Orthodoxy [Theme]

Read one chapter of the Gospel and two chapters of the Apostle daily, as well as a short morning and evening rule.

Don’t go to church very often; on memorable dates it’s good to serve the Liturgy, and the rest of the time, pray yourself. Yes, and not by standing in front of icons all day, but by the memory of God in the usual doing of everyday concerns. Briefly, easily and even cheerfully, turning to the Lord: Lord,

You know, once in Russia before the revolution there was such an attraction: a circus often came to the fair, and in this circus there were different performances. And here is one performance, one attraction called as follows: Live

You know, father, our life should be like a Napoleon cake - dough, cream, dough, cream, and powder on top. If our cake consists of only one dough, it will not be tasty. If it consists of only one cream, it will be too sweet. And if the dough is interspersed with layers of cream - dough-cream, dough-cream, dough-cream, and powder on top - then such a pie will be sweet. The dough is our labors, our worldly cares. If our whole life consists only of them, then such a life will not be sweet. If we have only one cream, that is, only one prayer from morning to night, which is practically impossible in our life, then this will also be wrong, and it will not work. But with us everything should be harmonious and measured - our works should be intertwined with prayers. And not necessarily with long ones - you can with very short ones: Lord,

An Orthodox Christian doesn’t give a damn about all your conspiracies, about dead water - you can push it up your ass. ... Therefore, Gordon can leave all these horse threats for the madhouse, into which sooner or later he will absolutely end up. And let these witches and sorcerers save him there. That's all, although such “best witches and sorcerers” will not lead you anywhere but to hell. And for Ukraine - listen, if there are any thinking people left there, look: this is a diagnosis. What is your country like today? This is a diagnosis, this is a person - he is either an absolutely unprincipled and cynical clown, or he really went headlong into this hatred.

It is impossible for someone who does nothing to save their neighbor to be saved. Live for others and you yourself will be saved.

Faith will become for us an ark of salvation, where the Lord Himself will be the pilot, who will lead us to the gates of righteousness. And the fear with which we look at tomorrow will disappear, for what is it, this tomorrow, if eternity is promised to those who believe in God and live in God... Do not make any plans or assumptions for the future in advance and prematurely. May the will of the Lord be done for everything! For He said: Whom

Today

“Orthodoxy will perish when our Russian Church cannot send a single Peresvet into the army,” the monk finally said and fell silent, as if these words were burning his lips...

Perhaps we can name three stable components of Russian self-awareness. We have already talked about this in part, but we need to repeat it again. The first component of national self-awareness is Orthodox ideas about good and evil, about the world and man. They go with us through the centuries, despite heresies and schisms, revolutions and reactions, atheism and new outbreaks of religiosity. They have firmly entered into the ideological matrix of the Russians, and no reformers can knock them out of it. The second is the collective memory of the historical choices that Russia had to make, being, in the words of Mendeleev, “between the hammer of the West and the anvil of the East.” The third is the Russian type of thinking, combining peasant common sense with cosmic feeling. As the poet said about the Russian mind, “it soberly judges the earth, bathing in a mystical darkness.”

An unmarried marriage is a marriage, but Christ has not yet come to this marriage. When we marry people who have been married for many years, who have given birth and raised children, we tell them this: “You were husband and wife until today, and now you have become husband and wife in Christ. Christ turned water into wine at the wedding in Cana. Your life before the wedding was water. It was refreshing and nourishing. Now, with the coming of Christ to your marriage, it should become wine, that is, it should become more beautiful, tastier and healthier.”

- Leave him alone, Pavlukha. My mother also forced me to take a cross, so should I throw it away now? Despite the fact that the Germans hanged my mother for her connection with the partisans.

Faith arises and strengthens not thanks to rational arguments, but because it is given to a person by God. You can believe even after repeatedly convincing yourself of the absurdity of religion from the point of view of reason. But you can prove for yourself the existence of God, see miracles and not become a believer. Orthodoxy is not “proven, but shown” - that’s what people say about this.