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501 10 | Only before~an actual cursing of the Khlyst heresy will
502 4(1) | only once a year, it was customary to commune on one of the
503 B | certain number of prostrations daily, according to his strength,
504 13 | cheeks and~hands seem to be damp, and the center of the face,
505 14 | prepared a feast with singing, dancing and, of course, wine, without
506 18 | acted thus not out of the danger~of the death penalty, but
507 17 | insatiable desire which dared to do such things to the
508 13 | a beneficent light into darkened souls. And besides this,
509 6 | of these writers and of Darwin, Marx and~so on. I will
510 10 | headlong into the abyss, and is~dashed to death without repentance.
511 19 | when an insolent son or daughter grieves his~loving parents
512 16 | swallowed up by his envy for David. This~envy destroyed his
513 6 | fulfilled? “If they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt~
514 Intro| s Confession is that it deals with such problems as are
515 2 | caring for that which is dearer than the whole world —~the
516 11 | debts as we forgive our debtors,” so as not to be~liars
517 11 | the words “forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors,”
518 Intro| have arisen in the last few decades and are not~covered by it.
519 19 | out your guilt before your deceased~parents.” The same thing,
520 6 | Saviour, do not believe those deceivers and idiots either, who~assert
521 13 | inwardly, but at the~same time deceives himself with thoughts such
522 13 | convictions of society and decency. This gives birth to nihilism~
523 9 | and~considered himself a decent enough person rejected the
524 17 | to excommunication. About deceptions~and extortion which one
525 1 | wishes, intentions~and decisions. Blessed are you, spiritual
526 18 | those who are putting off a decisive correction of their lives
527 18 | unbelievers” (e.g. on the decks of ships). They pray with
528 Intro| accept Metropolitan Sergei’s declaration of loyalty to the atheistic
529 22 | communion if they do not~declare their resolve to abandon
530 18 | sins yet, thinking or even declaring aloud that they will~ ~still
531 B | the power to increase or decrease the~period of exclusion
532 4(3) | councils and -fathers who decreed them.~
533 13 | work to which one’s life is~dedicated, and to choose as a companion
534 17 | step onto the path of total dedication to God and the Church~(“
535 21 | highly, but we must in no way deem ourselves superior to others
536 15 | case even~before he has defeated it, the spirit of prayer
537 6 | to read a single book in defence of the~faith, or even one
538 22 | seducers and conscious defilers of sacred objects~must unfailingly
539 2 | which St. John Chrysostom, defining the essence of the priesthood,
540 13 | their victims with physical deformity as well as madness. However,
541 14 | fourfold~ ~those he had defrauded. There is a hope of correction
542 10 | individualism, which often~degenerated into narcissism. They had
543 10 | reposed.~6 Imenobozhnichestvo: Deification of the name of God — the
544 22 | confession or else out of false~delicacy and timidity. This non-application
545 4 | second one, which you~will deliver at the reading of the prayers
546 A | forgiveness of sins, and~deliverance, pardoning his (her) every
547 6 | summaries~which we made for delivering the lectures, we can manage
548 10 | explain to him how the devil deludes Christians~and even monks
549 10 | were consciously and slyly deluding~others. But such a spiritual
550 10 | narcissism. They had recourse to demonism, drugs and sexual excess
551 13 | recent years, by such bold denials as with students. Let us
552 Intro| differ from the Western~Denominations?” in Orthodox Life, 1970,
553 22 | brothels or illicit gambling dens. Parishioners who have~sinned
554 6 | life; when people talk of denying Him, they are just boasting
555 18 | s homily~“Concerning the Departure of the Soul and the Second
556 18 | those in whom~they wish to depict the principal type of Russian
557 11 | Saviour, then the Apostle Paul depicts it even~more clearly: “The
558 14 | resolution to~submit oneself to deprivations and labours that are yet
559 11 | themselves and each other, depriving~themselves of the joy of
560 19 | that he were drowned in the depth of the sea’ (Mt. 18:6)?
