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1 Intro| Vol. 2, Montreal, 1970, p. 113).~
2 13 | 13. The Seventh Commandment.~
3 4 | Communion, as is said in rule 183 of the Nomocanon. In general,
4 13 | is mentioned in rules 28, 185 and 186, where the differing
5 13 | mentioned in rules 28, 185 and 186, where the differing degrees
6 Intro| Introduction.~Metropolitan Anthony (1863-1936) is best known as the
7 5 | Theophan the Recluse (d. 1894),iv with attention and,
8 21 | French Revolution of the 18th century would neither have
9 Intro| consecrated Bishop of Ufa; in 1902 he was~transferred to the
10 1 | the first revolution of 1905, in several~places the clergy
11 7 | Holy Synod in February, 1917, and then in the fourth~
12 Intro| Metropolitan Anthony (1863-1936) is best known as the organizer
13 4(12)| Prayer Book” (Jordanville 1960). Other Orthodox Churches
14 10 | Church Outside Russia in 1964, St.~John was a man of truly
15 9 | Orthodox Word,” July-August,~1966.~ ~oneself and not others
16 4(8) | the Grave,”~Jordanville, 1968, pp. 62-63.~
17 6 | until the last years of the 19th century, until~the spring
18 13 | one is mentioned in rules 28, 185 and 186, where the
19 13 | the sin mentioned in the 29th and 30th rules of the Nomocanon;
20 11 | Empire only in the last 25 to 30 years. These sicknesses
21 13 | mentioned in the 29th and 30th rules of the Nomocanon;xxi
22 2 | lost and is found” (Lk.~15:32). You will do just as much
23 3 | the~humble in spirit” (Ps. 33:19). The more profoundly
24 D | those in jail (Matt. 25: 34-46)?~Have you committed
25 11 | inherit the earth” (Ps. 36). But if you do~not manage
26 4(13)| from the Prayer~Book (p. 370): “Those who are preparing
27 6 | generation,’ and so on (Mk. 9:38). He did not say: ‘in this
28 B | this:~ ~According to the 39th rule of St. Basil the Great,
29 17 | fifteen years (Rules 46, 47, 49, 50 and others).~Robbers
30 17 | fifteen years (Rules 46, 47, 49, 50 and others).~Robbers
31 13 | Ecumenical Council and the 52nd Nomocanon, mixed marriages
32 11 | recently, not more than 50 or 60 years ago, and have spread
33 4(8) | Jordanville, 1968, pp. 62-63.~
34 4(8) | Jordanville, 1968, pp. 62-63.~
35 13 | that, according to canon 72 of the Sixth~Ecumenical
36 10 | Revolution, by Marc Slonim, p. 84). They~included Merezhkovsky,
37 15 | the thought that God has abandoned them. Together with this,
38 8 | otchayanie”) implies a~more total abandonment of hope.~ ~These feelings
39 B | a canon from~the time he abandons the sin: if a person continues
40 18 | the priest wants not~to abase him, but to open his eyes
41 2 | if~you have loved him and abased yourself before the Lord
42 14 | journey and the podvig of abasing~himself and supplicating
43 Intro| Anthony as the~“abba of all abbas.” Vladika Anthony was also
44 5 | the Ladder, by St. John, abbot of~Mount Sinai, in which
45 15 | favourite toys, and some abnormal people find~satisfaction
46 1 | altogether. This amounts to abolishing the~Orthodox Faith, since
47 8 | question each person about such abominable sins.~After finishing the
48 9 | when you were used to this abomination, you even boasted of it
49 22 | murderers,~robbers, rapists, abortionists as well as doctors or other
50 10 | sickness taken from the above-mentioned books,~and also of its invariable
51 4(8) | This sermon may be found (abridged) in “Eternal Mysteries Beyond
52 20 | a proof of the complete absence of the fear of God and of~
53 20 | Apostles anyone who was absent from church for three weeks
54 D | despondency?~ ~Do you pray absent-mindedly or inattentively?~Fourth
55 B | Communion your sins will be absolved. But if you approach and~
56 B | abandoning the sin, he has abstained from Communion for a time,
57 B | fulfillment of the penance. If he abstains from~Communion for a time
58 D | others, spoken scandal or abused~them for what you imagine
