Год 1863

The singing soldier from the Assumption Church was given books to read: 1) Polycarp 1 translated and original words; 2) the book of Jesus Sirach and 3) Ephraim the Syrian. One should not ask anyone whether it is necessary to spread the glory of God with the writing hand, or verbally, or with good deeds. We must do this to the best of our ability and ability. Talent must be put to work. If you think about this simple matter, then the devil will probably inspire you with the absurdity that you only need to do internal work. We are many in one body [1 Cor. 10, 17]. Don't eat scrambled eggs. If God blesses you to live to see the time soon, there will be no pancakes. We must not forget the virtue of courage. One must read lessons or sacred books with greatness, calmly and with awareness of the importance of what is being read. To endure with complacency the fierce sorrows that come. I have sinned against you, my God, during prayer with impatience, cowardice, despondency from the sorrow that has befallen me, and boldly striking oneself in the belly! I have no patience! Imagine Jesus Christ hanging on the cross for us sinners! Treat everyone gently, gently. Consider everything as rubbish and pus—every sweet thing; do not love anything earthly and do not spare anything earthly for a person, do not harbor enmity towards him for any reason. See how the enemy laughs at you at the table every day. In the name of the Lord, you mock him, despising everything more and more and diligently loving and treating your neighbor. Love strives to please the beloved and does not value anything for him. Amen. Everything is a dream 3, except love. The brother treated him coldly, impolitely, impudently, viciously - say: this is the dream of the devil; a feeling of enmity disturbs you because of the coldness and insolence of your brother - say: this is my dream, but here is the truth: I love my brother, no matter what, I do not want to see evil in him, which is a demonic dream in him and which is also in me; I tolerate his shortcomings, for they are also in me - we have the same sinful nature. You say there are sins in your brother, big shortcomings? “You have the same thing.” You say I don’t like him for such and such shortcomings? “Don’t love yourself either, because the same shortcomings, the same ones that are in him, are also in you.” But remember that there is a Lamb of God who took upon himself the sins of the whole world. Who are you, judging your neighbor for sins, for shortcomings, for vices? His Lord stands or falls [Rom. 14, 4]. But you, out of Christian love, must in every possible way be condescending to the shortcomings of your neighbor, you must heal his evil, his weakness of heart (all coldness, every passion is weakness) with love and affection, meekness, humility, as you wish for yourself from others when you are in weakness similar to his. For who does not suffer from all kinds of infirmities? Who will the all-evil enemy spare? God! Our love, destroy all the machinations of the enemy in us. Develop the thought and conviction that we are slaves and God is our Lord. God is the master of everything. The world and everything in it is His work, the fruit of His power and wisdom. Go ahead and pray smartly 4 and write an explanation of the prayers for children. Teaching should not be extensive, but singular (unity of idea) and perhaps clear and strong, and not sluggish. Lord, confirm in me the true conviction that I am a great sinner, so that I do not despise sinners like me, and do not harbor evil in my heart for them for their sins, but I despise myself according to my dignity, as the first sinner; I always harbor irreconcilable anger towards myself, towards my carnal man. Wake up! Wake up! Let me have fun looking everyone in the face. Wake up! Wake up! And our thought, and our word, and our spirit are all God’s, nothing of the devil; May we all be entirely God's. Be wise as serpents and simple as doves [Matt. 10, 16]. The Lord is everything and everything for me - I must be everything for Him; let us deny ourselves to God, that is, our will. Existing 5. In Him all holy, rational and free beings are one. May they all be one, just as You, Father, are in Me, and I in You, so may they also be one in Us [Jn. 17.21]. Reach this wisdom. Everything is the Father. Amen. I am nothing, everything is God in me, for God is God of all and God for all. Food, drink, money, clothing, housing - all earthly belongings are nothing, but man is everything; everything is nothing before man. Man is like a kind of immortal god, and everything material is perishable and ephemeral. Man is like God, and everything material is like dust - gold, sugar, and velvet. Everything is God's, nothing is ours. Human! Cherish the dignity of man as the image of God. A thousand times I have been convinced of the dreaminess, the sinfulness of stinging food, drink, and sweets from my brethren, and I still continue to follow the dreams of my heart and sin, in full confidence that this is a sin. Oh, damned man I am! Oh, stupid, blind heart! Not to feel sorry for [oneself], but to feel sorry for the only God and His image - my neighbor, just as I feel sorry for myself. Warm him, nourish him, caress him as I caress myself. Despise the flesh and everything carnal, in which the devil seeks refuge, so that you may love God and your neighbor. Elder Eutyches, by his example, teaches me generosity and indifference to worldly goods, calling his gifts seeds that can sprout. Remember who a person is? – Image of God, child of God (Christian – heir of the Heavenly Kingdom, member of Christ). Where do you have the humility to honor every person as a living image of God, although he (man) bears the wounds of sins on his soul; ulcers upon ulcers - they are torn by the devil and sin, but the image is all the image of God. We must regret his ulcers, feel sick, and pray as if they were our own: after all, we are all one body [Rom. 12:5], we all partake of one root, we all partake of one Bread [1 Cor. 10, 17], Christ God wants everyone to be one body in Himself. Do not pay attention to demonic confusion, division and enmity. Firmament: everything is one. Say, we are one. The certainty of the resurrection of the dead, future judgment, eternal bliss and eternal torment of sinners is obvious from the already fulfilled many Old Testament and New Testament prophecies, from their strict fulfillment on Jesus Christ (about how the Lord tried to fulfill them). If the Lord does not preserve... the strictness will be in vain [Ps. 126, 1]. This is who is your wonderful guardian! The sanctuary of life, the members of life from which life comes, you dishonor and desecrate with your dreams, O my enemy! Get out, you vile one! All ouds 6, mind you, were planted with purpose by the Creator! Not mine – God’s, or His and mine together, and not mine only. What kind of a Christian are you when you like to treat only those who come to you occasionally, or your friends, or the rich, or your bosses, or rich relatives! No, always treat with a cheerful face those who often come to you, whom you are tired of, whom your heart hates for their frequent visits to you - and force yourself to love them from the heart for the sake of the Lord, and the more, the more they annoy you with their frequent visits, for this annoyance is the evil whim of your heart, your illness, your selfishness, which you need to suppress and not think, out of the blindness of pride, that everything you have is only yours property, for we have nothing of our own, but have only what God gives, and the excess is given to others, to help poor relatives or to treat them and friends and to express love for them, to help the poor, etc. Always go against yourself and love your neighbor as yourself in every possible way. Conquer stinginess and pride. No, say, nothing is mine, everything is God’s. All-Holy Soul! Enlighten and confirm! Stinginess produces devastation of love and instills hatred towards those who steal our property, and generosity produces love for those whom we spoil; however, it is not free generosity that produces hatred. Stinginess is from the devil, generosity is from God. Any attachment to material things is the devil; neglect, contempt for material things, indifference to them - from God. Amen. Stinginess is an addiction to material things and disregard for one's neighbor. A very godless passion! A man died and left everything behind, taking nothing with him. My yoke is easy and my burden is light [Matt. 11, 30 ]! So the commandments of the Lord are good and easy! But the yoke of the devil is evil and his burden is heavy! So what? We violate the commandments of the Lord, and fulfill the will of the devil! We are damned! What's sweeter than love? And yet how little love we have! Why? We love our flesh very much, and with the flesh everything is carnal, material, worldly! So, let us despise the flesh and walk in the Spirit and in the Spirit put to death the deeds of the flesh! The character of the present, temporary age or life is a charm 7. Rumbling is the charm of the enemy. Ignore her. Notice the dream on February 29th. In despair, lying down, you raised me up 8. When we lie down, we cannot know for sure what will happen tomorrow; we could die at night. You limp on both knees [1 Kings. 18, 21], that is, you work either for God, or for Baal, 9 or for God, or for the womb. Invite singers to your home before holidays and even Sundays or Lenten services and sing with them in preparation for the service. Wake up! Always remember that your neighbor, no matter who the Christian he is, is a member of Christ, even if he is sick (and you yourself are sick), and always receive him with respect and love, talk to him from the heart and treat him. And spare nothing for him: no food, no drink, no clothes, no books, no money, if he needs it and asks you. The Lord will reward you for it. We are all His children, and He is everything to us. I am nothing, everything good in me is the Lord. So it is with all Angels and saints. Christ is in all things and in all [Col. 3, 11]. With equal zeal and reverence, read your prayers both today, tomorrow and always. God is the same, and my spirit is the same. In the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. Amen. Let there be light [Gen. 1.3]. Listen to him (Jesus Christ) [Matt. 17, 5; OK. 9, 35]. The Lord is present throughout the whole word, or the speech of the Gospel and Church, and He is the Word Himself. December 12th, 1863. Those whom I love, I rebuke and punish. Therefore be zealous and repent [Rev. 3, 19]. And do not be angry with those who reprove. Bitter can be great. Our flesh is proud - it does not like others to teach and point out, but it itself is ignorant and faulty. You need meek humility to listen to instructions and comments and obedience with gratitude for advice and guidance. Avoid resistance and contradiction and be in submission and harmony. It is good for the Lord to work in fulfilling the requirements: firstly, the spirit is cleansed, pacified and strengthened; secondly, movement throughout the body, which is very beneficial for health; third, that it is higher than happiness to serve the Lord and His lesser brethren and converse with Him; fourth: this achieves the goal of life - the salvation of the soul, for by serving conscientiously and diligently the Lord and your neighbors, you save them