Years of Preparation: Part 1
These readings are taken from:
Chosen For His People: A Biography of Patriarch Tikhon
by Jane Swan
ISBN: 9781942699026
St Tikhon, Patriarch of Moscow (Vasily Ivanovich Bellavin, 1865-1925) is one of the most important figures of both Russian and Orthodox Church history in the twentieth century. Yet ninety years after his death this remains the only complete biography ever published in the English language. It has now been updated and revised with a new preface and bibliography, together with revised and additional endnotes, by Scott M. Kenworthy.
All together these reveal a picture of a man whom no one expected to be chosen as Patriarch. Nevertheless he humbly accepted the call of God and the people to guide the Church during the most turbulent of times as it faced both internal upheavals and external persecution. As he said in his speech immediately following his election as Patriarch in 1917, “…I am entrusted with the care for all the Russian churches, and what awaits me is the gradual dying for them all my days.”
Both specialists and general readers will become better acquainted with St Tikhon through this modest but carefully crafted monograph.
Music:
Sticheron “On the Praises” (Pentecost) and Exapostilarion of Pascha.
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