Rozmov of the Monk Seraphim of Sarov with Mykola Motovilov about the Holy Spirit’s Nabuttya (korisne reading) Conversation of the Monk Seraphim with Mykola Oleksandrovich Motovilov (1809-1879) about the method of Christian life in the leaf fall of 1831 in the forest, near the Sarov. The manuscript was revealed after 70 years by the papers of Mikoli Oleksandrovich's squad, Olenya Ivanivna Motovilova. The simplicity of the move, what comes up, is deceptive: one of the greatest saints of the Russian Church, and hearing the future ascetic believes, heals the prayer of Seraphim in the case of a non-violent ailment. Same N.A. Rev. Seraphim commanded Motovilov before his death material turboti about his Diveevsky orphans, about the foundation of the Seraphim-Diveevsky monastery by him.

Tse bulo about the fourth. Gloomy day. It was a quarter of snow on the ground, and thick snowy cereals gave the beast a chance to harvest, if Father Seraphim planted rosemow with me on the near stepchild of his son, bіla yogo near desert near the river Sarivka, bіla burn, sho walk close to the shore. Having placed my wine on the stump of a chopped tree, and standing against me on my feet. - The Lord told me, - saying the great old man, - that your childishness diligently told you to know what the meta of our Christian life is about, and you repeatedly inquired about those great spiritual characters ... I am guilty to say here, scho 12 - For a summer time, my thought was inaccessibly turbulent, and I was defiantly up to the richness of my spiritual abilities with these meals, but they didn’t satisfy me. The old man was unfamiliar. “But nothing,” continued Father Seraphim, “without telling you about it in the first place. They told you: go to church, pray to God, do the commandments of God, do good - the axis of you and the goal of the Christian life. And the deacons turned on you for those who did not occupy you with charitable cliques, and they told you: do not fool yourself. Ale stinks didn’t say that, like a trace. Axis I, wretched Seraphim, will roztlumach you now, why do I have a metaphor. Prayer, feast, chuvannya and all sorts of other things are done by Christians, skilki do not harm the stench of themselves, prote are not only weaklings of our Christian life, wanting stench to serve as necessary means for reaching God. True is the life of our Christian field near the onset of the Holy Spirit of God. Pist, and chuvannya, and prayer, and almsgiving, and do everything for Christ for the sake of the good, to shy, є bones for the awakening of the Holy Spirit of God. Respect, father, that only for the sake of Christ it was good to bring us the fruit of the Holy Spirit. All the same, for the sake of Christ, timid, even good, vengeance in the life of the future age does not show us, that one does not give the grace of God to the local life. The axis of which is the Lord Jesus Christ, saying: Skin, whoever does not take away from Me, that one gives. Good right cannot be called otherwise as a choice, for if you don’t want to fight for Christ’s sake, prote good. The writing seems to be: at the skin of your mouth, fight God and work the truth, accept Yomu. I, as a Bachimo from the sacred confession, so rob the truth before accepting God, that Cornelius the centurion, fearing God and robbed the truth, the angel of the Lord appeared at the hour of yoga prayer and said: We went to Joppia to Simon Usmar, there you will rite Peter and to thee, it seems, the words of the eternal belly, in them you will be saved and all your family. Ozhe, the Lord, keep your divine blessings alive, so that you can give such a person the opportunity for your goodness not to spend a fortune in the life of a pakibutt. And for whom you need to start here with the right faith in our Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God, who came to the world of sins vryatuvati ... Ale, Tim and mezhuєtsya accepting God's good deeds, do not inspire the timid Christ: Our Creator give our bones for the future. Behind the people are left behind chi zdіysniti їх, chi nі. The axis of what the Lord said to the Jews: Ninі w say - bachimo, and your sin is on you. Hurry up as a human being, like before Cornelius, I will accept God’s deeds, do not cause the shattered Christ, and believe Sina Yogo, then such a kind should be called Yomu, as if for the sake of Christ shattered and only for the faith in New. And if not, then a person cannot have the right to say that the good of yoga did not go to the right. Why don’t you ever do anything while doing something good for Christ, for goodness, for the sake of New brokenness, not only in the life of the future life, the truth is wailing, but in the local life it reminds people of the grace of the Holy Spirit, and besides, as it is said: not in For God gives the Holy Spirit to the world, God the Father loves Sin and gives everything in the hands of Yogo. Otozh, your Godliness! So, in the comfort of the Spirit of God, and pray the right meta of our Christian life, and prayer, chuvannya, pist, almsgiving, and other things for the sake of Christ, the honor of honesty is just a cat for the awakening of the Spirit of God. - How come on? - Having energized Father Seraphim. - I don't know who. - It’s all the same, it’s all the same, - you’ve given me wine, - even if you know what it means to give pennies. So it is all one and the awakening of the Spirit of God. Adzhe vie, your love of God, understand what is so in the worldly sensi on the brink? The meta of the life of the worldly noble people is nabuttya, or profit, pennies, and among the nobles, they get honors, powers and other awards for sovereign merit. The gain of the Spirit of God is also capital, but only gracious and eternal... God the Word, our Lord the God-man Jesus Christ, likens our life to the marketplace and rightly calls our life on earth a purchase, and it is said to all of us: buy, I will come, the redemptive hour, Like days are crafty, then foresee the hour for taking away heavenly blessings through earthly comrades. Earthly comrades are honorable, for they strove for Christ's sake, to bring us the grace of the All-Holy Spirit. In the parable about the wise and the holy fools, if there were no olives in the holy fools, it is said: go buy at the marketplace. But if they bought the stench, the doors to the house of love were already fixed, and the stench could not enter the new one. Somehow it seems that the lack of olії among the holy fools marks the lack of good habits among them. Such a reasoning is not correct. What kind of tse they have is short on the good right, if they stink even holy fools, are they still called divas? Adzhe divotsvo є most honesty, like a camp of equal angels, and could serve as a substitute in itself for all other honesty. I, poor one, think that the very grace of the All-Holy Spirit of God did not come into them. Creators of honesty, maidens, behind spiritual irrationality, thought that in that right there was no more Christian, just to work for goodness. They cultivated us, speaking, goodness, and, at the same time, they did the right of God, and before they took away the grace of the Spirit of God, they reached the stench of її, they did not do it. In such a way, imagine life, which is only spiraling on one creation of garlic without a real test, to bring stench and skilki itself to bring the grace of the Spirit of God, and say in Batkiv’s books: don’t go, think you’re kind on the cob, but end yoga - to the bottom of hell . Anthony the Great on his pages to chants speak about such divs: "There are a lot of chents and divi do not have a good understanding about the power of wills that people have, and do not know that three wills are born in us: 1st - God, all-perfect that vseryativna 2-a - one’s own power, human, that’s not fatal, then it’s not ryativna, the 3rd - bisivska is completely ruined. work them out of marnoslavism, otherwise for one good, and not for the sake of Christ. a - the will of God and everything in that only I pray, to work good only for the Holy Spirit ... The axis of this and that yalin at the lamps of the wise maidens, what a moment of light and long-term burning, and the devils with these burning. And enter with Him at the palace of joy. conceived and not allowed to the Bridegroom - human death; divi wise and holy fools - the souls of Christians bkі; yalin - not deeds, but through them the grace of the All-Holy Spirit of God was won through them, which I transform from decay into impermanence, from the death of the soul into spiritual life, from the darkness into the light, from the den of our own, de passions, take thinness ta zvіrі, - at the temple of the Divine, the most holy chamber of eternal joy about Christ Jesus our Lord, the Creator and Liberator of that Eternal Named of our souls. How great is the voice of God to our hardships, so disrespectful to Yogo extinguished the guard, if God seems to be: I am standing at the door and it’s useless! .. rozumiyuchi under the door of our life, not yet committed by death. Oh, how I would like to, your love of God, so that the local life will always be in the Soul of God! At whom I will find, in that I judge, like the Lord. Woe, great grief, as Vіn will find us with tight pіkluvannyam and sorrows of life, for someone to endure the wrath of Yogo, and against the face of Yogo, who will stand! This is why it is said: sip and pray, let it not enter into the attack, so do not spare the Spirit of God, more chuvanna and prayer bring us the grace of Yogo. Of course, all honesty, created for the sake of Christ, give the grace of the Holy Spirit, and even more give prayer, to the one who is in our hands, as a sign for the grace of the Spirit to wake up ... On it to everyone and forge it is possible ... How great is the power of prayer navit and sinful people, if out of a broad heart, to judge by such a butt of the Sacred Transmission: if on a goddamned mother, who has spent a single son, stolen by death, a harlot squad, who was trapped on a path she was cleansed, overcome by the mother’s soulful sorrow, she entrapped her before the Lord: “Not less for the sake of the accursed sinner, but for the sake of the mother’s tears, as if she knew for her son and firmly believed in Thy omnipotence, Christ God, rise again, Lord, son of її!” - and the Lord resurrected him. So, your love of God, the power of prayer is great, and it’s the best way to bring the Spirit of God, and її more effective than all skin correction. We will be blessed if the Lord God wraps us up like this, to watch, with the full gift of the Holy Spirit! Adzhe vy meni about prayer only talk about it? - Get the grace of the Holy Spirit and all the rest of Christ for the sake of garlic, trade them spiritually, trade them from them, as if they give you great profits. Take the capital of grace-filled excesses of the grace of God, put them at the pawnshop of God's eternal from the intangible ones ... Approximately: give you more grace of God, prayer and chuvanya, dbaite and pray; richly give the Spirit of God to feast, fast, give more mercy, do mercy, and in such a rite about all honesty, like to rob Christ for the sake of peace. I will tell you about myself, poor Seraphim. I come from Kursk merchants. So, if I wasn’t still in the monastery, I used to trade in goods, so they give us more barish. So, batiushka, repair, and, like a trader’s right, it’s not the strength to trade more, but the fact that you get more barish, so in the right life of a Christian, it’s not the strength that only pray for something else but good work. If the apostle wants to, it seems, to pray innocently, but, as if you remember, you add: I want to five more words of reason, lower than my thousand. And the Lord seems to say: Without speaking to me, Lord, Lord! be saved, but do the will of My Father, to the one who does the right of God and, moreover, with reverence, more curses of the skin, who does the right of God with non-balance. And the work of God is: do not believe in God and Yogo, having sent the truth of Jesus Christ. If we judge correctly about the commandments of Christ and the apostles, then on the right our Christian woman does not have a greater rahunka of good rights, to serve up to the mark of our Christian life only as a servant, but if the venerable one has more blessings, then the Holy Spirit is given to the most majestic gift of riches. So I wanted to, your love of God, so that you yourself would get the fundamental treasure of the grace of God and forever mourn to yourself, that in the Spirit of God you will know what you are; and yakscho - at the Spirit of God, then, blessed God! - there is nothing to talk about: at once - at the terrible Judgment of Christ! Bo in what outpost, in that th judgment. Well, no, then you need to figure out why and why the Lord God the Holy Spirit, having allowed to deprive us, and again shukati and shukati Yogo ... On our gates, which make us look like New, you need to misfortune until the gunpowder of them ascends, like having said the prophet David ... - Father, - I said, - you all can talk about the grace of the Holy Spirit, like about the method of a Christian life; how and where can i lead? Good luck, can you see the Holy Spirit? How do I know, with me Vіn chi nі? - We are at this hour, - having said the old man, for our mayzhe coldness to the holy faith in our Lord Jesus Christ and through our disrespect to the Divine Yogi about us, that intercourse of the people with God, before that, we can say, maybe we were farther away from the true Christian life... ...Even we have become disrespectful to the point of our order, through which way to go, through which we are rich in the words of the Holy Letter, it is not accepted in that sensi, as it were. And everything that does not joke with the grace of God, it is not allowed for the pride of our mind to settle in the soul and it is not possible for it to truly enlighten the sight of the Lord, which is sent to the hearts of people, with the heart of the greedy and rightful truth of God. Axis, for example: it’s too much to confuse someone, if the Bible says - having breathed in God the death of life in the person of Adam, the primordial and created by Him in the form of an earthly finger, so that there was no human soul and spirit, but there was only one body, created from the fingers earthly. It’s not right to gloat, for the Lord God created Adam with the earthly finger in that warehouse, like the holy apostle Paul affirms, let your spirit, soul and flesh be all-perfect at the arrival of our Jesus Christ. And all three parts of our creation were found in the earthly finger, and Adam is not a dead creature, but a dead creature, like God’s creatures live on the earth of inspiration. And why the axis has strength, that the Lord God did not breathe sweat in the individual of this soul of life. for the grace of the Lord God the Holy Spirit, the Father was gone and in Blue, shaking and for the sake of Sin in the world sent, then Adam, as if he had not won miraculous creations over other God’s creatures, like the crown of creation on earth, nevertheless, having broken the Holy Spirit in the middle of himself , sho erect yoga in God-like goodness, and be similar to all other creations, even if it is possible for the body, the soul, and the spirit, that the skin should lie behind the family, but the Holy Spirit is impossible for itself in the middle. If, having breathed the Lord God into the person of Adam's life, then, after the words of Moses, I live in the soul of Adam, then I will be similar to God's mustache, like Vin, immortal forever and ever. Adam of the creations did not indulge the child from the elements created by God, neither the water drowned, nor the fire did not burn, nor the earth could suffer in its failures, nor could it harm any of its own. Everything was rooted to yoma, as to the love of God, as to the tsar’s and volodar creatures ... Such wisdom, strength, and omnipotence and all other good and holy things, the Lord God gave and Єvі, having created її not from an earthly finger, but from Adam’s rib . at the paradise planted by Him in the middle of the earth. In order to manually and start to cherish in your own immortality, the grace of God and the all-perfect authority of this dihanna of life, God planted a tree of life in the middle of paradise, in the fruits of which he stowed all the days and all the gifts of His Divine Dihanna. Yakby didn’t sin, then Adam and Єva themselves and all їхні offspring could have been forever, coryst savoring the fruit of the tree of life, cherishing in themselves the eternal life force of the grace of God and immortal, eternally youthful force of the forces of the flesh, soul and spirit, inspire our the hour is unfamiliar. If, well, in the tree of the knowledge of good and evil - before the hour and fluidly the commandments of God - they recognized the difference between good and evil and recognized all the evil that they followed the evil of the commandments of God, then they spent their priceless gift of the grace of the Spirit of God, so until the very coming The God-men of Jesus Christ the Spirit of God was not in the world, for Jesus was not of blessings. .. If Vin, our Lord Christ, having allowed the whole right of salvation to be awakened, then after the resurrection of His breath on the apostles, resurrecting their life spent by Adam, and bestowing on them the grace of the All-Holy Spirit of God. Ale is not enough - saying to them: Une є їm, let Vіde go to the Father; If Vin does not go, then the Spirit of God will not come to the world: if Vin, Christ, before the Father, then after Yogo in the world, and Vin, the Comforter, instruct them and all those who come in vchennyu їkh on all truth and guess everything, And Vin said to them that he is in the world with him. Tse already obіtsyana bula їm grace-grace. On the first day of Pentecost, the urochist sent the Holy Spirit to them in the depths of the stormy, at the sight of the fiery mos, on which of them the wild ones and what they entered into them, and filled them with the power of fire-like Divine grace, which dew-bearing spirits and joyous souls in , diyam. And the axis of the very ignited grace of the Holy Spirit, if it is given to us at the sacrament of holy baptism, sacredly tormented by the anointed ones at the head of the Holy Church, the holy Church of our body, as the eternal protector of the blessings of grace. They say: a signet to the gift of the Holy Spirit. And on what, father, is your love of God, put by me, wretched, seals of yours, as if not on a judge, who saves our high value of koshtovnist? What can be found in the world and what is the most precious gift of the Holy Spirit, what will be sent to us in the crypt of the christening, the floorings of the chewing gum for the people, what to inspire and like the heretical people do not get caught up to death itself, then to the term, appointed by the Providence of God for a child, try people on earth - on what will she be given and what will she be in this God-given term for help over the power of grace bestowed on you, you can grow. And if we did not sin after our baptism, then we would be saints, blameless, and for all filthiness of the flesh, and the spirit of the saints of God. But the axis is at that and bіda, scho mi, prospering in the city, not prospering in the grace and in the mind of God, as if our Lord Christ Jesus prospered with him, but on the other hand, expanding little by little, we spend the grace of the All-Holy Spirit of God and we are timid at the various entrances of sinful people . But if someone, being awakened by the whispering wisdom of God to our salvation, to go around the strongman, to be called for her to morning before God and chuvannya for the sake of the well-being of his eternal salvation, then to that hearing of the voice of її, he is guilty , and through the honor of Christ, for the sake of the Holy Spirit, in the midst of us is orderly and in the midst of us is the Kingdom of God in power.

