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2002 8 | and compassion. “If I am sorry for you, then will not your
2003 6 | which ones? Or from various soul-shaking~events — disillusionment,
2004 2 | will say compunctionate and soulshaking~words, if not to all of
2005 3 | their~confession not as a sounding board but as a loving and
2006 17 | unto the head~there is no soundness in it: but wounds, and bruises,
2007 7 | combinations of abusive words or sounds in the head of an imaginative
2008 18 | place of the above mentioned sources.xxxv~Before turning to instructions
2009 17 | others. A businessman~in the south of Russia built a large,
2010 Intro| loyalty to the atheistic Soviet~state, and also in opposing
2011 6 | as in the parable of the sower?”~About the fasts, are not
2012 5 | appeared and led him into a spacious upper room, on the walls
2013 13 | him inwardly, he will not spare himself, but recount his
2014 21 | breath comes in gasps, he has spasms and so on, and~then, satisfied
2015 2 | Spirit of your Father which~speaketh in you” (Mt. 10:20). This
2016 21 | confession, then besides giving specific advice about particular
2017 13 | and body, objects, books, spectacles and sometimes even~smells
2018 6 | of them being the famous Spencer.x Believe me, no sincere
2019 10 | another uneducated monk called Spiridon,~who had attained to the
2020 20 | of~these adventurists — spiritualists, Khlysts and the like? Have
2021 13 | if your head is~about to split open with pain, and the
2022 D | place with you.~Perhaps art, sport or study take first place
2023 10 | imenobozhnichestvo,6 has~started spreading.~In high society Rasputin
2024 14 | young people go on drinking sprees it is usually~either in
2025 21 | shame; or else they simply sprinkle their speech with this~shameless
2026 13 | unless it is with repentance, spurred on to it, for example, by
2027 21 | strictly forbid people to squeeze feelings of~prayerful exaltation
2028 15 | being still at the early stages. If a boat~will not move
2029 A | Behold my child, Christ standeth here invisibly, and receiveth
2030 19 | they are also dying of~starvation, going about in ragged clothes,
2031 13 | convictions. A prisoner can be starved to death in three or four
2032 2 | bushels of flour to the starving by~giving a single brief
2033 17 | Judgement and to His many statements about the impossibility
2034 16 | envy destroyed his gift for statesmanship and in the end his life
2035 5 | of~Kronstadt in railway stations, in church, in the street,
2036 3 | into the fullness of the stature of Christ.~ ~
2037 14 | labour and a subordinate status for a time.~But after this
2038 13 | self-deception, since you cannot stay on this step once you have
2039 8 | pleasures of the flesh? Or~stealing or doing evil to people?
2040 13 | this step once you have stepped~onto it. In exactly the
2041 14 | five times as much as a~steward or bailiff asks for a job
2042 4 | for salvation, when people stimulated each other to~moral struggles
2043 2 | thus find an even stronger stimulus to~fill his own soul with
2044 17 | guard the family inheritance stingily. Or, it may inspire one
2045 12 | instigation of vainglory, stirred up in rich people by the
2046 13 | themselves on all sides from the stirrings of conscience. But the most
2047 20 | dictates of fashion and not stopping to think at all, when it
2048 21 | useful for his soul — when he stops being impatient and presumptuous.
