Why did Judas betray Christ? Great Wednesday: the betrayal of Judas.
Judas Iscariot is the same traitor because of whom Jesus Christ was crucified. Few people doubt the very fact of betrayal, but its cause is still the subject of debate.
Was Judas' betrayal a consequence of his love of money? Or was it destined by Heaven itself? Theologians are still looking for answers to these questions.
There was a sin, because Judas not only committed treason, but denied the Lord, selling him for 30 pieces of silver because of his own greed. This sin is considered one of the most terrible. We have collected all seven deadly sins in one article so that during Holy Week everyone can take care of their soul.
Speaking about the sin of love of money, the church does not want its parishioners to experience trouble. It is God who should ask for financial well-being if you find yourself in a difficult situation. But it is important not to fall into obscurantism and not to commit unseemly acts for the sake of money. People who have gone through poverty talk about this and much more, and are convinced by their own example of the power of prayer.
Self-interest or the machinations of the devil
So, Judas renounced Christ, but why he did this is not completely clear to anyone except himself and God. None of the disciples of Jesus Christ and Jesus himself during his lifetime knew why Judas did this. According to the scripture, he betrayed his teacher and God because he was possessed by greed and evil or by a demon and the devil. By yielding to him, Judas succumbed to temptation and sinned against his faith.
According to Matthew, Judas betrayed Jesus for 30 pieces of silver, which in those days was a fortune that could be used to buy a house. This testimony, however, is disputed because it is found only in the Gospel of Matthew.
Kiss of Judas
According to the Bible, Judas agreed with the high priests and elders that he would kiss the one who called himself Jesus. Thus, this gesture became a conventional sign for the guards who captured Christ. Today, the “kiss of Judas” is the most famous symbol of betrayal.
What happened afterwards to Judas is also not entirely known. According to the disciples, he hanged himself, committing the third sin - suicide. There are also non-biblical versions that Judas lived a long life and died of a terrible disease. But in any tale, his life is very sad, and its end is joyless.
Lent commemorates the death of Jesus and his suffering. Holy Week reflects all the events leading up to the death of Christ and his Resurrection. That is why righteous people try to lead a modest and humble lifestyle throughout Lent. It is through prayers that we become closer to God during Holy Week. You can find out the texts of the best prayers for Lent in our other article.
Heaven's Plan
None of the living people can even imagine whether the death of Jesus was the plan of our Heavenly Father or whether it was a coincidence of circumstances. Of course, only God himself can know about this, and in this world we are not destined to know what motivated Judas.
It is known that the plan of heaven was to save people from sin. Moreover, Jesus himself said that he would reveal himself to the world the second time when people were mired in sin and unbelief. This suggests that Judas could sell his soul to the devil, but Heaven still needed his betrayal.
His subsequent repentance also begs the question. After all, if he sold his Teacher and got what he wanted, where did this belated noble impulse come from? And if he was motivated by the devil, then why did Judas hang himself? It is not yet possible to answer these questions, and we can only care about the purity of our souls.
In view of the events of the Passion of Christ, by Easter the clergy recommend that everyone undergo the sacrament of communion in order to meet the bright time in spiritual purity. Only strong faith and true love will help you get closer to God, the purest manifestation of which will be the atonement of sins.
It is best to confess on Maundy Thursday. Preparation for confession should take place in reading prayers and fasting. The church's advice will tell you how to confess correctly and what not to do before this sacrament. Be happy, believe in God and don't forget to press the buttons and
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On Great Wednesday it is performed for the last time and read with bows for the last time. Prostrations stop before the Feast of Pentecost (they will be performed only before the Shroud).
In the liturgical texts of Great Wednesday, the selflessness of the sinner woman, who poured precious ointment on the head of the Lord, is contrasted with the love of money of Judas, who sells Christ to the high priests. This is emphasized, for example, in the self-vocal stichera:
Whenever the sinner offered the ointment, then the disciple agreed with the sinner. The new one rejoiced, depleting the valuable myrrh: but this one tried to sell the priceless one. This one knows the Lord, but this one is separated from the Lord. This one was freed, but Judas was a slave to your enemy. There is fierce laziness, great repentance: grant me the Savior, who suffered for us, and save us.
(When the sinner brought myrrh, the disciple negotiated with the lawless. She rejoiced, spending the valuable ointment, but he wanted to sell the Priceless one. She knew the Master, he separated from the Master. She was freed, and Judas became a slave to the enemy. Strong is laziness, great is repentance: grant it to me, Savior, who suffered for us, and save us.)
These events are remembered on Holy Wednesday.
Reverend Cassia
The most famous stichera of this daywritten
Lord, even the wife who fell into many sins, who felt Your Divinity, the myrrh-bearing women, having taken the rite, weeping myrrh brings to You before burial: alas for me, those who say! for to me the night is the fomentation of intemperate fornication, and the dark and moonless zeal of sin. Receive my fountains of tears, even as the clouds bring forth water from the seas. Bow down to my heartfelt sighing, bowing the heavens with Thy ineffable exhaustion: let me kiss Thy most pure nose, and cut off this hair from my head, which in Paradise Eve, at noon, filled my ears with noise, and hid with fear. My sins are many, and Your destinies are deep, who can trace them? My soul-saving Savior, do not despise me, Your servant, who has immeasurable mercy.
(A woman who fell into many sins, who felt Your Divine essence, accepted the rite of myrrh-bearing, sobbing, brings Myrrh to You before burial, saying: Oh, woe is me! The night of intemperate fornication for me, the dark and moonless night of sin. Bow down to my heartfelt sighs, O One who bowed heaven with your unspeakable exhaustion, may I kiss your most pure feet, whose steps Eve heard at noon in paradise, and hid in fear, and wipe them off with my hair, who will search the abyss of your destinies, the Savior of my soul, who has immeasurable mercy? Your slave.)
On Great Wednesday, the troparion "" and the exapostolary "I see Your palace, my Savior, adorned" are sung for the last time.
Behold, the Bridegroom is coming at midnight
(Valaam Monastery Choir)
(Women's choir. Disc “Time of Fasting and Prayer”)
Behold, the Bridegroom comes at midnight, / and blessed is the servant, whom the vigilant will find: / but he is not worthy, but the despondent will find him. / Take care therefore for my soul, / not to be burdened with sleep, / lest you be given over to death, / and be shut out of the Kingdom, / but rise up, calling: / Holy, Holy, Holy art thou God, / Through the Theotokos have mercy on us.
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I see Your palace, O Savior
I see Your palace, my Savior, adorned, and I have no clothes, but I will go into it: enlighten the robe of my soul, O Light-Giver, and save me.
Great Wednesday Sermons
We have collected memorable sermons from Great Wednesday that will help us understand the difficult time of Holy Week.
Sermon of Patriarch Kirill on Great Wednesday
Metropolitan Anthony of Sourozh – Great Wednesday
Metropolitan Anthony of Sourozh
Peter denied Christ; Judas betrayed Him. Both could share the same fate: either both would be saved, or both would die. But Peter miraculously retained the confidence that the Lord, who knows our hearts, knows that, despite his denial, his cowardice, his fear, his oaths, he still had love for Him - a love that was now tearing his soul apart with pain and shame, but Love.
Judas betrayed Christ, and when he saw the result of his action, he lost all hope; it seemed to him that God could no longer forgive him, that Christ would turn away from him as he himself turned away from his Savior; and he left...
