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Слово
новоизбраннаго
Патріарха
Кѵрилла
по
избраніи
его
Помѣстнымъ
Соборомъ
Русской
Православной
Церкви
27
января 2009 г.
Ваши
Высокопреосвященства
и
Преосвященства,
Ваши
Высокопреподобія,
Преподобія,
досточтимые
отцы,
братья и
сестры!
Со
смиреніемъ
и полнымъ
пониманіемъ
отвѣтственности
воспринимаю
я жребій
Божій,
черезъ
который
вручается
мнѣ
Патріаршее
служеніе.
Оно велико.
Оно
отвѣтственно.
Но въ
центрѣ
этого
служенія —
Крестъ
Господень,
Крестъ
такихъ
размѣровъ,
каковые
познать и
прочувствовать
можетъ
только
тотъ, кто
его несетъ.
Вспоминаю
слова
Святѣйшаго
Патріарха
Алексія,
который
неоднократно
говорилъ о
великомъ
крестѣ
Патріаршаго
служенія.
Но этотъ
крестъ
Предстоятели
Церкви
несутъ,
хотя онъ не
по силамъ
одному
человѣку.
Они его
несутъ
потому, что
вмѣстѣ съ
ними его
несутъ
архипастыри,
пастыри,
народъ
Божій. Они
несутъ
этотъ
крестъ
потому, что
сама
Церковь
несетъ его
вмѣстѣ съ
Патріархомъ.
И какъ
раздѣляется
несеніе
креста,
какъ
раздѣляется
отвѣтственность,
такъ
раздѣляется
и слава. И
когда
произносятся
добрыя
слова въ
адресъ
Предстоятеля
Церкви, это
слова и въ
адресъ
народа
Божія,
духовенства,
архіереевъ
— всѣхъ
тѣхъ, кто
вмѣстѣ съ
Предстоятелемъ
несетъ
тяжкій
крестъ и
величайшую
отвѣтственность
предъ
Богомъ и
предъ
исторіей.
Принимая
отъ васъ
изъявленіе
воли
Божіей,
прошу
прощенія
за мои
слабости,
прошу
помогать
мнѣ своимъ
совѣтомъ,
прошу быть
рядомъ со
мной въ
несеніи
Патріаршаго
служенія.
Но болѣе
всего
прошу
вашихъ
молитвъ —
такихъ
молитвъ,
какія, я
знаю, люди,
участвовавшіе
въ рѣшеніи
Помѣстнаго
Собора
нашего, и
многіе
другіе
совершали
отъ своихъ
любящихъ и
вѣрующихъ
сердецъ.
Пусть
благословитъ
Господь
Церковь
нашу,
народъ
нашъ,
страны, въ
которыхъ
Православная
Русская
Церковь
наша
несетъ
свое
служеніе,
всѣхъ, кто
своими
молитвами
и трудами
приблизилъ
этотъ часъ.
Еще и еще
разъ прошу
помнить
меня въ
вашихъ
святыхъ
молитвахъ.
Аминь.
Address
of the Newly Elected Patriarch Kyrill
on the Occasion of His Election by the Local Council of the Russian
Orthodox Church
January
27, 2009
Your
Eminences and Graces, Reverend Fathers, brothers and sisters!
It
is with humility and a full understanding of my responsibilities that I
accept God’s lot for me, through which is entrusted to me the Patriarchal
throne. That lot is of great magnitude. That lot carries great
responsibility. But at the center of that servitude is the Lord’s Cross, a
Cross of such a scale, that it can only be truly known and felt by he who
carries it.
I
recall the words of His Holiness, Patriarch Alexey, who spoke more than once
about the great Cross of Patriarchal servitude. But this Cross is carried by
the Patriarchs of the Church, though no one man can withstand it. They can
carry this Cross because the archpastors, pastors, and God’s flock help
carry it with him. They carry this Cross because the Holy Church carries it
alongside the Patriarch. And as the carrying of this Cross is shared, so is
shared the responsibility, and so is shared the glory. And when kind words
are spoken of the Leader of the Church, those words are directed also at
God’s flock, at the clergy and the archpastors – at all those, who
together with the Patriarch carry this heavy Cross and the mighty
responsibility before God and history that goes with it.
In
accepting from you this expression of God’s will, I ask your forgiveness
for my weaknesses, ask you to help me by your advice, ask you to stand next
to me in carrying the Cross of Patriarchal servitude. But more than all
these, I ask for your prayers – prayers such as those which, I am sure,
those people who took part in the decisions of our Local Council, along with
many others, poured out from their loving and faithful hearts.
May
the Lord bless our Church, our people, those countries in which the Russian
Orthodox Church does Her work, and everyone, who by their prayers and
efforts brought this hour nearer. Again and again I ask you to remember me
in your holy prayers. Amen.
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