561 19 | finally about sins which~derange the inner life of the sinner
562 13 | crude abuse or sneering derision. What should a spiritual
563 22 | distress to former Uniates, descendants of Polish Uniates, and also
564 12 | it, but those of Adam’s descendents who have not crucified their
565 5 | thousand witnesses of the descent of the Holy Spirit on the
566 11 | of soul which these words describe.~Of course, one must force
567 8 | name to their sin; then ask~descriptively. When the penitent, realizing
568 13 | apparently so strong, will desert even the healthiest and
569 20 | hasn’t done something to deserve~God’s anger, remember about
570 18 | other relatives and~has thus deserved general contempt.~
571 12 | the soul of a Christian, deserves incomparably greater condolence
572 18 | angered God with his~evil designs and foul thoughts.”~It is
573 A | repentest of our evil deeds, and desirest not the death of a sinner,
574 3 | contrite heart God will~not despise” (Ps. 50:19) and “the Lord
575 14 | asking for a position which, despite being in the~provinces,
576 8 | appropriate to mention that~despondency1 and despair in penitents
577 15 | suspicions you had earlier.~If a despondent Christian is especially
578 17 | irritable, capricious and~despotic, like the heroes of our
579 1 | prevent the situation~from deteriorating to such a degree; even now
580 4 | sinful hut do not express any~determination to stop it, desiring to
581 13 | undernourishment will also be determined by whether he is used to
582 1 | work will suffer no little detriment from the fact~that I have
583 5 | One of the most highly developed themes in the fathers is~
584 19 | other’s shortcomings always develops together~with the habit
585 6 | to the Church prayers and devoting themselves to works of~love.
586 10 | Johannites” carried their devotion for him to~an excess which
587 19 | many who pray to God and devour people.” If a spiritual
588 10 | This was the only means of diagnosing the Khlyst heresy, as its
589 11 | of the passions. Such a diagnosis of our spiritual infirmities
590 20 | superstitious, blindly~following the dictates of fashion and not stopping
591 Intro| his “How does Orthodoxy differ from the Western~Denominations?”
592 9 | their first~offenses they differed from ordinary sinners only
593 13 | about any other sin.~Let us differentiate between sinners according
594 13 | 185 and 186, where the differing degrees of guilt are also~
595 7 | to analyze how this pain differs from a toothache or a headache —~
596 14 | which is as difficult to dig up from the heart as drunkenness,
597 11 | weeds in a~garden instead of digging them up at the root and
598 2 | their heartfelt~concern and diligence than does caring for that
599 12 | they preach sermons, study~diligently at school, and so on, and
600 4(2) | respect for priests; it is a diminutive of~“father.”~
601 20 | beginning with those~with diplomas and ending with those who
602 6 | his former arguments, but discards these theories as~useless
603 6 | His parting talk with His disciples~after the Mystic Supper: “
604 8 | fathers in monasteries have disclosed to me that God has helped
605 14 | poison of malice, envy, discontent or adultery and, until they~
606 19 | Have you~sowed the seeds of discord between brothers, between
607 21 | the sin of slander and the~discords about which we spoke earlier,
608 15 | so as not to complete the discouragement of a soul that is already
609 15 | cause. If the replies are discouraging, then he~should say: “We
610 17 | he must not condemn and discredit those few donors and~benefactors
611 15 | contemporary Christians.~We could discuss despondency in the same
612 15 | enough. We have already discussed despair, but despondency
613 17 | permit yourself to do some dishonest practice;~then doom yourself
614 17 | ask him why~he acted so dishonestly and harshly. Does this mean
615 16 | party. Such~injustice, such dishonesty of thought, must be recognized
616 6 | and do not consider Him a dishonorable fraud, then you must~also
617 8 | should~return it, if he has dishonoured someone, he should make
618 21 | always give yourself some disinterested work to do for the glory
619 21 | which our contemporaries so dislike~to hear, which is why they
620 19 | spiritual father has managed~to dislodge a sinner from such a self-satisfied
621 18 | confession.~This indifferent and dismal attitude is formed in a