This morning we read about how a harlot approached Christ: not repenting, not changing her life, but only struck by the wondrous, Divine beauty of the Savior; we saw how she clung to His feet, how she cried over herself, disfigured by sin, and over Him, so beautiful in such a terrible world. She did not repent, she did not ask for forgiveness, she did not promise anything - but Christ, because she had such sensitivity to sacred things, such an ability to love, to love to tears, to love to the point of heartbreak, declared her forgiveness of sins for that she loved a lot...
I will say again: we will not have time to repent, we will not have time to change our lives before we meet tonight and tomorrow, in these coming days, with... But let us approach Christ like a harlot: with all our sin, and at the same time responding with all our soul, all our strength, all our weakness to the holiness of the Lord, let us believe in His compassion, in His love, let us believe in His faith in us, and let us hope for such a hope that cannot be crushed by anything, because God is faithful and His promise is clear to us: He came not to judge the world, but to save the world... Let us come to Him, sinners, for salvation, and He will have mercy and save us.
Theophan the Recluse – Great Wednesday
Saint Theophan the Recluse
I intended to depict before you the blackness of Judas’ betrayal. And now I say: let’s leave Judas. Let us better reconsider our affairs in order to cleanse from our life everything that bears any character trait of Judas, and thereby avoid the heavenly punishment that fell on him.
What is especially striking about Judas is that during his time with the Lord, he was exactly the same in life as all the Apostles. With them he ate, drank, walked, spent nights, with them he heard teachings and saw the miracles of the Lord, with them he endured all his needs, even went to preach the Gospel, and perhaps performed miracles in the name of the Lord; neither the Apostles nor others saw any special feature in him. Meanwhile, in the end, do you see what happened?
Where does this fruit come from? Of course, from the inside, from the soul. And so, you see, something was ripening inside the soul that all the time there were no signs on the outside. Did even Judas himself know that in his heart he cherished such a snake that would finally destroy him?
According to the custom of hiding the bonds with which he entangles the sinner, he always hides his main passion with various extraneous appearances from consciousness and even conscience, and only then, when he counts on the certain death of a person, does he release it - to attack - on him with all uncontrollable fury. One can, judging by this, think that Judas did not see all the ugliness of his passion and recognized himself as not the worst among the other Apostles. And he fell, as if without foreseeing it.
So he carried a thorn in his heart. An opportunity presented itself, passion began to boil. The enemy took the poor man for this passion, clouded his mind and conscience, and led him like a blind or bound slave, first to crime, and then to the destruction of despair.
But this would not have happened if he had revealed his passion to the Lord. The physician of souls would immediately heal the illness of his soul. And Judas would have been saved. The same will happen to us if we do not reveal our passion to our spiritual father. Now she will become quiet; but after that, just by chance, there is a fall. If we open ourselves, we contrite, we set the intention not to give in and ask the Lord for help in this, then we will stand faithfully: for there is greater suffering in us than in the world (1 John 4:4). The Lord, by His grace, at the hour of resolution, will kill passion. And he will plant the seed of the opposite virtue.
Just put in a little work, and, with God’s help, you will no longer wallow in the passions of dishonor, and you will begin to look with an open face to the Lord, and to the Saints, and to all Christians.
– Great Wednesday
Saint Luke (Voino-Yasenetsky)
I want you to remember forever the unfortunate harlot, despised by everyone.
Do we not all abhor harlots? Don't we all condemn them?
And our Lord not only forgave the unclean woman her sins, but also glorified her in all nations and at all times, for this is what He said: “Truly I say to you, wherever this gospel is preached in the whole world, it will be said in memory of her and about what she did."
Why such unheard of honor and glory? Why is the unfortunate harlot so exalted, who has not done a single one of the deeds that are glorified by the people of this world? For what? Only for her fiery love for the Son of God and for the streams of repentant tears.
So, above all else in the world is love, pure love for everything holy. Is there a lot of love in our hearts? I will ask you, honest and immaculate wives of your husbands, I will ask even you, virgins; I’ll ask myself, do we have the moral right to despise unfortunate harlots and brand them with shame? We, who boast of our integrity, often dubious, how dare we throw stones of condemnation at these unfortunates? Only God, the Knower of the Heart, knows that some of them have a lot of love in their hearts, despite all their impurity.
And if we, innocent in body, condemn and hurt our neighbors with evil words, are we pouring out love from our hearts? If we slander and use foul language, we hurt loved ones with our sharp and evil tongue, will we receive a reward of love from God?
Let us understand, let us understand the words of Christ: “I want mercy, not sacrifice.” Let us remember forever that love is the fulfillment of the whole law. Let us often read the great hymn of love in the 13th chapter of I Corinthians by the Apostle Paul. Let us never forget about the harlot, whose heart burned with ardent love for the Lord Jesus Christ. Let us also love Him, our Savior, with all our hearts, with all our souls, with all our thoughts, and our neighbors as ourselves!
Saint Nicholas of Serbia - Great Wednesday
St. Nikolai Serbsky
The sinful wife, a known harlot in the city, especially among the Pharisees, must have felt disgusted with herself when she first saw the face of Jesus. Something turned green in the cesspool of her soul, began to sprout and no longer gave her peace: in the face of Jesus she recognized her true being. Since then, something was embarrassed in her soul, something began to fight: the garbage - with what had turned green, what had sunk into her soul, like a shining seed, from this Divine face.
In the end, the new, pure and holy overpowered her, and, taking her money, earned by sin, she bought the most precious spikenard scent, went to Jesus and poured out this scent along with her tears on Him. The blind Pharisees were only tempted by this scene. If, they said, He were a prophet, then He would know who and what kind of woman touches Him, for she is a sinner (Luke 7:39).
Truly, the Lord knew what they knew, but they did not know what He knew: they knew only her sin and nothing more, but He also knew something else - something that grew in the cesspool of her soul and glittered in a heap of garbage. They were like the moon, under whose pale light and crystal appears dark, without reflection, like simple sand. And He is the flaming Sun of Truth, Which divides and distinguishes, causing His face to shine with the light on the twisted fragment of crystal of the soul of a sinner wife. Therefore He reproached the Pharisees, these pale moons, and said to his wife: Your sins are forgiven (that is, I will sweep away your garbage from you); your faith has saved you, go in peace (cf. Luke 7:48, 50).
Archpriest Georgy Debolsky – Great Wednesday
What Christ predicted about the sinner wife was fulfilled. Wherever you go in the universe, everywhere you hear what is said about this woman; although she is not famous and did not have many witnesses. Who announced and preached this? The power of the One who foretold this. So much time has passed, but the memory of this incident has not been destroyed; and the Persians, and the Indians, and the Scythians, and the Thracians, and the Sarmatians, and the generation of the Moors, and the inhabitants of the British Isles tell what the sinful wife did secretly in the house.
Hear, all money lovers who suffer from the disease of Judas, hear and beware of the passion of the love of money. If the one who was with Christ, performed miracles, used such teaching, fell into such an abyss because he was not free from this disease: then how much more you, who have not even heard the Scriptures and are always attached to the present, can conveniently be caught by this passion, if you do not make constant care.
How did Judas become a traitor, you ask, when he was called by Christ? God, calling people to Himself, does not impose necessity and does not force the will of those who do not want to choose virtues, but exhorts, gives advice, does everything, tries in every possible way to encourage them to become good: if some do not want to be good, He does not force! The Lord chose Judas as an apostle because he was initially worthy of this election.
