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1 AllMyLife | rubles in today's money (10,000 back then), and, well, built
2 OnWorship | of the Samaritan woman (8.05.99)~Christ is risen!~In
3 AllMyLife(6)| by all means save some." (1 Cor. 9:26)
4 AllMyLife | rubles in today's money (10,000 back then), and, well,
5 AllMyLife | from the bank a loan for 1000 rubles in today's money (
6 HardDays | service we had only about 15 people praying, if I'm not
7 AllMyLife | In 75 years I received a 16 square metre room. And I
8 AllMyLife | humble ourselves (Matt. 18:4), we all have to be together (6),
9 HardDays | service in the church in 1934, but my spiritual advisor -
10 AllMyLife | Krasnyie Vorota, but in 1938 the place where our home
11 HardDays | And when after the war in 1947 I arrived in Moscow and
12 HardDays | the Lord preserve you. ~1969~ ~
13 OnWorship | spirit and truth" (John 4:21-24). It may be that as a
14 OnWorship | spirit and truth" (John 4:21-24). It may be that as a reaction
15 AllMyLife | that house. They gave us 250 rubles per person (it's
16 AllMyLife | s rate, back then it was 2500), and said: go out of the
17 AllMyLife(6)| means save some." (1 Cor. 9:26)
18 TruePastor | to be buried. And in 438, 30 years since his death, emperor
19 TruePastor | the order of a reader. In 370 AD he was ordained by St.
20 TruePastor | seclusion by St. Meletios in 380 AD, after his ten years
21 TruePastor | poor. And after that in 386 AD St. Meletios ordained
22 TruePastor | Pitsunda, Novy Aphon) in 407 AD he died. ~Soon the glory
23 OnWorship | kingdom of God" (Luke 9:62). But we are still sleeping,
24 AllMyLife | a flat here. My dear, in 66 years I received here an
25 AllMyLife | had they no shame? I am 77 years of age. And is it
26 OnWorship | the Samaritan woman (8.05.99)~Christ is risen!~In the
27 AllMyLife | immediately takes it all in and absorbs deeply. ~When I accomplished
28 AllMyLife | In the eveninig we had acathisti. You know what the acathistus
29 AllMyLife | Friday there used to be acathistsi to the Kazan icon of the
30 HardDays | experiences. I felt ready to accept all good and beautiful,
31 AllMyLife | tell you, because she's accompanying me. Deceased mother Efimia
32 AllMyLife | absorbs deeply. ~When I accomplished the secondary school (and
33 TruePastor | i.e. a monastery living in accordance with the rule of communal
34 TruePastor | against him, again started accusing him and convicted him once
35 AllMyLife | And when, - there was such achpriest Arkadi Tyschik, he is now
36 AllMyLife | I had a million, could I acquire something to myself then?
37 AllMyLife | something to myself then?But I acquired nothing, did nothing for
38 HardDays | consciousness. It was an act of a political character,
39 | actually
40 AllMyLife | complete disagreement with administering our church. I will tell
41 HardDays | And, I thought, the church administration would also be pleased that
42 AllMyLife | for. It was difficult to admit, but clear enough that only
43 TruePastor | were very loyal to him and adored him, and loved him. Therefore
44 TruePastor | possession not on nonsensical adornments, not on rich liturgical
45 HardDays | in 1934, but my spiritual advisor - late bishop Leonid did
46 TruePastor | managing the community's affairs. Every parish was a community
47 HardDays | temple. There were many afflictions here, many sicknesses, but
48 AllMyLife | content. Please, forgive me aforehand. May be you will ... loath
49 AllMyLife | unworthy slanderer. And I'm afraid he will need to answer for
50 TruePastor | away Syria, in Asia, in Africa and he himself preached
51 OnWorship | somebody, or as if they for ages were read by us not in the
52 AllMyLife | happened fifteen - twenty years ago... Lord, what had I experienced
53 TruePastor | MOSCOW.~ ~The word at the all-night vigil to St. John Chrisostom (
54 HardDays | noise as much as their lungs allowed. In many temples there was
55 TruePastor | them, organize hospitals, almshouses, orphanages, houses for
56 AllMyLife | find them worth mentioning aloud. But I was deeply indignant
57 AllMyLife | angry with him nor anything alse. Shortly before his death (2)
58 HardDays | I imperceptibly tried to alter some things, put something
59 AllMyLife | heart would get exhausted altogether? "I won't go there anymore" -
60 OnWorship | appropriate singings. But it is amazing that they, in a purely elinistic
61 | among
62 OnWorship | heavenly liturgy where hosts of angels and men, all spirits and
63 AllMyLife | right, I had been neither angry with him nor anything alse.
64 AllMyLife | by his order, one foul, anonimous, gutter letter. This is
65 TruePastor | brought up by his pious mother Anphusa. Early he lost his father.