59 1 | after I had~finished my academic career, people begged me
60 C | money~vainglory~laziness~acceptance of lustful and impure thoughts~
61 20 | to think at all, when it accepts all the~new inventions and
62 3 | grace to~you and the more accessible is your soul to radiant
63 8 | could otherwise be rendered~“accidie” or “tedium.” It implies
64 13 | the~countryside they are accompanied by a falling-off of piety
65 17 | your possessions to the~accompaniment of the tears and curses
66 1 | is a thing which should accompany all of a priest’s~relationships
67 B | not~commune, this is not accounted to him as fulfillment of
68 10 | ones,~then, in their future accounts they will be careful to
69 D | something~else, for example, the accumulation of money, the acquisition
70 6 | thing from any man by false accusation,~I restore him fourfold’’ (
71 10 | irritability in the face of~accusations. Should they be admitted
72 1 | enemies to be those who have~accused them of something and even
73 B | keep unwaveringly~to their accustomed ways and want to continue
74 17 | pernicious passion. If a priest achieves this, he has done something
75 13 | itself felt, but the person~acknowledges that it is legitimate and
76 1 | spiritual fathers, they~are acknowledging the fact that these people
77 10 | frequently.~Surpassing their acquaintainces in feats of prayer and fasting,
78 13 | immediately put an end to any such acquaintanceship,~unconditionally and forever.
79 19 | comrade into a public house or acquainted him with corrupt people.
80 11 | conscience but, when they have acquired them, all they have is~disillusionment.~ ~
81 19 | of the devil. The devil acquires great~power over them, since
82 11 | of Sirach says, “The very action of anger is already a~fall.”
83 2 | serve Him. If you are the active secretary of~a diocesan
84 12 | social~and philanthropic activities.~This, of course, was one
85 | actually
86 5 | experience consciously and adapt it to those states of soul
87 18 | which questions to ask, adapting himself to the age, sex
88 2 | Tikhon of Zadonsk says, addressing~himself even to zealous
89 12 | textbooks of moral theology and~adduces an uncomprehending reference
90 12 | not to deeds alone.~While adducing reasons for the struggle
91 2 | consider my guidance quite adequate and even finished, in view
92 2 | factory or take part in the administration of a~seminary, all these
93 17 | summoned his old uncle to~admire the wonderful structure. “
94 9 | repentance and self-reproach?” Admonish all your flock with such~
95 9 | criminal offenses.”~When he is admonishing such unconcerned people,
96 20 | reincarnation, which has been adopted in Europe from the ancient
97 6 | especially if he is an~adult and an educated person.
98 13 | in fact adulterers and adulteresses rarely put it to~themselves.
99 4 | If not many~people take advantage of that which you have explained
100 20 | various fables of~these adventurists — spiritualists, Khlysts
101 6 | essential that your question be~affectionate and full of sympathy. If
102 10 | Communion? If they directly affirm some absurd~belief, such
103 8 | parishioner will answer affirmatively, but will still hesitate
104 Intro| ways in which the passions afflict the human soul. It is precisely
105 | afterwards
106 13 | any work, or finally as aged prostitutes,~thrown out
107 21 | every time you repeat or aggravate your sin the feelings of
108 15 | people find~satisfaction in aggravating small wounds on their hands
109 13 | infrequently people become agitated, blush,~ ~start breathing
110 13 | point of view, objects of agonizing shame, but the greater ones,~
111 21 | fail warn him of the moral agony which is caused by his terrible
112 21 | acquire if you wish to move ahead~in spiritual life. This
113 13 | pictures and immoral shows, and aided by comradeship~with utterly
114 12 | repentance, is given a weapon aimed precisely at this~enemy.