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TEBMSHOPUFSHA OBYI DOEK UFBMB FBL OBSCHCHBENBS "PVEBS YURPCHEDSH". pOB ЪBLMAYUBEFUS CH FPN, YuFP UCHSEEOOIL UBN OBSCCHBEF OBYVPMEE TBURTPUFTBOOOOSCH ZTEIY, B RPFPN RTPYUYFSHCHBEF OBD LBAEYNYUS TBTEYYFEMSHOHA NPMYFCHH. l FBLPK ZHTNE YURPCHEDY DPRKHUFYNP RTYVEZBFSH FPMSHLP FEN, LFP OE YNEEF ABOUT UPCHEUFY UNETFOSHI ZTEIPCH. OP Y DPVTPRPTSDPUOSCHN ITYUFYBOBN OEPVIPDYNP CHTENS PF CHTENEY RTPCHETSFSH UCHPA DKHYKH ABOUT RPDTPVOPK (YODYCHYDHBMSHOPK) YURPCHEDY - RP LTBKOEK NETE, OE TETE PDOPZP TBBB CH NEUSG.
pFCHEFUFCHOOPEFSH ЪB UCHPY ZTEIYUEMPCHEL OUEEF U UENYMEFOEZP CHPTBUFB. fPF, LFP LTEUFYMUS CHTPUMSCHN, OE YNEEF OKHTSDSCH CH RPLBSOYY UB RETYPD TsYJOY DP lTEEEOYS.
nPMYFCHOOPE RTBCHYMP
P UOPChPK TsYOY RTBCHPUMBCHOPZP ITYUFYBOYOB SCHMSEFUS RPUF Y NPMYFCHB. nPMYFCHB, ZPCHPTYM UCHSFYFEMSH nPULPCHULYK ZHYMBTEF, "EUFSH TBZPCHPT DKHYYU vPZPN". y LBL CH TBZPCHPTE OECHPNPTSOP CHUE CHTENS UMKHYBFSH PDOKH UFPTPOH, FBL TH NPMYFCHE RPMEЪOP YOPZDB PUFBOPCHYFSHUS Y RTYUMKHYBFSHUS L PFCHEFKH zPURPDB ABOUT THE OLD NPMSHVH.
GETLPCHSH, ETSEDOECHOP NPMSUSH "ЪB CHUEI Y ЪB CHUS", KHUFBOPCHYMB DMS LBTSDPZP MYUOPE, YODYCHYDHBMSHOPE NPMYFCHOOPE RTBCHYMP. uPUFBCH LFPPZP RTBCHYMB ЪBCHYUYF PF DHIPCHOPZP CHPTBUFB, KHUMPCHYK TSIYOY, CHPNPTSOPUFEK YUEMPCHELB. nPMYFCHPUMPCH RTEDMBZBEF OBN KHFTEOOYE Y CHYUETOYE NPMYFCHSHCH, DPUFHROSCH LBTsDPNH. sing PVTBEEOSH LP zPURPDH, vPTSYEK nBFETY, bozemkh ITBOYFEMA. rP VMBZPUMPCHEOYA DHIPCHOILB CH LEMEKOPE RTBCHYMP NPTsOP CHLMAYUYFSH NPMYFCHSH YJVTBOOSCHN UCHSFSHCHN. eUMY OEF CHPNPTSOPUFY RTPYUEUFSH KHFTEOOYE NPMYFCHSHCH RETED YLPOBNY CH URPLKOPK PVUFBOPCHLE, FP MHYUYE RTPYUYFBFSH YI RP DPTPZE, YUEN PRHULBFSH UPCHUEN. PE CHUSLPN UMHYUBE, OE UMEDHEF ЪBCHFTBLBFSH DP FPZP, LBL RTPYUYFBOB NPMYFCHB "pFYUE OBY".
eUMY YUEMPCHEL VPMEO YMY PYUEOSH KHUFBM, FP CHYUETOEE RTBCHYMP NPTsOP UPCHETYYFSH OE RETED UOPN, B OEBDPMZP DP LFPZP. b RETED FEN, LBL MPTSYFSHUS URBFSH, UMEDHEF RTPYYFBFSH MYYSH NPMYFCHH RTERPDPVOPZP yPBOOB dBNBULYOB "chMBDSHLP yuEMPCHELPMAVYUE, OEHTSEMY NOE PDT UEK ZTPV VHDEF..." Y UMEDHAEYE JB OEK.
pYUEOSH CHBTTSOPK UPUFBCHMSAEEK KHFTEOOYI NPMYFCH SCHMSEFUS YUFEOYE RPNYOBOYS. pVSBFEMSHOP UMEDHEF NPMYFSHUS P NYTE Y ЪDTBCHYY UCHSFEKYEZP rBFTYBTIB, RTBCHSEEZP BTIYETES, DHIPCHOPZP PFGB, TDYFEMEC, TPDUFCHEOILCH, LTEUFOSHHI Y LTEUFOILPC, Y CHUE AND MADEK, LPFPTSHCHE FEN YMY YOSCHN URPUVPVPN UCHSBOSCH U OBNY. eUMY LFP-FP OE NPTSEF RPNYTYFSHUS L DTHZYN, RHUFSH DBCE OE RP UCHPEK CHYOE, PO PVSBO RPNYOBFSH "OOOBCHYDSEEZP" Y YULTEOOOE CEMBFSH ENKH DPVTB.
h MYUOPE ("LEMEKOPE") RTBCHYMP NOPZYI RTBCHPUMBCHOSCHI CHIPDIF YUFEOYE ECHBOZEMYS Y RUBMFYTY. fBL, PRFYOULYE NPOBIY VMBZPUMPCHYMY NOPZYI YUYFBFSH CH FEYUEOYE DOS PDOKH ZMBCHH YЪ ECHBOZEMYS, RP RPTSDLH, Y RP DCHE ZMBCHSH YЪ brPUFPMSHULYI RPUMBOYK. rTY LFPN RPUMEDOYE UENSH ZMBCH brRPLBMYRUYUB YUYFBMYUSH RP PDOPK CH DEOSH. FPZDB YUFEOYE ECHBOZEMYS Y brPUFPMB ЪBLBOYUYCHBMPUSH PDOPCHTENEOOOP, Y OBUYOBMUS OPCHSHCHK LTHZ YUFEOYK.
nPMYFCHOOPE RTBCHYMP YUEMPCHELH KHUFBOBCHMYCHBEF EZP DHIPCHOSCHK PFEG, CH EZP TSE CHEDEOY YYNEOYFSH EZP - KHNEOSHYYFSH YMY KHCHEMYUYFSH. pDOBTDSCH KHUFBOPCHMEOOPE RTBCHYMP DPMTSOP UFBFSH ЪBLPOPN TSYOY, Y LBTSDPE OBTHYEOYE UMEDHEF TBUUNBFTYCHBFSH LBL YULMAYUYFEMSHOSHCHK UMKHYUBK, TBUULBBFSH PV LFPN DHIP CHOILKH Y RTYOSFSH PF OEZP CHTBHNMEOYE.
