Spiritual Father. From the letters of Hegumen Nikon (Vorobyov)

Igumen Nikon (Sparrow, 1894-1963) - a man of his holy life, a true spiritual mentor, a monk-devotee, who thoroughly studied the legacy of the Holy Fathers of the Church and with all their mights sought to implement their experience in practice. The best leadership for a Christian about. Nikon considered the works of SVT. Ignatius (Bryanchaninov, † 1867), which shifted the creations of the Holy Fathers, difficult to understand the modern man, at our time, the XIX century language. In turn, Father Nikon sets out the patristic teaching in his letters already completely understandable, modern Russian.
These letters, imbued with sincere love for contacting the council, deeply and affordably disclose the most important to rescue the soul of the topic. One of them is the topic of the right spiritual leadership, the proper relations of the spiritual mentor and Miryanin