/ world right now information/ I’ll discuss our Saints and Patrons! The place are so many different as soon as wonderful tribes and peoples? Misplaced in summer season! And Bulgaria stays!
Centuries earlier than Giotto, earlier than St. Francis of Assisi, centuries would nonetheless go till Michelangelo, Leonardo and Raphael, Shakespeare and Goethe had been born. Francois Vion and Hugo. Tolstoy and Thomas Jefferson.
When London and Paris are sleeping provincial cities! When the fashionable world, our world, is just not even a premonition. Deep within the effectively, to the radiance that illuminates us and doesn’t diminish! As a result of our Saints and Patrons are among the many first. Their phrase is our starting. Due to them we’re nonetheless right here and we shall be!
Tomorrow would be the greatest day of the yr. We are going to ship our kids with flowers to the squares to rejoice the closest to our souls, our most original vacation – Might 24, the Day of Bulgarian Enlightenment and Tradition and of Slavic Writing, the Day of the Holy Brothers Cyril and Methodius.
Practically 12 centuries in the past, after the loss of life of his instructor, Kliment Ohridski wrote:
I enchantment to your golden eyes
By which unreasonable blindness was eliminated
And the prudent mild shone
I enchantment to your clear fingers
By way of which it was poured out upon my folks
A prudent cloud
Who watered with divine dew
Our hearts burned by the sinful drought.
Yesterday I spoke with Academician Vasil Gyuzelev. He advised me that uncle Kolyo, the professor-historian Nikolay Genchev, stated that Bulgaria may not even exist, that it would disappear within the coming years. Academician Gyuzelev known as the Bulgarian aristocracy, no matter meaning, short-sighted. He accused her of not caring for and defending her folks.
However there’s something, he stated, that can not be destroyed, one thing smoldering that won’t exit, that may be kindled once more, one thing that can stay. He known as it the Artistic Spirit of Bulgaria.
After I talked about to him about Academician Likhachev, whom we photographed with the director Zdravko Dragnev for 3 days in the summertime of 1989, and he advised us that we Bulgarians didn’t at all times have an exterior nation, however we at all times had an inside nation, a rustic of the spirit . Gyuzelev stated that Likhachev took this from a Razumnik – a decree from the thirteenth century, which accurately says the next:
“Know this too. There are three kings on the earth, as is the Holy Trinity in heaven… The primary kingdom is the Greek kingdom, the second kingdom is the Bulgarian kingdom, the third kingdoms and the German kingdom. With the Greek kingdom is the Father, with the Germanic is the Son. The Holy Spirit is with the Bulgarian kingdom”.
Cyril, who was born in 826 in Thessalonica, was in all probability the neatest man on the planet at the moment. In Constantinople, in simply three months, he mastered grammar, then studied Homer, Thucydides, geometry, and beneath Leo and Photius – dialectic and all philosophical sciences, rhetoric, arithmetic, astronomy, music and all different Hellenistic arts. He graduated from the Magnauri Faculty and is the librarian of the Patriarchate within the Church of St. Sofia”. Jogs my memory of Ibn Khaldun, the good Arab thinker. Like him, Cyril went on a mission to the Saracens in Baghdad, took half in discussions, secluded himself in silence within the monastery of Mount Olympus in Asia Minor, the place his brother had already retired. And Methodius beforehand dominated a Slavic principality, was a instructor and the primary bishop of the Slavs.
After they understood the mission for which the brothers had been created, they secluded themselves for a number of years and talked solely with books within the monastery of Polychron. Their landmark work is the Bulgarian alphabet, Glagolitic. This graphic system is the primary phonetic script totally tailored to the peculiarities of the language of the tribes within the Bulgarian group. On the base of the Kirilomethodian literary language is the East Bulgarian Thessaloniki dialect.
The Nice Moravian Mission adopted, the brothers stayed there for greater than three years and on a regular basis they had been at battle with the German clergy, who blasphemed them for preaching in an unholy language.