ZMBCHOPE UPDETSBOYE NPMYFCHEOOPZP RTBCHYMB - OBUFTPYFSH DKHYH ITYUFYBOYOB ABOUT YUBUFOP PVEEOYE U vPZPN, RTPVKhDYFSH CH OEN RPLBSOOSHE NSHUMY, PYUYUFYFSH UETDGE PF ZTEIPCHOPK ULCHETOSCH . rPFPNH NSCH, FEBFEMSHOP YURPMOSS RPMPTSEOOPE, OBKHYUBENUS, RP UMPCHBN BRPUFPMB, "NPMYFSHUS PE CHUSLPE CHTENS DHIPN... UP CHUSLINE RPUFPSOUFCHPN Y NPMEOYEN P CHUEI UCHSFSCHI"(eJ. 6, 18).
lBL NPMYFSHUS RTY OEDPUFBFLE READING
l BLINY UMPCHBNY NPMYFSHUS? lBL VSHFSH FPNH, KH LPZP YMY RBNSFY OEF, YMY LFP RP VE'ZTBNPFOPUFY OE YJKHYUM NOPZYI NPMYFCH, LPNH, OBLPOEG, - B VSHCHBEF Y FBLBS TsJOEOOBS PVUFBOPCHLB, - RTSNP OEF CHTENEYUFBFSH RETED PVTBBNYY RTPYUEUFSH RPDTSD KHFTEOOYE Y CHYUETOYE NPMYFCHSHCH? ьFPF CHPRTPU TBTEYEO HLBBOYSNY CHEMYLPZP UFBTGB UETBZHYNB UBTPCHULPZP.
NOPZIE Ъ RPUEFYFEMEK UFBTGB CHYOMYUSH ENH CH FPN, YuFP NBMP NPMSFUS, OE CHSHCHUYFSHCHBAF DBCE RPMPTSEOOSCH KHFTEOOYE Y CHYUETOYE NPMYFCHSHCH.
uch. UETBZHYN KHUFBOPCHYM DMS FBLYI MADEK UMEDHAEEE MEZLP CHSHRPMOYNPE RTBCHYMP:
"rPDOSCHYYUSH PF UOB, CHUSLYK ITYUFYBOYO, UFBCH RTED UCHSFSHCHNY YLPOBNY, RHUFSH RTPYUIFBEF NPMYFCHH "pFUE OBY" FTYTSDSCH, CH YuEUFSH rTEUCHSFPK fTPYGSCH. rPFPN REUOSH vPZPTPDYGE "vPZPTPDYGB deChP, TBDHKUS" FBLCE FTYTSDSCH. h "CHETHA PE EDYOPZP vPZB"- PDYO TB. UPCHETYYCH FBLPE RTBCHYMP, CHUSLYK RTBCHPUMBCHOSCHK ЪBOYNBEFUS UCHPYN DEMPN, ABOUT LBLPE RPUFBCHMEO YMY RTYYCHBO. PE CHTENS CE TBVPFSH DPNB YMY O RKhFY LKhDB-OYVKhDSH FYIP YUYFBEF "zPURPDY yYUHUE iTYUFE, RPNYMHK NS ZTEYOBZP (YMY ZTEYOHA)" , B EUMY PLTHTSBAF EZP DTHZIE, FP, ЪBOYNBSUSH UCHPYN DEMPN, RHUFSH ZPCHPTYF KHNPN FPMSHLP "zPURPDY, RPNYMHK"- Y FBL DP PVEDB. rTED UBNSHCHN CE PVEDPN RHUFSH PRSFSH UPCHETYBEF KHFTEOOEE RTBCHYMP.
rPUME PVDB, YURPMOSS UCPE DEMP, CHUSLYK ITYUFYBOYO RKHUFSH YUYFBEF FBL CE FYIP: "rTEUCHSFBS vPZPTPDYGB, URBUY NS ZTEYOBZP".
pFIPDS TSE LP UOH, CHUSLYK ITYUFYBOYO RKHUFSH PRSFSH RTPYUIFBEF HFTEOEE RTBCHYMP, FP EUFSH FTYTSDSCH "pFUE OBY", FTYTSDSCH "vPZPTPDYGE" Y PDYO TB "UYNCHPM CHETCH".
uch. UETBZHYN PYASUOSM, UFP, DETSBUSH FPZP NBMPZP "RTBCHYMB", NPTsOP DPUFYZOKHFSH NETSCH ITYUFYBOULPZP UPCHETYOUFCHB, YVP LFI FTY NPMYFCHSHCH - PUOPCHBOIE ITYUFYBOUFCHB. rETCHBS, LBL NPMYFCHB, DBOOBS UBNYN zPURPDPN, EUFSH PVTBYEG CHUEI NPMYFCH. hFPTBS RTYOEUEOB U OEVB bTIBOZEMPN CH RTYCHEFUFCHYE vPZPNBFETY. UYNCHPM CHETCH CE UPDETSYF CH UEVE CHUE URBUYFEMSHOSH DPZNBFSCH ITYUFYBOULPK CHETCH.
fBLCE yYUHUPCHH NPMYFCHH UFBTEG UPCHEFPCHBM YUYFBFSH PE CHTENS ЪBOSFYK, RTY IPDSHVE, DBCE CH RPUFEMY, Y RTY LFPN RTYCHPDYM UMPCHB YЪ RPUMBOYS L TYNMSOBN: "CHUSLYK, LFP RTY'PCHEF YNS zPURPDB, URBUEFUS".
x LPZP TSE EUFSH CHTENS, UFBTEG UPCHEFPCHBM YUYFBFSH YI echbozemys, LBOPOSH, BLBZHYUFSHCH, RUBMNSCH.
YuFP UMEDHEF ЪBRPNOYFSH ITYUFYBOYOH
e UFSH UMPCHB UCHSEEOOOPZP RYUBOYS Y NPMYFCHSHCH, LPFPTSHCHE CEMBFEMSHOP OBFSH OBYKHUFSH.
1. nPMYFChB zPURPDOS "pFYUE OBU"(nJ. 6, 9-13; mL. 11, 2-4).
2.PUOPCHOSHE UBRPCHEDY CHEFIPZP UBCHEFB(hFPT. 6, 5; mECH. 19,18).
3. PUOPCHOSHE ECHBOZEMSHULYE EBRPCHEDY(nW. 5, 3-12; nW. 5, 21-48; nW. 6, 1; nW. 6, 3; nW. 6, 6; nW. 6, 14-21; nW. 6, 24-25 ; nJ. 7, 1-5;
4.UYNCHPM THURS
5.xFTEOOYE Y CHYUETOYE NPMYFCHSHCH RP LTBFLPNH NPMYFCHPUMPCHH.
6. YuYUMP Y OBYOOYE FBYOUFCH.
fBYOUFCHB OEMSHЪS UNEYYCHBFSH U PVTSDBNY. pVTSD EUFSH MAVPK CHOYOYK OBL VMBZPZPCHEOYS, CHSTBTSBAYK OBUH CHETKH. fBYOUFChP - LFP FBLPE UCHSEOOOPDEKUFCHYE, PE CHTENS LPFPTPZP GETLPCHSH RTYYSHCHBEF dHIB UCHSFBZP, Y EZP VMBZPDBFSH OYUIPDYF ABOUT CHETHAEYI. fBLPCHSHI FBYOUFCH UENSH: lTEEEOOYE, NYTPRPNBBOYE, rTYYUBEEOYE (eCHIBTYUFYS), rPLBSOYE (yURPCHEDSH), vTBL (CHEOYUBOYE), EMEPUCHSEEOYE (uPVPTPCHBOYE), uchSEOUFChP (tHLPRP MPTSEOYE).