66 AllMyLife | altogether? "I won't go there anymore" - I said to myself and
67 TruePastor | near Poti, Pitsunda, Novy Aphon) in 407 AD he died. ~Soon
68 OnWorship | John, other words always appear to be more important, -
69 OnWorship | this is an idea that appears to be the main here.~But
70 AllMyLife | Co-operative Union. I began as an apprentice and very soon became an
71 TruePastor | preach the word of God in Arabia, in the far away Syria,
72 TruePastor | the government of emperor Arcadias, had had an idea of calling
73 AllMyLife | who was in the order of an arch-priest, the superior in the temple,
74 AllMyLife | I do, and he was such an arch-scoundrel, - he gathered who pleased
75 TruePastor | a true hierarch, a true archbishop, a true pastor, and called
76 AllMyLife | People are showing their ardent support).~
77 TruePastor | all the powers that be, aristocrats, and all the clergy, I have
78 AllMyLife | there was such achpriest Arkadi Tyschik, he is now a superior
79 TruePastor | Kukuz that is in the today's Armenia. But they were scared of
80 TruePastor | government called up the army to destroy the city. But
81 TruePastor | seeing God's anger in it, arose and the authorities became
82 HardDays | his family, endeavors to arrange everything in it that to
83 TruePastor | soldiers who kidnapped and arrested him, and convoyed him down
84 HardDays | after the war in 1947 I arrived in Moscow and came to the
85 TruePastor | tribes, the Goths, who were Aryans, heretics. And for the sake
86 TruePastor | two years through severe ascetic feats and hardships his
87 TruePastor | assembled, they judged him, they ascribed him various iniquities that
88 HardDays | heart desired. I saw not an aspiration to wash away one's sins
89 TruePastor | priests, deacons. They assembled, they judged him, they ascribed
90 OnWorship | the words that by some astonishing reason were not even mentioned
91 AllMyLife | should have better taught atheism instead of the Law of God,
92 AllMyLife | through an extensive heart attack anyway, then later through
93 HardDays | the church's life. When I attended Moscow temples I saw completely
94 HardDays | such a community I would attract into it people sincerely
95 OnWorship | are always being drawn, attracted as by a magnet to a well-defined
96 TruePastor | quiet the people and to avert that great trouble, that
97 AllMyLife | through all his way life averted us from the Law of God.
98 AllMyLife | patriarchy for help - they only awaited it that to whip me another
99 HardDays | experienced. And when a baby is being born the delivery
100 HardDays | psalm "On the Rivers of Babylon" always must we sing, for
101 AllMyLife | that money, I took from the bank a loan for 1000 rubles in
102 TruePastor | son of Evdoxia, who was baptised by John Chrisostom, whom
103 OnWorship | we did not perceive the Baptism as "the birth from above",
104 AllMyLife | however. There was a room for baptizing up on the first floor, and
105 TruePastor | And Christians, such as Basil the Great and John Chrisostom
106 TruePastor | Komana, in the temple of St. Basilisk (near Poti, Pitsunda, Novy
107 AllMyLife | get nourished. We, like bees, take pollen, carry it to
108 HardDays | beautiful our new life might beget. I welcomed that newness
109 HardDays | for Christ was calling beggars, blind, and lame. I thought
110 TruePastor | preserved up until today, and it begins and ends with the words: "
111 AllMyLife | knows what, or the children behave also goodness knows how.
112 HardDays | my love is the love of a believer, of a Christian? ~I asked
113 HardDays | crippled, but it is dear to the believing heart. And it the service,
114 TruePastor | communal life where everything belonged to all, where brothers lived
115 HardDays | make everything for his beloved the best way. I, although
116 AllMyLife | first floor, and a lodgement beneath...~You may ask: why couldn'
117 | beside
118 | besides
119 TruePastor | course, in John Chrisostom's biography. There it is said that the
120 OnWorship | how it might happen that Bizantian hymnographers forgot about
121 AllMyLife | like that, dried up the blanket that lied there; even it
122 HardDays | rich, splendorous. I heard blasphemous singing - protodeacons made
123 HardDays | What was going on? My heart blended despite I was very young. ~
124 HardDays | nothing. I needed only to be blessed for setting up such a small
125 AllMyLife | a review as if with the blessing of the patriarch or by his
126 OnWorship | bring into the world, by His Blood concluded the New Testament,
127 HardDays | was a hard time, full of blood-shed and many hard experiences.
128 AllMyLife | say (showing): here was a boiler to heat the temple, here -
129 OnWorship | consciousness. When reading books dedicated to our history
