Without vanity and falseness

EV Religious procession

Day Sacred Paraskev Fridays, keepers of family happiness in orthodox tradition, note on November 10. This year day of the tenth of November fell on Friday. This day became in Barabanovo's village the real holiday.

Saint Paraskeva was the daughter of ikoniysky Christians who especially honored day of sufferings of Lord our Jesus Christ - Friday. Therefore when God, in the same day, granted them the daughter, they called her also Friday (Paraskevoyu - in Greek). In a consequence it appeared that Paraskeva, holding in remembrance Christoff' sufferings the name, kept her and in the heart, having joined to Christ's passions the sufferings.

Having remained after death of the parents at a considerable manor, the Saint maiden distributed the property poor and poor. Having devoted a devstvo to the Lord, it incessantly glorified it between pagans in Ikoniya.

In Diokletian's reign (257-305 years) for derznovenny confession Crucified, sacred cast into a dungeon, and then betrayed on tortures. Saint tore to pieces to bones, but in a dungeon the Angel visited it and cured all her wounds. Other miracle occurred when entered sacred into the pagan temple idolsky; on its command all idols fell and were reduced to dust. During the next tortures a flame of fire which opalyali the body sacred, so ignited that impious torturers were burned of. At last Saint Paraskeva was truncated by a sword.

in honor of the Saint great martyr Paraskev in 1865 based a female community in the Insarsky district of the Penza province on a place of the phenomenon of an icon sacred about 1780. Release of peasants (1861) put landowners in need to sell the lands. It was bought by peasants and, having cut down the wood, decided to open a female monastery. Through a zemlevladelitsa Kiseleva Maria peasants iskhodataystvovali the Highest permission to Paraskevo-Voznesenskaya's opening of a community who was open in 1865.

Slightly earlier, 160 years ago in 1857 in the Yenisei Province in the territory of ours Yemeliyanovo district in Barabanovo's village put the temple. Its walls and dome for these one and a half centuries endured a lot of things. Resisted. And with the advent of the new prior father Alexey, found new life. On Friday, November 10, 2017, as well as one and a half hundred years ago, in the temple of the Saint Martyr Paraskev named on Friday, there were many people. Burning of candles, simple furniture of an altar. On the street frost first in this year. The temple not top flax – repair is not complete. Anew without warming it is roofed by a metal profile. Windows are tightened by a film. Doors - solemn high not according to the modern standard, a thick struganny board of old work on the forged ancient canopies. Presents. Porch fine and reliable, but modern work. And over the temple on a belltower - a bell. Too, it became clear, new efficient, but unshakably ringing.

In the temple the twilight. But cold weather is not present. Warmly, whether from the gathered people. Whether from burning candles. But it is more correct - from the charitable action which has filled with warmth of gathered the netoplenny room and limits close to it. The father reads the writing. Prayer – bread for our soul. Without it the soul dries up, as without air. Choristers tonenko without vanity and falseness remove chant. Faces of parishioners are light and quiet. Brothers and sisters follow the told and sung attention of the mind, sympathize soul with the said.

the Festive service interrupts religious procession. Ahead an icon of the Saint Martyr Paraskev named on Friday. Till 1917 of an image Sacred Paraskev were Fridays practically in each Russian family. In a trace behind an icon the father Alexey and believers bypass the temple around once, moving counterclockwise. The circle means isolation, recurrence of the events – eternity.

- the Main thing for what we go to the temple? - the prior of the temple of the Saint Martyr Paraskev the father Alexey addresses Fridays to the participants of the religious procession who have again gathered under the arches of church. – Not to receive any esthetic pleasures and satisfactions. Not in order that to ask or something to receive something. Here in the temple, including, we know God. And Saint Great martyr Paraskeva just fine example. About what you ask? About the everyday. And she thought about the heavenly. So God grant and to all of us, prayers sacred Paraskev, at least sometimes to reflect not that passes. About health. About money. And about eternity.

On it the father once again congratulated all on a holiday and invited to the street on the action stretched on the church yard and behind a fencing of the temple. Performance of amateur collectives, other entertainment and entertainments. Rural recreation centers carried out master classes on needlework and traditional crafts. Representatives of regional administration prepared shuteyny competitions. Chastoostrovsky's inhabitants arrived a soldier's field kitchen with porridge and tea. Thus still prior to the beginning of a holiday agreed – any commercial trades. Everything that is offered to guests of a holiday – everything exclusively in all sincerity. With all the heart.

I a holiday, it is necessary to tell, really it turned out. Whether it is exact because trade on its platforms forbade or because his organizers felt pleasure and could infect with good mood gathered, I cannot precisely tell. But soul, and I not felt one it, somehow was curtailed, having shaken all heavy. Then it was developed already easy young and cheerful.

Still a place for a laying of the temple our ancestors chose by

the very good. On a hillock. Below mighty father Yenisei. Above blue sky.

I porridge on firewood from soldier's kitchen very tasty turned out.

- Porridge buckwheat with vegetables, - are defined by a dish the chief cook of a holiday Bolshakov Pawel. – On sunflower oil. Usually we put two grain on 9 May, Victory Day

A very tasty turned out, it is sure, - tried. Vegetables cut still the day before. Coppers kindled since evening. That exactly to term the entertainment reached and was drawn. Except porridge ate pancakes on speed. Such competition more for children, than for adults. Plaid about pies, sweets and drank tea. Still went on stilts, pulled a rope and fought on pillows.

- I do not see in that a sin today a little to have fun, - expresses the relation to the events the father Alexey. - Today with us the great-great-grandson of the builder of this temple Cherkashin prayed. This is the young believer of people. I will not point a finger. His family lived many years in Barabanovo. Today it comes here to pray in the temple strong put by a hand of his ancestor. In general, talking to parishioners, with interest I learn that at many grandfathers and great-grandmothers were parishioners of this temple. Now these people live in different places, but all of them equally come here to a prayer, and just like that for soul. Do it because consider this place native. The. And to us celebrating today 160 years from the date of a laying of our temple, it is necessary to live so that in 160 years already our descendants could come here and remember that their great-great-grandfathers were on our holiday on Friday, November 10, 2017.

- And whether to many people goes today on services?

- Differently. When on the street a minus 42 degrees, no more than ten people.

- the Temple does not burn when on the street a minus 42, you too serve?

- Certainly. In the winter and in the summer. Every Saturday.

Among guests of a holiday met the deputy head of administration of the area on social problems Ganina Natalia :

- Many in our area also do not know that we not have territories such remarkable monument of wooden architecture, - Ganina Natalia shares the surprise. – And after all it at all a monument – a real miracle. Man-made and live. To look at it from abroad go. And to us, so God ordered. You look, what good the holiday turned out. Mood fine. Does not want to leave.

Grevtsov Youri