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1. Oh Bog
God is lights, warming and igniting hearts and womb. So, if we feel in the hearts of our clashes, which is from the devil, for the devil is cold, then I will call the Lord, and he will come will warm our heart with love not only to him, but also to the neighbor. And on the face of the warmth will drive the chlad Dobronvisnik.
Fathers wrote when they were asked: seeking gentlemen, but not the subject, where he lives.
Where God, there is no evil. All originating from God is peacefully and useful and leads a person to humility and self-seen.
God will be our humanity not only when we do good, but when we insult and warm it up. How long does it demolish our lawlessness! And when punishes how the fragressively punishes!
Do not call God's rightful, says prep. Isaac, for your justice is not visible in your business. If David called him a redeference and right, but his son showed us that he was more good and merciful. Where is his justice? We were sinners and Christ died for us (Isaac Sir. Sl. 90).
A person is being improved in front of God, the pilling after him goes; In the true century, God is his face his face. For the righteous, to the extent, in the contemplation of it, the image is shaken as in the glory, and there is a phenomenon of truth.
If you do not know God, it is impossible to be excited in you and love for him; And you can't love God, if you do not see him. The vision of God will be from knowing it: for contemplation he does not precede his knowledge.
About the affairs of God should not argue on the saturation of the womb: For in the filled womb there is no vision of the Taine of God.
2. On the reasons for the coming to the world of Jesus Christ
The reasons for the coming to the world of Jesus Christ, the Son of God, the essence:
1. Love of God to the genus human: tako Boy loved God the world, Yako and the Son of His Soon Bertho gave there (John 3, 16).
2. Restoration in the false man's image and the likeness of God, as the semen chas. Church (1st canon on the birth. M. Song I): Extlive is criminalized by the form of the day of the day, all the TL? NIY SUCH, the best disappearance of the Divine Life, Paks update the wise seater.
3. Salvation of human shower: i did not ambassad the son of my own in Mir, yes, I judge Miriva, but it will be saved by the MIR (John 3, 17).
So, by following the goals of the Redeemer of our Lord Jesus Christ, should have their lives to transmit to his divine teaching, in order to gain salvation to our souls.
3. About faith in God
First of all, should believe in God, yako, there is a recovery of his Mzovozdaitel who happens (Heb. 11, 6).
Vera, according to the teachings of pre. Antioch, there is the beginning of our connection with God: Truly believes there is a stone of the Temple of God, prepared for the building of God the Father, ascended to the height of the power of Jesus Christ, that is, the cross, the help of Vervia, that is, the grace of the Spirit of the Holy Spirit.
There is a dead dead (Iac. 2, 26); And the affairs of faith essence: love, peace, long-suffering, mercy, humility, crossing the cross and life in spirit. Only such faith is charged in the truth. True faith can not be without affairs: who truly believes, he certainly has things.
4. About Nadezhda
All having firm hope on God are energized and educated by the radiance of eternal light.
If a person does not have any care about himself for his love for God and Affairs virtue, knowing that God is a bake of him, - such hope is a true and wise. And if the person himself is coloning about his affairs and draws a prayer to God only when it is already being comprehended by his inevitable misfortunes, and he does not see the means to disgust them and begins to hope for the help of God, "such hope is false and false. True hope is looking for unagnigago the kingdom of God and is sure that everything the earthly, demanding temporary, will undoubtedly be given. The heart can not have the world, the current does not apply this hope. She will smash him and will overcome joy. At this time, the Hopeful and Holy Settlement said: prior to the world of vsi we are frauding and burdened, and az you still (Matt. 11, 28), i.e. we hope for me and comfort from or fear.
In the Gospel of Luke says Simeon: and he is gained by the Spirit Saints not seeing death, before he doesn't even see Christ the Lord (Bow. 2, 26). And he did not kill his hopes, but I was waiting for the desired Savior of the world and, happily accepting his hands, said: Now let me let me go, Vladyko, to go to your kingdom weddy for me, for I got the hope of my dear, the Lord.
5. About love for God
Having a perfect love for God exists in life this way, no matter how much it existed. For he considers himself someone else's visible, waiting for the invisible patience. He has changed in love for God and forgot every other love.
Who loves themselves, he cannot love God. And who does not love himself for love for God, he loves God.
Truly loving God considers himself a wanderer and an alien on this earth; For soul and mind in his desire to God contemplates him alone.
The soul, filled with the love of God, during the outcome of his body, will not be captured by the prince of air, but with angels will be rented, as if from a foreign country to their homeland.
6. against excessive care
Excessive care about things of everydays is characteristic of a person unbelieving and unimustal. And we have grief, if we, taking care of ourselves, do not approve the hope of our our God in God, tangible about us! If we use visible blessings in the present age, do not consider it, how can we expect from it those benefits that are promised in the future? We will not be so sure, and better will look before the kingdom of God, and Siya all will fit us, According to the Savior (Matt. 6, 33).
It is better for us to despise what is not ours, i.e. temporary, and the transient and desire of our, that is, nonsense and immortality. For, when we are imperishable and immortal, then award visible to the vioscement, like the apostles in the Divine Transformation and those who informed excellent unity with God like the heavenly minds. For we will be like angels and sons of God, resurrection Son is essential (Bow. 20, 36).
7. On care about the soul
A man on the body is like a lit candle. Candle must burn, and a person must die. But the soul is immortal, because the care of our should be more about the soul than about the body: kaya Bo benefit is a little man, it is preparing for the Mière all and will decque his soul or that he will give him a worn for his soul his (MK. 8, 36; Matt. 16, 26), for which, as is known, nothing in the world can be redemption? If one soul itself is precious than the world and the kingdom of worldly, it is incomparably more expensive than the kingdom of heaven. I read the soul more preciously because the Macarium says the great thing that God did not favor anything to report and connect with his spiritual nature, nor with any visible creation, but with one person who loved his more creatures (Macarius led. Word On the freedom of mind. Ch. 32).
Vasily Great, Grigory Theologian, John Zlatoust, Kirill Alexandria, Amvrosiy, and others from his youth to the end of life were virgins; The whole of their life was drawn to the care of the soul, and not about the body. So all the efforts should have about the soul; The body is reinforced for only so that it contributes to the reinforcement of the Spirit.
8. What should the soul supply?
Soul is supposed to be needed by the Word of God: For the Word of God, as Grigory theologian says, there is an angelic bread, giving the souls, god sharp. In total, more should exercise in reading the New Testament and Psalter, which should have worth it. From this there is an enlightenment in mind, which changes the change in the divine.
It is necessary to teach himself that so that the mind is as if flooded in the law of the Lord, who guided, should arrange their lives.
It is very useful to read the Word of God in privacy and read the whole Bible reasonably. For one such exercise, except for other good deeds, the Lord will not leave a man with his mercy, but will fulfill his gift of understanding.
When a person supplies his soul his word of God, then it is becoming the understanding of what is good and what is evil.
The reading of the Word of God must be produced in solitude so that the whole mind of reading is in-depth in the truth of the Holy Scriptures and took the warmth from this, which in privacy produces tears; From this other people warmed the whole and fulfills the spiritual givingness, delighting the mind and the heart of the patch of any word.
Foreign work and exercise in Divine Scriptures, teaches prep. Isaac Sirin, guard clean.
As long as the comforter does not exempt, the person needs the need for Divine Scriptures, so that his memoirs think about him and the desire for good and guarded the soul from the subtle ways of sin (Isaac Sir. Sl. 58).
It should also be provided with a soul and knowledge of the church, as it is from the beginning and accommodate that she suffered at a time or another, - to know this is not to want to manage to manage people, but in the case of the might meet questions.
Moreover, it should actually be done for yourself, to acquire the world of spiritual, according to the teachings of the Psalmman, morning Loving Your Law, Lord (Ps. 118, 165).
9. About the world of spiritual
Nothing better is in Christ the world, in it, all the branches of the air and earth spirits are destroyed: it's not about our bang blood and flesh, but to the beginning and to the authorities and to the Miloderger of the darkness of this, to the Spirit of Evil Primbesty (Ephesus. 6, 12).
A sign of a reasonable soul, when a person immerses the mind inside himself and has a done in his heart. Then the grace of God raises him, and he happens in peaceful disappointment, and through this in the premir: in peace, that is, with the conscience, in the premisary, because the mind contemplates the grace of St. Spirit, according to God: in mye (Ps. 75, 3).
Is it possible, seeing the sun with sensual eyes, not rejoice? But how much happier happens when the mind sees the inner ok the sun of the truth of Christ. Then verily rejoices the joy of angelic; About Sez and the Apostle said: our live in heaven is (Phil. 3, 20).
When someone in peaceful disappointment goes, he like a lying darling spiritual gifts.
Holy Fathers, having a peaceful disappointment and being falling grace of God, lived for a long time.
When a person comes to peaceful dispensation, then he can from himself and to pour light enlightenment light; First of course, the person is needed to repeat this word Anna Growing: yes, I did not get a vellechi from the mouth of your (1 Tsar. 2, 3), and the words of the Lord: hydride, out of the first log in your way: And then the seizure of the seizure of the bitch from the branch of your brother (Matt. 7, 5).
This world, as a certain invaluable treasure, left the Lord our Jesus Christ to the disciples of their own before death, verb: peace Leave you, my peace give you (John 14, 27). The apostle also says about him: and the world of God, superior to everyone, yes essential your heart and reasonable your oh Christ Jesus (Phil. 4, 7).
If a person does not annoy the needs of the worldly, then can not have the world of the soul.
The peace of soulful is acquired by mourn. Scripture says: proidoch in the light of fire and water and I had an extracted (Ps. 65, 12). At the time to please God, the path lies through many sorrow.
Nothing does not contribute to the compassion of the inner world, like silence and, no matter how much, the unceasing conversation with him and rare with others.
So we must all our thoughts, desires and actions to focus to how to get the world of God and with the Church always shine: Lord God Ours! Peace Lady us (Is. 26, 12).
10. On the storage of the world of spiritual
Such an exercise can deliver peacepiece to the human heart and enjoy the abode for God himself.
The image of such a gone, we see in the Grigory the Wonderworker, from which in the public place the wife of some harmnica requested the MZDA, allegedly for the sacred sin; And he, at her nimalo without having accepted, Krotko told a certain one to his friend: I will soon soon have a price, quietly demands. The wife, just that the wrong MZD, was attacked by Bes; The holy drove the demon from her a prayer ( Cheti Mini, November 17, in his life).
If it is impossible not to be indignant, at least, at least, to try to keep the tongue, on the verb of the Psalm People: laughing and not verb (Ps. 76, 5).
In sees, we can in sample to take SV. Spiridon trimifuntsky and prep. Ephraim Sirin. First ( Chet. Min., Dec. 12, in his life) So suffered insult: when, at the request of the king of Greek, he entered the palace, then someone from the servant, in the House of Tsar's former, to find him for the beggar, laughed at him, did not let him down in the ward, and then hit him and in the lanit; sv. Spiridon, being invisible, according to the Word of the Lord, drew him the other (Matt. 5, 39).
Prep. Ephraim ( Chet. Min., Jan. 28, in his life), fasting in the wilderness, decessed was a student of food in this way: a student, carrying me food, crushed on the way, reluctantly, a vessel. Rev., seeing a sad student, said to him: not sorrow, brother, it's no longer an awesome to get food, then we will go to her; And he went, sat down with a crushed vessel and, collecting the broken, knocked her: So he was greamee.
And how to conquer anger, this can be seen from the life of the Great Paisia \u200b\u200b( Chet. Min., June 19, in his life), who appeared to him by the Lord Jesus Christ asked, so that he freed him from anger; and speeches him Christ: it's anger and rage to win the won somehow, nobody plays, nor having someone nor the humiliation.
When a person has a big lack of things that are needed for the body, it is difficult to defeat ugly. But this, of course, should relate to weak souls.
To preserve the world of spiritual, it should also be in every way to avoid the condemnation of others. The world of mental persistent and silence remains: when a person is happening in such a dispensation, he gets divine revelations.
To preserve the spiritual world is needed more often to enter yourself and ask: where am I? Seven should observe the bodily feelings, especially vision, served inner man And they did not entertain the soul with sensual items: because the graceful diving receives Tokmo those who have internal doing and are taking their souls.
11. On the storage of the heart
We must steadily keep our heart from obscene thoughts and impressions, according to the word of the contract: all sorts of stroken dishes Your heart is sewing a belly (Proverbs 4, 23).
From vigilant storage of the heart, purity is evident in it, for which the vision of the Lord is available, for the assurances of eternal truth: Blignii chopped heart, Yako Tiy God is narrowed (Matt. 5, 8).
Which flowed in the heart of the best, we should not pour out without need; For then only the assembled may be safe from visible and invisible enemies, when it, like treasure, is stored in the inside of the heart.
The heart then only boils, being laid by fire Divine when there is live water; When everything falls out, it will wreck, and the person freezes.
12. About misery and carnal movements
We must be clean from the thoughts of unclean, especially when we bring the prayer to God, because to bear the consent between the Smad and incense. Where are the thoughts, there and addition with them. So it should reflect the first attack of sinful thoughts and dispel them from our Heart Earth. While Babylonian children, that is, the thoughts are evil, still babies should break and crush them about a stone that is Christ; Especially three main passions: gluttony, sober and vanity, who tried the devil to tempt even the very gentlemen of our at the end of his desert.
Divol, like a lion hiding his fence (Ps. 9, 30), secretly picks up a network of unclean and unclean thoughts. So, immediately, as soon as we see, it is necessary to dissolve them through pious reflections and prayers.
It takes a feat and great vigilance, so that during the psalm "the mind of our mind consistent with the heart and mouth, in order to the prayer of our Fimiam not mixed by the stench. For the Lord bends a heart with unclean thoughts.
We will be incessantly, day and night, with tears to check ourselves before the fault of God's goodness, but it will cleanse our hearts from any evil thinking so that we can deserve the path of our title and clean hands to bring to him the darities of our service.
If we do not agree with the vagina from the devil with evil thoughts, then we will welcome. Unclean spirit only on passionate has a strong influence; And the persecution of passions is affected only by side, or externally.