The word God is not without reason, it seems: in the middle of you is the Kingdom of God, and the consumers are crying out for yoga. Tobto - those people, yakі, unconcerned and on the uzi of sin, who called them and did not allow them to come to the New, our Savior, with thorough repentance, ignorant of the whole fortress of these sinful links, to be forced to break the tangle of їх, - so people є before the face of God more snow vibileni Yogo grace. Come, like the Lord: as your sins will be, as scarlet, then I will kill them. So if the holy temporal seer John the Theologian dressed such people in white clothes, then they dressed up the truth, and the fenice in their hands, like a banner of victory, and sang the stench of God the wondrous song of Alleluia. Beauty in your sleep, none of them can be inherited. About them, the Angel of God said: Otsis the essence, that you have come in the form of great sorrow, that you feed the rizi that whiten your rizi in the Blood of the Lamb, - nourishing the suffering and adding them to the communion of the Most Pure and Life-Giving Mysteries of the Flesh of the Blood of the Lamb, slain by Yogo by the power of the will for the sake of , what is given to us in the evening and not to save our salvation and change, which I change every mind, to that fruit of the tree of life, which our people wanted to save the human enemy of people, which fell from the heavens of Dennitsa. The enemy is the devil, and having calmed Eva, and falling into it, Adam, and the Lord not only gave them the Savior in the fruit of our Friendship, who corrected death by death, but gave us us with Zhenya, the Mother of God Mary, which she erased in Herself and the translation to all kinds of people the head of the serpent, imperceptible Intercessor to the Sin of His own and our God, indisputable and inseparable Representation to cast for the most soulful sinners. According to yourself God Matir and is called Virazkoy bisiv, because there is no possibility of bis to destroy a person, but only the person herself did not step out of the way to help the Mother of God. Yes, your love of God, I am guilty, wretched Seraphim, explain in what way the spirit of the Holy Spirit is poured, that the hierarchs move into the hearts of those who believe in the Lord God and Savior Jesus Christ, . The Spirit of God will tell us the words of our Lord Jesus Christ and act one with Him, entrust the same, our hearts are happy and our feet are on the path of peace, and the spirit is flattering, bisivsky, wise to Christ, and di yogo is rebellious in us, stop and lust carnal, greedy eyes and worldly pride. Amen, amen, I tell you, living skin and believing in Me, do not die for ever: the one who can have the grace of the Holy Spirit for the right to believe in Christ, as if through human weakness and died spiritually in the face of such a sin, then do not die for ever, ale be resurrections, the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, who takes away the sins of the world and grants grace-grace to the tunis. About that grace, revealed to the whole world and our human race in the Bogolyudin, and it is said in the Gospel: in that the life lives and lives the light of the people, and it is added: and the light shines in the dark and the darkness is not destroyed. It means that the grace of the Holy Spirit, which is bestowed upon baptism in the name of the Father and Sin and the Holy Spirit, regardless of the human fall, regardless of the darkness of our souls, still shine in the heart of the peace of the abundant Divine merits of Christ's light. It is light of Christ in the presence of the unrepentant sinner to speak before the Father: Abbo Father! Don't be pissed off to the point of unrepentant qiu! And then, when the sinner is brutally on the paths of repentance, I completely smooth and follow the evil ones, dressing up the colossal evil-doers again with an imperishable robe, we will weave with the grace of the Holy Spirit, about the nabuttya, like about the metaphor of the life of Christian love, I tell your hour of grace ... - How, - I have energized Father Seraphim, - know me that I know in the grace of the Holy Spirit? - Tse, your love of God, even simple! - Vіdpovіv vіn me. - The Lord seems to him: the whole essence of knowing the mind is simple ... That is our whole thing in that we ourselves do not joke about the divine mind, which does not boast (do not write), because we do not see the world of it ... I vodpoviv: - All the same, I do not understand why I can be firmly convinced that I am in the Spirit of God. How can I recognize the identity of Yogo's manifestation myself? Father Father Seraphim vіdpovіv: - I already, your love of God, reportedly rozpovіv to you, like people are at the Spirit of God. .. What do you need, father? - It’s worth it, - I said, - so I’ll understand you well! me? I vіdpovіv: - I can't, father, marvel, because of your eyes glitter hoarse. Your disguise became bright behind the sun, and my eyes ache in pain! Verby now themselves so very bright, like me. You yourself are now full of the Spirit of God, otherwise you would not have been able to do such a thing. And having healed his head to me, he said softly in his ear to me: - Say to the Lord God for the mercy of Yogo, which is invisible to you. You bachili that I only thought of the Lord God in my heart and said in my own mind: Lord! Worthy of yoga and bodily eyes to bachit those zіshesta of Thy Spirit, as you will honor Thy servants, if you will be in the light of the beautiful glory of Thy! First, father, the Lord and vikonav mittevo humbly prohannya wretched Seraphim ... Why don’t you blame Yoma for this invisible gift to us both! So, father, do not wait and the Lord shows His mercy to the great hermits. The grace of God favored to comfort your mournful heart, like a mother loving children, at the representation of the Mother of God Herself ... Why, father, do not marvel in my eyes? Just marvel and do not sneer - the Lord is with us! I looked at the words of these words in the guise of yoga, and attacked the lesser reverence. Reveal yourself, in the middle of the sun, in the most gleaming brightness of the midday afternoons, disguised as a person, as I speak of you. Bachite yogo’s lips, a little expression of yogo’s eyes, you feel yogo’s voice, you see that you are shaking by the shoulders, but not only don’t shake your hands, don’t shake your own, not the posture of yoga, but only one light is weak, far away, on a sprat of saplings, and we will light up with our own bliss and a snowy veil, that we cover the galyavin, and snow groats, that we sip the beast and me, and the great old man ... - What do you see now? - Father Seraphim asked me to feed him. - Superbly good! I said. - Is that okay? What about yourself? I v_dpov_v: - I see such silence and peace in my soul, that I can’t speak with any words! - Tse, your love of God, - said Father Seraphim, - that light, about which the Lord said to His teachings: My peace I give you, not like light I give, I give you. As if in the light of the world were shvidki, the light of loving its own, but as you were chosen in the light of the world, for which the world hates you. Axis to what call, that I will overcome the world. Axis to people who hate the sight of this world, let us embrace the sight of the Lord of that world, which you now see with yourselves; light, behind the word of the apostles, every wise mind. This is what the apostle calls yoga, to that which it is not possible to speak with a single word of that kindness of the soul, like repairing faults in quiet people, the Lord God helps the heart of such yoga. Christ the Savior calls yoga the light of the bounty of the Lord of God, and not the light of the world, for no time on earth, well-being, can give it to the human heart: you are given fire in the sight of the Lord God Himself, to that I are called the light of God ... What else do you see? - Father Seraphim asked me to feed him. - Unseen malt! I said. І vіn prodovzhuvav: - Why is that malt, about how to go to the Holy Letter: in the fatness of Your house I will drink and I will drink the stream of Your malt. The axis of the malt is now reordering our hearts and pouring through all the veins of our invisible malt. In the presence of malt, our hearts will not sink, and we are offended by the coincidence of such bliss, as if none of mine could be expressed ... What else do you see? - Unequal joy in all my heart! Father Seraphim continued: - If the Spirit of God descends to the people and osyauє її indulge in His spirits, then the human soul will be filled with an invisible joy, for the Spirit of God is glad to create a mustache, to which Vіn would not reach. This is joy itself, about how the Lord speaks in His Gospel: woman of the people, sorrow of the mother, for the river will come: if you give birth to a young man, before that you do not remember sorrow for the joy, how to be born among the world. The world of sorrow will be, but if I care for you, your heart is healthy, and your joys, none of them will take you away. Ale, if it were not for this joy, for now you see in your heart, after all, it is scanty in equal parts with silence, about the Lord Himself, with the mouth of His Apostle, saying that the joys of tієї no eye do not bachish, no ear, no in the hearts of people not having obtained the good that God has prepared for them who love Yogo. The promises of joy are given to us now, and if they look so sweet, kind and cheerful in our souls, then what can be said about that joy, as prepared for us in heaven, that we cry here on earth? Axis and you, father, did weep in your life on earth, and marvel at what joy the Lord brings you in your life here. Now for us, father, it’s business, pracі to pracі reporting, come to us in strength in strength and reach the world for the victor of Christ. .. What do you see, your love of God? I said: - Nezvichaynu warmth! - Yak, father, warmth? We are sitting at the fox's. Now it's winter on the podvir'ї, and under the feet of snow, and on us an inch of snow, and groats fall on the beast ... how can there be warmth here? I vіdpovіv: - And so, like a buvaє in the laznі, if you put it on the stone, and if you bring down steam with it ... - And the smell, - having quenched the wine, - like that, like from the laznі? - Nі, - vіdpovіv I, - there is nothing on the earth like it to the point of smelling ... I father Seraphim, having received a laugh, saying: - I myself, father, I know it so myself, like you, I don’t feed on you - Do you see it so well? True, your love of God. No acceptance of earthly arable land can be equal to those groins, as we now feel, to the one who now excites us with the odor of the Holy Spirit of God. Well, it’s possible for the earth to be like it! .. Respect, your love of God, even you told me that it’s warm around us, like a lazna, but marvel: even if it’s not on you, it’s not on me, and it’s not the same for us. Henceforth, the warmth is not in the exterior, but in ourselves. It’s the very same warmth, about how the Holy Spirit frightens us with the words of prayer to shout to the Lord: with the warmth of the Holy Spirit warm me! Her zigrivans, hermits and hermits were not afraid of winter filth, dressing up like warm fur coats, at grace-filled robes, in the form of the Holy Spirit weaving. So I can be true, to the one who speaks to God can live in the middle of us, at our heart, for the Lord said: The Kingdom of God is in the middle of you. Under the Kingdom of God, the Lord has enlightened the grace of the Holy Spirit. The axis of the kingdom, God, is now in the middle of you, and perebuvat, and the grace of the Holy Spirit and the call of the osyas, and greet us, and, reminiscent of rich arable arable land, fill our hearts with heavenly sweetness, intoxicate our hearts with the joy of nevimovnoy. Our current camp is the same, about the apostle saying: The Kingdom of God is mute and drink, but truth and peace about the Holy Spirit. Our faith lies not in the earthly wisdom of words, but in manifestations of strength and spirit. Axis to whom we become with you now and we know. About this camp itself and the Lord said: the essence is not in silence, what to stand, what not to calm down death, how to grow the kingdom of God, what has come in strength ... “I don’t know, father,” I said, “why the Lord vouchsafes me to remember so vividly and vividly, as now I see God’s mercy. - And I, - father Seraphim answered me, - that the Lord would help you to remember forever in your memory, otherwise the grace of Yogo would not be healed so mittevo to my humble blessing and would not get ahead of you so quickly listen to the wretched Seraphim, then more that it was not for you alone that wisdom was given to you, but through you for the whole world, so that you yourself, having established yourself in God's right, could be brown to others. .. God has the right to believe in New and Sin Yogo the Only Begotten. For this, the grace of the Holy Spirit is clearly given. The Lord is looking for a heart, made with love to God and neighbor, - the axis of the throne, on which Vіn love to sit and on which Vіn is at the fullness of His heavenly glory. Sinu, give me your heart, - say Vin, - and everything else I myself will give you, for the kingdom of God can be placed in the human heart. The Lord commanded His teachings: joke first of the kingdom of God and the truth of Yogo, and all will be given to you. For your heavenly Father, for you will require all your strength. The Lord God does not reproach for the rewarding of earthly blessings, but it Himself seems that for our earthly life we ​​have all the strength we need, that everything that will calm our earth human life and to work for the handy and lay our way to the heavenly home... I Holy Church about those who were given to us by the Lord God; And wanting to mourn, unhappy and varied and inseparable from our lives on earth, however, the Lord God does not want and does not want us to bear the burdens of one alone through the apostles and by ourselves vikonate the law of Christ. The Lord Jesus especially gives us a commandment that we love one and the same, for the sake of our mutual love, lighten our own sums and tight paths of our march to the heavenly homeland. Why do Vin and from heaven come before us, if not for the fact that, having taken our evil on Himself, enrich us with the wealth of the goodness of His and His invisible bounty. For Vin did not come to serve Yom, but let him serve Himself to others and let him give His soul for the salvation of the rich. So you, your love of God, create and, bachachi, I will obviously give you God's mercy, tell me about those skins who bless their own salvation. The reaping is rich, - say the Lord, - work a little ... The Lord God has viviv us for a long time and given us His grace, so that, reaping, save the salvation of our neighbors through the multiplicity of those who have led us into the kingdom of God, brought Yoma fruit - its thirty, ovo sixty, ovo OK one hundred. Well, let's take care of ourselves, father, so that we don’t be judged by this crafty and sleazy slave, who buries his talent under the ground, but rather to succeed in inheriting the quiet good and faithful servants of the Lord, as if they brought to their Lord one substitute for two - chotiri, and the other substitute for n' yati. - Ten. There is nothing to doubt about the mercy of the Lord God. Yourselves, your love of God, bachite, like the words of the Lord, spoken through the prophet, rushed at us: I am not God, God is far away, but God is near and at your comforts, your salvation ... Nearby, the Lord us, who calls Yogo in truth, and there is nothing in New dawn on the face, Father more to love Sin and give everything in the hands of Yogo, but only we ourselves loved Yogo, our Heavenly Father, truly, in a blue way. The Lord alone hears a Chance, and a layman, a simple Christian, aby insults were Orthodox, and both loved God from the depths of their souls, and offended Mali in a New faith, wanting to be like a grain of a girka, and insult to destroy burn. One roaring thousand, two dark ones. The Lord himself seems to say: all is possible for the believer, but Father Saint Pavlo vigukuє: you can about Christ, who sees me. Why is it not more marvelous than our Lord Jesus Christ to speak about those who believe in New: believing in Me, I did not exactly, as I do, but more and more, for I go to My Father and I bless Yogo for you, that your joy will be vikonan. Don’t bring anything to me in my name, they ask and accept ... So, your love of God, everything that you didn’t ask the Lord God about, accept everything, but only for the glory of God, but for the wickedness of your neighbor, to that what the melancholy of the neighbor Vіn, to the glory of His own, should be brought to him, it seems: all, that the only kind of the least of them created, Create me. So do not wait for the longing, so that the Lord God does not slay your hellholes, but only stinks, but at the glory of God, otherwise the sciences of others were set up to crusty. Ale yakbi to inspire and for your needs of yours, chi koristi, chi to you sho-nebud was necessary, and to navit everything so very swiftly and auspiciously, the Lord God will allow me to send you, a bit, an emergency need and necessity has come, more to love the Lord is quiet, sho to love Yogo: the good Lord to everyone, and Yogo's generosity in Yogo's good deeds, and the will is quiet, to be afraid of Yogo, to make a prayer of them, and all the joy of them vikona; The Lord conquers all your prohannya. However, be afraid, your love of God, so that you do not ask the Lord for anything you do not need. Do not command the Lord to you and in this for your Orthodox faith at Christ the Savior, for the Lord does not heal the rod of the righteous and do the will of His servant unsufferingly, however, the bandage of the new one, navіscho wines turbulent Yogo without special needs, asking the New for that, without which the moment would be better to manage. And for the whole hour, roam the eyes from that very hour, as the appearance of Father Seraphim was enlightened, the vision did not stop ... I didn’t see the light, which appeared in the sight of a new one, I myself, in my eyes, ready to confirm and swear an oath.

