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Item description: "EPISTLE BOOK" or "APOSTOL" - church old slavonic book, modern reprint of edition of 1652. Pages 462, with 1 illustration and very rich decorative viniettes
Originated: from tradition of Russian Christian Orthodox Fundamentalists Old Believers (concervative group of Russian religious dissentents - Old Believers became separated after 1666-1667 from the goverment official Russian Orthodox Church as a protest against church reforms introduced by Patriarch Nikon at 1666. Old Believers continue liturgical practices which the Russian Orthodox Church maintained before the implementation of these reforms. Additionally, Old Ritualists have preserved ancient customs, traditional way of life, ancient clothes of Old Russia, natural rural economy, ancient form of church prayer singing, that continues to draw the attention of other Orthodox Christians, as well as scholars and historians.).
All Old Believers books never have any mark of factory or print house, a stroke of codes, dates of the edition or producing and other numbers. Such marks, numbers or digits are considered by Old Believers belonging to the world of the AntiChrist. All items made by Old Believers, are rare and unique and it is never sold in shops and distributed only inside community due to strong religious restrictions.
Item story: I have received this book at fair in Yaroslavl-town where christians belonged to Old Believers communities from distant villages of Russia sell they products and artifacts.
Measurements:
205 x 135 x 30 mmWeigth: 0,7 kg
Condition:
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Item description in Russian: Апостол с богослужебными указаниями на каждый день. Церковнославянский язык. Редкое староверческое нелегальное издание. Уникальный образец русского религиозного подпольного самиздата. Настоящая книги напечатана староверами радикального фундаменталистского беспоповского согласия - "федосеевцами". Репринт староверческой книги 1909 года, которая в свою очередь перепечатана слово в слово, буква в букву с дораскольного издания напечатанного при православном патриархе Иосифе в 1650 году. Не содержит исправлений, внесенных в богослужебные книги патриархом Никоном и его последователями. Не имеет выходных данных типографии, штрих-кода, даты издания и других данных, так как староверами таковые числа считаются относящимися к миру Антихриста. Крепкий книжный блок, сшитый толстыми нитками, твердая обложка, покрытая дермантином. Прекрасный подарок всем, кого интересует древнее древнее православие. Может быть использована для изучения церковно-славянского языка, богослужебного устава, обучения детей и взрослых Слову Божию, для домашней и соборной молитвы и спасения души.
An Explanation of
the EPISTLE : An epistle (Greek ἐπιστολή, epistolē, 'letter') is a
writing directed or sent to a person or group of people, usually a letter and a
very formal, often didactic and elegant one. The epistle genre of letter-writing
was common in ancient Egypt as part of the scribal-school writing curriculum.
The letters in the New Testament from Apostles to Christians are usually
referred to as epistles. Those traditionally attributed to Paul are known as
Pauline epistles and the others as 'catholic' or general epistles.
There are epistles that are written to particular areas, and general epistles
that are written to groups or communities. Taking at face value the traditional
ascription of epistles to their superscribed authors, Paul wrote more epistles
to particular churches, as well as personal letters to Timothy, Philemon, and
Titus. Peter was the author of his own. John was the author of his own, James
was the author of his own, Jude was the author of his own. Sometimes Paul's
epistles are divided into subgroups. For instance, the 'prison epistles' are the
ones written by Paul while he was in prison, while the 'pastoral epistles' are
the letters to Timothy and Titus, since they contain advice about providing
pastoral care to their churches.
Questions of historical authorship or of date and authenticity are addressed in
the entries to individual Epistles.
In the context of a liturgy, epistle may refer more specifically to a particular
passage from a New Testament epistle (the Pauline epistles and the Catholic
epistles) — sometimes also from the Book of Acts or the Revelation of John, but
not the Four Gospels — that is scheduled to be read on a certain day or at a
certain occasion.
In the Roman Catholic Mass and Anglican Communion, epistles are read between the
Collect and the Gospel reading. The corresponding Gregorian chants have a
special tone (tonus epistolae). When the epistle is sung or chanted at Solemn
Mass it is done so by the subdeacon. Epistles are also read by an Elder of
Bishop in the Lutheran Divine Service, between the gradual and the Gospel.
In the Divine Liturgy of the Eastern Orthodox Church the Epistle reading is
called the Apostol (the same name is given to the lectionary from which it is
read). The Apostol includes the Acts of the Apostles as well as the Epistles,
but never the Apocalypse (Revelation of John). There are Epistle lessons for
every day of the year, except for weekdays during Great Lent, when the Divine
Liturgy is not celebrated. These daily Epistle readings are a part of the
Paschal cycle, being ultimately dependent upon the date of Pascha (Easter).
