Św. Paisjusz (Wieliczkowski) i duchowe skarby św. Góry Atos dla Rosji

Abstract

Saint Ignatius (Bryanchaninov) believed that works Holy Fathers translated by saint Paisius (Velichkovsky) had so much “great ascetic honour” that they cannot be replaced by any other translation. Reading the Holy Fathers, as St. Ignatius emphasised, is particularly important for understading Holy Scripture. The biblical authors and Fathers were inspired by the same Spirit and for this reason Scripture and Tradition (in this case – the legacy of the Holy Fathers) compile one whole and cannot be divided. The Orthodox Church only accepts interpretation given by the Holy Spirit and the understanding of Scripture by the Fathers of the Church as inspired by the same Spirit. Having returned to Russia, St. Paisios’s numerous disciples brought with them the renewed patristic tradition and manuscripts of the Holy Fathers’ writings translated by St. Paisios. This contributed to the renewal of the Russian Orthodox Church and its monastic life.