ABOUT VIDTRIMANNYA THAT PRAYER
"Forever wearable in the darkness of death
Lord Jesus, sob and life
Esusova sang in our style.”
Apostle Paul (2 Cor. IV, 10)
"If we truly love God, then
we love ourselves vіdzhenemo predilectі".
Wikl. Maxim Spovidnik (D III, 204)
There are two main misunderstandings in our statement about the ascetic. First - those who in it are all "found by chants", and not commanded by the apostles, and the other, who are preached in it knowingly to the human body. Not long ago, one believer said to me: "I accept Christianity, but now I should dig myself into the ground?"
Here on the right, obviously, not in the academic superechtsi. We live not in the era of "religious-philosophical gatherings", but in a more serious hour - the residual self-appointment of either Christians, or else not Christians. World of suffering in the wake of the slaughter of the kokhannya. The fathers taught that a person will be humble to fight for his pride and self-love, - with unreasonable love for himself, that with strength, to resist the humility of that love for people. "Tilesnі work (the feat of meekness) to bring the soul to humility, - write St. Abba Dorotheus, - that the soul sleeps with the body and takes the fate of everything that fights in the body. and soul "(D II - 607). Humble my soul with fasting(Ps. XXXIV, 13), - we read in the psalm.
“Egoism is unreasonable love to the body,” said St. Maxim Spovidnik. ).
So that love is not exhausted to others, so that through victory over anger, pride, to take the road of love to people, - a person is guilty of changing his love to himself, guilty of putting on a bridle of meekness. Neutrimannya directly zherelo zbіlshennya cold in the world. As it says in the Gospel: through a lot of lawlessness at the bagatioh okholone kokhannya(Matt. XXIV, 12).
Chapter 5 of the Epistle to Galatians has a lack of darkness, just like in the Gospel, love is shown to people. Before freedom, cry out to you, brother, abi, your freedom was not a drive for the fulfillment of the flesh; but love serve one to one. The word "ale" conveys two protracted strivings: the service of love inspires us to fulfill our body.
All of their thoughts about the feat of peace The Batki took from the Word of God. The axis of the deakі vypiska of the Apostolic bloodlines, put by the Fathers in the basis of asceticism.
The flesh is contrary to the spirit, and the spirit is contrary to the body: stink alone to resist one, so you don’t work what you wanted to(Galatians 5:17).
The tendrils of the ascetics are hovering over the mustache. I will calm down and willy-nilly my body(1 Corinthians 9:25-27).
Think of the body as a fortune-teller against God, for they don’t obey the law of God, they can’t(Rom. 8:7).
Kingdom God don't eat that drink(Rom. 14:17).
Do not live in me, then in my body, it’s good that the blessing of goodness (є) is in me, but if it’s out of the way, I don’t know that. Good, what I want, I do not shy away, but evil, which I do not want, I shy away. According to the inner people, I know that I am satisfied with the Law of God, but in my members I have another law, which is to oppose the law of my mind and to rob me of the law of sin, which is found in my members. I'm a good person! Who will spare me death?(Rom. 7).
So that the "body of death" was not invented by chants, and leather, who honestly wants to accept pure Apostolic Christianity, is inevitably guilty of accepting chents, as if they thoroughly repeat the creed of the Apostles. This accuracy of repetition was clearly seen by the Fathers.
"Whoever you want, - write St. Isaac the Syrian, - so that the Lord dwells in the new one, he will take his body to serve the Lord, practice the commandments of the Spirit, written by the Apostles, and take care of your soul in the ways of the flesh, described by the Apostle (Gal. 5)" (D II - 653).
Etc. Philotheus of Sinai writes: "The Apostle seems: strive for the sake of us"(1 Cor. 9, 25). It is impossible, with the great number of heads, to take up arms against the ears, against the invisible malicious forces of the same, which are bound by this body, important and greedy for the Spirit." For there is no Kingdom, God of Bashne and Drink(Rom. 14:17). Wisdom of the body is not a witch against God, for the law of God does not obey, you can lower it(Rom. 8:7). It is not possible, consciously, the shards, being earthly, to the earthly life, can be addicted and enjoy the deadly pests of the real century ". Wisdom for bodily death є: tі, scho well at the tіlі of God cannot be fit(Rom. 8, 8) (D III - 447).
Abba Philotheus immediately took a lot more notes from the Apostolic texts, lowered them, but did not need more.
Accepting Apostolic Christianity, one should not forget about asceticism about "death mortals" (Rom. VII, 24).
In the practical setting of the path of peace, for the sake of that statement of the Batkiv, there is great value for us, and especially there, de stench directly hangs the words of the Apostles for us and brings the spirit of the Pochatkovo Church closer to us. Our ecclesiastical epoch is steadily advancing to early Christianity, turning to the new, not archeologically and "livingly churchly", but whispering ahead of itself in history, like a new form of ancient strength and perfection. The Lord finished the Ephesian Church: Ale may against you those who have squandered their first kohannya(Ap. 2).
Vira jokes about her first kohanny.
In a free soul, with unnatural for her passions, so that she could freely and easily follow her Teacher and God, the Batki pursued one of the two main meanings of the feat of death.
"The feats of meekness inculcate ourselves to lie to us, so that it would be easier for the mother-in-law to follow our Lord" (Vikl. Filofei Sinaisky, D III - 459).
"Passionate, overwhelmed by the mind, - write the Rev. Maxim Spovidnik, - tie yoga to speech objects, and, having seen the sight of God, hesitate to take care of them." "Passion is an unnatural ruh of the soul, either through incomprehensible swindling, or through reckless hatred." "Reason, turning to the visible, natural (tobto posadovo) understanding of speech for additional sense. No reason, no natural understanding of speeches, no speech, no sense, - do not mouth evil: for that is all God's creation. passion, which attaches itself to natural speeches. "Not evil, but gluttony; not childbirth, but fornication; not pennies, but love of money; not glory, but Marnoslavism ... Really, there is nothing evil, evil, evil, like a mischief to the mind" (wine). Natural blessings and satisfaction do not succumb to those who are aware of them, shards of stench are the necessary traces of improving our nature. Bo nature delivers to us, and by the way of ours, satisfaction, ... zha and drink and sleep ... Everything is so well-behaved ... in reasonable boundaries, so they don’t allow, sob vіn poddavsya through those slavery. in that, schob vіdokremiti predilectі vіd dumok. We repent for the help of spiritual love and meekness" (vin, D III - 193, 196, 213, 219, 220, 289).
The axis is clearer than the foundation of the feat of humility, given by one of the greatest Saints. Body of death, About what the Apostle wrote, є, for the teachings of the Fathers, the sukupnіst predilections, which trim the soul in unnatural slavery. Zavdannya at that, shchob vіlniti її through a feat.
Ale vizvolyayuchi її, we instantly vizvolyaєmo body. Here we come to another, more important side of asceticism. Prodovzhuyuyuschie podkrovennya Apostolіv, Batki deprived us vchennya about those that the feat of the so-called "mortal body" can not only heal the soul, but also strengthen our body to the godly eternity.
St. Gregory Palamas writes: "As the Apostle calls the body death, if: who will let me sow the body of death(Rom. VII, 24), then the mind, with your feelings, is so bodily sophistication. ...I call: Vem - it seems - more do not live in me, in other words, in my goodness(Rom. VII, 18). Bachish, who is not dead, but who lives with her, calls wine evil. Evil are those who are not wise, but whose law is in our minds and opposes the law of reason, live in the body(Rom. VII, 23). Why do we, opposing this law of sin, viganate yoga from the body and settle the mind there ... and through it we put the law of the skin strength of the soul and the skin member of the body is more appropriate to you ... The apostle, it seems, temple of the Holy Spirit, that you live in us, the essence(1 Cor. VI, 19) and I renew what mi - temple of God(1 Cor. III, 16) ... Who was honored to be the life of God, instill in them the mind of one who is quiet, who has a mind, respecting the incomparable? є creation of evil on the cob. Let us be wise in bodily wisdom, shanuemo evil, but in the tempo of life, we can not shanuemo evil: to that which the body is not evil. Why should the skin of the quiet, who clings to God, cry out to the New One with David: greed for Thee, my soul, like a multiplicity of Thee is my body?(Ps. LXII, 2) my heart and my body my health about God live(Ps. LXXXIII, 3) (D V - 314, 315).
To learn one’s own asceticism from someone who teaches a person to become addicted, not only from thoughts, but from the body, so that those other times - the body and the soul of a person - become similar to the eternal soul and to the eternal body of their Teacher.
"As a person, - write St. Abba Isaiah, - do not work, build up to death, work your body like that, as if wearing the loves of Jesus, then do not stir Yogo for joy" (D I - 423).
Shards are brought, surprisingly, to stumble more often with the unknown side of Christianity, I will bring another sprat of whiskers.
"Leading on the feat of the one who repents, - like Anthony the Great, - the Spirit of God gives you His breath and learns not to turn back... it’s warmed up in nіy. the stench perebuyali until the fall.... Todіlo stіlo stіlе in thіѕ mаnу tіlo tіlo tіlo tіlo tіlo іnstruction rоzоm, thаt wіll hаvе mеzhuvatіm yogo in їzhі аnd dіtvі аnd sleep аnd аnd аnd аnd аnd аnd аnd аnd dії, stіyno nachayuchis in the Holy Spirit, behind the butt of the Apostle Paul mortify one's body and involuntarily... In such a rite, all the body inspires every goodness, and, rooting in the power of the Holy Spirit, it changes so that you become a songful world, counted to the quiet powers of the spiritual body, as if it were possible to take it away from the resurrection righteous "(D I - 24, 26).
This meta feat without intermediary screams from the dogma about the resurrection of the dead. The very knowledge about the eternal viability of the body stuns people to hurry up to prepare it before the divine decline. Before the great saints, it is resolute to clean and tidy up the booths.
"Whoever believes that the body of the yogi is resurrection, that dbaє purify the yogo from defilement" (vikl. Efrem Sirin, D II - 487).
"Worry about your body, as if about the temple of God. Podbay about it: you may rise again, and you are guilty of giving the call of God, that having built you with your body. Until Sunday, cleansed of your addictions" (vikl. Abba Isaiah, Ot. 232 ).
"For the resurrection of the soul, as if turning її to God through the vikonanniya of the Divine commandments, the resurrection body followed the next, if it resonates with the soul ... Tі, that you lived here according to God ... at the resurrection take the body to God" (St. Gregory Palamas, D V - 280).
"Be it a soul, faith and diligence about all the honesty that it has been worthy of here, having risen in Christ in strength and conflict, it is worthy to take away the days of heavenly mysteries ... On the day of the resurrection, by virtue of the same glorious image, become famous souls and the Spirit will be choked with the Lord’s wives on the side, having become the body of Yogo’s glory” (St. Macarius the Great, D V - 451).
“Scho robimo mi, proceeding to St. hell? F - 1).
"Jesus Christ... appearing to us, knowing the Divinity with soul and body, so that, like God, spare death, soul and body" (St. Abba Fallasius, D III. - 337).
"If the soul is embellished, then the body that has come to the soul, take beauty in its hour, imperishable(1 Cor. XV, 53). With what body is embellished with nina, and the soul is unhinged, there are more likeness and soul and body like dissimilarity. Nina beauty її (soul) is not visible on the body, but even then it will appear. So the soul is like the sun, beautify your appearance, and kindness will appear on the body" (St. Tikhin of Zadonsky, "Mandrivets", 1861, No. VII.).
"If the bodies themselves rise up then, but only the stench will become imperishable, immortal and glorious ... And in what is said: the flesh and blood of the Kingdom of God is not to be inherited, lower than decay is imperishable(1 Cor. 15), (then) uncleanness, slyness and greed arise under flesh and blood" (Vikl. Barsanuphius the Great, B - 421, 423).
"Earthly will be the body imperishable, without sputum, however, and fatness, the bushes will be invisible from the spiritual in the spiritual, so it will be the person and the heavenly. Like the boulder was created on the cob, so it is Sunday, so it seems to be the image of the Sin of Man for the communion of communion deification ( St. Gregory Sinai, D V - 206).
"The seat of addictions, the support of their minds, is the whole body, if the soul is not vikonan of the Spirit. The soul, inspired by the spirit of God, is built up against addictions and rushes out of the body ... The body is resurrected the same (itself), so that the skin recognizes that body, in which resurrection, with your own wet body, by yourself, as if you were wearing it, tenacious earlier, but we will remember other things.
If the doctrine of the spiritual purification of the body is based on the dogma about the resurrection of the dead, then this dogma, in its own way, may support the dogma about the resurrection and resurrection of the human body of the Savior. For this, it was necessary in the era of the ecumenical councils to stand up to the deeds of the human nature of the Savior, need to be bosses and power and strength(Eph. I, 21) to affirm the reality of the salvation of all human beings by Him, - and the body and soul - to affirm the unbreakable faith in the grace-filled eternal life of people, as if they are saved by Christ.
Moreover, the mutual link of these two underlays is great and indestructible, which in the Christian testimony of the affirmation of the other is at the same time the affirmation of the first, or the listing of the other, that is the future Sunday of human bodies, that is the one hour of the resurrection of the resurrection reality of the first, that people. The apostle, it seems that if there were no resurrection of dead bodies, then it is significant that there was no resurrection of Christ: If the dead are not resurrected, then Christ is not resurrected.(1 Cor. 15). The apostle of the dvіchi repeats this phrase, the shards of which have the permission to speak of all Christianity. Aje in the fact that the soul is immortal - the same heretics in the era of the Apostolic messenger did not doubt, and all the commemorations of the 15th division of the 1st Epistle to the Corinthians were directed by themselves on the sum of the Resurrection tel. The heretics taught that the resurrection needed to be understood allegorically, like a purification of the soul, like a resurrection in the form of sin. "This is a vchennya," write St. Theophan the Recluse, "inspiring them with bis. For the yakbees believed that there was no resurrection body, then they gradually changed the bi, that Christ had not risen" (F 1-524).
The whole patristic writing is inspired by the words about the resurrection of the body, to that it is the same as the new, or the use of yoga in illusory, means the resurrection of Christ and by ourselves in the form of Yogo Golgotha, in the form of Yogo suffering, in the form of Yogo blood. If there would be no resurrection of bodies, but it would be more allegorical, then such an allegory was not only the resurrection of the Lord, but a drop of blood that fell on Yogo's guise. And the Fathers-ascetics would sooner b_dmovilis in view of their immortality, an_zh in order to forget about them. Stick your tongue to my throat if I forget you, Jerusalem. (Ps. CXXXVI, 6, 5).
The reality of a person's love before the її rose-pinned God zmіtaє zmіtaє zі svogo slyakhu all demonic nonsense about primarity or allegoricalness like Golgotha, so is Resurrection. On them - really many "people stand firm and to themselves, and also not primary, but alive, united and real, as if they are suffering in the feat of the spiritual people and already come to life in the resurrection, which is going through this sin, but also real in the earth - Russia, France and Egypt - in the wake of the holy truth of God Golgotha and the Resurrection of the human body of God, followed by the likeness of Yomu, the suffering in the feat and the resurrection of the people - a fact, not only entirely real, but united, unique and not repeated: The people after the Resurrection of Christ will no longer require a re-working, shards from the instilled God їy vodkrita all the possibility of instilling buttya.
"Let me give myself to the Lord, but I will accept Yogo and become gods through New" (vikl. Maksim Spovidnik, D III - 175).
"Let us give you help, this great Brother of ours; the mind of our Lord Jesus Christ... Oh!
“Wearing the light-illuminating robes of the Spirit, we are rebuked in God and wine with us, we are for the grace of the gods and sons of God” (vikl. Simeon the New Theologian, D V - 20).
On the high ground, I show the church of Christianity about the resurrection of Christ, and by the same token about the reality of the resurrection of bodies, and through the new love of a person to God, ceasing to be abstract, becoming a special love for the sake of a healthy heart and mind: God accepts, not the prima of a person її warm and alive.
For the remembrance of the Ascetic Fathers, it is even more important that those who have fallen asleep with their faith at the resurrection of the bodies of the Savior, not only on the dogma about the resurrection and resurrection of the body of the Savior, and not only on the clear wedding of the Apostle Paul, but on a special note before the resurrection of their bodies.
"Before the resurrection of bodies," write St. Simeon the New Theologian, "before the resurrection of souls." Tse resurrection souls, adding wine, "and sanctify the body with your own radiance and luminosity of the Spirit" (D V - 58, 23).
"Purity of mind, at a certain hour of prayer, sow the light of the Holy Trinity. Ale, honoring the light of the mind and the body that is buried with it, brings rich symbols of divine beauty" (St. Isaac the Syrian, D V - 301).
"At the quiet, who threw their minds to God and turned their souls to the greediness of the divine, - and the flesh, having reconfigured, hangs together with it and relishes the divine intercourse, through which it becomes a well-being and the house of God" (St. Gregory Palamas, D V - 321) .
"By unceasing prayer and chanting at the Divine Scriptures, the wise eyes of the heart and sing of the King of forces are awakened, and the joy is great and strong in the soul. ).
"As the soul is not hijacked and mriylivim hand sleeping in the love of God, pulling like a depth of nevimovnoy love and the very best ... then you know to lie down, that is the action of the Holy Spirit" (Blessed Diadoch, D III - 26, 55, 22) .
"If the grace of God - the gift of this - the gift of grace-filled tears will multiply with us - then it’s easier for us to like it, and think calm down and calm down, and the mind, as if I’m a rich hedgehog, sing and enjoy prayer. scho vіdchuvaєtsya on vsomu tіlu "(Vikl. Nil Sorsky, NR - 91).
