Concerning the Question of the Situation of the Modern Church

E. Narinskaja. Vera Mihailovna, to start with, if it is not hard for you, please tell me about yourself...

V.M. Eremina. For a long time I have worked as a secretary at the Trinity-Sergiev Lavra and for the most part I also live there. My entrance into the Church occurred in 1975, and already within half a year I received the blessing to occupy myself with catechism work in the middle of the Moscow intelligentsia, in conditions which were semi-persecuting, preparing people for baptism, who were intelligent, had a higher education and a scientific occupation, and who had to overcome their weak faith, rationalism, learned skills, and also, as they were used to scientific education, had to learn how to express their own ideas and not others. And now, I am literally guided by the words of the Apostles “Each one should remain in the situation which he was in when God called him” (I Cor 7:20). I myself received a philological education at home, finished the chemistry faculty at Moscow University, after that did post-graduate work in the mechanical-mathematics faculty, passed a Greek language course in the history faculty at Moscow University, and, in private, I studied philosophy with Sergie Sergeivich Averinstevii and the Gaidenko sisters.