2049 15 | a sea subsiding after a~storm. The sea rages and roars
2050 19 | will not be battered and storm-beaten like a weather~vane, as
2051 15 | wind (wind is the cause of~storms at sea). Now the wind has
2052 17 | however, are not blind,~stormy outbursts, but represent
2053 17 | put your business matters straight; that you will incur a~considerable
2054 6 | if this does not happen straightaway, even so he will bow his
2055 4(11)| themselves off from the Church —~“straining at a gnat but swallowing
2056 D | to the thirsty, take in a stranger, clothe the naked,~visit
2057 13 | extremely~widespread in all strata of society. Still, it is
2058 15 | weakness of his will he strays from the right path for
2059 1 | in fighting with sin and strengthening themselves in~virtue.~Alas,
2060 2 | our spiritual children and strengthens them in good intentions,
2061 13 | so, when the young soul, stricken with shame and despondency,
2062 22 | God’s commandments, the strictness of penances has~to be reduced
2063 11 | friendship shining forth will strike the soul with such joy that
2064 2 | gift~also depends on the strivings of the human spirit.” I
2065 2 | happy and rich by a single stroke of his pen on a bank~cheque,
2066 9 | arguments about the faith, so he struck the saint in~the face. Then
2067 17 | to~admire the wonderful structure. “Yes, it’s a big, splendid
2068 15 | will also depart from the struggler — admittedly, not always
2069 5 | Especially useful is the book of Sts. Barsanuphius and John,
2070 6 | the penitent thoroughly~studied everything that has been
2071 19 | deprived of the possibility of studying and~communicating with each
2072 12 | not appear as a fall, a stumbling, but it is their constant~
2073 15 | on, even it he has~moral stumblings, this person will always
2074 1 | from the~ ~Lutheran and Stundistii heresies. Of course, these
2075 9 | yet more terrible is this stupefaction of your con-~science, in
2076 16 | an~unworthy person out of stupidity or prejudice, then it is
2077 14 | themselves to a dream~world. They stupify themselves with wine and
2078 18 | attitude concealed in~their subconscious and may be dominated by
2079 16 | which it is born. “If you subdue the promptings of ambition
2080 21 | Christians who have already subdued their passions and could
2081 17 | it turned out that he was subduing the passions in~himself
2082 14 | which one has already been subjected by this vice, such as poverty
2083 17 | and themselves admit their~subjection to the passion of avarice,
2084 12 | only a few words. These subjects~are very close and comprehensible
2085 13 | s soul remains free from subjugation impure desires and is filled
2086 11 | show a constant and meek submission, especially to a malicious
2087 5 | Christian must accept~it submissively and pray for the help of
2088 15 | less acute feeling, but it submits less easily to advice and
2089 21 | A soul that has already~submitted itself to God is always
2090 15 | can be compared to a sea subsiding after a~storm. The sea rages
2091 12 | and fame~but the second, a subtler and more dangerous feeling,
2092 3 | But you have a~blessing to succeed. When you have heard people’
2093 8 | misfortune, and sometimes people~succumb to despondency simply by
2094 13 | sinful habit can only avoid succumbing to it again as long as it~
2095 13 | surely a vain person hardly suffers less if he does not obtain
2096 10 | Christians~and even monks by suggesting the thought that they have
2097 8 | yourself up to the evil suggestions of the devil or of evil
2098 D | This includes sinful~songs, suggestive dances, dirty jokes, movies,
2099 17 | of a self-deception~which suggests the thought that it is absolutely
2100 13 | greater when added to the sum of unpleasant sensations.~
2101 1 | I had only the briefest summary of their contents with me~
2102 10 | Light of Petchersk” in the summer of 1918). If a priest notices~
2103 10 | leads such ascetics to the summit of a mountain or~roof of
2104 17 | large, splendid church and summoned his old uncle to~admire
2105 12 | God — just as those deeply sunk in a life of dissolution
2106 14 | seems like this only to a superficial observer.~Anyone who knows
2107 21 | in no way deem ourselves superior to others or boast if we~
2108 20 | the peasants~immersed in superstition; but aren’t the equally
2109 13 | longer under the constant supervision of his parents, he earns
2110 7 | and then in the fourth~supplementary volume of my writings (Kiev,
2111 2 | herald, as a prophet, and he supplements the value of your words
2112 14 | podvig of abasing~himself and supplicating his father, although previously
2113 17 | helped his kinsfolk, not supported the Church, cast his business
2114 15 | not be comforted over the supposed death of his son~Joseph.
