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SAINT JOHN OF KRONSTADT
 
Saint John of Kronstadt
- like Christ among us,
received Gifts of the Holy Spirit
to loose and bind
human sins,
biblical person in the history
of Russian Empire,
spiritual father of Orthodoxy.
 
A parish priest,
spiritual guide
of Kronstadt port city,
wherever he went
there many a people gathered
to see him, to touch him,
to be healed,
to be kept in faith
by his blessing,
to keep Russian people
walking the narrow path
- towards Christ,
towards true freedom.
 
Saint John was the first
at the church service,
reading canons and psalms,
and in the Holy Altar
he would kneel for a long, long time,
and then begin to serve
the Divine Liturgy that would become
the revelation,
Blessed is the Kingdom of the Father
and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,
the mystery of the Cross and salvation,
the mystery of Christ's
and our Resurrection.
 
Saint John became the spiritual father
of entire Russia,
he healed all the poor,
clothed the wretched and the needy,
released those who suffered
from tyranny of demonic forces,
the prophet and the teacher,
seminarians' favourite educator,
he saw through human hearts
and future,
and wrote the most
about his life in Christ.
 
And near the end
of his earthly life,
Saint John became worthy
of prophetic dream
and visitation
by the great batiushka
Seraphim of Sarov,
who led him up to Heavens
and showed him
unspoken secrets
about the struggle of Christ and the Church
against the red dragon,
and about the emergence
of the man of sin
in Jerusalem,
and about everything that
Saint John the Theologian
wrote in his divine Revelation.
 
Bishop Fotije

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Ο ΑΓΙΟΣ ΙΩΑΝΝΗΣ ΤΗΣ ΚΡΟΣΤΑΝΔΗΣ
 
Τῆς Κροστάνδης, ὁ Ἅγιος Ἰωάννης
- ὡς ὁ Χριστὸς ἐν τῷ μέσῳ ἡμῶν,
Ἔλαβεν τοῦ Ἁγίου Πνεύματος τὰ δῶρα
τοῦ λύειν καὶ δεῖν
τὰς τῶν ἀνθρώπων ἁμαρτίας,
Μορφὴ βιβλικὴ εἰς τὴν ἱστορία
τῆς Τσαρικῆς Ρωσίας,
τῆς ὀρθοδοξίας πνευματικὸς πατήρ
 
Τῆς ἐνορίας πρεσβύτερος,
πνευματικὸς τοῦ λιμανιοῦ τῆς πόλης τῆς Κροστάνδης, ἐκεῖθεν ποὺ ἐφάνη,
πλῆθος λαοῦ συναθροισθέντος ἱκανόν,
τοῦ ἰδεῖν, τοῦ ἐγγίσαι, τοῦ ἰαθῆναι,
τὴν εὐλογία του τηρῆσαι ἐν πίστει,
ἵνα ὁ Ρωσικὸς λαὸς βαδίσει τὴν στενὴν ὁδόν
- εἰς τὸν Χριστόν,
εἰς τῆς ἀληθείας τὴν ἐλευθερίαν
 
Πρῶτος ἦν ἀναγινώσκων κανόνας καὶ ψαλμοὺς εἰς Θείαν λειτουργίαν,
εἰσερχόμενος  δὲ ἐν τῇ Ἁγία Τραπέζῃ
ἐπὶ μακρὸν μένων, μακρὸν ἐπὶ τῶν γονάτων
ἦν καὶ ἀρχόμενος τὴν Θείαν λειτουργίαν,
ποίων ἀποκαλύψεων ὑπάρχων.
Εὐλογημένη ἡ Βασιλεία
τοῦ Πατρὸς καὶ τοῦ Υἱοῦ καὶ τοῦ Ἁγίου Πνεύματος,
μυστήριον Σταυροῦ καὶ σωτηρίας,
μυστήριον Χριστοῦ
καὶ Ἀναστάσεως
 
Καθίσταται πνευματικὸς ὁ Ἰωάννης συμπάσης τῆς Ρωσίας,
Θεράπων πάντων τῶν πενήτων,
ἐνδύων τάλανας καὶ πτωχούς,
τῶν ἐκ δαιμονικῶν δυνάμεων πειραζομένων,
ἐκ τῆς τυραννίας αὐτῶν τούτους ἀποδεσμεύων,
προφήτης καὶ διδάσκαλος,
τῶν θεολόγων λέκτωρ ὁ ἠγαπημένος, 
εἰς τῶν ἀνθρώπων καρδίας ἐπιβλέπων καὶ ἐν μέλλοντι,
τὴν ἑαυτῷ Χριστῷ Ζωῇ γράφων ὡς ἐπὶ πλεῖστον,
 
Πρὸ δὲ τῆς ἐπιγείου τελευτῆς,
ὁ Ἅγιος Ἰωάννης ἀξιοῦται ὁράματος
προφητικοῦ ἀλλὰ καὶ ἐπισκέψεως τοῦ γέρω- Σεραφείμ τοῦ Σάρωφ,
ἐν Οὐρανίοις εἰσάγετε,
δεικνύοντας αὐτοῦ ἀρρήτων μυστηρίων
περὶ τῆς πάλης τοῦ Χριστοῦ καὶ Ἐκκλησίας
ἔναντι τῶν ἐρυθρῶν δρακόντων
ἀλλὰ καὶ τῆς ἐμφανείας
εἰς Ἱερουσαλήμ
τοῦ ἄνομου ἀνθρώπου
καὶ πάντων τῶν ἐν
τῇ Θείᾳ Ἀποκαλύψῃ ὑπὸ
τοῦ Ἁγίου Θεολόγου Ἰωάννη γραφομένων.
 
Ἐπίσκοπος Φώτιος