622 4 | however shall I manage to dismiss before nightfall all the
623 14 | dismissed and admits that the~dismissal was fair. He asks for the
624 15 | due mainly to a nervous disorder, while with others it is~
625 1 | confession ineffectively and~in a disorderly manner, not according to
626 15 | all cases both of these disorders —~grief of soul and ill-health
627 16 | resolves unfailingly to verify dispassionately all his opinions about his
628 6 | who in your opinion can disperse his doubts. Of course, I~
629 13 | describing are distressed~and dispirited, then to the same degree
630 1 | I have ample time at my~disposal. However, I am afraid that
631 14 | all parishes must be to disprove the notion that~drunkenness
632 21 | itself to God is always dissatisfied with itself, and reproaches
633 9 | lulled to sleep by worldly dissipation and corrupt comradeship,
634 12 | deeply sunk in a life of dissolution do not consider~either lust
635 8 | him on a pilgrimage to a distant monastery, but first find
636 1 | is precisely this which distinguishes our faith from the~ ~Lutheran
637 2 | degree do evil temptations distract our souls from it. First
638 21 | always drives inattention and distraction away from a~person who is
639 D | praise, to spend your time in distractions, in~reading frivolous books,
640 15 | already, but I am being distraught by disasters which do not
641 13 | just been describing are distressed~and dispirited, then to
642 20 | But if you are inclined to~distrust the evidence of Christ and
643 15 | bath or go for a~walk, will disturb him yet more. The tears
644 10 | of its invariable sign — disturbance and even irritability in
645 17 | material gain. Although disturbances of anger, self-love and
646 D | indirect way? — by fraud, diverse~cunning, conspiracy?~Perhaps
647 Intro| of the sad schisms which divided the exile Church and which
648 10 | absurd~belief, such as in the divinity of Stephan Podgorny or Matrona
649 13 | recent times, often end in divorce — as~soon as there is any
650 15 | it is still moored to the dock lower~down, below the water-line,
651 4(4) | Hapgood. Since, however, it docs not contain the~ ~references
652 15 | physical factors. Even your doctor will probably tell you that
653 12 | they are~just beautiful dogs, and they are not worthy
654 13 | self-deception.~Sin would not dominate the soul of man if he had
655 18 | revealing to~the sinner his dominating passion, which he often —
656 A | Whom also are due unto Thee dominion and majesty, both now and
657 17 | and discredit those few donors and~benefactors who still
658 4 | Peter’s fast or before~Dormition, many others will follow
659 10 | Holy Mountain Athos, Abba Dorotheus, St. John of~the Ladder,
660 A | of all things which thou dost say to me. But if thou shalt
661 C | missing church services~dozing and sleeping in church~neglect
662 19 | content until they have dragged~their comrade into a public
663 14 | and that his comrades who drank more than he~did were not
664 11 | most bitter at the first draught, is to~ask forgiveness after
665 14 | transfer themselves to a dream~world. They stupify themselves
666 13 | homes or as~drunkards, the dregs of society, incapable of
667 D | public performances, immodest dress, etc.~Have you committed
668 21 | praise. This thought always drives inattention and distraction
669 19 | his neck, and~that he were drowned in the depth of the sea’ (
670 13 | passionate habits as well as with drug-addiction and even~more so with drunkenness.
671 15 | whose prayers have become dry and who is giving himself
672 Intro| footnotes. The Russian word “dukhovnik,” which means “spiritual
673 13 | their faces. Their eyes are dull, their cheeks and~hands
674 6 | a way out of its gloomy dungeon into the light,~and soared
675 14 | a hope of correction for dypsomaniacs if they go to live~for a
676 1 | should this task~consist? W~e have already said that clergymen
677 13 | were still plenty of people eager to carry them out, inspired,
678 21 | what is pleasant to the ear. Do not think that it is
679 21 | for the Church, or else~earn money for a good cause or
680 14 | and a man who had formerly earned five times as much as a~
681 9 | those who struggle more earnestly than you for the salvation
682 21 | of not wasting all your earnings on your personal needs and
683 13 | supervision of his parents, he earns some money for himself.