“If a person is afraid to portray God as a sin, then it’s a better thing. Whoever has a mind, a pure mind, is a friend of a fool, a great one. A third, even more great, if someone can see grace in the soul. And who can have the grace of the Holy Spirit and at the soul and at the body, - tse completed love ”(Abba Siluan, ZHMP 1956, No. 1, 2, 3).
"At the quiet, who jealously prospered in knowledge, grace, through a little bit of reason, and the very body cheered for the joy of the invisible... With the wickedness of Adam, it (naturally) was divided into two actions, but by the Holy Spirit, it became united and forgive again. no one can sing in one's own, the world is quiet, like... I will calmly hang every kind of bodily feeling, but only in such minds... I can feel the invisibility of divine goodness and at the same hour, at the world of my success, cherish my joys tіlu, immemorial like a word in love, revealing its well-being to words, seemingly: "In that my heart hopes and we help me, and my body prosvіlі and by the will of John" (Ps. XXVII, 7). life "(Blessed Diadoch, D III - 26, 55, 22).
"I flourish my body." And the axis of St. Fedir Edeskiy writes: "The color of the flesh suffocates with deeds and be-like the will of її vіdsіkaє, the axis of whom "to wear the headdress of Christ the Lord on his dead flesh" (Gal. VI, 17) (D III - 337). Now it is already clear there is no supernaturalness here: the "color of the flesh" of St.
Placed to the body with the Fathers, one and the same: the body of a person is a participant in eternity. "Christ is the Savior of soul and body" (Abba Fallasius, D III - 315).
So, as in the present day, after Adam, the body and soul are defiled by sin, then the stench of the fire of the feat is cleansed for immortality. At a feat, passions die and the body rages. "St. Fathers taught us how to be passionately-driven, and not body-driven" (Blessed Callist and Ignaty, D V - 382). Zovnіshnіy zbіg zbіg zbіg termіnіv tіla tіla passed іn the Apostles tо ottsіv: "tіlo morіtі" and "tіlo - the temple of the Holy Spirit" were saved and here, navіt from whom the Father did not add anything to the Apostles. The body does not drive in a feat, but instead, the sins of a person: the body of death fights with the body - the temple of the Holy Spirit.
“Oh, how we honored Lamech, the first beaten, - the soul is like a man, the mind is like a young man, like a brother, having beaten my body, like Cain, beaten, with kindly exercises,” we read in the great canon of St. Andrew of Kritsky.
"Brother-body" is the most powerful in the feat of purification, as the most defenseless in the face of the evil attack. And in children, the vikorinity of these nasty things are sickened, vtіm, not forgetting about the vtіhu.
"Just as a mother speaks about a child, so Christ speaks about the body of the ill-suffering (to endure for the sake of Yogo bodily relief) and give birth to the body of yoga" (St. Isaac the Syrian and Blessed Callist and Ignaty, D V - 375).
"To the one who pіdvіz, it's necessary to know, if and with some kind of fears live the body, like a foe, and if you follow him and pіdvіz, like a friend of the mighty" (St. Illya the presbyter, D III - 472).
Timchasov rozladannya tіla after death does not see the Christian witness. If you choose a miracle in Christianity, then you will take God away from you. Bl. Diadokh to speak about those who are demons of spiritual predilections "put a thought about the worldlessness of human nature, like no goodness can not, through the laying of the flesh" (D III - 57).
"It is necessary that the body through death, as if through fire at the crucible, like gold, having cleansed itself from the earthly and gloomy heaviness of decay, it grew from the labors imperishable, clean and illuminating with the light of immortality" (vikl. John Damaskin, "Word on the Dormition") .
"True death is in the middle, in the heart, and it is hidden; the inner person is dying with it. To that, if you have passed from death (tsієї, vnutrіshnoї) to the life of the dark, then it is truly for ever alive and not dying. for the next hour, then I will be resurrected again with glory, more sanctified.
About tse sing at Great Saturday:
"To resurrect the dead and stand up for you, which is rooted in the trunks, and all earthly people rejoice."
In the Fathers, it is accepted to divide passions into two types: spiritual and physical. Tilesnі - see all the tiles, everything that leads to the earthing of people. To the spiritual passions of the Old Man, one can bring: forgetfulness, nighttime, ignorance, condemnation, anger, memory, arrogance, marnoslavism, pride, hypocrisy, nonsense, nonsense, znevira, zalyubstvo, znevira, cowardice, nevdyachnist, remstvovannya, arrogance, duality, zarazumіlіst etc. About the struggle for spiritual predilections incl. Ephraim the Sirin writes like this: "Skilki help to bury in the presence of obvious sins of the wicked people, so it’s like a temple of God, but it’s necessary for the mother of diligence and feat to protect the inner people, so the souls in the presence of every evil mind, for saying" heart: let the belly go out" (Prov. IV, 23). In whose cleansed heart we reach success, we will continue to fight and super-scheme the cunning favors - marnoslavl, hatred, arrogance, flattery, lust, supernice, love of love and prep., with the help of self-confidence, respecting oneself and saving the mind of one’s mind in the union and understanding of the secret spiritual predilections "(DP - 366).
In the Apostolic Church, we do not know what kind of addictions to the body and the soul: and so and so on - the consummation of the "body of death." Behind the Apostle, a corporeal person, there will be not only the sin of gluttony and love of love, but the sins of pride, zazdroshchiv, fortune tellers, and all other sins have thoughts and words.
"Do the flesh in the house," writes the Apostle, "the stink is: overlove, fornication, uncleanness, indecentness, idolatry, witchcraft, witchcraft, welding, zadrіst, anger, scum, rozbіzhnostі, calm down, nonsense, hatred, driving in, drinking, like" ( Gal. V, 19-21). From the success of the Apostle's resurrection of the "right of the flesh," we should call ten no matter how much we can't reach the category of "corporeal." That same principle was divided into categories, and the generalization of them in the united marriage of "right flesh" is also carried out in other Apostolic and Gospel texts. Navit podіl uchnіv following the principle of the teacher's school or spiritual kerіvniztva The Apostle calls carnal right: "If one seems to be: I am Pavlov, and the other: I am Apollos, then why are you not corporeal?" (1 Cor. III, 4).
This is a very important fact for us. Often, especially in a black dress, people who have started a feat and have already learned to reveal themselves, it is unimportant to talk about others like about "bodies". Aje evil incomprehensible here is already rich and rich eyes are clouded. In the past, while reading asceticism and already respecting themselves on the Ladder, some people said about reading the Gospel: "This is for the worldly." Why is it that Dostoyevsky showed Smerdyakov as one who reads Isaac the Sirin? I am dark in my soul, as if I could only use the sword of the Word of God. Apostlesk of the non -millennium of the perceptions of the ї ї ї ї ї ї ї є єdnost in the "death", there is a good person to the same to be the truth, the time for the time of the vicneum of the vicnee, now they don’t hide anywhere: they all stink in a single sweat of spiritual rot of people. Every Marnoslav chi is wise, zazdrisny, chi sly - a carnal man, a man of "the body of death." At the holy Apostolic Vespers I take away our light itself, if we, approaching the spiritual ranks, do not see any spirituality in them for all of ours. They have no єїї, like in ourselves, її joking and sovnenih "spiritual" passions. Milesni, if you want, it is possible, I don’t take the burner and I don’t make love.
The fathers of the subvariant category of addictions obviously have little use to show even more damage to the people of spiritual addictions.
"Other passions are temporal, and other spiritual. Whoever blows them first, but doesn’t care about others, that one is like a person, for the protection of the animals, who caused his own temple and mitzna to be fenced, and the bird wants a beaked glory grapes" (St. Illya Presviter, D III, 440). "Shards of the soul are invisibly hanging behind the body ... even spiritually important vadis and ruining them for the bodies ... wanting, I don’t know why, hanging out like a rose-colored rich. but to be astonished at the wadi is richly naive, as sincere: - zadrіst, malice, arrogance, slyness and the root of all lustfulness, and similar to that "(vikl. Efrem Sirin, DP - 376).
"All sins are disgusting before God, but the most disgusting for all is the pride of the heart" (Vikl. Anthony the Great, D 1-58). Having said Abba Pimen (Great): “People, who sin and repent, I see people’s troubles, who don’t sin and don’t repent. 417). "Sinful and lazy people, (ale) mournful and humble in heart, pleasing to God's people, to work a lot of good things and infected through their arrogance" (Abba Fedir Fermeisky, Ot. 450).
"The proud righteous man is a sinner, who does not succumb to his sinfulness" (Jep. Ignaty Brianchaninov).
"Pride is the cob and root of all the evil in the human race and truly is the death or death of the soul" (vikl. Ambrose Optinsky, AM - 201). "Thinking about your old ones, do piety, what stinks are good in them, stinks to think that you have already achieved perfection, and, writing down, begin to sue others. a clear sinner, lowly secretive, who hovers under the cover of visible honesty "(vikl. Nikodim Svyatogorets, H - 15).
"The writings of the devil are called unclean through those who, on the cob, have poured out the good possessions of humility of wisdom and fallen in love with pride" (vikl. Іsykhіy Yerusalimsky, DP - 171). "Do not fornicate only to defile the quiet that you see, but pride, to make the rest richer" (St. John Chrysostom, PL - 187).
How important it is for us, old people, to understand "to get more money!". We all know that similar words are said in style like literary hyperbole, to which we can not be taken seriously. We are so full of spiritual and grave vices, we, carrying the impurity, seem to ourselves to be such morally pure people, that only after such a great spiritual suffering would we want to often understand the terrible reality of the words of the Holy Fathers about the impurity of spiritual predilections.
The axis of why the Old Ones boldly begin, that the feat of the body is a feast, a short sleep, etc., to serve as a special head rank for fighting with the body's predilections, without regard for all yoga importance, yet the feat is still different for the meanings of the relatives with the "internal" roblennyam ", with internal purifications of people from yoga of spiritual vices: more purification of the soul can overpower it as a spiritual one, and bodily addictions.
"Poemen the Great, - write Bishop Ignaty Bryanchaninov, - dedicating everything to himself to a sensible black feat - spiritual deed, giving significance to the bodily feat of the flooring, piles of wine necessary for the spiritual feat to be taken, not to harm another, not to the master" From . 388).
"Pist, even though it’s a sign, that the sovereign is quiet, who appreciates the value, the price, but not before God. III-34).
All the saints have understood the faith, wonderfully, in the Apostolic way, that it is like a strength that love can bring to oneself in a holiness spirit.
"Having marked (the flesh) a feat for the strength of її, all your mind is beastly on the inside. Bo corporeal education is a little corny, but piety is all corny(1 Tim. 4:8). Ikyi perebuvaє in the middle and dbaє innocently about internal sensibility, long-suffering, mercy, humility; And not only tse, but I look, theologising and praying. Tse those who are wise the Apostle, seemingly: "Walk in the Spirit" (vikl. Maksim Spovidnik, DIII - 239, 240).
"Garna on the right pіst, chuvannya, mandrіvne life, protétse tіlki pratsі zvnіshny virtuous zhittya, ale rank of christians є bolsh vіshіshnіm" (St. Mark the ascetic, D 1-515).
"It is impossible for him who goes to evil thoughts, but we clean the sins for the wicked people" (Vikl. Filofei Sinaisky, DIII - 459).
"It's like the greed of the body is not occupied, if the soul is to fornicate with a bus of disobedience" (Blessed Diadoch, DIII - 32).
"The one who always fights with the body and in the same bodily deeds, is corrected, with all the dashing suffering, he himself is a great shkod in the speeches of the gods, not commemorating that, like the innocence of the divine will. Bo for St. Paul, corpulent right a little corisna(1 Tim. 4, 8), until the pearl of the mind of the flesh is clayed with streams of repentant tears, and life’s spiritual deadness does not enter the body, and the law of the spirit does not sink into our dead body. Sincerely pious, like a child of divine thoughts, one looks like a tree of life in a mystical mind, creaking and in a mustache, like creating purity of heart, ... like introducing all kindness spiritually with oneself "(vikl. Mikita Stifat, D 5-146, 147).
The Holy Fathers, even more often in their own opinion about the importance of the importance of inner deeds, commensurate with the corporal feat, rely on the words of the Apostle Paul: "Tilesna is rightly a little short, but piety is on all the backs, looming the life of life today and that future." For us, the word "piety" is not only a mysterious word, but an odious one, but at one time it was like a new text of St. The writing is an explanation of why, after all, "the body has the right to be small" and that there is a strong force and strength for the body's feat for vidsikannya and the body's addictions. The sense of this word is explained by the Apostle Yakiv: Pious ones are those who despise orphans and widows in their sorrows and save themselves undefiled from the world(Jak. 1, 27). Pious, then, є, first, love, and by themselves and humility, and in a different way, - vision in the world, so it’s new that she herself pershodzherela and the only power of directness to God, as she herself in herself is the greatest and nadina sbroya people in її pomіrnosti and in the form of spiritual, and in the form of bodily passions. Only in the fire of great aspiration to Divine love can truly burn with disgust. Only in self-sacrificing love, a person knows the grace that ryatu її, and to that it becomes unrewarding to reveal about his feat, to spend it in the fire in the half-light. The axis of why the piety "May the house of life", the axis of why there is "the tree of life" - who will welcome us in God's love?(Rom. VIII, 35). The very exercise of love, that is before God, at the last repays all addictions.
"If the mind takes strength and prepares itself to follow love, which extinguishes all addictions of body and body, then with the strength of її resist unnaturalness, until we see not її (unnaturalness of addictions) in addition, 1-363).
“If you truly love God, then you yourself become addicted to the kohanni” (St. Maxim the Spovidnik, D III - 221).
"I do not belittle the strimanity and fasting, - even Barsanuphius the Great, - the people of your love, with a proper rite, will satisfy you for the time being; let us not. , what do not enter to the mouth to desecrate people, but go out of the mouth of yoga(Mt. XV, 11). For the inner work of the sickness of the heart copes with the right calmness of the heart: such a calmness to rob humility, and humility to rob the people of the settlement of God; In the universe of God, crafty demons are flying and the chief of them is the devil with their nasty addictions, and the people become the temple of God, we sanctify, sanctify, purify and reclaim all arable, kindness and joy. A man to fight as a God-bearer... Don't bet your mind, or rather say, sly one, that you can't get over your reach; for the hedgehog is holy, but it is impossible for good to become evil. But those who go out of the mouth, who penetrate into the heart, then take away the people and cross over and quickly reach the cloister. Do not hesitate, consume the body with pleasure; but for the strength of the inner person, work on it, in order to subdue your thoughts. And then God will flatten the eyes of your heart, so that you can be right and light and be in your mind to say: "By grace I am saved for Christ Jesus our Lord, to whom glory for ever, amen" (B - 170, 171).
"Enchanted by the love of God... to shy baiduzhim to all sinful passions," - in these words of St. Isaac the Sirin (DP - 688), like a short formula, the whole sense pious, yak for everything(1 Tim. IV, 8).
Ascetic fathers confirmed the confession of the Apostle about the omnipotence of love: to endure love, to be merciful, not to tease love, love does not magnify, do not write, do not beshketuy, do not joke about one’s own, do not fight, do not think evil, not for the sake of untruth, but hush the truth, cover everything, believe in everything, support everything, endure everything(1 Cor. 13:45, 67).
In my love, in my piety, there are a lot of different visits, but it’s more important to reach the smallest world, or calmly be satisfied with one bodily gloom. Pochatkove revisiting a thorough kokhannya can go through a long way of testing. ale reach for the kohanna!- pray us the Apostle (1 Cor. XIV, 1). A feat is the achievement of love. In order to be able to reach, we can always repeat the vision of the inner world of a person in the world of sin, and we are forward - in the sin of the past - pride, but only in the root of sin in a humble heart, you can, forgetting yourself, live in God's love. At tsomu sensi "internal deed", about how to start the Old Man. At the heart - out of the abdomen(Appendix IV, 23). Heart broken and humble God does not belittle(Ps. L, 19).
“Death to all passions is humility, and whoever adds this honesty, that wins all passions” (St. John of the List, DP - 503).
"Fornication under pride" (St. Isaac the Syrian, Ot. 337).
"Shto for the fornication of bonds, Yakshcho did not Visushit Jerel, in addition to the prayer of the prayer of the Smirenstya, and the tilki by the post of the Pennies Tіla Ozbrysya, then we will work out of all, Yakshcho Jero (in the same way) Gregory Palamas, D 5-294).
"The inner spirits are the same soulful spirits," write the bishop Ignaty Brianchaninov. dіyannyah, koєnih ascetic in the midst of souls, in his own "(Ot. 50).
"At the saving of the heart in the form of sinful thoughts, the reason for that day of salvation" (wine, Ot. 101).
"Manage to straighten up to inner Christianity," write Ambrose of Optinskiy, "... and cherish this, remembering the gospel word: The Kingdom of God is within you (Lk. XVII, 21) (AM - 69-70).
"Otherwise the impartiality of the soul, - write St. Simeon the New Theologian, - and else the impartiality of the body. Those (spiritually) and the body sanctify with their own savior and sanctuaries of the Spirit; yoga" (D 5-23).
In the words of Rev. Simeon: "alone by itself" means the transition to the understanding of the significance of the bodily feat in the spiritual life. If wine is not "of its own accord", but in the form of "mystery of piety", then it is in the form of love, like in the heart, then the meaning of yoga is undoubted.
"Pist in mercifulness (tobto in love) zapozichu your firmness. If you fast without mercifulness, then your post is not є pist and such a person's price for a nenazher and a feast, and besides, laying, naskolki zhorstokіst gіrsha for rose" (St. John Chrysostom, ZhMP, 1956, # 3).
The Russian ascetic Schemamonk Zosima said more sharply: "Do not marry for one post (those who are with St. Simeon" by itself "). God did not say anywhere:" yakscho kohannya maєte mіzh yourself(Ін. XIII, 35). And the devil never eats and does not sleep, but everything is the devil. Without love and humility, in the presence of one post and chuvannya, you will become a man of the soul" (PB - 266).