" OE KHVPYYYUS PF UFTBIB OPEOBZP..."
Yu EMPCHYUEULBS TSYOSH UFPYF CHUE NOSHIE... uFBMP UFTBIOP TSYFSH - PRBUOPUFSH UP CHUEI UFPTPO. mAVPK YЪ OBU NPTsEF VShchFSH PZTBVMEO, KHOYTSEO, HVYF. rPOINBS LFP, MADI RSCHFBAFUS ЪBEIFYFSHUS; LFP-FP ЪBCHPDYF UPVBLH, LFP-FP RPLHRBEF PTKhTSYE, LFP-FP RTECHTBEBEF TSYMYEE CH LTERPUFSH.
UFTBI OBEZP READING OE NYOPCHBM Y RTBCHPUMBCHOSHI. lBL ЪBEIFYFSH UEWS Y VMYOLYI? - YUBUFP URTBYCHBAF CHETHAEYE MADHY. OBYB ZMBCHOBS ЪBEIFB - UBN zPURPDSH, VEЪ EZP UCHSFPK chPMY, LBL ULBBOP CH RYUBOYY, Y CHPMPU U ZPMPCHSH OBYEK OE KHRBDEF (ml. 21, 18). yFP OE OBYUYF, YuFP NSCH CH VETBUUKHDOPN KHRPCBOY ABOUT vPZB NPTsEN CHEUFY UEWS CHSCCHCHBAEE RP PFOPEYOYA L RTEUFKHROPNH NYTH. UMHRB "OE YULKHYBK zPURPDB vPZB FCHPEZP"(nJ. 4, 7) OBN OHTsOP ЪBRPNOYFSH LTERLP.
vPZ DBM OBN CHEMYUBKYE UCHSFSHHOY DMS ЪBEIFSH PF CHIDYNSHI CHTBZPCH. bFP, CH RETCHHA PYUETEDSH, EIF ITYUFYBOULYK - OBFEMSHOSHCHK LTEUFYL, LPFPTSCHK OEMSH'S UOINBFSH OY RTY LBLYI PVUFPSFEMSHUFCHBI. ChP-CHFPTSCHI, UCHSFBS CHPDB Y BTFPU, CHLKHYBENSCH LBCDSCHN KhFTPN.
EEE ITYUFYBOYO ITBOYN NPMYFCHPK. PE NOPZYI GETLCHBI RTDPDBAFUS RPSUB, ABOUT LPFPTSCHK OBRYUBO FELUF 90-ZP RUBMNB "tsYCHSHCHK CH RPNPEY CHSHYOSZP..." Y NPMYFChB yuEUFOPNH lTEUFH "dB CHPULTEUOOEF vPZ". eZP OPUSF ABOUT THE FEMA, RPD PDETSDPK.
DECHSOPUFSHCHK RUBMPN YNEEF CHEMILHA UYMKH. dHIPCHOP PRSHFOSH MADI TELPNEODHAF YUYFBFSH EZP RETED LBTSDSCHN CHSHCHIPDPN ABOUT KHMYGH, ULPMSHLP VSHCH TB NSHCH OY RPLYDBMY DPN. UCHSFYFEMSH YZOBFYK vTSOYUBOYOPCH DBEF UPCHEF RTY CHSHCHIPDE YJ DPNB PUEOYFSH UEVS LTEUFOSCHN OBNEOYEN Y RTPYUYFBFSH NPMYFCHH: "pFTYGBAUS FEVE, UBFBOP, ZPTDSCHOY FCHPES Y UMH TsEOYA FEVE, Y UPUEFBAUS FEVE, ITYUFE, PE YNS pFGB Y USHOB Y UCHSFBZP DHib ". rTBCHPUMBCHOSHE TPDYFEMY OERTENEOOOP DPMTSOSCH RETELTEUFIFSH UCHPEZP TEVEOLB, EUMY PO IDEF ABOUT KHMYGH PDYO.
PLBBCHYUSH CH PRBUOPK UYFKHBGYY, OBDP NPMYFSHUS: "dB CHPULTEUOOEF vPZ", YMY "chJVTBOOPK chPECHPDE RPVEDYFEMSHOBS"(RETCHSHCHK LPODBL YЪ BLBZHYUFB vPZPTPDYGE), YMY RTPUFP "zPURPDY, RPNYMHK", NOPZPLTBFOP. rTYVEZBFSH L NPMYFCHE OBDP Y FPZDB, LPZDB ABOUT OBUYI ZMBBI HZTPTSBAF DTHZPNH YUEMPCHELH, B UYM Y NHTSEUFCHB VTPUIFSHUS ENKH ABOUT RPNPESH OE DPUFBEF.
PYUEOSH UIMSHOB NPMYFCHB L KHZPDOILBN vPTSYYN, RTUMBCHYYNUS TBFOSCHN YULHUUFCHPN RTY TSYYOY: UCHSFSHCHN ZEPTZYA rPVEDPOPUGKH, ZHEPDPTKH uFTBFYMBFKH, dYNYFTYA dPOULP NH. OE ъBVKhDEN PV bTIYUFTBFYZE NYIBYME, P OBIEN BOZEM ITBOYFEME. CHUE POY YNEAF X vPZB PUPVHA CHMBUFSH RPDBCHBFSH OENPEOSCHN UYMKH L PDPMEOYA CHTBZPCH.
"EUMY zPURPDSH OE PITBOYF ZPTPDB, OBRTBUOP VPDTUFCHHEF UFTBC"(rU.126.1). dPN ITYUFYBOYOB OERTENEOOOP DPMTSEO VSHFSH PUCHSEEO. vMBZPDBFSH UPITBOIF TSYMYEE PF CHUSLPZP JMB. eUMY OEF CHPNPTSOPUFY RTYZMBUYFSH CH DPN UCHSEEOOILB, OHTsOP UBNYN PLTPRYFSH CHUE UFEOSCH, PLOB Y DCHETY UCHSFPK CHPDPK, YUFBS "dB CHPULTEUOOEF vPZ" YMY "URBUY, zPURPDY, MADI fChPS"(FTPRBTSH lTEUFH). pF PRBUOPUFY RPDTSPZCH, RPTsBTTB RTYOSFP NPMYFSHUS vPTsYEK nBFETY RETED YLPOPK ee "oEPRBMYNBS lHRYOB".
lPOYUOP, OILBLYE UTEDUFCHB OE RPNPZHF, EUMY NSCH VKHDEN CHEUFY TSYOSH ZTEIPCHOKHA, DPMZPE CHTENS OE RTYOPUIFSH RPLBSOYS. YuBUFP zPURPDSH RPRKHULBEF YUTECHSHCHYUBKOSCHE PVUFPSFEMSHUFCHB DMS CHTBHNMEOYS OETBULBSOOSCHI ZTEYOILCH.