684 19 | from shame right up to your ears and wring your hands,~wishing
685 11 | impossible to set one’s mind at ease by the fact that one allows
686 1 | populous dioceses in the Eastern Ukraine priests hear 15-
687 15 | first noticed, but will eat away the soul more and more,
688 13 | the words which follow in Ecclesiastes will be revealed to him
689 Intro| that are~prevalent in the ecclesiastical world today.~In Confession,
690 14 | demands of parents and those~educating children as to how to forestall
691 14 | a man with a university education~asks to be taken on as a
692 11 | first epistle. The most effective medicine~against anger and
693 B | year: if from cheese and eggs, another, Similarly, if
694 D | yourself out of pride or egotism? Examine yourself.~Third
695 4 | to the life of St Mary of Egypt on the eve of the~Thursday
696 9 | famous Russian bishop of the eighteenth century. As the bishop of~
697 D | transvestism, sodomy)?~Eighth Commandment~Have you taken
698 21 | to those in homes for the elderly. Then you~will come to love
699 10 | imagining that they are God’s elect, and not infrequently try
700 21 | powerful or of the crowd. Elections are now won by flattery
701 21 | has been engaged in some elevating occupation, either intellectual
702 Intro| where the confessor has to elicit some remnant of~conscience
703 15 | deal with these if we first eliminate the purely~physical factors.
704 17 | apply to yourself those eloquent, exceptional petitions~which
705 | elsewhere
706 2 | convince spiritual fathers to embark~on this inner struggle,
707 4(9) | mutual forgiveness before embarking on the spiritual struggles
708 22 | have~sinned by fornication, embezzlement, insulting their parents
709 8 | away from yourself such embittered2~feelings against God or
710 4(1) | Russian churches~of the emigration people usually receive Communion
711 10 | dreams and exotic or perverse emotions.~Their strong anti-social
712 21 | is deceiving her, or his employer, if he~is robbing him. He
713 6 | The latter then starts employing subtle arguments to defend
714 15 | with God, can fill up that emptiness in the sick soul, Sometimes~
715 6 | theories as~useless husks, as empty sophisms. It becomes clear
716 15 | Despondency is~a sort of emptying or withering of the soul,
717 11 | fills them with zeal to emulate it. This very freedom from
718 11 | in your heart. Instead of emulating you, he~might well be imbued
719 6 | conditions of confession enable you to talk about faith
720 6 | have found the key that enables you~to enter into the soul
721 15 | despondency is sometimes encountered. This is a loss of that
722 15 | loving kindness will calm and encourage a depressed person, but
723 15 | less easily to advice and encouragement. We have~just mentioned
724 10 | spiritual delusion.~Prelest endangers a man’s soul if it lurks
725 4(2) | Batiushka: a Russian term of endearment and respect for priests;
726 5 | experience, and~have not endeavoured to borrow it from the Holy
727 10 | hysteria and trances, and ended in a general sexual orgy,
728 | ending
729 6 | Christians, conditions which are~endlessly variable. Here, where we
730 10 | of prayer~and fasting and ends with shameless depravity,
731 21 | piece of paper: “I will~endure for Jesus Christ.” He told
732 12 | Martyrs who unmurmuringly endured beatings and every kind
733 13 | foul sensual passion, its energies must be devoted to better,~
734 Intro| in church in order to he enflamed~with prayer oneself.~The
735 10 | people~and in the so-called “enlightened society.” This plague, under
736 2 | intentions, but the grace of God,~enlightening their souls and your own
737 17 | live in a sober fashion, enrichment is often the guiding aim
738 20 | sin. The same consequences ensue if a Christian wittingly
739 17 | avarice and are involved in an enterprise connected with the increase
740 17 | efforts to making their enterprises flourish. Almost the same~
741 D | feast-days, do you spend time entertaining~yourself, e.g. at a ball
742 D | property, amusement~and entertainment, food and drink, clothes,
743 D | you yourself arranged such entertainments and gatherings and thus
744 17 | If he has the time and~enthusiasm, he can seek out cases of
745 D | proper~path; have you been enticed by heresy or schism; have
746 13 | If they are free from the enticements of female beauty and~alluring
747 3 | going to begin by humbly entreating~Him to bring me to my senses
748 17 | usually commit.~They are enumerated in the catechismxxxii at
749 20 | using the Church’s prayers, enumerating your sins, and if you went
750 11 | incomparably more correct than the enumeration of sins or sinful acts,~
751 9 | repentance. If even the great Ephraim the Syrian, who~was granted
752 6 | possessed by demons were just epileptics: did the Lord drive epilepsy~
753 6 | boasting and~wanting to escape their pangs of conscience.”~
754 1 | poor Christians admit that essentially the matter should be otherwise.