Ale, for the blessings of the Fathers, if it’s not like a self-sufficient value, but like a zasib for the achievement of your love itself, then you should live with humility. Shards in the new body are subdued, the soul itself is subdued (St. Abba Dorotheos, DP - 607).
"To lay down on you suvoro trimatis of that which will subdue the body and the mind of the heart in the sight of the mustache and the ugly. Otherwise, if the skilki-nebud can trim the body" (St. Callist Tilikuda, D 5-465), then subdue the heart of the world through .
"If the womb shrinks, then the heart will be subdued" (St. John of the List, DP - 517).
The more the heart is subdued, the closer it is to the kohanna. For the first one, the bodily feat is significant. Another yoga meaning is in the fact that you are in the same physical regime for a healthy body. Like the flesh is rebellious, you need trim in your hands, so that you can see the shores of decay.
"As fearful birds cannot fly high, so it is impossible for their body to go to heaven" (St. John of the List, DP - 519).
"Reason does not bow down, as if the body does not bow down. The kingdom of the mind is the rose of the body" (St. Isaac the Syrian, DP - 734).
The body is shattered at humility, to help the pious soul overcome the evil will, which pulls the person down, and enter the expanses of God. Think about the mountain, not about the earth(Col. III, 2), - read the Apostle, shards Kingdom God don't eat it, don't drink it(Rom. XIV, 17). A corporal feat, the strength of the skin of the world, for the inspiration of the Fathers, does not only help it, but after an hour of building wines to build somewhere in front of the inner spiritual desire. Love to God is brought to us in front of the more obvious and richly simple: bodily practice.
"If you want to draw near with your heart to God, bring your love to us with your bodily labors. They have an ear of life" (St. Isaac the Syrian, DP - 749).
“It’s possible, if you say: if in prayer you pray the head of the truth on the right, then what is needed in fasting? Everything is great ... As if we will pray for our prayers, not ignoring the first body of our fasting, then the replacement of truth is brought by the sin” (St. Mark- ascetic, D 1-514).
"It is impossible and tіlo to indulge in desire with brushes and spiritually enjoy sensible and divine blessings. (Vikl. Simeon the New Theologian, D 5-15).
The Holy Fathers already have a lot of remarks about the great significance of the bodily feat - stink yourself all life was in the new, - but all the same, you still feel the same additions from them: "a feast for a person, and not a person for a post. prayer is not founded" (Jep. Ignaty Brianchaninov, B 1-136), that is the humble cry of the heart, that love whispers.
It is not possible to get a guarantee of spirituality, chi, even more so, її zdіysnennya. "Fastness is not tidied up with fasting, but humility and self-reproach" (vikl. Ambrose Optinsky, AM - 199). Pist may be more than a bridle for addictions, but you may not be able to drive them out of your heart and grow them in the settlement of God.
"A bridle for addictions is not, and the death of addictions is a prayer for mercy" (vikl. Ephraim Sirin, DP - 485), that is love and humility.
І axis, if the bridle is imposed on a healthy body, not weakened by ailments, - according to the humility of love, and not according to marnoslavism or slyness - then the same will gain all its meaning. "Reasonable recognition, - seems to be Rev. Mikita Stifat, - vigilance with God's thoughts and prayer, which has taken as companions, it’s not hard to bring your zealot to the middle of impartiality, if in a new situation, the soul will be overly humble and drenched in tears and make love" yu to God" (D 5-144).
One bishop asked Barsanuphius the Great: "My father, for today I am trying to trim the pist until evening, then I ask you to tell me - what is good?" The old man said: “I’ll tell you in fasting: touch your heart - you’re not robbed by marnoslavism; and if you’re not stolen, touch suddenly - you don’t have to rob you of this German at the vikonn to harm you, - your pist is correct "(B - 524).
After such a "podvіyny dotik" it can become "an ear of that substantiation of any kind of spiritual deed".
"Feats in mind," write Bishop Ignaty Brianchaninov, "to lead to humility. To bring feats to humility, if they are done with the method of repentance, with the method of tidying up one's passions. the spirituality of the statuary, as if none of them were forced, were built up to greater feats.We cannot mother such feats;
As soon as you enter, for the sake of Batkіv їkhnіm uchnіm, start ringing to the point that after you are accepted into the people, there would be no more deyak bazhannya to sip. The stink is most likely not to please the їsti until the satisfaction of the bajannya є.
"About the world of peace in this life, the Old Man seems to be, - I ask Abba John the Prophet to feed, - that I can live that third troch less than necessary, so that I don’t look like a slut. the peace of peace does not intersect only with those of the same drink, but it gravitates towards love, and sleep, and clothes, and everything else; Forty sleep Barsanuphius the Great, restoring his teachings at the sight of six years.
And yet, at the food about the rise of food, the Fathers told their teachings to reach a wide road, it can be seen from the offensive set of St. Grigory Sinaїta: "Three inter-maє їzhі savoring: reconciliation, contentment and sity. Pomіrnіst (tse) - alkati trohi and poїvshi; dosit - ne alkati, ne obtyazhuvatsya; sitіst - obtjazhuvatsya trohi. the world) and more є - the door of the womb, which is allowed to enter. Well, knowing it in a melody, for your strength, rob it more beautifully, not stepping between: for we will finish the authorities and those who are after the Apostle і nasichuvatisya, і alkati і in the most powerful buti(Phil. IV, 12) (Vikl. Gregory of Sinai, D V, 222).
Otzhe, spiritual life will not be ruined for these three lawful entrances of eating. It is not possible to create the most auspicious third zahid (sitistity chi nasichennya) in opposition to spiritual life, as if it were in the hands of the spirit of piety, which dares, for the Apostle, and to grow, and endure hunger, and be pleased and in bad luck. Just beyond the boundary of the third world, there is lawlessness.
"The womb is the cause of all falls," - saying St. John Listvichnik, (D II, 518).
"You can live the stylists today, sob the body, having squinted, it was a friend and helper of the soul of the swollen garlic; otherwise, you can be those who, with the body weak, have a weak soul" (vikl. Seraphim, DS - 233).
Vechenya Batkiv about the remembrance of the fast of the bishop. Ignaty Bryanchaninov formulates as follows: "The one who makes her body light, for the help of a fasting post and chuvannya, to deliver it to you and the most healthy and to help him to take in yourself and save your spiritual life, tobto the Holy Spirit" (Vid. 178).
With the introduction of Batkiv’s speeches about fasting until our life, it’s impossible to forget two more speeches: first, those who stink about the blessing of that fasting for a whole fate, and not more than chotiri razi on the river; And to a friend, speaking about come in living in, stink in qi, come in, don’t put those “malt-drinking”, as if you don’t want us like that.
The elder Batkiv have a lot of suggestions for the need to eat food with the camp of the body.
"Befits the image of the eating of the corporeal poіvnjuvati zі camp of strength and morality of the body: if it is healthy, eat yoga, it is necessary, and if it is not, loosen the yoma sprat. ).
"Sickness and reminding us of God, - even Barsanuphius the Great, - and serve until success, as if we will speak to God ... well, what is the worst punishment, if not a punishment for the body in order to calm the body in a healthy way and make it nemіchny for addictions ... And the sickness is the most punishment, and to be put for the fault of the post, and it is worth navit more than yoga ... The replacement of that, to indulge the strength of the body by fasting, it’s already weakened by ailment, like God, what you are doing in the practice of posting, as if ten times a day, don’t be embarrassed, you won’t be judged for those, because you don’t do it in favor of yourself.
"It's a pity, - write to Ambrose Optinsky, - that your health is weaker in this hour, and to rob you, perhaps, of the monastic feats, without giving up to vikonnanny. Well, here you can make a home, condemn others, and in a fleeting, sick ascetic, no people will be fooled, you won’t carry a person, as if, even if you want to, if you need it, there’s no place to go.. mimovilne narozuminnya" (A - 118).
It is characteristic that in order to weaken the prayer feat, we do not give the Old Man an ailment.
"Under the impetus of weakness, do not deprive of prayer" (metropolitan Theolіpt, D 5-192).
The internal shattering is by no means guilty. Sickness may not be forgiven, but y vin can be unceasingly bound to God. So it’s just a healthy person: three times when you come in, you’ll hope for yourself this free vibe, but if you want to finish the world, the skin of them will be legal only for the fulfillment of the basic law of the internal desire - the whispering of God’s love and humility. Axis why Rev. Ephraim the Sirin seems to say: "Sіv ty for a meal? - Їzh bread, and do not sue your neighbor, so that through judgment you will not become devouring your brother" (DP - 378).
Our lack of understanding of Christianity, as if the Kingdom of God is still here on earth, does not allow us to correctly reveal our ascetics. Our manifested one has a sickly torment of the flesh.
"Way of honesty, - write Blessed Diadoch, - for the beginnings of the people, we are zhorstok and greedy, not for the one who is such a person, but for the one who, from the very beginning of the mother's womb, calls to live in contentment. And for the quiet, who they overtook to pass already to the middle of yoga, vin є all good and vtіshnim ... the soul is already happy with the steps along the stitches of garlic "(D III, 69, 70).
"God's love in us to rob with unimportant commandments and all sorts of strife while vikonnі їх usuvає" (vikl. Ephraim Sirin, D II, 365).
"On the very cob of speech, without doubt, with practice, self-primus and summation of honesty; but if we reach success, we cease to feel grief in them, or it is thoughtful, but it is not enough; to all joy, greediness and Divine half-lights" (St. John of the List, D II-492).
Obviously, the value of fasting, and the whole bodily feat of ascetics. The more the stench enters the "settlement of God", the more they eat the Divine hedgehog. Gradual entry into the Kingdom of God, as if in the midst of us, the Daedals will change the area of your flesh and blood more, as if the Kingdom of God will not decline (1 Cor. XV, 50). Why the saints could eat so little and at one time be physically fit people. Heavenly eating is not an allegory, but a miracle that at one time does not change this biological wildness.
If "all people have thought to become one goal after God, then the body has been according to God, and joy of the spirit in the heart, vitalizing the soul and strengthening the body, strengthening both" (Abba John the Prophet, D II-568).
"It is not possible for us to enjoy self-love in the presence of malt (zhі ta pittya), as by the very act and dosvіdom we cannot relish divine malt for everyone (Blessed Diadoch, D III - 33).
"Believe me, brother, I know a person of such a call, - stretching out every day or two and more often sipping wine to the spiritual level, and in the form of malt, you forget your heart; if you come to eat bread, "(Abba John the Prophet, D II-568).
>Your bodies are the temple of the Holy Spirit, which lives with you, - saying the Apostle (1 Cor. VI, 19). The Apostolic vchennya of the Fathers about the human body - the temple of God is indistinctly connected with their vchennya about the Invisible War.
The fathers called the body "the natural monastery of the soul" and vchili, that the soul is guilty of its resurrection in the dark, like at the porch, to ward off the attack of thoughts and passions, to create God's spirit in oneself. On that self-perturbation in the middle of oneself, and on oneself in the heart, on whose own respect for the mind with the heart in the memory of God, the foundations are not only defended against the attack in the Invisible Layts, but the world is awakened to that possibility of uninterrupted prayer. A person is obliged to go into his inner wilderness, to go to the land of habitation.
"The soul of the soul is the body ... The soul enters at the close of its own, if the mind does not wander there and here at the right and the speeches of the world, but to be found in the middle of our heart" (St. Gregory Palamas, ZhMP, 1956, No. 4). Having punished the Savior: go to your cell and pray there to God's Batkov and your sweat (Mt. VI, 6). Klit tsya, how to tlumach St. Dmitro of Rostov, means the heart "(Jep. Theophan the Recluse, FSH - 382). "All your blessings and inspiration, let them be sent to the invisible vision of God. But know that God does not see your soul, because he does not know you yourself in your own selves" (vikl. Nikodim Svyatogorets, N - 271).
"Everything is to blame for everything that fights evil passions in us, especially if you cause addictions in yourself, and those who are addicted, if you want to, get into trouble; And fight with them, for that and the best thing - get bogged down in the innermost part of your people and there by yourself, innocently shaping the vineyard of your heart (St. Isaac the Syrian, D II-680).
Why do you have the main sense of likes, what does it mean for all your life? - testing human love and freedom.
"God doesn’t want, the diga (pidviznikh) was flooded with unfinished, ale to the great vyprovans. Chomu was a vagona ry on them for an hour, grace, and the spirits of anger in the bastard wait if you want: to the Creator and His Blessed One, to the worldly respect and the tenderness of the satisfaction of the sensitive. Mikita Stifat, D 5-124).
The freedom of a person is checked by the stretching of his life, a constant choice between life and death, and this choice is necessary to work on the porosity of the mind, on the porosity of the inner abode of the human being.
Vechennya Batkіv vne nastanov about the development of good vigor, spiritual respect and firmness, to start the fight against evil, which you step into, not only if it has already gone into the soul, but when it comes close to it.
"The soul is taken away by the celestial fox of thought, inspired by the opposite force, which requires great dbalivism and respect for the mind" (vikl. Macarius the Great, D 1-216).
"Respect is due to go forward and guard the enemy like fear" (Vikl. Simeon the New Theologian, D 5-500).
How can you guard, if we still don’t feel the most spiritual struggle, if we don’t feel and can’t see the Invisible Laika?
“Brother, having slept an old man: in a kind of rank, worldly people, ignorant of prayers, wearing all sorts of bras, to spend their lives for their worship, do not fall, so they do not repent, like sinners, do not receive the communion of the Holy Mysteries of Christ?” And we, humbled to fasting, chuvannyam, prayers, dry sleep, alleviate any bodily peace, crying and rejoicing and saying: we perished, we wasted the Kingdom of Heaven, we became guilty of hell? stench does not fall: having fallen once in a wondrous and fierce fall, stench lower (no longer) can stand up, lower where you can fall. I the devil of antrohi will not need to fight with the recumbent ones, and they will not rise at all. Chenci, navpaki, sometimes they change, sometimes they change; fall and rise; they represent the devil and the stench represents the devil; the devil fights with them and the stench fights with the devil. However, I know, son, that not only I and you, evident chants, will require innocent hardness, but great ascetics will require them ”(Vid. 475).
“Brother, having said to the elders: I don’t care about any likes in my heart. The old man on the spot (having said): you are similar to the four-turned temple; skin, who wants to see in you, enter, stars will not come, and skin, who wants to come in, go out , but you don’t know how to shy away in you, as if your doors started and flickered, and you didn’t allow sinful prayers to enter you for help, then you wailed quietly, so that you could stand a posture and fight with you ”(Vid. 489 ).
Surely, it is only the fear of God that fills the doors of the soul, if from the passing stone, having thought of it, it is preparing to become a temple.
"Ozbroєshsya, - said the Fathers, - with a fiery sword, the fear of God, if the sinners thought to approach you, then the fire of the fear of God will burn them like a hmiz" (Ot. 490, 491).
"Awakening and inflamed jealousy, if (k) people come to fear that they are afraid, they are afraid for those blessings, like they've got it, or they may be on the verge of coming, so that it won't be stolen, or it's poor. nothing is roaring, like a executioner, like a Cherubim, innocently hearing those around you, and wholeheartedly do your good in the presence of some fortune-tellers, peace of mind and in the middle" (St. Isaac the Syrian, D II-663).
Mi often all life is not only incomprehensible, but we are raked by the fear of God, and the Holy One, with the alarming light of the "burning stove", marvels in the darkness of eternity. Why be afraid to spend: the treasures of the memory of God. “Half day, do not let your fear explain the thorns of my sins, and cool my soul with love,” we read in the canon of St. Apostles. "At the same time, the lack of trouble about the earth and the fastness in the Divine Writings lead the soul into the fear of God, and the fear of God induces hardness. And then the soul begins to bachiti, like demons fight against it for help, thinking, and indulge them, about which David said: and my eye is on my enemies(Ps. LIII, 9) (St. Maxim the Spovidnik, D III - 158).
So, in the face of reason, an invisible like begins: the struggle for the preservation of the memory of God.
"Yes, we have a clear like, an important, a lower sensibility. The creator of piety needs such a mother-in-law and that metaphor to follow with reason, so that like a margarite or a rich stone, it will thoroughly calm the memory of God in the heart" (vikl. Filofey Sinaїt, D III - 443) .
"Stay on guard of your heart, listening to your feelings, as if in a peaceful mood your child remembers God, then you will help the robbers, who will rob you," - St. Abba (Isaiah, Vid. 235).
"Rozum (crying with passion) in the form of a rose" (Vikl. Barsanuphius the Great).
"Cheer with respect to your mind and you will not be troubled by calmness. If you step into something new - endure what you know" (vikl. Іsykhіy Yerusalimsky, D II-170).
"Because if the soul is weakened by the gazed and strained respect of the mind, then embrace that soul" (St. Philemon, D III - 406).
For the teachings of the Fathers, a test of the thought of evil invaded a person to go through a sprat of stages. On the back of your head you blame the "thought" thought "and as if you hit at the door of your soul, bazhayuchi go away. Though not yet, but knocking. diyu, if a river strikes at those that are thrown away, the sound of an arrow is fired, or a stone that hits a body in a firm, sinless, - like a person can’t build a door for the entrance to the soul, there’s only a knock of sin. Father, it is easier in the spiritual struggle to attack yourself at that moment, still on the edge.
"Whoever opposes the plea, that one at a time sees everything" (Vikl. Filofey Sinaїt, D III - 460).
"Dispassion, - it seems Blessed Diadokh, - not those who don’t fight the fight against us, ... but those, if they fight us, fight us, don’t (o) fight them; like before, like a lati dressed in war and shoot the opponents, and smell the sound of the arrows that they fly, and start to strike the arrows themselves ... indifferently protest against them, through the hardness of their military robe "(D III - 74).