"rTPFEUFBOFULBS" vYVMYS
Yu BUFP RTYIPDYFUS UMSHCHYBFSH CHPRTPU: "nPTsOP MY YUYFBFSH vYVMYA, LPFPTHA CHЪSM KH RTPFEUFBOFB? zPCHPTSF, CH OEK OE ICHBFBEF LBLYI-FP LOYZ?"eEDTSCHE ЪBNPTULYE RTPRPCHEDOYLY ЪB OUEULPMSHLP MEF PVEUREYUMY UCHSEOOOSCHN RYUBOYEN YUHFSH MY OE CHUEI TSEMBAYI TPUYSO. NOPTSEUFChP OBTPDB RTYIPDIMP ABOUT UPVTBOYS RTPFEUFBOFPCH YULMAYUYFEMSHOP YЪ-ЪB vYVMYY CH RPDBTPL. okhTsOP RTYOBFSH, YuFP CH LFPN PFOPYEOY zPURPDSH PVTBFYM ЪMP PE VMBZP - UCHPYNY UYMBNY nPULPCHULPNH rBFTYBTIBFKH VSHMP VSH LTBKOE FTHDOP YJDBFSH UFPMSHLP vYVMYK.
OP NPTsOP MY YI YUYFBFSH RTBCHPUMBCHOPNH YUEMPCHELH VEJ CHTEDB DMS DKHYY? DEMP ЪDEUSH OE CH FPN, KH LPZP PO CHSM VYVMYA, B CH FPN, YUFP CH OEK OBREYUBFBOP. rPDBCHMSAEE VPMSHYOUFCHP "RTPFEUFBOFULYI" vYVMYK ABOUT THUULPN SSHLE REYUBFBEFUS U YOPDBMSHOPZP YJDBOYS XIX CHELB, P YUEN YYCHEEBEF ODRYUSH ABOUT PVPTPF FYFKHMSHOPZP MYUFB. eUMY FBN EUFSH FBLBS OBDRYUSH - NPTsOP YUYFBFSH VEY UNHEEOOYS, RPUFPMSHLH FELUFSCH UCHSEOOOSCHI LOYZ OE UPDETSBP OYUEZP OERTBCHPUMBCHOPZP.
dTHZPE DEMP - "CHPMSHOSCH" RETECHPDSH vYVMYY YMY PFDEMSHOSCHI VYVMEKULYI LOYZ (OBRTYNET, "UMPChP TSYYOY"), B FBLCE vYVMYY U LPNNEOFBTYSNY. eUFEUFCHEOOP, RTPFEUFBOFSH LPNNEOFYTHAF UMPPHP vPTsYE UP UCHPYI ETEFYUEULYI RPYGYK.
eee PDOB PUPVEOOPUFSH ЪBZТBOYUOSCHI YЪDBOYK vYVMYY-PFUHFUFCHYE FBN PDYOOBDGBFY CHEFIPBCHEFOSHI LOYZ: fPCHYFB, yKhDYZHY, rTENKHDTPUFY UPMPNPOB, rTENKHDTPUFY yYU KHUB USHCHOB UYTBIPCHB, RTPTPPLB chBTHIB, rPUMBOYS YETENYY, CHFPTK Y FTEFSHEK LOIZY EDTSCH Y FTEI LOYZ nBLLBCHEKULYI. sing OE CHIPDSF CH UPCHTENEOOSHCHK ECHTEKULYK RETECHPD uchSEEOOOPZP RYUBOYS Y OBSCHCHBAFUS OELBOPOYUEULINY, FP EUFSH OE CHYYEDYYNYY CH LBOPO ("PVTBYEG", "RTBCHYMP" ZTEYU.). h VPMEE DPUFPCHETOPN ZTEUEULPN RETECHPDE vYVMYY LFY LOYZY EUFSH.
UMBCHSOULYK RETECHPD uChSEEOOOPZP rYUBOYS PUKHEEUFCHMSMUS U ZTEYUEULPZP FELUFB, RPFPNH OELBOPOYUEULYE LOYZY CHMYY CH OEZP Y RP FTBDYGYY RTYUHFUFCHHAF CH PFEYUEUFCHEO cabbage soup UPZMBUOP RTBCHPUMBCHOPNH LBFEIYYUH UCHSFYFEMS nPULPCHULPZP ZHYMBTEFB, GETLPCHSH RTEDMBZBEF UCHPYN YUBDBN OELBOPOYUEULYE LOYZY CH LBUEUFCHE VMBZPYUEUFYCHPZP YUFEOYS, OP OE TBURPTPUFTBOSEF ABOUT OYI RPOSFYE "VPZPDHIOPCHOOPUFY", RTYUKHEEE LBOPOYUEULN.
ъB VPZPUMHTSEOYEN OELBOPOYUEULYE LOYZY OE YURPMSH'HAFUS, EUMY OE UYYFBFSH OEULPMSHLYI YUFEOYK YЪ LOYZY rTENKHDTPUFY uPMNPPOB.
fBL YuFP YUFBFSH DMS DKHYECHOPK RPMSHYSH Y OBYDBOYS vYVMYA, CHSFHA KH RTPFEUFBOFPCH, NPTsOP. fPMSHLP OE UFPYF, RP ЪBNEYUBOYA DYBLPOB BODTES lHTBECHB, DKHYUCHPEK RTDPDBCHBFSH ЪB LFPF RPDBTPL - RTYOINBFSH RTPFEUFBOFULHA CHETKH.
ъB YuFP zPURPDSH RPRKHULBEF VPMEЪOY?
h PURPDSH RPRKHULBEF OBN VPMEYOY, CH RETCHHA PUETEDSH, UB ZTEIY - DMS YI YULHRMEOYS, DMS YYNEOOYS RPTPYUOPZP PVTBB TSIYOY, PUPBOYS LFPC RPTPYUOPUFY RPPOINBOYS FPZP, Yu FP ENOBS TSYOSH - LFP LTBFLYK NYZ, ЪB LPFPTSCHN UFPYF CHEYUOPUFSH, B LBLPK POB VHDEF KH LBTSDPZP, ЪBCHYUYF PF EZP TSIYOY ABOUT JENMA.
yuBUFP DEFI VPMEAF UB ZTEI TPDYFEMEK, YUFPVSH ZPTE UPLTHYYMP YI VE'DKHNOKHA TSYOSH, BUFBCHYMP ЪBDKHNBFSHUS Y YNEOIFSHUS, PYUYUFYFSHUS PF UFTBUFEK Y RPTP LHR.
vPMEEN NSH Y DMS OBEZP UNYTEOYS Y OEDPRHEEOYS L OMSHCHN Y ZYVEMSHOSCHN RPUFHRLBN. pDOBTDSCH YYUKHU ITYUFPU YEM U HYUEOILBNY, Y BRPUFPMSH KHCHYDEMY YUEMPCHELB, VE'OPZPZP PF TPTsDEOOS. BY LET'S LEAVE X DPTPZY Y RTPUYM NYMPUFSHCHOA. hYUEOILY URTPUYMY: "rPYUENH X OEZP OEF OPZ?" iTYUFPU PFCHEFYM: "eUMY VSHCH OEZP VSHMY OPZY, PZOEN Y NEYUEN RTPYYEM VSH PO CHUA YENMA."
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On Wednesday of Holy Week, two events are remembered: the betrayal of the Lord Jesus Christ by Judas and His anointing with myrrh.