755 5 | spiritual father should establish in~penitents that disposition
756 4 | Universal Church of Christ established from patristic or even apostolic~
757 17 | applies to the owners of small estates and even to ordinary farmers.
758 21 | you do this then you will estrange yourself from lying. But
759 7 | they have already perished eternally anyhow. And the priest will
760 10 | cryptic~meanings, while their ethereal prose sketched dreams and
761 6 | No kind of geography or ethnography or zoology can tell you~
762 4(4) | Trebnik (Book of Needs, Euchologion) a book containing services
763 12 | and the demons beloved by European writers.~Vainglory is the
764 15 | eternal salvation. He will evaluate all events and phenomena
765 13 | what mistakes they make in evaluating sins and giving advice about
766 3 | compunction, and to acquire such evangelical love for people from~ ~whom
767 7 | feeling has, as it were, evaporated for a time from~the realm
768 17 | church-builders “blessed” and “ever-memorable” even during their life,
769 | everywhere
770 20 | inclined to~distrust the evidence of Christ and the Apostles,
771 9 | see, none of the~world’s evildoers or criminals were born murderers
772 19 | surely be put to death” (Ex. 21:16).~This death sentence
773 14 | will prove that it has been~exaggerated considerably in his reference,
774 9 | great virtue, which not only exalts people in the eyes of God,~
775 17 | idle-talking without detailed examination, but what are we~to say
776 15 | but this sin, which was examined so profoundly by the Holy
777 2 | the priestly~reader, after examining the matter in detail, should
778 5 | by Metropolitan Jonah, Exarch of Georgia, which many spiritual~
779 3 | later you will become an~excellent spiritual physician for
780 12 | let every Christian who excels above others in something
781 22 | at the age of fifteen: exceptions were made only for those
782 15 | proceeding from self-imposed and excessive struggles.”~Advise him to
783 D | recompense you~received?~Have you excessively yearned for material goods
784 20 | Apostle calls them. Do not exchange Christ for Buddha with his~
785 B | twenty years old, he is excluded from Communion for a shorter
786 17 | all~those around him, not excluding his own family. You can
787 21 | fasts, since the Councils excommunicate a Christian for two years
788 5 | More practical are the exemplary~“Questions to Penitents”
789 B | and so let love for man be exercised by measure. If they keep
790 11 | does not carry out the two exercises of spiritual warfare or
791 17 | passions do not, of course, exhaust all the possible means of
792 5 | which you considered too exhausting; all the other crosses are
793 15 | so-called depression — i.e. exhaustion or oppressing worries. Of
794 18 | Church Fathers~condemned and exhorted these people with particular
795 Intro| revolution, as the senior of the exiled bishops, he was chosen to
796 6 | tell you~whether the devil exists or not; lead a religious
797 10 | prose sketched dreams and exotic or perverse emotions.~Their
798 19 | the very mention of it, expecting, on the contrary, that every
799 16 | path, not only will they expel all envy from their own
800 7 | theological book shop and is not expensive; it is another pamphlet
801 7 | our soul and heart. But~experiment with one of the crudest
802 15 | distress and grief.” With explanations and consolations such as
803 19 | criminals begin their sinful exploits — guided always by the spirit
804 20 | nobody would be able to expose~your ignorance of these
805 12 | heart. Most often anger expresses the dissatisfaction of~another
806 6 | conditions of inner life and external situations of Christians,
807 11 | grace-filled state, which will be extinguished without corresponding~struggles
808 17 | excommunication. About deceptions~and extortion which one is supposedly
809 A | Appendix A.~Extracts From the Order of Confession.~
810 17 | willingly, and not from~extraneous motives, tends to think
811 2 | compassion for people, exultant~glorification of the Savior,
812 6 | avoid it. Keep your pastoral eye on such a person and know
813 3 | Lord said to the prophet Ezekiel (Ch. 2). But you have a~
814 20 | do you trust the various fables of~these adventurists —
815 13 | it can be seen in their faces. Their eyes are dull, their
816 18 | for this,~and as yet the facilities for such confessions have
817 11 | the varied difficulties facing a priest which arise from
818 2 | the manager of a candle factory or take part in the administration
819 6 | said that you accept only facts, but death is an~indubitable
820 11 | The Creator placed the faculty of anger in us so that we
821 20 | to restrain himself from~failing ever deeper and deeper into
822 B | him off~one half. If he fails after taking the habit,
823 5 | terrible struggles became faint in spirit and started praying
824 6 | those temptations~due to faint-heartedness and passions, as in the
825 2 | from our evil will but from faintheartedness and~inexperience. Here is
826 2 | them were people of other faiths, not their flock,~their
