resolve church-state relations" , they somehow lead to the idea that the "Diomid project" is an operation of special services.

I want to notice a respected journalist that I do not have any data that Vladimir Putin personally promotes and subsidizes diomide. By no means. And I would admit, it was very surprised by such a plot turn (but fantastic plots in the heads of journalists are not surprised at all). My words were interpreted by a respected journalist.

The imaginary organ, which was discussed in the cited article, should, in my opinion, not at all integrate the church into power structures, but, on the contrary, protect the security of the state, so as not to tempt the Church with the lusts of the authorities. As they say, flies - separately, cutlets - separately. God - God, Caesar - Caesarean.

In my opinion, the church should be unconditionally separated from the state, because only in this way it has a chance to remain as a church, that is, as the body of Christ, not turning into a bureaucratic church-state hermaphrodite. The only power that the Church should possess is the power of moral authority, only the absence of which forces churchmen to speculate on the "bureaucratic exchange". The entrance to this exchange, in my opinion, should be closed for people in cassoons. For only this can make the church recall why it was in this world at all.

Once the unbridled power of Patriarch Nikon led the church to the great schism. Today, before our eyes, this plot unfolds again, by all, of course, the laws of postmodernism.

At one time, the war of the Old Believers and Nikonian completely demoralized, almost morally destroyed the Russian Church, so that by the beginning of the Petrovsky reforms, G.P. Fedotov records the "zero" of holiness in "Holy Rus'".

But after the Peter's reform of the church, humiliated outwardly, I had to recall my main internal business - about holiness. And soon (by historical standards) she experienced a real spiritual take -off: Paisiy Velichkovsky, Seraphim of Sarov, Optina elders.

And today the church will be able to become a church, that is, the guardian of the holiness and the conscience of the nation (and thus really help the state, and not become its burial), only being separated from it. After all, a conscience (church) cannot be on the content of the needs of the body (state): Caesar - Caesarean, God is God.

Well, we figured it out. Let's get back to Gapon. Although the role of our secret police in the Russian Revolution is indeed a special and very exciting topic, in the “Symphony” of Gapon it seems not the brightest. Flapping himself in the role of the leader of the huge mass of workers, Gapon was increasingly getting out of control of the police. Popularity was increasingly circling his head. The historical petition, compiled by him with the workers (by the way, on the day of the Epiphany!), Combined the most exalted and humble style with the most daring, breathtaking calls. The first of them, of course, was the requirement of the Constituent Assembly (Local Council, in our opinion), "so that the people themselves help themselves and control themselves."

According to the assurances of the liberal writer V.A. Posse, who talked with Gapon in 1905, the latter admitted to him that he had foreseen two possible options for developing events after presenting a petition to the tsar: he would either persuade him to make concessions and become the first adviser to Nicholas, and in fact the ruler of Russia, will lead the popular uprising and turn into a new peasant king.

It is unlikely that, of course, Gapon said this. Но миф этот, во всяком случае, похож на правду, и в голове его подобные мысли наверняка роились.

Чем не патриарх Диомид?

Рутенберг рассказывает, как после расстрела у Нарвских ворот они вместе с Гапоном ползли через трупы, а потом пробирались дворами с побоища: "Нет больше Бога, нету больше царя", - хрипел Гапон, сбрасывая с себя шубу и рясу". Несколько этих слов "подвели итог всем причинам мучительно векового прошлого" и "установили программу неумолимого, кровавого будущего" , замечает Рутенберг.

А затем он благоговейно описывает таинство "пострига" Гапона - пострига в буквальном почти смысле. Рутенберг предложил остричь Гапона для конспирации, и тот согласился, и вот: "Как на великом постриге, при великом таинстве, стояли окружавшие нас рабочие, пережившие весь ужас только что происшедшего, и, получая в протянутые мне руки клочки гапоновских волос, с обнаженными головами, с благоговением, как на молитве, повторяли: "свято". Волосы Гапона разошлись потом между рабочими и хранились как реликвия" ("Убийство Гапона", Записки П.М.Рутенберга).

В тот же вечер Гапон встретился с Горьким, пророком-буревестником революции. "Что теперь делать, Алексей Максимович?" , спросил будто бы Гапон. "Что ж, надо идти до конца. Все равно. Даже если придется умирать" , - ответил будто бы Горький. "Но что именно делать, сказать не мог" .