The following fragment of the Gospel of Matthew is dedicated to them:
During this time, when Jesus was in Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper, a woman came to Him with an alabaster vessel of precious ointment and poured it on His head as he reclined. Seeing this, His disciples were indignant and said: Why such a waste? For this ointment could have been sold for a high price and given to the poor. But Jesus, realizing this, said to them: Why are you embarrassing the woman? she did a good deed for Me: for you always have the poor with you, but you do not always have Me; having poured this ointment on My body, she prepared Me for burial; Truly I say to you, wherever this gospel is preached throughout the whole world, what she has done will also be told in her memory. Then one of the twelve, called Judas Iscariot, went to the high priests and said: What will you give me, and I will deliver Him to you? They offered him thirty pieces of silver; and from that time on he sought an opportunity to betray Him. (Matt.26:6-16)
The Lord Himself not only forgives the woman’s sins, but also explains to the disciples that she thus prepared His body for burial, and also that her act will be known wherever the Gospel is preached. That is why the Church glorifies that unknown woman.
In the Western tradition, the sinner who washed the Savior's feet with myrrh is often identified with Mary Magdalene.
Features of worship
On Great Wednesday, the Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts is celebrated for the last time and the prayer of St. Ephraim the Syrian is read with bows for the last time. Prostrations stop before the Feast of Pentecost (they will be performed only before the Shroud).
In liturgical texts, the selflessness of the sinner woman, who poured precious ointment on the head of the Lord, is contrasted with the love of money of Judas, who sells Christ to the high priests. This is emphasized, for example, in the self-vocal stichera:
Whenever the sinner offered the ointment, then the disciple agreed with the sinner. The new one rejoiced, depleting the valuable myrrh: but this one tried to sell the priceless one. This one knows the Lord, but this one is separated from the Lord. This one was freed, but Judas was a slave to your enemy. There is fierce laziness, great repentance: grant me the Savior, who suffered for us, and save us.
(When the sinner brought myrrh, the disciple negotiated with the lawless. She rejoiced, spending the valuable ointment, but he wanted to sell the Priceless one. She knew the Master, he separated from the Master. She was freed, and Judas became a slave to the enemy. Strong is laziness, great is repentance: grant it to me, Savior, who suffered for us, and save us.)
Reverend Cassia
The most famous stichera of this day was written by the Venerable nun Cassia, a saint of the 9th century.
Lord, even the wife who fell into many sins, who felt Your Divinity, the myrrh-bearing women, having taken the rite, weeping myrrh brings to You before burial: alas for me, those who say! for to me the night is the fomentation of intemperate fornication, and the dark and moonless zeal of sin. Receive my fountains of tears, even as the clouds bring forth water from the seas. Bow down to my heartfelt sighing, bowing the heavens with Thy ineffable exhaustion: let me kiss Thy most pure nose, and cut off this hair from my head, which in Paradise Eve, at noon, filled my ears with noise, and hid with fear. My sins are many, and Your destinies are deep, who can trace them? O my soul-saving Savior, do not despise me, Your servant, who has immeasurable mercy.
(A woman who fell into many sins, who felt Your Divine essence, accepted the rite of myrrh-bearing, sobbing, brings Myrrh to You before burial, saying: Oh, woe is me! The night of intemperate fornication for me, the dark and moonless night of sin. Bow down to my heartfelt sighs, O One who bowed heaven with your unspeakable exhaustion, may I kiss your most pure feet, whose steps Eve heard at noon in paradise, and hid in fear, and wipe them off with my hair, who will search the abyss of your destinies, the Savior of my soul, who has immeasurable mercy? Your slave.)
On the same day, the troparion “Behold, the Bridegroom comes at midnight” and the exapostolary “I see Your palace, my Savior, adorned” are sung for the last time.
Behold, the Bridegroom comes at midnight, / and blessed is the servant, whom the vigilant will find: / but he is not worthy, but the despondent will find him. / Take care therefore for my soul, / not to be burdened with sleep, / lest you be given over to death, / and be shut out of the Kingdom, / but rise up, calling: / Holy, Holy, Holy art thou God, / Through the Theotokos have mercy on us.
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I see Your palace, my Savior, adorned, and I have no clothes, but there is a stench below: enlighten the robe of my soul, O Light-Giver, and save me.
Sermons
Sermon by Patriarch Kirill
Metropolitan Anthony of Sourozh
Metropolitan Anthony of Sourozh
Peter denied Christ; Judas betrayed Him. Both could share the same fate: either both would be saved, or both would die. But Peter miraculously retained the confidence that the Lord, who knows our hearts, knows that, despite his denial, his cowardice, his fear, his oaths, he still had love for Him - a love that was now tearing his soul apart with pain and shame, but Love.
Judas betrayed Christ, and when he saw the result of his action, he lost all hope; it seemed to him that God could no longer forgive him, that Christ would turn away from him as he himself turned away from his Savior; and he left...
This morning we read about how a harlot approached Christ: not repenting, not changing her life, but only struck by the wondrous, Divine beauty of the Savior; we saw how she clung to His feet, how she cried over herself, disfigured by sin, and over Him, so beautiful in such a terrible world. She did not repent, she did not ask for forgiveness, she did not promise anything - but Christ, because she had such sensitivity to sacred things, such an ability to love, to love to tears, to love to the point of heartbreak, declared her forgiveness of sins for that she loved a lot...
I will say again: we will not have time to repent, we will not have time to change our lives before we meet tonight and tomorrow, in these coming days, with the Passion of the Lord. But let us approach Christ like a harlot: with all our sin, and at the same time responding with all our soul, all our strength, all our weakness to the holiness of the Lord, let us believe in His compassion, in His love, let us believe in His faith in us, and let us hope for such a hope that cannot be crushed by anything, because God is faithful and His promise is clear to us: He came not to judge the world, but to save the world... Let us come to Him, sinners, for salvation, and He will have mercy and save us.
Feofan the Recluse
Saint Theophan the Recluse
I intended to depict before you the blackness of Judas’ betrayal. And now I say: let’s leave Judas. Let us better reconsider our affairs in order to cleanse from our life everything that bears any character trait of Judas, and thereby avoid the heavenly punishment that fell on him.
What is especially striking about Judas is that during his time with the Lord, he was exactly the same in life as all the Apostles. With them he ate, drank, walked, spent nights, with them he heard teachings and saw the miracles of the Lord, with them he endured all his needs, even went to preach the Gospel, and perhaps performed miracles in the name of the Lord; neither the Apostles nor others saw any special feature in him. Meanwhile, in the end, do you see what happened?
Where does this fruit come from? Of course, from the inside, from the soul. And so, you see, something was ripening inside the soul that all the time there were no signs on the outside. Did even Judas himself know that in his heart he cherished such a snake that would finally destroy him?
According to the custom of our enemy to hide the bonds with which he entangles the sinner, he always hides the main passion with various extraneous appearances from consciousness and even conscience, and only then, when he counts on the certain death of a person, does he release it - to attack - on him with all the uncontrollable fury. One can, judging by this, think that Judas did not see all the ugliness of his passion and recognized himself as not the worst among the other Apostles. And he fell, as if without foreseeing it.
So he carried a thorn in his heart. An opportunity presented itself, passion began to boil. The enemy took the poor man for this passion, clouded his mind and conscience, and led him like a blind or bound slave, first to crime, and then to the destruction of despair.
But this would not have happened if he had revealed his passion to the Lord. The physician of souls would immediately heal the illness of his soul. And Judas would have been saved. The same will happen to us if we do not reveal our passion to our spiritual father. Now she will become quiet; but after that, just by chance, there is a fall. If we open ourselves, we contrive, we set the intention not to give in, and ask the Lord for help in this, then we will stand faithfully: for there is greater suffering in us than in the world (1 John 4:4). The Lord, by His grace, at the hour of resolution, will kill passion. And he will plant the seed of the opposite virtue.