827 13 | they are accompanied by a falling-off of piety and outbursts of
828 12 | seeks after human praise and fame~but the second, a subtler
829 Intro| with such problems as are familiar to most~contemporary Orthodox
830 13 | Priests who come from clerical families are often under the~impression
831 10 | Johannism took on an especially fanatical character, and, alas, even
832 20 | all the~new inventions and fantastic theories of the artisans
833 13 | but rather the perverted fantasy of the soul. Therefore if
834 4 | things in his life as a farmer and as a family~man. He
835 17 | estates and even to ordinary farmers. Of course, if he~shows
836 13 | this crime~has now become fashionable, this does not in any way
837 6 | words?: “But thou, when thou fastest, anoint~thine bead, and
838 21 | 1920)~destruction of our fatherland. And then, how greatly a
839 3 | you speak sincerely, in a fatherly and~brotherly way, with
840 21 | irritable and starts finding fault with his near ones and those
841 17 | love of money in a sense favourable~ ~to oneself, or attempt
842 18 | several Lutherans who were favourably disposed towards our Church,
843 15 | gets cross he breaks his favourite toys, and some abnormal
844 8 | despair in penitents should be feared no less than stony insensibility.~
845 D | attend church on Sundays and feastdays?~Do you help the poor and
846 4(6) | occurring during Lent are the Feasts of the First and~Second
847 D | but did not;~you did not feed the hungry, give drink to
848 16 | will not envy a comrade or fellow worker who is more successful
849 2 | falling, is fertile. This fertility has been~cultivated by centuries
850 21 | prayer — it is better to read fewer prayers, and pay more attention.
851 9 | conscience and eternity in the fiftieth year of~his life, and previously
852 Intro| Although it was~written over fifty years ago it is still remarkably
853 7 | stronger if he deliberately fights against it.~
854 11 | it, on those around,~and fills them with zeal to emulate
855 6 | not consider this talk as final, but remains willing to
856 13 | refer to their~ ~precarious financial position, point out that
857 21 | becomes~irritable and starts finding fault with his near ones
858 4(6) | of the First and~Second Findings of the Head of St. John
859 1 | love him. A man is never so fine,~so dear to God, as when
860 13 | whether they let their fingers touch what they should not,
861 21 | church where the service finishes earliest, do not cut your
862 8 | such abominable sins.~After finishing the usual questions, you
863 11 | and inner warfare, like a fire without fuel. Stephan Yavorskyxiii
864 2 | who has given birth to her firstborn, you will find completely
865 D | joke? Or, God forbid, in a fit of bitterness or anger or
866 17 | 1:6). Of course, it is~fitting to talk also about these
867 13 | is extremely difficult to fix. Let us take, for example,
868 D | feast-days which have been fixed by the~Church by working
869 10 | and~8 Khlysti: a sect of flagellants. Ordinary services were
870 4 | should also burn in the same flames as the sinners he had unlawfully
871 17 | still, not so many as you’ve fleeced and cheated: you could never~
872 12 | be~made bishops and even fleeing from people when they became
873 10 | hallucinations, mystical flights and~hypersensitivity” (From
874 11 | person has~made himself to float on the water and swim it
875 13 | conscience, mercilessly flogging~them, and be freed of it
876 2 | out a hundred bushels of flour to the starving by~giving
877 9 | spiritual perfection, and flourished in~various virtues and spiritual
878 5 | the monk understood his foolishness and offered repentance,
879 17 | when “From the sole of the foot even unto the head~there
880 3 | fervently than before, to the footstool of a pastor who treats their~
881 17 | which one is supposedly forced to commit through fear of
882 15 | prayer, reading His word and forcing oneself~to virtue. These
883 13 | is the lower part of the forehead~and upper part of the cheeks
884 10 | not infrequently try to foretell the future.~The Holy Fathers
885 17 | as he listens to Christ foretelling His~Dread Judgement and
886 18 | or extreme negligence~and forgetfulness — then the priest’s exhortations
887 13 | reason why young people are forgetting the way to God’s Church
888 12 | person is distinguished by a~forgiving nature and does not seek
889 18 | indifferent and dismal attitude is formed in a layman’s soul because
890 18 | explain to him that these formidable words of Christ refer not
891 16 | Christian must keep himself from forming, at every temptation, a
892 13 | possible warnings and advice to fornicators is, of course, very wide,~
893 D | Church?~Have you consulted fortune-tellers? Have you taken part in
894 | Forty
895 12 | say when a Christian puts forward such ideas? Exactly the
896 C | Archbishop Tikhon of San Francisco. Based on a longer version~
897 14 | comes to you and tells you frankly that he was dismissed and
898 13 | that marriage completely frees people from this struggle.