115 4(12)| say three canons and one akathist, in~addition to the Prayers
116 3 | are~from that spirit of all-embracing love and compassion with
117 8 | times turned away from His all-powerful~right hand. Then the heavy
118 21 | feeling the gaze of the All-Seeing One directed~upon him, will
119 18 | feat especially pleasing to Allah.~If all this is said with
120 13 | all relations with your allies in sin. Inform them of this
121 10 | of neologisms, sensuous alliterations, and cryptic~meanings, while
122 13 | sin today,~but I will just allow myself to bring it to mind
123 11 | their salvation~not only by allowing themselves sinful actions
124 11 | ease by the fact that one allows oneself to~commit relatively
125 D | readily spread them, being~allured by gossip and idle chatter?~
126 18 | even more avidly to the~allurements of this life and will become
127 12 | church (without~personal allusions, of course) — and for private
128 B | Communion, if he wishes to give alms according to his ability,~
129 18 | thinking or even declaring aloud that they will~ ~still manage
130 12 | singing and reading) or in the altar; and lay people — to stop
131 16 | subdue the promptings of ambition in yourself,~then you will
132 16 | vainglory, self-interest, or ambitiousness and so is directed against~
133 14 | youth so convinced of his amendment that he~prepared a feast
134 5 | such unexpected questions amid a crowd of~jostling people;
135 18 | the sickle of death, as Ammon, the King of Israel, who
136 19 | hunger can uphold that~small amount of order that is left, which
137 1 | confession altogether. This amounts to abolishing the~Orthodox
138 1 | monastery and so I have ample time at my~disposal. However,
139 14 | is~essential for you to amputate your self-love: perhaps
140 14 | a severe~operation, even amputation of arms or legs, so as to
141 D | acquisition of property, amusement~and entertainment, food
142 12 | writers.~Vainglory is the more amusing feeling, in that people
143 Intro| There are some obvious anachronisms: in particular, his comments
144 7 | hurts and then start to analyze how this pain differs from
145 15 | that might arise. We have analyzed as far as we could the most
146 10 | be believed until he has anathematized the main points of the Khlyst
147 13 | which was unknown to our ancestors, who were~not educated from
148 B | rules of the Council of Ancyra, give bishops the power
149 13 | judgement that terrifies and angers him, as an~awareness that
150 13 | the form of the~crudest animal lust, or if the Christian
151 4 | limits himself to~making an announcement at the beginning of the
152 6 | thou, when thou fastest, anoint~thine bead, and wash thy
153 9 | implies a general feeling of~antagonism and hostility towards others,
154 Intro| also fought against all anti-canonical and un-Orthodox~tendencies
155 10 | perverse emotions.~Their strong anti-social tendency was bolstered by
156 7 | of the great Fathers of~antiquity that such thoughts are not
157 | anyhow
158 B | repentance is fervent or apathetic. Let their~former life be
159 20 | who try to~interpret the Apocalypse)?xlii Haven’t you also surrendered
160 4 | established from patristic or even apostolic~times be repeated over each
161 13 | cause~suffering by itself, appears even greater when added
162 Intro| material is included in~the appendices. However, in the face of
163 15 | well at night, has a~good appetite, gets irritated without
164 14 | yard-keeper. In both cases the applicant asks to be~taken on only
165 13 | as all this can also be~applied to grown people. Let them
166 18 | passions also, nevertheless approaches it without bitter~reproaches
167 15 | tedious. This tedium is apt to turn into a constantly
168 10 | attained to the rank of archimandrite during the war, started
169 12 | even now several educated archimandrites refuse to become bishops,~
170 13 | very depths of his soul, ardently desiring to lead a perfectly
171 10 | significantly cooled the ardour both~of these self-deluded
172 2 | brother, but I will not argue with what you have said.
173 11 | the~spirit of anger and arguing from one’s family or society.