"Torment on heart damage - our stench, otherwise, opposite; and it’s good for us to enter the inner treasure of the soul and take them there, as if from the unstolen treasury; "prayers of that Divine intercession" (St. Fedir Edesky, D III - 364).
If you don’t kill a person, if you don’t think “pershіst” at the threshold of your soul, then you will pass a stage from another, as in asceticism they are called “come on”, with which struggle is already important. “Later,” the Batkas began, “it’s already a soul’s conversation with a promise, it doesn’t take us a word to the next.
"The Lord marvel at the hearts of all people, - write St. Mark the ascetic, - and for being quiet, for hating the future, for the appearance of crafty thoughts, he immediately intercedes, as he declared, and does not allow that impersonal richness of thought, having risen, defiled the mind and conscience" . And be quiet, like not throwing off the first insights, having thought in faith and trusting in God, but they are savored by them, drowning, like the unbelievers, without help, but with offensive thoughts "(D 1-493).
"Yakscho pershodumstvo" is not recognized and began to grow according to the will, then it is necessary to fight against it against the good intentions. Tse, - the Fathers teach, - is understood in two ways: either through a prayer service, protirichcha їм, or through a direct prayer for the thought that you will win. The fathers are hard-pressed to encourage the pochatkovs to go to another path, so that they don’t fight with promises, don’t try as if they were trying to recognize them, they already went with the mind, but pray for them, as if God would swear at them. "Do not block (we will pardon), - it seems St. Barsanuphius the Great, - to that which the enemies bazhayut, and do not stop attacking; but pray to the Lord for them, throwing your German before Him, (D II-567).
St. Fedir Studit prays for the thought to please the words of the psalm: Judge, Lord, what to falsify me, and overcome the fighting me(Ps. XXXIV, 1).
“Just as we don’t just pray, but we’ll pray superbly, then,” as it seems, Rev. Nil Sorsky, “let’s do it not just, as it becomes, but in the name of God and the words of the Divine Scriptures, speaking to the skin intent: let me fence you Lord(Jude I, 9), or: Step up to me, everyone who makes lawlessness(Ps. VI, 9) "(NS, 76).
Єp. Theophan the Recluse is another way to recognize the undesirable and for the sake of starting to pray, and the thought of the rich Batkiv.
"Try the mind of your heart, and be ready, - even St. Nikodim Svyatogorets, - until the arrows of the fortune teller. next, do not deprive yourself of anything, but there you go and star at war ... Misce and zmіtsnennya yogo and ozbroєnnya є wide and deep witness to your worthlessness, sho .. Standing like this, do not allow your mind to come out of this ominous call, and especially try to look at your mandrivka, as if you are here, fruitful fields and gardens, to your good right. ).
Speaking about the resurrection of thoughts, St. John Cassian writes: “Come of your own accord, if you are so gracious with God, that you are working in us ... Lest we have robbed ourselves of the method of thought, if there were no devil, God himself would not become docks through those children. " Todi and our German cats become strong and all-powerful...todi the power of God you will see our weakness... Why is it that all our respect is due, but it’s always straightened out on those alone, so that you can vividly turn to the memory of God, think (your own) in the light of your blunder and circle ... sobі loving memory of God (memory - love) like a non-violent center "(D II-99, 100, 101).
In spiritual life, that spiritual struggle turns all the way to that unshakable center, the head way to that is prayer. The axis of which prayer is the main defense of the invisible laity.
"Salt is the memory of God, that is Jesus, utterly ruining, with anger of the heart and a croak of ryativnym, all the spells of contemplation, different navіyuvannya, words, mrії, gloomy, and all that the all-destroying enemy will be cast. everything is easy" (Vikl. Filofey Sinavit, D III - 444, 454).
Respect and firmness are combined with prayer and timidity with mutual signs.
"You listen deeply to the mind, you pray to Jesus on the warm bajans ... You look closely at the mind, the decks look at Jesus ... The truthfulness and prayer of Jesus, to enter one to the warehouse of one alone, - extremely respect, to the warehouse of the new To the warehouse of the extreme in the mind tverezinnya and respect "(Vikl. Іsykhіy Єrusalimsky, D II-176, 177).
"Tverezіst is rightly called a path, to that which leads to the Kingdom, - and those who are in the middle of us, and in the future" (Vikl. Filofei Sinaisky, D III - 444, 454).
The hidden prayer (or "hidden prayer") of the saints - with its unstoppable firmness, takes the wealth of belongings in the soul. Vmirayuyu, Abba Vissarion saying: "A monk, like the Cherubim and the Seraphim, the whole eye is guilty" (Vid. 90).
The "Tellings about St. Philemon" have such a rhyme: "Brother I, on behalf of Ivan, came to the holy and great Father Philemon and, hugging Yogo's legs, saying to Yomu: what will I do, father, let me lie? For my mind to rush about and widen here and there, de not a trace ... I vin, having mumbled the trochs, saying: tsa ailment є belonging is quiet, which are the essence of the name, and it is overwhelmed in them. brother: Why should I work, father?, what did they say, the elders say: what is the reason for the secret, father? And having said to you: go, be firm in your heart, and in your thoughts, say firmly with fear and trembling: " Lord Jesus Christ, have mercy on me" (St. Philemon, D III-399.)
"Cleanse your mind, - it seems Blessed Diadoch, - only the Holy Spirit is on the right. For if this Most Powerful One does not come, do not anger and do not call his hut (Luke 11, 22), then it will not be stolen by him. with all sorts of honesty, especially with the peace of your soul, rest the Holy Spirit in yourselves, so that the mother in yourselves is a lamp of the mind, that you will always shine, for if you shine flawlessly in the darkness of the soul, then it’s not only obvious that in your mind you will find small dark appendages, without any . Nestiyki, being contorted by the Holy One and the most glorious Light "(D III - 23, 24).
“May not work until that time, while you continue to work, but you still need to strive to the very result. "Until its very result, three for itself through the absence of the future" (Vikl. Feognost, D III - 433). For the teachings of the Fathers, a person is guilty until the end of his life, be in a constant sleepless mind. You lie down to death stand on the captain's station instead of sleeping in a cabin.
Ale on the right is not only in the fact that you fight with clearly sinful promises and do not repair sinful rights. We need to be more wise, so that we can learn to recognize evil not clearly and know our world.
"Buvay, scho some demons, having put into you like a thought, they themselves promptly pray for them, rebuke them, - and negainoly go, so that you have fallen into privatility, having shown that having already begun to remake thoughts and lakati demons" (vikl. Nil Sinaisky D II-222).
We already knew about the law of spiritual entry from the Apostle: What we have reached, so we can think and follow this rule of life(Phil. III, 16).
"To the world the Lord gave the skin of the people, with Tim and so peaceful" (Vikl. Ivan Karpafiysky, D III - 91).
"Bees often make us look like the lightest and darkest, and spur us to grow stronger" (St. John of the List, D II. - 513).
"I see the devil come deyakі bajannya, - like St. Isaac the Syrian, - that they think like the good ones, and they are respected by the brown ones, but they don’t show the world of people. a person is not yet able to live, otherwise it’s a bazhanna alien to a person’s accepted image, otherwise the hour has not come, at which time it would be possible to vikonati, or even more vikonanny yoga, otherwise for vikonanny yoga a person is not enough behind the mind, or on the body, otherwise you can’t put it on that hour. The devil in every way, under the mass of goodness, tries to either benevolent to the people, or to control the shkodi yoga body, or to rule the taєmnu measure in the mind "(Vid. 331).
The axis of which all the Fathers especially value the honesty of the miraculous, that wisdom of the serpent, like a mother, having commanded us God.
"Then the Father went to St. Anthony, to investigate, how honesty was thoroughly for all ... Having said from them, that it was right for you ... And St. Anthony, saying: all the honesty, about yaki you were guessing, we need them, who joke with God and when it is half-moon, strong bajans come close to New, but we bachili, that richly someone, having exasperated their bodies, to the overworldly senses, and fell ... The reason for this is not otherwise, like those who stink not a little of the stench of peace and prudence ... More than that, and є that honesty, like to read and nashtovuє people go straight along the path, not whimpering on the roar ... Yaksho mi we will go along the royal path, then we will not be choked by our navitniks, nor the right-hander - to the supra-worldly calmness, nor the left-handed hand - to the lack of lightness, the lack of turbotness and ice. The world is the eye of the soul and the lamp "(D 1-122).
Axis deyaki apply zastosuvannya Fathers of honesty: "If the soul is angered against addictions, you should know that this is the hour of mourning, for this is the time of the husky. to the Vistula of divine words, yet streaming to the mind with the bonds of humility "(Blessed Diadoch, D III - 15).
"Wisdom lies not in speaking, but in knowing the hour, if it is appropriate to speak. Move with your mind, speak with your mind" (Vikl. Abba Isaiah, D 1-454).
"Your natural turmoil is powerless, and it's a demon's anger... It's natural for a person to work harder than their strength... When you can try your strength and calm your body, for the fear of God" (Abba John the Prophet, V - 381).
"If the heart with baking seems to be more painfully accepting bіsіvskі strіlyannya, so that one thinks to fight, nіbi vіn to wear the strіls themselves, - it's a sign that the soul began to jealously hate addictions. I tse є an ear of purification її" (Blessed Diadoch, D III - 73) .
Mayuchi on the vase I’m missing in people’s power of wisdom, and also for the cultivation of true humility and recognition of myself, the Fathers gave great significance to the hearing of spiritual cherivniks.
"Two gifts given by God to people, through which they can stink and get rid of all the passions of the old people: humility and obedience" (Barsonophy the Great, D III - 590).
"Trim in obedience, which will lead you to heaven, and be quiet, who, having kicked yoga, rob them to the Sin of God" (wine, D II-576).
"The hearing is a day (d_yannya) without testing, a voluntary death, a life alien to cliques, a life without turbulence in the boats, unprepared before God in truth, fearlessness of death, a safe swimming, more expensive than those who sleep" (St. Ivan Listvichnik, L - 20).
"The elders said: if you bobach a young man who will follow his will and go to heaven, then take him by the leg and throw him to the ground, to him that going to heaven is more fatal for him" (Vid. 488).
"For someone who has good spiritual obedience, the flesh has given in to the spirit, the obedience of people is not needed, for such a person is listening to the word of God and the Law, like a slave. and the ruler and listen to yoga, as you know it, with knowledge, manage to rule the kerm of our life (Vikl. Feognost, D III - 417).
Ale, magnifying the rumor, as a sign of self-will and showing humility of the soul, the Batki did not deprive us of the insane commandment of some practical reason. In order to be heard by people, you need to know a little about such a person, who can safely trust his spiritual life.
"It is not a small task to know an unerring scribe neither in right, nor in words, nor in understanding" (St. Gregory the Sinai, D V - 243).
"Not every person reveals his thoughts, but only those who know about them that they stink spiritually" (vikl. Ephraim Sirin, D II - 447).
“Abba Pimen said: “Do not show your sum to the one to whom your heart does not speak” (Ot. 408).
"With prayers and tears, bless God to send you an impartial and saintly clerk. Follow the Divine Writings yourself, and especially the active writings of the Holy Fathers, sob, with them respect those that the teacher and rector teach you, instantly, like a mirror, bachiti - how much stench is good among ourselves, - and then we’ll earn it with writings, and if it’s bad, having judged good, we’ll make sure not to be shy., 17).
"If the spiritual father of you - the young one - is allowed to drink wine on benquets, then marvel, which wine itself: if you are God-fearing, then you can allow three things, but if you do not call wine, then better than you, do not savage respect for this blessing, save peace (St. John Listvichnik, D II - 516).
Truth is, the Fathers sometimes have other verses about it. "You are guilty of listening to everything, if you wanted to, and it was given, that you were not punished on the right without sin. Abba, who deems you wrong, you bear your sin, and from the new one you will be punished for you" (Abba John the Prophet, D II - 578) .
You can guess the words of the same St. John Listvichnik: "Even men's souls, as if in strong love for God and humble hearts will wave at the indebtedness that overturns the world; ale, and proud hearts, as if they are indulging in the same beginning (on the navigation of our enemies)" (D II - 510 ) .
It is obvious that the one who wants to follow the path of "all-doubt" for the joy of Abbi John the Prophet is guilty of understanding himself, what is right to blame. Є humility, like a higher pride, - "in the face of the wrong and people-pleasing to the ear, people are humble humble, who are strangers to the people as gifts of God" (Jep. Ignatiy Brianchaninov, Ot. 155), - and є humbleness of the male soul, yak, yak and love, all can .
About the inconsistency of the rights and life of spiritual mentors to their instructions. Ambrose of Optina said: All, as I tell you to create, create; don't go on business(Mt. 23:3). These evangelical words clearly show that it is not a matter of picking up life and helping mentors, but rather set them up to accept them, as if the stench is good with God’s word and is not opposed to you. And for the deeds of his skin he himself confesses before God, and the mentor and reproach" (AM - 51).
"The feat of hearing is stupefied by the sight of oneself and the sight of everything. He who undergoes yoga, let him provide himself with three strongholds: faith, hope and love, all-honored and Divine" (St. Fedir Edesky, D III - 355). What a thrill at the words of the Fathers, if you stink to talk about the kohanny! Here is all your belongings.
"To inspire others, St. Anthony, having respected such a ryativnoy right, which he himself, the teacher of us, worked with food to learn his own, which prospered all the same, and as he said, he did so. if requested to arrive to Constantinople, then turning back to St. Paul the Simplest with questions: why can I go? mіstsі... Wіm, i trust others for the sake of wines not without obmezhen. - 123, 124).
The word of God, yake, behind the words of the Apostle, sharper than any sharp sword(Heb. IV, 12), it was for Batkiv an insane and absolutely unparalleled criterion of spiritual life.
"Holy writings, - even ep. Ignaty Brianchaninov, - from long ago, were recognized as the main ceremonial for blacksmithing. Just for the sake of and rise of the elders, they took up the rule of life, as if they were suitable for writings" (Vid. 32).
In the midst of the days of the Batkiv, especially please about those who know the correct solution in the terms of life for the presence of the spiritual father.
“If you can’t feed your elder, then you need to pray for every right; and if you’re wondering - where your heart is shaking, wanting a hair, then fix it; for remembrance, it’s commemorative and all the strength of your heart ... Now you can pray, pray three days for three days, if it becomes extremely necessary, as if it were an hour for the Savior’s order, then take it into account that you entered trich for prayer, and pray three, praying one and the same words "(Abba John the Prophet, D II - 581 ).
"Know, my brother, that everyone has thought, to whom the silence of humility does not pass, not to walk like God, but obviously from the left side. Our Lord comes from quietness; but obviously from the left side; all the same, the fortune-teller will be zbentezhennyam and stabbed" ( Vikl. Barsanuphius the Great, B - 18).
"Christian heart, having accepted something Divine, does not care for a third-party reconciliation in what it is like the Lord, but we ourselves will change our minds, that it will accept yoga in heaven, for you become spiritually fruitful in yourself: love, joy, peace, long-term tolerance, goodness, mercy, faith, lagidnist, reconciliation(Gal. V, 22). And the devil, wanting to pretend to be "and on the Angel of light," otherwise, expressing the thoughts of the most decent, his heart is all vaguely vague, praised by the thoughts and the sum of the feelings "(vikl. Seraphim, DS - 234).
"The docks of a man do not love God in the strength of his strength, the docks do not cling to God with all his heart, the docks are not granted to you the calm look of God" (vikl. Abba Isaiah, Ot. 167).
The narrow path of Christianity and thorough love includes not only mourning in a feat, but also mourning in the circumstances of life, which, in essence, cannot be brought to the will of a person directed to a feat, and this is often overtaken by this sign.
The fathers distinguish two types of sorrows: enough, to be called by the will or by the will of the people in the spiritual and physical self-exchange, and mimovely, like those, who are asked to yoma for cleansing, tasting, rozuminnya chi punishment. Others can be seen: sickness and sickness, death of loved ones, material waste, service failures, undeserved image of melancholy.
"The skin of perfection is reachable through the days of more or less miraculous work and misery ... But some of your own - enough - are not so beneficial, like those who know the call, not from our will. Gregory Palamas, D V - 295).
The replacement of the first sorrows by others is explained by Rev. Mikita Stifat: "Earlier, the shards of richness were laid in us, then the richness of which and the fire will be used to purify our own, that is the tears of repentance and quite ascetic labors. enough work for the feat) to get ahead of the slaughter is necessary, then you don’t try to consume in what you don’t want (mimovilni sorrows) - 123).
"If we ourselves do not subdue, then the Lord will subdue us" (Vikl. Ambrose Optinsky, AM - 27).
"For this reason, I lie down on the path, calm down, richly taste, mourn, fight and shed sweat, so that they become obvious, like deyno in the will of the earth and with all the strength to inspire to death, they loved the One Lord and with such love, until the New, they did not small even nothing іnshoy sobі bazhany "(Vikl. Macariy the Great, D I - 196).
"Just as a non-growing and unsettled temple cannot make a good signet that is put on a new one, so a person, if there is no further evidence of labor and ailments, cannot accommodate a friend ... divine beauty" (Blessed Diadoch).
"According to God's permission, so that a person would reach for goodness not otherwise, as if passing through a storm, fire and peace. For it is said: Passing through the fire and water, calling us at the calm.(Ps. LXV, 12) (vin, D III - 70, 71, 53).
Mimovilni sorrows, regardless of all our knowledge, we are most often conscious of the most unintelligible spiritual significance. We, admittedly, zdiisnyuyemo in ourselves, are spiritual struggles with promises, but for all other lives, when we invade ours, we marvel like we are at the arena of vipadkovost. Whether it’s sickness, especially those close to you, who’s been spared, if you don’t give in to something, or if you don’t deserve the image, we accept it as if it were spontaneous, unfair and unforgiving. And it's a miracle that the unreasonable wind is more often manifested by us in the mournings of the ancient ones, like mi honed days and like days beat us into a pantel.