A man in young years can not be perturbed from the carnivities? But it should pray to the Lord God, and the spark of vicious passions at the very beginning will wonder. Then it will not intensify in man a fire of passions.
13. On recognition of cordial actions
When a person serves something divine, he rejoices in the heart; And when the diabolian is embarrassed.
The heart of Christian, having accepted anything divine, does not require another from the belief whether this is exactly from the Lord; But the very point is convinced that it is heaven: for spiritual fruit feels in itself: luba, joy, peace, long-suffer, good, mercy, hard, meekness, reduced (Gal. 5, 22).
In contrast, at least the devil was transformed into the angel of Light (2 Cor. 11, 14), or represented the thoughts of gullible; However, the heart feels some kind of ambiguity and excitement in thoughts. What explained by St. Macarius Egyptian says: at least (Satan) and bright visions represented, the BLUGO Obach the action of the Podachi does not avoid: after which the famous sign of his affairs happens (word 4, ch. 13).
So, of the hundred different cordial actions, there may be a person to know - that there is a divine and that the Diavolskoe, as he writes St. Gregory Sinait: From the work of the task you know the past light in your soul, God is or satin ( Dobryolism, h. I, Grigory Sin. Oh silence).
14. About repentance
Wishing to escape should always have a heart to repentance located and crushed, on the Psalmman: the victim of God the Spirit, the heart dismissed and humbly God does not humiliate (Ps. 50, 19). In what crushing the spirit of the spirit can conveniently take through the cunning tricks of the proud devil, which is all the care of the spirit of man and in the indignation to sow their flemes, according to Evangelsk region: Lord, didn't you want to send you to the village of yours? Where does the recreation of the spillings come from? He is spectable: the enemy of human sie (Matt. 13, 27-28).
When a person tries to have the heart of a humble and thought of unperturbed, but peaceful, then all the goats of the enemy are inactive, for where the world of thoughts, the Lord God himself is doing there - in mye (Ps. 75, 3).
The beginning of repentance comes from the fear of God and attention, as the martyr of Wonfatium says ( Chet. Min., Dec. 19, in his life): Fear of God's Father has attention, and attention is the Mother of the inner peace, that Bo wages the conscience, which this creates, yes the shower, is in some water clean and not perturbed, the origin and the root and the root repentance.
We are in all my life our sins offended by the Majesty of God, and therefore should always be humbled before him, asking for our debts.
Is it possible to rebel to a fall in the fall?
You can, in the psalmman: turned polls and the Lord Priary me (Ps. 117, 13), For when Nafan, the Prophet accused David in his sin, he, having rejoicing, immediately received forgiveness (2 kings 12, 13).
At this example, the wilderness is also served by a wilderman, who fell over the water, at the source fell into sin with his wife, and returned to the cell, to create his sin, Paka began to bring the life of the Motogram, as before, without returning the advice of the enemy, which represented him the severity of sin and Distinguished him from a mobility life. About sees, God opened a kind of father and ordered the brother who fell into sin to be improved for such a victory over the devil.
When we sincerely see our sins and appeal to the Lord to our Jesus Christ with all our heart, he rejoices to us, establishing a holiday and convenes to him a kind of strength, showing them the drachm, which he gained Paki, that is, the royal image of his own and similarity . Having putting a lost sheep on the raremen, he leads her to his father. In the dwellings of all the fun Godwiths, and the soul of Radued himself along with those who did not run away from him.
So, we do not earn it to turn to the landscaped lord to our soon and do not foresee the carelessness and despair for the sake of the grave and countless sins of our. Despair is the most advanced joy of devil. It is greha DeathAs writing Scripture (1 Ioan. 5, 16).
Repentance in sin, by the way, is not to do it again.
Any disease is healing, and every sin has repentance.
So undoubtedly proceed to repentance, and it will petition for you before God.
15. About prayer
Truly decided to serve the Lord God should exercise in the memory of God and incessant prayer to Jesus Christ, in mind: Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God, have a lot of sinning.
Such an exercise, when you guard yourself from scattering and, while complying with the world of conscience, you can get closer to God and connect with him. For, according to St. Isaac Syrina, except for the unceasing prayer, we can not approach God (word 69).
The image of prayer is quite well placed sv. Simeon New Theologians ( Kindness., h. i). The advantage of Oyoy very well depicted St. Zlatoust: Help, he says, there is a weapon of prayer, treasure is nothingokoudo, wealth is never dependent, the refuge, the silence of wine and the darkness of good root, the source and mother is (marg. Sl. 5, about the incomprehensible).
In the church on prayer to stand useful with closed eyes in internal attention; open the same eyes, then when the uta, or sleep will burden you and decline to the denuation; Then the eyes should pay for the image and the burning before it will ask.
If the prayer happens to be captured by the mind into plundering thoughts, then should come to the Lord God and ask for forgiveness, saying: sigger, Lord, Word, Worth, Think and all of my feelings.
Therefore, there should always be to try, so as not to pay ourselves to the scattering of thoughts, for the soul dies from the memory of God and love it by the action of a devil, as sv. Macarium says: all the sacrup of our care is eating yes the thought of our mind about God and fear and love will turn away (Sl. 2, ch. 15).
When the mind and the heart are connected in prayer and the thoughts of the soul are not scattered, then the heart is warmed by the warmth of the spiritual, in which the light of Christ will grow up, fulfilling the world and the joy of all inner man.
16. About tears
All the saints and the inquisces renounced on the world of all their lives cried in the aspiration of eternal consolation, according to the Savior of the world: blignii Plakchuchi, Yako Tiye (Matt. 5, 4).
So we must cry for the leaving of our sins. To this will kill us word porphyronos: walking illegally and crying, fastening his own: the coming priests are pleased, grinding his own (Ps. 125, 6), and the words of St. Isaac Sirina: Omochy Lane Your crying Cleans yours, so soils on you the Holy Spirit and washed you from the badge of the malice. The dyingness of the Lord Your tears, and there is prior to Tebe (Shot 68, about renunciation from the world).
When we cry in prayer and immediately interfere with the laughter, then this is from the diabolian tricks. It is difficult to comprehend the enemy of our secret and subtle actions.
Who flows tears of death, such a heart is illuminated by the rays of the sun of the truth - Christ of God.
17. On the light of Christ
In order to take and see the light of Christ in the heart, it is necessary how much you can, distract yourself from visible items. Honor the soul with repentance and good deeds and with faith in a crucible closing bodily eyes, should immerse the mind inside the heart, and shine with the call of the name of our Jesus Christ; And then, as the spirit of the spirit and the burning of the Spirit, a man appears in the defendant, who excites the desire to look for top enlightenment.
When an exercise will speed up the mind in the heart, then the light of Christ will last, illuminating the chramine of the soul with his divine radion, as the prophet Malachi says: and you will be taken to you fearful name my sun truth (Mal. 4, 2).
This light has a population and life in the gospel Word: in Tom Belly, BE, and the belly of BE (John 1, 4).
When a person contemplates internally, the eternal light, then his mind is clean and does not have any sensory ideas, but, the whole of being deepened in contemplation of unoccupied kindness, forgets everything sensual, does not want to be very sensitive; But wants to hide in the heart of the Earth, just not to lose this true good - God.
18. On attention to yourself
The path of attention passes should not only believe in his heart, but should be his heart actions and life to turn his own with the law of God and with the active life of the devotees of piety, which such a feat passed. It is more convenient to get rid of the sim means of getting rid of the cven and see the truth.
The mind of a careful person is like a charged guard, or a non-primary guardian of the inner Jerusalem. Standing at the height of the spiritual contemplation, he looks at the eye of purity on the cooler and the opposite power to the soul, according to the Psalmman: and on the enemies my visure ooo my (Ps. 53, 9).
Divol is not hidden from the Oka, yako Lev Ryka, Script Some (1 Peter. 5, 8), and those who strain their onions commonly in Mrace Right with heart (Ps. 10, 2).
And therefore such a person following the teachings of the Divine Paul, takes all the gunsman of God, yes it will be opposed to the day of Lut (Ephesus 6, 13) and this weapons promoting the grace of God reflects the visible increments and defeats invisible warriors.
This passing path should not occupy an extraneous rumors, from which the head can be filled with idle and memoirs and memories; But it should be attentive to himself.
Especially for the seats should be observed, so as not to apply to other people's affairs, do not think and not talk about them, according to the Psalmman: do not raise the mouth of my delets (Ps. 16, 4), and pray the Lord: from the secret of my cleanse of me and from alien to spare your slave (Ps. 18, 13-14).
A person should pay attention to the beginning and end of his life, by the middle of where happiness or misfortune happens, should be indifferent. To preserve attention to the need to retire, on the verb of the Lord: nick-tolerate on the way (Onions. 10, 4), i.e., do not speak without need, unless it runs for you to hear from you useful.
19. On the fear of God
A person who accepted the path of internal attention must first have the fear of God, who is the beginning of the wisdom.
In the mind of it should always be improved by these prophetic words: work dominance with fear and rejuvenated to him with trepidation (Ps. 2, 11).
He must go through the path of this with extreme caution and the reverence of everything sacred, and not carelessly. Otherwise, it should be feared, so that the Siema definition should be treated: cursed by man, creating the Lord of Establish (Ierme. 48, 10).
Reverent caution is needed here for sie sea, i.e. the heart with its thoughts and desires that should be cleaned through attention, veliko and extensively, Tamo Gadi, I have no number, i.e., many thieves, wrong and unclean, developing evil spirits.
Fear of God, - says the woven, - and compete it (Eccl. 12, 13). And observing the commandments, you will be silent in any case, and your business will always be good. For, fearing God, you will do everything from love to him well. And the devils are not afraid; Who is afraid of God, will overcome the devil: For that, the devil is powerless.
Two types of fear: if you do not want to do evil, then the Fear of the Lord and do not do; And if you want to do good, then be afraid of the Lord and do.
But no one can push the fear of God, the Ministry does not free from all the worries of everyday life. When the mind is impassive, then his fear of God is moving and entails the love of God's favor.
20. On renunciation of the world
The fear of God is acquired when a person, renounced the world and from everything that in the world will focus all his thoughts and feelings in one submission of God's law and will plunge into contemplation of God and in the sense of the promised holy bliss.
It is impossible to renounce the world and come to the state of spiritual contemplation, remaining in the world. For the counterparts will not be satisfied, it is impossible to join the world of spiritual. But the passions are not fired, the states are surrounded by objects that excite passion. To come to the perfect impassivity and achieve a perfect silence of the soul, you need to warm up a lot in spiritual reflection and prayer. But as perhaps completely and calmly dive into the contemplation of God and to go to hear in the law and all the souls to crawl into a flame prayer, while remaining among the inappropriate noise of passions fighting in the world? The world in evil lies.
Not freed from the world, the soul cannot love God sincerely. For the greatness, according to prep. Antioch, for her there is as it would be covered.
If we say the same teacher, we live in someone else's Grad, and our degrees are far from the village of this, and if we know our hail: why are we Medilim in someone else's hail and do you prepare fields and dwellings in it? And how do you like the Lord on the land of alien? This world has another area, i.e. the prince of century (Sl. 15).
21. About the life of active and speculative
The person consists of body and soul, and therefore the path of life should consist of actions of bodily and spiritual - from the act and sortiece.
The path of active life is: post, abstinence, vigil, knee-freeness, prayer and other bodily exploits that make up a close path and regrettable, which, according to the Word of God, introduces into the eternal stomach (Matt. 7, 14).
The path of breathtaking life is to be an army of mind to the Lord God, in hearty attention, smart prayer and contemplation through such exercises of the spiritual things.
Anyone who wants to pass the life of the spiritual, should begin with an active life, and then come to the inmountable: because it is impossible to come to the insight to come without active life.
Active life serves to purify us from sinful passions and takes us to the degree of active perfection; And thus also be the path to breathtaking life. For alone Tokmo cleaned from passions and committed to this life can begin to see how this can be seen from the words of the Holy Scriptures: blignii pure heart: Yako Tiy God is narrowed (Matt. 5, 8) and from the words of St. Gregory Theologian (in the Word in St. Easter): Only the most perfect in their experiment can safely begin to contemplate.
To the speculative life, it should start with fear and trepidation, with the crushing of the heart and humility, with many tests of the Holy Scriptures and, if you can find, under the guidance of a skillful elder, and not with keenness and self-king: Daring Bo and turning, according to Gregory Sinaita (about charms and about other pretexts. Kindness., Part I), the quantity of the merits of his recovery with his nomination, is concerned before the time of the armor. And Pakki: Thinking, the opinion is highly achieved, the desire of Satanino, and not the truth of tightened, - then the devil is comfortable with his arguments, I can't catch my servant.
If you can not find a mentor that can guide to breathtaking life, then in this case it should be guided by the Scripture, because the Lord himself commands us to learn from the Holy Scriptures, verb: experience Pisaniya, Yako You Manty Inti Your Belot (John 5, 39).
It should also be punished to read the father's writings and try as much as possible, according to the strength to perform what they learn, and thus little to pick up from an activest life to the perfection of breathtaking.
For, according to St. Gregory Theologian (the Word on the Holy Easter), the best deal, when we all by themselves we achieve perfection and bring the victim to the victim's living, holy and always in all consecrated.
It should not leave an active life and then when a person had a permanent surveillance and would already come to the inspector: for it contributes to breathtaking life and elevates it.
Passing the path of internal and inspection life, should not weaken and leave it because people who admitted to appearance and sensuality are striking us the opposite of their opinions into the mercy of heartfelt, and trying to distract us from passing the inner path in every way, delivering to him various obstacles : for, according to church teachers (Ferodorite. Sensules. on a song song), the breathtaking of things of spiritual preferred to know the behavior of honor.
And therefore no contrasts in the passage of this way should hesitate, approve in sees on the Word of God: theirs are not a lot of fear, they are emblocled below: I can eat God. The Lord God of our consecramble in the heart of his divine name and filled with his will, and that will be in fear (Isaiah 8, 12-13).