130 AllMyLife | by a man - my son, whom I bore at my bosom! Then I decided
131 TruePastor | Pastor" (Archpriest Vitali Borovoi)~FROM THE SERMONS IN ELOKHOVO
132 AllMyLife | my son, whom I bore at my bosom! Then I decided to come
133 | both
134 AllMyLife | lived there.~Then I was bounced from there to a completely
135 OnWorship | been established the exact boundaries: we can do this, but can'
136 AllMyLife | letter noticed that our boxes... - well, kind of condemned
137 TruePastor | splendourous, sinful life.~He was a brave unmasker. If, dear brothers
138 TruePastor | sermons you would see how bravely he exposed the powers that
139 HardDays | see a little flower that breaks through everything and comes
140 AllMyLife | to work and till the last breath induce you to climbing the
141 AllMyLife | heating - one can hardly breathe, as they stop - you're freezing.~
142 TruePastor | sisters!~Tomorrow we will be brightly celebrating the memory of
143 OnWorship | ever had anything new to bring into the world, by His Blood
144 TruePastor | in the order of deacon, bringing help and comfort to all
145 AllMyLife | five years. Later I could build a two storied annex, however.
146 TruePastor | and gold, he spent them on building hospitals, refuges for the
147 AllMyLife | 000 back then), and, well, built it somehow.~Was it difficult?
148 OnWorship | as we know, such a heavy burden! We constantly move away
149 TruePastor | the town of Komana, his burial place, to Constantinople,
150 AllMyLife | parish. All in fire, all is burnt. I was given two years to
151 AllMyLife | Borisov, and he ran his busines just outrageously. So, since
152 OnWorship | mentioned in those wonderful old Byzantian hymns dedicated to the feast.
153 OnWorship | God's worship which were canonical and following the rules
154 OnWorship | uncertain, too much lacking capability to be organized by Law.
155 TruePastor | could have made a wonderful career. But John with all his heart
156 AllMyLife | unattended there, how nobody cares of them. Because there are
157 TruePastor | or rather the memory of carrying over his relics in 438 AD
158 HardDays | it all the best. In any case I asked for so little that
159 AllMyLife | I said to myself and ceased going. But when father K*
160 HardDays | and I continued to live a cell's life trying within my
161 TruePastor | cultural city, one of the centres of then Greeko-Roman world.
162 OnWorship | changed for the last few centuries, or perhaps we simply live
163 HardDays | stricken. I learned there was a certain small group of bad people,
164 OnWorship | here.~But something has changed for the last few centuries,
165 HardDays | a good hope upon the new changes in life in the very depth
166 HardDays | right, those who are in charge there are old, they haven'
167 OnWorship | would be legally determined, checked up, and clarified, that
168 AllMyLife | goodness knows what, or the children behave also goodness knows
169 OnWorship | church Slavonic, but in some Chinese.~It is startling that we
170 AllMyLife | Well, today I came to a choir, to the left one, looked
171 HardDays | walked the narrow path I had chosen. I loved the church even
172 TruePastor | is the example that John Chrisosotom gave us: how to serve the
173 TruePastor | cloths, not on decorating churches with marble and gold, he
174 HardDays | into being in very hard circumstances. I was young back then,
175 OnWorship | determined, checked up, and clarified, that we had been established
176 AllMyLife | recently one woman, she works a cleaner at a hospital, and she sees
177 AllMyLife | last breath induce you to climbing the mountain, forgetting
178 AllMyLife | think they leave at 8 o'clock. No, they leave very early.
179 TruePastor | time deacons were also the closest helpers of bishops and presbyters
180 AllMyLife | not a room and not even a closet of any kind, but, well,
181 AllMyLife | when as early as when the co-operation had not been yet nationalised.
182 AllMyLife | heat the temple, here - the coal. And two steps up - a small,
183 TruePastor | deacon, bringing help and comfort to all the poor. And after
184 TruePastor | places he walked, preaching, comforting, and instructing citizens,
185 HardDays | a chance to break in and commit here their ugly things.~...
186 AllMyLife | was very difficult. Did I complain on God? Never. There was
187 AllMyLife | There was no single piece of complaining! Glory to God for everything!
188 TruePastor | become a lawyer after the completion of the school. He was a
189 OnWorship | elin spirit, are mostly concentrated upon the conception of water,
190 OnWorship | mostly concentrated upon the conception of water, which obviously
191 AllMyLife | tell you all as it was.~Now concerning the question about father