Rozmova Ave. Seraphim of Sarovskiy from N.A. Let's talk about the meta of Christian life - a marvelous speech that is read and experienced as a messenger of the Holy Spirit, as if by a miracle there is no misery and open for our hours. It’s a pity that Rozmov’s mind was small and practically not needed (1st half of the 19th century)

Rozmova Ave. Seraphim of Sarovskiy from N.A. Motovilovim

Tse Bulo at four. Gloomy day. The snow was on
a quarter on the ground, and the beast was sprinkled with thick, snow groats, if the father
father Seraphim, having planted a rose with me on his neighbor,
near the desert, against the rivers of Sarovka, white fire, which comes close to the coast
її.

Having placed my wine on the stump of a tree that was chopped by him, and standing against
I don't care.

- The Lord has shown me, - saying the great old man, - what do your children have
diligently told the nobility, what is the meta of our life, Christian, and rich
great spiritual principles were repeatedly inquired about ...

I can say here that from the 12th century, my thought is unacceptable
turbulent, and I, fiyno, to the richness of spiritual osіb, turned to zim nutrition,
but they did not satisfy me. The old man was unfamiliar.

But nothing, - continued Father Seraphim, - without telling you about it in the beginning.
They told you: go to church, pray to God, do the commandments of God, do good
- the axis of you and the goal of the Christian life. And deyakі navіt fell on you for
those who are not occupied by God-pleasing tsikavista, and they told you: there are no
joke. Ale stinks didn’t say that, like a trace.
Axis I, wretched Seraphim, will roztlumach you now, why do I have a metaphor.

Prayer, pist, chuvannya and all sorts of other things do the Christian, even the skilki are good
stink on their own, however, not only in broken ones, they swear by the meta of our Christian
life, wanting the stench to serve as the necessary security for її reach. Help
And the meta of our Christian life is buried in the wake of the Holy Spirit of God. respect,
father, why only for the sake of Christ, why strive for goodness on the right to bring us fruit
Holy Spirit. All the same, do not make Christ timid, even good, but vengeance in life
the future century does not show us the grace of God in the local life
don't give. Why is the Lord Jesus Christ saying: “Everyone who does not take from Me,
I’m spreading you.” Good right cannot be called otherwise, like picking, wanting to get out
do not cause Christ to be timid, but good. The writing seems to be: “Be-yakіy movі
fear God and practice the truth, accepting the truth.” І like Bachimo from sequence
sacred opovіdі, tsey "do the truth" on the floor of God's reception, that Cornelius
the centurion, who fearing God and robbed the truth, the angel of the Lord appeared at the hour
yoga prayers and saying: “We went to Joppia before Simon Usmar, there you will rite Peter and
To that speech the words of the belly of the eternal, in them you will be saved and all of yours.

Father, the Lord lives all His Divine help, to deliver such
people for their good, do not spend a lot of money in the life of a pakibutt. Ale for whom
start here with the right faith in our Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God, who came
in the world of sinners vryatuvat, and on my own, the grace of the Holy Spirit, what to introduce
in our hearts is the Kingdom of God and paves the way for us to the dawn of bliss
life of the future century. Ale tim i obzhuetsya tsya accepting God of good deeds,
don't hurt Christ. The author gives us pennies for our contributions. behind
Well, the human being is left with their own things. Why is the Lord saying to the Jews:
“Yakscho not biste bachili, sin was not biste mali. Ninі w verb - bachimo, i grіh
your call on you”. A man is speeding up, like Cornelius, I accept
God's deeds, do not cause the broken Christ, and believe in Sina Yogo, then such
for the sake of the right, youma is called, as if for the sake of Christ, we are broken, only for the faith in New. AT
Otherwise, a person has no right to say that something did not go right.
Why don’t you ever, only for an hour, be it good, celebrate Christ
for the sake of it, for good, for the sake of New zroblene, not only in the life of the future
the crown of truth is clamoring, but in the local life they are repopulating the people
the grace of the Holy Spirit, and moreover, as it is said, “For God does not give the Holy Spirit in the world,
Bo Father love Sin and give everything in the hands of Yogo.

Otozh, your Godliness! So u pribannya of which Spirit
God's and pray the right meta of our Christian life, and prayer, dude,
pіst, almsgiving that іnshі for the sake of Christ
get the Spirit of God.

- How come on? - I asked Seraphim panottsya: I don’t understand now.

It’s all the same, what’s the cost, - let me know, - even if you know,
what does it mean to give a penny. So it is all one and the awakening of the Spirit of God. Aje vie, your
Love of God, understand, what is it with the secular sensi? Meta life of the worldly
the noblest people are given pennies, and the nobles over that - the removal of honors,
vіdmіnnosti and іnshih hedges for sovereign hedges. Health of the Spirit of God
tezh capital, but only blessed and eternal, and wine like a penny, bureaucratic and
timchasovy, bathe in one and the same way, even like a friend
with a friend.

God the Word, our Lord the God-man Jesus Christ likened our life to the marketplace,
and on the right, our life on earth is called a purchase, and it seems to everyone: “Buy, until
I will come, calm hour, for the days are evil, ”- so guess the hour for
getting heavenly blessings through earthly comrades. Earth goods - garlic,
timid for the sake of Christ, who bring us the grace of the All-Holy Spirit, without any
and no one can be saved, and you can’t, more: “The Holy Spirit of every soul lives
and be brought with purity, shining the Trinity Holy Day”. Myself
The Holy Spirit dwells in our souls, and the very universe in our souls is Yogo, the Almighty,
and perebuvannya with our spirit Yogo Trinity Unity and bestowed upon us only through
around the world, from our side, the Holy Spirit is coming, as I prepare in
soul and flesh, our throne to God the All-Creator with our spirit,
behind the immutable word of God: “I will sit down with them and descend and be in God,
and there shall be my people.” Zvichayno, all honesty, created for the sake of Christ, yes
the grace of the Holy Spirit, but most of all give a prayer, to him
in our hands, as a sign for the awakening of the grace of the Spirit. Would you like to see, for example,
to go to the Church, but there is no Church, but the service has come; would like a wife
taxes, the same marriage is not possible, otherwise there is nothing to give; would like to finish the value, that
the folding of your abo for the zusils of the fortune-telling steps, like you due to the dumbness of the people
you can’t resist, there is no strength for the viconati; would like to have another yak
honesty, for the sake of Christ, grows, that same strength is not there, but it is impossible to know in advance.
And before prayer, it’s already impossible to see: on her skin
- rich and poor, noble and simple, strong and weak, and healthy
for the sick, for the righteous, and for sinners. Great is the power of prayer, and there is more
to bring the Spirit of God, and її the best way to straighten the skin. With prayer mi
All-good and Life-Giving God and our Savior, you are worthy to be praised, ale th
here it is necessary to pray only until quiet feast, until God the Holy Spirit comes upon us
let Yomu come in Your heavenly grace. I if you favor Vіn vіdvіdati
us, then stop praying. Why pray to Yomu: “Come,
and dwell with us, and cleanse us from all the filthy ones, and save us, Blessed, our souls, "if
already come Vin to us, to save us, to hope for a new one and call out to Him Yogo.
holy in the truth, so that, humbly and with love, the wisdom of Yogo, the Comforter,
in the middle of the temples of our souls, which bazhayut and bazhayut Yogo coming.

Well, how about it, father, be with more honesty, what to do for the sake of Christ
for the awakening of the grace of the Holy Spirit? Adzhe vi meni tіlki about prayer, speak affectionately.

Call on the grace of the Holy Spirit with all others, for the sake of Christ, honesty,
trade them with them, to give you a bigger profit. Take the capital of the blessed
in excess of the goodness of God, put them at the pawnshop of God's eternal and not by choice or
six times a hundred, and a hundred times a hundred spiritual karbovanets, and yet another one in an indistinguishable
more times. Approximately: give you more grace of God, prayer and chuvannya, sip
i pray; richly give the Spirit of God fist, fast; give more mercy, mercy
rob, and in such a rite about all honesty, like to rob Christ for the sake of it, rozmirkovyte.