"Pay patiently the blows of the sumptuous and unselfish voluptuousness, for God would cleanse you of such promisel" (St. Abba Fallasius, D III - 315). "Today, be ready until all sorrow is lifted, thinking that sorrows are the essence of forgiveness for the wealthy of the Borg" (Vikl. Simeon the Pious, D V - 69).
Patience - to start the Old Man - it is necessary and in the great and in the small, patience reaches everything: it is significant and small.
“Whoever wants to come into the fear of God, endure the reach of this ... We endure sorrows for our souls, and we are not otherwise labored by the saviors of Christ's suffering, like enduring sorrows ... Long-suffering mother of good things" (Vikl. Barsanuphius the Great, V - 16 , eleven).
“Be of good cheer and let your heart grow strong (Ps. XXX, 25), - write in one sheet of St. Ambrose of Optinsky, - ... how can I explain to those that the breastplate of Christ is choking, John the Theologian, goiter and preaching the gospel, deputy of that turmoil, with an inimitable woman, to drown the mist of the lazna and not this hauler stretching out six rokiv? , if the craving of mournful surroundings is laid on us, chi shanty, chi as a litter, looming hope, that the year seems to be ugly ... Wonderful deeds of the Lord and unexplored paths of Yogo. Through the impersonal affliction in my heart, Thy vtiha gladdened my soul(Ps. XCIII, 19).. Let us believe and support us, that for suffering sorrow, the mighty Lord will indulge us, our skin hour and the judgment of the skin” (A - 159, 160).
Build the patience of the Old Man to the highest height: put him in charge of humility and love.
"It is greater than other garlic, as it is rich and confusing in oneself, but to inspire and all honesty, like - divine love and humility and divine patience. The Lord speaks about the rest:" To be patient with your souls(Luke 21:19). - Without saying: in your post, but in your chuvanni. Patience, I will understand those who follow God and become the queen of honesty and the support of masculine virtues. It is in itself in oneself - the world is with the huskies, departed in the storm and indestructible firmness for those who have taken it off" (St. Gregory Sin., D V - 213).
It is evident from the endowment of patience that the Fathers are not as passively strangled as if they were passively strangled, because I actively create strength - "supporting masculine virtues." Patience to my masculine, faithful soul, as if you carried the love of God in you. Have tsіy virnostі kokhannya - yogo unstoppable strength.
One brother said to Abbi Pimen (the Great): "I'm sorry, I'll help you, I'll help you." The old man said: “Tim, who is washing the sword in his hands, God helps us for the hour of our life. If we are good, then we will win mercy for us” (Vid. 408).
First of all: lack of patience is a sign of lack of patience.
"Whoever does not want the vibes of important days, the sums to endure, the painful ones to endure, - that is the posture of God's love and the method of Providence" (St. Maximus Isp., D III - 233).
"Whether it be sorrow that vibrates the mood of our will, - the right-handed one shirks away, or the left-handed one. Vipadkov's sorrow is called calmness, which gives you a taste of the hidden whimsicalness, that you know there ... If you know calmness, but you know what; (get excited about those)), Shchob to endure yogo with ease, unzhurnedly and without remorse" (St. Mark the ascetic, D I - 558).
"It’s not like it’s a good thing, otherwise it’s an attack, zazvichuyu zazvichiu yavnu respect i, seeing the rose of a ryativnogo good-tempered ... hoot Yogo to sinful seizures and chvar. The reason ... be those who can’t nіyakoї pikluvannya about peace" (vikl. Philotheus Syn., D III 461).
"God does not rejoice in any honesty of the stylka, as if someone falls into a state of sorrow and endures it until the end with kindness. So, in the case of a sick person, God does not hate fasting, but the feat of the corporeal, - vimagaє in the new only patience in the field, the wisdom of the prayers so that the mother's mind will always be straightened to God.
The camp, which is opposite to Christian patience, is a blessing of bodily peace for everyone and be-scho.
"To that one, all pardon is from our side, - write St. Ambrose of Optinsky, - that we do not want to bow to the will of the All-Good Providence of God, that I will tell us through the furnishing of the soul-bearing path, and all we are whispering of our peaceful path, which is only in peace, there really isn’t anything on earth, not everyone, but only if you sleep peacefully, if you sleep: with the saints calm ... The earthly share of the human being is sorrow, labor, illness, feat, embarrassment, zdivuvannya, tightness, relief of that and another, imagine , zbentezhennya, resurrection of addictions, struggle with them, dolannya, or I can’t, or hopelessness, and similar to them. ; it is forgotten that unhandedness often descends among us, as evil thought "(A - 112).
"Hopeful peace in our time stunned people to forget the great, goodness and honesty. If a person does not know about the Kingdom of Heaven, then from a hopeful little here in the quiet. (St. Isaac Sirin, D II - 685).
But with patience, accepting fleeting sorrows, The Fathers did not forget and sorrow enough - the main right of their feat. One scholar asked Barsanuphius the Great: "I beg you, honest Old Man, tell me, what does good and evil will mean?" Elder Vidpoviv: "Brother! Every calm, mortal, disgusting God to our God, for Vin Himself said: narrow and tight way, what to introduce into life(Matthew 7:14). Vibrati tsyah є good will, and the one who tries yoga, be-yakіy right enough to take away his sorrow for his strength. But you do not know what even the apostle: I kill the body and reluctantly(1 Corinthians 9:27). Chi bachish, that the divine man, by will, involuntarily his body, even though he resisted it. Who can better care for the skin, with the necessary needs of his home, a little grief. For example: I can lie down to sleep on a soft, down-filled bed, but I see the grief of a small sorrow (like a little grief) and I lie down on the bast mats behind the damp bajans ... And more: I can eat well and clean bread - to the naigirshom, to scold at least a trifle, zgaduyuchi quietly, that they suffer from hunger ... and even more so to the Lord of our Jesus, Yakiy skushtuvav Zhovchi and me for the sake of. Tse i є the will of God. Well, the will of the body is poised in another way, so that the whole mother has a calm ... For some reason, there is an evil will; vіdsіk її - i vryatuєsh. If you are trying to change it, then rebuke yourself, and correct your neighbor. It's important to turn around! And how do you have mercy on the one who thinks to lie, rest in peace with everything! The Kingdom of Heaven is conquered only by those who torment themselves (Matt. 11:12) (B-101).
"Rososlannya I grave tіlesna, bush at the soul of VID LINOSHIV I Nedbalism, vіdbivay, vid Zvishna Rules, to be shy of the bummer of the rosum ... praying to the slozin, seducted by the bore. St. Simeon the New Theologian, D V - 20, 21).
"This warm-cold disintegrating passion is unique to me, as if we can fit it into the margins between our thoughts, taking one memory of God to respect; only in such a rite, the spirit, having taken the mountain in power, can recognize in itself its unreasonable diversification" (bliss Diadokh, D III - 40).
Patience of unfair images and baptisms of the Old Man will always turn on those mimic mourning, as if they were sent to us by hand.
"Do not think that, having taken a blow from your brother, you have recognized something great; for the Lord of heaven and earth has recognized the battle and all other suffering" (Vikl. Barsanuphius the Great, B - 336).
"It's unfair to say about you and you're afraid, you don't have the fear of God in you" (vikl. Abba Isaiah, Ot. 268).
Optina starets vіd. Macarius in one of his sheets seems to say: "You are peaceful, calm, if no one is turbulent to you; and addiction lies in the middle of you; in case of any opposition, it will ignite and deceive. onu (addiction), sob mi dbali about healing - self-correcting, humility, condescension, mercy. People who show us (our) passions are the essence of God's knowledge."
At tsomu sensi, singsongly, saying і bliss. Zosima: "No one can speak straight truth about us, except for the one who tells us" (D III - 121).
St. Mark the ascetic writes: "It is a shame to forgive the one who formed us, knowing that the fee for the forgiveness of the image is the payment of all other honesty ... Therefore, the fruitfulness of the faith, we bring our faith in Christ; through what we can take our cross inherit Christ, the mother of the first and great commandments, because through it we can love God in a broad heart and neighbor, like ourselves, for whom we are guilty of fasting, be in chuvannya and cherish your body, so that our heart and internal roztashuvanya vіdchinilis, accepted (love) at home and no longer veiled. Just for those that we forgive our neighbor’s sins, we know that grace was secretly given to us at holy christening, if it’s no longer possible to work in us, but it’s sensible for our witness that we feel” (D I – 501, 502).
“It is not for everyone to endure dishonor for the name of Christ, but only saints and cleansing. On the right, people like us - to accept dishonor with discretion, saying that we are justly tolerant of our filth” (Blessed Zosima, D III - 126).
“If we want to be in front of people, it’s possible, and we can have a relationship with something, but if (bo) we can’t have a relationship with God, then it’s guilty without self-righteousness to endure any evil of suffering, any unruliness and any ugliness, no one from people does not sound in this, but accepting all sorrows, as if sent by the hand of God, until our sins are cleansed, until our correction, and most of all, until our humility, our sophistication "(Vid. Ambrose Optinsky, A - 120). "Once they fed Abba (Blessed Zosima): how to reach it, so as not to be angry, if they belittle and slander others? Vin vіdpovіv: whoever in his heart can be the least of himself, that humiliation is not overwhelmed, like saying Abba , matimesh calm" (D III - 132).
The saints could not only endure the image of that dishonor that came before them, but sometimes they themselves joked about them, as if they were dominating them, jokingly the martyr's crown.
"Just as God suffers with the body, being a human being, then who is not healthy, if you suffer, making God a sleeper with the sufferer?" (St. Maxim the Spovidnik, D III - 269).
Here, between the dotik path of the feat of the Fathers-ascetics, we adorn the path of foolishness.
Pateritsa has such a discourse:
"An old man lives near the monastery of Oleksandriya. The old man is more passionate and cowardly. A young monk, having learned about the new one, having made a home before God, seeming: Lord! : pishov before the old man and starting to live with him, the old man repairing with him, like a dog, knowing about something new today. And having said: the axis, smoothing half of your bandage, Vladik! tell me about something else., and think about it, like a cowardly old man and imitating a brother, like a brother bowing to you at the feet, but the old man does not forgive. "Chi did you smooth out your suvoy?" no beatings, no ignorance, then coming to the spiritual elder in the evening, crying and seeming: "It's a pity, abvo, the present day is not happy: we didn't give anything, having spent the day calmly" ... After six more years, the brother died. a spiritual elder, who martyred his brother to God in the face of martyrs, with a great guardian of the one who prays to God for his elder, saying in prayer: "Lord: as You have mercy on me for help, so have mercy on me for Your goodness and for me Thy servant" "After the end of forty days, the brother took him to himself and the old man in the miastse I will rest. The axis is like a vіdvagu can endure sorrow for the sake of Yogo" (Ot. 540, 541). "Kokhannya pokrivaє impersonal sins", and at the same time not less than their own. That is why, regardless of the guilt of the practice of such a feat, this initial zmist is obvious for all paths and for all feats.
Є one kind of life's sorrows - ce sorrows to the mind.
“Yakscho you can’t heal the body, - it’s St. Isaac the Syrian, - grief even thoughts” ... “Grieving the mind is enough to replace all bodily deeds” (vin, D II - 756).
For the husband and the child, the transferred sorrows, that peace of mind, the Batkas were a sign that the memory - God's love had faded to you. Aje behind the Apostle kohannya to endure(1 Cor. XIII, 4), and no more kohanna.
“If you want to innocently remember God, then don’t let go of the visnovkіv, not the unrighteous, but endure them as they rightly touch you. For with patience, with your skin, you awaken the memory of God” (St. Mark the ascetic, D I - 150).
"Obviously, failure is your cross... Be patient, remember the commandment of the Lord Himself:" In patience with yours, tighten your souls "... Let us not happen to live, tolerating unhandedness, what to check, check the will and wave of God ... If you will, then go and be. Peace be to you, peace to your soul, peace to your soul" (Vid. Ambrose Optinsky, AM - 180, 181).
"God's people are guilty of preparing themselves for the struggle and feat ... Christians are guilty of enduring the sorrows of the callous and inner huskies, so that they take blows on themselves, overcome the patience. Such is the path of Christianity. Rev. Macarius the Great, D I - 250).
The Holy Fathers of Optina voiced the prophecy about the rest of the family. The stench energized: what did they kill us? One of them, great for life, Abba Iskhirion, saying to the tse: we have been cultivating the commandments of God. The fathers asked: why bother you, how will they follow us without intermediary? Vіn vіdpovіv: The stench will be mothers half and half against ours. The fathers were hospitalized again: and tі, yakі will be after them? Qi, having reassured the abba, they will no longer be mothers of black insanity, but they will spit adversity and stench, knowing misfortune and peace of mind, appear more for us and more for our fathers ”(Ot. 346).
Troubles, misfortunes and spokus try the gold of Christian souls. All vchennya about tse Fathers є practical clouding of the words of the Gospel: Whoever loves his soul will ruin її, and the one who hates his soul in this world, saves її in eternal life.(Jn. XII, 25). The whole life is the Kingdom of God, as the saints begin here on Earth, in the midst of their sorrows and misfortunes, work and sickness. Axis why stink, at their "peredoskreinn", already lived in the great peace.
"As a patient growth in our souls, it is a sign that we have received grace in the air. If the soul is intoxicated with the joy of its own joy and the joy of God, then it’s still not watching sorrows, though it’s German ... So bovae, if the soul enters that spiritual joy" (St. Isaac Sirin, D II - 751).
"The enemy stuns us with bitter and terrible spokus ... Ale does not know wines, vain, what blessings become guilty for us, robbing us through patience with more information and light for us to join the vines" (Vikl. Feognost, D III - 433). "It is impossible to hide sadness to someone who learns peace; but after this great day they are vouchsafed such joy and tears of licorice and divine thoughts, for those ailments and roses were worked in their hearts" (vikl. John Karp., D III - 90, 91).
In the form of sorrow, patience is like, in the form of patience - confirmation, in the form of confirmation - hope, and hope is not dismayed, to the one that the love of God has poured into our hearts by the Holy Spirit, we give to us(Rom. V, 3-5).
"Oh, how important the way of God! - as if wigguknuv st. , є joy, є sickness of the heart, є sorrow, є calm heart, є sleep, є need; more expensive, so that you can reach the destination" (D I - 395, 396).
Can you read these words without hvilyuvannya heart, chuyuchi behind them important croki saints? Yak zhnya expensive is not similar to ours! If we practice at our lives on the right, we forget about faith, if we want to believe, we forget about spiritual practice.
"To live sincerely, - it seems, St. Mikita Stifat, - and to that name of the soul, the essence is ... as if by paralysis of brokenness. No way, you can’t stink of diligence to improve on the right side of the honesty, that vikonnanny of the commandments of God, and just for the sake of human glory, unique the obvious rooted right" (D V - 121).
Pratsya feat vіri polagє not only in order to defend against attacks and not fall, but even more so in getting up after the fall.
“Brother, having said to Abv Sisoy (the Great): abvo! sho rob me? - I fell. ". ? Elder: until your death "(Vid. 433). "Do not fall with all your strength, because the mighty fighter will not fall; as soon as you start to fall, get up more quickly and start again in a good deed. If I wanted to trapilos with you first, if I could enter grace, then let me be a friend in you, tobto. . insurrection. So until the end of your life "(Vikl. Ivan Karpafiysky, D III - 105).
"According to grace". All the Father's creeds about feat are based on the creeds about grace, and the creeds about grace are based on the creeds about humility. The feat is impossibly without grace, grace is given only to the humble, to that the whole meta feat is to learn humility, to bring grace. God is proud to resist, but gives grace to the humble(Yak. IV, 6; 1 Pet. V, 5) - the axis of the unbreakable formula of the Holy Letter and St. Batkiv. Practice until the end of your life, take care of your work, do your wickedness, but save your own, you still take it not for the sake of practice, but for nothing, only for humility and love of your faith, like a zhenk alms. And all your practices are absolutely necessary for the future itself, and only for those who are evil.
“When you see it, it’s not honest, - it’s like St. Isaac the Syrian, - and don’t work for the sake of, but for the humility that people are among them.
Yaka is unstoppable, unsightly and unimaginable joy for everyone! Aje Tsim vchennyam magnify only one single and never repeat in the world - ryativna blood of Jesus Christ. "If I can overcome the enemies, then the Church of Christ's blood will overcome them, as it is written in the Apocalypse: and ti win the blood of the Lamb(Ap. 11, 12) (Vikl. Nikodim Svyatogorets, N - 220). Go, how to sing at the canon of Palm Tyzhnya: Shouting with the merriment of the righteous spirits: Ninі svіtovі New Commandment to be commanded, and let the people of God's blood be changed to sprinkles. "The hour of translucence and repose of divine grace, - seems to be St. John Karpafiysky, - for the application, I fall into the wideness of the mind and the inclinations are incomparable and narkaє for those , having taken alms from the tsar’s chamber, they become overwhelmed, so that they don’t introduce themselves in the middle, so they lie at the tsar’s meal "(D III - 102).
Zhebraks can’t narrate, but they can’t and sumuvat, stinks can only carry their own work of viciousness and hope. You smell like "The king of kings and the Lord of the Panivny come to slaughter and give yourself to the vіrnim", and you know that you can smell a little bit more through your life.
Why, if the saints talk about humility, in their words one can feel reverent trembling.
"Humility is like a mysterious power ... (there is) the robe of the Divine. Whoever is drawn into the robe of humility, is drawn into Christ himself ... What is perfection? - The depth of humility" (St. Isaac the Sirin, D II - 688, D V-395).