899 21 | Without lies and slander the~French Revolution of the 18th century
900 13 | temptations. They have a fresh appearance, youthful face,~
901 4 | came to confession not on Friday, but earlier, will tell
902 19 | speech and also that he is frightened by his sins, then tell him
903 10 | curse the Khlyst errors, in front of the Cross and~Gospels.
904 21 | could~make it capable of fruitfully serving Him and your neighbours.
905 11 | warfare, like a fire without fuel. Stephan Yavorskyxiii was,
906 3 | spiritual children into the fullness of the stature of Christ.~ ~
907 7 | be present in us, if we fumble to find it in ourselves,
908 Intro| Metropolitan of Kiev and Galich,~and after the revolution,
909 22 | keepers of brothels or illicit gambling dens. Parishioners who have~
910 11 | cutting down weeds in a~garden instead of digging them
911 21 | palpitates, his breath comes in gasps, he has spasms and so on,
912 1 | Russia, my~students always gathered with particular interest
913 D | theater, movies or some gathering where there is no mention~
914 14 | imagine themselves to be generals,~ministers, famous intellectuals
915 17 | you from doing an act of~generosity by threatening you with
916 10 | Jesus~Prayer is the only genuine form of monastic activity.~
917 12 | intelligently can always see who is~genuinely working for the sake of
918 6 | He taught us. No kind of geography or ethnography or zoology
919 Intro| writes Protopresbyter George Grabbe (in~The Church and
920 5 | Metropolitan Jonah, Exarch of Georgia, which many spiritual~fathers
921 7 | stop feeling your pain. One German philosopher, suffering torments~
922 13 | believers. Although these ghastly crimes horrified the whole~
923 19 | much against God, and I am glad to see that you~are filled
924 17 | also? Is not your heart gladdened with a~sweet hope when you
925 2 | compassion for people, exultant~glorification of the Savior, and hence
926 17 | the beauty of Thy house; glorify them with Thy divine power.”
927 12 | any man should make his glorying void (1 Cor. 9:15).~But
928 12 | lustful become jealous, the gluttonous become over-critical and~
929 4(11)| Church —~“straining at a gnat but swallowing a camel,”
930 15 | when grief and sadness are gnawing~at my soul and I cannot
931 10 | intermediaries with the Godhead or even~with the gods.~The
932 3 | ways to the lawless~and the Godless shall return to Thee.” You
933 13 | into shamelessness and godlessness, and will stop coming to
934 6 | him.~You know, in one of Gogol’s fantasies, the soul of
935 11 | longsuffering, gentleness,~goodness, faith, meekness, temperance” (
936 17 | our writers: Ostrovsky, Gorbunov and others. A businessman~
937 10 | in front of the Cross and~Gospels. This was the only means
938 17 | its victims. “What? Have I got to give away everything
939 9 | and previously he had not gotten round to this. He lived
940 16 | development of parliamentary government and political parties and
941 Intro| writes Protopresbyter George Grabbe (in~The Church and Her Teaching
942 11 | intensity of~one’s virtuous and grace-filled state, which will be extinguished
943 3 | with clearer faith~in the grace-given strength of God, and thus
944 3 | feel the most heartfelt gratitude~and love towards the latter,
945 4(8) | Eternal Mysteries Beyond the Grave,”~Jordanville, 1968, pp.