So, be kind and trade spiritually with honesty. Give gifts of the grace of the Spirit
Vymagayut the saint, behind the butt of a candle lit, which she herself shines, burning
earthly fire, those other candles, not extinguishing their damp fire, ignite in
light of all in other places. And just like earthly fire, then
what can we say about the fire of the grace of the All-Holy Spirit of God?

Father, - I said, - you can all talk about the coming of grace
Holy Spirit, how about the method of Christian life, but how can I її bachiti?
Good luck, can you see the Holy Spirit? How do I know
sі me Vіn chi nі?

Mi at once, - so old man, - because of our mayzhe coldness
to holy faith in our Lord Jesus Christ and through our lack of respect to
Yoga of the Divine about us, that intercourse of people with God was so far gone that
we can say that we may have gone through the true Christian life. Us now
The words of the Scriptures are created marvelous, if the Spirit of God through the mouth of Moses, saying:
“I am like the Adam of the Lord, who will go to paradise”, or if we read in the Apostle Paul:
"Let's go to Achaia and the Spirit of God come with us." Repeatedly in other places of the Holy
The scriptures speak about the manifestation of God to people.

The axis of deyakі th seems:
bachichi God? And there is nothing unreasonable here. It turned out that it was unreasonable that
that we saw in the vastness of the primary Christian knowledge and under the drive
illumine us into such a darkness of ignorance
those who have long ago clearly understood what they are in the greatest roses
understanding about the appearance of God was not surprising. God and the grace of the Holy Spirit
people did not see the dream, and not in the dream, and not in the shaleni showed the confused,
but truly true. Already we have become disrespectful to the rescue of our salvation,
Why do I go out, why do we have a lot of other words? Scripture is not accepted
that sensi, like a trace. And all to those who do not joke about the grace of God,
it is not allowed for the pride of our mind to settle in our souls, and that is not possible
true enlightenment of the sight of the Lord, which is sent into the hearts of people, which is checked with all the heart
i spraglih truth.

If our Lord Jesus Christ forbids to work all the right of salvation, after Sunday
His own, having blown on the apostles, having inspired their lives, spent by Adam, she bestowed
May the very Adamic grace of the All-Holy Spirit of God. Do day
Pentecost, urochisto sent Vіnїm the Holy Spirit at the wild storms at the sight
fiery language, on the skin of them they are gray, and quiet, which entered before them, and reminded them
by the power of fire-like Divine grace, which dew-bearingly breathes and joyfully
in the souls that partake of Її strength and that diyam. І axis qiu samu ignited
the grace of the Holy Spirit, if it is given to us
let us believe in Christ, at the sacraments of Holy Baptism, beat at the heads of the head,
appointed by the Holy Church to the holy places of our flesh as the eternal guardian of our
grace. It is said: "Druk to the gift of the Holy Spirit." And what, father, your love of God,
we put our seals, wretchedly, as if not on a judge, who save as a high value
us catness. What can be the best in the world and what is dear
Giving the Holy Spirit, who help us, burn in the sacrament of baptism, for baptism
the grace of the flooring is great, and so necessary, the floorings are chewing for the people,
what to instill in the mind of a heretic man does not start up until the very yogo of death: to the term,
known more by the Providence of God for the dovіchnі try people on earth
- on what de vin will be adventitious and what de vin will have a God-given term, if
help the strength of grace bestowed on you, you can grow. I yakby mi not
if we sinned after our baptism, then we would be beaten by saints, blameless
and exalted from all the filth of the flesh and the spirit of the saints of God. Ale axis at something
and bіda, sho mi, reaching success in vіtsi, not reaching success in grace and in the mind
God, as if our Lord Jesus Christ prospered with him, and on the other hand, roaring
giblets, we are spared by the grace of the All-Holy Spirit of God and we work in the
come in sinful and rich people. Ale if, who, being awake, jokes
our guard to the Wisdom of God, to be called for her sake early to God
and chuvannya for the sake of the health of your eternal salvation, like that, hearing voice
її, I am guilty to go to the truth in all my sins of repentance and to commit
the sins of the sins of the past, and through the sins of Christ for the sake of
until the awakening of the Holy Spirit, in the midst of us is orderly and in the midst of us is the Kingdom of God
vlashtovu. Grace of the Holy Spirit, which is bestowed upon baptism in the Name of the Father and Sin
and the Holy Spirit, unaffected by the human fall, unaffected by darkness
our souls, nevertheless, shine in the hearts of peace with the infinite Divine light of the priceless
merit of Christ. Tse Light of Christ, with the sinner's death on the path of repentance,
absolutely smoothing out and following the evils, aggravating the enormous evils
I renew the imperishable clothes, we weave with the grace of the Holy Spirit, about the future,
as about the method of the Christian life, I say a hundred years to your love of God.

I’ll tell you that you understand more clearly, that you understand under the grace of God,
and how to recognize її, and why especially

Manifested її diya in people, she illumined. Grace
The Holy Spirit is light, which enlightens the people. The Lord repeatedly manifested
for rich witnesses of the grace of the Holy Spirit in quiet people, such as Vin
having consecrated and enlightened with the great ones to find Yogo. Guess about Moses
with God on Mount Sinai. People could not marvel at the new - so shining in the invisible
light, which otochuvala yogo. Vіn navit zmusheny buv people not іnakshe like pid
blanket. Guess about the transformation of the Lord on Mount Tabor.

“I buli rizi Yogo, who shone like snow, and Yogo’s disciples bowed down in fear.” If
And Moses and Illya appeared to Yomu, to grab the light of Divine grace,
dazzling eyes of learning, "cloudy", it is said, "autumn їх". I in such a rank
the grace of the All-Holy Spirit of God is with the invisible light for all, like
God is showing the deed.

With such a rank, - having fed the father of Father Seraphim, - tell me that I
I perebuvayu have the grace of the Holy Spirit?

Tse, your love of God, is simple! - vydpoviv vіn me, - to that the Lord
it seems: “The whole essence of knowing the mind is simple” ... perebovaya at whose mind, and the apostles
zavzhd bachili, chi interrupt the Spirit of God with them chi, і, scho penetrated them
perebovaya with them the Spirit of God, they firmly said that on the right they are holy
and wholeheartedly for God's sake. Tim and explain why the stench wrote in their messages:
“Let the Holy Spirit and us,” and only on these platforms proclaimed their
the messenger, as if the truth is indestructible, to the point of misfortune we believe, - so holy are the apostles
clearly perceived in themselves the presence of the Spirit of God... so the axis of your love of God,
Chi bachite wi, yak tse simple?”

I swear:

All the same, I do not understand why I can be firmly convinced that I am in Dusi
God. How can I recognize Yogo's right appearance?

Father o. Seraphim vіdpovіv:

I already, your love of God, having told you that it is even simpler, and
to you, like people are at the Spirit of God and like you can understand Yogo manifestation in us ...
What do you need, father?

It’s necessary, - I said, - so that I can understand it a little!

Todi o. Seraphim took me by the shoulders and said to me:

We are offended now, father, at the Soul of God with you! .. Why don’t you marvel at
me? I swear:

I can’t, father, marvel, for your eyes squeal. Individual
yours has become bright behind the sun, and my eyes ache in pain!

O. Seraphim saying:

Do not fawn, your love of God, and now you yourself have become so very bright, like
and myself. You yourself now have the fullness of the Spirit of God, otherwise you wouldn't be able to
and me so bachiti.

I, having shaved my head before me, quietly in my ear, saying to me:

Say to the Lord God for the nevimovnu to you the mercy of Yogo. You bachili
why didn’t I cross my mind, but only prayed to the Lord in my heart of thought.
God and in his own words: “Lord, make me worthy of yoga clearly and bodily eyes of bachiti
then save Thy Spirit, with which You honor Your servants, if You will
be at the light of the beautiful glory of yours”, І axis, father, the Lord and vikonav
mittevo humbly prohannya wretched Seraphim...
gift to us both! So, father, do not wait and the Lord appears to the great hermits
God is His mercy. Tsya grace of God favored to silence the mournful heart
yours, as a mother is child-loving for the representation of the Mother of God herself ... Well,
father, do not marvel at me at the vіchі? Just marvel and do not be beaten - the Lord
us!

I looked at these words in the guise of yoga, and attacked the less reverent
zhah. Show yourself, in the middle of the sun, at the most boring bright yoga
pivdennyh promenіv, disguise people, like you are talking about. Wee bachite ruh
wust yogo, what is changing viraz yogo eyes, feel yogo voice, see what you want
Trim your shoulders with your hands, but don’t shake your hands, don’t shake yourself
yourself, no post yoga, and only one is light blind, which stretches far,
on a sprat of saplings, and granting us the closeness of our snow shroud that we cover
galyavin, and reduce the groats, which sip on the beast and me, and the great old man. maybe
Chi reveal yourself to those camps, in which I will be!

What do you see now? - Seraphim.

Superbly good! I said.

But is it good? What about yourself?

sleeping me about.

I swear:

I see such silence and peace in my soul, which I can say with ordinary words
I can't!

Tse, your love of God, - saying the father about. Seraphim, - that world, about which
The Lord having said to His teachings: “My peace I give you, not like the light I give, I give
to you. If bіd vіd svіtu buli bi, sіt svoє loving bi, ale I chose you from the world,
cause someone to hate you the world. Ale, call me that I have overcome the world. Axis to people,
we hate the sight of the world, let us embrace the sight of the Lord, and let the Lord give that light, which
you are now familiar with it. "Svіt", after the words of the apostolic, "every. reasonable"
(Phil 1, 7).

What else do you see? - Asking me about. Seraphim.

Unseen malt! - vіdpovіv i. I wine continued:

Tse that nasolod, about how to go to the Holy Letter: “Look at the house
They will drink yours and indulge me with a stream of salt. The axis is now full of salt
perepovnyuє and pouring through all the veins of our nevimovnoy malt. View
tsієї malt our hearts don’t sink, and we are offended by the coincidence of such bliss,
like I can’t express myself in any way ... What else do you see?

Overwhelming joy in all my heart! Father Seraphim I continued:

If the Spirit of God descends to the people and osyaє її with the fullness of His breath,
then the soul of a man is reminiscent of unimaginable joy, for the Spirit of God
it's a pleasure to create a mustache, to which it would not be bumped, it's a joy itself, about
how the Lord speaks in the gospel to His own:

“Druzhina, if the people, sorrow of the mother, for the river will come; if you give birth to a child,
until then, you don’t remember sorrow for joy, for a person was born in the world. At the world of sorrow
you will, but if I care for you, your heart is healthy, and your joy is none
see you". But if it weren’t for this joy, you now see
at your heart, yet there is meager in equal parts, about the yaku the Lord himself
having said through the mouth of His Apostle, “What are your joys?”
I didn’t get goodness in the hearts of people, which God has prepared for those who love Yogo.” Zazdalegid
tsієї joys are given to us now, and even though they look so licorice, good and fun
our souls, then what to say about that joy, as prepared in heaven, what to cry
here on earth? From i vie, father, they cried
in your life, and marvel at what joy the Lord brings you in here.
life.

What else do you see, your love of God? I swear:

Heat is unimaginable!

Yak, father, warmth? We are sitting at the fox's. Now winter is in the yard, and pid
feet of snow, and on us there is more than an inch of snow, and groats fall on the beast ...
maybe it's warm in here?

I swear:

And so, like a bovaє at the laznі, if you hit the kam'yanka and if you step out of it
fall down a couple...

And the smell, - having quenched my wine, - is the same, like from a lazne?

Ni, - vіdpovіv I, - on earth there is nothing like it to the groin. If,
for the life of my mother, I love to dance and travel to Bali and dance
evening, then my mother used to describe me with perfumes, like bathing in the best
fashion stores in Kazan, ale and ti perfumes do not see such a smell.

І father Fr. Seraphim, with a chuckle, said:

And I myself, father, I know it so myself, like you, I don’t feed on
you - chi vie tse vіdchuvaєte? True, your love of God! No acceptability
earthly arable land cannot be matched with these groins, as we are now
visibly, for now we feel the smell of the Holy Spirit of God. What
and the earth can be similar to the new? Respect well, your love of God, adzhe vie said
me, that it was warm around us, like a lazna, but to marvel, even if not on you, not on
me snig not tane і over us it's the same. Otzhe, warmth is not in the air, but
ourselves. Vaughn and that very warmth, about the Holy Spirit in words
prayers terrify us to drag us to the Lord: “By the warmth of Your Holy Spirit,
me!” Yogo warming hermits and hermits were not afraid of winter filth, being
dressed up, like a warm coat, a fertile garment, in the form of the Holy Spirit weaving.
So I can be true, for the grace of God can live
in the midst of us, at our heart, for the Lord said: “The Kingdom of God is in the midst of you.”
Under the Kingdom of God, the Lord understood the grace of the Holy Spirit. axis ce"
The Kingdom of God is now in the midst of you, and the grace of the Holy Spirit is called
touches and embraces us, adding various plowed fields
cherish us, nurture ours with a touch of heavenly malt, reminiscent of our hearts
joy of the innocent. Our current camp is those about the yak
the apostle seems to say: “The Kingdom of God is dumb zha that pitta, but truth and peace about the Holy Spirit.”
Our faith lies “not in the conflicting human wisdoms, but in the
the spirit of that strength.” The axis of whom we now become with you and know. About
stood to himself and said the Lord:
squash death, wait for the Kingdom of God, what has come in power "... Os, father,
your love of God, with what an invisible joy the Lord God has now vouchsafed us!
- What does it mean to be at the fullness of the Holy Spirit, about the saint Macarius of Egypt
write:

"I myself have been in the fullness of the Holy Spirit." By the fullness of the Holy Spirit and us, that
the poor, now reminiscent of the Lord ... Well, now there is nothing more, let's go, feed,
your love of God, in such a rank people are at the grace of the Holy Spirit! .. You will
Why do you remember now the manifestation of God's invisible mercy, how did you see us?