192 AllMyLife | boxes... - well, kind of condemned our coming over to this
193 AllMyLife | spirit, it requires special conditions. So, that was how I lived
194 AllMyLife | before you even now and confessing. ~I don't have any discord
195 TruePastor | solemnity, at the great confluence of people. And the memory
196 HardDays | another have been spiritually connected with me in the course of
197 AllMyLife | myself, but people with light conscience. This is what I struggled
198 TruePastor | was no Christian, but a conscious pagan, a pertinacious pagan.
199 OnWorship | so scared by it? We as if consciously harden our hearts that nothing
200 OnWorship | when only those things were considered a worthy God's worship which
201 AllMyLife | opinions with it. What does it consist in? I will tell you. We
202 AllMyLife | will I really have any contact with them? Or will I allow
203 AllMyLife | word will be of a special content. Please, forgive me aforehand.
204 HardDays | rather a hieromonk, and I continued to live a cell's life trying
205 TruePastor | started accusing him and convicted him once more. And then
206 TruePastor | not sharing though his convictions. John Chrisostom was one
207 AllMyLife | K* about it, he tried to convince me that it's not from here,
208 TruePastor | kidnapped and arrested him, and convoyed him down to the capital
209 OnWorship | t these words of Christ cool down, nor does their significance
210 AllMyLife(6)| all means save some." (1 Cor. 9:26)
211 OnWorship | to worship Him! This is correct. And we know very well how
212 HardDays | because we have trampled the covenant of the Christ's love. May
213 AllMyLife | listen to everyone, cover everyone's sickness with
214 AllMyLife | church has got almost no creative significance in life. It
215 AllMyLife | would be, God knows, a sure crime!~All right, I had been neither
216 TruePastor | Chrisostom, was the most dreadful criminal~Also bishops and hierarchs
217 HardDays | people to whom it seems crippled, but it is dear to the believing
218 OnWorship | words. As though they were crossed out from the Gospel by somebody,
219 OnWorship | Christians!~You know that the current week is called the week
220 OnWorship | well-defined order, a well-defined daily routine, that everything
221 AllMyLife | it had nothing at all but dampness. And, God bless that dear
222 HardDays | I see clearly: something dark and gloomy had been going
223 AllMyLife | friends, (we were met by my daughters (3)), how is it going? What
224 HardDays | were blind with their ears deaf as well. ~Once my late father
225 AllMyLife | because she's accompanying me. Deceased mother Efimia and Matresha, -
226 AllMyLife | feel not even love, but decency at least. Everything was
227 TruePastor | liturgical cloths, not on decorating churches with marble and
228 AllMyLife | I decided that the best definition for them was "church's rats".
229 OnWorship | of man by Law.~How can we deliver ourselves from the slavery
230 AllMyLife | in the morning a postman delivered me that letter. When I opened
231 HardDays | a baby is being born the delivery can often be difficult. ~
232 AllMyLife | already headed an instructors department. And that was when as early
233 HardDays | changes in life in the very depth of my heart. But later I
234 TruePastor | real life, not the life described in the pious lives of the
235 AllMyLife | was a huge radiator there, designed to give warmth to the entire
236 HardDays | to put into practice the desires that lived in my heart,
237 TruePastor | government called up the army to destroy the city. But John Chrisostom
238 AllMyLife | church there was a completely devastated parish. All in fire, all
239 AllMyLife | absolute anarchy and utter devastation. And when, - there was such
240 TruePastor | intelligent and cultural people devoted themselves to the Church'
241 AllMyLife | strengths. If I was required to die there I would do it. What
242 HardDays | in spirit. Therefore the difficulties that needed to be surmounted
243 AllMyLife | could do nothing about it. I din't go to him and I never
244 TruePastor | did not give splendourous dinners, did not invite them for
245 HardDays | the civil part, for I was directed with all my strengths, with
246 AllMyLife | time I showed my complete disagreement with administering our church.
247 HardDays | trying within my heart to discover a way in those not-easy
248 TruePastor | and drink and keep pious discussions. He required from the clergy,
249 HardDays | there had been committed a disgraceful thing although outside of
250 AllMyLife | families, at work they are disgusting, - wherever only they can
251 AllMyLife | has come.~After that I was dismissed for two years, and for two