2115 1 | Cod and to you. And if a surgeon wields his knife with great
2116 10 | it much more frequently.~Surpassing their acquaintainces in
2117 20 | vows? If not, do not be surprised when you are visited by
2118 13 | truths of faith. So it is not surprising that young people listen
2119 13 | inspiring. Then, one~must be surrounded by ennobling society or
2120 15 | you~remember the unfounded suspicions you had earlier.~If a despondent
2121 7 | unbelief arise in the souls of suspicious people~who love to examine
2122 21 | ever makes me taste and swallow bitter.”xlv~And so, bringing
2123 16 | Saul, whose whole soul was swallowed up by his envy for David.
2124 4(11)| straining at a gnat but swallowing a camel,” in the words of
2125 20 | constantly and~irreverently swearing, which is a proof of the
2126 8 | they~become covered in sweat, but cannot resolve to speak.
2127 2 | you taste that spiritual sweetness with which you could repeat
2128 11 | himself. But when he has swum even once, he will subsequently
2129 1 | short (one might almost say, symbolic) summaries with me,~and
2130 13 | in a body rotting with syphilis, as inmates of mental homes
2131 19 | you alone will not be a syphilitic~at the end of your studies,
2132 9 | even the great Ephraim the Syrian, who~was granted visions
2133 21 | completeness or to a strictly systematic arrangement; for this subject
2134 12 | mind, beauty, noble birth, talents? But surely all this is
2135 20 | superstitions and ‘old~wives’ tales’, as the Apostle calls them.
2136 18 | body in its youth, after tarrying~over repentance while still
2137 15 | zealous in feats of prayer and tasting, ask~him how he struggles
2138 21 | resolve as they would from a tasty but fatal poison. “Sin~shows
2139 1 | incidentally,” “by the way,” if you tear your soul away from practical
2140 Intro| judge their confessor’s “technique.” Also, after reading Vladika~
2141 15 | enjoyment or even find it~tedious. This tedium is apt to turn
2142 D | from God by a passion for television, movies, the theater, cardgames?~
2143 9 | of their life from God’s temple, but so~lightheartedly that
2144 19 | whole life. How many~such tempters there are in any school,
2145 3 | up in your soul and~begin tempting you against God’s work.
2146 4 | of village life are very tenacious and the peasant is~bound
2147 17 | from~extraneous motives, tends to think of all Christians
2148 D | Do you question the holy tenets of the Orthodox Faith?~Do
2149 2 | quarters or, perhaps, nine tenths of our sins, mistakes and
2150 4(2) | Batiushka: a Russian term of endearment and respect
2151 18 | Chrismationxxxvii until retirement or terminal illness; this decision~being
2152 19 | to them. They have sinned terribly before God, far worse than
2153 11 | impossible to him; he is terrified~and struggles with himself.
2154 13 | the future judgement that terrifies and angers him, as an~awareness
2155 A | am but a witness, bearing~testimony before Him of all things
2156 12 | has even made its way into textbooks of moral theology and~adduces
2157 13 | look in their eyes. How thankful they are to God that they
2158 2 | conviction and feeling into the- priestly reader, I would~
2159 20 | comrades and lady-friends, for theaters and outings? You should
2160 4 | admit some notorious~sin of theirs to be sinful, or even admit
2161 5 | the most highly developed themes in the fathers is~the teaching
2162 B | take Holy Water blessed at Theophany, and if you~abstain from
2163 2 | the way of salvation. In theory of course you~yourself agree
2164 20 | Buddhists in the form of Theosophy? Aren’t you generally superstitious?
2165 2 | and also their own soul (1~Thess. 2:8). Of course, those
2166 17 | enough material to fill a thick book. Of the passions indicated
2167 17 | Nomocanon, according to which a thief or robber must return what
2168 6 | devoted to refuting the thinkers you mentioned. Admit that
2169 6 | fulfillment by maturity and thirst for understanding? Is there~
2170 D | hungry, give drink to the thirsty, take in a stranger, clothe
2171 18 | their carefree hearts, like thorns choking the wheat. The soul
2172 6 | is nearly always based on thoughtlessness and the habit of~credulously
2173 5 | Jesus, as did the~three thousand witnesses of the descent
2174 19 | strong paternal hand and the threat of being thrown out or of
2175 13 | venereal diseases, which~threaten their victims with physical
2176 1 | an acquaintance, even if threatened at the point of a knife;
2177 17 | an act of~generosity by threatening you with ruin, trample it
2178 22 | According to the~Nomocanon,xlvi three-quarters of our contemporaries coming
2179 17 | should advise him not~only to throw pennies to beggars and cadgers,
2180 11 | them up at the root and throwing them out. Sins appear as~ ~
2181 4 | Egypt on the eve of the~Thursday of the fifth week of Lent.
2182 13 | without his wishes being thwarted, and without being prepared,
2183 21 | compunction. But do~Thou Thyself as God, O Savior, grant
2184 2 | hands of the presbytery” (1 Tim. 4:4). Your words are not
2185 22 | out of false~delicacy and timidity. This non-application of
2186 13 | marital union and bring tip children. “Consider all
2187 14 | drunk, or at least a little tipsy. A large proportion of all
2188 3 | impatience, irritability and tiredness rise up in your soul and~
2189 5 | servant of the Church,~but a Titular Councilor,iii and thinking
2190 12 | for filthy luchre’s~sake” (Titus 1:11). And so teach people
2191 13 | which their conscience tolerates so easily~will not remain
2192 6 | other reasons? If he names Tolstoyviii or Renanix or~other writers
2193 18 | committed, when I know that tomorrow I shall start doing just
2194 4 | and in a somewhat singing tone, so that the listeners can
2195 11 | you cannot restrain your tongue from angry and offensive
2196 D | Appendix D.~Questions tor Penitents,~According to
2197 6 | the enemies of God, and so tore~him away from God.~If the
2198 18 | Jesus Christ, from fear of tortures and death, were excommunicated~
2199 15 | rages and roars as it is tossed about by the wind (wind
2200 13 | become one — to enter this totally~uninhibited group of youth.
2201 12 | of anger and malice, we~touched on pride and vainglory,
2202 Intro| between some of the things he touches upon (such as the “mass~
2203 13 | without anyone in the family touching it, but if even a~few times
2204 | toward
2205 2 | all the inhabitants of the towns they visited believers~in
2206 15 | he breaks his favourite toys, and some abnormal people
2207 2 | still bears in itself the traces or reflection of the countless
2208 17 | forbidden. Industry and trade are necessities for the
2209 17 | poverty. In the same way, if a trader or land-owner cannot~preserve
2210 17 | strong manufacturers and~traders. Their zealous work for
2211 14 | proportion of all family~tragedies, individual woes and social
2212 17 | threatening you with ruin, trample it down; do this, to begin
2213 10 | dances inducing hysteria and trances, and ended in a general
2214 Intro| Bishop of Ufa; in 1902 he was~transferred to the Volynia diocese in
2215 6 | about the Reality of the Transformation of Bread and Wine into the
2216 A | pardoning his (her) every transgression, whether voluntary or involuntary.~
2217 A | thee, my child, N., all thy transgressions. And I, His unworthy~priest,
2218 D | unnatural practices (bestiality, transvestism, sodomy)?~Eighth Commandment~
2219 19 | not content with giving treacherous advice~when they are asked,
2220 Intro| preserved as a precious~treasure for many years the letters
2221 11 | comparison with the material treasures that most people chase after.
2222 3 | footstool of a pastor who treats their~confession not as
2223 13 | those who fast of their own tree will can go for a~whole
2224 10 | almost be called the ruling trend of~thought in contemporary
2225 16 | Jesus Christ was given up to trial and punishment by His enemies.
2226 17 | good causes, but such are trifles in comparison with what~
2227 18 | the One God worshipped in~Trinity...”; 4) The fourth of the
2228 4 | to them from the Lenten Triodion that, “Those who are overburdened
2229 12 | writer is writing for the triumph of right and in order to
2230 19 | that this is an everyday triviality in family life. The Lord
2231 20 | the Apostles, why do you trust the various fables of~these
2232 16 | the~corresponding fall of truthfulness, people now form their opinions
2233 10 | the~“Church Bulletin” (“Tserkovniya Vedomosti”).~
2234 13 | in coming, in the form of tuberculosis~or neurasthenia, incapability
2235 4 | come to confession both on Tuesday and on~Wednesday. The exhortation
2236 18 | the persons of Pushkin, Turgenev and Leo Tolstoy, ascribe
2237 11 | been under the power of the~Turks.~Now it is time to move
2238 B | Confessing to Them.~The twelfth rule of the First Council
2239 17 | again, “Have I not chosen twelve, but one of you is a devil?”
2240 10 | and the beginning of the twentieth centuries. They rejected
2241 12 | of the Pharisees (in the~twenty-third chapter of St. Matthew).
2242 B | become monk, let him fulfill two-thirds of the~penance and be let
2243 Intro| was consecrated Bishop of Ufa; in 1902 he was~transferred
2244 Intro| against all anti-canonical and un-Orthodox~tendencies of Church life,
2245 6 | disillusionment, misfortune, prayers unanswered by God (this happens~especially
2246 1 | is~something completely unattainable for an ordinary spiritual
2247 17 | church and summoned his old uncle to~admire the wonderful
2248 19 | your faith and your heart uncoarsened; truthful in~word and honorable
2249 12 | theology and~adduces an uncomprehending reference to the words of
2250 13 | any such acquaintanceship,~unconditionally and forever. In order to
2251 13 | consciously or even quite unconsciously. They had probably fallen~
2252 2 | unfortunately, they often remain unconvinced; for to~the same degree
2253 9 | would he be~like if he had undergone such temptations as his
2254 20 | vows to~Him that you would undertake some religious struggle
2255 18 | resolute repentance.~The most undesirable type of confession occurs
2256 13 | example, a~need which is quite undisputed — that of food. The power
2257 4 | heart will not have~that uneasy feeling: “however shall
2258 B | see~which is longer, the unexpired period of the penance for
2259 3 | Well, how are you, an unfeeling, self-loving and irritable~
2260 13 | physical death of these unfortunate creatures.~Similarly, adulterers
2261 15 | yourself as you~remember the unfounded suspicions you had earlier.~
2262 20 | anger, remember about the unfulfilled vow and then offer repentance
2263 15 | carries out impatiently and~ ~unhappily and he cannot get back his
2264 Intro| his theology, was~love. He unhesitatingly gave away his personal possessions
2265 13 | to enter this totally~uninhibited group of youth. In student
2266 8 | translation of the Russian “uniniye.” It could otherwise be
2267 A | involuntary.~Reconcile and unite him (her) unto Thy holy
2268 14 | captivity because they are united with a spiritual passion
2269 2 | this~now, when religion is universally despised and nobody even
2270 14 | modest duties: a man with a university education~asks to be taken
2271 | unlikely
2272 13 | when added to the sum of unpleasant sensations.~But then those
2273 20 | even more ridiculous and unproven? Is it not being just as
2274 5 | unlikely that they remained~unpublished.~However, the priest should
2275 13 | thing we must add is that unrestrained single people~should be
2276 14 | they are possessed by an unsatisfied love of honour, or bitterness
2277 20 | make deliberately false and~unscrupulous attacks on the faith — isn’
2278 C | evil speech~lying~saying unseemly things~laughter~self-love~
2279 2 | hitherto unknown to you and unseen by worldly people~— abundant
2280 21 | cause, or of unexpected and unself-induced attacks of lust. While restraining
2281 2 | out this advice of mine, unsophisticated~though it may seem. You
2282 13 | like this are extremely unstable and, especially in recent
2283 11 | which will be a constant and unstemmable source of sins until the~
2284 14 | he had a self-willed and unsubmissive soul.~In exactly the same
2285 1 | it cannot remain cold and unsympathetic if you take the trouble
2286 B | by measure. If they keep unwaveringly~to their accustomed ways
2287 20 | which he was previously unwilling even to~notice. He can continue
2288 10 | the most radical political upheavals. This disease will continue,
2289 19 | thrown out or of hunger can uphold that~small amount of order
2290 2 | and thoughts from his~own uplifted state and his faith, as
2291 D | clothes, self-adornment, the urge to devote attention to~yourself,
2292 6 | discards these theories as~useless husks, as empty sophisms.
2293 13 | physical, which the fornicator uses to justify his depravity.
2294 10 | present in the name of Jesus uttered in the Jesus Prayer, and
2295 3 | Angel is following~ ~the vacillations of your soul with anxious
2296 13 | of the body” is extremely vague, and the border line~between
2297 14 | for a whole winter at the Valaamxxviii Monastery on Lake Ladoga,
2298 21 | how greatly a person is valued if he is known to~be truthful,
2299 21 | me’). No Christian who values his salvation will start~
2300 19 | storm-beaten like a weather~vane, as are the majority of
2301 2 | moment, from the surrounding~vanities and concentrating one's
2302 D | have given yourself up to vanity, sloth, pleasure and~carelessness?~
2303 16 | this passion. In order to vanquish envy, not~only must the
2304 6 | conditions which are~endlessly variable. Here, where we are living
2305 13 | fighting with these sins? — In varying ways,~depending on whether
2306 17 | still, not so many as you’ve fleeced and cheated: you
2307 10 | Bulletin” (“Tserkovniya Vedomosti”).~
2308 13 | nature itself in the form of venereal diseases, which~threaten
2309 15 | power over them, will give vent yet more~frequently to his
2310 C | Francisco. Based on a longer version~by St. Dimitry of Rostov.~ ~
2311 9 | of the local clergy and vestiges of pagan customs among~the
2312 5 | volumes called the Philokalia,vi collected by the same Bishop
2313 15 | spiritual~ ~illness at once. The victim himself usually cannot understand
2314 3 | and then you will be a victor over your invisible~enemies.”
2315 14 | successful lovers; as being victorious over~their enemies and taking
2316 15 | considered various~false views on religion and life in
2317 13 | disastrous. When you are in a vigilant and virtuous mood, admit
2318 15 | that even the prayers and vigils that are obligatory~for
2319 5 | or “epistle” “To Pastors.”vii~Among more contemporary
2320 13 | cultured classes, and~also of villagers, there is neither a New
2321 13 | near to this, which also violates~the seventh commandment.
2322 15 | far as we could the most violent~passions: anger, pride,
2323 13 | human need? And so it is not virginal life; but depraved fantasies
2324 13 | justify his depravity. But do virgins~who are chaste in the soul
2325 4 | is the only one read by~virtually the majority of priests —
2326 10 | irritation~when telling about a vision is a sure sign that the
2327 D | stranger, clothe the naked,~visit the sick and those in jail (
2328 10 | writings of L.~Tolstoy and Vladimir Soloviev. A certain female
2329 4 | fifth~chapter of Matthew Vlastaris5. Then, in order to avoid
2330 12 | should make his glorying void (1 Cor. 9:15).~But anyone
2331 Intro| and Her Teaching in Life, Vol. 2, Montreal, 1970, p. 113).~
2332 10 | the lower reaches of the Volga appeared the~Johannites,
2333 7 | the fourth~supplementary volume of my writings (Kiev, 1918),
2334 A | every transgression, whether voluntary or involuntary.~Reconcile
2335 Intro| he was~transferred to the Volynia diocese in the western Ukraine,
2336 9 | century. As the bishop of~Voronezh he fought against the extreme
2337 13 | consciously and~without hurrying: ‘Vouchsafe, O Lord, to keep me this
2338 18 | voluntarily, they shall not be vouchsafed repentance, and in their
2339 21 | the word “and” as often as~vulgar words of abuse. This may
2340 1 | should this task~consist? W~e have already said that
2341 3 | holy feelings which were wafted~upon him by the pastor’s
2342 11 | accepted by the Latins. To wage war only with the sins that
2343 11 | that their struggle must be waged against the passion itself,
2344 6 | remains in your heart, then wait a while: but do not put
2345 3 | hear that my~children are walking in the truth” (3 Jn. 4).
