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1502 6 | requirement of civil~law for officers and civil servants, or the
1503 17 | neither mollified with ointment” (Is. 1:6). Of course, it
1504 11 | of prayer, they have to omit from the~Lord’s Prayer the
1505 21 | when we are set upon by an~onslaught of malicious hatred, or
1506 15 | in the first place, of opening~the eyes of priests themselves
1507 18 | fulfilling his task if he opens the~penitent’s eyes to those
1508 14 | has to submit to a severe~operation, even amputation of arms
1509 D | had recourse to unlawful operations (abortions), which is also
1510 15 | depression — i.e. exhaustion or oppressing worries. Of course, the~
1511 1 | giving us Fr. Amvrossy of~Optinai and Fr. John of Kronstadt
1512 12 | and monks refuse to be ordained to the priesthood. What,
1513 13 | attentively. When the male organism matures,~a feeling of self-satisfaction
1514 3 | try in good time also to organize the~outward arrangements
1515 18 | confessions have not been organized, so the spiritual~father
1516 Intro| 1936) is best known as the organizer and first primate of~the
1517 10 | whole parish~or diocese is oriented entirely towards it. This
1518 14 | woes and social disasters originate from wine and drunkenness.~
1519 12 | which churches, schools, orphanages and hospitals are built,
1520 14 | a complete mortification ot his passion. He promised
1521 8 | hopeless situation. “Despair” (“otchayanie”) implies a~more total abandonment
1522 11 | Sins appear as~ ~inevitable outgrowths from their roots, the passions
1523 20 | lady-friends, for theaters and outings? You should realize that
1524 6 | open up for him a truthful outlook on~himself. This is what
1525 19 | him either of some~crude outrage or insult against his parents
1526 19 | disobedience,~laziness, deception, outrages against their parents, seeking
1527 12 | jealous, the gluttonous become over-critical and~irritable, and so on.
1528 C | love of sensual pleasure~over-eating~drunkenness~attachment to
1529 13 | they are to God that they overcame this~temptation in good
1530 11 | enslaved, again and again overcomes you in the form of angry
1531 12 | sins with the passion of overeating and~drunkenness; if it is
1532 16 | by the priest,~to being overpowered by temptations to envy.
1533 14 | deeply that it completely overpowers man’s will.~We have said
1534 12 | of Napoleon and Wilhelm~overtakes you. And let every Christian
1535 13 | from the faith. Perhaps its owner will not pray from it every
1536 17 | the same~applies to the owners of small estates and even
1537 9 | rendering of the Russian “ozlobleny.” It implies a general feeling
1538 5 | are collected: Anthony,~Pachomius, Isaiah and so on. One of
1539 18 | after year. In~ancient times pagans wishing to become Christians
1540 5 | spiritual perfection with a less painful cross?” An Angel~appeared
1541 1 | spirit. The laity is more painfully aware of this, but on whom
1542 21 | spiritual~exaltation; his heart palpitates, his breath comes in gasps,
1543 10 | are themselves atheists or pantheists, they also give~themselves
1544 21 | six words on a piece of paper: “I will~endure for Jesus
1545 5 | expounds the rules of piety in parables, as did the Savior,~or in
1546 10 | to enter the ‘artificial paradise’ of hallucinations, mystical
1547 4 | attention also to~this…” (three paragraphs), which are in the chapter “
1548 A | and so shalt thou have pardon from our~Lord Jesus Christ.
1549 A | of sins, and~deliverance, pardoning his (her) every transgression,
1550 21 | death for the soul and~the parent of all vices, and in spiritual
1551 16 | With the development of parliamentary government and political
1552 C | father, and bless me to partake~of the Mysteries of Christ.
1553 6 | for a priest to overcome partial unbelief, or weak faith,
1554 16 | government and political parties and the~corresponding fall
1555 6 | spoken by Christ in His parting talk with His disciples~
1556 17 | times in business or doing a partner~a bad turn, or refusing
1557 17 | Church, cast his business partners into poverty~— in short,
1558 13 | and watch the pretty~girls pass by in the street this evening,”
1559 18 | with special zeal~when the passengers heap ridicule on them, for
1560 19 | family, where only a~strong paternal hand and the threat of being
1561 21 | person talking to a king pays close attention to every
1562 11 | says in the Psalm: ‘I was peaceful with those who hated~peace.”