252 AllMyLife | else. Neither theological disputes, nor any sort of singing,
253 AllMyLife | same thoughts constantly disquiet me...~And suddenly such
254 TruePastor | him. For he unmasked their dissolute, licentious, splendourous,
255 AllMyLife | and it is not for me to dissuade him. He's got his own habbits
256 TruePastor | people. In that time a great disturbance of the Antioch's dwellers
257 AllMyLife | were too many things that diverted me, I had to do much anyway.
258 AllMyLife | significance in life. It doesn't create... It can't, however,
259 OnWorship | variously. They can be seen dogmatically, and then we may come up
260 HardDays | fact that in our temples dominate people who either don't
261 AllMyLife | do. But I hate popovstvo (domination of pops - Translator's note).~
262 AllMyLife | prayed became bigger, and the donations also bigger. That's how
263 HardDays | dear, that I let myself doubt in your honor and love for
264 OnWorship | to. We are always being drawn, attracted as by a magnet
265 TruePastor | Chrisostom, was the most dreadful criminal~Also bishops and
266 AllMyLife | superfluous, everyone is dressed modestly? ~For instance,
267 TruePastor | persecuted during one's lifetime, driven to death, and in postumousness, -
268 AllMyLife | for all my life I haven't drunk a single glas of vodka,
269 AllMyLife | or to lift up forty-pound dumbels. I've gone through an extensive
270 TruePastor | disturbance of the Antioch's dwellers had happened and the government
271 AllMyLife | cathedral for five years and dwelt in the cathedral (1).~As
272 | each
273 TruePastor | orphans, people who could not earn their own bread and sustain
274 HardDays | temples were blind with their ears deaf as well. ~Once my late
275 OnWorship | No. We can also see the earthly forms of worshiping God
276 TruePastor | opposite to Constantinople an earthquake occurred in the city. The
277 OnWorship | celebrating the feast of Easter, the feast bright and joyful,
278 TruePastor | they had gotten used to eat and drink and keep pious
279 AllMyLife | uyezd there was a very high educated intellectual that came from
280 TruePastor | He received an excellent education for that time: he was taught
281 HardDays | surmounted required great efforts, great moral and physical
282 AllMyLife | accompanying me. Deceased mother Efimia and Matresha, - they know
283 TruePastor | special way: recite the ektenia and invite to prayer. But
284 OnWorship | in a purely elinistic or elin spirit, are mostly concentrated
285 OnWorship | amazing that they, in a purely elinistic or elin spirit, are mostly
286 HardDays | but after a little bit of elucidation of the issue I said: "The
287 AllMyLife | Moscow, the son of an old and eminent scholar, or rather not a
288 TruePastor | spread out over the whole empire. And when in the capital,
289 OnWorship | This is as though an enciphered trinitarian formulae of
290 AllMyLife | there, helps them, tries to encouorage them. And this is exactly
291 HardDays | if he loves his family, endeavors to arrange everything in
292 TruePastor | today, and it begins and ends with the words: "Glory to
293 AllMyLife | t know how does my heart endure it? This is a miracle.~So,
294 TruePastor | the people, again would enjoy the people's love, this
295 AllMyLife | And beside other things I enjoyed there, rats also ran through
296 AllMyLife | I already came here and entered the cathedral, well, first
297 AllMyLife | in the cathedral (1).~As entering the cathedral, on the right
298 AllMyLife | forgets oneself and goes entirely into the sacrament that
299 AllMyLife | God bless that dear mother Ephimia: closer to the end of the
300 AllMyLife | days I didn't know where to escape, where did I come, because
301 AllMyLife | there is no need for me to establish any order here.~But the
302 AllMyLife | serving the later. In the eveninig we had acathisti. You know
303 TruePastor | And the memory of that event we are celebrating this
304 AllMyLife | evicted us from Moscow, everybody who lived in that house.
305 AllMyLife | higher standing, and they evicted us from Moscow, everybody
306 AllMyLife | nevertheless, it is the evil from here. I think so, how
307 TruePastor | powerful ruler of that time Evtropius who headed the government
308 OnWorship | had been established the exact boundaries: we can do this,
309 TruePastor | monks, readers. Here is the example that John Chrisosotom gave
310 | except
311 AllMyLife | strengths of my heart would get exhausted altogether? "I won't go
312 TruePastor | Syria. Antioch does not exist today, only ruins remain
313 AllMyLife | the previous time of its existence. By the way, when as early
314 TruePastor | a bishop or a presbyter explain them the meaning of the
315 TruePastor | his soul strove for the exploits of monasticism. For six