174 11 | neighbors becomes even more argumentative when~he notices that you
175 17 | to give away everything arid become a~beggar?” asks the
176 Intro| also new problems that have arisen in the last few decades
177 16 | source of this feeling. It arises from self-love, from a desire
178 11 | passions and sinful tendencies~arising from them, which will be
179 10 | future.~The Holy Fathers armed themselves against nothing
180 4(6) | Forty~Martyrs of Sobastia in Armenia, March 9.~
181 14 | operation, even amputation of arms or legs, so as to avoid
182 13 | intense irritability and~will arouse a feeling of enmity against
183 3 | to organize the~outward arrangements for confession so as to
184 10 | excess in~order to enter the ‘artificial paradise’ of hallucinations,
185 21 | themselves or to stimulate them artificially in~any way. A person who
186 20 | fantastic theories of the artisans of the press, beginning
187 14 | famous intellectuals or artists or successful lovers; as
188 6 | He confirmed before His Ascension: “These signs~shall follow
189 13 | about loftier~questions and aspirations; they also destroy both
190 6 | deceivers and idiots either, who~assert that those possessed by
191 4 | their eyes the right to assign days and times for confession
192 5 | men, which are more easily assimilated than~direct advice, and
193 5 | divine grace.~If a priest assimilates the contents of similar
194 2 | the priesthood, but the assimilation and maintenance of this
195 8 | things that nothing can astonish us any more.” If the person
196 2 | my answer, and do not be astonished. Is it difficult for a~millionaire
197 6 | person who imagined he~was an atheist will there and then admit
198 13 | conflict, horrified by some atrocity~they have committed or by
199 7 | the Holy Mysteries, not attaching any significance to his
200 C | over-eating~drunkenness~attachment to things~love of money~
201 6 | talking about a~book or attack, perhaps correctly, the
202 17 | blind outbursts, as~enemies attacking it against its will. Avarice
203 11 | deed, but even this is only attainable for those faithful who have
204 8 | infanticide, theft, robbery,~attempted poisoning, malicious slander
205 D | thus distracted~people from attendance at church?~Do you conscientiously
206 21 | parishioners come to me with~attitudes, deeds and admissions about
207 13 | hates it, his body will not attract him to evil; but if~he lingers
208 13 | Besides this, consider how attractive and beautiful is the type
209 1 | that I said in the academy auditoria~nineteen years or more ago.
210 17 | self-interest is a passion with an aura of respectability, which
211 13 | speaking self-confidently and authoritatively, has~his eyes opened to
212 6 | schoolboy hates the~person in authority over him? It is not reason,
213 1 | to anyone. Perhaps~he has avoided confession for several years
214 17 | neighbour simply by not avoiding it in those cases where
215 17 | mindful of the future life and avoids serious sins,~yet has other
216 18 | above, it follows that this awakening is attained by revealing
217 14 | as much as a~steward or bailiff asks for a job as a yard-keeper.
218 D | entertaining~yourself, e.g. at a ball or the theater, movies or
219 2 | single stroke of his pen on a bank~cheque, or for a village
220 4(4) | needs of individuals (e.g., Baptism, Marriage, Confession, Memorial~
221 5 | useful is the book of Sts. Barsanuphius and John, containing the “
222 15 | or that medicine, take a bath or go for a~walk, will disturb
223 19 | in soul, you will not be battered and storm-beaten like a
224 6 | thou fastest, anoint~thine bead, and wash thy face; that
225 2 | in our days,~ ~it still bears in itself the traces or
226 12 | who unmurmuringly endured beatings and every kind of~humiliation.~
227 11 | prohibit sinful deeds, but the Beatitudes of Christ~concern not deeds,
228 | becoming
229 19 | that some~misfortune has befallen him, you glory over it rather
230 17 | everything arid become a~beggar?” asks the perplexed sinner. “
231 17 | only to throw pennies to beggars and cadgers, but also of
232 1 | academic career, people begged me to write these lectures
233 8 | ask forgiveness; if~he has begotten illegitimate children, he
234 21 | century would neither have begun nor been brought to~completion,
235 17 | which the Church makes on behalf of those who have given
236 10 | one word of~this can be believed until he has anathematized
237 17 | person~who, although he both believes and is mindful of the future
238 6 | Mystic Supper: “He that believeth on Me, the works that I
239 10 | will swear that he~does not belong to any Khlyst society and
240 | below
241 10 | Merezhkovsky, Sologub, Rozhanov, Bely and others.~ ~does the Russian
242 17 | discredit those few donors and~benefactors who still exist in our sinful
243 13 | even that~ ~will pour a beneficent light into darkened souls.