1563 11 | dispositions. Of these, surely only peacemaking can be called a~deed, but
1564 4 | are very tenacious and the peasant is~bound in his way of life
1565 20 | of the people — about the peasants~immersed in superstition;
1566 4(3) | the English “Rudder” (“Pedalion”) contains the~canons grouped
1567 2 | by a single stroke of his pen on a bank~cheque, or for
1568 11 | only that anger did not penetrate into your heart and rule
1569 13 | not at all inclined to be penetrated with awareness of~his guilt
1570 21 | every word~the king says and penetrates into its meaning, concentrates
1571 19 | and you hear the voice~of penitence in his speech and also that
1572 17 | advise him not~only to throw pennies to beggars and cadgers,
1573 5 | Bible, concurrently from 1)~Pentateuch and Kings, 2) from the Prophets
1574 21 | other people, you will soon perceive how you have proved to be
1575 13 | told me that seventy-five percent of all children have committed
1576 2 | one soul from the path of perdition into the way of salvation.
1577 17 | to devote their lives to perfecting~themselves spiritually and
1578 D | dirty jokes, movies, public performances, immodest dress, etc.~Have
1579 B | another, Similarly, if he performs some other virtuous deed~
1580 10 | this was~printed in the periodical “Light of Petchersk” in
1581 11 | Leonty of Rostov, Stephan of Perm and~others. This was the
1582 12 | s or spiritual father’s permission to stop their useful service
1583 17 | become a~beggar?” asks the perplexed sinner. “No, the time for
1584 8 | for former sins, or other perplexing events.~Healing spiritual
1585 4(1) | problem is not so acute but it persists to some extent, especially
1586 Intro| today. Nevertheless, the perspicacious reader will easily be~able
1587 10 | sketched dreams and exotic or perverse emotions.~Their strong anti-social
1588 10 | the periodical “Light of Petchersk” in the summer of 1918).
1589 12 | the condemnation of the Pharisees (in the~twenty-third chapter
1590 12 | to stop their social~and philanthropic activities.~This, of course,
1591 Intro| Among these is Metropolitan~Philaret, the present primate of
1592 6 | immorality by naming books and philosophers.~“Thus you have admitted
1593 21 | to write six words on a piece of paper: “I will~endure
1594 6 | epilepsy~into a herd of pigs? Did He not distinguish
1595 7 | feelings in the same way: pinch your hand until it~hurts
1596 1 | revolution of 1905, in several~places the clergy resolved “to
1597 10 | enlightened society.” This plague, under various names, began
1598 6 | on a completely different plane from the usual one; usually
1599 13 | You put on a~ ~“mustard plaster”xxii and it seems to be
1600 5 | Confession” by Archbishop Platon of Kostroma, written sixty
1601 D | attention to~yourself, to play the leading part, to receive
1602 15 | sinful feeling is already playing a part,~insubmission to
1603 10 | hero of one of Ostrovsky’s plays (“There Is Enough~Simplicity
1604 20 | human being, and not just a plaything of sinful~passions, then
1605 5 | by the cassock with~the plea: “Batiushka, teach me not
1606 21 | without this we do what~pleases them. We should consider
1607 13 | giving himself up to foul and pleasure-loving fantasies and seeking out~
1608 16 | is nourished by malicious~plotting on the part of the envious
1609 Intro| been blessed for the task (pneumatikoi) have this right.~“Metropolitan
1610 10 | monk and claimed to~be God. Podolia and Bessarabia declared
1611 10 | they~were creating precious poems full of neologisms, sensuous
1612 13 | should do so, it~can then be pointed out how impossible it is
1613 15 | and so causing themselves~pointless suffering. In such a state
1614 13 | self-centered prosperity poisoned by debauchery.xxiii~A spiritual
1615 22 | Uniates, descendants of Polish Uniates, and also of the
1616 4 | the Annunciation and on Polyeleos days6 when the Presanctified
1617 9 | Behold those who seem to be poorer than you, and~behold those
1618 12 | himself or, as they say, “popularity”:~which writer is writing
1619 1 | can happen. In~some very populous dioceses in the Eastern
1620 8 | If the priest~directly poses a question about such a
1621 18 | act, but still does not positively strive towards God~and virtue.~
1622 20 | saints is weak;~you cannot possibly imagine how God hears our
1623 18 | God will not grow if they postpone their conversion. On~the
1624 18 | like the Apostle Peter, who poured out tears of repentance~
1625 2 | exhortations is just the same as pouring water into a sieve.” I do
1626 4(8) | Grave,”~Jordanville, 1968, pp. 62-63.~
1627 D | you engaged in unnatural practices (bestiality, transvestism,
