Church celebration in honor of the holy martyr Tatiany this year will start the evening of January 23, told the press service head of the Moscow Patriarchate, the priest of the temple at MSU Tatianinskogo Vladimir Vigilyansky.
On Friday, at 16.00 Moscow time in the university church small with holy Tatiane, and at 18.00 Moscow time - Vigil. Worship commit clergy temple, expected graduates of MSU.
"This year's festival (Tatyana's Day) is postponed to January 25 to January 24, due to the fact that the January 25 start Bishops Council of the Russian Orthodox Church before the Local, which is to elect a new Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia", - said Vigilyansky.
According to him, before the Divine Liturgy on the day of commemoration in the holy Tatiany the temple served as the Moscow University or the Patriarch Alexy II, or the Rector of the Moscow Spiritual Seminary and Academy, Archbishop Vereisky Eugene.
At this time, with the blessing of the Moscow Patriarch's throne Metropolitan Kirill of Smolensk and Kaliningrad, and came with the death of Alexis II in the management of parishes Krutitskogo Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna Yuvenaliya, the main holiday prayers in the temple Tatianinskom morning on 24 January (at 9.00 Moscow time), headed by the Rector of the Moscow religious schools Archbishop Eugene.
At the service, culminating in the holy Tatiane prayer, a tradition will be attended by the rector of Moscow State University academician Victor Sadovnichy, faculty, many graduates and students, are addressed to the Holy Tatiany.
The evening of 24 January (at 17.00 Moscow time) to start Vigil.
At the very day the memory of the holy martyr Tatiany, January 25, at her church to be of service - grade (they commit clergy Tatianinskogo church, without the participation of bishops, who at that time will be at the Cathedral). "Because not all Tatiany aware of the transfer of celebration," - adding with a smile Vladimir Vigilyansky.
Religious celebrations on 25 January will start at 7.00 Moscow time early liturgy and prayer holy Tatiane, continue later liturgy and prayer at 9.30 am Moscow time. Since 17.00 Moscow time in the temple will serve with holy Tatiane.
"In celebration of transport (from 25 to 24 January), there is nothing sacrilegious, is in the rules of the Church of the statute. Thus it is often due to a variety of circumstances. For example, this year's Day of Commemoration in memory of St. Alexis, the heavenly patron of the late Patriarch, falls on Wednesday Lent, when there is no liturgy, so the celebration was postponed to Thursday, "- explained the priest.
Before the same every holiday Christians make solemn evening prayers - in fact, any celebration in the church there in the evening. "Daily Liturgical cycle begins with the evening and morning, which are united in " - said the agency interlocutor.
According to the prior university temple Archpriest Maxim Kozlov, the transfer is Tatianina of the day - a unique phenomenon that is unlikely to ever be repeated.
"The solution involves, on the one hand, to the Cathedral, and on the other hand - with the understanding the importance of the day martyr Tatiany for the University and for the Russian students, that it has not been in the shadow of this event," - explained the abbot.
Traditionally, St. Tatiana's Day is widely celebrated in Russia, especially the students. It was January 25, 1755 Empress Elizaveta Petrovna signed the decree on the establishment of the Moscow University. Day of the signing of the Adjutant General, the Count Ivan Shuvalov chose not accidental: thus he made a unique gift for his mother's name - Tatiana Petrovna.
Since then, the holy Tatiana considered the patroness of students and teachers. In her honor is the University Church, which is among the oldest shells at MSU Mokhovaya Street. Its parishioners have been many generations of intellectuals, it Gogol and Solov'eva, baptized Marina Tsvetaeva.
In 1918, the temple was closed. In his first club premises located, and from 1958 to 1994 - MSU's student theater. In January 1995, the building was returned to the Church.
Since 2005, the birthday of the Moscow University became the national holiday - the Day of Russian students. And in autumn 2007 in the federal law was changed - the Day of Russian students (Tatyana's Day) has become one of the seven anniversaries in Russia, along with the Day of Space and the Constitution Day.
Symbolically, the very ancient name "Tatiana" in Greek means ".
St. Tatiana, as the legend, lived in Rome in the II-III centuries, in times of severe persecution of Christians. Her father, the noble Roman, secretly confessed faith in Jesus Christ and brought up his daughter in a Christian spirit. She was not married, became a deaconess and devoted himself to serving God.
Once pagans seized Tatiana and demanded that it was bowing idols and brought them to the victim. But in the temple of Apollo, which led the virgin, she pray to Christ - and an earthquake. Idol split into parts and wreckage buried under buildings themselves priests.
Then, in an effort to compel submission Tatiana, pagans began to torture her. During the torture took place, many miracles: the executioners, who prayed on holy believed in Christ, the angels disqualified from Tatiana attacked and her tormentors, the wounds of her blood instead of milk, and in the air odor. When the martyr led to the circus and fired a hungry lion beast gently began to lick her feet.
After the terrible torments Tatiana every appear before his executioners even more beautiful than before. Pagans break faith martyr and executed it. Together with Tatiana was executed and her father.
In recent years, Russia has revived ancestral tradition of celebrating the holy day of Tatiana. And in a not noisy celebrations in the academic classrooms, not tasting , a common prayer Russian Orthodox Church and the high school.
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