946 21 | fatherland. And then, how greatly a person is valued if he
947 Intro| be compared only~with St. Gregory the Great’s Pastoral Rule,”
948 13 | be almost dead, as if a grey~mask were covering the face
949 Intro| the exile Church and which grieved~Metropolitan Anthony very
950 19 | insolent son or daughter grieves his~loving parents with
951 13 | is true that brides and grooms of this~sort have little
952 13 | the confessional if he has grounds to suspect him of~concealment,
953 13 | this totally~uninhibited group of youth. In student society
954 4(3) | Pedalion”) contains the~canons grouped according to the councils
955 9 | corrupt comradeship, and it grows~ever deeper and deeper into
956 18 | awaken a deep feeling of guiltiness~in the penitent, and a firm
957 13 | Trebnik that the sin which is habitual among children and adolescents,
958 11 | meet a person with whom you~habitually become irritated. Then struggle
959 10 | God.”~9 Svyatogorets, or “Hagiorite” means “an inhabitant of
960 12 | contemporaries, educated and half-educated and, of late, even with
961 10 | artificial paradise’ of hallucinations, mystical flights and~hypersensitivity” (
962 17 | man through money came to hang himself. Flee the~insatiable
963 19 | him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and~that
964 19 | When the person confessing hangs down his head, and you hear
965 4(4) | Service Book” translated by I. Hapgood. Since, however, it docs
966 16 | You~would probably not harbour such feelings if this person
967 20 | drunkenness, or demonic pride, or hard-healed cruelty, or love of possessions,
968 17 | Such are lovers of money — hard-hearted~misers and covetous of material
969 3 | more you lament over your hard-heartedness, the nearer is God’s grace
970 8 | the cross, Zaccheus, the harlot and so on), as by showing
971 11 | at home, cannot live in harmony with her~husband or other
972 17 | short, been heartless and harsh.~How can this be combined
973 17 | acted so dishonestly and harshly. Does this mean that his
974 20 | stop and think whether it hasn’t done something to deserve~
975 11 | pride but, if it is bitter, hasten even~more to make use of
976 11 | peaceful with those who hated~peace.” Preserve your soul
977 19 | Scriptures~ ~say that ‘Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer’ (
978 12 | confess to you~that they are haunted by thoughts of vainglory
979 4 | concluding instruction under~the heading “How Spiritual Fathers Should
980 4 | sermon the words under the headings “He says to him…” and “Pay
981 10 | steps on to it and falls headlong into the abyss, and is~dashed
982 1 | times more that you will heal, and not kill, the immortal~
983 15 | heartfelt sympathy, sometimes heals Christians of this spiritual~ ~
984 13 | sin and will destroy their~health. Begin by asking them whether
985 13 | strong, will desert even the healthiest and youngest~men when they
986 18 | zeal~when the passengers heap ridicule on them, for they
987 10 | every possible~kind of gift heaped upon him as before. Everyone
988 15 | depends entirely on~how much heartening sympathy he himself feels
989 17 | poverty~— in short, been heartless and harsh.~How can this
990 5 | crosses are incomparably~heavier.” Then the monk understood
991 13 | blush,~ ~start breathing heavily and sometimes burst into
992 13 | sometimes feel a certain heaviness in the head, but all this
993 1 | has fallen from its proper~height? Of course it is us, the
994 17 | lack I yet?” Perhaps a rich heir can “keep all these things” (
995 20 | there~is plenty of room in Hell and God’s Judgement will
996 19 | religion in general are the helpers and servants of the devil.
997 7 | situation where they are helpless. Many a~faithful and prayerful
998 2 | looks upon you as God’s~herald, as a prophet, and he supplements
999 6 | Lord drive epilepsy~into a herd of pigs? Did He not distinguish
1000 1 | Lutheran and Stundistii heresies. Of course, these blasphemous