22. About privacy and silence
Page everything should decorate ourselves silence; For the Amvrosiy Mediolsky says: I have seen the silence of many as a rescue, multicoloring none. And Paki some of the fathers say: silence is the sacrament of the future century, the word of the essence of the world of this ( Dobryolism, h. II, ch. sixteen).
You're just sitting in your swelling on your attention and silence and try to bring themselves to the Lord to Lord, and the Lord is ready to make you an angel: who bo he says i will look, Tokmo on the crotchy and silence and tremies (Isaiah 66, 2).
When we are in silence, then the enemy-Dilvolution does not have anything to have a relatively concealed heart: this should intelligible about silence in mind.
A passing such feat should all hope to assign to the Lord God, according to the teachings of the apostle: all sadness your elapse nan, yako that baked about you (1 Peter. 5, 7). It should be permanent in this feat, followed in seaside the example of sv. John the silence and wilderness ( Chet. Min., Dec. 3, in his life), which in the passage of the path of this was approved by the Sieme Divine words: not imam to leave you, below Imam from you back (Heb. 13, 5).
If it is not always possible to stay in privacy and silence, living in the monastery and engaged in obedience assigned to obedience; That although some time remaining from obedience must devote to privacy and silence, and for this, the Lord will not leave the Lord God to send your mercy to you.
Militation and meekness are declining and silence; The action of this latter in the heart of the human can be likened by the quiet water of Siloam, which flows without noise and sound, as the prophet Isaiah says about it: siloamley Water Tiese (8, 6).
Staying in the swelling in silence, exercise, prayer and teaching day and the law of God makes man pious: for, according to SVV. fathers, ink cell cut the Babylonian, in Nejo Tier Occupies of the Son of the Bod of God (Kindness., h. III, Peter Damaskin, KN. one).
The monk, according to Ephraim Sirin, will not remain long in one place, if it is not elapsed before silence and abstinence. For silence teaches silence and constant prayer, and the abstinence makes thoughts indecompushing. Finally, it is waiting for a peaceful state (t. II).
23. About Multilia
One variety with those who are nasty with us, pretty to upset the inside of a careful person.
But only a fantastic thing that the fire that our Jesus Christ came to the land of Human hearts can go out on the land: For any taco is bothering the fire, from the saint spirit breathing in the heart of the Society to consecrate the soul, I am a consideration and multi-champion and interview (IS . Sir. Sl. 8).
Especially it should keep yourself from handling female floors: for, like a wax candle, although not burning, but supplied between burning, extracts, and the heart of the ink from the interview with the female floor is inconspicuously relaxed, about which and St. Isidore Pelusiot says so: Through (verboloking Scripture) Kie conversations Evil instances of the customs of goods: then there will be a conversation with wives and good things, Obache is strong, there is an internal person secretly thoughts, and the chisture is the body, the soul will be desecrated: that bo fetrelas that the water is softer, Obhach is always germing and nature wins; Especially the National Eitality, barely Movie, it will face, and from Too, the southelessness of it is in any way, it will be crap and diminished, then why the will of the human, Like, there is a bevel of hesitation, from the usual life will not be defeated and turned (Isid. Pelus. PR. 84 and Chet. Min., Feb. 4, in his life).
And therefore, to preserve an internal person, it is necessary to try to keep the tongue from the variance: husband bo wadder silence leads (Prov. 11, 12), and it is also kept his mouth, keeping his soul (Prov. 13, 3) and remembers the words of Job: i put the coverage of my eyes, but I do not think about the daily (31, 1) and the words of our Lord Jesus Christ: everyone, iterates hesitated to his wife, it's lustful to her, already a loudelian (Matt. 5, 28).
Without listening to anyone before anyone, it should not answer: it's likely why hears the word before hears, he has a madness and impoverished (Prov. 18, 13).
24. Oh silence
Prep. Wronophius teaches: Docked the ship to the sea, tolerates the troubles and the lateness of the winds, and when it will reaches the pier of a quiet and peaceful, no longer afraid of the troubles and sorrow and the increments of winds, but remains in silence. So you, the monk, the doconstands remain with people, expect the sorrers and the troubles and the increments of mental winds; And when you enter in silence, you have nothing to be afraid (Wars. Out. 8, 9).
Perfect silence there is a cross on which a person should crucify himself with all passions and lust. But think, Vladyka is our Christ how many things have undergone a stagnation and insults, and then he was already asleep on the cross. So we can not come to perfect silence and hoping to holy perfection, if not hurt with Christ. For the apostle says: she is silent with him, with him and glorify. There is no other way (Wars. Out. 342).
The coming in silence should be increasingly remembered why he came so that his heart would not be reduced to something else.
25. About post.
The attendant and Savior of our Lord Jesus Christ before the performance on the feat of the redemption of the human race strengthened himself a long post. And all the devotees, starting to work to the Lord, armed themselves with the post and did not otherwise entered the path of the godfather as in the feet of the post. The most progress in the mobility was measured by success in post.
The post consists not only to eat rarely, but there is little; And not in that there is one day, but not there is a lot. The nerazenumen is the postnim on a certain hour, and in an hour of meals it is all placing an unsaturated taste and body and mind. In the argument of food should observe both not to disassemble between snags with delicious and tasteless. This case, characteristic of animals, in a reasonable person is unworthy praise. We refuse our pleasant food in order to pacify the warming member of the flesh and give freedom to the actions of the spirit.
The true post consists not in one of the balance of the flesh, but also that that part of the bread, which you yourself would like to eat, give accustomed.
To the strict post, the saints began not suddenly, putting gradually and little can be pleased to be content with sickness scum. Prep. Dorofey, the capturing student of his definition to the post, gradually took him from the table from his small part, so that from four pounds of his daily food granted, finally, up to eight lots of bread.
With all that the holy postmen, to the surprise of others, did not know relaxation, but there were always cheerful, strong and ready for business. Diseases between them were rare, and their life flowed extremely long.
To the extent that the flesh flesh is becoming thin and easily, the spiritual life comes into perfection and opens himself to be wonderful phenomena. Then the Spirit makes his actions as if in a disembodied body. External feelings are accurately closed, and the mind, reveling from the Earth, attracts to the sky and fully immersed in the contemplation of the spiritual world.
However, to impose a strict abstinence rule in everything, or to deprive yourself of everything that can serve as a facilitating of immense, this is not all possible. Could ever need (Matt. 19, 12).
There should be so many foods every day so that the body, reducing, was a friend and assistant to the soul in committing virtue; Otherwise, it may be that, I will bend the body, and the soul is weakening.
On Fridays and Wednesdays, especially in four posts, food, in the example of fathers, consume once a day, and the angel of the Lord brings to you.
26. On the exploits
There should be no feats over measures, and try to try our flesh - was faithful and capable of creating virtues.
Need to go medium do not shy on the gons, nor on Shuye (Prov. 4, 27); Spirit to give spiritual, and the body is bodily, cleaned for maintaining time life. There should be no public life to refuse what it legally requires from us, according to Scripture: return Cesarean Cesarean and God of God (Matt. 22, 21).
There should be a soul of its soul in its dumb and imperfections and tolerate their shortcomings, how tolerate the shortcomings of neighbors, but not to evaporate and incessantly encourage themselves for the better.
Did you use food a lot or made another that the glittering weakness of human, do not outraget sim, do not harm harm to harm; But, courageously having moved himself to correction, try to preserve the world of spiritual, according to the word of the apostle: blessed Do not condemn yourself, about the less tempting (Rome. 14, 22).
The body, exhausted by the feuse or disease, must support moderate sleep, food and bettage, without watching even time. Jesus Christ, according to the resurrection of the daughter of Jairova from death, immediately commanded data her Yarsky (Bow. 8, 55).
If you extend your body to be extended to the point that the spirit and the Spirit will be reckless, at least this was done to reduce virtue.
It's up to thirty-five years, that is, before the learners of the earthly life, a great feat of a person in preserving himself, and many in this summer are not tired in virtues, but are seduced from the right path to their own wishes as about ses. Vasily Great testifies (in the conversation on started. Prov.): Many have collected a lot in adolescence, but by living the existence who rebel the temptations from the spirits of the stems, did not bother the unrest and all lost.
And therefore, so that not to experience such a transformation, it is necessary to put yourself in the measure of the test and attentive to surveillance, according to the teachings of St. Isaac Sirina: Jacques on Merila will be confirmed by the lime of the intestine residence (Sl. 40).
Every success in anything we must attribute to the Lord and talk to the Prophet: not to us, Lord, not to us, but your name is glory (Ps. 113, 9).
27. On wakefulness against temptations
We should always be attentive to the attacks of the devil; For we can hope so that he leaves us without temptation, when he did not leave the most met of our and the head of the faith and the perfect gentleman of the Lord Jesus Christ? Lord Himself apostle Peter said: Simone! Simone! Ce Satan asks you in order to sit down, IKO Wheat (Bow. 22, 31).
So, we must always call the Lord and pray in humility, and do not let us be the sophisticated temptation above the strength of our friend, but it will save us from the evil.
For when the Lord leaves a man to himself, then the devil is ready to erase him, Jaco Melnic Pilot Wheat grain.
28. About sorrows
When the evil spirit of sadness will master the soul, then, by filling it with a bitterness and trouble, does not give her to make a prayer with due diligence, prevents her reading the writings with proper attention, deprives her meekness and harmony in handling the brothers and wads disgust from any interview. For the soul, filled with sadness, going as if mad and sophisticated, can not calmly take a good advice, neither crotko respond to the proposed questions. She runs away with people, as the perpetrators of her embarrassment, and does not understand that the cause of the disease inside it. Sadness is a heart worm, ricking a steady mother.
The sad monk does not drive the mind to contemplation and can never perform pure prayers.
Who defeated passion, he won the sadness. And the stars defeated by passions will avoid sorrows. As a patient is visible in the face of the face, so possession of passion refers to sorrow.
Who loves the world, it is impossible not to be sad. And the despicable world is always cheerful.
How the fire cleans gold, so the sinful heart cleanses the sinful heart (ANT. SL 25).
29. About boredom and despondency
With the Spirit of Sorrow, boredom acts insistently. She, at the notice of fathers, attacks the monk about noon and produces such terrible concern that the place of residence becomes unanimously, and the brothers living with him, and when reading some disgust is initiated, and frequent yawn and severe Alcba. On saturation of the womb The demon boredom inspires the monk of the thoughts to leave the Celi and talk to someone with someone, imagining that it is not different possible to get rid of boredom, as incessantly chatting with others. And the monk, whipped to the scarlet, is like a deserted brushwood, which will stop a little, then again rushes in the wind. He, as anhydrous cloud, resembered by the wind.
This demon, if the monk cannot remove the monk, it begins to entertain his mind during prayer and reading. This, he says to him, is not so, and this is not here, to put in order, and it does it all to make the mind to make idle and fruitless.
Sia's illness does a prayer with prayer, abstaining from celebrations, satchel, reading the Word of God and patience; Because it is born from a smallness and idleness and celebrations (AnT. Sl. 26, Is. Sir. 212).
It is difficult to avoid her novice life monastic, for she is the first attacks him. Therefore, first of all, it should beware of it by means of strict and unquestioning fulfillment of all responsibilities assigned to the obedient. When your classes come to a real order, then boredom will not find a place in your heart. We miss only those who are not in order. So, obedience is the best medical examination against this dangerous disease.
When boredom is overwhelmed, then tell yourself, on the instruction of pre. Isaac Sirina: You again wish impurities and shameful life. And if the thoughts tell you: the great sin kill himself, - you say to him: I kill myself, because I can not live unclean. Umna here, so as not to see the true death - my soul in relation to God. It is better for me to die here for cleanliness than living in the world with an evil life. I preferred the death of this sins mine. I will kill myself, because I sinned the Lord and I will not warm it up. What should I live in removing from God? Sea's angles sterrind, so as not to lose heavenly hope. What god in my life, if I live bad and nice it (Shot. 22)?
Other - boredom and other - the Tomorrow of the Spirit, called despondency. Sometimes a person in such a state of the spirit is that, it seems to him, it would be easier for him to be destroyed or be without any feeling and consciousness, rather than to remain in this irreplaceable state. We need to hurry to get out of it. Surrious from the spirit of despondency, because all evil is evident (Wars. Ans. 73, 500).
There is a disintegration natural, teaches St. Wronophy, from powerlessness, and there is a despondency from Besa. Want to know it? Trying like this: Beshovsky comes before the time in which he should have a rest. For when someone suggests himself to do something, it was before, than executed will be a third or a quarter of the case, it goes to leave it and get up. Then it is not necessary to listen to him, but to make a prayer and sit for a matter with patience.
And the enemy, seeing that he is therefore creates a prayer, removes, because it does not want to give a reason for prayer (Wars. Out. 562, 563, 564, 565).
When God is pleased, "says Sv. Isaac Sirin, - having attacked a man in big sorrow, it burns him to fall into the hands of a bit mass. It wads in it a strong power of despondency in which it is experiencing mental tightness and it is anticipation of geenna; As a result, this is the spirit of the frenzy, from which thousands of temptations occur: embarrassment, rage, hula, a complaint against their fate, corrupted thoughts, resettlement from place to place and the like. If you ask: what is the reason? I will say: your neracted, because you did not take care of looking overwhelming them. For healing for all this one, with which a person comes soon finding consolation in his soul. And what is this doctorhood? Smithy heart heart. No, besides him, a person cannot destroy all the defects, and opposite it finds that these overgrow (Isaac Sira. Sl. 79).
Ugly in St. Fathers are sometimes referred to as idleness, laziness and collapse.
30. Disposable
As the Lord is a stirring about our salvation, so man bikes - the devil is trying to arvest the person in despair.
Despair, according to the teachings of St. John the Distrowedler, is evident or from the consciousness of a set of sins, despair of conscience and unscrew, when the soul, a plurality of the ulcers covered, from the unbearable their pain is immersed in the depths of despair, or from pride and sense, when someone honors herself not deserving a sin who fell . The first kind of despair leads to a person in all the flavors without parsing, and with the despair of the second kind, the person still keeps his feat that, according to St. John the Districter, and do not jointly understand. The first doctor is abstaining and the good hope, and the second - humility and fault of the near (LEST. Step. 26).
