Selected conversations

The book is a reprint of the collection of 150 chosen conversations of John Chrysostom, compiled by the monk Stefan (Deryabin) of the John-Baptist Monastery of Optina Desert in 1876.
In these conversations, John Chrysostom discusses various religious and social topics, including the carelessness, viciousness of people, the retribution of the coming Last Judgment, about the need to be constantly grateful to God. Archbishop of Constantinople exhortates people from mortal sins: pride, vanity, arrogance, anger, envy, greed, and abbreviations. It instructs people to monitor not only their physical shell (body), but mainly bake about their soul, dirt, the darkness of which cannot be covered with any beautiful and richly decorated clothes. The immoral lifestyle (fornication and drunkenness) is condemned by the archbishop.
also John Chrysostom explains in an accessible form the need to study theological literature, its significance for the spiritual growth of man. The book contains a lot of religious and social issues. In particular, the theme of the family is discussed, relations between spouses in a charitable marriage.
After reading the chosen conversations of John Chrysostom, you can largely rethink your life, realize the perfect mistakes, the incorrectness of actions, behavior.
Recommended for publication by the Publishing Council of the Russian Orthodox Church