1628 19 | society all this~is considered praiseworthy — people openly make fun
1629 20 | will understand that if you~prayed every day using the Church’
1630 4(11)| allowed to retain their old (pre-Nikonian) ritual. In the opinion
1631 4(1) | In pre-revolutionary Russia most lay-people received
1632 10 | century ideal of realism, preached “art for art’s sake”; “deliberately
1633 13 | object and refer to their~ ~precarious financial position, point
1634 16 | not on the truth. Such a precaution should be~the first step
1635 4 | confessions.~Each time you must precede confession with a detailed
1636 10 | falling over this spiritual precipice, as soon as he notices even
1637 21 | their salvation and struggle preeminently in prayer and~fasting. They
1638 D | without~good reason?~Do you prefer religious books and in fact
1639 5 | not teach them to do this, preferring to be not a servant of the
1640 13 | oneself, when one’s wife is pregnant or ill, or when one is temporarily~
1641 13 | or extremely worried or preoccupied by something?~Thus it is
1642 13 | sinful deed at once, without preparatory, intermediate~steps.~“If
1643 18 | that they go to Church and prepare for Communion~ ~by prayer
1644 14 | are~already grown men — preposterous though such a method of
1645 2 | laying on~of hands of the presbytery” (1 Tim. 4:4). Your words
1646 14 | slightly drunk in their presence, must not boast of~drunkenness
1647 13 | be no motive left for the preservation of~ ~their union once their
1648 21 | short exhortation about preserving the soul from temptations.
1649 20 | theories of the artisans of the press, beginning with those~with
1650 17 | for the healing of more pressing spiritual sicknesses, in
1651 21 | stops being impatient and presumptuous. Also~the priest should
1652 1 | But, putting aside all pretence at a complete exposition
1653 16 | see~that the deceit and pretense of which he is guilty are
1654 13 | I’ll go and watch the pretty~girls pass by in the street
1655 Intro| pseudo-Orthodox tendencies that are~prevalent in the ecclesiastical world
1656 6 | faith and your conscience~prevented you, and you began to hate
1657 17 | passion, and then, when it prevents you from doing an act of~
1658 13 | of conscience at whatever price in terms of privations.~
1659 5 | Synaxarion.~I am pointing out the primary importance of the Synaxarion
1660 5 | However, this is important principally for the priest.s general
1661 13 | with one’s convictions. A prisoner can be starved to death
1662 21 | either visiting the sick, or prisons, or sewing things for the
1663 13 | whatever price in terms of privations.~By explaining these truths
1664 19 | children, but~then in all probability it will be too late to wipe
1665 4(1) | parishes are~not so large, this problem is not so acute but it persists
1666 15 | little about “despondency proceeding from self-imposed and excessive
1667 2 | of anything earthly; it proceeds from above, from Heaven,
1668 22 | heresy, or are now in the process of converting, then they~
1669 14 | where it is impossible~to procure vodka, and condemn themselves
1670 19 | official and especially every professor should demand freedom~upon
1671 13 | all cases of this sort the profligate youth or girl who has~gone
1672 2 | idea that he can have a profound influence on the souls of
1673 9 | granted visions from God, wept profusely, then how can we sinners
1674 10 | night, for the initiated, progressed from readings and~hymns
1675 11 | Commandments of the Old Testament prohibit sinful deeds, but the Beatitudes
1676 21 | labour in general, and a prolonged period of inactivity will
1677 6 | Why? Was one of~Christ’s promises not to be fulfilled? “If
1678 10 | their apparent sanctity and~promising them the power of working
1679 18 | illness; this decision~being prompted by the devil who deluded
1680 16 | born. “If you subdue the promptings of ambition in yourself,~
1681 21 | revolutionaries. Many of them do not pronounce the word “and” as often
1682 10 | explain the failure of the prophecy by their own lack of~understanding.
1683 2 | which was given thee by prophesy; with the laying on~of hands
1684 14 | a little tipsy. A large proportion of all family~tragedies,
1685 6 | becomes clear that they only propped up his~unbelief, which came
1686 21 | proved to be an~unworthy proprietor of your own soul, which
1687 10 | meanings, while their ethereal prose sketched dreams and exotic
1688 4(9) | day Orthodox Christians prostrate before each other in church
1689 13 | night God will unfailingly protect you, if you said the prayer~
1690 19 | that is left, which still protects the home from destruction.