The trilingual dogma permits solely three sacred languages - Latin, Hebrew and Greek. Cyril argues brilliantly:
“Doesn’t God rain equally for all? Additionally, would not the solar shine on everybody? Do not all of us breathe the identical air? How is it that you’re not ashamed to outline solely three languages, however you need all different tribes and peoples to be blind and deaf?’
Within the “Proclamation to the Gospel” Constantine wrote:
Subsequently pay attention all Slavs
Nice knowledge in a small speech to say
All nations are bare with out books
As a result of they cannot and not using a weapon
With the enemy of our souls to battle
They’re prepared for the captivity of everlasting torment
And these letters, who perceived
Christ knowledge speaks
And hides your souls
Boris the First Michael is the chief of profound change, with the ability of Christ and the signal of the cross. The Bulgaria of Prince Boris the First Michael was certainly the nation through which Slavic writing and literature may take deep roots and bear good fruit.
Was the failure of Byzantine diplomacy, of Byzantine geopolitics, failure of the Cyril-Methodian affair, a rout, an empty place in world historical past potential?
The closest factor to that is the battle which Methodius has with the German clergy, after they revile him and beat him with horse-whips, after they throw him into jail for 2 and a half years. Constantine the Thinker has already died, bequeathing to his brother and his college students to proceed the work of spreading the brand new writing and literature: “Right here, brother, we had been harnessed collectively to plow a furrow. Having accomplished my life, I fall to the degrees. You’re keen on monasticism very a lot, however do not depart our educating due to it.”
Popes change, the brand new Pope Stephen V intervenes decisively on the facet of the German clergy. Beneath the specter of a curse, he forbade liturgies and sacred providers, expelled the disciple of Methodius Gorazd by pressure from the archbishop’s throne. Clement, Nahum and Angelarius torture them, chain them, throw them into jail. They had been taken out of Velegrad, stripped bare and pushed out of Nice Moravia. Others promote within the Venice slave market.
If this battle had then been misplaced, if these males had been killed, and so they had been lower than the fingers of 1 hand, the destiny of our nation and our nation would in all probability have been completely different.
A few of the surviving college students of Cyril and Methodius head to the Bulgarian lands. And Tsar Boris longed for such males.
And right here the miracle begins. Anton Donchev even talks about 3 miracles. Within the capital Pliska, Boris, in his quite a few conversations with Kliment, Nahum and Angelarius, constructed a technique for a complete church-literary, instructional and organizational exercise, for the institution of faculties, for the coaching of church clergy.
In simply seven years, Bulgaria educated greater than 10,000 monks, gave them 10,000 gospels, and so they got down to preach within the Bulgarian language.
Boris sends Kliment to Kutmichevitsa, the place his college students are the perfect in data, are appointed as readers, deacons and monks. He has 300 college students in every district.
Simeon ordained him as the primary bishop preaching within the Bulgarian language. Clement simplified the Glagolitic alphabet and created the letters of the Cyrillic alphabet. At present he is likely one of the seven apostles of Bulgaria, together with Cyril, Methodius, Naum, Sava, Gorazd and Angelarius.
Our language goes to the east and right now it’s a planetary phenomenon – a number of hundred million folks write with our letters. Already in 1211, the Bulgarian church thanked:
“To Cyril the Thinker, who translated the Divine Scriptures from Greek into Bulgarian and enlightened the Bulgarian race, the brand new second apostle, throughout the reign of Michael and the Orthodox empress, his mom Theodora, who adorned the Divine Church with holy icons and established Orthodoxy – everlasting reminiscence. To his brother Methodius, archbishop of Pannonian Moravia, since he additionally labored exhausting for the Slavic guide – everlasting reminiscence. To his pupil Kliment and to his different college students Sava, Gorazd and Naum, who, like them, labored exhausting for the Slavic guide – their everlasting reminiscence”.
Glory and immortality perpetually and ever!
23.05.2018 Mr.
Sofia
*Declaration of the PG of “BSP for Bulgaria”
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