The soul is high and firm does not despair in unhappiness, any. Judas Traitor was small and insecurane in Brahi, and therefore the enemy, seeing his despair, attacked him and forced him to walked; But Peter is a hard stone, when he fell into a great sin, as a skillful in Brahi, did not despair and did not lose the spirit, but shed bitter tears from the hot heart, and the enemy, seeing them, how the fire was fluffy in her eyes, ran far from him with painful scream.
So, the brothers, teaches prep. Antioch, when despair will attack us, do not conquer him, but, strengthening and fired by the light of faith, with the great courage, let's say the evil spirits: what do we and you, alienated from God, the fugitives from Heaven and the slave? You do not dare to make us anything.
Christ, the Son of God, the power has over us and above all. He was sinned, and we are justified. And you, destructive, succeeded from us. Strengthened by his honest cross, we trample your Zmiinoy chapter (ANT. Sl. 27).
31. About diseases
The body is the slave of the soul, the soul - the queen, and therefore this has mercy of the Lord, when the body is extended by diseases; For the passions weaken from this, and the person comes to himself; And the most disease bodily affected sometimes from passions.
Taken sin and disease will not be; For they are in us from sin, as Siens asserts St. Vasily Great (the word that God is not the reason for evils): where does not glory? Where does corporal damage come from? The Lord created the body, not a non-union; Soul, not sin. What is more useful and necessary? Connection with God and communicating with him through love. Lying love This, we disappear from it, and disappearing to be different and diverse a few.
Who tolerates the disease with patience and thanksgiving, it is imputed instead of a feat or even more.
One old man, who suffered a watering disease, spoke to the brothers who came to him with the desire to treat him: fathers, pray, so that my inner person is not subjected to such a disease; As for the real illness, I ask God that he suddenly freed me from her, because he emphasy our people have a tleet, Pooled internal updates (2 Cor. 4, 16).
Budge the Lord God would please, so that a person experienced illness, he will give him and the power of patience.
So, let there be diseases not from us, but from God.
32. About posts and love for near
With the neighbors it is necessary to do affirmably, without making even the types of insults.
When we are distracted by a person or insult him, then on our heart, as it were, the stone falls.
The spirit of an embarrassed or a dull man should be needed to encourage the word of love.
Brother sin, cut it, as Sv. Isaac Sirin (SL. 89): Send your robe over the sinning and cut it. We all demand all the grace of God, as the church sings: not the Lord would have been in us who was satisfied for the purpose of being soles from the enemy, the same man and human bikes.
We in relation to neighbor should be, both in a word and thought, clean and all are equal to everyone; Otherwise, our life will make usless.
We must love your neighbor at least like themselves, according to the commandments of the Lord: love your mother-in-law, Yako himself (Bow 10, 27). But not so that the love of the near, leaving the boundaries of moderation, distracted us from the execution of the first and main commandment, that is, the love of God, as the Lord, the Lord is our Jesus Christ: it is also like a father or mother's wake of me, it's worthy: and likely loves her son or a dotter of a wake of me, it is worthy (Matt. 10, 37). About the subject it is very well conquered by St. Dimitri Rostovsky (h. II, wage 2): There is visible to God for God in a Christian man, where the creature with the Creator compares, or more creature, rather than the Creator is revered; And there is visible to the truthful love, where one creator of the fall of all creation is loved and preferred.
33. About the false fault
I should not judge anyone, at least with my own eyes saw someone who sins, or kosnating in the crime of the commandments of God, according to the Word of God: rE judge, yes, you will not judge (Matt. 7, 1), and Paks: who are you who seem to be alien to slave? Its dominance is worth or falling; will be, Silen Bo is God to put it (Rome 14, 4).
It is much better to always put yourself in memory of these apostolic words: mINNING STANDS YES WITHOUT, DO NOT PAYED (1 Cor. 10, 12). For it is unknown, how much time we can in the virtues to stay, as the prophet says, the experience of this was active: reh in the abyss of my: I will not move in the temper. Disgruntled your face yours, and fucking confused (Ps. 29, 7-8).
Why do we condemn their brotherhood? Because I don't try to know ourselves. Who is engaged in the knowledge of himself, there is no time to notice for others. Condem yourself and cease to condemn others.
Ourselves should consider us the sinners all and all the bad things to forgive the neighbor, but hate only the devil, who prevented him. It happens that it seems to us, the other makes thin, and in fact, for the good intent of doing, that's good. Moreover, the door of repentance to all the holes and is unknown who will continue to enter it - whether you, condemning, or condemned to you.
Condemn a bad thing, but do not condemn. If you condemn the near, teaches prep. Antiochus, then with him and you condemn in the same thing to condemn it. It is not necessary to judge or condemn us, but one God and the Grand Judge, our leading hearts and the innermost passion of nature (ANT. 49).
To get rid of condemnation, should heed himself, none of anyone to take extraneous thoughts and be all dead.
So, beloved, we will not observe other people's sins and condemn others to not hear: the sons of human and teeth them guns and arrows, and their tongue is a sword sharp (Ps. 56, 5).
34. For the forgiveness of the offense
For the insanity, no matter how appreciated, not only should not be noticed, but opposite it should still forgive the offender from the heart, at least it was opposed to this, and to declines him with the conviction of the Word of God: do not let go of a man of heaven who will go to his heaven; (Matt. 6, 15), and Paks: praying for creative you attack (Matt. 5, 44).
It should not feed in the heart of anger or hatred towards the neighboring warrant, but it should love him and, how much can, create him good, following the teachings of the Lord of our Jesus Christ: love your enemies, good create hated you (Matt. 5, 44).
When your honor is who humiliates or takes away, then try to forgive him with all the measures to forgive him, according to the word Gospel: from izvyukovo yours are not expirable (Bow. 6, 30).
God protected us to hostility only against the serpent, that is, against the one who the man seduced and expelled from Paradise, against the human-bikes-diazol. It is commanded to be enjoyed and against the Madianians, that is, against the unclean spirits of fornicing and stakeholders who sow unclean and bad thoughts in the heart.
Running the beloved of God: they fuck the meekness of David, about which the Lord said about which the Lord said: I found my husband to my heart, which will fulfill all my wants. So he talks about David unlockable and good to his enemies. And we will not do anything in our brother's ourselves, in order to say the pre. Antioch, there was no stop during prayer.
About Jea testified by God, as a man in kind (Job. 2, 3); Joseph did not revenge the brothers who intented evil on him; Abel in simplicity and without suspicion went with his brother with his Cain.
According to the testimony of the Word of God, the saints all lived in kindly. Jeremiah, chatting with God (Ier. 18, 20), talks about His His His Israel: food is evil for good? Romance standing to you, hedgehog vercolati for them good (ANT. SL 52).
So, if we are, how much is the strength, try to fulfill everyone, we can hope that in the hearts of our Light the divine, illuminating the path to the city of Jerusalem.
35. About patience and humility
It is always easy to endure everything that would happen, God for God, with gratitude. Our life is one minute in comparison with eternity; and that's why unworthy, on the apostle, passion of the current time of the time of which will appear in us (Rome. 8, 18).
Insults from others to transfer should be indifferent and access to this spirit, as if their insults are not up to us, and they concerned to others.
In silence, I carry when the enemy insults you and open your heart to the whole Lord.
We always and before everyone should derocate ourselves, following the teachings of St. Isaac Sirina: humiliate yourself and cite the glory of God in himself (s. 57).
I do not go through the light, all gloomy, and without humility there is nothing in a person as only one darkness. Therefore, we love humility and usurim the glory of God; Humility is expired, Mr. God is exuded.
As the wax is not preheated and not softened cannot take the print imposed on it, and the soul, not sophisticated with works and nonsense, can not accept the press of the virtues of God. When the devil left the Lord, the angels began to be launched and served him (Matt. 4, 11). So, if during temptations, the angels of God are somewhat moving away from us, then not far, and soon they begin and serve us by divine thoughts, aspiration, granting, patience. The soul, bothering, shrews and other perfections. Why sv. The Prophet Isaiah says: the tolerances of the Lord are changed, they are overwhelmed, Aki Orel, flow and do not think, will go and will not be discouraged (Is. 40, 31).
So I endured the crutest David: for, when families have rushed him and metal on him stones, saying: says to husband soldier- he was not angry; And when Avessa, announcing this, said to him: by mail curses the diece of this gentleman of my king? He forbade him, saying: leave it and taco yes cursing meFor the Lord will see and pay me good (2 kings. 16, 7-12).
Why after and sick: trying the victims of the Lord, and woven, and I will hear my prayer (Ps. 39, 2).
As a calbid father, when he sees that his son lives randomly, punishes him; And when he sees that he is worry and punished with difficulty, then comforts: it comes with us and the good of the Lord and our father, using everything for our benefit, both consolation and punishment, in their humanity. And therefore we, while in sorrows, how children are well-focused, should thank God. For if you become thanked him only in well-being, then we will be like an ungrateful Jews, who, satisfied with the wonderful meal in the desert, said that Christ was truly the Prophet, wanted to take him and make the king, and when he told them: do not brazhenly dying, but brashfully staying in the abdomen, then they told him: what kind of recruitment are you doing bannames? Fathers Our Yadosh Manna in Desert (John. 6, 27-31). The word falls right on such: it will be used to you, be the benefit of him, - and so does not even until the end do not seek (Ps. 48, 19-20).
Therefore the apostle Jacob teaches us: everyone's joy, brother, my, albeit in the temptation, fall differently, so much, Yako is tempting your beliefs in the clock: the longer is dead.and adds: blessed Husband, Izhu will undergo tempted: Zaka skyrian former priests a lifestyle (Iac. 1, 2-4, 12).
36. About Milos
Must be merciful to poor and strange; The great lamps and fathers of the church were baked about ses.
In relation to this virtue, we must try to fulfill the next commandment of God: Wake up the tassel of mercy, Jacan and Father your mercy is (Bow. 6, 36), and also: grace worst, not victims (Matt. 9, 13).
SIM Saving words wisely hit, and unreasonable do not hit; Therefore, the Award is not the same, as it is said: meeting a scarcity, scarf and get married; Seating about blessed, about blessed and get married (2 Cor. 9, 6).
Example of Peter Kholodar ( Chet. Min., Saint. 22), which for a piece of bread, filed with a restoration, was forgiven in all his sins, as it was shown to him in the vision, - yes will make us to ensure that we were merciful to the neighbor: for and small alms contributes a lot to getting a kingdom Heavenly.
We must create alms with the mental arrangement, according to the teachings of St. Isaac Sirina: Through Dasi that requested, yes, before the act of your fun of your faces and the words are good comforting his sorrow (Shot 89).
Saint Seraf. andm (in the world aboutchoir Mosh. andh) Born in 1759 in Kursk in a merchant family. At the 10th age, he became very sick. During the illness, he saw in the dream of God, Mother, who promised healing him. A few days later in Kursk, a congestion was made with a local miraculous icon of the Mother of God. Because of bad weather, the procession went briefly by the house of Moshnin. After the mother attached Seraphim to the miraculous image, he began to recover quickly. IN young aged He had to help parents in the shop, but trade was little attracted him. Young Serafim loved to read the lives of saints, attend the temple and returned for prayer.
At the 18th age, Seraphim solidically decided to take a monasticism. Mother blessed him with a big copper crucifix, which he wore his whole life over his clothes. After that, he joined the Sarov insidency as a novice.
From the very first day in the monastery, the exclusive abstinence in food and a dream was distinctive feature His life. He ate once a day, and it is not enough. On Wednesdays and Fridays did not eat anything. After having collapsed the blessing from his elder, he began to remove into the forest for prayer and fivel. Soon he again got sick and for three years most of the time was forced to spend lying.
And again he was cured of the Most Holy Deva Maria, which was accompanied by several saints. Pointing on rev. Serafima, The Most Holy Vissa told the Apostle John the Bogoslov: "This is our kind." Then touched by the rod of his Boc, she healed him.
The tonsure of the monastic chin took place in 1786 (when he was 27 years old). He was given the name Seraphim, that he means "Flame, burning." Soon it was hand-made in Ierodicone. He justified his name with an extraordinary prayer burning. He all the time, with the exception of the most brief rest, spent in the temple. Among such prayer and liturgical works presented. Seraphim awarded to see the angels serving and singing in the temple. On the liturgy in the passionate Thursday, he saw the very Lord Jesus Christ in the image of the Son of the Human, marching into the temple with heavenly forces and blessing praying. Amazed by this vision, the reverend could not talk long.
In 1793, the Rev. Seraphim was ordained in Hieromonach, after which during the year he served daily and sainted Holy Taine. Then Saint Seraphim began to be removed in the "Far Desert" - in the forest wilderness in five versts from the Sarov monastery. Veliko was the perfection achieved by him at this time. Wild animals: bears, hares, wolves, foxes and others - came to the hut. The styal of the Diveevian monastery, Matrona Plescheyev personally saw the saint Seraphim from his hands fed a bear who came to him. "The face of the great elder was especially wonderful to me. It was joyful and light, like an angel," she told. Living in his desert, Rev. Seraphim once suffered a lot from the robbers. Being very strong physically and having an ax, with him, the Rev. Seraphim did not oppose them. In response to the demand of money and in the threat, he lowered the ax to the ground, folded his hands on his chest and persecuted him. They began to beat him on the head of his own ax. Blood was breathing from his mouth and from the ears, and he fell unconscious. After that, they began to beat him with a purul, trampled their feet and dragged on the ground. They stopped him to beat him only when they decided that he died. The only treasure that the robbers found in his cell was the icon of the Mother of God, in front of which he always prayed. When after some time the robbers were caught and judged, the Monk interpreted for them before the judge. After beating the robber, the Rev. Seraphim remained sloped for life.
Shortly thereafter, the pilot period of the life of Rev. Seraphim begins when he spent the days on one stone close to the "desert," and the night - in the thick of the forest. Almost without a break, he prayed with the abreast of his hands. Such a feat lasted a thousand days.