I don't know, father! - I said, - chi honor me the Lord forever remembrance
so vividly and vividly, as now I see the mercy of God.

And I, - Fr. Seraphim followed me, - that the Lord will help you to die forever
tse in your memory, otherwise the goodness of yogo would not heal so mittevo
until my humble blessing, I didn’t get ahead of it, and so soon listen to the wretched
Seraphim, more importantly, that it was not for you alone that it was given to you to understand, but through you
for the whole world, so that you yourself were affirmed at the right of God and others could
be curvy. What is it, father, that I am black, but you are worldly
man, then think about nothing. God has the right to believe in New and Sina
Yogo the Only Begotten. For this, the grace of the Holy Spirit is given even more. Lord
whispering heart, with love to God and neighbor, - the axis of the throne, on which
Vіn love to sit and on what Vіn є at the fullness of His heavenly glory.
“Sinu, give me your heart,” Vin says, “and everything else I myself will give you,”
For in the heart of man is the Kingdom of God. “Near the Lord to all who call Yogo
in truth, and I’m dumb at New to look at the guise, Bo Father love Sin and give everything in hand
Yogo, but we ourselves loved Yogo, Our Heavenly Father, truly in a blue way.
The Lord only hears and chentsya, and a layman, a simple Christian, abi offended
were Orthodox, and both loved God from the depths of their souls, and both were
I believe I, wanting to “like a grain of a girke”, and resentment destroy burn. “One ruhai thousand,
two darkness.” The Lord Himself says: “Everything is possible
believer,” and Father the Holy Apostle Pavlo voiced the voice: “I can do everything about
what do you think of me in Christ.” Chi not so long ago our Lord Jesus Christ seems
about those who believe with New:
to create, as I go to My Father and I bless Yogo for you, let your joy be fulfilled
will. Dosi do not ask anything in My Name, but you ask and you will receive”...
So, your love of God, everything, about which you would not ask the Lord God, accept everything,
abit only those boulo for the glory of God, but for the reproach of the neighbor, fight the reproach
bring the neighbor Vin to the glory of His own, why it seems: “All that is seen by one
create lesser ones, create me.” So do not wait for the sumnivu that
The Lord God did not take your offerings, but only the stench went to the glory of God,
went to the bitterness and set up neighbors. Ale yakbi navit i for vlasnoi
consume yours either for selfishness, or else see for you something that was necessary, and the price of everything
so swiftly and blessedly the Lord God let me send you, abi only in that
extreme needs and needs have come, more to love the Lord is quiet, to love Yogo; blessings
The Lord is powerful, but the will is quiet, who is afraid of Yogo, to make and feel a prayer.

Sergiy Nilus

About the meta of the Christian life - the conversation of the Monk Seraphim of Sarov with Motovilov

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Tse bulo about the fourth. Gloomy day. There was a quarter of snow on the ground, and the beast was powdered with thick snow groats, if Father Fr. Seraphim planted a rose with me on his near pazhintsi, whitened those near deserts against the Sarivka river, burned brightly, to come close to the її shore.

Having placed my wine on the stump of a chopped tree, and standing against me on my feet.

- The Lord showed me, - saying the great old man, - that your childishness diligently told you to know what the meta of our Christian life is, and many great spiritual backgrounds you repeatedly inquire about ...

I am guilty to say here, that since the 12th century, my thoughts have been imperceptibly turbulent, and I have been defiantly up to a rich spiritual background with these meals, but they didn’t satisfy me. The old man was unfamiliar.

“But nothing,” Father Seraphim far away, “without telling you about it in the first place. They told you: go to church, pray to God, do the commandments of God, do good - the axis of you and the goal of the Christian life. And the deacons turned on you for those who did not occupy you with charitable cliques, and they told you: do not fool yourself. Ale stinks didn’t say that, like a trace. Axis I, wretched Seraphim, will roztlumach you now, why do I have a metaphor.

Prayer, feasting, drinking and all other things are done by Christians, even though they smell good on their own, but not in the same way they help the meta of our Christian life, wanting to serve as necessary means for reaching God. True is the meta of our Christian life in the wake of the Holy Spirit of God. Pist and chuvannya, and prayer, and almsgiving, and do everything for Christ for the sake of the good, to shy, є for the awakening of the Holy Spirit of God. Respect, father, that only for the sake of Christ it was good to bring us the fruit of the Holy Spirit. All the same, for the sake of Christ, shattered, even good, vengeance in the life of the future century does not show us, and the grace of God does not give to the local life. Axis to which the Lord Jesus Christ said: " leather, whoever does not take with me, that one distributes"Goodness rightly cannot be called otherwise as a choice, for even though it's not for Christ's sake, shy away, prote goodness. Writing says:" with every move, fight God and work the truth, accepting Yomu."I, like Bachimo z sacred opovіdі, cey" rob the truth"Before receiving God, that Cornelius the centurion, fearing God and robbed the truth, the angel of the Lord appeared at the hour of prayer and said:" went to Joppa to Simon Usmar, there you will rite Peter and that speech of the devil of the belly of the eternal, in them you will be saved and all your house Ozhe, the Lord, keep your Divine help alive, so that you can deliver such a person the opportunity for your good, do not hesitate to live in peace. And let us give ourselves the grace of the Holy Spirit, Who will bring the Kingdom of God into our hearts and pave the way for us to the future bliss of the life of the future age, and then we will intercede to accept God’s good deeds, not for the sake of Christ’s deeds: Our Creator gives our bones for our lives. chi zdіysniti їх, chi nі. The axis of which the Lord said to the Jews: " if they didn’t bist, they didn’t bist mali. Nini say - bachimo, and your sin will change on you". A person is speeding, like to Cornelius, I will accept God to do his own, do not cause the broken Christ, and believe in Sina Yogo, then this kind of right is called Yoma, as if for the sake of Christ, it was broken and only for the faith in New. I have the right to say that the goodness of yoga did not go to the right, which does not happen only in the case of some kind of goodness of Christ, for the good, for the sake of the New brokenness, not only in the life of the future century, the truth is wailing, but in the local life it reminds people the grace of the Holy Spirit, and moreover, as it is said: " for it is not in the world that God gives the Holy Spirit, God the Father loves Sin and gives everything in the hands of Yogo.".

Otozh, your Godliness! So, at the onset of the Spirit of God, and the blessing of the meta of our Christian life, and prayer, chuvannya, fist, almsgiving, and other things for the sake of Christ, the honor of honesty is just a cat for the awakening of the Spirit of God.

- How come on? - Having energized Father Seraphim. - I don't know who.

Tse Bulo at four. Gloomy day. It was a quarter of snow on the ground, and the beast was sprinkled with thick, snowy groats, if Father Seraphim planted rosemow with me on his neighbor's harvest, white of that near desert, white of the Sarovka river, white of fire, you walk close to the shore.

Having placed my wine on the stump of a tree that was cut by him, and he himself stood against me on the spot.

The Lord showed me, - saying the great old man, - that your childishness diligently told you to know what the meta of our life, the Christian one, is supposed to be about, and you have repeatedly inquired about it for many great spiritual foundations ...

I am guilty to say here that since the 12th century, my thought has been unacceptably turbulent, and I, actually, to the richness of my spiritual abilities, have been staring at these foods, but they didn’t satisfy me. The old man was unfamiliar.

But nothing, - continued Father Seraphim, - without telling you about it in the beginning. They told you: go to church, pray to God, do the commandments of God, do good - the axis of you and the goal of the Christian life. And the deacons turned on you for those who did not occupy you with charitable cliques, and they told you: do not fool yourself. Ale stinks didn’t say that, like a trace. Axis I, wretched Seraphim, will roztlumach you now, why do I have a metaphor.

Prayer, feast, pilnuvannya and be-yakі іnshі do christian, even if they stink on their own, however, not in a roben їlki їkh polyaє meta of our Christian life, wanting to stink and serve as necessary means for reaching її. The truth is the meta of our Christian life lies in the wake of the Holy Spirit of God. Respect, father, that only for the sake of Christ it was good to bring us the fruit of the Holy Spirit. All the same, do not rob Christ for the sake of Christ, even if it is good, but in the life of the future century, it does not show us vengeance and the grace of God does not give to the local life. The axis of which is the Lord Jesus Christ, saying: “Skin, whoever does not take away from me, that one gives.” Good right cannot be called otherwise, like picking, wanting not to fight for Christ's sake, prote good. The scripture seems to be: “Be it for me, be afraid of God and work the truth, accepting this truth.” And as for the succession of the sacred confession, who “work the truth” on the floor of the reception of God, that Cornelius the centurion, who was afraid of God and robbed the truth, the angel of the Lord appeared at the hour of yoga prayer and said: “We went to Joppia to Simon Usmar, there you know Peter and To thee speak the words of the eternal life, in them you will be saved and all your house.

Ozhe, the Lord, keep your Divine help alive, so that you can deliver such a person for your good work not to waste the city in a life of packs. And for whom you need to begin here with the right faith in our Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God, who came to the world of sinners, and I will bring the grace of the Holy Spirit to our hearts, to introduce the Kingdom of God into our hearts and pave the way for us to the blessedness of life of the future age. Ale tim i obezhuetsya tsya accepting God's good right, do not cause Christ to be shy. The author gives us pennies for our contributions. And behind the people, they are left with their own things. The axis of what the Lord said to the Jews: Nini Well to say - Bachimo, and your sin is on you. A person is speeding up, like to Cornelius, I will accept God to do what is right, do not for the sake of the broken Christ, and believe in Sina Yogo, then for the sake of this you will throw yourself, as if for the sake of Christ the broken, only for the faith in New. And if not, then a person cannot have the right to say that the good of yoga did not go to the right. Why don’t you do it, only when doing something good, do Christ for the sake of it, for goodness, for the sake of New brokenness, not only in the life of the future life, the crown of truth is bothering, but in the local life it reminds the people of the grace of the Holy Spirit, and besides, as it is said, “not in the world, for God gives the Holy Spirit, God the Father loves Sin and gives everything in the hands of Yogo.”

So those, your love of God! So, at the onset of the Spirit of God, and pray the right meta of our Christian life, and prayer, chuvannya, pist, mercifulness, and other things for the sake of Christ, the shattering of garlic, only help until the onset of the Spirit of God.

How come on? - I asked Seraphim panottsya: I don’t understand now.

It’s all the same, it’s the same thing, it’s the same, - you know me, - even if you know what it means to give pennies. So it is all one and the awakening of the Spirit of God. Adzhe vie, your love of God, understand what is so in the worldly sensi on the brink? Meta life of the worldly noble people є pennies, and from the nobles for those - the removal of honors, powers and other awards for sovereign merit. The well-being of the Spirit of God is also capital, but only gracious and eternal, and wine, like a penny, bureaucratic and timchasovy, it can be filled with the same paths, even like one to one.

God the Word, our Lord the God-man Jesus Christ likened our life to the marketplace, and on the right of our life on earth I call it a purchase, and it seems to everyone: “Buy, docks, I will come, a calm hour, because the days are evil”, then foresee the hour for taking away heavenly blessings through earthly goods. The earthly comrades are honorable, as they robbed Christ for the sake of bringing us the grace of the All-Holy Spirit, without Whom and save no one can not be, more: The Holy Spirit Himself dwells in our souls, and the very universe in our souls is Yogo, the Almighty, and is rebuked with our spirit by Yogo Trinity Unity and is bestowed on us only through the world from our side, the Holy Spirit is coming, as if preparing in the soul of that flesh our throne of God To the all-creating one with our spirit, for the immutable word of God: “I will dwell in them and go down and be with God, and they will be My people.” First of all, whether it be honesty, created for the sake of Christ, give the grace of the Holy Spirit, and even more so give prayer, for there is nothing in our hands, as if for the awakening of the grace of the Spirit. They would like to, for example, go to the Church, because there is no Church, because the service was on; if they wanted to give a tribute to the same marriage, the same marriage is not possible, otherwise there is nothing to give; if you wanted to reach the priesthood, then behind your folding, or behind the susils of the fortune-telling steps, you can’t stand against it because of the weakness of the people, the strength of the visconate; if you would like more honesty for the sake of Christ, you will not have the strength, because it is not possible to come forward. And before prayer, you can’t even think about it: on it, everyone and zavzhd є posibility - rich and poor, noble and simple, strong and weak, healthy and sick, and righteous and sinners. The power of prayer is great, and it is the greatest to bring the Spirit of God, and it is the best way to straighten the skin. By prayer, we are honored with the All-good and Life-Giving God and our Savior, and here it is necessary to pray more than doti, until God the Holy Spirit does not come upon us at the sunsets of His heavenly grace. And if Vіn favors to see us, then you need to stop praying. Why pray to Yomu: “Come, and send in us, and cleanse any of the strong trash, and save, Blessed, our souls,” if Vin has already come to us, to save us, to hope for a new one and call out to Im Yogo is holy with the truth, so that, humbly and with love, see Yogo, the Comforter, in the middle of the temples of our souls, so that Yogo will come and pray.

Well, how, father, be with more honesty, what to do for the sake of Christ for the sake of the grace of the Holy Spirit? Adzhe vi meni tіlki about prayer, speak affectionately.