There are also lessons appointed for the feast days of numerous saints and
commemorations. There may be one, two, or three readings from the Apostol during
a single Liturgy. The Epistle reading is always chanted (never simply read in a
spoken voice) between the Prokeimenon and the Alleluia. The Epistle reading is
always linked to a reading from the Gospel, though some services, such as
Matins, will have a Gospel lesson, but no Epistle. A number of services besides
the Divine Liturgy will have an Epistle and Gospel reading. Such services often
include a Prokeimenon and Alleluia as well. The Epistle is chanted by the
reader, though at a Hierarchical Liturgy (a Divine Liturgy celebrated by a
bishop), it is read by a deacon. The one who chants the Epistle also reads the
verses of the Prokeimenon.
About Old Believers: Russian Christian Orthodox Fundamentalists or Old Believers, or more correctly, Old Ritualists are Orthodox Christians who adhere to the service books and ritual of the Russian Orthodox Church prior to the reforms made to those books and services by the Russian Orthodox Patriarch Nikon beginning in the year 1653. Opponents of the ecclesiastical reforms of Nikon emerged among all strata of the people and in relatively large numbers. The Old Believers fiercely rejected all innovations, and the most radical amongst them maintained that the official Russian Church had fallen into the hands of the Antichrist. The State church anathematized both the old rites and books and those who wished to stay loyal to them. From that moment, the Old Believers officially lacked all civil rights. The State church had the most active Old Believers arrested, and executed many of them some years later in 1682. After 1685 a period of persecutions began, including both torture and executions. Many Old Believers fled Russia altogether. However, Old Believers became the dominant denomination in many Russian regions, including North and Siberia. Before the Russian Revolution in 1917 there were probably more than 20 million Old Believers located throughout the Russian Empire and in Diaspora, but now after nearly a century of Communist persecution and simple secularization of Russian people, that number probably does not exceed 2 million. Old Ritualists are known for their strict adherence to the practices of the Russian Orthodox Church as it existed prior to Patriarch Nikon. Additionally, Old Ritualists have preserved ancient customs, traditional way of life, ancient clothes of Old Russia, natural rural economy, ancient form of church prayer singing, known as Znamenny Chant, that continues to draw the attention of other Orthodox Christians, as well as scholars and historians.
Group of Russian Christian Orthodox Fundamentalists Old Believers. Village near Volga river. Circa 1900
Russian Christian Orthodox Old Believers confidently speak about themselves: "Orthodoxy means right teaching, correct doctrine. Orthodox Christianity is the true doctrine of Christ. When Orthodoxy came to the Slavic lands, the term was rendered as pravoslavie – right glorification, which fits the importance attached to worshipping God in beauty as well as in truth. Christianity is concerned with man's salvation from evil. The belief of the mind and the praise of the lips would be hollow if not joined to virtue. And so, true belief and true worship must bear fruit in right conduct, good morals and righteous actions. In Orthodox Christianity, man's mind, soul and body are elevated and ennobled to rise above the merely mundane and to lead what one writer has given as the very definition of Orthodoxy: new life in the Holy Spirit." Now it is still possible to meet this people in remote parts of Russia, mostly in Siberia.
Russian Christian Orthodox Fundamentalists Old Believers with huge prayer book.
Village at Altay mountains, Syberia. Nova days, 1970.
Moral and ethical sense of your purchase in our eBay auction: In the name preservation of a russian cultural heritage from commercial robbery and full disappearance we do not sell antiques older than XIX century. All religious items in our auction are hand-made by Old Believers. Buying the things made by Old Believers, you give material and moral support to their independent community and to ancient religious culture of Old Holy Russia, which has strongly suffered from persecutions in ancient times from Patriarch Nikon reform at 1666-1917, from communistic terror at 1917-1987 and from general secularization of modern society. Thank you for support of unique traditional culture and religion of our people.
About me: as the representative of this Russian Christian Orthodox Fundamentalists Old Believers community I have an extensive knowledge in religious subjects of ancient Russia. I know well an ancient church art. I have the big collection of religious items and icons. I get subjects for my collection in auctions, antiques shops, church shops, flea markets, at private persons by purchase and by exchange on mutually interesting subjects. Also I visit the remote and wild parts of my huge native land where rare subjects were still kept on the present. Frequently these rare things are in oblivion and still wait for the person, who can understand their beauty and meaning.
Charity: 10% of my eBay income goes for support of small Old Believers community located in North Russia.
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