According to the special vision of the Mother of God, under the end of his life pre. Seraphim assumed the feat of the older. He began to take all coming to him for advice and instruction. Many thousands of people from a wide variety of layers and states began to visit the elder now, who enriched them from their spiritual treasure acquired by perennial exploits. All met prep. Seraphim Krotky, joyful, thoughtfully sincere. He welcomed the words: "My joy!" He advised him to many: "Cleans (acquisition) Mirny spirit, and thousands of you will be saved around." Whoever comes to him, the old man bowed to the earth and blessed, kissed his hands himself. He did not need the coming told him about himself, but he knew himself that she had in the soul. He also said: "Greywhere is not a sin. She drives out fatigue, and from fatigue after all the despondency happens, and it is not worse."
"Ah, if you knew," he said once in Angu, - What a joy, what sweetness is waiting for the soul of the righteous in the sky, then you would have decided to carry all sorts of grief, persecution and slander with gratitude. If our own kind was our own. Full of worms and if these worms ate our flesh during the whole of the world's life, then with every desire it would be necessary to agree to this, so that only not to lose the heavenly joy that God loved him. "
The wonderful case of the ability of the saint described the close admirer and student of St. Seraphim - Mlow andfishing. It happened in winter, on a cloudy day. Motovilov sat in the forest on the stump. Saint Seraphim was sitting opposite him squatting and spoke to his student about the meaning of Christian life, explained why we, Christians, we live on Earth.
"It is necessary that the Holy Spirit goes into the heart," he said. "All that is good that we are doing for the sake of Christ gives us the Holy Spirit, but only more prayer that is always in our hands."
"Batyushka," Motovilov answered him, "Yes, how can I see the grace of the Holy Spirit, how can I know, he is with me or not?"
Saint Seraphim began to give him examples from the life of the saints and apostles, but Motovilov did not understand everything. Then the old man took him tightly behind his shoulder and told him: "both are now, the father, in the spirit of God." Motovilova, as it were, the eyes were revealed, and he saw that the face of the senior was lighter than the sun. In the heart of his Motovilov, he felt joy and silence, his body was warm, as in the summer, and there was a fragrance around them. Motovilov was horrified by this extraordinary change, and most importantly - the fact that the face of the elder shone like the sun. But the Saint Seraphim told him: "Do not be afraid, father. You could not see me if you ourselves were not in the completeness of God's spirit. Thank the Lord for His mercy to us."
So Motovilov understood both the mind and the heart, which means the descent of the Holy Spirit and the transformation of a person.
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From the instructions of Rev. Seraphim Sarovsky about God
God is fire, warming and igniting hearts and womb. So, if we feel in the hearts of your cold, which from the devil (for the devil is cold), then I will call the Lord: he, having come, will warm our heart with a perfect love not only to him, but also to the neighbor. And on behalf of his warmth will run away by the refuge of the hatering of good.
Where God, there is no evil. Everything that happens from God, peacefully, useful and leads a person to condemn their drawbacks and humility.
God will be our humanity not only in those cases when we do good, but when we insult his sins and angry it. How long does it demolish our lawlessness! And when punishes how graciously punishes! "Do not call God's right," says Rev. Isaac, "because his justice is not visible in your justice. True, David called him and the right and right, but the Son of God showed us that God is more good and merciful. Where is his justice? We were Sinners, and Christ died for us "(Isaac Sirin, word 90).
Causes of the coming of Christ
1. The love of God to the human race: "God loved the world so much, which gave the son of his only municipal" (John 3:16).
2. Recovery in the fallen man's image and similarity of God.
3. Saving the Human Shower: "God did not send his son to the world to judge the world, but that the world was saved through him" (John 3:17).
So, we, following the goals of the Redeemer of our Lord Jesus Christ, should behave their life according to his divine teaching, in order to save our souls through it.
Vera
Faith, according to the teachings of Rev. Antioch, there is the beginning of our connection with God: True believes there is a stone of the temple of God, prepared for the building of the Father's God, ascended to the height of the force of Jesus Christ, i.e. The cross and the help of grace of the Holy Spirit.
"Faith Without Affairs is dead" (Jac. 2:26). Cases of faith essence: love, peace, long-suffering, mercy, humility, cross and life in spirit. True faith can not stay without affairs. Who sincerely believes, he certainly creates good deeds.
Hope
All having firm hope on God are energized and educated by the radiance of eternal light.
If a person has no excessive care of himself from love to God and for affairs virtue, knowing that God cares about him, then such hope is a true and wise. And if a person has all the hope of his affairs to his affairs, he also draws a prayer to God only when he is comprehended by unexpected troubles, and he, without seeing the funds of them to rotate them, begins to hope for the help of God, then such a hope of Jewish and false. True hope is looking for the United Kingdom of God and is sure that everything necessary for temporary life will certainly be given. The heart cannot have peace until it becomes such hope. She completely pacifies him and makes joy in him. The Holy Savior's Savior's Savior was told about this Nadezhda: "Come to me all those who are worried and burdened, and I will calm you" (MT. 11:28).
Love for God
Crazy the perfect love for God is in this life as he would not exist. For he considers himself someone else's visible, waiting for invisible patience. He has changed in love for God and left all worldly affection.
Truly loving God considers himself a wanderer and an alien on earth; For in him, the desire to God soul and the mind contemplates only his one.
Care about the soul. A man on the body is like a lit candle. Candle must burn, and a person must die. But his soul is immortal, because the care of our should treat more than the soul than to the body: "What is the benefit of a person if he acquires the whole world, and his soul will hurt? Or what a redemption will give a man for his soul" (MT 16:26 ), For which, as you know, nothing in the world can be redemption? If one soul itself is precious than the world and the kingdom of worldly, it is incomparably more expensive than the kingdom of heaven. I read the soul preciously for the reason that Makarary says Great that God has not fallen with anything to report and connect with his spiritual nature, with any visible creation, but with one person who loved the most of all his creatures.
Love for neighbor
With your neighbors, it is necessary to do affirmably, without making it even the type of insult. When we are distracted by a person or insult him, then on our heart like a stone falls. The spirit of an embarrassed or a diligent person is needed to try to encourage the words of love.
Seeing his brother of making sin, it consistent with St. Isaac Sirin advises: "Prostivate the robe of your sinful and cut it."
In relation to the neighbor, we must be both a word and the thought of clean and all are equal to everyone; Otherwise, our life will make useless. We must love the neighbor at least as ourselves, according to the commandments of the Lord: "Love your neighbor, like yourself" (Luke 10:27). But not so that the love of the near, leaving the boundaries of moderation distracts us from the execution of the first and main commandment of love for God, like the Lord himself, Jesus Christ teaches: "Who loves his father or mother more than me, not worthy of me; And who loves her son or daughter more than me, not worthy of me "(MT. 10:37).
Mercy
Must be merciful to poor and strange, the great lamps and fathers of the Church took a lot of things. In relation to this virtue, we must try to fulfill the following commandments of God with all measures: "Be merciful, like the father of your mercy" and "mercy want, not the victims" (onions 6:36; MT. 9:13). Saves Wonderful words are hearing, and unreasonable do not hit; Therefore, the reward will be unequal, as it is said: "Who sow Skupo, Skupor and gets away; and who sow generously, generously and gets out" (2 Cor. 9: 6).
The example of Peter Kholodar, who for a piece of bread, filed by a thoroughness, received the forgiveness of all his sins (as it was shown to him in vision) Let it encourage us to be merciful to neighbor, - for and a small alms contributes to obtaining the kingdom of heaven.
To serve alms, it is necessary with the mental fit, according to the teachings of St. Isaac Sirina: "If you give anything asking, let your face pre-lay on your facial, and comforting his sorrow."
Supervision and forgiveness
There should be no one to condemn anyone, at least with his own eyes, you saw whom God's sins and touched in violation of the commandments of God, as stated in the Word of God: "Do not judge, do not judge" (MT. 7: 1). "Who are you, condemning someone else's slave? Before his Lord, he stands or falls. And will be restored, because God is strong to restore it" (Rom. 14: 4). It is much better to always bring yourself to the memory of the word apostolic: "Who thinks he stands, beware, so as not to fall" (1 Cor. 10:12).
I should not feed the angry or hate to a person who is warring against us, but, on the contrary, it is necessary to love him and how much you can, create him good, following the teachings of the Lord of our Jesus Christ: "Love your enemies, charity hate you" (MT. 5:44 ). So, if we are, how much strength, try to fulfill it, we can hope that the Light of the Divine, illuminating the path to Jerusalem in the hearts of our hearts.
Why do we condemn our neighbors? Because I don't try to know ourselves. Who is engaged in the knowledge of himself, this is no time to notice the shortcomings of others. Condem yourself - and cease to condemn others. Condemn a bad thing, but do not condemn. Ourselves should consider themselves the sinful of everyone and every bad thing to forgive the neighbor. It is necessary to hate only the devil who prevented him. It happens that it seems to us that the other makes it bad, and in fact, for the good intention that makes it well. Moreover, the door of repentance to all the hole, and it is unknown who will continue to enter it - whether you are condemning or condemned by you.
Repentance
Want to escape should always have a heart located to repentance and crushed: "The sacrifice of God - the spirit crushed; the heart of the crushed and humble you do not despise, God" (Psal. 50:19). In such a crushing of the Spirit, a person can easily be saved all cunning shiven The devil, whom all efforts are aimed in to outdue the spirit of man and sowing his fleels in the indignation (weeds), according to the evangelical word: "Mr., not a good seed, did you sow on your field? Where did you spit on it? He told them : The enemy of man did it "(MT. 13: 27-28). When a person tries to have a heap of humble and keeps the world in thoughts, then all the goats of the enemy are inactive; For, where the world of thoughts, God himself is so much: in the world, it is said, his place (Psal. 75: 2).
We all our life insult the Majesty of God, and therefore it should always ask the Lord for the forgiveness of our sins.
Fast
The head of the feat and the Savior our Lord Jesus Christ before the performance on the feat of the atonement of the human race strengthened himself a long post. And all the devotees, starting to work the Lord, armed themselves with the post and did not otherwise entered the path of the godfather, as in the feet of the post. The most progress in the mobility was measured by success in post.
With all that the holy postmen, to the surprise of others, did not know relaxation, but always were vigorous, strong and ready for business. Diseases between them were rare and their life flowed extremely long.
While the flesh of the fasting becomes fine and light, the spiritual life comes into perfection and opens itself to wonderful phenomena. Then the Spirit makes his actions as if in a disembodied body. External feelings are accurately closed, and the mind, renovating from the earth, is attracted to the sky and fully immersed in contemplation of the spiritual world. However, not everyone can impose a strict abstinence rule in everything and deprive themselves everything that can serve as a facilitance of immense. "Who can accommodate, but welcome" (MT. 19:12).
There should be so many foods every day so that the body, fixing, was a friend and assistant to the soul to commit virtue: otherwise it may happen that when the body is exhausted and the soul will weaken. On Fridays and Wednesdays, especially in four lean periods, in the example of fathers food, take the food once a day, - and the Angel of the Lord rushes to you.
Patience and humility
It is always easy to endure and everything that would happen, to accept God for gratitude. Our life is one minute in comparison with eternity. And therefore "the current temporary suffering, according to the apostle, is nothing in comparison with the glory that opens in us" (Rome 8:18).
In silence, I carry when the enemy insults you, and open your heart to the united Lord then. To the one who degrads you or take your honor, try to forgive with all measures, according to the word of the Gospel: "From the next to yours, do not require back" (Lux 6:30).
When people scold us, we must consider themselves unworthy praise, presenting that if we were worthy, then everyone would bow to us. We always and before everyone should derocate ourselves, following the teachings of St. Isaac Syrina: "Humilbles yourself and see the glory of God in himself."
Diseases
The body is the slave of the soul, and the soul is the queen. Therefore, it often happens that in the mercy of God our body is exhausted with diseases. Because of the diseases, passion weaken, and the person comes to himself. In addition, sometimes the very disease is bodily born from passions. Who tolerates the disease with patience and gratitude, it be charged in a feat, or even more.
One old man, who suffered to a water disease, spoke to the brothers who came to him with the desire to treat him: "Fathers, pray that this disease is not subjected to my inner person. And as for the real illness, I ask God so that he suddenly freed I am from her, for because the external man is smoldering, there is an internal update, "(2 Cor. 4:16).
Soulful world
The mental world is purchased by mourn. Scripture says: "We passed through fire and water, and you brought us on peace" (Psal. 65:12). At the time to please God, the path lies through many sorrow. How do we praise the holy martyrs for the suffering that they have undergone the sake of God when we can't be squeezing and hot?
Nothing does not contribute to the compassion of the inner world, like silence and, no matter how much, the undergrown conversation with him and rare with others.
The sign of spiritual life is the immersion of a person inside himself and the innermost doing in his heart.
This world, as a certain invaluable treasure, left the Lord our Jesus Christ's disciples before the death of His death, saying: "The world I leave you, my world I give you" (John 14:27). The apostle also speaks about him: "The world of God, which is above all his mind, and keep your heart and understand your in Christ Jesus" (Philip 4: 7); "We have peace with everyone and holiness, without which no one will see the Lord" (Heb. 12:14).
So, we must all our thoughts, desires and actions to send to get the world of God, and with the Church always call: "Lord God, we give us the world" (Isa. 26:12).
We are needed by all measures to try to keep the world of spiritual and not perturbed from insults from others. To do this, you need to in every possible way from anger, and through the attention to protect the mind and heart from obscene oscillations.
Insults from others need to be transferred indifferentously and accustom to this location, no matter how they touch. Such an exercise can deliver to our heart silence and make him the abode of God himself.
The image of such a kind of kind, we see in the life of St. Gregory the Wonderworker, from which a certain harmnica specifically demanded a MZDA, allegedly for sin with her made. He, who, not accepted Nimalo on her, said Krotko to one to his friend: I will soon give her the price that requires. A woman as soon as he accepted the wrong Mzdu, began to be shunken. Then the saint, praying, drove the demon from it.
