Venerable Simeon The New Theologian

COMMEMORATED ON Categorize 12Saint Simeon the New Theologian was instinctive in the engagement 949 in the city of Galatea (Paphlagonia), and he was trained at Constantinople. His advantage crying out him for a situation at panel, and for a clear moment the teenagers mixed up a high profile at the assert panel. With he was fourteen, he met the legendary Chief Simeon the Devout at the Studion Monastery, who would be a foremost redden in his spiritual progress. He remained in the world for every natural life preparing himself for the monastic life under the Elder's coaching, and irrefutably entered the monastery at the age of twenty-seven. St Simeon the Devout recommended to the before time man the writings of St Dint the Grave (Categorize 5) and other spiritual writers. He read these books scarcely and tried to put in vogue practice what he read. Three points through by St Dint in his work "On the Devoted Law" (see Vol. I of the English PHILOKALIA) unquestionably bemused him. Best, you be obliged to go to to your ethics and do what it tells you if you wish your heart to be healed (PHILOKALIA, p. 115). Sec, unaccompanied by pleasing the commandments can one suffer the ruckus of the Spiritual Verve. Thirdly, one who prays unaccompanied with the being and lacking spiritual knowledge is enjoyment the shade man who cried out, "Son of David, have forgiveness upon me (Luke 18:38) (PHILOKALIA, p. 111). With the shade man usual his think about, but, he called Christ the Son of God (John 9:38). St Simeon was in tears with a love for spiritual beauty, and tried to ground it. In rider to the Rule unadulterated him by his Chief, his ethics told him to add a few added Psalms and prostrations, and to habit unceasingly, "Lord Jesus Christ, have forgiveness upon me." On the whole, he heeded his ethics. Durint the day, he cared for the wishes of inhabit living in the palace of Patricius. At night, his prayers grew longer and he remained praying until midnight. As, as he was praying in this way, a utmost super divine delicate descended upon him and gorged the room. He saw not any but light all about him, and he was not even reasonable of the gain beneath his feet. It seemed to him that he himself became light. After that his right mind rose emergent to the expose, and he saw a glint light brighter than the light which hemmed in him. After that, on the edge of this glint light, he seemed to see St Simeon the Devout, who had unadulterated him St Dint the Grave to read. Seven natural life once this delusion, St Simeon entered the monastery. Submit he improved his fasting and vigilance, and guru to pass on his own choice. The Contender of our emancipation stimulated up the brethren of the monastery versus St Simeon, who was nothing special to the praises or reproaches of others. Seeing that of the improved disapproval in the monastery, St Simeon was sent to the Monastery of St Mamas in Constantinople. Submit he was tonsured in vogue the monastic schema, and improved his spiritual struggles. He attained to a high spiritual level, and improved his knowledge of spiritual matter timetabled reading the Spiritual Scriptures and the writings of the Fathers, as well as in jargon with holy Elders. Selected the engagement 980, St Simeon was through igumen of the monastery of St Mamas and continued in this room for twenty-five natural life. He repaired and restored the monastery, which had suffered from imprecision, and also brought order to the life of the monks. The obstruct monastic pacify, for which St Simeon strove, led to very big discontented in the midst of the brethren. As, once Liturgy, some of the monks attacked him and huskily killed him. With the Patriarch of Constantinople driven out them from the monastery and salutation to hand them uninteresting to the civil company, St Simeon asked that they be treated with mercy and be official to cabin in the world. Display the engagement 1005, St Simeon submissive his profile as igumen in affection of Arsenius, moment he himself specific communicate the monastery in compact. Submit he cool his theological works, portions of which fathom in the PHILOKALIA. The president region of his works is the entrenched ruckus of spiritual progress, and the fight versus the passions and delinquent thoughts. He wrote fleeting for monks: "Theological and Ceremonial Chapters, A Treatise on the Three Methods of Decorate," (in Vol. IV of the English PHILOKALIA) and "A Treatise on Expectation." Overly, St Simeon was an chief church poet. He also wrote "Hymns of See the future Warmly," about seventy poems gorged with fleshy imploring meditations. The sublime teachings of St Simeon about the mysteries of mental prayer and spiritual fight have earned him the slogan "the New Theologian." These teachings were not the fabrication of St Simeon, but they had with refinement been what went before uninteresting time. Guaranteed of these teachings seemed unseemly and unfamiliar to his age group. This led to unfriendliness with Constantinople's church company, and St Simeon was banished from the city. He withdrew across the Bosphorus and specific in the ancient monastery of St Makrina. The saint peacefully carve out cold in the Lord in the engagement 1021. All over his life he usual the gift of working miracles. A lot of miracles also took place once his death; one of them was the captivating unearth of his icon. His Computer graphics was in black and white by his cell-attendant and supporter, St Nicetas Stethatos. Like Categorize 12 spill fashionable Powerful Lent, St Simeon's Public holiday is transfered to October 12.SOURCE:"SAINT OR Public holiday POSTED THIS Time 2009(with 2008's fix here also):"