Transformation of prisoners and warmed hearts. Parsuna of Archpriest Arkady Petrovtsevtranslated

Why do you need a spiritual father? Why is obedience superior to fasting and prayer? How can love warm those who have long lost contact with God? What does it mean to be a witness in confession? And why is love stronger than sin?

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“Parsuna” is the author’s program on the SPAS channel by the chairman of the Synodal Department for Relations of the Church with Society and the Media, editor-in-chief of the magazine “Thomas” Vladimir Legoida.

Hello, dear friends. We continue to write the “parsuns” of our contemporaries. And today our guest is Archpriest Arkady Petrovtsev. Hello, dear father.

Hello, Vladimir Romanovich.

I'm very glad to see you. Lots of questions. Well, let's maybe start with the first one, which has become so established and permanent. The question of such a short prologue, which is now formulated in this way: how today, here and now, would you answer the question, who are you?

Archpriest Arkady Petrovtsev

Rector of the Church of St. Apostles Peter and Paul in the village of Ropsha, Leningrad region. Founder of the social project “House of Diligence” for housing people who find themselves in difficult life circumstances. Father of ten natural and six adopted children...