Get the grace of the Holy Spirit and everything else, for the sake of Christ, garlic, trade them from them, as if they give you a bigger profit. Take the capital of the gracious superfluous of God's goodness, put them at the pawnshop of God's eternal and not by chotiri, but by six per hundred, but by one hundred for one spiritual karbovanets, or by winding up more than that in an immeasurable amount more. Approximately: give you more grace of God prayer and chuvannya, drink and pray; richly give the Spirit of God fist, fast; give more alms, work alms, and in such a rite about all honesty, like to rob Christ for the sake of, rozmіrkovyte.

So, be kind and trade spiritually with honesty. Distribute the gifts of the grace of the Holy Spirit to those who help, behind the butt of a candle lit, as if to shine itself, hot with earthly fire, those other candles, not extinguishing their damp fire, ignite at the light of all in other places. And just like earthly fire, what can we say about the fire of the grace of the All-Holy Spirit of God?!

Father, - I said, - you all can talk about the grace of the Holy Spirit, like about the method of Christian life, but how can I bachiti? Good luck, can you see the Holy Spirit? How do I know, with me Vіn chi nі?

In this hour, - so the old man said, - for our mayzhe coldness to the holy faith in our Lord Jesus Christ and through our disrespect to the Divine Divine providence for us and the union of people with God until such a time, we can say, mayzhe went into the true Christian life. Now we are given marvelous words of the Holy Letter, if the Spirit of God through the mouth of Moses saying: “I am like the Adam of the Lord, who will go to paradise”, but if we read in the Apostle Paul: “I will go to Achaia and the Spirit of God will come with us.” More than once, at other places of the Holy Letter, there is a manifestation of God to people.

The axis of deyakі th seems: Tsі mіstsya nerazumіlі, why could people so obviously bachit God? And there is nothing unreasonable here. We were not aware of what we saw in the expanse of the primary Christian knowledge and, under the power of light, entered into such a darkness of ignorance that we are already given to the inept ones, about which we have clearly understood for a long time, that God is not aware of the vision of understanding seemed amazing. People did not see God and the grace of the Holy Spirit in their dreams, and not in dreams, and not in lack of self-revealing of the tormented, but truly in manifestation. Even now we have become disrespectful to the point of our parity, so it turns out that we have so many other words of Scripture accepted in the wrong sense, as it were. And everything that does not joke with the grace of God, it is not allowed for the pride of our mind to settle in our souls, and it is not possible for it to truly enlighten the sight of the Lord, which is sent to the hearts of people, with a quiet heart, who checks and pragnes the truth.

If our Lord Jesus Christ, having allowed to work all the right of salvation, after the resurrection of His, blowing on the apostles, inspiring their lives spent by Adam, and bestowing on them the very Adamic grace of the All-Holy Spirit of God. On the day of Pentecost, urochistno sending the Holy Spirit to them in the midst of the stormy, looking at the fiery mos, on the skin of them, and they went into them, and filled them with the power of fire-like Divine grace, which dew-bearing breath and joyfully take communion її. I am the axis of the very fiery natural grace of the Holy Spirit, if it is given to us by the faithful of Christ, at the sacraments of the Holy Baptism, we know from the highest places, appointed by the Holy Church of our body, as the eternal guardian of this grace. It is said: "Druk to the gift of the Holy Spirit." And on what, father, your love of God, we, wretched, put our seals, as if not on a judge, who save our high-value koshtovnist. How can there be a place in the world and what a dear gift of the Holy Spirit, what are the blessings of us in the sacrament of baptism, for baptism is the grace of the flooring is great, and so necessary, the flooring of the chewing gum is for the people, so that in the death of the people the heretic does not come to self: so to the term, recognized by the Divine Providence for the child’s test of a person on earth - on what guilt will be added and what guilt in this God-given term, for the help of the power of grace bestowed upon you, you can grow. And if we didn’t sin after our christening, then we would be holy, blameless and blazed against all filth of the flesh and spirit, pleasers of God. But the axis of that is bida, that we, prospering in the city, do not prosper in the grace and in the mind of God, as if our Lord Jesus Christ prospered with him, but on the other hand, roaming the giblets, we are freed by the grace of the All-Holy Spirit of God and we work at the various approaches of sin rich people. But if, who, being awakened by the whispering of our salvation to the Wisdom of God, be called for her sake early to God and chuvanna for the sake of the well-being of his eternal salvation, then that, listening to the voice of її, is guilty honesty, and through the honesty of Christ, for the sake of the Holy Spirit, in the midst of us is orderly and in the middle of us is the Kingdom of God in power. The grace of the Holy Spirit, which is bestowed upon baptism in the Name of the Father and Sin and the Holy Spirit, regardless of the human fall, regardless of the darkness of our souls, still shine in the heart with the abundance of Divine light of the priceless merits of Christ. This is the Light of Christ, with the beastly sinner on the path of repentance, completely smoothing and following the evils, dressing up the great evils again with the imperishable robe, weaving with the grace of the Holy Spirit, about the nabuttya, like about the metaphor of the life of Christ, for your sake, I say.

I’ll tell you, to understand more clearly, to understand God’s grace, and how to recognize it, and in what it is especially manifested її action in people illuminated by it. The grace of the Holy Spirit is light that enlightens the people. The Lord repeatedly showed for rich witnesses of the divine grace of the Holy Spirit in quiet people, who sanctified and enlightened them with the great spirits of Yogo. Guess about Moses after roaming with God on Mount Sinai. People could not marvel at the new one - so illuminating the wines with an incomparable light, which made the yogi go away. Vіn navit zmusheniy buv people not іnakshe like under cover. Guess about the transformation of the Lord on Mount Tabor.

“I buli rizi Yogo, who shone like snow, and Yogo’s disciples bowed down in fear.” If Moses and Illa appeared to Yomu, then, in order to grab the light of Divine grace, which blinded the eyes of the teachers, “gloom”, it is said, “autumn їх”. And by such a rite, the grace of the All-Holy Spirit of God is in the invisible light for all, as God shows it to be.

With some rank, - having asked Father Seraphim, - recognize me that I am resting in the grace of the Holy Spirit?

Tse, your love of God, is simple! - vіdpovіv vіnі, - that's why the Lord seems to be: "The whole point is simple to know the mind" ... perebuvaya in your mind, and the apostles have been constantly chasing, chi perebuvaє the Spirit of God with them chi ni, і, that penetrated їm and bachachi perebuvannya with them the Spirit of God, they firmly said that right now they are holy and completely pleasing to God. And I explain why they wrote in their messages: “They called out the Holy Spirit to us,” and only on these bases they proclaimed their message, as if the truth is unalterable, to the reproach of us, - so the holy apostles clearly perceived in themselves the presence of the Spirit of God ... so the axis of your love of God, chi bachite vie, how simple is it?

I swear:

All the same, I do not understand why I can be firmly convinced that I am in the Spirit of God. How can I recognize Yogo's right appearance?

Father o. Seraphim vіdpovіv:

I already, your love of God, having told you that it’s even simpler, and having reported to you, how people are at the Spirit of God and how they can understand the Yogo manifestation in us ... What else do you need, father?

It’s necessary, - I said, - so that I can understand it a little!

Todi o. Seraphim took me by the shoulders and said to me:

Now, father, I am offended by the Spirit of God with you! .. Why are you not marveling at me? I swear:

I can’t, father, marvel, for your eyes squeal. Your appearance has become bright behind the sun, and my eyes ache in pain! ..

O. Seraphim saying:

Do not sneer, your love of God, and now you yourself have become so very bright, just like I myself. You yourself are now full of the Spirit of God, otherwise you would not have been able to do such a thing.

I, having shaved my head before me, quietly in my ear, saying to me:

Say to the Lord God for the nevimovnu to you the mercy of Yogo. You could see that I didn’t cross the cross, but only in my heart I prayed to the Lord God and in the middle of myself saying: glorify Thy, І axis, father, the Lord and vikonav mittevo humbly prohannya wretched Seraphim ... Why don’t you blame Yogo to the nevimov’s gift to us both! So, father, do not wait and the great hermits show the Lord God His mercy. The grace of God favored to comfort your mournful heart, like a mother loving children for the setting of the Mother of God herself ... Well, father, do not marvel in my eyes? Just marvel and do not sneer - the Lord is with us!

I looked at the words of these words in the guise of yoga, and attacked the smaller godly zhah. Reveal yourself, in the middle of the sun, in the most gleaming brightness of the midday afternoons, disguised as a person, as I speak of you. You bache ruh vust yogo, a little expression of yogo eyes, you feel yogo’s voice, you see that someone is stroking you with their hands on the shoulders, but not only don’t shake your hands, don’t shake yourself, don’t figure yoga, but only one light, weak stretch far, on a sapling of saplings, and give us a closeness to our snowy veil, that we cover the galyavin, and snow groats, that we sip the beast and less and the great old man. Chi is it possible to reveal your own camp, in which I will be!

What do you see now? - Seraphim.

Superbly good! I said.

But is it good? What about yourself?

sleeping me about.

I swear:

I see such silence and peace in my soul that I can’t speak with ordinary words!

Tse, your love of God, - saying the father about. Seraphim, - that light, about which the Lord said to His teachings: “My peace I give you, not like light I give, I give you. If the light would be bi, the light of his loving bi, but I chose you in the light, for the sake of whom to hate you light. Ale, call me that I have crossed the world. To the axis of people who hate the sight of the world, let us embrace the sight of the Lord, and the Lord gives that light, which you now see in yourself. “Peace,” after the apostolic word, “skin-wise” (Philippians 1, 7).

What else do you see? - Asking me about. Seraphim.

Unseen malt! - vіdpovіv i. I wine continued:

Tse that nasolod, about how to go to the Holy Letter: “In the darkness of Thy house, I will drink and drink in the stream of Thy malt.” The axis of the malt is now refolded and poured through all the veins of our invisible malt. In the presence of malt, our hearts will not sink, and we are offended by the coincidence of such bliss, as if I could not be expressed in any way ... What else do you see?

Overwhelming joy in all my heart! Father Seraphim I continued:

If the Spirit of God descends to the people and osyayuє її in the fullness of His coming, then the soul of the human being will be spontaneous with unbelievable joy, for the Spirit of God is happy to create a mustache, until what would the wines do not touch, this is joy itself, about how the Lord speaks in His gospel:

“Druzhina, if the people, sorrow of the mother, for the river will come; if you give birth to a child, before that you do not remember sorrow for joy, for a person was born in the world. You will be at the world of sorrow, but if I care for you, your heart is healthy, and your joys are not taken from you. But if it weren’t for this joy, you now see it in your heart, after all, it’s scanty in equal parts, about how the Lord himself through the mouth of His Apostle said that you don’t see joy, you don’t smell your ears, not in the hearts of people who have not obtained the good that God has prepared for them who love Yogo. The promises of joy are given to us now, and it’s so sweet, kind and cheerful in our souls, what can we say about that joy, as prepared in heaven, what weep here on earth ?! Axis and you, father, wept in your life, and marvel at what joy the Lord brings you in your life here.

What else do you see, your love of God? I swear:

Heat is unimaginable!

Yak, father, warmth? We are sitting at the fox's. Now it's winter on the ground, and under the feet of snow, and on us there is more than an inch of snow, and grain is falling on the beast ... How warm is it here ?!

I swear:

And so, as if you were in a laznі, if you hit the stone and if you bring down steam with it ...

And the smell, - having quenched my wine, - is the same, like from a lazne?

Ni, - vіdpovіv I, - on earth there is nothing like it to the groin. If, for the life of my mother, I love to dance and go to Bali and dance evenings, then my mother used to describe me with perfumes, as if bathing in the best fashionable shops in Kazan, but you don’t see such odorous perfumes ...

І father Fr. Seraphim, with a chuckle, said:

And I myself, father, I know it so myself, like you, I don’t feed on you - why do you see it? True, your love of God! No acceptance of earthly arable land can be equal to those groins, as we now feel, to the one who now excites us with the odor of the Holy Spirit of God. What can the earth be like to the new? Respect well, your love of God, even you told me that it’s warm around us, like a lazna, but to marvel, even if it’s not at you, it’s not on me, and over us it’s the same. Otzhe, the warmth is not in the exterior, but in ourselves. It’s that warmth itself, about how the Holy Spirit, with the words of prayer, tempts us to reach the Lord: “By the warmth of Your Holy Spirit, warm me!” Yogo warming hermits and hermits were not afraid of winter filth, dressing up like warm fur coats, at grace-filled robes, in the form of the Holy Spirit weaving. So I can be true, to him that the grace of God can live in the midst of us, in our hearts, for the Lord said: “The Kingdom of God is in the midst of you.” Under the Kingdom of God, the Lord understood the grace of the Holy Spirit. Axis "The Kingdom of God is now in the middle of you and is known, and the grace of the Holy Spirit and the call of the osyaє and zіgіvaє us і, reminiscent of rich arable arable land for the most part, imbue our hearts with the heavenly malt, reminiscent of our hearts the joy of God is invisible. like the apostle is not: and drink, but the truth and peace about the Holy Spirit. Our faith lies "not in the conflicting human wisdom of words, but in the manifestations of the spirit and strength." The axis of whom we now become with you and know, about our camp itself and the Lord said: , the docks to fulfill the Kingdom of God, what has come in strength "... Oh, father, your love of God, with what kind of invisible joy the Lord God has now vouchsafed us! - Oh, what does it mean to be at the fullness of the Holy Spirit, about the like of saints Macarius of Egypt, write:

"I myself have been in the fullness of the Holy Spirit." By the fullness of the Holy Spirit and us, the wretched ones, having now reminded the Lord ... Well, now there is nothing more, let’s, inquire, your love of God, in what order people are in the grace of the Holy Spirit!.. God, how did you see us?