"Ti, what to say or to shy away without humility, similar to everyday temple without cement. Dosvid, by reason, to know and to know humility, it is not enough to know humility. be wise about yourself, and do not dishonor yourself (St. Gregory the Sinai, D V - 223).
“Humility is the greatest in honesty, more than it is, in whom to take root, through greater repentance, and accept prayer for repentance as your companions, quietly work at once freely in the form of passions, give light to their forces, cleanse your heart with tears and victorious yoga silence. .. Ale Okilki stench to glue in the glybin of the Spirit, Scho Nastilki Porini in Glibin Smirynomidrosti, and vid zyoyo in them is the same in their Nemochi people, I zbilshu love to God of the neighbor the same closeness is with them" (Vikl. Mikita Stifat, D V - 131, 132).
“It’s terrible to say your word, but don’t be surprised. Even if you don’t reach impartiality, through, perhaps, tyrannical impudence, but peresbuvaya for an hour, the result in deep feelings of humility is nothing less than impartial, you’ll fall in the dark. but the dear stone of humility is greater for all the hundreds and high and it brought him not only mercy before God, but let us enter the heavenly chamber of the Kingdom of Yogo "(Vikl. Feognost, D III - 432).
"An active brother, having fed the old man: what is humility? The old man said: the tree of life, which grows to heaven ...". "Humility in those who do good to us, like to do evil to us ...". "Humility - on the right is great and Divine" (Ot. 494, 495, 499).
The axis seems to be about the humility of the saint. Possibility of humility to lie on the very day of the heart and the stars begin to beat yoga "Life-giving Dzherelo" - the only thing that is hopeful, the only one that can make God love that Yogo grace.
"Humility," said the Old Men, "is the forerunner of love. As Ivan was the forerunner of Jesus and attracted all to Jesus, so humility turns to love, to God himself, to whom God is love" (Ot. 499).
The axis of which it is already important for us to signify with the saints - de ending humility and repenting of love, the axis of which, in the name of Anthony the Great, we lost the secret about the ryativnu power of humility: "The holy saying: Woe to the human race! see them!"
“Brother, after sleeping the Great Elder: ask for mercy, tell me, how do I lie? Skіlki maєsh forces - belittle yourself day and night, zmushyuyuchi pamper yourself lower for be-like a person. This is the true path, and there is nothing else, who wants to lie about Christ, who is spying on him. І flow (behind him) bazhayuchy, і flow bazhayuchy, і flow bazhayuchy, - "flow and reach"; I will be certified in that before God we live and grant the gift of life to the eternal skin, who prays yoga" (Vikl. Barsanuphius the Great, B - 315).
"Crimea knows no other way". Leather way maє cob, middle and end. Saints often talk about the divine lightness of the path of humility, but the stench tried on themselves all the practice of the cob of this great feat. From rich heights, you need to drive away people for yourself, so that you can go to the royal brothers of love.
"Self-humiliation ... it is important to rot and beg, and ryativlyu vyachavlyu wine that gladden the heart of the people" (St. Gregory Palamas, D V - 298).
"If you want to eat well, you are guilty of the nobility, that this is a gift of God. Everything is good, God ... Then do not hesitate to believe in thought, which praises you for good right" (vikl. Barsanuphius the Great, B - 299, 300, 305). Vіn is radiant with praises and in the sight of vlasnyh thoughts and in the sight of people forever speak your own words of the Scripture: "My people, blessed are you to reassure you and the stitches of your nig overwhelm."
How can one learn humility - what is the forerunner of love? Agee, as said by Rev. Mikita Stifat, - "humility pogogaє over nahіlі shiї chi frivolous hair, chi ode to the neohay rude and vicious, from whom there is a lot of someone to supply the whole essence of honesty tsієї, but the ruination of the heart and humility of spirit" (D V - 128).
I off. Simeon the New Theologian is in front of us: "Humility is evident, which is like in non-balance and nights and in the form of a strong judgment of conscience. bi z'ednany with him (D V - 29).
"The way to humility lies in the fact that a person put on himself the yoke of bodily pracs, that he respected himself as a sinner, that he respected himself lower for all? innocently pray to God" (Vid. 495, 496).
"The path of humility is served by the temporal practitioners, who are reasonable, and those who respect themselves lower than everyone else, and pray to God without fail" (Abba Dorotheos, D II - 607).
"Nіhto buv food - how can a man come to be humble? I said: to the invincible memory of your sins and the nearness of death ..." (St. Isaac the Syrian, D II - 678).
The vchennya about the memory of many sins can be known from all Fathers. One of them said: "People better pat their sins, don't pat the hosts of Angels." "The superintendent of our life, the devil, with various sacrifices changes our sins and often covers our troubles, so that we loosen ourselves in practice and do not think to mourn our fall any more. Well, brother, do not let yourself forget about your fall, if you want to, stink for forgiveness already we have the strength of our repentance, but forever we will remember our sins and mourn them unceasingly, so that, having obtained our own, like a good sleeping bag, humility, let us sink the measure of marnoslavl and pride "(St. Fedir Edesky, D III - 364 ).
"It is necessary for us to be very humble, as much as possible to sing about the preservation of the mind in the Lord ... All the best, make us guilty of ruining your heart, joking and introducing everything that you can subdue yoga. in the world of life, as if they were slandering us; yat about all the sins of youth" (Vikl. Filofey Sinaїt, D III - 447). "Yak slid" - means that, obviously, not guessing sinful intuitions, but remembering your own fault, like the seals of Cain at your past life. "Ale, a person cannot help their sins, the docks will not be separated from them by separation, the result of grief. When I reach it, I will get crying and prayer" (vikl. Abba Isaiah, Ot. 238, 239).
If we are worthy of super-accuracy with Tim, that we have already brought repentance for the past sins on confession, then the Father, first, to begin, that Bishop Ignt.), but in another way, repentance is required to bring the inadequacy of these sins to a distant life. As if the stench is fresh, even though thoughts are coming, it means that repentance has not yet been fully realized and sins have not yet been forgiven.
"A sign of forgiveness of sins is in the fact that you hate them and do not work more. wine still sounds from them" (Barsanuphius the Great, B - 370).
"If a person is not burnt, he is repentant. You cannot mother a firm confession (about your share), until you know what happened in you. having saved, do not crumble in your heart” (vikl. Abba Isaiah, Ot. 238-239).
"If you are addicted, let your hearts be smoothed out to the point where they do not come close to something else, then it is a sign of the release of a lot of sins" (St. Fedir Edesky, D III - 349).
However, from the last vchennya of the Fathers weeping and those who, in the last Christian way - in the memory of their past sinfulness - everything is in their love for God, and not in them . "Be kind to the right, - say Barsanuphius the Great, - as if it were not from one love only to God, but to such a one, one's own will was mixed, impure and unacceptable to God" (D II - 582).
"It is not possible, therefore, to create oneself in what one creates, a pose of love to God, as if "spiritual and technical employment." Christianity is not a profession, but canopies: the birth of a new people in the world of love to God, but pragnet to them Nikodim Svyatogorets, - I’ll give myself up to you important, but then we’ll become light and handy, like, first, you will be uninterruptedly set in such a spiritual act, and in a different way, let’s pray for God’s sake, until the New Age we live for the aspirations of the heart ... Such a shukannya of the boundless good in God, which more often we will be at the witness and which we will more often penetrate into our hearts, we say more warmly, we say And now more and more successfully, the newcomer is settled in us - everyone on the right works for one love before the Lord and for one bazhanny piety to Yoma, who is worthy of such love "(Н - 42, 43). These words are remembered to the whole Christian feat, and by ourselves to the memory of the greatest sins. Having formed my life of love for God and forever I am guilty of this memory, but I remember God's love. It won't be forgotten, but, as the elders said, it will "get stuck". I’ve seen the shore and the one who’s sailing, I know for sure what I’ve seen. If love is scarce and flood the soil, let it ring out with special force the words of the great canon:
The way to achieve humility through the memory of sins, through prayer, through bodily practice and other ways to repentance is the way of all life. Only saints could achieve this perfection.
Abba Pimen (Great) saying: "If a person reaches such a place, about which Apostle he said:" all is pure pure, "then indulge yourself with the greatest mustache of the creature" (Vid. 412).
Ale to go along the path of humility is due to everything, to that only the wines lead to the Land of Obitovanu, - to the area of gracious tears of divine sorrow and heavenly air, which will see the forgiveness of sins.
“A real brother, having slept an old man: my soul needs tears, if a lot of old people shed tears, but tears don’t come, and my soul will be blessed. Why? " Land of Obitsyana: Let us enter into it, let us not be afraid of huskies, but God will forever despise the soul with sorrows, so that she innocently wanted to enter this land "(Vid. 464).
"The more one descends to the depths of humility and judges oneself, like a negligent sorcerer, the more weep and weep tears. At the world of tears and weep, spiritual joy flows in the heart of yoga, and at the same time with it, we see poryatunku" (vikl. Simeon the New Theologian, D V - 24).
"De wretchedness and spiritual weeping, there is divine illumination; and if you know it, then the lanterns and the Germans will wake up" (Simeon the Pious, D. V - 67).
"Blessed are the pure in heart, that there is no hour, if the stench had not been filled with salty tears, - in such a way, stench the Lord. As long as there are tears in their eyes, the stench is likened to the sight of the blood of Yogo on the heights of their prayers; and they have no prayers without tears, that is what the Lord said: “Blessed are you that weep, for the stench breathes in!” (St. Isaac the Sirin, D II – 653). The Lord has come before us and without our call and giving us the lip of the God-pleasing confusion and the cold water of pious tears on the handwriting of sins" (St. John of the Ladder, L - 79).
"I really think that if it was possible to wash away all the body with your tears, then it would be imperishable. For a man, if you don’t have pain, then ruin" (Elder Pais Velichkovsky, ZhMP, 1956, No. 10). "Repentance is made up of victoria of all the Gospel commandments. Evangelical commandments can be recited exactly and charitably only from a mournful and humble heart. The spirit of living behind the Gospel commandments is repentance. prayer. The mind prays with words, the heart prays with weeping" (Jep. Ignaty Brianchaninov, Vid. 514).
"If the water of strange thoughts is unstoppable, the mind will be abashed by the spirits of the Holy Spirit, and inconsistent thoughts and day-to-day tidying up the strimancy and the thought of death, then the divine Spirit of repentance and descend the water of separation, which God and our Lord, pouring into the washroom. let them step under the doorsteps of the Kingdom of Yogo" (Vikl. Mikita Stifat, D V - 150).
"Mostly, what is the blame for reading the Fathers about repentance, humility and "pleasurable lamentation" by those whose path is not only true, but only wine and one worldless. on this way, every svіdomіst, scho "to reach me" or "I'm already exhausted," or "I'm already rich" - this is a proof of neviri, dislike and pride. I see myself as rich. I pray that I won’t reach, like Christ Jesus reaching me, - like an Apostle.
"It is necessary to work in such a way that you will always stretch forward" (Phil. 3, 13), so that it is safe and successful to reach the goal. For as long as we’re only stunned, even if only for a short hour, we lean back at once” (Vikl. Nikodim Svyatogorets, N - 163).
"Come on, having blessed the Savior, tick with the heat, and you don’t know languor, until you reach it, joke importantly, ask innocently, tolerant comrades, while you hold it up, putting ladders on top, like an ensign, firm faith and humility" (St. Theognost , D III - 420).
"Do not reconcile yourself to the weakest people, but rather expand yourself in the world of commandments about love... Expanding yourself in the world of love, you will reach the heights of humility" (vikl. Maxim Spovidnik, D III - 215).
"Abba Lot, having seen Abba Yosip, having said to Yom: Father, by my strength I have made a small rule of prayer, I will endure a peace fast, I am engaged in prayer, repentance and peace (Jesus's prayer), I pray to guard purity, I do not accept the sacrifice of sins? - The old man got up and stretched out his hands to the sky: Yogo's fingers became like up to ten burning lamps. He said to Abba Lot: whatever you want, be all like fire. 370).
“Love the saints,” said St. Abba Isaiah, “that zeal of them is known to you” (D I - 348).
Perhaps, tsі piskas will be korisnі, and love to burn our German, foolishness and nights to the saints. Behind the words of I.Kirєєvsky, the confession of the Fathers - tse "eyewitnesses' reports about the country, they stink like a stench." Sometimes it’s more than ignorance, but if the will is not evil, it’s the cause of baiduzhost. Yakshcho, like saying St. Tikhin Zadonsky, "Christians do not know Christianity" (Ot. 445), then what is vimagati among others?
People often show their Christianity in two aspects: otherwise, for them, it’s more relatable and complacent than anything, it’s not goiter-yazuє well-being of the city’s faith, otherwise it’s self-rolling of black tylon-hating spiritualists, unhuman znevaga to the mother in the bodyless. Christianity, obviously, neither one nor the other. The carnal soundness of the verbal faith is so far away from the sky, like the incorporeal (abo bisivsky, after the words of Blessed Diadokha) spiritualism.
Christianity is vchennyam about the Kingdom of God, as if joking about the feat of life and as if it were showing up here, on earth, in the midst of us. To whom is recognized, by the grace of the Holy Spirit, the ever-changing bliss and all the meta and all the possibility of the feat of purifying the soul and body on the narrow path of Christ. At the feat of humility, the inexplicable feat of prayer and love for people, the soul and body are cleansed from the defilement of sin, so that it becomes an imperishable temple of God.
"The life of the soul is a day with God... The life of this life is not only of the soul, but of the body; for it will be immortal and yoga through Sunday... It will be given to you forever in Christ life, without difficulty, without pain and without care, truly immortal" (St. Gregory Palamas, D V - 279, 280).
The metaphor of this timchasovy life is angry with the eternal metaphor, as if it were the only exaltation to God.
"Now we are children of God, but we have not yet seen what will happen. We only know that if we see, we will be like New," - say the Apostle John, and immediately add: so Vin is clean.
The essence of fasting is to learn how to care for oneself, learn how to clean up one’s own baggage, learn to care for one’s own insides, and not follow the lead in a new one.
Holy fathers about pist:
Blessed Augustine about pist:
The more days of fasting, the better the rejoicing; the more strimanity is, the stronger is the streak.
Rev. John Kolov about pist:
If the tsar chooses to take a better place, he will pin us to the new natural reserves. These hulks, being crushed by hunger, succumb to the kings. Those same things are filled with carnal greed: if a person spends his life in fasting and hunger, then the desolate bazhannya can become ill.
St. John Chrysostom about pist:
Are you posting? Wipe your tongue against evil, and your mouth against forests and steps. Are you posting? Uncover slander, likhosliv'ya, nonsense, witchcraft, blasphemy and any kind of supermundance. Are you shaking? Lives of greed, robbery, welding and soul-destroying zazdroshchiv. If you fast for God - do it right, how to hate God, and accept your repentance, as Merciful and Loving to people.
Krіm Utrimannya vіd їzhі є rich shlyakhіv, yakі can vіdchinyat us the door vіdvagi before God. Whoever is and can’t fast, don’t give great mercy, don’t do diligent prayers, don’t show strained jealousy before hearing the word of God, - here antrohi doesn’t cross our bodily weakness, - don’t reconcile with enemies, don’t go out of your soul to everyone. As if we were victorious, then we should create the true nature, such as the Lord Himself and the Lord has helped us. Aje and peace itself in the presence of Vin commandments, so that we, tidying up the flesh, robbed us of the commandments by ear.
Are you posting? We are hungry, we are drunk, we see the sick, do not forget the wounded. Comfort the mourners and cry; be merciful, lagidny, kind, quiet, long-suffering, unforgiving, reverent, truthful, pious, so that God has accepted your feast and bestowed the fruits of repentance in abundance.
Pist is an ancient gift; pіst - koshtovnіst batkіv. Vіn modern people. Fist legalizations in paradise. Adam accepted such a commandment: “ kind of tree"(Buttya 2.17). And tse: don't know- є legitimization of fasting and death”.
Yakbi fasted Eve, and did not mourn from the tree, then we would not be small now, consume in fasting. Don’t surround a corista post with one pomirnistyu in zhzhi, to the one who has the right fist є usunennya in evil rights ... Probac to the near image, probac to you borg. You don’t zhzh m'yasa, but you are like a brother ... Spravzhnіy pіst є vydalennym evil, pomіrnіst mіv, strangled anger in your own, indulgence of greed, likhosliv'yam, bullshit and swearing and swearing.
Beware of vimiryuvat pist simple pomіrnіstyu vіd їzhі. Those, who are humbled in the face of life, but do not care for themselves, become like the devil, who wants to eat nothing, but does not stop sinning.
Rev. John Cassian the Roman about pist:
Suvori fast to shy away from martyrdom, if after them there is a zayve vzhivannya їzhi, like a nevdovzі to reach the vice of gluttony.
To self-destructive may zarahuvat the one who does not change the strict rules of complacency and then, if it is necessary to strengthen the strength that has weakened, I will accept it.
St. Theophan the Recluse about pist:
Pist - do not finish it, but leave three hungry for yourself, so that no thoughts, no heart were tight.
Look around for a long time and look: what are all the people busy with, why are they blathering so much, who are they praising? Every one and every one is working on a slug and all the cries about the satisfaction of Yogo Vymog: give me a drink, give me a drink. It is a great blessing for us to live in the future one home of our tyrant! Now stand on this point and swear: where will the savage rage of activity be, what to lie down in this century, in the next century, if you don’t need to fuss about the slug, why swear about life? Virishiti is required now, to get ready for the fact that they check on us in the inexhaustible future.