1691 Intro| s Pastoral Rule,” writes Protopresbyter George Grabbe (in~The Church
1692 21 | soon perceive how you have proved to be an~unworthy proprietor
1693 17 | curing them: that would~provide enough material to fill
1694 10 | especially because not~one people provides such fertile soil for the
1695 14 | which, despite being in the~provinces, is no worse than the one
1696 11 | and even earlier, of the~Psalmist — “Blessed are the meek,
1697 Intro| be infected by the many pseudo-Orthodox tendencies that are~prevalent
1698 6 | gradual refutation of all the pseudo-scientific arguments against the existence
1699 10 | Mount Athos.” This was the~pseudonym of a Russian spiritual writer
1700 17 | acting like~Matthew the publican and the sons of Zebedee —
1701 21 | completion, nor would the Pugachev rebellion in Russia, nor
1702 4 | advance and then appear~punctually at the appointed days and
1703 12 | offended, and also to bear punishments at school unmurmuringly.~ ~
1704 12 | Remember Nebuchadnezzar’s~punishmentxvii and humble yourself before
1705 4(11)| ritual was in some points purer than that of the Orthodox
1706 19 | committed this~sin? Have you purposely sowed the seeds of doubt
1707 13 | envy, but they are still pursued by temptations of the flesh,
1708 18 | classics, in the persons of Pushkin, Turgenev and Leo Tolstoy,
1709 17 | wounds, and bruises, and putrefying sores: they have not~been
1710 6 | becomes angry and starts quarreling, however gentle you are,
1711 11 | she (or he)~is constantly quarrelling with the people at home,
1712 14 | lost consciousness, become quarrelsome, or ill.~Although it is
1713 2 | writes the Apostle.~Three quarters or, perhaps, nine tenths
1714 17 | sinful state must first be questioned~about the obviously sinful
1715 12 | passion is in a person, the quicker and more fiercely~it turns
1716 21 | souls become coarsened more quickly and so not~feel any pangs
1717 2 | the human spirit.” I have quoted these words of this~Church
1718 15 | words in the Scriptures, “Rachel weeping for her children,
1719 3 | accessible is your soul to radiant illumination. A thought
1720 10 | destroyed even by~the most radical political upheavals. This
1721 15 | subsiding after a~storm. The sea rages and roars as it is tossed
1722 19 | starvation, going about in ragged clothes, are deprived of
1723 5 | Fr. John of~Kronstadt in railway stations, in church, in
1724 10 | who had attained to the rank of archimandrite during
1725 3 | and reverent pastor~will rapidly spread, not only throughout
1726 22 | However, murderers,~robbers, rapists, abortionists as well as
1727 10 | spreading.~In high society Rasputin gave himself out as Christ,
1728 11 | your lead; and the first rays of mutual~friendship shining
1729 6 | truths of faith, or at least re-examine his convictions, then of
1730 4 | all this should really be re-read to each person~who comes,
1731 4(11)| Old Believers who have re-united with the Orthodox Church
1732 5 | really impossible for me to reach the~Heavenly Kingdom and
1733 10 | Moscow and on the lower reaches of the Volga appeared the~
1734 4 | t take any notice.” I am ready to~believe you, dear brother:
1735 17 | lovers of money who do not realise their sinful state must
1736 10 | nineteenth~century ideal of realism, preached “art for art’s
1737 21 | like Cain. Even before he realizes what a terrible thing he
1738 15 | phenomenon relating to the realms of the soul and of~the body.