I don't know, father! - I said, - God vouchsafe me for ever to remember so vividly and vividly, as now I see the mercy of God.

And I, - Fr. Seraphim answered me, - that the Lord would help you forever to lose your memory in your memory, otherwise the goodness of Yogo would not be healed so mittevo to my humble blessing and would not get ahead of me so soon listen to the wretched Seraphim, more so that it was not for you alone that it was given to you intellect, but through you for the whole world, so that you yourself were affirmed in God's right and others could be crooked. So far, father, that I am black, and you are a worldly person, then there is nothing to think about. God has the right to faith in New and Yogo Sin of the Only Begotten. For this, the grace of the Holy Spirit is given even more. The Lord whispers in the heart, with love to God and neighbor, - the axis of the throne, on which Vіn love to sit and on which Vіn is at the fullness of His heavenly glory. “Sinu, give me your heart,” Vin says, “and everything else I myself will give you,” for the Kingdom of God is in the heart of the human. “The Lord is near to everyone who calls Yogo in truth, and there is nothing for New to look at in person, Bo Father to love Sin and give everything to Yogo’s hands,” but we ourselves loved Yogo, Our Heavenly Father, truly in a blue way. The Lord, however, heard both a chents, and a layman, a simple Christian, aby insults were Orthodox, and both loved God from the depths of their souls, and insults were small at New faith, even if they were “like a grain of a girka,” and insults burn down. “One roaring thousand, two dark ones.” The Lord Himself seems to say: “Everything is possible for him who believes,” and Father the Holy Apostle Pavlo unanimously vigus: “I can do everything about Christ, who swears to me.” Not long ago, our Lord Jesus Christ speaks about those who believe in New: “True with Me, deed, as I do, and crush that one, and crush them more, for I am going to My Father and good Yogo about you, that is your joy vikonana will be. Until then, do not ask anything in Mine, you ask and you will accept "... So, your love of God, everything, for you would not ask the Lord God, accept everything, but only those were for the glory of God, otherwise the retaliation of the neighbor, to that, the retaliation of the neighbor Vіn to the glory of His own, why it seems: “Everything, which is the only kind of the least of these creators, I have created them.” So do not expect any hope that the Lord God did not take your offerings, but only the stench went to the glory of God, went to the bark and set up your neighbors. Ale yakbi to inspire and for your power, use it either for greed, or else you should have needed something, and appreciate everything so quickly and auspiciously, the Lord God will allow me to send you, a bit like an emergency need and need has come, more to love the Lord loving Yogo; the Lord is good to everyone, the will to be afraid of Yogo to do and feel the prayer.

About the meta of the Christian life (Rozmov of the Monk Seraphim with Mykola Oleksandrovich Motovilov.) Nilus Sergiy Oleksandrovich

Sergiy Nilus About the metaphor of Christian life - the conversation of St. Seraphim of Sarov with Motolovim (new version)

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About the meta of the Christian life - the conversation of the Monk Seraphim of Sarov with Motovilov

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Tse bulo about the fourth. Gloomy day. There was a quarter of snow on the ground, and the beast was powdered with thick snow groats, if Father Fr. Seraphim planted a rose with me on his near pazhintsi, whitened those near deserts against the Sarivka river, burned brightly, to come close to the її shore.

Having placed my wine on the stump of a chopped tree, and standing against me on my feet.

- The Lord showed me, - saying the great old man, - that your childishness diligently told you to know what the meta of our Christian life is, and many great spiritual backgrounds you repeatedly inquire about ...

I am guilty to say here, that since the 12th century, my thoughts have been imperceptibly turbulent, and I have been defiantly up to a rich spiritual background with these meals, but they didn’t satisfy me. The old man was unfamiliar.

“But nothing,” Father Seraphim far away, “without telling you about it in the first place. They told you: go to church, pray to God, do the commandments of God, do good - the axis of you and the goal of the Christian life. And the deacons turned on you for those who did not occupy you with charitable cliques, and they told you: do not fool yourself. Ale stinks didn’t say that, like a trace. Axis I, wretched Seraphim, will roztlumach you now, why do I have a metaphor.

Prayer, feasting, drinking and all other things are done by Christians, even though they smell good on their own, but not in the same way they help the meta of our Christian life, wanting to serve as necessary means for reaching God. True is the meta of our Christian life in the wake of the Holy Spirit of God. Pist and chuvannya, and prayer, and almsgiving, and do everything for Christ for the sake of the good, to shy, є for the awakening of the Holy Spirit of God. Respect, father, that only for the sake of Christ it was good to bring us the fruit of the Holy Spirit. All the same, for the sake of Christ, shattered, even good, vengeance in the life of the future century does not show us, and the grace of God does not give to the local life. Axis to which the Lord Jesus Christ said: " leather, whoever does not take with me, that one distributes"Goodness rightly cannot be called otherwise as a choice, for even though it's not for Christ's sake, shy away, prote goodness. Writing says:" with every move, fight God and work the truth, accepting Yomu."I, like Bachimo z sacred opovіdі, cey" rob the truth"Before receiving God, that Cornelius the centurion, fearing God and robbed the truth, the angel of the Lord appeared at the hour of prayer and said:" went to Joppa to Simon Usmar, there you will rite Peter and that speech of the devil of the belly of the eternal, in them you will be saved and all your house Ozhe, the Lord, keep your Divine help alive, so that you can deliver such a person the opportunity for your good, do not hesitate to live in peace. And let us give ourselves the grace of the Holy Spirit, Who will bring the Kingdom of God into our hearts and pave the way for us to the future bliss of the life of the future age, and then we will intercede to accept God’s good deeds, not for the sake of Christ’s deeds: Our Creator gives our bones for our lives. chi zdіysniti їх, chi nі. The axis of which the Lord said to the Jews: " if they didn’t bist, they didn’t bist mali. Nini say - bachimo, and your sin will change on you". A person is speeding, like to Cornelius, I will accept God to do his own, do not cause the broken Christ, and believe in Sina Yogo, then this kind of right is called Yoma, as if for the sake of Christ, it was broken and only for the faith in New. I have the right to say that the goodness of yoga did not go to the right, which does not happen only in the case of some kind of goodness of Christ, for the good, for the sake of the New brokenness, not only in the life of the future century, the truth is wailing, but in the local life it reminds people the grace of the Holy Spirit, and moreover, as it is said: " for it is not in the world that God gives the Holy Spirit, God the Father loves Sin and gives everything in the hands of Yogo.".

Otozh, your Godliness! So, at the onset of the Spirit of God, and the blessing of the meta of our Christian life, and prayer, chuvannya, fist, almsgiving, and other things for the sake of Christ, the honor of honesty is just a cat for the awakening of the Spirit of God.

- How come on? - Having energized Father Seraphim. - I don't know who.

- Pridbannya all the same scho pridbannya - vіdpovіv me vіn: - Aja vy razumієte, scho means pribannya pennies. So it is all one and the awakening of the Spirit of God. Adzhe vie, your love of God, understand what is so in the worldly sensi on the brink? The meta of the life of the worldly noble people is nabuttya, or the profit of pennies, and among the nobles, they get honors, a sign of other awards for sovereign merits. The well-being of the Spirit of God is also capital, but only gracious and eternal, and wine, like a penny, bureaucratic and temporal, stuffed with the same paths, even like one to one. God the Word, our Lord the God-man Jesus Christ likens our life to a marketplace and rightly calls our life on earth a purchase, and it seems to all of us: " buy, docks will come, quiet hour, more days are cunning"So you foresee the hour for the taking away of heavenly blessings through earthly comrades. Earthly comrades are honesty, like shying Christ for the sake of bringing us the grace of the All-Holy Spirit. ishov buy at the marketplace But if they bought the stench, the doors to the house of love were already fixed, and the stench could not enter the new one. It seems that a small amount of oli among the holy fools marks a small amount of good fortune in their lives. This understanding is not entirely correct. What is the same for them is not good enough for the good right, if they stink even holy fools, they are still called virgins, fortitude is the best of honesty, like a camp of equal angels, and could serve as a substitute for all other honesty. the grace of the All-Holy Spirit of God was not enough ... The creators of honesty, virgins, behind their spiritual incomprehension, thought that in this right there was no more than a Christian, so that only honesty would work. , but before they took away the grace of the Spirit of God, they reached the stink, they couldn’t do it. bring the grace of the Spirit of God, and it is said in the Batkiv books: " in є way, think to be good on the cob, ale kіntsi yogo - at the bottom it was hell Anthony the Great on his sheets to the chants to speak about such div: rich chents and divi can not understand well about the power of the wills that people have, and do not know that three wills are born in us: 1st God, that all-perfect 2 - but its own power, human, so it’s not ruinous, then it’s not ryativna, and the 3rd bіsіvska is completely ruined ... І axis tsya third fortune-telling will and navchaє people, otherwise do not rob the zhodnyh garlic, but robit їх from Marnoslavism, or for good alone, and not for the sake of Christ. The first one is the will of God and is all-encompassing in that only and only, so that you can only do good for the Holy Spirit, like the treasure of the eternal, inexhaustible, and in no way can be estimated. olive, which was rejected by the holy fools. For those stinks called holy fools, that they forgot about the necessary plaid of honesty, about the grace of the Holy Spirit, without whom and salvation, no one can and can’t, more: " By the Holy Spirit, every soul is alive and brought to purity, light on the Holy Trinity Day". The Holy Spirit Himself dwells in our souls, and for the same reason the universe in our souls is Yogo, the Almighty, and is given with our spirit of the Holy Trinity of Unity and is bestowed on us only through the world from our side, the awakening of the Holy Spirit, as if preparing in our souls Our flesh is the throne of God, the all-creator, with our spirit gaining for the immutable word of God: " I will dwell in them and go down, and I will be with God, and you will be with My people. The axis of this and that yalin at the lamps of the wise maidens, what a moment of light and long-term burning, and divi with these lamps that burn, they could reach the betrothed, who came at the beer night, and go with Him to the chamber of joy. when they were dying, when their lamps went out, they went to the marketplace, they bought olives, but they didn’t turn around at once, because the doors were already fixed. wise and holy fools - Christian souls, yalin - did not work, but through them the grace of the All-Holy Spirit of God was won through them in the middle of our being, which instilled it into the imperishable, in the death of the soul in spiritual life, in the darkness of light, in the den of our childhood, passions are tied, like thinness of that animal, to the temple of the Divine, to the blessed palace of eternal joy about Christ Jesus our Lord, the Creator and Liberator of that Eternal Named of our souls. Yogo about us pikluvannyam, if God seems to: " I'm standing at the door and it's no use!"... rozumiyuchi under the door of our life, not yet caused by death. Oh, how I wanted to be, your love of God, so that in the local life you will always be in the Spirit of God!" At what outpost, in that judgment", say the Lord. Woe, great grief, as you will find us with tight pikluvannyam and zhurbots of life, for someone to endure the wrath of Yogo and against the face of the wrath of Yogo, who will become! Axis to which it is said:" sip and pray, she won’t enter into misfortune"So let the Spirit of God not wake up, more chuvanna and prayer to bring us the grace of Yogo. First of all, every honesty that is happening for the sake of Christ, give the grace of the Holy Spirit, but most of all give a prayer, to the one who won it in our hands, like a blessing Grace of the Spirit: If you wanted to, for example, go to the church, then there’s no church, or the service was on, you wanted to give a tribute to your marriage, the same marriage is not possible, otherwise you wanted to give nothing, if you wanted to be a virgin, then there’s no power to vikonati for adding to your chi zusilly fortune-telling steps, like you can’t stand against human weakness, you wanted to and even more honesty for the sake of Christ, you don’t have strength, but you can’t do it. , to the strong, and the weak, and the healthy, and the sick, and the righteous, and the sinner... How great is the power of prayer to inspire and sinful people, if out of a wide heart. oh, on the mother’s good-natured mother, who lost her only-begotten son, stolen by death, the harlot team, who traipsed on the path and navіt more like a colossal sin, was not cleansed, tormented by the mother’s supreme sorrow, she captivated before the Lord: " Not less for the sake of the accursed sinner, but tears for the sake of the mother, to mourn for her son and firmly sung in mercy to Thy omnipotence, Christ God, risen, Lord, son of її!"...- and having resurrected the Lord. So, your love of God, the power of prayer is great, and it is the most to bring the Spirit of God, and її better than all skin correction. The Holy Spirit of Yoga! in the wake of the Lord on the face, which will come with glory and the power of the rich to judge the living and the dead, and be sure to follow the deed of yoga.