316 TruePastor | would see how bravely he exposed the powers that be, the
317 AllMyLife | dumbels. I've gone through an extensive heart attack anyway, then
318 AllMyLife | flared up, I was sent to extinguish all that mess.~And again
319 TruePastor | He spoke right to their faces that anyone rich is a wolf,
320 AllMyLife | don't have any discord in faith with them. I am more Orthodox
321 HardDays | waiting: "Here father Sergi falls and then we will break into
322 TruePastor | as one man, in obedience, fasting, prayer, and labour. Two
323 TruePastor | instructing citizens, sharing the fate of his faithful. And in
324 TruePastor | was one of the Libanius's favourite students. Libanius even
325 TruePastor | years through severe ascetic feats and hardships his health
326 TruePastor | to St. John Chrisostom (9-Feb-77).~Dear brothers and sisters!~
327 AllMyLife | like a landlord." And I'm feeling ashamed and sad - why do
328 AllMyLife | chairman of the co-operative fellowship was archpriest Borisov,
329 | few
330 AllMyLife | carry it to our hives, and fill with it our honeycombs.
331 AllMyLife | When I opened it I was filled with indignation. Not at
332 TruePastor | Turkey, brought him to the final place of his exile called
333 AllMyLife | there and when the fire flared up, I was sent to extinguish
334 AllMyLife | lived after.~Now I've got a flat here. My dear, in 66 years
335 AllMyLife | mercifully, we are given flats, but that time it was just
336 OnWorship | life here, with our life in flesh. We can see not only the
337 AllMyLife | baptizing up on the first floor, and a lodgement beneath...~
338 TruePastor | remain where in that time flourished a richer cultural city,
339 HardDays | understand that our tears - they flow because we have trampled
340 TruePastor | splendourous repasts where all the food though being lenten, nevertheless,
341 AllMyLife | father K* who wrote it. God forbid! Definitely he could not
342 AllMyLife | about it. The situation forces me as if to boast of myself.
343 OnWorship | And very frequently we forget what Christ revealed to
344 AllMyLife | to climbing the mountain, forgetting yourself more and more.
345 OnWorship | Bizantian hymnographers forgot about it. But most of all
346 AllMyLife | already an elderly and fully formed priest. He's got his own
347 OnWorship | can also see the earthly forms of worshiping God that come
348 AllMyLife | you know, or to lift up forty-pound dumbels. I've gone through
349 HardDays | by little we were moving forward and I imperceptibly tried
350 AllMyLife | Saturday I was visited by our Fr. K* and he said the church
351 AllMyLife | breathe, as they stop - you're freezing.~Forgive me please that
352 AllMyLife | served it with them. On Friday there used to be acathistsi
353 OnWorship | worshiping God that come from fulfilling our hearts with the spirit
354 OnWorship | words of Christ deeper and fuller than frequently we do. Because
355 AllMyLife | is already an elderly and fully formed priest. He's got
356 OnWorship | ourselves or around, these fundamental words of Christ that "those
357 AllMyLife | be that I was serving a funeral service - half a temple
358 AllMyLife | price for serving at the funerals. Well, you know, a child'
359 AllMyLife | remembered even for the future, and I decided that the
360 HardDays | primacy, we have defiled the garments of white that Christ has
361 AllMyLife | spiritual life is needed. "The gates of Hades shall not prevail
362 AllMyLife | studied in that town. I said: "Gather the meeting of representatives".
363 AllMyLife | exploit. This is what we are gathering here for. We don't need
364 TruePastor | metropolitans - Sevirian of Gavala, Antioch of Ptolemiada,
365 HardDays | service, as well as in the general order and the grandeur of
366 OnWorship | spirit and truth” (Priest Georgi Kochetkov)~ ~From the sermons
367 TruePastor | further to the contemporary Georgia and having not reached the
368 TruePastor | there was a settlement of Germanic tribes, the Goths, who were
369 HardDays | my heart. But later I was getting more and more convinced
370 HardDays | weight off my mind and I felt gladness to keep a good hope upon
371 AllMyLife | I haven't drunk a single glas of vodka, never went to
372 HardDays | clearly: something dark and gloomy had been going off the face
373 TruePastor | postumousness, - praised and glorified.~He was buried in the temple
374 OnWorship | therefore don't reach the goal. We as if lose its sight
375 TruePastor | churches with marble and gold, he spent them on building
376 TruePastor | rich, and where they had gotten used to eat and drink and
377 HardDays | the general order and the grandeur of the temple, everywhere
378 TruePastor | pagan. But it was one of the greatest philosophers of that time.