244 17 | You will~not be ruined by benevolence, but meanness and self-interest
245 17 | money to the~Church and benevolent institutions, so as not
246 10 | claimed to~be God. Podolia and Bessarabia declared a semi-literate
247 3 | me to soften my heart and bestow upon me the~spirit of compassionate
248 17 | by whom the Son of Man is betrayed: it were better for that
249 12 | this to a landlord, who~was bewailing to him that his son had
250 Intro| so~forth, priests should beware of trying to act the part
251 16 | at every temptation, a biased opinion of~his neighbour
252 14 | start his son on another binge after his involuntary hunger
253 9 | guilty and sinful. “You feel bitterly offended by your neighbour,
254 9 | elders or comrades they blamed someone else~for what had
255 7 | horror to~think that they are blasphemers, and inexperienced priests
256 C | sins, reverend father, and bless me to partake~of the Mysteries
257 4(9) | also asks forgiveness and blesses~each person in turn. In
258 C | His great and numberless blessings to me~and His most gracious
259 20 | being just as superstitious, blindly~following the dictates of
260 12 | much against this spiritual~blindness which, alas, has even made
261 10 | visions. Then he~constantly blinds their conscience, convincing
262 3 | confession not as a sounding board but as a loving and compassionate
263 9 | this abomination, you even boasted of it and, going even~further,
264 6 | denying Him, they are just boasting and~wanting to escape their
265 21 | of contemporary man, who~boasts of his independence and
266 15 | at the early stages. If a boat~will not move off from the
267 20 | into more and more~perfect bodies come to a dead end when
268 15 | possible with the healing of~bodily ailments. Even with the
269 2 | of the Savior, and hence boldness for the holy faith and readiness
270 3 | before you.~“What? In our Bolshevik times, when zealous pastors
271 10 | anti-social tendency was bolstered by haughty individualism,
272 13 | holiness of the~marital bond that compels the spouses
273 13 | extremely vague, and the border line~between them and simple
274 9 | easily cured. Of course it borders closely on weak~faith, although
275 2 | doing it as a burdensome and boring social convention;~when
276 5 | have not endeavoured to borrow it from the Holy Fathers.
277 6 | little we~remember of what we borrowed from the writings of the
278 21 | again and again, at the bottom of which he finds despair
279 13 | fell by degrees into~the bottomless abyss of their iniquities.
280 5 | those same fathers can be bought separately.~Especially useful
281 A | Christ, through the grace and bounties of His love~towards mankind,
282 A | Thy servants, gracious, bountiful and longsuffering,~who repentest
283 9 | a “life like a drinking~bout,” passing from one attraction
284 6 | straightaway, even so he will bow his head and~become thoughtful,
285 13 | so on. If the~adolescent, boy or girl, sees that you are
286 3 | obligatory for me; nor do my brat her~priests or relatives
287 17 | or judge is justified in breaking his oath~through fear of
288 15 | capricious child gets cross he breaks his favourite toys, and
289 19 | a sharp~knife into their breasts. You will understand this
290 21 | his heart palpitates, his breath comes in gasps, he has spasms
291 13 | agitated, blush,~ ~start breathing heavily and sometimes burst
292 21 | stopped taking offense at the brethren altogether and understood
293 13 | degrees.xxvi It is true that brides and grooms of this~sort
294 1 | But, since I had only the briefest summary of their contents
295 21 | people are thrown~onto the broad path — that leads to destruction.
296 22 | example, or the keepers of brothels or illicit gambling dens.
297 17 | soundness in it: but wounds, and bruises, and putrefying sores: they
298 13 | conscience to sleep: inflicting brutal punishment, torture and~
299 20 | not exchange Christ for Buddha with his~teaching of reincarnation,
300 20 | Europe from the ancient pagan~Buddhists in the form of Theosophy?