1739 18 | in their youth shall be~reaped by the sickle of death,
1740 20 | three weeks running with no~reasonable excuse, such as illness,
1741 9 | doubts of a philosopher or reasoner, but~it is certainly no
1742 9 | contrition of~heart. Let no one reassure himself that he is honourable
1743 21 | nor would the Pugachev rebellion in Russia, nor the contemporary (
1744 13 | those of youth should be recalled here, as all this can also
1745 8 | the truths of God (such as recalling the saving~of the Wise Robber
1746 A | standeth here invisibly, and receiveth thy confession:~wherefore,
1747 20 | people, but only the secret recesses of his own soul, and so
1748 D | of leading~you to commit reckless acts, even killing.~
1749 22 | prostrations, we have to reckon with the weakness and laziness~
1750 12 | ensure that the penitent recognizes as sinful~every word and
1751 D | to do in return for the recompense you~received?~Have you excessively
1752 A | voluntary or involuntary.~Reconcile and unite him (her) unto
1753 12 | patristic book). “I saw,” recounts an elder, “in a monastery
1754 B | commune, but if you then recover you must continue with the
1755 Intro| and bishop. After being rector of the Moscow and Kazan~
1756 18 | part which is printed in red ink, nor even the part~printed
1757 2 | a co-participant in the redemptive feat of Christ, bearing
1758 21 | subsequently by his conscience redoubled in strength, and demanding~
1759 22 | strictness of penances has~to be reduced many times. But it is regrettable
1760 10 | These can be illustrated by referring to~the life of “Svyatogorets”
1761 2 | in itself the traces or reflection of the countless spiritual
1762 14 | gives concrete proof of his reform. When there is repentance
1763 13 | but depraved fantasies and refusal to be~reconciled with some
1764 6 | as the fruit of a~gradual refutation of all the pseudo-scientific
1765 1 | will never be~reconciled to regarding a priest in any other light
1766 22 | reduced many times. But it is regrettable that spiritual fathers no
1767 19 | person about going to church~regularly or attention to prayer if
1768 17 | Or, it may inspire one to~reinterpret all the words of our faith
1769 19 | sensual enjoyment, theft,~rejecting the fear of God, leaving
1770 15 | especially sinful when it rejects God’s consolation. When
1771 13 | mentally he says to himself, “Rejoice, O~young man, in thy youth, . . .
1772 5 | and find articles which~relate to human weaknesses and
1773 14 | the vice of drinking is related not only to~sexual depravity,
1774 11 | allows oneself to~commit relatively few sinful acts: Christian
1775 Intro| ago it is still remarkably relevant to modern life, although
1776 Intro| Orthodoxy from all other religions — the very~essence of Orthodoxy (
1777 19 | are you not given up to remembrance of wrongs,~even if it is
1778 17 | robbers and revolutionaries, reminding them of the tenth commandment
1779 6 | desire to ask God for the remission of your sin, your renunciation
1780 B | that had previously been~remitted from his penance.~How Spiritual
1781 Intro| confessor has to elicit some remnant of~conscience in someone
1782 9 | to deception, to total removal of their life from God’s
1783 11 | is not always possible to remove the~spirit of anger and
1784 22 | of~life, which are so far removed from God’s commandments,
1785 6 | have read your Tolstoy and Renan and not lost their faith,
1786 6 | he names Tolstoyviii or Renanix or~other writers as being
1787 9 | worthy of~2 “Embittered” is a rendering of the Russian “ozlobleny.”
1788 3 | shaken even before that. Renewed in~spirit he returns to
1789 18 | martyrs those Christians who renounced the faith of Christ and
1790 12 | who was still young,~but renowned for his struggles and for
1791 3 | anything more.” But you must rep1y to the thought, “Suppose~
1792 14 | away half his property and repay fourfold~ ~those he had
1793 20 | from the Church and, if he~repented, was received back as one
1794 A | bountiful and longsuffering,~who repentest of our evil deeds, and desirest
1795 2 | compassion towards those repenting, and then, as St. Tikhon
1796 15 | without any cause. If the replies are discouraging, then he~
1797 2 | priest will tell you in reply to~the idea that he can
1798 6 | by the Apostles which are reported in the hook of Acts,~hut
1799 D | church or at home for the repose of their~souls?~Have you
1800 10 | 5~i.e., after St. John reposed.~6 Imenobozhnichestvo: Deification
1801 17 | blind,~stormy outbursts, but represent a calm, consciously held
1802 10 | monastic activity.~7 Decadents: Representatives of a literary movement that
1803 C | disobedience~grumbling~self-will~reproaching others~evil speech~lying~
1804 13 | temptations and does not reproduce around itself those~conditions
1805 3 | If you yourself do not repulse His help, He will not give
1806 2 | You are afraid of being repulsed by the people you try to
1807 D | curiosity?~When the Church requests it, do you willingly make
1808 6 | that he came because of the requirement of civil~law for officers
1809 5 | then subsequently you will reread it at your own desire and~
1810 13 | and forever. In order to rescue oneself from an already
1811 18 | altogether inaccessible to resolute repentance.~The most undesirable
1812 1 | course, these blasphemous resolutions were not an~expression of
1813 16 | especially if the tempted person~resolves unfailingly to verify dispassionately
1814 21 | only people thought, before~resolving on committing a sin, what
1815 17 | passion with an aura of respectability, which not in frequently
1816 21 | meaning, concentrates and is respectful, then it~follows that someone
1817 3 | grant that you manage to respond to all these entreaties
1818 4 | take upon~ ~themselves the responsibility before God of admitting
1819 6 | man by false accusation,~I restore him fourfold’’ (Lk. 19:8).~
1820 18 | spiritual~father often has to restrict himself either to listening
1821 13 | wants to live without any restriction; mentally he says to himself, “
1822 19 | are~insolent to them; as a result of this, many become embittered
1823 22 | Russian dioceses which have retained to some extent the Old~Believer
1824 9 | the last years of his life retired to a monastery in great
1825 18 | Chrismationxxxvii until retirement or terminal illness; this
1826 19 | letter — in a word, they have returned to the state of~savages.