and yourself. Meanwhile, our sinful flesh is lazy, does not like work for the glory of God and for the good of our neighbors, and therefore often gets irritated when we need to do it or when we need to help our neighbors with property - hence impatience, irritability, while it should be patient and meek and joyfully hasten to all kinds of spiritual and physical labor, because they are all useful for the worker himself. We are all sinners, and the examples of sin are adversity, misfortune, sorrow, illness and death [Rom. 6, 23]. To get rid of sins, you need to pray, and to pray, you need to have faith and hope. So, prayer, faith and hope are necessary for us sinners. A sinner should not leave his mental lips, and even his outer ones, for prayer. During your prayers at home and in public against the wickedness of the devil and the scattering of thoughts, remind yourself of the simplicity of the truth and say to yourself: simply 10, that is, I believe in everything I ask in the simplicity of my heart and ask for everything simply, and I reject yours, my enemy, wickedness, your blasphemies, abominations, dreams. Let the beginning, foundation and source of all your thinking, your words and your activity be humility, the consciousness of your insignificance and the fullness of the Divine, who created and fills everything and acts all in all [1 Cor. 12, 6]. He who is infected with pride is inclined to show contempt for everything, even for holy and divine objects. Pride mentally destroys or defiles every good thought, word, deed, every creation of God. This is the deadening breath of Satan. If you don't feel hungry, don't eat, and if you don't feel thirsty, don't drink. The Creator gave you signs and, as it were, calls when you need to eat and drink. This is a feeling of true hunger and thirst. What turns you away from fulfilling the commandments of Christ? – The flesh and the world, as well as the greed of consumption, namely: pleasant food and drink (coarsening and petrifying the heart), which a person loves, which he enjoys mentally and in fact consumes greedily; exquisite clothes or decorations of awards: if the clothes or decoration are made of very good colored and delicate material, then there is care and pity, so as not to get dirty, stain, dust, smoke, or get wet - and the concern about how to please God with thoughts, words, deeds disappears, and the heart [of a person], so to speak, lives on clothes and decoration and is always chained to it, but does not care about God and does not cleave to Him; if he is a priest, then he neglects to pray for the people and becomes not a lover of souls, but a lover of money and ambition, seeking not people, but human things, that is, their money, food and drink, their affection, good opinions and reviews, and flattering them. So, fight against all worldly charms, against the charms of matter that turn you away from fulfilling the commandments of Christ, and love God with all your heart, care with all your might for the salvation of your soul and for the salvation of human souls, and be a lover of souls. Remember that the world, which arose from nothingness, is a real nothingness and will turn into nothingness, for heaven and earth will pass away [Mk. 13, 31], and the human soul is God’s breath, the image of the immortal King God and is itself immortal. Remember this, and with the help of God, may everything earthly be under your feet. In addition to the corruptible creation, constantly turn your eyes to the Creator, who exists throughout all creation and constantly looks at you, constantly testing your heart and your thoughts. Those who burn in fire or drown in water receive peace after their death if they were believers and pious. I passed through fire and water, and brought us to rest [Ps. 65, 12]. (As of November 10, 54 peasants burned to death.) Our flesh is the enemy of God, therefore we must crucify it with passions and lusts. All and in all (in holy Angels, in holy men and in Christians living or zealous to live holy on earth) Christ [Col. 3, 11]. He placed Him above all, as the head of the Church, which is His Body [Eph. 1, 22 – 23]. So, the Church - the saints of God, the Mother of God, the apostles, saints, martyrs, saints, righteous and all saints - is the body of the Savior, and He Himself is their Head. The Lady Theotokos is the Head of the mental creation 11, that is, the Lady, and all the saints are the same as Christ Himself - so they are pure, holy, and they have such a relationship to Him, such a connection with Him, as members of a body with a head, and one Spirit in them - the Spirit of God, like a soul in one body, and one God and Father of all [Eph. 4, 6]. Do not attach your heart to any thing and do not make it the god of your heart. There is one God of our heart, who created it - the Lord God, for it is His breath. Do not cleave with your heart to any person, that is, to any flesh, for there is only one God of our hearts - the Lord God, and to Him alone we must cleave; clinging to a thing or to the flesh is a lie, demonic deception and the will of the devil. Amen. Either not to speak, or if you speak, speak sincerely, heartily, firmly, and not hypocritically and sluggishly, through clenched teeth. Eat and drink slowly and without greed, for greed is from the devil and with greed, when eating and drinking, the devil enters the heart. True. Remember the words of the Savior: man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God [Matt. 4, 4]. Since the devil became material through his presence on earth, then with extreme caution, with prayer and God’s blessing, one must use all earthly things... Fall off, Savior, the sinful substance in me and burn up the