301 4 | lest the~priest should also burn in the same flames as the
302 13 | xxii and it seems to be burning your whole skin, but since
303 12 | enslavement to anger, which bursts out even with very cunning
304 19 | grow older and,~perhaps, bury your parents, then, believe
305 2 | elder to give out a hundred bushels of flour to the starving
306 17 | Gorbunov and others. A businessman~in the south of Russia built
307 13 | advises the~penitent to buy a prayer book. In other
308 2 | revelation from God which by-passes his own~head and heart;
309 12 | virtues. Of this type are Byronismxv~as well as Mephistophelesxvi
310 C | Appendix C.~Brief Confession Before
311 13 | and see such and such a cabaret show.”~All of this is dangerous
312 17 | throw pennies to beggars and cadgers, but also of his own initiative
313 21 | gloomy~and hopeless like Cain. Even before he realizes
314 4(11)| a gnat but swallowing a camel,” in the words of our Savior.~
315 11 | good deeds reveals in both camps a~common lack of understanding
316 2 | council, the manager of a candle factory or take part in
317 22 | given some rule of~prayer (canona) and must without fail make
318 10 | 4 Fr. John of Kronstadt: canonized by the Russian Church Outside
319 14 | it~also happens that the captive has also come to hate the
320 14 | people in their ignominious~captivity because they are united
321 D | television, movies, the theater, cardgames?~Perhaps because of worrying
322 2 | and diligence than does caring for that which is dearer
323 15 | to bring him joy, he now carries out impatiently and~ ~unhappily
324 22 | abandon mortal sin — people carrying on an illicit liaison, for~
325 5 | they seized him by the cassock with~the plea: “Batiushka,
326 12 | passion, or even of the casual desires that a person may
327 21 | speak~the truth, and if you catch yourself telling a lie,
328 13 | guilty of secret sins — catechism teachers in St.~Petersburg
329 17 | They are enumerated in the catechismxxxii at the exposition of the
330 4 | came to us from~the Roman Catholics. Of course, now it should
331 18 | long ago (in 1914) the Kiev Caves Monastery published a separate~
332 17 | when it is a question of ceasing to do~evil to your neighbours.
333 B | if he wants to go into a cenobitic monastery, let him off~one
334 13 | seem to be damp, and the center of the face, that is the
335 13 | every home as a table and chair.~They should realize that
336 1 | themselves away from the chalice of Christ.~Perhaps my brother
337 1 | the priest~separately the chance to do so, but very few people
338 12 | joy~(continues the elder) changed into deep grief for this
339 Intro| struggle~(with the exception of chapters 2-5). There are already
340 21 | as the variety of human characters, situations and dispositions
341 10 | church and shows them a fiery chariot on which they will be taken
342 D | willingly make donations to charitable causes and to~the Church?~
343 21 | put something aside for charity and, finally, of keeping
344 11 | treasures that most people chase after. Thus they forget~
345 D | allured by gossip and idle chatter?~Do you tell lies? Do you
346 17 | many as you’ve fleeced and cheated: you could never~get all
347 17 | person confessing admits to cheating a few times in business
348 21 | keeping lustful passions in check and~having a greater inclination
349 5 | are attention to oneself, checking on the life of~one’s own
350 13 | purity and gentleness and cheer you up so that you can~hardly
351 B | remit another~year: if from cheese and eggs, another, Similarly,
352 4(9) | Forgiveness Day, or Cheese-fare Sunday, is the day before
353 10 | hypersensitivity” (From Chekhov to the Revolution, by Marc
354 2 | stroke of his pen on a bank~cheque, or for a village elder
355 15 | youth~and with women before childbirth and also, doctors have told
356 Intro| was a young priest~monk in China he corresponded with Metropolitan
357 13 | pleasant, according to one’s choice and desires . . . The second
358 13 | cleanse a soul which has~been choked up by a foul sensual passion,
359 18 | carefree hearts, like thorns choking the wheat. The soul becomes~
360 18 | but~were putting off Holy Chrismationxxxvii until retirement or terminal
361 11 | reasons for the spread of Christianity, both in its earliest period
362 10 | considered themselves to be “Christs,” and their leader, “God.”~
363 17 | xxxiv The Church calls~church-builders “blessed” and “ever-memorable”
364 22 | more precise, a strictly Church-centered way of life).xlvii But~it
365 21 | offered by people leading a Churchcentered~life, lament first of all