1827 2 | nothing in comparison with returning even~one soul from the path
1828 18 | awakening is attained by revealing to~the sinner his dominating
1829 2 | receives each time a special revelation from God which by-passes
1830 20 | believe those who say, ‘I revere God in my heart, and He
1831 4 | must unfailingly~read or reverently listen to the entire rule
1832 3 | when zealous pastors are reviled, driven out and~killed?”
1833 19 | death sentence for one who reviles his parents is confirmed
1834 D | grumbling at God or even reviling Him?~Have you sworn an oath
1835 6 | Which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly” (Mt.~6:17-18); “
1836 18 | when the passengers heap ridicule on them, for they consider
1837 15 | smaller,~then there are only ripples left. A little later the
1838 3 | irritability and tiredness rise up in your soul and~begin
1839 16 | truly be said about their rivals. If they~follow this path,
1840 15 | storm. The sea rages and roars as it is tossed about by
1841 21 | or his employer, if he~is robbing him. He seeks either solitude
1842 11 | correct when he wrote in his Rock of Faith that faith, contrary
1843 4 | but it came to us from~the Roman Catholics. Of course, now
1844 10 | summit of a mountain or~roof of a church and shows them
1845 15 | water-line, and you do not start rowing until you have cast off.
1846 10 | included Merezhkovsky, Sologub, Rozhanov, Bely and others.~ ~does
1847 4(3) | translation — the English “Rudder” (“Pedalion”) contains the~
1848 19 | with malicious words or rude disobedience, it is like
1849 17 | passion. You will~not be ruined by benevolence, but meanness
1850 17 | without deceiving people or ruining your~rival you cannot even
1851 14 | impress on drunkards the ruinous consequences of~drinking,
1852 10 | can almost be called the ruling trend of~thought in contemporary
1853 D | Do you like to hear bad rumours about someone and then readily
1854 20 | from church for three weeks running with no~reasonable excuse,
1855 1 | Sinful, sinful” and then rush to get out of church?”~Admittedly
1856 2 | all those who receive the~sacrament of confession from you.
1857 10 | Koloskov in Moscow and Samara, and so on. The~Ukraine
1858 C | late Archbishop Tikhon of San Francisco. Based on a longer
1859 13 | offered repentance and been sanctified by the mysteries, is praying
1860 17 | who have given to her: “Sanctify those who~love the beauty
1861 4 | Communion unfailingly on a Saturday.~Read to them from the Lenten
1862 19 | returned to the state of~savages. How, through what struggle
1863 3 | the contrite in heart and saves the~humble in spirit” (Ps.
1864 8 | God (such as recalling the saving~of the Wise Robber on the
1865 5 | collections of the “memorable~sayings about the holy fathers,”
1866 D | your faith in God shaken by scepticism or doubt?~Do you question
1867 D | been enticed by heresy or schism; have you tempted someone
1868 Intro| the~chief cause of the sad schisms which divided the exile
1869 10 | A certain female writer, Schmidt, all but imagined the~latter
1870 5 | advice is somewhat formal and scholastic. More practical are the
1871 Intro| the influence of western~scholasticism and stressed the need to
1872 12 | offerings on which churches, schools, orphanages and hospitals
1873 9 | stupefaction of your con-~science, in the power of which you
1874 13 | and not just in order to~scold or humiliate him, then he
1875 C | talk~condemnation of others~scorn~insubordination~pride~envy~
1876 13 | dishonourable, and grow up to be scoundrels and~villains. The terrible
1877 Intro| in the original text. The scriptural references that were in
1878 6 | any such miracle in Holy~Scripture, but there is in the life
1879 2 | writings, for they set a seal with great precision on~
1880 D | Have you taken part in seances?~Have you forgotten about
1881 21 | foul deeds are~unfailingly seasoned with lies and slanders.