Holy abbess Arseniya (Srebryakova) about pist:
It seems to be rich in the teachings of our century that the rest and all church rites are empty rituals, callousness, no matter what. And the more I live, the more I change, that all the laws, set by the holy fathers to inspire the Holy Spirit, are the greatest good, given to us by the Lord, that all the stench is over the top for grace, as it is in them. Vcheni seem: "All the same rubbish, important only the truth of the Gospel." – Well, I’ll tell you, it’s impossible to stand straight on the Evangelical truths, slandering it with the helpless statutes of the Church. They only lead us to the greatest truths of the teachings of Christ.
Now we are talking about pist, that is, about peace in the form of richness and in the form of supermundane things, in order to build our body lighter and thinner, more edible for spiritual perceptions. The Lord Jesus Christ sanctified the establishment of the Church with a forty-day fast, and became holy for us; Ale, it is my fault to believe that our being, through the forty-day fast of the Lord Jesus Christ, has been cleansed and broken up by the building to spiritual insights. It is our fault to believe that we are honored not for our deeds, but for the grace, power of God, as a church institution. One church zvіn gives us salvation, telling us with its funeral tone about the mortality of everything earthly. Utrimannya vіd їzhi vchit us pomіrnostі vіd pomіslіv i pochuttіv biased.
Utrimanya with the first crock of all garlic ... The Lord Jesus Christ seems to be: Love your enemies, so quiet, scho to slander and reproach you. - How can you tell? Vіn slander you in disguise, can't you fall in love with Yogo all at once? First of all, get up, so that you don’t like your like. Then let go of your thought in the face of a filthy thought about this person and so on. Otzhe, the first crock to kohanny - streaming. It’s out to bring and to God’s help. And God helped you to become necessary to you, if you stand in the morning like someone else. Here you will do your best, that your powers of power are not enough, that you need the help of God and ask you to help me with your strength. This is how true prayer is achieved. Sweat, at the hour of fasting, our great shit, the consecration of sins and the communion of the Holy Mysteries, the cream is quietly bestowed with grace, as they are given to us at the viconnance of everything, tell and prompt us to that greatest repentance, to which we are guilty to come to life. Guessing about those confessions, as if a person can bring a person without middle ground to the Lord, at the deepest knowledge of his fall and the greatest sinfulness of his own nature, for which he may be eternally blessed with the Lord Jesus Christ. Axis of good. Like a post. Let's not be afraid of yoga and the fact that yoga will be carried out in a wrong way, but let's be glad that wine is so ryativny!
Rev. Abba Dorotheos about pist:
Ale mi not in їzhі only owe to the world, but utrimuvatisya and in the presence of some other sin, sob as we fast with the neck, fast for us with the tongue. So we can post to us and our eyes, so that we do not marvel at vain speech, do not give our eyes freedom, do not marvel at anyone shamelessly without fear. So do the hands and feet of the guilty in the face of all evil. Fasting in such a rank, as if St. Basil the Great, with fasting, we are friendly, moving away in the face of some kind of sin, which is created by all our feelings, we reach the holy day of Resurrection, having become, as we said, new, clean and holy communion of the Holy Mysteries.
St. Tikhin, Patriarch of Moscow about the pist:
The Apostle Pavlo said: If any of the unbelievers call you and you want to drink, then everything has been preached to you without waiting, for peace of mind (1 Cor. 10, 27) - for the sake of that person, who kindly hears you.
Irrelevant people are jealous of fasting and the practice of saints with the wrong minds and minds and think that the stink is going through honesty. The devil, who guards them like his own good, throws into them a new radiant thought about himself, in the face of which the inner Pharisee is born and wiggles, and thwarts such thorough pride.
Reverend Isaac the Syrian about pist:
The spirit does not bow to the cross, so if you do not bow to your body.
Venerable John Listvichnik about the holy place:
It is better to eat, and speak to the Lord;
The head of the chest is prayer; їhnє zasnuvannya - post.
Pist є permanent fading in їzhі z judicious arbitrariness in them.
Proud man! your thoughts are so rich and so lofty about your mind, and wine - at the perfect and uninterrupted fallow in the slack.
The law of fasting, being beyond the outer law for the womb, is the law for the mind.
Rozum, the king of the people, as if to enter into the rights of his autocracy and save them, may we bow to the law of fasting. Tіlki tіlі vіn bude postіyno badiorіy i svіtliy; only a few wines can panuvat over the anointings of the heart of that body; Only in case of post-hardness of the veins can you remember the Evangelical commandments and follow them. Zasnuvannya chesnot - post.
Newly created people, introduced to paradise, a single commandment was given, a commandment about pest. Zvichayno one commandment was given to the one who was sufficient for the preservation of the primordial people in її purity.
The commandment did not speak about the number of people, but only hindered the number of things. That lock it up, yakі know pіst only in kіlkost їzhі, and not in yakkost. Having slumped at the completion of the post, the stink to sing the meaning of zhizhi.
Such is the important commandment of fasting, deafened by God to the people in paradise, that at once from the commandment the threat of the stratum for the destruction of the commandments was voiced. The stratum struck people with eternal death.
The first sinful death continues to fight the vigilantes in the holy commandments of fasting. The one who doesn’t endure humility and stubborn strife in life, can’t save neither devotion, nor sensibility, can’t tidy up anger, go to nights, turmoil and turmoil, fight as a slave of marnoslavism, living, proud, how to introduce the carnal people є the most luxurious meal.
The commandment to fast is confirmed by the confirmation of the gospel. “Respect yourselves, if they don’t tighten your hearts with union and drunkenness”(), commanding the Lord. United and drunkenness reminds you to drink like a body, ale to your mind and heart, tobto. to introduce people to the soul and body in the body camp.
Navpaki, pist to introduce a Christian to the spiritual camp. Cleansing with fasting - humble in spirit, sensible, modest, gentle, thin in heart feelings and thoughts, light in body, building up to spiritual feats and frostbite, building up to the acceptance of Divine grace.
Carnal people are more and more tired of sinners. Vіn licorice and according to the body, and according to the heart, and according to the mind, not built wine not only to spiritual nasolón and until the acceptance of Divine grace, but also until repentance. Vіn nezdatnogo vzagalі to the spiritual to occupy: vin nailed to the ground, drowning in speechiness, living bait - dead in soul.
"Woe to you, rich nins: as if you were going to die!"(). Such a whistle of the Word of God to the violators of the commandments of holy fasting. What will you be eating at eternity, if you have learned here just one word of speech brushes and speech malt, there are none in heaven? What will you eat at eternity, if you did not eat the desired heavenly good? How can you eat and enjoy the heavenly blessings, if you didn’t get any savvy to them, did you get an ogida?
The daily bread of Christians is Christ. The insatiable supply of this bread is the axis of the cross-sowing of the malt of ryativna, to which all Christians are asked.
Insatiately indulge in the Word of God; insatiably indulge in the vikonannym commandments of Christ; insatiably sip your meal, "prepared against the cold x tobi”, and get drunk "cup of sovereignty" ().
Why should we, like Saint Macarius the Great, who has never taken care of our hearts? Standing posture, knocking with prayer and fasting, as if the Lord had punished: "Push, and shout to you" ().
This feat, which is propagated by one of the greatest tutors of blackness, was the feat of the holy apostles. S-pomіzh new stench was vouchsafed a little bit of the Spirit. “Serve them the Lord, - Even the writer of their day, - and to those who fast, having said the Holy Spirit: indulge Me Barnabas and Saul in deed, call on them. Todі, scho fasting and praying, and laying hands on them, letting them in.(). Z-surviving the feat, in which there was a prayer and prayer, I felt the order of the Spirit about calling the pagans.
Miraculous slander of fasting with prayer! - powerless, as it is not based on fasting, and the fist is fruitless, as if prayer was not done on him.
Fasting encourages a person in carnal passions, and fight with spiritual addictions, and, having overcome them, penetrates the entire warehouse of a person, cleansing them; at the purifications of the verbal temple, there is to introduce God.
Who, not cultivating the land, sows it: he destroys the grain, and the replacement of wheat reaps the thorns. So it is with us, as if we were praying for prayers, not thinning the flesh: then the replacement of truth is fruitful sin. to be despised and robbed of various vain and vicious offerings of those thoughts, to be defiled by the minds of khtivim. Our flesh is like the earth, and, if not cultivated like it is to the earth, it cannot bring forth the fruit of truth.
Navpaki, as if to cultivate the land with great diligence and vitrates, but to deprive it of the unsown: the kukil is densely curled up. So, if the body is thinned by fasting, and the soul does not turn into prayer, reading, humility of wisdom: then the father becomes the father of numerous kukil - spiritual passions: pushing, marnoslavism, contempt.
What is it - the addiction of the party that drunkenness? The correctness was in the same way, the natural of the Bazhannya is that Pitty, the vimagaє nabhato bilshiko kilkosti that is їh, the nіzhlki is under the Piditrimanni of the Life forces of the Tіlesny, in the yaki havuvannya, which was opposed to his natural recognition, and the shkiyly, and the shkiyly, and the shkihly, the same
Bazhannya їzhi is corrected by a simple meal, that pomіrnіstyu vіd peresichennya that nasolodi їzhey. First, I can refrain from repeating that in the malt: tsim and vitonchuetsya bazhannya їzhi, and otrimuє correctness. If the bazhannya becomes correct: then it will be satisfied with a simple hedgehog.
Natomist bajannya їzhi, as if satisfied with the passage and malt, become dull. For the awakening of yoga, we go to various savory herbs and drinks. Bazhannya I will stop and we will be satisfied; then we become vague, and, nareshti, turn into a sickly addiction, as if joking uninterruptedly infested and crossed, constantly resting unsatisfied.
Namiryayuschie consecrate yourself to the service of God, let us lay the foundation for the feat of our post. Іtotna yakіst be-yakої foundations can be indestructible hardness: otherwise it’s impossible to stand on a new life, as if the house itself is not mіtsnim. I n_yak, n_koli, n_ in any way, it is not permissible to destroy the post by crossing, especially by drunkenness.
The best fasting is to recognize the Holy Fathers living in one day a day is not enough. Such a guard does not weaken the body with the storm and does not tighten it over the worldly life, moreover, it takes it building up to the rescued vigor. Such a feast does not represent any kind of sharp singularity, and the one who fasts cannot be magnified, to the extent that a person is so graceful with the drive of self-honesty, especially if they stand out sharply.
Whoever is occupied with bodily practices, or such a weak body, that he cannot be satisfied with living in once a day: that is the fault of these two. Fasting is for people, not people for fasting.
Ale, with every living, and rarely and often, suvoronyaetsya zasichennya: it’s out to rob a person who is unworthy of spiritual exploits, and open the door to other carnal passions.
Nadmirniy pist, tobto. Trivala Zayva pomіrnіst їzhі, do not brag about the holy Fathers: in the immeasurable pomіrnostі th, scho vіdbuєєєєє vіdnі ї znemogі, lyudina staє nezdatnost' to spiritual feats, often turn to union, often fall into predilection for magnificence and pride.
Even more important is the quality of life. The fenced-in paradise plaid, even though it was miraculous in appearance and savory, ale wine was detrimental to the soul: reassuring him of the knowledge of good and evil, and thereby ignoring integrity, our ancestors were created in such a way.
I nі їzha continue strongly dіyati on the soul, which is especially memorable when drinking wine. Such a dream is based on a different manhood on the body and blood, and on the fact that the steam and gas from the hose rise into the brain and blow into the mind.
To this, all intoxicating drinks, especially bread, are defended by the ascetic, as they help the mind to be hardened, and thus win at the wise laity. Overcome the mind, especially with rich offerings, having enjoyed them, one is spared spiritual grace; pridbane bagatma and long-term labors are spent for a sprat of a year, for a sprat of khvilin.
The monk is by no means guilty of drinking wine, as Reverend Pimen the Great said. To this rule, every pious Christian can be, who wants to save his dignity and color. The Holy Fathers followed up on this rule, and if they implanted wine, then rarely and with the greatest peace.
Hot hedgehog can be eaten from the holder's meal, as it will awaken bodily addictions. So pepper, ginger and other spices.
Nayprirodnіsha їzha - the one that is recognized by the people as the Creator negajno according to creation - їzha from the kingdom of the dewy: Having said God to our forefathers: “Here, I gave you the skin grass of the present day, which is shining, which is all over the top of the earth: and every tree, which mother in itself is the fruit of this day, will be on you.”(). Even after the flood, meat is allowed to live.
Roslinna їzha є best for the ascetic. Won the least to heat the shelter, the least to clarify the body; bet and gas, which are cremated in it and withered in the brain, at least on it; she herself is healthy, like a maiden, she spit mucus at the slug. For these reasons, when living in її, with special clarity, purity and vigor of the mind are taken, and with them that yogic power over the human being; in the presence of її weaker passions develop, and people are more able to engage in feats of piety.
Ribnі naїdki, especially prepared from the great sea ribs, are already called for by your power: the stench is more pronounced on the brain, darken the body, hot blood, reminiscent of the shell with mucus, especially with frequent and constant living.
Cі dії unknowingly strong vіd vіvvannya m'yasnoї їzhі: vkryu clarifies the body, delivering it especially pilnіst, warming the blood; pari ta gazi її already tight around the brain. That’s why they don’t get used to chants; won - the belonging of people who live in the world, who are always busy with hard bodily labors. Ale and їm post_yne vzhivannya її shkіdlo.
Yak! vyguknut here uyavnі razumnitsi: m'yasna їzha is allowed by God to people, and chi you hinder living її? – On the basis of the words of the Apostle: “The whole world is the essence of the world (so everything is permitted to me), but not all for self-retribution: all the world's fates are, but not all will be"(). We succumb to the cultivation of meat, not to the one who was treated as unclean, but to the one who stinks, especially the fatness of our whole warehouse, overflows the spiritual prosperity.
The rules of fasting have been established with a method of helping children її as kerіvnitstvo for the entire Christian community. With this, it is punished by the skin to look at yourself for the help of a well-known and respectful spiritual father, and do not put a fast on yourself, which overwhelms your strength: to that, we repeat, it’s a bad place for a person, and not a person for fasting; Even, given for the support of the body, it is not guilty to destroy yoga.
“If you wipe the womb, saying Saint Basil the Great, then you go to paradise; if you don’t take it, then you will be a victim of death.” Under the im'yam of paradise, here you can understand the grace-filled prayer camp, and under the im'yam of death, the camp becomes addicted. The blessed camp of the people, under the hour of rebuking її on earth, є the guarantee of the eternal bliss of yoga in heavenly Eden; the fall of the power of sin and the camp of spiritual deadness serve as a guarantee of falling into the hellhole for eternal torment. Amen.
The middle of the fast days for the rich is not an easy hour. Enthusiasm, with which they set about before fasting, having gone cold, the organism, having languished in the cold, all the more importantly stands against the worldly turmoil, which is gaining a special scope in the days ahead. And dehto fell into anger, sumuyuchi about his infirmity. Here, I need a pidtrimka, a spiritually wise word that was set. We publish a selection of words from the holy fathers and ascetics about the importance of fasting, having seen them, set about a holy day for children, which are especially relevant at the same time. I didn’t forget about spiritual deeds and folk wisdom - an example about fasting.
Vislovlyuvannya about the post
“Axis is not, which I have chosen: let the kaidan of iniquity, untie the yoke of the yoke, and let the bent ones go free, and break every yoke; serve your bread to the hungry, and the poor, who spit, bring home.
(Is. 58:6-7)
“If you fast, don’t be shy, like a hypocrite, because the stench takes on gloomy individuals in order to give people something to fast. Truly I show you that the stench is already taking over their city. And you, if you fast, anoint your head and mind your disguise, so that you will appear to them, who do not fast in front of people, but in front of your Father, who is in the crypt; And your father, what to taєmne bachel, you clearly see.
(Mt. 6:16-18)
“If you fast, destroy every union of unrighteousness and tear apart every unrighteous record. Crush the tim, who bazhaє your bread and bіdnikh without a dahu over your head, enter into your dіm; yakscho bachish naked - dress. Then you see your early light, and your clothes are not bare; and your truth will change your mind, and the glory of God will accompany you.