366 10 | Christ,5 others~appeared — Chursikov in Petrograd, Koloskov in
367 18 | always), it is~sufficient to cite the following statement
368 2 | Tikhon which have just been cited. If we still continue our
369 10 | later became a monk and claimed to~be God. Podolia and Bessarabia
370 3 | pastor will not be free from~clashes with unworthy children,
371 1 | and sons~of the clerical class in general do not look upon
372 13 | households of the cultured classes, and~also of villagers,
373 18 | characteristics that our literary~classics, in the persons of Pushkin,
374 13 | enough by itself. In order to cleanse a soul which has~been choked
375 3 | more softened soul, with clearer faith~in the grace-given
376 18 | in its old age it will cleave even more avidly to the~
377 1 | e have already said that clergymen do not fully realize how
378 Intro| Philokalia and St. John Climacus's Ladder, but these often
379 17 | sores: they have not~been closed, neither bound up, neither
380 Intro| was written, people were closer to the roots of an Orthodox
381 D | thirsty, take in a stranger, clothe the naked,~visit the sick
382 18 | managing to get out~of the clutches of their heresy. The same
383 2 | an ordinary person, but a co-participant in the redemptive feat of
384 18 | offences and perhaps of coarse passions also, nevertheless
385 21 | words, because these will coarsen your soul and~grieve the
386 21 | make their own souls become coarsened more quickly and so not~
387 18 | repentance~every time the cock crowed during the night,
388 Intro| fathers,~hence the two terms coincide in meaning, whereas in the
389 13 | morning and evening, to collect our thoughts, to recall~ ~
390 5 | John Moschus, or similar collections of the “memorable~sayings
391 17 | advice, as our miserable commentaries~have it) — to the rich youth
392 Intro| anachronisms: in particular, his comments on~Church life often do
393 21 | sinful~habits.~“Anyone who commits a terrible sin and does
394 22 | who help them, sodomists,~committers of bestiality, adulterers,
395 B | a consequence of having communed.”~Pay attention also to
396 17 | Church property are not to communicate for~fifteen years (Rules
397 19 | possibility of studying and~communicating with each other by letter —
398 10 | easy methods of imaginary~communication with the supernatural world,
399 3 | everyday occupations after communing the Holy Mysteries and his~
400 21 | definitely decided to leave~the community, but his elder advised him
401 13 | dedicated, and to choose as a companion for one’s life a woman with
402 13 | they had committed the same~comparatively small sins as others of
403 11 | Protestants, does not of itself compel anyone to do good deeds,
404 18 | their foul deeds, and in the complacent feeling with~which they
405 15 | comes to confession and complains of his inconsolable grief~
406 16 | before, and why did your~complaints and anger get stronger only
407 21 | make any~claim either to completeness or to a strictly systematic
408 21 | begun nor been brought to~completion, nor would the Pugachev
409 15 | out. The human~soul is so complex and many-sided that it is
410 1 | course, as life becomes more complicated and we become more worldly,
411 15 | absolutely all the possible~complications that might arise. We have
412 12 | subjects~are very close and comprehensible to the soul of an Orthodox
413 9 | this stupefaction of your con-~science, in the power of
414 C | church~neglect of prayer~concealing sins at confession~I have
415 17 | which not in frequently conceals~itself from its victims. “
416 11 | especially to a malicious wife or conceited son.~One should be punished
417 2 | of divine grace, if you concentrate your thoughts on what you
418 2 | without exception? No, they concentrated their attention and feelings
419 21 | penetrates into its meaning, concentrates and is respectful, then
420 2 | surrounding~vanities and concentrating one's thoughts and conscience
421 13 | still perfectly healthy.~The concept of “the needs of the body”
422 22 | Penances.~We promised to conclude with a few words about penances.
423 21 | bringing his counsel to a conclusion, the spiritual father says: “
424 6 | deny God and accept these conclusions about good and evil and
425 14 | anything better~until he gives concrete proof of his reform. When
426 4 | have separated from their~concubines, realizing that this is
427 5 | of all, read the Bible, concurrently from 1)~Pentateuch and Kings,
428 10 | Holy Communion unless he condemns the heresy. However, even
429 12 | deserves incomparably greater condolence or heartfelt~sympathy. Frequently