thorns of passions. Clinging to the insignificant, temporary, what do we leave behind, what benefits do we lose and have to lose?! My soul! The Lord told you that the whole visible world in comparison with you is nothing [Matt. 16, 26]. Consider it as nothing and see what the Creator created you with and what he wants to make of you. Remember the descent to earth of the Son of God, His wandering on earth with the gospel of heavenly truth, His voluntary poverty, His miracles, prophecies, His Last Supper, His dishonor, His suffering, death, resurrection and ascension into heaven - and strive for heavenly bliss. True love meekly endures hardships, worries and labors, endures insults, humiliations, shortcomings, errors and malfunctions, if there is no harm from them to others; patiently and with meekness endures the baseness and malice of others, leaving judgment to the all-seeing God, the righteous Judge, and praying that God will enlighten those darkened by irrational passions. Our Father, Who is in heaven. All hope is in the Father - everything is from the Father and everything is to the Father. Invoking the Lord God in Three Persons in prayer, remember that you are calling on the beginningless Father of all creation, Angels and men, remember that you, who call upon Him, are surprised by all the powers of heaven and look at you with love because you, with faith and love and appropriate reverence, call on their common and our Father - the Creator, the Almighty and the Lord, Whom they love immeasurably, before Whom they deeply reverence. ABOUT! What great happiness and bliss, what greatness, what dignity to call on the Eternal Father! Treasure constantly and invariably this greatest happiness, this bliss that the infinite goodness of your God has provided you with! And do not forget during your prayer - God is listening to you, the Angels and holy men of God are listening to you. February 26, 1864 I shed tears while writing these lines. When the spirit of blasphemy 12 comes upon you, say to it: I spit on your blasphemy, on your abominations; I know one God, the most simple 13 Essence, existing in all the saints and sanctifying everyone in a very simple way, for the human soul or the spirits of Angels are simple, like a thought or like God is simple, and when the soul is simple and holy, then the light of the whole person, being sanctified in an instant, is holy with the whole being, soul and body, like the sun or like a completely hot coal. Blasphemy is the fruit and consequence of heart impurity and ignorance of the heart, its sinful blindness. During prayer and when reading the word of God, one must have reverence for every thought, for every word, as for the Spirit of God Himself, the Spirit of truth, for this most simple, thought-like Essence, breathing in prayer and in the word of God, in the word of the holy fathers and in general in the word of faith and piety. Doubt and contempt 14 by the way, like the poison of the spirit of lies, must be cut off, and since doubt and contempt are the fruit of conceit and pride, then pride must be cut off at the roots and be like a baby, babbling in simplicity before God, a baby who knows and says only what he has been taught from his parents, and does not listen and does not know outside suggestions that are contrary to his parents, and does not listen and doesn't want to know. For the Holy Spirit taught holy men, like simple and gentle children, to ask, thank and glorify God with those prayers that the Church puts into our mouths. Remember that we are all children of the Heavenly Father, and in the simplicity of your soul, look at everyone as the children of the eternal Father - holy, all-good, omnipresent, omniscient, omnipotent, wise, righteous, unchangeable, who provides for everyone, who covers everyone with the roof of His goodness - and live in love with everyone, defeating with good all evil in people. I thank You, Lord, for You have afflicted me with my very sin, so that I will not commit sin, and You have warmly accepted me as I repent, and You have taken away my sins from my heart, and You have granted Your coolness with space 15 to me. Polycarp of Smyrna, martyr (167). He suffered in Asia Minor during the persecution of Christians at the age of 86. According to ancient legend, during the torture of Polycarp there was a voice from Heaven: “Be strong, Polycarp, and take courage.” His memory is celebrated on February 23 and March 8. Daring (church glory) – daring, criminal. Dream (church glory) – ghost, seduction, deception. Smart (church glory) – spiritually, in spirit. Existing (church-glorified) - the same as He, - He Who Is, one of the names of God, truly (really) Ouds (Church Slavic) – members of the body. Prelest (church glory) – seduction, delusion, deception. Prayer to the Most Holy Trinity “Rising from sleep, I thank Thee, Holy Trinity...” from the sequence of morning prayers. Baal is one of the main deities worshiped by the Canaanites and Phoenicians; serving him was accompanied by immoral orgies and human sacrifices. The ancient Jews, neighboring these peoples, adopted from them the service of Baal, falling away from the true God, and this was their main sin. Simple (church glory) – here: open, sincere, direct, pure. Creation (church glory) – re-creation, renewal. Wed: Rejoice, Head of the mental creation (Russian: Rejoice, Originator of spiritual rebirth) (Akathist to the Most Holy Theotokos, ikos 10). Stuzhati (Church Glav.) – to oppress, oppress, disturb. Simple (Church Slavic) – here it means: whole, indivisible into parts. Contempt (church glory) – neglect, disrespect; arrogance. Space (Church Slavic) – spaciousness, breadth, freedom. You might be interested in: