About the cross and resurrection

Ambrose Optina (in the world Alexander Mikhailovich Grenkov) - the clergyman of the Russian Orthodox Church, Hieromona, was revered in life as an old man. He is one of the samples of the senior Zosima in the Roman F.M. Dostoevsky "Brothers Karamazov. It was glorified in the saints of June 6, 1988. Russian publicist and spiritual writer E.N. The burials spoke about him: I was struck by his holiness and that incomprehensible abyss of love, which were in him. And I, looking at him, began to understand that the meaning of the elders is to bless and approve the life and the god sent by God, to teach people to live happily and help them carry them falling on their share of burden, whatever they consist. The texts presented in this book contain the recommendations of the elder on the righteous image of the life of the Christian