Apostle Barnabas
“Find your fast: let yourself go before every filthy word, that evil greediness, and cleanse your heart in the sight of all the vanities of this century. How do you do it, you will be righteous "
Pastir Yerma
“Pist є їzha for the soul, and like a corporeal їzha fattening body, so іt zmіtsnyuє soul, pіdomlyaє їy їy polit, rob її zdatnoy rise to the height and think about the mountain and become more satisfied with the acceptance of the right life”
“Just as the lungs of a ship are more likely to overflow the seas, and stomp tight with great vantage, so fist, rob our lungs of our lungs, saturate you with a swish to overflow the sea of \u200b\u200bfair life, jump up to the sky and up to heavenly objects and do not respect the right, but respect the worthless for silence and sleep mriy"
Saint John Chrysostom
“Pist є vchitelkoy pomirkovannosti, matir chasnosti, vyhovatelka of the children of God, cherіvnitsa of the handless, calm souls, the support of life, the light of mіtsny and undestructive; її strictness and importance die passions, quench anger and fierceness, cool and quiet all sorts of lamentations that blame for richness"
Saint Asterius of Amasia
“The more days of fasting, the better the rejoicing, the better the territory of peace, the stronger the rite of passage. At the day of fasting, the Deity is propitiated, shortly zapovnyuetsya and piety rewarded "
Blessed Augustine
“We are not only guilty of the nobility of the world, but we should be humiliated in the presence of some other sin, so, as we fast with our heads, we will fast with our tongue, primuyuchis in the form of slander, in the form of nonsense, in the form of marnoslіv, in the form of humiliation, in the form of anger, in a word, in view of every sin that is committed with the tongue. So can you post and see, so you don’t marvel at vain speech, don’t give freedom to your eyes, don’t marvel at anyone shamelessly without fear. So the very hands, and feet can be pacified in the face of any evil do it "
Venerable Dorotheos of Palestine
“Pist is the cob and the germ of every spiritual endeavor. Like garlic, do not put on a post, all stench will be unsweetened and unshaken, like putting on a hard stone. And if you break the foundation, then it’s dirty, and on the table of the yogo you put a lot of hearts and other unworthy blessings, then all the honesty will be hostile and divided in the filthy thoughts and in the stream of addictions, like the sand is carried in the wind, - and all the honesty will ruyvlyayutsya”
“Pist, like a healer of our souls, in one Christian you will subdue the body, in another tidying of anger; one wakes up a dream, the other one wakes up for greater goodness; in one, you cleanse your mind and rob him of evil thoughts, in the other you will not streak my words and the fear of God, as I know, utrimu yogo, not allowing him to speak empty and rotten words; but in another way, do not let your eyes marvel at you and here and tsikaviti, so that you can rob that other person, but you can do anything for your own sake "
Venerable Simeon the New Theologian
“Є telesny pіst, є pіst i sincere. Tіlesny fist є if the heart fasts in їzhі that pittya; sincere fist, if the soul is reduced to evil thoughts, deeds and slavs. A good faster, who in the face of every evil is warded off. If you want to, a Christian, if you want to be holy, then, fast bodily, fast and sincerely, and fast forever. ”
Saint Tikhin of Zadonsk
“Let us lay the basis for the feat of our post. Іtotna yakіst be-yakої the foundations can be indestructible hardness: otherwise it is impossible to stand on a new life, even though life itself was not mіtsnoy. I don’t, never, never, in any case, it’s not permissible to destroy the fast by crossing, especially by drunkenness”
Saint Ignaty (Bryanchaninov)
“We’ll frown fast, until you step into yoga’s teren: ale, wake up, - and you’ll dance, it’s bright after the night, freedom after the sound of bells, a drink after a hard life”
“The law of fasting is this: with God, with your mind and heart, talk about the spirit of the earth, everyone can see it, not in the corporeal only, but with the spiritual, doing everything for the glory of God and the good of your neighbors, willingly and with love work that relief postnitski, at їzhі, snі, vіdpochinkah, at vtihah vzaimospilkuvannya"
Saint Theophan the Recluse
“Pist, zbudzhuyuchi before prayer, as a particularly hated enemy: come before me to please me in peace - among others, raja dotremuvatisya holy fasts. We’ll wait a little longer, but how to hit the post on the right: I don’t want, I can’t, otherwise, that other ... It’s like a enemy to hate the holy post: I’m sorry about the post, I don’t want to you, so that I can finish the holy fasts ”
Venerable Barsanuphius of Optina
“It is necessary for Christians to fast in order to clear their minds and wake them up and stir them up a bit, and bring their will to good deeds. Tsі three zdіbnosti people zammaryuєmo and respect the most common, drunkenness and turbots of life, and through those falls into the life of life - God and falls into decay and vanity, twisting and defiling the image of God "
“It’s good to show or show all the infirmities of our soul, all the weaknesses, shortcomings, sins and addictions, like a kalamutna, that you start to be cleansed, stagnant water shows, like to be found in it, or like a blackness of mind”
Holy Righteous John of Kronstadt
“As long as that other person has no more understanding about God, there is no way to resist the demons, as if only to shy away, that they mock at the German secular wisdom. Ale varto yoma, start fasting and praying to God, as the demons succumb to invisible fear. For people, how to approach God with a wide prayer and with patience and hope, we will pass the feat of humility, it will become hard for the demons, unbearable - and the stench will hurry up from the new drink "
“Start the body of the body, ring out, show the hungry soul. Whoever fasts, frequents that soul. The more people post, the more they change the pikluvannya about their body and the greater the joy of their souls. It's not enough to just say and just feel; we become clear by itself, if a person tries to fix it and stagnate in life "
Saint Nicholas of Serbia
“Pist - this is the morning of everything that is shrewish for us, of everything that roams our soul, that it is like passions, as if they lie at the basis of all our sins ... To subdue all, without blaming, addictions, it is necessary to read modesty. Without a corporal post, it is impossible to reach it. Just as at school, students step by step lead from lower knowledge to higher ones, from the alphabet to higher mathematics, so you need to start peace from the alphabet, from tidying up your gut "
“Just as a high-ranking, stately fiend can carefully watch over him, what he sees, so that nothing happens to the harm of what he was entrusted with, so our settlement is standing on guard of the soul. Piston to the guards, so that nothing harms our souls. Keep watch over your thoughts, protect your gaze from shkidlivih sights, your hearing from spiritual roses, your mov from filthy and empty words, your mouth from an unreliable house "
Saint John of Shanghai
“For healthy young people, strimanity is the best bridle against addictions, it is necessary in order to break the spirit and break the world. Then, in the purity of the heart, the stench can purely marvel at people, like Angels marvel at Angels. Those who do not shrink and live untidy, inspire angels to marvel bodily, like the inhabitants of Sodom, who have fared away from the sight of God. The natural legacy of this is those who are those who love their good flesh and the prosperity of life, love people bodily and spiritually ruin their bodies.
“At Christmas Lent, we prepare ourselves with a strict discipline of reason, respectfully listening to the hands of the heart: how do we put ourselves before others, before ourselves, before God, how do we learn prayers from the Church, bow down to the obedience of God's commandments?
And we will put it more respectfully, lower it tse robimo, until the completion of the physical rules of fasting. The stench is given to those who will help us to be afraid of weakness and to turn on our weaknesses, to arouse in us strangeness and badness, not to let us become stagnant in our earthliness, as it encourages us to go to God. Get ready for these rules, get ready respectfully by stretching out the last Holy Fast, waiting for the coming of the Lord, but not passively, but in that camp you have chosen a lack of sleep, with a kind of wart check for the arrival of your Queen or Tsar. Remember that to be in the presence of God is the greatest honor, most holy, that you can be with us.
Metropolitan Anthony Surozky
“Pist is the mother of health, the promoter of youth, the embellishment of the elders, the good companion of the more expensive, the best friend I make friends ... Fasting is followed by immodest promos, and songs, and slurs. Yakby fist panuvav in all the world, then buv bi deep light, and life would not be deplorable and similar to sorrow, to that scho fist, like people of eminence in supra-worldliness in hopes, starting bi and thorough in the distance in the presence of vices "
Archimandrite Kirilo (Pavlov)
Pist and children
“Maє so live the child, so that, developing the life of the body, delivering strength and health to you, do not inflame the flesh in the soul. It is not guilty to marvel, that the child is small, - it is necessary from the first fates to start sensible to the rude speech of the flesh and inoculate the child to the volodinnya over it, sob in the old age, and in the youth, and after them it is easy and wily possible to cope with the need. First sourdough is expensive. In the form of a child's eating, there is a lot to lie far away. Indefinitely you can develop voluptuousness and innocence in a hedgehog - two types of gluttonousness, which are detrimental to the body and the soul of grace, which are attached to eating "
Saint Theophan the Recluse
“Do not belittle the importance of fasting, accustom children to fasting from the earliest century ... Whoever is not smart enough, and he himself does not try to fast, and do not start to train children; And not only not to start, but to serve a deadly butt of ignorance of fasting ... At the mother’s door, bring your children meat and say: “Eat, zhte, children! Nothing, scho fist. God bachit, scho zavzhda filthy food. Forgive God, God does not pull for a price ... "Oh, tight, you will piss off your children! The skin mother from an early age is guilty of grafting her children before fasting, as it was in the old hours, if all our people were fasting. Do not forget about fasting, ale mіtsno, like a little child, cherish the mother's maiden, cherish all the statutes of the Church "
Saint Luke (Vіyno-Yasenetsky)
“Today, people are drenched in worldly logic: “It is not necessary for the children to fast, so that they do not fall ill, they can have enough of everything, they need to protect their types of difficulties.” So I live, bіdolakhi, for the whole hour of meatballs, but I don’t have a shtibu. If a person is happy, which is not for the sake of Christ's love, then they will eat in a right way. For the sake of the love of Christ, we give priority to the unsweetened savory, then through the unsweetened, enjoy Christ"
Reverend Paisiy Svyatogorets
Sending orders about fasting
One poryatunok - that is the prayer.
Fasting is brought to paradise, and mercy is given to them.
Voz the bridge - into the river, voz pist - do not live out your life.
The soul would be glad to fast, then the body rebelled.
Not all to Maslyan's cat - guide and Great Pist
Great fist pіdіb'є tobі hvіst.
We can post everything, but we’re not good for anywhere!
From fasting do not die, but from gluttony to breathe.
Whoever posts all the posts, for that all the gospels.
Under an hour of fasting, that hedgehog is simple.
Thoughts of the Holy Fathers about Pist “Pist is an ancient gift; pіst - koshtovnіst batkіv. Vіn modern people. Fist legalizations in paradise. Adam accepted such a commandment: “The tree that has a good mind and is evil, does not know” (But. 2,17). And tse: if you don’t know - є legitimization of fasting and humility” St. Basil the Great. “Yakbi fasted Eve, and did not mourn from the tree, then we would not be small now, consume in fasting. “For do not look after the healthy doctor, but the sick” (Mt. 9, 12). Mi poshkodzhenі grіhom; We rejoice in repentance, but repentance without fasting is not a child. "Cursed is the earth... thorns that jigs grow to you" (Buttya 3, 17-18). It is punished to scoff in spirit, and not to go into luxury. Be true to God by fasting” St. Basil the Great. “It is written in the law that God punished the sons of Israel to give a tithe from the ear, that the stench bathed, and the robbing so, the stench was blessed with all their right. I know, St. The apostles set up... so that we would admonish the tithe from the very days of our life and assign it to God: so that we would take away blessings on all our occasions in such a rite, and richly cleanse the sins, shattered by us through the stretch of fate. Judging thus, the stench consecrated to us this tizhniv of Chotyritesnitsa” Rev. Abba Dorotheos. “Pist is the cob and the germ of every spiritual endeavor. Like garlic, do not put on a post, all stench will be unsweetened and unshaken, like putting on a hard stone. And if you accept this foundation, then you will not, and you will lay the womb and other unworthy blessings on the table, then all honesty will be hostile and separated in the form of filthy thoughts and in the stream of addictions, like the sand is carried by the wind, - and all the honesty will be swept away. Simeon the New Theologian. “The meta post is pure bullshit. The fathers made fasting fast and gave us an hour of repentance, so that, having cleansed and washed ourselves, we proceeded to the Sacrament in this rite. To that I now call with a voice, I swear, I ask and I bless you - not with an unclean, not with a vicious conscience, come to the holy meal, otherwise you will not be received, but condemned, torment and more punishment ”St. John Zolotoust. “There are a lot of people, yakі, getting ready to fight fasting, like a wild beast, to protect themselves from unions, and, having tightly tightened and obscured themselves to the extreme, it’s unreasonable to sound quiet and lagidne denunciations of fasting. And how am I going to ask you: what are you going to the camp today? - You'll say: schob with a clean body zestrit pist. And I’m still sleeping: why are you drinking? - You will say again: to the one who is getting ready to enter the post. Ale chi is it not wonderful that this miraculous fist zustricha with a clean body, but with an unclean soul that drunk? » St. John Chrysostom. “Suvori fasts become martyr, if after them there is a zayve vzhivannya їzhi, as soon as they reach the vice of gluttony” Rev. John Cassian the Roman. “We should be so timid: not just to go through this post, but to finish our conscience, think carefully, and remember that we have caught up with the work of this type, that on the other hand, that a new beginning has reached the offensive and that we have corrected our addictions. If we don’t correct ourselves with such a rank and show such dbalivism about our soul, then we won’t be any ugliness in fasting and strimanity, by which we inflict ourselves” St. Ivan Chrysostom. “You see two gluttons: larynx and gluttony. The first view - if a person is joking about acceptance; Vіn don't start if you want to eat rich, but if you want something savory, you will be spoiled by yogo with a delicious taste. Cherevobosіє - richness, if a person does not think about the relish of їzhi, ale pragne to remind his stomach "Rev. Abba Dorotheos. “Let it not be unfading; tse arc richly spriyaє zdorov'yu and mіtsnostі of our body. Why don’t you worry, what kind of inexorable illnesses look like inexorable ailments in the luxurious tables? Signs of sickness at the feet? Zvіdki ailing head? Signs of multiple sputum samples? Stars of impersonal other ailments? Chi not in the light of unfading? Just as a ship will soon become overwhelmed in tone, so a person, having come together and drinking, rush at the river, sinking his mind, and lie, lie down, like a living corpse, which often can kill something worse, but not for good. more dead » St. John Chrysostom. “Similar to the image of vitality of the body to overcome the camp of strength and spirituality of the body: if it is healthy, squeeze yoga, it is necessary, and if it is German, relax the yoga sprat. The one who labors, does not follow the weakening of the body, but be in strength, skilki is necessary for the feat, so that the soul would be assiduously cleansed with bodily exercises” Blessed. Diadokh. “You need to give respect, so that you have weakened your bodily strength, do not work your body for the most important people... I think that the sign of the best orderliness is to follow the proper statutes” St. Basil the Great. “While the image of fasting cannot be manually complied with the same rule ... - different responsibilities, but the hour, the ability and the quality of eating, for the unequal camp of the body itself, but for the age of that statue; but all can have one rule of tidying up the flesh for the peace of the heart and the mind of the spirit ”Rev. John Cassian the Roman. “May fast peacefully and give the body the most necessary help, but so that it was not voluptuousness that cherubed in the defense of the truth, but the mind, with the help of suvoristu, showed the need. For with such a sincere rejoicing, there is, scho savor, appearing in a rosy antroch no lower than the one who does not savor, but after us, not only an uninterrupted fasting, but not a single thing, but a pikluvannyam about the body meritorious for praise, like a better home" St. Basil the Great. “Є telesny pіst, є pіst i sincere. Tіlesny fist є if the heart fasts in їzhі that pittya; sincere fist, if the soul is reduced to evil thoughts, deeds and slavs. A good faster is to prevent any evil from coming. Well, if you are a good Christian, if you want to be holy, then, fast bodily, fast and sincerely, and fast forever” St. Tikhin Zadonsky. “The one who fasts needs to be humbled in the face of death, but we are in front of the sins ... I called bi a thousand times blissful disgust, lower than the one who fasts and does a lie. I say not in order to become poor, but to call to piety. Do not eat evil, but sin evil” St. John Chrysostom. “Whoever is and can’t fast, don’t give great mercy, don’t make diligent prayers, don’t show strained zeal before hearing the word of God; here the anіtrochs do not pass us bodily weakness; Let's not reconcile with the enemies, let's run out of our souls all memory. As if we were victorious, then we should create the true pist, such as the Lord himself and vimagaє see us. Aje and memornism itself in the presence of Vin commandments, so that we, tidying up the bajanna of the flesh, robbed the ear of the vikonan commandments” St. John Chrysostom. “Because of fasting, always, prayer can be done... And prayers are said with respect, especially during the hour of fasting, because then the soul becomes light, not burdened by anything, and does not take pleasure in the death loader” St. John Chrysostom. “As healthy eyes of the powerful exercise light, so the fast, which is done with discretion, the power of prayer” Rev. Isaac the Syrian. “Just as a bird cannot fly without the help of wings, so a bird cannot fly without its two wings - prayers and mercy. Marvel at Cornelius, like a win at once with fasting maw and krill. To this, and feeling a great voice from heaven: “Cornelia, prayers of your mercy, your well-being” (Dії 10, 3-4) ”St. John Chrysostom. “If you post mercy without mercy, then your post is not free, and such a person’s price is for a nenazher and a penny, and besides, the flooring, the hardy zhorstok_st girsha for a rose” St. John Chrysostom. “Utrimannya vіd їzhі, like dorimuetsya for show, to hate the soul of the Lord; but the strimanity that gets used to the involuntarily bodily wisdom, love the Lord, to that it is out of the body through the body of the power of consecration "St. Basil the Great. “Shut down the strimanity, and block your own lips; for mova take strength from impersonal realities” Rev. John Listvichnik. “The memory of death is alive, pinning the unfadingness of the hedgehog; and if inconsistency is attached to humility, then other passions will be resurrected at the same hour. John Listvichnik. “The endowment of the post at the post, be it for some time, they are spat with zeal. For I am a zealot of Ill, if you are jealous of the law of God, having changed at your right - at the post» Rev. Isaac the Syrian. “According to our crossing, the spirit of gluttony enters, and sends on us the spirit of the prodigal, saying yoga, in which we become known, and seeming: “Go and fool such; Yogo's womb is crossed, and to this troch pratsyuvatemesh. Tsey, who has come, smiles and, ringing our hands and feet with sleep, already everything you want to work with us ”Rev. John Listvichnik. “Whoever serves his womb, at this hour you want to overcome the spirit, let go, that one is like to extinguish with oil” Rev. John Listvichnik. “Pist is the mother of humility of wisdom, the mother of all wisdom; pіst - mother of all blessings, teacher of sensibility and all honesty "St. John Chrysostom. “Pist, like a healer of our souls, in one Christian you will subdue the body, in another tidying of anger; one wakes up a dream, the other one wakes up for greater goodness; in one, you cleanse your mind and rob him of evil thoughts, in the other you will not streak my words and the fear of God, as I know, utrimu yogo, not allowing him to speak empty and rotten words; but otherwise, do not let your eyes marvel at this and that and here and there, so that you can rob that other person, but you can do anything for yourself” Rev. Simeon the New Theologian. “From the meal is quiet, what to fast ... put yourself in the bliss of life, and wake up your dead soul. Bo among them, sanctifying them, lie Loves, and practicing the post that feats of їх I will turn them into incompetent nasolod; and heavenly servants of Yogo overshadow his and holy finds. I know one of the brothers, who is clearly bright in his eyes.” Rev. Isaac the Syrian.