If it is impossible not to be indignant, then at least it is necessary to keep the language for the word of the Psalm: "I am shocked and I can not say" (Psal. 76: 5).
In this case, we can take into a sample of Holy Spiridon Trimifun and Rev. Ephraim Sirin. The first one suffered insult: when, at the request of the Greek king, he entered the palace, then one of the servants, former in the royal ward, leaving him behind the beggar, laughed at him, did not let go to the ward and even hit him on his cheek. Holy Spiridon, being invisible, drew him as the word of the Lord and the other (MT. 5:39). Rev. Ephraim, living in the desert, once decessed was food in this way. His student, carrying food, inadvertently broke the vessel on the road. Rev., seeing the student sad, told him: "Not grief, brother. If I didn't want to come to us, we will go to her." So the Monk went, sat down with a breakdown of a vessel and, collecting food, knocked her. So he was kinderlike!
To preserve the world of spiritual, it should also be in every way to avoid the condemnation of others. The world's mental world is preserved to the brother and silence. When a person is happening in such a dispensation, he gets divine revelations.
In order not to fall into the condemnation of the neighbors, should hean himself, none of anyone to take thin Westa and be all dead.
To preserve the spiritual world is needed more often to enter yourself and ask: where am I? With this, it should observe the bodily feelings, especially their eyesight, serve as an internal person, and did not entertain the soul with sensual items, because the graceful donations receive only those who have internal doing and tackle their souls.
Feat
Pupils who rose overwhelming excessive exploits, the Rev. Seraphim said that the bad and the meek transfer of the offense - these are Verigi OUR and VERYAYAN. (Verigi - Iron Chains and Different Gravity; Vlasanian is a thick of coarse wool.) These things some devotees were worn to depress their body.
There should be no feats over measures, and it is necessary to try to be a friend - our flesh would be faithful and capable of creating virtues. It is necessary to go medium, without evading neither right, nor left (parable 4:27): Give spiritual spirit, and the body is bodily, demanding for the content of time life. There should also be no public life to refuse what she legally requires from us, according to the word of Scripture: "Rejoice Cesarevo Caesar, and God of God" (MT. 22:21).
It should condone its soul in its disadvantages and imperfections, and tolerate its shortcomings, how tolerate the shortcomings of neighboring, but not to lack and incessantly encourage themselves for the better.
Did you use a lot of food or did another that, the afflicted weakness of human, do not outraget, do not add harm to harm; But courageously, having hugged himself to the correction, try to keep the peace of spiritual as the word of the Apostle: "Blessed, who does not condemn himself in what chooses" (Rom. 14:22). The same meaning encloses the words of the Savior: "If you do not consult and you will not be like children, you will not enter the kingdom of heaven" (MT. 18: 3).
Every success in anything we must attribute to the Lord and speak with the Prophet: "We are not us, Lord, not to us, but give you the name of your glory" (Psal. 13: 9).
Clean heart
We urgently need to keep our heart from obscene thoughts and impressions, according to the word writer's writer: "Your heart is most stored, because of it the sources of life" (4:23).
From long-term storage of the heart is born in it purity, for which the vision of the Lord is available, according to the confidence of eternal truth: "Blessed with a pure heart, for they are a bit of God" (MT. 5: 8).
What is the best in the heart, that we do not need to detect that, because then only the assembled remains safe from visible and invisible enemies, when it is stored as treasure in the inside of the heart. Not everyone open the secrets of your heart.
Recognition of cardiac movements
When a person accepts something divine, he rejoices in the heart, and when the devilish, then enters the embarrassment.
The heart of a Christian, having accepted anything divine, does not require third-party conviction that it is from the Lord, but the very point is convinced that his perception is heaven, because he feels spiritual fruits: "Love, joy, peace, long-suffering, goodness , mercy, faith, meekness, abstinence "(Gal. 5:42). And the devil, at least transformed into angel of the light (2 Cor. 11:14), or represented the thoughts the most famous, the heart will all feel some kind of ambiguity, excitement in thoughts and confusion of feelings.
The devil, as a lion, hiding in his ambush (Psal. 9:30) secretly puts the network of unclean and wicked thoughts. So, immediately, as soon as we note, it is necessary to dissolve them by pious reflection and prayer.
It takes a feat and great vigilance, so that during the singing of Psalms the mind of our mind consistent with the heart and mouth, in order to the prayer of our Fimiam did not mix the stench. For the Lord bends hearts with unclean thoughts.
We will be under greatly, day and night, with tears to check themselves in the face of the good of God, and it will cleanse our hearts from any evil thinking so that we can adequately bring to him the gifts of our ministry. When we do not take evil thoughts, vague in our devil, we will create good.
Unclean spirit only on passionate has a strong influence; And to the cravored passions touches only from the side, or externally. A man in young years can not be indignant from the carnal thoughts. But he needs to pray to the Lord God, and the spark of vicious passions at the very beginning will go out. Then the flame will not intensify in it.
Excessive concern for everyday life
An excessive care about the affairs of everydays is characteristic of a person unbelieving and unimustal. And we have grief, if we are taking care of ourselves, we are not alleged by our hope in God, inguishing about us! If we use visible blessings in the present age, do not consider it, how can we expect from it those benefits that are promised in the future? We will not be so sure, and better we will look for before the kingdom of God, and everything else will apply to us, - according to the Savior's word (MT. 6:33).
Sadness
When the evil spirit of sadness will master the soul, then, filling it with bitterness and trouble, does not give her to pray with properly diligence, prevents her the reading of spiritual writings with proper attention, deprives her meekness and complacent of contact with the neighbor and gives rise to disgust for any conversation. For the soul, filled with sadness, is caught as if insane and exhaust, can not calmly make a good advice, neither crotko answer asked questions. She runs away from people, as if from the perpetrators of her embarrassment, not realizing that the cause of the disease was inside it. Sadness is a heart worm, a boring mother-born mother.
Who defeated passion, he won the sadness. And oversized by passions will not escape the shackles of sadness. As a patient is visible in the face of the face, so obsessed with passionally differs in sadness.
Who loves the world, it is impossible not to be sad. And the despicable world is always cheerful. How the fire clears gold, so sadness for God [repentance] cleans the sinful heart.
Active and contemplative life
The person consists of a soul and body, and therefore life Path It should consist of actions of bodily and mental - from the act and contemplation.
The path of active life is: post, abstinence, vigil, knee-freeness, prayer and other bodily exploits that make up a close and regrettable way, which in the word of God, introduces in eternal life (MT. 7:14).
the speculative life consists in the aspiration of the mind to the Lord God, in cordial attention, concentrated prayer and in contemplation through such exercises of spiritual subjects.
Anyone who wants to lead a spiritual lifestyle should be started with an active life, and then it is impossible to start contemplative, because without active life and in contempted it is impossible.
Active life serves to purify us from sinful passions and takes us to the degree of active perfection; And thus also have the way to contempted life. For only those who were cleared of passions and perfect can begin to the other life as it can be seen from the words of the Holy Scriptures: "Blessed with a pure heart, for they are a bit of God" (MT. 5: 8), and from the words of St. Gregory Theologian: " Contemplation can safely begin only perfect in their experiment. "
If you can not find a mentor who could lead to the path to contempted life, then in this case you need to be guided by the Scripture, because the Lord himself tells us to learn from him, saying: "Explore the Scriptures, for you think they have eternal life" ( John 5:39).
It should not leave an active life and then when a person succeeded in it so much that he achieved contemplative, for an active life contributes to the speculative and elevates it.
Light of Christ
In order to accept and feel in the heart of His light of Christ, it is necessary how much it is possible to distract yourself from visible affairs. Honor a soul with repentance and good deeds with a sincere faith in a crucible, closing bodily eyes, should immerse the mind inside the heart and appease, instead of calling the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. Then, as I died and the hot spirits to the beloved (Luke 3:22), a man in the urgent name finds a settlement that excites the thirst for higher education.
When a person internally contemplates the eternal light, then his mind becomes clean and free from all sorts of sensual ideas. Then, being all deepened in contemplation of insistent beauty, forgets everything sensual, does not want to be very angry, but wants to hide in the heart of the Earth, just not to lose this true good - God.
Highering the Holy Spirit
(from conversations with Motovilovilov)
The true goal of our lives of Christian is to comply with [receipt, acquisition] of the Holy Spirit. The post, and vigil, and prayer, and alms, and all Christ for the sake of a good job is a means to comply with the Holy Spirit of God. Only for the sake of Christ, the performed good deed brings us the fruits of the Holy Spirit.
Some say that under the disadvantage of icy virgin virgins, the disadvantages of their vital deeds are implied (parable about ten virgins, Matt. 25: 1-12). Such an understanding is not quite correct. What the lack of good deedsWhen they, even yurodivny, but still are the virgins? After all, the virginity is the highest virtue, as the state of equivalence, and could serve as a substitute for all other virtues in itself. I, poor, I think that they exactly the grace of the Maxigious Spirit of God did not take. Making virtues, the virgin these on spiritual nerazumiy, believed that only Christian was the matter to do alone virtues. We made de virtue and the fact and the case of God created; And before, whether the grace of God was obtained by them, whether they had reached her, they were not doing ... it was that the saint of the Holy Spirit, actually, was called that by a bare welfare. For that, they are named boring, they forgot about the necessary fruit of virtue, about the grace of the Holy Spirit, without which there is no salvation and can not be anything, because: "The Holy Spirit is still living (enlivened) and the cleanliness is towers, brightens the same time . " The Holy Spirit Messenger in the souls, and this is the most infurid of our souls, the Almighty, and the oppression with the Spirit of His Troic Unity and is given only through the Holy Spirit-enhanced from our side, which prelimers in the shower and flesh our throne of God in the shower and flesh Uncommotative with the Spirit of our oppression, according to the immutable Word of God: "I will eat in them and I will be God, and they will be my people."
This is that firings in the lamps in the wise virgins, which could be light and continuously burn, and the Virgin Those with these burning lamps could wait for the groom who came at midnight, and enter him into the illusion of joy. The wilderness, seeing that their lamps fade, although they went to the trade (market), yes they will buy a lot, they did not have time to return on time, for the doors were already imposed. The trade - our life, the doors of the warriot, gated and not allowed to the bridegroom - the death of human, the Virgin and the Yreek - the souls of Christian; Ehli is not affected by the grace of the All-West Spirit of God, implementing the spiritual, from death, from the death of a spiritual spiritual, from darkness to light, from the Vertipa of our creature, where passions are tied to cattle and animals, - in the temple of the Divine , in the rapid pane of the eternal joy of Christ Jesus.
Rev. Seraphim Sarovsky. Life. Instructions
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* * *Prayer Rev. Seraphim Sarov
Oh, the great waters of God, the presence and governrance of our seraphim! Watch from Horland Glory on us, humble and weak, burdened with sins by many, your help and consolation of asking. Penetration to us with the brestling of yours and the possession of the commandments of the Lord immobally preserve, faith Orthodox tightly contain, repentance in Gresh our diligence to God to bring, in the piety of Christian a fertilian advancing and worthy of your visit to our god. She, Scholya God, hear us, praying to you with faith and love, and do not despose us, requiring your intercession: now and at the time of the death of our possession, we will stand up with your prayers from the vicious bridges of Diavolsky, but it does not have those power, but Yes, you will be able to help your inheritance Bliss of the monastery of Garay. On our hope, our hope is hindered by now, the Father is a bit: walked to the rescue of the Posit and bring us to the wildest light of the life of the foregoing victim from the throne of the Best Trinity, and Slavim and sing with all the saints, the Special Father and Son and Saint Holy Spirit centuries. Amen.
Life of Rev. Seraphim Sarovsky
"This, father Timon, this, everywhere this wheat has this. This is at the good land, this and on the sand, this on the stone, this on the way, this and in the thorn: everything can be labeled somewhere, and the fruit will bring, although not soon. "
The last instruction of the Rev. Seraphim of the Sarovsky desert, and subsequently, Igumen, Father Timon
Youth
"Remember my parents, Isidore and Agafia," said the PRP with love. Street Seraphim, saying goodbye to the Highland Desert came to him. We datume and we are the good parents, whose memory he honored until his death.
Father St. Seraphim Sarov Isidor Moshnin was a contractor builder, and the mother of Agaphia, who became a widow, continued her husband's business. A resident of the city of Kursk, Isidore Moshnin belonged, how he spoke about him himself. Seraphim, to the estate merchant, the height class of Russia of the XVIII century, which was able to be responsible for the technical service of its enterprises and thereby contributed to a large existence of the Russian national heritage. Under construction of various buildings, stone houses and even churches, the Kursk builder himself produced the necessary him construction material on your own brick factories. The last and best business taken by him was the construction of a large church in the name of the PRP. Sergius of Radonezh in the city of Kursk; But a pious merchant over the past ten years of his life managed to finish only the lower church of St. Sergius, and still had to upward the top. After his death, followed in 1762, his Agaphia's wife continued to work for sixteen years. The temple was over in 1778 - there was a year of receipt of St. Seraphim in the Sarov Monastery; Much later - again a remarkable coincidence - in 1833, that is, in the year of the death of St. Seraphim, this temple became the Catcher's Cathedral of Kursk.
Although Agaphia Moshnina was not a contractor in the technical sense of the word, she still turned out to be able to supervise the work after the death of her husband and bring the construction of the temple to the end at a relatively short time. With one of her visits to the built church, the first significant episode in the life of St. Seraphim. Once again, Agaphia Moshnina, taking with him the construction of the seven-year-old son of his Prokhor (this was the name given to St. Seraphim during baptism), ascended to the top of the bell tower; A frisky Prokhor, like all the children, wanted to look down and inadvertently fell from quite a big height. Death threatened him after such a fall, but when the mother escaped from the bell tower, he saw Prokhor, who was still unsubstantiated ... Oh, piety mother, God returns your son alive! Do you need to talk about gratitude that filled your heart when the miracle is phenomenon?
