word "Akathist" is sometimes used colloquially in the same sense as the praises.So is the song in praise of something or someone.However, between these two concepts is a significant difference.To apply this definition to a place, you should know that such hymns.
All prayers are divided into three categories: pleading, and thank slavoslovyaschie, refers to the last hymn, praising the Virgin.Akathist to the Mother of God for a long time was the only one and quite unique works created presumably in VI-VII centuries.He stressed the primacy of the size and structure of the phonetic, what manifested poetic genius creator of this masterpiece of spiritual culture.We will understand that such hymns in its poetic form.Kukula, that is the initial stanza, covers the following ICOS, this is twelve times.Hayretizmy that is greeting the Virgin Mary, begin with the word "rejoice" are contained in each of ICOS, which are similar in rhythm, have the same alternation of stressed syllables with unstressed.The sequence of the initial letters of the Greek alphabet strings forms.
Now about the title of this poetic form.The fact that such hymns, says the translation of this word.Literally, it means "do not sit."And hymns, and listen to it must necessarily be, except those of malaise or by old age can not comply with this rule.This term also refers to a form of ecclesiastical poetry, similar to kontakia.
The first part is devoted to the childhood of Jesus and Mary's earthly destiny, the second tells the story of the Holy Trinity and the incarnation of God the Father in the image of Christ according to the teachings of the church.The text used by skilled ancient rhetorical and poetic techniques, which makes him not only the highest sense of the sacred, but also of great artistic value.In times of atheism, declared as the official state policy, philology students to question the teacher about what hymns, responded that the masterpieces of ancient Greek poetry.And it's true, but with the caveat that their main value lies in the spiritual fullness.
initial text was supplemented by the first stanza, in which the Virgin ascends gratitude for miraculous deliverance of Constantinople during the siege of the city of Avar and Slavic pagan tribes in the year 626.Then Patriarch Sergius Orthodox people rescued, avoiding walls and fall of an icon of the Mother of God.
Use akathist regulated by the general procedure established for the worship of the church circle.Theosophical historians claim that it was composed for festive rites and Notre Dame Cathedral of the Annunciation.At the present time it is executed in the Lenten Sunday Matins and Akathist Praise of the Virgin.
first akathist became the mighty trunk, which, like branches grew more devoted to the Son of God, saints and prophets.It happened in the XIV century.They discern some form of imitation unsurpassed masterpiece of ancient orthodox poetics.To date, they have penned over a hundred.Not all of them are equal in artistic and canonical qualities and is usually confined to the holidays of a miraculous image, such as the Akathist to the Mother of God "The Inexhaustible Cup".