379 AllMyLife | however, live only on its greatness, only on its splendid worship...
380 TruePastor | one of the centres of then Greeko-Roman world. He was born in a
381 HardDays | there was a certain small group of bad people, may be very
382 OnWorship | does their significance grow scarce?~One can see these
383 TruePastor | to people and under the guidance of a bishop or a presbyter
384 AllMyLife | let us hope that God will guide and instruct us.~May God
385 OnWorship | conversation will be for us a guiding call for all our life that
386 AllMyLife | dissuade him. He's got his own habbits and it is not with me for
387 AllMyLife | is needed. "The gates of Hades shall not prevail the Church".
388 OnWorship | and sisters, even a simple half-pagan and very sinful woman by
389 TruePastor | that world... ~So it always happens in life: one is being persecuted
390 HardDays | sigh of relief and being happy that God had removed a good-for-nothing
391 OnWorship | it? We as if consciously harden our hearts that nothing
392 AllMyLife | start heating - one can hardly breathe, as they stop -
393 TruePastor | Alexandria, Antioch, started hating him, for he did not give
394 AllMyLife | and a stroke so can't be healthy, but great professionals
395 TruePastor | one of us can constantly hear the name of John Chrisostom
396 AllMyLife | later through two micro heart-attacks and a stroke so can't be
397 TruePastor | their very sincere, very hearty love. But during the same
398 AllMyLife | showing): here was a boiler to heat the temple, here - the coal.
399 HardDays | absolutely all of a sudden I was heavily stricken. I learned there
400 OnWorship | it is, as we know, such a heavy burden! We constantly move
401 TruePastor | whom John Chrisostom often held upon his laps, gave order
402 TruePastor | deacons were also the closest helpers of bishops and presbyters
403 AllMyLife | it. So, she stays there, helps them, tries to encouorage
404 TruePastor | metropolitans - Paul of Heraclia and others again had risen
405 TruePastor | Goths, who were Aryans, heretics. And for the sake of preaching
406 TruePastor | John Chrisostom did not hesitate at all to be students of
407 HardDays | will. I never had anything hidden, secret in my heart. And
408 TruePastor | fact that he was a true hierarch, a true archbishop, a true
409 HardDays | their stead and, our church hierarchy, first of all, will realize
410 HardDays | priest back then, or rather a hieromonk, and I continued to live
411 AllMyLife | one uyezd there was a very high educated intellectual that
412 AllMyLife | needed to some people of higher standing, and they evicted
413 AllMyLife | started working. ~I was hired by a Co-operative Union.
414 OnWorship | the most important thing: historically we did not perceive the
415 AllMyLife | pollen, carry it to our hives, and fill with it our honeycombs.
416 TruePastor | But they were scared of holding him even there because the
417 HardDays | was like. I'm loving my homeland, my people all my life,
418 TruePastor | hospitals, refuges for the homeless, orphans, aged people, ill
419 AllMyLife | church's rats? In their own homes, you know, they spoil everything,
420 AllMyLife | room. And I will tell you honestly, - often I sit in that room
421 AllMyLife | hives, and fill with it our honeycombs. That one is a Christian
422 AllMyLife | priests - and this is a great honour, and there are so-called
423 HardDays | the whole mixing sour. I hoped the parishioners would drive
424 HardDays | community. ~I was full of hopes that creating such a community
425 HardDays | your loyalty. No, but I was horrified of how weak we were. What
426 HardDays | would come... But to my horror, instead of the old thieves
427 OnWorship | the heavenly liturgy where hosts of angels and men, all spirits
428 TruePastor | almshouses, orphanages, houses for the aged people, i.e.
429 AllMyLife | other I lived. There was a huge radiator there, designed
430 OnWorship | as the revival of the human life. But this is what the
431 AllMyLife | as I was telling you, to humble ourselves (Matt. 18:4),
432 HardDays | sorrows and through them humbled my pride, opened for me
433 AllMyLife | ran there around and being hungry went somewhere further.
434 AllMyLife | this is like either the husband is doing goodness knows
435 OnWorship | might happen that Bizantian hymnographers forgot about it. But most
436 OnWorship | wonderful old Byzantian hymns dedicated to the feast.
437 AllMyLife | priest. He's got his own ideas and it is not for me to
438 HardDays | Archimandrite Sergi)~From the volume II of sermons.~A lot have I
439 HardDays | from Him, or absolutely ill-bread in spirit. Therefore the