2346 6 | dispositions and from various walks~of life. Of course, even
2347 13 | children are already deeply wallowing~in such filthy habits, it
2348 5 | spacious upper room, on the walls of which hung many~varied
2349 10 | created Stephan Podgorny, a wanderer who later became a monk
2350 13 | feelings for each other have waned, after the inevitable quarrels,~
2351 21 | his brothers had not even wanted to offend~him. — If you
2352 3 | time. The news about the warm-hearted, loving and reverent pastor~
2353 3 | can hardly ever pray~with warmth and compunction, and to
2354 9 | asked forgiveness for not warning~him against such a sin as
2355 12 | not be crushed unless the warrior of Christ, having~come to
2356 6 | anoint~thine bead, and wash thy face; that thou appear
2357 6 | it burdensome, and when?~Wasn’t it when you lost your
2358 7 | Holy Spirit, are tormented, waste away and even consider suicide,~ ~
2359 21 | sing in church: ‘and have wasted my~whole life in laziness.’
2360 13 | fornication.” Thus the young soul wastes away, not having found any
2361 21 | patience;~secondly. of not wasting all your earnings on your
2362 15 | dock lower~down, below the water-line, and you do not start rowing
2363 13 | prayer~sincerely and without wavering.”~We mentioned the “first
2364 11 | insufficient. The passion is~weakened by half when this is realized,
2365 5 | articles which~relate to human weaknesses and passions and teach how
2366 12 | with repentance, is given a weapon aimed precisely at this~
2367 3 | confessing, when you are weary with labouring at~confession
2368 19 | and storm-beaten like a weather~vane, as are the majority
2369 4 | confession both on Tuesday and on~Wednesday. The exhortation of your
2370 11 | unsuccessful as cutting down weeds in a~garden instead of digging
2371 15 | the Scriptures, “Rachel weeping for her children, and would
2372 21 | things as those which are weighing on his conscience. But in
2373 13 | their confession, the sin weighs on their~hearts like a heavy
2374 17 | increase of~their earthly well-being?~Of course, when parishioners
2375 17 | done with people who are well-intentioned but still not strangers~
2376 9 | granted visions from God, wept profusely, then how can
2377 18 | like thorns choking the wheat. The soul becomes~hardened
2378 | whence
2379 | whereas
2380 B | penance for~the second sin: whichever is longer is the length
2381 15 | those around him with his whims.~Gentle but firm loving
2382 14 | people, on the one hand,~whining about their passion and
2383 10 | which~literally means “whip,” was also understood to
2384 19 | not know Christ’s words: ‘Whoso shall offend one of these
2385 A | he should turn from his wickedness and live: Show Thy mercy
2386 13 | fornicators is, of course, very wide,~as these sins destroy the
2387 9 | the author of many very widely read spiritual works. See
2388 13 | which are now extremely~widespread in all strata of society.