After a few years, the second extraordinary case brought the mother to the thought of the special fishery of God regarding her son. A ten-year-old Prokhor, a boy is very strong addition and an attractive on the liveliness and beauty of the outside, suddenly got sick, and again Agaphia began to fear for the life of his beloved son. The situation seemed hopeless, but at the most critical moment of the disease a boy in a dream was God's mother with a promise to personally come and heal him. The believing family of moshnic remained to go to the hope of promised recovery. At that time, the streets of Kursk were organized with the icon of the sign of the Mother of God. When the procession approaches the house of the moshnin, it happened heavy rain, which made the procession to roll into the yard of Agaphia; Seeing this, the mother hurriedly hurried to make a sick sick and attach it to a miraculous icon. From that day, Prokhor has become better, and soon he is completely fastened. The hand of God returned to the life of the Son Agafia to the life. Undoubtedly, such wondrous signs were to subsequently strengthen the mother's heart when she came time to give his beloved son to serving God, unquestioned.
Since the wonderful healing, the life of Prokhor leaks calmly. He learned to read in Russian and in Slavyansky, learned to write and consider such a successful that his senior brother of his Alexey, who was engaged in a trade affair, took Prokhor my assistants, in the shop; There, the boy has fed the art of purchase, sales and lady ... "We happened," said the old man in Seraphim himself, "the goods were traded, which we give more a lady!" Yes, who does not remember how the PPP Seraphim loved to borrow images and terms from merchant business to better clarify the highest spiritual paths: "Call (that is, get) grace the Holy Spirit and all other Christ for the sake of virtues, trade them spiritually, trade those of them that you have a greater interest. Collect the capital of the gracious suggestions of God, put them in the pawnshop eternal God from the percent of the universal, and not four or six per hundred, but in stu for one ruble spiritual, but even even in countless times more. Approximately: gives you more grace God's prayer and vigil, run and pray; Much gives the Spirit of God's post, fast; More gives alms, graciously create ... So if you ignore the spiritually virtue ... ".
The adolescence of Prokhor was proceeded in an environment favorable for his spiritual development. When it began to manifest the reading of spiritual books, to the visit church services, sometimes very early, or to friendship with a worshiped in Kursk, whom, from his deeply believer mother there was no obstacles. Among their peers, merchant children, the son of Agafia had loyal friends, who just like he, sought to live spiritual life. We know that four of them were subsequently in the inquires.
Having reached 16 years, Prokhor has already definitely chose the path of the monastic feat and asked for the blessing of the mother. In those days, the parent blessing had exceptional importance for children and was the solemn and holy sign of the favor of God for the elected life path. Prokhor bowed to his mother in his feet, she blessed him with a big copper cross, which he took her hand. Until the end of the life of St. Seraphim wore this copper cross on his chest, on top of clothing, thereby showing his spiritual connection with his Christian mother, as well as the power of parental blessing.
The Sarov desert was well known in the city of Kursk, where some residents of this city were well, as, for example, Hieromona Pahomi, in the world Boris Nazarovich Leonov, who became Igumen in Sarov, a year before the proq, and before the child who knew his parents , Isidore and Agafia. Leaning towards admission to Sarov, the young prokhor wished to have a confirmation over his choice and for this went to the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra, which was honored, especially in those difficult for monasticity of the times undoubted the main spiritual shrine. Prokhor accompanied his friends from Kursk merchants; All six were walking on foot, and it was necessary to go through the Kursk to Kiev about 500 miles.
Reaching Kiev, pilgrims began to bypass all the holy places of the ancient Lavra. In the so-called Kitaevsky monastery there lived a rejection Doshefe, who had a gift of belliness. To him and went to Prokhor, asking for his instruction. This is what the chief of the young son of Agaphi answered: "The ridges, Chojo, and Pamo Pamo (that is, in the Sarov desert). The place of this will be in salvation, with the help of the Lord. Here you conquer and the earthly journey of your own. Just try to join the unceasing memory of God through the unceasing call on the name of God, (praying) so: Lord, Jesus Christ, the Son of God, have mercy on the sinful! In this, it will be all your attention and training: walking and sitting, making (working) and in the church standing, everywhere, in any place, entering and proceeding, this is undergrowth, and in your mouth and in your heart; You will find peace with him, you will acquire the purity of the spiritual and bodily clean, and the Holy Spirit is set in you, the source of all kinds of good, and will manage your life in the shrine ... In Sarov, the abbot of Pakhomi - God-life life; He is a follower of our Anthony and Feodosia! "
Seraphim Sarovsky, the Wonderworker, a great devotee, one of the most revered on Russia's Russia, was born in Kursk on July 19, 1759, in the merchant family of Isidore and Agafia Mosniny. When baptized the boy called Prokhorom.
Three years later, the Father was lost. Shortly before the death of Isidor, it was undertaken to build the temple in the name of St. Sergius, and these works after his death continued Agafya. When the Prokhor was seven years old, he, together with his mother, examined the construction and inadvertently broke down from the very top of the bell tower, but, by the will of God, remained intact and unharmed.
At 10 years old, Prokhor was very difficult. In the vision, he was the Virgin and promised to visit the boy and give healing. The vision turned out to be true. By Kursk, then with a cross move miraculous icon The Mother of God "Sign". When she was rushed down the street, where Mosnins lived, it rained, and the icon had to rush through their courtyard. Then Agafya carried a progesto from the house, and he was attached to the icon, after which he quickly went on amendment.
Prokhor from childhood loved to read Divine books, studied the Holy Scripture, did not miss a single day without a visit to the temple of God. And when the young man was seventeen years old, he firmly decided to devote his life to the ministry to the Lord. Mother blessed him, and Prokhor dedicated himself to the nightlife.
At first, the young man went on a mantis in Kiev-Pechersk Lavra, where one reclider, Distile, blessed Prokhor to go to the Sarov desert. And in 1778, on the eve of the holiday of introduction to the temple of Our Lady, Prokhor Moshnin came to Sarov. He was accepted by the abbot of the desert an old man of Pakhomy, and Prokhor immediately looked in monocarial feats.
Young ink with diligence and love passed all the obedience to him, adhered to strict post, studied divine books, first came to the service. Having received a blessing among the elders, he went to the forest in his free from obedience to the forest, where nothing distracted from prayer immersion in contemplation of God.
One day, Prokhor was very sick, but refused to treat the proposed brother treatment. He laid all hope for the mercy of God. His disease lasted three years, and when the state of Prokhor was extremely dangerous, he appeared Holy Mother of God And healed it. Soon after this cell, where wonderful healing occurred, was demolished, and the hospital body with the temple was erected in her place.
August 13, 1786, when Prokhor Moshnin was 28th year, he was tonsured in a night image with the advent of Seraphim. In 1787, the Rev. was dedicated to San Ierodiacon. After that, for six years, he was continuously in service, almost not spending time for sleep and food, "God gave his chosen one.
Once on the passionate seventh, during the Divine Liturgy, Reverend Seraphim was a vision: he was the progress of the Lord Jesus Christ in the image of the Son of Human in Glory, Shining Insured Light and Surrounded Heavenly forces: Angels, Archangels, Cherubims and Seraphima.
From the western church gates the Savior was walking through the air, he stopped opposite the Ambon and blessed employees and praying.
In 1793, Father Seraphim was ordained in San Hieromonach. In 1794, with the blessings of the elder Isaiah, the new abbot, the Rev. Seraphim left the abode for a silent feat. His cells were in a dense pine forest, on the banks of the Single River, and consisted of one wooden room with a stove. Near Celi, the Monk arranged a garden and a pensioner, from which he also fed.
Woven the Rev. Seraphim is always extremely simple, and over the clothes invariably wore a cross, which Mother once blessed him to the night service. Also, the Monk never parted with the Holy Gospel, which kept in a blowing bag. All the time the devotee conducted in unproved prayers and psalms, reading the sacred books and bodily wages. With prayer exploits, the elder joined the feat of a strict post. At the beginning of his earlier life, the Rev. Seraphim was fed dry bread, but over time even more aggravated his post, refusing even from bread and feeding only vegetables from his garden.
On the eve of the Sunday and Festive Days, the Rev. Seraphim came to the Sarov Resident, listened to the evening, vigil vigil Or morning, the saints of secrets were involved, and then before the evening he took his brotherhood with his questions. After that, Saint Seraphim returned to his deserted celu. He spent the whole of the first week of the great post in the monastery, communion of holy secrets.
During his hermit life, the elder has undergone a lot of temptations, but did not weaken in courage. Once the robbers, meeting the presented in the forest, began to demand money from him, which would be brought to him by the laity. The Monk replied that he did not receive money from anyone, but the robbers did not believe and attacked the elder. They said that Seraphim possessed non-light physical strengthIn addition, with an ax in his hands, he could defend himself, but the elder lowered the ax, folded his hand on his chest and said: "Do what you need." Robbers beat the elder, tied up and rushed into the celi, but they found there only an icon and several potatoes. I realized that they attacked the holy man, the villains were killed in fear. Seraphim, waking up, was released from the rope, prayed for the forgiveness of robbers and reached the abode. Eight days he lay in very serious condition. Doctors who invited monks, found that the head was breaking, the ribs are interrupted, the deadly wounds, and wondered how the elder was alive alive after such a beat.
And again, the pretended seraphim was a wonderful vision: the Most Holy Mother of God in the glory, with the apostles Peter and John theologian, appeared to his Odra and said in the other side where the doctors were: "What do you work?", And the old man said: "This from my kind ! " After this vision, the Monk rejected the treatment and provided his life to God and the Most Holy Virgin. And soon the elder could already get up from bed, feeling much better. He spent five months in the monastery until he had completely recovered from the disease, and then returned to the desert again.
Many times, the Monk Seraphim was tempting and the spirit of ambiguousness - he was repeatedly elected in the igumens and archimandritis of various monasteries, but he always firmly rejected these appointments, seeking only true devotion.
Many, hearing amazing stories about the life of the St. Father Seraphim, came to him for advice and instructions. The contagious old man saw who came to him from curiosity, and who at the truly call of the heart, and those who had a valid spiritual need, wouldingly helped with advice, instructions and spiritual conversations.
They said that even wild animals were not attacked by Rev. Seraphim, and many who visited the elder in the far desert seen near the Holy Bear, which he fed from his hands.
Three years, Rev. Seraphim spent in perfect silence; 1000 days and 1000 nights stood on the stone, going with him only for eating. All this time, he, having aroused his hands to the sky, prayed to the Lord with the words of Mytar: "God, gracious Budy me, sinful!" Passing the difficult path of exploits, Father Seraphim Isoremor, especially suffered from the legs. And not being able to come to the monastery on holidays, for the adoption of the holy secrets, Rev. in 1810, after a sixteen-year-old stay in his earrings, returned to the monastery, where he accepted a new feat - naughty and silence.
In the gate, the old man spent 17 years. For the first 5 years he did not go anywhere, and no one saw the presented, even a monk who brought him a scarce food. Then the elder opened the door of his cell, and anyone could come to him. There was nothing in the cell, except the icon of Our Lady with a lamp in front of her and stump stump, who served as an old man. In the Seine stood an oak coffin, and the elder prayed next to him, constantly preparing for the transition from temporary life to the eternal.
After 10 years of silent navigation, the Rev. Seraphim interrupted the lunch of silence to serve the world to serve the god of teachering, diszeron, wonders and healings, their spiritual leadership, prayer, consolation and advice. The door of the head of the elder became open to everyone - from early liturgy to eight o'clock in the evening. Among the numerous visitors of St. Seraphim were simple people, and noble faces, and state figures, and the persons of the royal family - to anyone the reverend did not refuse his advice and took everyone with equal love.
In 1825, the Rev. Seraphim completely left his shutter, as he was again the vision of God's Mother of God. She was an old man with the saints by the Roman and Peter Alexandrian and allowed to get out of the shutter and visit the desert.
The activities of the elder was not limited to the Sarov desert. Very significant role in the prevail played in the development of local female inocure.
During the year and ten months before the death of Reverex Seraphim, the phenomenon of the Mother of God, which became an omnant of his blissful death and waiting for his unprecedented glory.
On January 1, 1833, the Rev. Seraphim came to the church for the last time, to all icons put candles and was attached, then the saints secured. At the end of the liturgy, the elder blessed his brotherhood and said goodbye, saying: "Sruit, don't be sad, awake, you are preparing the wints." And although his bodily forces were exhausted, the Holy Spirit was Bodr, calm and joy. In the evening he sang in his cell of Easter songs.
On the morning of the second January, Cemenik Rev., Father Paul, heading to the church, felt the smell of Gary, who emanated from the Celi of Reverend Seraphim. In the Saint Pole, the candles were always burning, and he said: "While I am alive, there will be no fire, and when I die, my porch will open with fire." When the doors of his cells opened, they saw that the books and other things were smoldering, and the reverend himself stands on his knees before the icon of the Mother of God in a prayer position, but already breathless. His sinless soul during the prayer was taken by Angels and flew off to God, the faithful minister of which the Monk Seraphim was all his life.
The body of Father Serafima was put in the debricated coffin and buried on the right side of the cathedral altar during his life.
The news about the death of the saint quickly spread, and the whole neighborhood of Sarovskaya came to the abode. It was a great sorrow of both brethren and laity that the Great Spiritual Mentor left this world. And after the death of Rev. Seraphim, many Orthodox people came with faith and prayer to the grave of the saint and received wonderful healing from spiritual and bodily diseases.
At the beginning of 1903, His Holiness Synod ranked Elder Seraphim to the face of the saints, the grace of God famous, and his allone remains determined to recognize the saints. The solemn glorification of the newly angry of God was committed on July 19, 1903 and was accompanied by numerous healing, which expired on the prayer concept of Rev. Seraphim, Sarov Miracle.
Rev. Seraphim, Sarov Miracle Mural Day of Memory - January 15 for a new style (January 2 in the Old Style)
Instructions of Rev. Seraphim Sarovsky
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God is lights, warming and igniting hearts and womb. So, if we feel in the hearts of our clashes, which is from the devil, for the devil is cold, then I will call the Lord, and he will come will warm our heart with love not only to him, but also to the neighbor. And on the face of the warmth will drive the chlad Dobronvisnik.