430 D | church marriage?~Do you conduct yourself freely and loosely
431 1 | information. At diocesan conferences after the first revolution
432 15 | grace of the priesthood is conferred upon them. Secondly, it
433 13 | novices in convents, who have confessed to the lesser sin, the same
434 13 | concealment — until the Christian confesses his fall,~he will return
435 14 | Lord expressed Himself so confidently about~Zaccheus — “Now is
436 4 | Spiritual fathers will confirm this and say, “It certainly
437 13 | state of severe spiritual conflict, horrified by some atrocity~
438 6 | moral, the turning point conies suddenly, and the person
439 12 | teach people to test their consciences after every special feat~
440 D | attendance at church?~Do you conscientiously attend divine services?
441 14 | drink that~they have lost consciousness, become quarrelsome, or
442 Intro| Academies, in 1900 he was consecrated Bishop of Ufa; in 1902 he
443 14 | good, compassionate and~considerate people, who seem to be the
444 15 | is already finished. It consisted, in the first place, of
445 15 | With explanations and consolations such as these a spiritual
446 D | fraud, diverse~cunning, conspiracy?~Perhaps you have not done
447 7 | so they do not in any way constitute a sin. One should not pay
448 D | to~the Church?~Have you consulted fortune-tellers? Have you
449 18 | patriarchal~family life and made contact with new conditions of life.
450 4(4) | Since, however, it docs not contain the~ ~references to the
451 12 | satisfied~by the pleasure of contemplating their own imagined virtues.
452 B | Confession.~(Note: In this context the words “penance” and “
453 15 | love of a healthy soul,~continuing in union with God, can fill
454 13 | people~should be advised to contract a lawful marriage. When
455 18 | to confession, we are not contradicting what we said at the~beginning
456 15 | the physical factors which contribute to your sorrowful~state
457 14 | a drunkard~who has lost control of himself to give up his
458 Intro| father” and sometimes, for convenience, simply as~“priest.” In
459 22 | are now in the process of converting, then they~should be admitted
460 2 | If I could instill such a conviction and feeling into the- priestly
461 10 | revolution, have significantly cooled the ardour both~of these
462 1 | in this age of universal cooling towards faith and~salvation,
463 4 | and since not all those corming to~confession are in church
464 4(11)| influence. Of course, this correctness in outward~matters was of
465 Intro| priest~monk in China he corresponded with Metropolitan Anthony
466 18 | thoughts.”~It is useful to corroborate this with an example from
467 13 | love-affairs” are the~fruit of a corrupted or idle imagination which
468 13 | rarely do they think of the corrupting influence their deeds will
469 5 | the Church,~but a Titular Councilor,iii and thinking only of
470 5 | importance of the Synaxarion for counseling~penitents firstly, because
471 4 | reading either~patristic counsels from the Synaxarion, or
472 13 | Among the youth of the~countryside they are accompanied by
473 B | spiritual father, then this time counts as part of the~penance.~
474 13 | priest is respected by~the couple, he can persuade the heterodox
475 14 | either in order to get up courage for a sexual orgy or to
476 13 | not the~majority of these courageous souls who remain faithful
477 Intro| Anthony gave~during his courses on pastoral theology, but
478 17 | hard-hearted~misers and covetous of material gain. Although
479 19 | husband and wife, between coworkers~or comrades? All those who
480 20 | Have you accepted that crazy~belief in reincarnation,
481 10 | and consciously they~were creating precious poems full of neologisms,
482 13 | death of these unfortunate creatures.~Similarly, adulterers and
483 6 | thoughtlessness and the habit of~credulously repeating things that are
484 4 | hundred years ago; neither the Creeks nor the Edinovertsi11 have
485 21 | Jewish people when~they cried out with one soul, ‘Crucify
486 21 | praying in~church grievously cries out, “No tears, no repentance
487 13 | to twenty years. If this crime~has now become fashionable,
488 21 | be with those whom he has~criminally deceived — his wife, for
489 16 | another —~ ~both good and critical ones — not in accordance
490 18 | repentance~every time the cock crowed during the night, throughout
491 13 | innocent people together with crudely blaspheming against the
492 20 | demonic pride, or hard-healed cruelty, or love of possessions,
493 20 | sinful habits which is now crushing your soul. But besides neglecting~
494 10 | sensuous alliterations, and cryptic~meanings, while their ethereal
495 11 | and it is essential to cultivate these in oneself. The Ten~
496 Intro| the roots of an Orthodox culture —~now it is so easy to be
497 13 | majority of households of the cultured classes, and~also of villagers,
498 5 | library of such spiritual cures. Such primarily is the collection
499 D | heretical books out of sinful curiosity?~When the Church requests
500 10 | Khlysts known to them solemnly curse the Khlyst errors, in front