Chapter

 1 Intro|        need to turn to the Church Fathers for theological~inspiration.
 2 Intro|          and duty to be spiritual fathers,~hence the two terms coincide
 3 1    |           to priests as spiritual fathers, they~are acknowledging
 4 1    |           but rather as their own fathers, relatives or superiors.
 5 1    |       once, and in Petrograd many fathers hear the confessions of
 6 1    |       reading the writings of the Fathers and the Holy Bible, or through
 7 2    | persistence to convince spiritual fathers to embark~on this inner
 8 3    |        are right,” many spiritual fathers will answer me. “Of course,
 9 3    |          will learn from the Holy Fathers about guiding the~human
10 4    |        the whole year.1~Spiritual fathers will confirm this and say, “
11 4(3) |    according to the councils and -fathers who decreed them.~
12 4    |        the heading “How Spiritual Fathers Should Dispose those Confessing
13 5    |         people; but our spiritual fathers experience even greater
14 5    |           borrow it from the Holy Fathers. At theological school the
15 5    |  memorable~sayings about the holy fathers,” expounds the rules of
16 5    |           developed themes in the fathers is~the teaching about the
17 5    |        the Philokalia, those same fathers can be bought separately.~
18 5    |     Georgia, which many spiritual~fathers in monasteries had in manuscript,
19 5    |    activity, wiIl make use of the~Fathers’ experience consciously
20 6    |          from the writings of the Fathers and from our own~spiritual
21 7    |         in the words of the great Fathers of~antiquity that such thoughts
22 8    |          a Sin.~Several spiritual fathers in monasteries have disclosed
23 10   |     foretell the future.~The Holy Fathers armed themselves against
24 10   |          this is explained by the~fathers and spiritual writers we
25 10   |  according to the teaching of the Fathers, anger or irritation~when
26 11   |          repentance.)~The ancient Fathers usually expound the teaching
27 11   |   passions of the soul. Spiritual fathers must~explain to their flocks
28 11   |          the teaching of the Holy Fathers, the~second medicine against
29 11   |          on Mount Athos spiritual fathers not only do not~permit monks
30 12   |         instructions to spiritual fathers with the struggle against
31 12   |     applies not just to spiritual fathers but to all members of the
32 13   |           sins to their spiritual~fathers; husbands and wives am ashamed
33 13   |        Church and their~spiritual fathers. But this is not all. The
34 15   |          even for a few spiritual fathers, then in their future~life
35 15   |         so profoundly by the Holy Fathers, has its~place mostly among
36 15   |          remind him that the Holy Fathers wrote not~a little about “
37 15   |       this case tell him that the~fathers ascribe such a state to
38 17   |         passions indicated by the fathers we~have left gluttony, sloth,
39 18   |         other contemporary Church Fathers~condemned and exhorted these
40 18   |          our counsel to spiritual fathers: those who come to confession
41 21   |           if even a few spiritual fathers will read this and say, “
42 21   |          and warned that the Holy Fathers strictly forbid people to
43 21   |         force their~feelings, the fathers command us to force our
44 22   |        regrettable that spiritual fathers no longer give~penances
45 22   |     brotherly advice to spiritual fathers to~an end.~ ~
46 B    |        his penance.~How Spiritual Fathers Should Dispose Those Confessing