Just put in a little work, and, with God’s help, you will no longer wallow in the passions of dishonor, and you will begin to look with an open face to the Lord, and to the Saints, and to all Christians.
Saint Luke (Voino-Yasenetsky)
I want you to remember forever the unfortunate harlot, despised by everyone.
Do we not all abhor harlots? Don't we all condemn them?
And our Lord Jesus Christ not only forgave the unclean woman her sins, but also glorified her in all nations and at all times, for this is what He said: “Truly I say to you, wherever this gospel is preached in the whole world, it will be said in memory of her and what she did."
Why such unheard of honor and glory? Why is the unfortunate harlot so exalted, who has not done a single one of the deeds that are glorified by the people of this world? For what? Only for her fiery love for the Son of God and for the streams of repentant tears.
So, above all else in the world is love, pure love for everything holy. Is there a lot of love in our hearts? I will ask you, honest and immaculate wives of your husbands, I will ask even you, virgins; I’ll ask myself, do we have the moral right to despise unfortunate harlots and brand them with shame? We, who boast of our integrity, often dubious, how dare we throw stones of condemnation at these unfortunates? Only God, the Knower of the Heart, knows that some of them have a lot of love in their hearts, despite all their impurity.
And if we, innocent in body, condemn and hurt our neighbors with evil words, are we pouring out love from our hearts? If we slander and use foul language, we hurt loved ones with our sharp and evil tongue, will we receive a reward of love from God?
Let us understand, let us understand the words of Christ: “I want mercy, not sacrifice.” Let us remember forever that love is the fulfillment of the whole law. Let us often read the great hymn of love in the 13th chapter of I Corinthians by the Apostle Paul. Let us never forget about the harlot, whose heart burned with ardent love for the Lord Jesus Christ. Let us also love Him, our Savior, with all our hearts, with all our souls, with all our thoughts, and our neighbors as ourselves!
Saint Nicholas of Serbia
St. Nikolai Serbsky
The sinful wife, a known harlot in the city, especially among the Pharisees, must have felt disgusted with herself when she first saw the face of Jesus. Something turned green in the cesspool of her soul, began to sprout and no longer gave her peace: in the face of Jesus she recognized her true being. Since then, something was embarrassed in her soul, something began to fight: the garbage - with what had turned green, what had sunk into her soul, like a shining seed, from this Divine face.
In the end, the new, pure and holy overpowered her, and, taking her money, earned by sin, she bought the most precious spikenard scent, went to Jesus and poured out this scent along with her tears on Him. The blind Pharisees were only tempted by this scene. If, they said, He were a prophet, then He would know who and what kind of woman touches Him, for she is a sinner (Luke 7:39).
Truly, the Lord knew what they knew, but they did not know what He knew: they knew only her sin and nothing more, but He also knew something else - something that grew in the cesspool of her soul and glittered in a heap of garbage. They were like the moon, under whose pale light and crystal appears dark, without reflection, like simple sand. And He is the flaming Sun of Truth, Which divides and distinguishes, causing His face to shine with the light on the twisted fragment of crystal of the soul of a sinner wife. Therefore He reproached the Pharisees, these pale moons, and said to his wife: Your sins are forgiven (that is, I will sweep away your garbage from you); your faith has saved you, go in peace (cf. Luke 7:48, 50).
Archpriest Georgy Debolsky
What Christ predicted about the sinner wife was fulfilled. Wherever you go in the universe, everywhere you hear what is said about this woman; although she is not famous and did not have many witnesses. Who announced and preached this? The power of the One who foretold this. So much time has passed, but the memory of this incident has not been destroyed; and the Persians, and the Indians, and the Scythians, and the Thracians, and the Sarmatians, and the generation of the Moors, and the inhabitants of the British Isles tell what the sinful wife did secretly in the house.
Hear, all money lovers who suffer from the disease of Judas, hear and beware of the passion of the love of money. If the one who was with Christ, performed miracles, used such teaching, fell into such an abyss because he was not free from this disease: then how much more you, who have not even heard the Scriptures and are always attached to the present, can conveniently be caught by this passion, if you do not make constant care.
How did Judas become a traitor, you ask, when he was called by Christ? God, calling people to Himself, does not impose necessity and does not force the will of those who do not want to choose virtues, but exhorts, gives advice, does everything, tries in every possible way to encourage them to become good: if some do not want to be good, He does not force! The Lord chose Judas as an apostle because he was initially worthy of this election.
ACCORDING TO THE ORTHODOX PRESS
Passionate Week is passing, on the threshold of Maundy Thursday, no matter what day of the week you take, significant events took place in the life of Jesus Christ in each one, which brought him closer to death.
Maundy Thursday became a turning point, because it was on this day after the Last Supper that Jesus, the son of God, was betrayed by one of his disciples and taken into custody.
Back on Wednesday, the high priests and scribes gathered in the house of Caiaphas and decided on how to kill Jesus Christ, but in such a way as not to provoke the anger of the people, because the great holiday of Easter was approaching. On this day, one of Jesus’ disciples, Judas Iscariot, came to them and offered to betray his teacher, and for this he was offered 30 pieces of silver.
Maundy Thursday began with Jesus giving the task to his apostles Peter and Paul to find a room and prepare it for the celebration of Easter, the 1rre website reports. The upper room on Mount Zion was not chosen by chance, because Jesus told Peter and Paul that on the way they would meet a man carrying a pitcher and they should follow him, he would lead him to the house and the owner would show him where they could have the supper.
Towards evening, Jesus appeared in the upper room on Mount Zion along with his disciples.
The Betrayal of Jesus Christ The Last Supper: how the supper went and how it ended
The Last Supper began with Jesus washing the feet of his disciples and drying them with a towel, which showed the essence of deep humility. Of course, the students were outraged, how is it possible for a teacher to wash his students’ feet. At this moment, Jesus first hinted to his disciples about the traitor.
During the supper, Jesus repeatedly hinted and addressed his betrayer, but no one understood what he meant. Only the Apostle John knew who the traitor was, since Jesus told him.
And Jesus turned to Judas and said: “Whatever you are doing, do it quickly.” After his words, Judas stood up and left, and the disciples thought that he had gone out to give alms to the poor.
During the supper, the Sacrament of the Eucharist, communion, was established. Jesus gave everyone bread to eat and said that it was his flesh, gave everyone wine to drink and said that it was his blood.
At the end of the supper, Jesus went with his disciples to the Garden of Gethsemane and told them that they would all betray him, and the Apostle Peter would deny him three times before the rooster crowed. And so it happened.
In the Garden of Gethsemane, Jesus prayed and then said that the son of God was being delivered into the hands of sinners. At this time, Judas entered the garden with soldiers armed with swords. Judas approached Jesus and kissed him to give a sign to the soldiers who should be arrested. All of Jesus' disciples fled, afraid of the armed men, and only Peter and John followed him at a distance.
First, Jesus was brought to trial before the high priest Annas, then to Caiaphas; the excited crowd demanded that he be executed by crucifixion. No one could understand what Jesus was guilty of, why he was being tried, but the excited crowd, bribed by false witnesses, demanded death.
Jesus spent the rest of the night in the common courtyard, where everyone mocked him, spat on him, hit him in the face, and he endured all the suffering without complaint. So Friday came, and again the high priests gathered at Caiaphas and condemned Jesus to death.