The ordeal of the blessed Theodora

Here is the famous story of the blessed Theodora to the student of St. Vasily New Gregory about the posthumous passage of ordeals, about heavenly pleasures and torment of hell. All twenty ordeals that the soul of a newly-trained Christian passes are described in detail, and sins are listed in which the deceased weaving bees is denounced. In the second part of the book, the experience of passing ordeal by our contemporary, nun Sergius (Klimenko), is placed. Both stories will help to more carefully prepare for confession through the test of their conscience and make you think about eternity and the outcome of the soul from the body. Indeed, according to St. Theophanes of the Recluse: "No matter how wild it seems to the wise men the idea of ​​ordeals, but they cannot pass them. ”