1882 18 | and impartial judgement seat;” and 5), lastly, a pamphlet
1883 17 | are we~to say about such secondary sins when “From the sole
1884 1 | upon confession with such secrecy, such~trembling and such
1885 2 | Him. If you are the active secretary of~a diocesan council, the
1886 19 | to remembering wrongs. In secular or worldly society all this~
1887 | seemed
1888 | seeming
1889 13 | adolescent, boy or girl, sees that you are speaking with
1890 6 | secret: and thy Father Which seeth in secret shall reward thee
1891 D | food and drink, clothes, self-adornment, the urge to devote attention
1892 13 | is more valuable than a self-centered prosperity poisoned by debauchery.
1893 11 | asceticism, selfopposition~and self-compulsion: otherwise he will undergo
1894 13 | like-minded youth, speaking self-confidently and authoritatively, has~
1895 17 | people with a strong will and self-control —~characteristics required
1896 14 | fully confident~of their self-correction only if they have stopped
1897 10 | the ardour both~of these self-deluded people and also of those
1898 21 | person, and falls into proud self-delusion. While they forbid people
1899 4 | standing before you of the self-evident truth, that, even if a priest
1900 12 | struggle with every kind of self-exultation, remembering his sins~and
1901 19 | dislodge a sinner from such a self-satisfied position by using the basic
1902 13 | people, these instruments of self-stupefaction are~yet another reason why
1903 10 | soil for the activity of self-styled seers and prophets as~4
1904 14 | and kindness, as he had a self-willed and unsubmissive soul.~In
1905 17 | cause to suspect him of selfinterest~and thus deprive all his
1906 19 | always by the spirit of selfjustification.~This demonic spirit leads
1907 11 | spiritual warfare or asceticism, selfopposition~and self-compulsion: otherwise
1908 1 | before all else, on our own selves. Of what should this task~
1909 10 | and Bessarabia declared a semi-literate and drunken Moldavian~hieromonk,
1910 2 | priests these worldly or~semi-worldly matters take up much more,
1911 4 | respected parishioners or seminarians to take turns reading either~
1912 2 | the administration of a~seminary, all these respected labors
1913 21 | mistaking a purely physical sensation for spiritual~exaltation;
1914 2 | the soul and for~living sensibly lies in cutting oneself
1915 19 | of~contemporary people is sensitive to them — i.e., first ask
1916 10 | poems full of neologisms, sensuous alliterations, and cryptic~
1917 19 | Ex. 21:16).~This death sentence for one who reviles his
1918 17 | out that no official or sentry or judge is justified in
1919 13 | lust, or if the Christian separates himself completely from
1920 12 | that his son had married a serf girl, and thus offended
1921 Intro| refusing to accept Metropolitan Sergei’s declaration of loyalty
1922 6 | all, one must ask if they seriously and~sincerely want to talk
1923 20 | while at the same time setting aside many hours for conversations
1924 4 | Ecumenical Councils and on the seventy–fifth~chapter of Matthew
1925 13 | Petersburg told me that seventy-five percent of all children
1926 7 | apparent doubts, which often severely oppress~inexperienced Christians
1927 21 | the sick, or prisons, or sewing things for the poor or for
1928 21 | from you like a morning shadow. It is not for nothing that
1929 2 | results as giving a moral shaking to several of my neighbors,
1930 13 | or, on the~contrary, into shamelessness and godlessness, and will
1931 19 | it is like thrusting a sharp~knife into their breasts.
1932 3 | the blood of the Lord was shed “for many,” and did not
1933 19 | person and not just a stupid sheep, another member of the flock,
1934 13 | thrown out of all homes and shelters for the poor. “Now, while
1935 11 | rays of mutual~friendship shining forth will strike the soul
1936 18 | unbelievers” (e.g. on the decks of ships). They pray with special
1937 11 | otherwise he will undergo a “shipwreck of faith,”xiv as~the Apostle
1938 8 | anything, and you will not shock your brother the priest
1939 7 | at any~theological book shop and is not expensive; it
1940 19 | feeling of pleasure at other’s shortcomings always develops together~
1941 22 | this excommunication can be shortened as much as two or three
1942 B | excluded from Communion for a shorter time. But if he does~not
1943 4 | taken a heavy weight off my shoulders, and taught me how to get
1944 10 | to preach a new~faith. In Siberia Johannism took on an especially
1945 18 | youth shall be~reaped by the sickle of death, as Ammon, the
1946 13 | defend themselves on all sides from the stirrings of conscience.
