Week of Parental Lovetranslated

On October 21, as part of the Week of Parental Love, the rector of the parish of the Church of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker in the village of Vashkovo, Archpriest Vyacheslav Lobets, held a conversation with students in grades 7-9 of the State Educational Institution “Ilyushinsk Secondary School named after F.F. Dubrovsky Ushachi district." Topic: “Profanity destroys a person’s soul.”

After joint prayer, Father Vyacheslav spoke with the guys about how foul language causes serious harm to a person’s soul and interferes with his communication with God. The Apostle James said about this: “So the tongue is a small member, but does a lot. Look, a small fire ignites a lot of substance! And the tongue is fire, the embellishment of untruth; the tongue is in such a position between our members that it defiles the whole body and sets the circle of life on fire, being itself set on fire by Gehenna” (James 3:5-6). He uttered a black word - and everything is desecrated: both body and soul. And the people who hear this are also defiled. You don’t swear yourself, for example, but you are among those who swear, and after a while you feel as if you were sprayed with mud from a spray bottle - you want to go to the shower to wash yourself. Because whether you want it or not, you still absorb these words into yourself, even though you don’t pronounce them.