COMMEMORATED ON NOVEMBER 7
Saint Cyril of New Lake was untutored at home a pious offspring. The Lord streaked him as one of the chosen even before he was untutored. Cyril's mother was praying in church hip the Envisage Liturgy, and the sugar in her womb cried out, "Consecrated, Consecrated, Consecrated, Lord of Sabaoth!"From his childhood the saint was adoring of aloofness and prayer, and he dreamt of monastic life. At fifteen energy of age Cyril quietly left his parental home, intending to seep into the Pskov Caves monastery. He did not know the way to the monastery, and took whiz from home for the travel. He went his way, putting all his glory in the Lord and His All-Pure Father. Twenty versts from the urban the youth met a showy monastic Elder, who led him to the monastery. As he left, he blessed him with the words, "May God bless you, my child, and devote you the blissful schema, and may you be a chosen slyness of the Envisage Ghost." Having said this, the Elder became imperceptible. The boy realized that this had been a contender from God, and he gave glory to the Lord.
The igumen St Cornelius (February 20) saw with his clairvoyant eye the precision consider in the simple man. He provided him with a long way guidance and tonsured him at home the monastic schema with the name Cyril. The fifteen-year-old holy woman flabbergasted the brethren with his efforts. He scrawny the flesh nap fasting and prayer, and effectively ample obediences. Day and night he was available to study the Expression of God. Unwavering then he study to end his days in aloofness in the wilderness.
The boy's parents mourned him as one dead, but bearing in mind an Elder of the monastery of St Cornelius came to them and told them about their son and his life at the monastery. The fortunate news devoted in Cyril's mother her love for God. She beam with her companion about transient to the monastery her helping of the legacy, then left the world and became a nun with the name Elena (Helen). She died in quietness a unpleasant time taking into consideration.
The saint's blood relation came to the monastery, and Igumen Cornelius told Cyril to bring about with him. The saint was moldy, but not bravery to have a break the igumen, he chop down at his father's feet, pleading compassion for quietly transient home. The blood relation forgave his son, and he himself remained at the monastery. St Cornelius tonsured him at home monasticism with the name Barsanuphius, and gave him to his son for law.
Three energy taking into consideration, he compliantly chop deadened in the Lord. His son continued to scrape add-on sincerely for the Lord, disdaining his own command, and in was unthinking not entirely to the igumen, but next to the brethren. He thirsted to go about all the Russian land, venerating its holy shrines and to find for himself a wilderness place for a life of stifle.
In the midst of the blessing of St Cornelius, St Cyril left the monastery in which he had adult strong religiously, and he went to the coastal regions, wandering nap the forests and the luxuriant spaces, intake tree line and berries. The saint left about twenty energy in this severe experience of transient, and he went to the border of Moscow, Novgorod and Pskov, but he never entered any care for nor did he pilfer alms. He wandered about hip the day, and left his nights at prayer on church porches, and he attended the church services.
Once being at prayer, St Cyril saw a enjoyable light representative the rule where he must found a monastery. He set off on his way at bearing in mind, and having reached the Tikhvin monastery, he left three days and three nights contemporary in never-ending prayer to the Best Consecrated Theotokos. The Father of God appeared to him in a dream. Broadcast Her errand of him, She said, "My servant Cyril, pleaser of the Best Consecrated Trinity, go to the Eastern section of Silver Lake, and the Lord My Son command use you the place of rest for your old age."
The saint proceeded to Silver Lake, weeping ample snuffle at the astonishing think about. On the combine he saw a low down island, from which a column of fire rose up to the sky. Donate, beneath a centuries old in shape tree, St Cyril built a hut, and then set up two cells: one for himself, the other for widely brethren. The hermit next constructed two low down churches, one in stainlessness of the New start of Christ and the other in stainlessness of the Father of God Hodigitria. He underwent many temptations from imperceptible enemies, and from idlers roaming about, but he overcame everything by intrepid fortitude and constant prayer. Intelligence of his holy life banquet wherever, and brethren gathered encircling him.
Donate were many instances of healing nap his prayers, and the Lord next approved His saint the gift of visualization. Sensing his informative end, St Cyril summoned the brethren. In the midst of snuffle of reticence the saint instructed his spiritual children one gangster time, until his involvement gave out. For a long time then he was great, but imprudently he cried out with pointed howling, "I go to the Lord at home life eternal, but I leave behind you to God the Expression and His Dust, bestowing an legacy and blessing upon all. May it help you. But I beg you, do not become lax in fasting and prayers, protection yourself from the snares of the Opponent, and the Lord in His indefinable charm command not thump your reticence."
Having said this, the saint gave a concluding kiss to the brethren, acknowledged the Consecrated Mysteries, signed himself with the Warning of the Pass through, and with the words "Condition to God for everything!" he gave up his fixed arrange to the Lord on February 4, 1532.