В ту же ночь благословение "пророка революции" вылилось в новое воззвание, написанное Гапоном и отредактированное Рутенбергом. Еще один в высшей степени примечательный документ! Рутенберг оставил нам его копию, в которой воспроизвел свою редакцию, а написанное Гапоном выделил курсивом. Думаю, стоит привести несколько самых ярких отрывков этого весьма красноречивого документа с сохранением этого двойного голоса: самого Гапона и его "темного двойника": " Зверь-царь , его чиновники-казнокрады... сделались убийцами наших братьев, жен и детей. Пули царских солдат, убивших... рабочих, несших царский портрет, прострелили этот портрет и убили нашу веру в царя... Так отомстим же, братья, проклятому народом царю и всему его змеиному отродью, министрам, всем грабителям несчастной русской земли. Смерть им всем. Вредите всем, кто чем и как может. Я призываю всех, кто искренно хочет помочь русскому народу свободно жить и дышать, - на помощь. Всех интеллигентов, студентов, все революционные организации (социал-демократов, социалистов-революционеров) - всех. Кто не с народом, тот против народа. ... Братья-товарищи, рабочие всей России. Вы не станете на работу, пока не добьетесь свободы. Пищу, чтобы накормить себя, и оружие разрешаю вам брать, где и как сможете. Бомбы, динамит - все разрешаю. Не грабьте только частных жилищ... не грабьте бедняков, избегайте насилия над невинными. Лучше оставить девять сомнительных негодяев, чем уничтожить одного невинного. Стройте баррикады, громите царские дворцы и палаты. Уничтожайте ненавистную народу полицию. Помните всегда данную мне вами - сотнями тысяч- клятву. Боритесь, пока не будет созвано Учредительное собрание... где будут избраны вами самими защитники ваших прав и интересов, выставленных в вашей петиции изменнику-царю .

Да здравствует грядущая свобода русского народа!

Священник Георгий Гапон".

Воистину - священник! Но уже иной - перерождение свершилось.

Говорят, у царя этот документ вызвал ощущение мистического ужаса. Сам Гапон впоследствии горько сожалел о своем воззвании. But it was too late. Роковые слова были произнесены. "Благословение" это получило большой резонанс, было перепечатано в эмигрантской прессе, долго ходило среди рабочих.

Этот день и эта ночь стали началом первого акта русской революции.

Вскоре Гапон оказался в эмиграции, где связался было с эсерами, виделся с Лениным. Но в его бурной душе шла борьба. Он продолжал видеть себя вождем революции, а полиция продолжала иметь на него виды, желая направить народную стихию в нужное русло.

Вернувшись в Россию после Октябрьского манифеста и объявленной царем амнистии, он получил от правительства деньги на возобновление деятельности своей организации. Где-то лгал одним, где-то другим, отрекался от третьих, мало-помалу запутываясь, много пил. Те, кто видел его в последние месяцы жизни, описывают его как конченого человека.

Разбудив лавину русского хаоса, став "первой иконой русской революции", он в конце концов оказался более никому не нужен. И в марте 1906 года был казнен по приговору эсеров как провокатор. Ликвидация Гапона была поручена все тому же Рутенбергу. А разбуженная им лавина, поглотив своего родителя, неслась дальше вниз, по нарастающей, уже без него.

"Мы должны любить друг друга либо умереть"

Хосе Ортега-и-Гассет как-то заметил: "Какова бы ни была суть большевизма, это грандиозный пример человеческого замысла. Люди взяли на себя судьбу переустройства, и напряженная жизнь их - подвижничество, внушенное верой".

Да, стихия русской революции была религиозна по своей сути. Это надо понять и признать. И сегодня она не может быть иной. И если нам суждено пережить еще одну революцию, она снова будет - религиозной. Потому что только вера (а большевики были людьми в высшей степени верующими) делает человека способным отдать свою жизнь за свое дело. А только такое дело и такая вера способны потрясать мирозданье. Ничто другое.

История первой русской революции началась в 1905-м и кончилась в 1907-м. История епископа Диомида, начавшаяся в 2005-м разрешилась гулкой катастрофой 2007-го. И я бы не стал с ухмылкой проходить мимо всех этих рифм истории. Возможно, у нас есть еще каких-нибудь десять лет, чтобы прийти в себя, вразумясь посылаемыми знаками. Или - зайти на новый круг, новый вираж нескончаемой русской революции.

"Мы должны любить друг друга либо умереть" , - говорил Уистан Оден перед началом Второй мировой. А после нее сказал: "Поэзия не делает ничего" . То есть - все предупреждения бесполезны. Их никто никогда не слышал, не слышит и не будет слышать.

17 июля, в день расстрела царской семьи, Великая княгиня Мария Владимировна сказала, что прощает убийц Николая: "Да, по-христиански я их прощаю". Может быть, подавая нам всем пример? Я же думаю, что Россия сможет стать сильной, только если она будет со Христом (не с патриархией, не с Диомидом, а со Христом) И думаю, никто и ничто иное уже не в силах остановить эту новую лавину ненависти, уже готовую сорваться на нас.