2389 17 | turn, or refusing to help a widowed relative or a student nephew,
2390 1 | to you. And if a surgeon wields his knife with great care
2391 5 | own independent activity, wiIl make use of the~Fathers’
2392 13 | our contemporary society, wildly~estranged as it is from
2393 12 | the fate of Napoleon and Wilhelm~overtakes you. And let every
2394 15 | drinking bouts. But of~course willful despondency is sometimes
2395 17 | Of course, if he~shows willingness to do so, the priest will
2396 14 | they go to live~for a whole winter at the Valaamxxviii Monastery
2397 19 | probability it will be too late to wipe out your guilt before your
2398 6 | you lost your chastity or wished to lose it, but faith and
2399 15 | is~a sort of emptying or withering of the soul, and the compassionate
2400 21 | receive it. If it is long withheld from a person who prays
2401 5 | as did the~three thousand witnesses of the descent of the Holy
2402 20 | consequences ensue if a Christian wittingly gives a false oath: are
2403 16 | envy a comrade or fellow worker who is more successful than
2404 19 | subordinate,~every soldier, workman, official and especially
2405 13 | deep grief or extremely worried or preoccupied by something?~
2406 15 | exhaustion or oppressing worries. Of course, the~priest must
2407 21 | conceived passion or sinful worry over some worldly matter,
2408 D | cardgames?~Perhaps because of worrying about yourself or your family
2409 18 | confess to Thee, the One God worshipped in~Trinity...”; 4) The fourth
2410 3 | so the obstacles to your worthily fulfilling~your vocation
2411 16 | angry with it with holy wrath and struggle with it, it
2412 19 | right up to your ears and wring your hands,~wishing in vain
2413 17 | what~he has obtained by wronging his neighbors so that he
2414 6 | being the famous Spencer.x Believe me, no sincere and~
2415 7 | 7. Imaginary Doubts.xi~There are other articles
2416 7 | about~Learning to Pray.”xii Such thoughts of unbelief
2417 11 | undergo a “shipwreck of faith,”xiv as~the Apostle Paul puts
2418 13 | fornication and adultery,xix are often things to boast
2419 19 | one, many were justified.’xl And even up to our days
2420 20 | love and non-condemnation’xli — then you would not~remain
2421 20 | interpret the Apocalypse)?xlii Haven’t you also surrendered
2422 21 | whole life in laziness.’xliii Aren’t you also guilty of
2423 21 | Savior, grant me these.”xliv If only people thought,
2424 21 | taste and swallow bitter.”xlv~And so, bringing his counsel
2425 22 | According to the~Nomocanon,xlvi three-quarters of our contemporaries
2426 22 | Church-centered way of life).xlvii But~it is not just a question
2427 13 | souls come to confession.xviii Many, if not the~majority
2428 13 | the child or adolescent.xx Sometimes they let themselves~
2429 13 | 30th rules of the Nomocanon;xxi the more serious~one is
2430 13 | on a~ ~“mustard plaster”xxii and it seems to be burning
2431 13 | prosperity poisoned by debauchery.xxiii~A spiritual father must
2432 13 | do ye likewise unto them”xxiv. Would such people be pleased
2433 13 | little~ones” are well known.xxv~Concluding our discussion
2434 13 | within the forbidden degrees.xxvi It is true that brides and
2435 14 | for our Orthodox people,xxvii if~not the most harmful.
2436 15 | would not be~comforted,”xxx and how Jacob would not
2437 17 | and come and follow Me”).xxxi~But what is to be done with
2438 17 | such things to the Master.”xxxiii~It is extremely important
2439 17 | them with Thy divine power.”xxxiv The Church calls~church-builders “
2440 18 | above mentioned sources.xxxv~Before turning to instructions
2441 18 | about whom we wrote earlier,xxxvi they do~not wish to struggle
2442 18 | answer the priest “Sinful,”xxxviii but I think that if these
2443 14 | bailiff asks for a job as a yard-keeper. In both cases the applicant
2444 11 | fire without fuel. Stephan Yavorskyxiii was, therefore,~quite correct
2445 D | received?~Have you excessively yearned for material goods without
2446 19 | destruction. The last~two yearsxxxix have shown where this foul
2447 21 | horrifying force among the younger generation,~especially the
2448 13 | even the healthiest and youngest~men when they are in deep
2449 13 | have a fresh appearance, youthful face,~a bold and calm look
2450 9 | talking to St. Tikhon of Zadonsk3 and could not find~any words
2451 17 | publican and the sons of Zebedee — leaving his business and
2452 6 | geography or ethnography or zoology can tell you~whether the