1380 useful tips of the priest to their parishioners
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The book contains the answers of the famous confessor of the 20th century Archpriest Valentina Mordasov to different questions of spiritual life.
One old man said: "There are many good and pious priests, but one of a thousand can correctly lead a person’s spiritual life - this is a special gift of God. ”
The author of the Soviets and instructions collected in our publication, Father Valentin (Mordasov) (1998) was just such a confessor. He devoted all his free time from worship. As the suffering, looking for spiritual admonition or just life council, were drawn to an inexhaustible source, people were drawn to it.
Along with complex purely personal issues, parishioners and pilgrims often had questions that could conditionally be entitled: "How to live in a Christian?", "How to escape" or "What is good to know the believer", etc. There were a great many questions, and Father Valentine blessed to record answers to some of the most interesting and necessary of them. The priest rarely said anything from himself, all his advice was based on patristic teaching. Only those issues that did not have clarifications in church books with the greatest caution he solved, relying on his huge spiritual experience and prayer.
Distinguished by great philanthropy, Father Valentine did not seek, however, to please anyone except God. He believed that pleasing to a person often forces to sin against the truth. Therefore, there is no need to be embarrassed if some of his advice seem difficult or wrong. Our pride encourages us to be in question, that is, to answer an extremely clear answer with a new question. If you go this way, then even the most useful advice will become useless.
It is better to recall that the truth of God is often inconvenient for human weakness and that you need to be able to take a bitter medicine, see your sinfulness and move your spoiled creature to repentance and humility. Ignorance of sin does not exempt from responsibility for him, knowledge - encourages to fight him.
Many years of pastoral experience of Father Valentine, awareness of their great responsibility for these tips to God, constant prayer offering to God for the sending of spiritual judgment gives us the opportunity to hope that his advice most fully presented in this book will be very useful for many And many believers.
Recommended for publication by the Publishing Council of the Russian Orthodox Church
One old man said: "There are many good and pious priests, but one of a thousand can correctly lead a person’s spiritual life - this is a special gift of God. ”
The author of the Soviets and instructions collected in our publication, Father Valentin (Mordasov) (1998) was just such a confessor. He devoted all his free time from worship. As the suffering, looking for spiritual admonition or just life council, were drawn to an inexhaustible source, people were drawn to it.
Along with complex purely personal issues, parishioners and pilgrims often had questions that could conditionally be entitled: "How to live in a Christian?", "How to escape" or "What is good to know the believer", etc. There were a great many questions, and Father Valentine blessed to record answers to some of the most interesting and necessary of them. The priest rarely said anything from himself, all his advice was based on patristic teaching. Only those issues that did not have clarifications in church books with the greatest caution he solved, relying on his huge spiritual experience and prayer.
Distinguished by great philanthropy, Father Valentine did not seek, however, to please anyone except God. He believed that pleasing to a person often forces to sin against the truth. Therefore, there is no need to be embarrassed if some of his advice seem difficult or wrong. Our pride encourages us to be in question, that is, to answer an extremely clear answer with a new question. If you go this way, then even the most useful advice will become useless.
It is better to recall that the truth of God is often inconvenient for human weakness and that you need to be able to take a bitter medicine, see your sinfulness and move your spoiled creature to repentance and humility. Ignorance of sin does not exempt from responsibility for him, knowledge - encourages to fight him.
Many years of pastoral experience of Father Valentine, awareness of their great responsibility for these tips to God, constant prayer offering to God for the sending of spiritual judgment gives us the opportunity to hope that his advice most fully presented in this book will be very useful for many And many believers.
Recommended for publication by the Publishing Council of the Russian Orthodox Church
Author:
Author:Archpriest Valentin Mordasov
Cover:
Cover:Soft
Category:
- Category:Religion & Spiritually
Publication language:
Publication Language:Russian
Paper:
Paper:newspaper
ISBN:
ISBN:978-5-7877-0107-4
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