440 AllMyLife | letter have been written?~An illiterate, slanderous, mendacious,
441 TruePastor | him; we should also try to imitate his life. First of all,
442 HardDays | were moving forward and I imperceptibly tried to alter some things,
443 HardDays | of all, will realize the incredibly important task placed upon
444 AllMyLife | aloud. But I was deeply indignant at how in the patriarchy
445 AllMyLife | opened it I was filled with indignation. Not at those who had written
446 AllMyLife | and till the last breath induce you to climbing the mountain,
447 HardDays | same time I realized it was inevitable and therefore walked the
448 TruePastor | they ascribed him various iniquities that he never committed.
449 AllMyLife | complete disorder, there were inscriptions of some kind, and asked
450 AllMyLife | is dressed modestly? ~For instance, yesterday I returned here
451 AllMyLife | I was matriculated at an institute. That was the time of starvation
452 AllMyLife | that God will guide and instruct us.~May God protect you!~(
453 TruePastor | preaching, comforting, and instructing citizens, sharing the fate
454 AllMyLife | and I already headed an instructors department. And that was
455 HardDays | but it was a thing that insulted all of our parish and, first
456 AllMyLife | was a very high educated intellectual that came from Moscow, the
457 TruePastor | It was the time when many intelligent and cultural people devoted
458 OnWorship | not in the more or less intelligible church Slavonic, but in
459 AllMyLife | loath listening it. I didn't intend to go here today, but last
460 HardDays | up until this day. I was intending to start my service in the
461 AllMyLife | myself I have no slightest intention. On such strong soporifics -
462 AllMyLife | difficult for me to go here. Internally, spiritually difficult.~
463 TruePastor | well), but were obliged to interpret them to people and under
464 AllMyLife | else? Of course, not. Many invited me, many asked me to stay
465 HardDays | bit of elucidation of the issue I said: "The will of God
466 HardDays | life's order had occurred, issued a decree about recognizing
467 HardDays | near us. And they are as if jackals waiting: "Here father Sergi
468 OnWorship | on this mountain, nor in Jerusalem, worship the Father. You
469 OnWorship | the following words that Jesus says to the Samaritan woman: "
470 OnWorship | for salvation is from the Jews. But the hour is coming,
471 AllMyLife | know, too good for that job, while that man should have
472 OnWorship | Easter, the feast bright and joyful, let us recall what Christ
473 AllMyLife | of God in Medvedkovo (9 - July - 75).~My friends, today
474 TruePastor | actually it happened that they justified him themselves. And then
475 AllMyLife | to be acathistsi to the Kazan icon of the Mother of God.
476 HardDays | that lived in my heart, keeping in mind that if not today
477 AllMyLife | she went out, lighted up kerosin lamps or something like
478 TruePastor | her anger that played the key role, for John Chrisostom
479 TruePastor | from Constantinople as in Khalkidon, - by the emperor, senate,
480 TruePastor | there were sent soldiers who kidnapped and arrested him, and convoyed
481 OnWorship | looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God" (Luke 9:62). But
482 TruePastor | because from him they took his knowledge, his wisdom, not sharing
483 OnWorship | and truth” (Priest Georgi Kochetkov)~ ~From the sermons after
484 AllMyLife | cottage? I used to live at Krasnyie Vorota, but in 1938 the
485 TruePastor | place of his exile called Kukuz that is in the today's Armenia.
486 AllMyLife | from there to a church near Kurski railway station, - to the
487 HardDays | with a small community and labor in it. Close my eyes to
488 AllMyLife | everyone works, everyone labours, everyone is thrifty, nothing
489 OnWorship | too uncertain, too much lacking capability to be organized
490 HardDays | calling beggars, blind, and lame. I thought they would come...
491 AllMyLife | out, lighted up kerosin lamps or something like that,
492 AllMyLife | situations, and I am here like a landlord." And I'm feeling ashamed
493 TruePastor | Chrisostom often held upon his laps, gave order to solemnly
494 OnWorship | ecclesiastical Christian life: learn to worship the Heavenly
495 HardDays | was heavily stricken. I learned there was a certain small
496 HardDays | small, but a tiny piece of leaven makes the whole mixing sour.
497 HardDays | may happen when the pastor leaves you? I can feel clearly
498 HardDays | souls get saved? ~The Lord led me a special way and I am
499 OnWorship | that everything would be legally determined, checked up,
500 TruePastor | all the food though being lenten, nevertheless, was very
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