1947 2 | as pouring water into a sieve.” I do not~agree with you,
1948 13 | of thine heart and in the sight of thine~eyes.” But the
1949 19 | pleasures that are far more~significant than money or things — his
1950 10 | especially the revolution, have significantly cooled the ardour both~of
1951 6 | before His Ascension: “These signs~shall follow them that believe . . .” (
1952 13 | other than the desire to silence the voice of their conscience,
1953 10 | plays (“There Is Enough~Simplicity to Deal with Every Wise
1954 5 | St. John, abbot of~Mount Sinai, in which there is a special
1955 18 | frivolous~soul out of its sinfully carefree state, and this
1956 18 | It is impossible to live~sinlessly. I have sinned and, of course,
1957 18 | demons, for as they are~sinning voluntarily, they shall
1958 11 | enemies. Jesus the son of Sirach says, “The very action of
1959 14 | 14. Drunkenness.~The sister of debauchery is drunkenness,
1960 11 | serious disease, pride. Sit down and~think over your
1961 1 | the~piously disposed crowd sitting at their feet and my impatient
1962 5 | Platon of Kostroma, written sixty years ago,~hut this advice
1963 10 | while their ethereal prose sketched dreams and exotic or perverse
1964 1 | father, in order to acquire skill, must~work before all else
1965 13 | to be burning your whole skin, but since you know that~
1966 19 | awaits those who sin by slandering their neighbour, either
1967 21 | unfailingly seasoned with lies and slanders. It is not for nothing that
1968 13 | confession. These “lambs for the slaughter” will not come to confession
1969 14 | his intention to~become a slave instead of a master. Secondly,
1970 3 | will not give you over into slavery to~your former passions.
1971 4 | should unfailingly he read in Slavonic~and in a somewhat singing
1972 15 | must ask him lovingly if he sleeps well at night, has a~good
1973 14 | adolescents, must not appear even slightly drunk in their presence,
1974 8 | people, and have~let yourself slip — that it is not God Who
1975 10 | the Revolution, by Marc Slonim, p. 84). They~included Merezhkovsky,
1976 10 | who were consciously and slyly deluding~others. But such
1977 13 | spectacles and sometimes even~smells will irresistibly draw you
1978 13 | way, one can only give up smoking or taking morphine by~thrusting
1979 15 | later the sea has become as smooth as a mirror.~Suppose that
1980 21 | not the least desire to smother your conscience, even so
1981 13 | you with~crude abuse or sneering derision. What should a
1982 6 | dungeon into the light,~and soared to God in prayer. Of course,
1983 4(6) | feast of Forty~Martyrs of Sobastia in Armenia, March 9.~
1984 21 | changing his cast of mind and socalled~“convictions” several times
1985 22 | other people who help them, sodomists,~committers of bestiality,
1986 19 | every subordinate,~every soldier, workman, official and especially
1987 17 | secondary sins when “From the sole of the foot even unto the
1988 10 | all Khlysts known to them solemnly curse the Khlyst errors,
1989 21 | robbing him. He seeks either solitude or the company of corrupt
1990 10 | They~included Merezhkovsky, Sologub, Rozhanov, Bely and others.~ ~
1991 16 | explained in the Wisdom of Solomon. Warn him that envy is joined
1992 10 | L.~Tolstoy and Vladimir Soloviev. A certain female writer,
1993 | somehow
1994 13 | phenomena in his Kreutzer Sonata.~Very, very many children
1995 D | pictures? This includes sinful~songs, suggestive dances, dirty
1996 Intro| be found in English, and sonic source material is included
1997 3 | resolution like this, then sooner or later you will become
1998 6 | useless husks, as empty sophisms. It becomes clear that they
1999 5 | well as the Limonarion of Sophronius of Jerusalem, or~the Spiritual
2000 17 | bruises, and putrefying sores: they have not~been closed,
2001 15 | which contribute to your sorrowful~state of mind, but it is