Fathers wrote when they were asked: seeking gentlemen, but not the subject, where he lives.
Where God, there is no evil. All originating from God is peacefully and useful and leads a person to humility and self-seen.
God will be our humanity not only when we do good, but when we insult and warm it up. How long does it demolish our lawlessness! And when punishes how the fragressively punishes!
Do not call God's rightful, says prep. Isaac, for your justice is not visible in your business. If David called him a redeference and right, but his son showed us that he was more good and merciful. Where is his justice? We were sinners and Christ died for us.
A person is being improved in front of God, the pilling after him goes; In the true century, God is his face his face. For the righteous, to the extent, in the contemplation of it, the image is shaken as in the glory, and there is a phenomenon of truth.
If you do not know God, it is impossible to be excited in you and love for him; And you can't love God, if you do not see him. The vision of God is from knowing it: for contemplation he does not precede his knowledge.
About the affairs of God should not argue on the saturation of the womb: For in the filled womb there is no vision of the Taine of God.
On the reasons for the coming to the world of Jesus Christ
The reasons for the coming to the world of Jesus Christ, the Son of God, the essence:
1. The love of God to the genus of the human: "For God loved the world so much, that he gave the Son of his only beast, so that he had any believer in him, did not die, but had the eternal life" (John, 3:16).
2. Recovery in the false man's image and likeness of God, as the semen chas. Church (1st canon for Christmas Lord, Song I): "The crime of the crime on God's image of the day, all the decent of the fortune, the best of the Divine Life, Paks update Wise saddle. "
3. Salvation of human shower: "For God did not send his son to the world to judge the world, but that the world was saved through it" (John, 3:17).
And so we, following the goals of the Redeemer of our Lord Jesus Christ, should have their lives to transhibitive according to his divine teaching, in order to gain salvation to our souls.
About faith in God
First of all, it should be believed in God, "for it is necessary that coming to God believed that he is, and the search for him is raising" (Heb., 11: 6).
Vera, according to the teachings of pre. Antioch, there is the beginning of our connection with God: True believes there is a stone of the temple of God, prepared for the building of God the Father, ascended to the height of the power of Jesus Christ, that is, the cross, the help of Vervia, i.e., grace the Holy Spirit.
"Faith without deeds" (Jac., 2:26); And the affairs of faith essence: love, peace, long-suffering, mercy, humility, crossing the cross and life in spirit. Only such faith is charged in the truth. True faith can not be without affairs: who truly believes, he certainly has things.
About Nadezhda
All having firm hope on God are energized and educated by the radiance of eternal light.
If a person does not have any care about himself for his love for God and Affairs virtue, knowing that God is a bake of him, - such hope is a true and wise. And if the person himself is coloning about his affairs and draws a prayer to God only when it is already being comprehended by his inevitable misfortunes, and he does not see the means to disgust them and begins to hope for the help of God, "such hope is false and false. True hope is looking for a single kingdom of God and is sure that the whole earthly, demanding temporary, will undoubtedly be given. Heart can not have the world, the current does not apply this hope. She will smash him and will overcome joy. About this hope was told by the Special and Holy Settlements: "Come to me all who are more worried and burdened, and I will calm you" (Matt., 11:28), that is, we hope for me and comfort from or fear.
In the gospel of Luke it was said about Simeon: "He was predicted by the Holy Spirit that he would not see death, the Ministry would not see Christ the Lord (Lux, 2:26). And he did not kill his hopes, but I was waiting for the desired Savior of the world and, happily accepting his hands, said: Now let me let me go, Vladyko, to go to your kingdom weddy for me, for I got the hope of my dear, the Lord.
About love for God
Having a perfect love for God exists in life this way, no matter how much it existed. For he considers himself someone else's visible, waiting for the invisible patience. He has changed in love for God and forgot every other love.
Who loves themselves, he cannot love God. And who does not love himself for love for God, he loves God.
Truly loving God considers himself a wanderer and the alien on the land of this; For soul and mind in his desire to God contemplates him alone.
The soul, filled with the love of God, during the outcome of his body, will not be captured by the prince of air, but with angels will be rented, as if from a foreign country to their homeland.
Against excessive trustees
Excessive care about things of everydays is characteristic of a person unbelieving and unimustal. And we have grief, if we, taking care of ourselves, do not approve the hope of our our God in God, tangible about us! If we use visible blessings in the present age, do not consider it, how can we expect from it those benefits that are promised in the future? We will not be so sure, and better to look for the kingdom of God and the truth of him, and it will all be attached to us, according to the Savior (MF., 6:33).
It is better for us to despise what is not ours, i.e. temporary, and the transient and desire of our, that is, nonsense and immortality. For, when we are imperishable and immortal, then will honor the visible vioscement, like the apostles in the Divine Transfiguration, and those who informed the smart unity with God, like the heavenly minds. "... And they can no longer die, for they are equal to the angels and the essence of the Sons of God, being the sons of the resurrection" (Luke., 20:36).
About care about the soul
A man on the body is like a lit candle. Candle must burn, and a person must die. But the soul is immortal, because the care of our should be more about the soul than about the body: "What is the benefit of a person if he acquires the whole world, and his soul hurt? Or what ransom will give a man for his soul? " (MK., 8:36; Matt., 16:26), for which, what is known, nothing in the world can be redemption? If one soul itself is precious than the world and the kingdom of worldly, it is incomparably more expensive than the kingdom of heaven. I read the most precious thing for the reason that Makarary says the great thing that God did not favor anything to report and connect with his spiritual nature, with any visible creation, but with one person who loved more than all the creatures of his (Macarius. Word On the freedom of mind. Ch. 32).
Vasily Great, Grigory Theologian, John Zlatoust, Kirill Alexandria, Amvrosiy, and others from his youth to the end of life were virgins; The whole of their life was drawn to the care of the soul, and not about the body. So all the efforts should have about the soul; The body is reinforced for only that it contributes to the reinforcement of the Spirit.
What should the soul supply?
Soul is supposed to be needed by the Word of God: For the Word of God, as Grigory theologian says, there is an angelsky bread, the souls are also eating, the god are sharp. In total, more should exercise in reading the New Testament and Psalter, which should have worth it. From this there is an enlightenment in mind, which changes the change in the divine.
It is necessary to teach himself that so that the mind is as if flooded in the law of the Lord, who guided his life and his life.
It is very useful to read the Word of God in privacy and read the whole Bible reasonably. For one such exercise, except for other good deeds, the Lord will not leave a man with his mercy, but will fulfill his gift of understanding.
When a person supplies his soul his word of God, then it is becoming the understanding of what is good and what is evil.
The reading of the Word of God must be produced in solitude so that the whole mind of reading is in-depth in the truth of the Holy Scriptures and took the warmth from this, which in privacy produces tears; From this other people warmed the whole and fulfills the spiritual givingness, delighting the mind and the heart of the patch of any word.
Foreign work and exercise in Divine Scriptures, teaches prep. Isaac Sirin, guard clean.
So far, does not enforce the comforter, a person needs a need for Divine Scriptures, so that the memories of good-imprinted in his mind and from the incessant reading was updated in him the desire for good and guarded his soul from the subtle ways of sin (Isaac Sirin. Sl. 58).
It should also be provided with a soul and knowledge of the church, as it is from the beginning and accommodate that she suffered at a time or another, - to know this is not to want to manage to manage people, but in the case of the might meet questions.
Moreover, it should actually be done for himself, to acquire the world of spiritual, according to the teachings of the Psalmman, "the world of loving the law is great, and there is no stumbling block" (Ps., 118: 165).
About the world of mental
Nothing better is in Christ the world, in it, every brand of air and earth spirits is destroyed: "Because our brand is not against blood and flesh, but against the authorities, against the authorities, against the methods of the darkness of this century, against the spirit of the Evil Primbate" (EF. 6:12).
A sign of a reasonable soul, when a person immerses the mind inside himself and has a done in his heart. Then the grace of God raises him, and he happens in peaceful disappointment, and through this and in the premir: in the peaceful, that is, with the conscience, in the premiser, because the mind contemplates the grace of St. Spirit, according to God: " There is its place in the world "(Ps., 75: 3).
Is it possible, seeing the sun with sensual eyes, not rejoice? But how much happier happens when the mind sees the inner ok the sun of the truth of Christ. Then verily rejoices the joy of angelic; About Sez and the Apostle said: "Our residence is in heaven" (Phil., 3:20).
When someone in peaceful disappointment goes, he like a lying darling spiritual gifts.
Holy Fathers, having a peaceful disappointment and being falling grace of God, lived for a long time.
The great prayer of the Russian land, Saint Rev. Seraphim Sarovsky has a bold to ask God to help us, ordinary people. All his righteous life, and a bright end, and miracles that happened after His death also says. Even before his official canonization, the people believed in the prayers of Sieraphim's Prayers and resorted to his help in difficult life situations.
So, what are Seraphim Sarovsky ask about their prayers?
What helps Seraphim Sarovsky: the gift of healing
In yet the lifetime of the father of Seraphim after his long exploits and works, when, finally, he had come out of the shutter on the command of the queen of the queen, and began to take people who come to him began to notice that the elder had special gifts.
One of them was the gift of healing. People of completely different classes came to the presented - and the peasants, and nobles, and the military. There were those who, desperate in medical care And I spent considerable funds for doctors, I decided to turn to the elder Seraphim.
Everyone who came to the father, left the considerable, getting a huge spiritual benefit. But those who suffered grave diseases or incomprehensible ailments (that doctors sometimes became difficult to diagnose) - went joyful doubly. They received healing on the prayer of the elder of Seraphim, and often it was radically changed all their subsequent life!
Prayer Seraphim Sarovsky about healing
How to pray properly saint? It is this question that is worried about those who are looking for healing from their diseases, having burned even in modern medicine.
Praying the father of Seraphim can be suffering from any disease, or even being in another need. For example, ask for assistance to intercession for children, about the device to work and many other things. But on the other hand, the people have long been noticed for a long time that those who suffer from all sorts of diseases of the legs and joints, spine and headaches are most often resorted to the preventable.
And this is not good. Reading the lives of the father of Seraphim, we can see what exactly these diseases experienced saint. From the Multi-Middlicate Feats and standing on the stone from the father began to hurt a lot. He also had a chance to experience the attack of the robbers who brutally beat the saint on her head and back - so that he was then sick and recover only after healing received from the Virgin itself. But even after that, for life, he remained snagged in his back and walked, leaning on a hoome or staff.
So, cases when people have passed back pain, and legs were healed - a huge amount! People prayed to the relics of the saint and at its source - and heced healing.
How to pray Seraphim Sarovsky?
Depending on your need, you can take a rule to read the prayer to Seraphim every day. If you feel better in more strong prayer, take to read Akathist Seraphim Sarovsky.
Akathist is a special prayer rule composed of Kondakov and Ikos, and ending with the prayers of the Holy. Akathists, as a rule, read the day before the holiday - the day of honoring the saint, or when they want to pray to the saint. The Batyushka Seraphim himself often read the Akathists to the Lord, the Virgin and various saints, and there are evident testimony.
It happens that circumstances require us a very serious prayer rule. At such moments, some have a "small feat" and read Akathist 40 days in a row.
If you are in such a situation and look for help from the Seraphim's father, you can also read the Akathist Seraphim Sarov daily within 40 days. Who confuses such a rule, can reinforce its decision by the blessing of the priest of your temple.
Brief Prayer Rule of Seraphim Sarov
When it comes to the prayer of Seraphim Sarovsky, many are not only interested in the prayer of the Holy, but also the rule that he gave the laity. The fact that such a rule existed is we can read in the life of the Batyushki.
"Many, coming to about. Seraphim, complained that they pray a little god, and even the necessary day prayers do not always read. Others said that they do it on illiteracy, others - by inadvertent. O. Seraphim bequeathed in such people the following prayer rule:
"Insert from sleep, every Christian, becoming before. icons, let it read the prayer of the Lord: Our Father is three times; In honor of the Blessed Trinity, then the song of the Virgin Mary: Virgin, Delo, Rejoice - Also three times and, finally, the symbol of Faith: I believe in the One God, once.
By doing this rule, every Christian may be engaged in his business, which is set or called. On the same work at home or on the way somewhere, let it read quietly: Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God, Pommuyu, Sinvenigo or sinner; And if others surround it, then, doing things, let him say with the mind only this: Lord, hindle and continue to lunch.
Before the same dinner, let it make the above-mentioned Morning rule. After lunch, fulfilling his work, every Christian let it also read quietly: the Most Holy Mother of God, save me sinning, and that let him continue until sleep.
When it happens to spend time in privacy, then let him read: Lord Jesus Christ, the Virgin of the Mother of God or a sinful.
Laying to sleep, every Christian let it again read the above-mentioned morning rule, i.e. Three times "Father our", three times the Virgin and one day "Symbol of Faith." After that, let him fall asleep, protecting himself with the procession. "
Insertions of Seraphim of the Sarov laity
During his lifetime, Sarovsky came to Seraphim, many suffering, looking for instructions. And they necessarily received it. But there were those who from the bottom of our heart wanted to see the father with their own eyes and hear his voice even having any serious problems. But even for them, the elder found the words of consolation, giving general advice that helped everyone, regardless of life circumstances.
And most importantly, in the opinion of the father - it was supposed to be a daily memory of God. To do this, he recommended that incessantly calling the name of God in the heart, repeating the prayer Jesus: "Lord, Jesus Christ, the Son of God, a lot of me, sinning."
"It will be in this," he said, "all your attention and training! Walking and sitting, making it in the church before the start of worship standing, entering and proceeding, this is incessantly containing your lips and in your heart. With the calling about the name of God, you will find peace, you will achieve the purity of spiritual and bodily and settled in you. Spirit, the source of all the best, and he will utter you in the shrine, in every piety and clean. "
At the end of the article I would like to recall the heart of the saint once again. Being a great prayer, voluntarily taking a large number of Feats for the sake of Christ, he thus understood the weak nature of the human and indecision of the majority of people. Therefore, gave such a prayer rule, which was indeed many forces.
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