Axis, your love of God, for great happiness, honor the caresses of the wretched Seraphim, being singed, that the grace of the Lord is not spared. We are talking about the Lord Himself, Dzherelo, who is the foundation of all goodness, both heavenly and earthly! Adzhe with prayer from Him Himself, the All-good and Life-Giving God and our Savior, we are honored with the prayer. Ale and here you need to pray more than doti, until God the Holy Spirit does not come upon us at the entrances of His heavenly grace. And if Vіn favors to see us, then you need to stop praying. Why do you pray to Yomu: come and be strong with us, and cleanse any filth, and save, Good, our souls"if Vin has already come to us, to vryatuvat us, that they rely on the New and call out to Him Yogo holy in truth, then for them, humbly and with love, pierce Yogo, the Almighty, in the middle of the temples of our souls, to pray And to pray Yogo Coming I will explain to your God-love with an example: from wanting to be a guest to yourself, they called, and I would come to you for your call and want to talk to you. Please, be kind, moving, to me! Then I casually mav bi say: “What is it?” Why is it? .. I came before the new, but still call me! say and understand that I am God, I will ascend in tongues, I will ascend on earth"So I will appear and I will be a skin believer in Me and calling Me and calling out to him, as if I had spoken to Adam in paradise, to Abraham and Jacob and to my other servants, to Moses, to Job like that. . . , why should one say only to worldly matters, that, during prayer conversations with God, one needs to speak to worldly matters, but I will tell you according to God, what you want and see them during prayer, it is necessary to say, but if with the almighty power of prayer , the Lord God the Holy Spirit, the Holy Spirit, sees us and comes to us in the fullness of His indescribable goodness, then it is necessary and in the form of prayer to speak. and in the rich purity of the flesh, and the stench before the appearance of God on Sinai for three days did not stick around until the women, for our God is. fire eat everything unclean", and in controversy with Him, no one can escape from the defilement of the flesh and spirit.

- And how, father, be with other garlic, created for the sake of Christ, for the sake of the grace of the Holy Spirit? Adzhe vy meni about prayer only talk about it?

- Get the grace of the Holy Spirit and all the rest of Christ for the sake of garlic, trade them spiritually, trade them from them, as if they give you a bigger profit. Take the capital of gracious superfluous in the grace of God, put them at the pawnshop of God's eternal with intangible ones, and not according to chotiri, but six hundred per hundred, or one hundred per spiritual karbovanets, or more. Approximately: give you more grace of God, prayer and chuvannya, dbaite and pray; richly give the Spirit of God fist, fast; give more alms, work alms, and in such a rite about all honesty, like to rob Christ for the sake of, rozmіrkovyte.

I will tell you about myself, poor Seraphim. – I come from Kursk merchants. So, if I wasn’t still in the monastery, we used to trade in goods, which gives us more barisha. So, sir, repair it, like a trader’s right, it’s not the strength to only trade, but the fact that you can take more of a barish, so in the right life of a Christian, it’s not the strength that you only pray for something else, but good job. Wanting an apostle and say: pray without fail Ale, as you remember, add: I want five more words, speak with reason, lower my thousand". I Lord say: " not everyone say Mi, Lord, Lord! turn around, but do the will of My Father"to do the work of God, and moreover, with reverence, more" curses of the skin, who can repair the right of God with non-balism". And on the right is God є: " do not believe in God and Yogo sent the truth of Jesus Christ If you judge correctly about the commandments of Christ and those apostles, then on the right our Christians do not have a greater rahunka of good rights, to serve up to the mark of our Christian life only as servants, but if they are blessed with greater blessings, then the Holy Spirit is bestowed upon the great blessings of God.

So I wanted to, your love of God, so that you yourself would get the fundamental treasure of the grace of God and forever mourn to yourself, that in the Spirit of God you will know what you are; and yakscho - at the Spirit of God, then, blessed God! - there is nothing to talk about: want at once - to the terrible judgment of Christ! Bo" at whom I will make an outpost, in that I will judge Well, then, it’s necessary to figure out why and for what reason the Lord God the Holy Spirit, having allowed to deprive us, and again shukati and shukati Yogo and did not rise until the quiet feast, until the Lord God the Holy Spirit was heard and would not be new with Us Grace, on the quiet, that they make us in the sight of our New Enemies, requiring such an attack, the docks and gunpowder will ascend, as the prophet David said: " I will lay down my enemies and I will touch, and I will not turn around, the docks are dead, I will depict them, and they cannot stand, fall under my feet".

Yes, father! So, be kind and trade spiritually with honesty. Give out the gifts of the grace of the Holy Spirit, as if you were lighting a candle behind the butt of a candle, as if it were to shine itself, hot with earthly fire, those other candles, not using their own damp fire, ignite at the light of everyone in other places. And if it is so like the fire of the earth, then what shall we say about the fire of the grace of the All-Holy Spirit of God?! More, for example, the wealth of the earth, when distributing yoga, is lost, the wealth of God's heavenly grace is the more moon, it multiplies more with the one who distributes yoga. So the Lord Himself called to say to the Samaritans: Drink in the water of your yearning again, and drink in the water, that I will give you women, do not zazhaє on vіki, but water, that I will give you, you will be fresh in the new night in life".

“Batiushko,” I said, “all of you can talk about the grace of the Holy Spirit, as about the method of Christian life, but how can I bachiti? Good luck, can you see the Holy Spirit? How do I know, with me Vіn chi nі?

- Now, - so old man, - through our mayzhe coldness to the holy faith in our Lord Jesus Christ and through our disrespect to the Divine Yoga about us, the Providence and intercourse of people with God has become so far, which, one might say, mayzhe we walked away from the true Christian life. Now we are given wondrous words of Scripture, if the Spirit of God through the mouth of Moses seems to be: and saw Adam of the Lord that he was walking in paradise"for if we read in the Apostle Paul:" go to Achaia, and the Spirit of God does not go with us, we go wild to Macedonia, and the Spirit of God goes with us More than once, in other passages of the Holy Letter, people hear about the manifestation of God.

The axis of deyakі th seems: "Tsі mіstsya nezazumіlі. How could people so obviously bachit God?" And there is nothing unreasonable here. It was not clear to us that we saw in the simplicity of the primary Christian knowledge and, under the drive of light, went into such a darkness of ignorance that we are already given to the inept ones, about which long ago they clearly understood, that in the understanding of God's manifestations we understand between people was not surprising. So Yov, if the friends of Yogo reproached the one who blasphemes God, saying to him: " How can you be, if I see the soul of the Almighty at my nostrils? like, de, I can blaspheme God, if the Holy Spirit is over me. As if I blasphemed God, then the Holy Spirit came to me, and from me I breathed Yogo in my nostrils. And about Abraham, and about Jacob, that the stench stalked the Lord and spoke for Him, and Yakiv fought and fought for Him, Moses fought God and all the people with him, if they were able to accept the form of God, the tablets of the law on Mount Sinai. otherwise, since the grace of the Holy Spirit is obvious, they served as wayfarers for the people of God in the wilderness. to save our salvation, in view of which it is necessary to go out, sho mi and richly іnshih sіv Written is accepted not in that sense, like a trace, but everything that does not joke about the grace of God, it is not allowed for the pride of our rose to settle in our souls and that is not may the true sanctify the sight of the Lord, sent into the hearts of people, with the heart of those who are greedy and the truth of God. Axis, for example, richly someone to tumble, if the Bible says: " God will blow the breath of life in the person of Adam, the primordial and created by Him in the form of an earthly finger", - what did it mean, that in Adam before that there was no soul and human spirit, but there was only one body, created from an earthly finger. It is not true that the clouding, for the Lord God created Adam from an earthly finger in that warehouse, like a father the holy apostle Paul affirms: " let your spirit, soul and body be all-perfect at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ And all the three parts of our creation were found in the earthly finger, and Adam was not a dead creature, but a wild creature, like other spiritual creations of God living on earth. And why is the axis of strength, sho, as if the Lord God did not blow sweat into the person of this soul of life, that the grace of the Lord God the Holy Spirit, as the Father was seen and in Blue resting and for the sake of Sin in the world is sent, then Adam, like not a miracle of wine creations over others of God's creations, like the crown of creation on earth, nevertheless having survived the Holy Spirit unsafe in oneself, to raise it to God-likeness, and to be similar to all other creations, wanting to mum body and soul, and spirit, so lie down on the skin after your kind, but the Holy Spirit in the middle of yourself is unsafe. If, having breathed the Lord God into the person of Adam, they died of life, then, after the words of Moses, and " Adam booty in the soul livin"So absolutely in the same God I will be like and so, like Vin, for ever and ever immortal. she could have suffered in her failures, yet again she could not have done harm to her own deed, everything was rooted to you, like the beloved of God, like the Tsar’s Volodar creature, and everything was merciful to the new one, like the perfection of God’s creations. in the person of Adam from the All-Creating Mouth of the All-Creator and the Almighty God, Adam was so clever that there was no way in the future, it is unlikely that if on earth a person is wise and wealthy for the new. then give my skin creatures such a name, as they signify a whole lot of strength, all the power and all the power of the creature, as if it is possible for the gift of God, bestowed upon it when it was created.

If we savored the tree of the knowledge of good and evil - before the hour and fluidly the commandments of God - recognized the difference between good and evil and recognized all the bad things that followed the evils of the commandments of God, then we spent this priceless gift of the grace of the Spirit of God, so until the day we come Goddess of Jesus Christ Spirit of God not for the light of the world, for Jesus, not for the praise of glorifications Ale does not mean that the Spirit of God was not in the world, but Yogo was not so familiar, like in Adam in us, Orthodox Christians, but only a few signs appeared, and the signs of Yoh were in the world were in the human race. So, for example, Adam after the fall, and just like that, at the same time with him, it was revealed a rich mystery that was brought to the future order of the human race, and Kain, without regard for the wickedness of yoga and yoga evil, let us understand the voice of the blessed Divine, and crookedly Spіvbesіd with him Noah roaming with God Abraham cherished God and the day of Yogo and health ... The grace of the Holy Spirit, which worked in the air, was vibrated in the Old Testament prophets and the saints of Israel. and invigorate the spirit of the Holy Spirit in the form of splendid manifestations, which trapleyutsya in the nature of the ungrateful earthly life. to the indecent servants of God there were fast, rіznomanіtnі in the manifestation of Divine manifestations, voices, revelations, which were really obvious miraculous podіya. Not with such power, as with the people of God, but having manifested the Spirit of God in pagans, as if they did not know the True God, to that God help them, knowing His own people. So, for example, the bulls of the unoccupied - the prophetesses, the sivilis, the yaks pririkali their divotstvo want for the invisible God, but still for God, the Creator of the omnipotence and the Almighty and the Ruler of the World, like Yogo and the pagans usvіdomlyuly. Likewise, the pagan philosophers, as if they wanted to and in the darkness of ignorance of the Divine, wandered, ale, joking about the truth, kohanoї God, could be behind the very same God-loving її shukanny not reckoned to the Spirit of God, more it is said: " move that does not give God by nature, it is lawful to create and it is pleasing to God to shy away". And the Lord so pleases the truth, that He Himself speaks about it with the Holy Spirit: " Truth from the earth's dawn, and truth from heaven above".

So the axis, your love of God, and in the Jewish people of the sacred, God-loving people, and in the pagans, who do not know God, but nevertheless, the knowledge of God was taken, to that, father, it is clear that it is reasonable to understand that, as the Lord God the Holy Spirit dіє in people and like yourself and for some zvnіshnіmi that vіshnіshnіmi vіdchuttami can perekonatisya, scho dіє Lord God the Holy Spirit, and not the beauty of a fortune teller. In such a rite, everything was like the fall of Adam until the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ in the body of the world.

Without this, your love of God, which has always been saved in the human race, is aware of the spirit of the Holy Spirit, it would not be possible for people to know for sure, what came to the world of habitation to Adam and the plaid of our friends, who can wipe my head.

Ale axis Simeon the God-bearer, save by the Holy Spirit after moving to yoma for 65 years of life of the taєmnitsa of the everlasting in the presence of the Most Pure Mary of the Holy Mary, conceived and people, having lived for the grace of the All-Holy Spirit of God 300 years, then clearly, on the 365th of the Lord’s temple knowingly recognized for the gift of the Holy Spirit, that it was also Vin Samy, That Christ, the Savior of the world, about the natural conception and nation of what kind of Holy Spirit, three hundred fates of that kind of Angel were foretold.

Axis and holy Anna the prophetess, daughter of Fanuilova, who served for the entirety of her widowhood to the Lord God in the temples of God and saw the special gifts of the grace of God for the righteous widow, the pure servant of God, she said that it was true of the Lord God, Christ, Christ , God and people, King of Israel, who came to vryatuvate Adam and people.

If Vin, our Lord Jesus Christ, having strengthened all the right of salvation, then after the resurrection of His, blowing on the apostles, resurrecting their lives spent by Adam, and bestowing on them the very Adamic grace of the All-Holy Spirit of God. Ale is not enough - saying to them: " une є їm, let Vіn іde to the Father; If Vin does not go, then the Spirit of God will not come to the world; If Vіn Ide, Christ, before the Father, then after Yogo in the world, and Vіn, the Comforter, instruct them and all the upcoming ones in every truth and tell them everything that Vіn told them to be in the world with them. And on the day of Pentecost, they sent the Holy Spirit to them in the depths of the tempest, at the sight of the fiery mos, on which of them they entered into them, and filled them with the power of fire-like Divine grace, dew-bearing. Cho Dikhaє joyfully in the souls in the souls, pusking the ї strength of the soda, I am the grace of the Holy Spirit of the Holy Spirit of the Holy Spaniard, the priesthood of the sorcerer of the Holy Church, keepers of the blessings. Saying: " Druk Daru Holy Spirit And on what, father, your love of God, do we, wretched, put our seals, as if not on a judge, who saves our high value of koshtovnist? the sacraments of baptism, for baptism, the grace of the flooring is great and the flooring is necessary, the floorings are for people, so that you can’t wake up and in the form of a people-jeretic until death itself, then until the term, signified by God’s Providence for a child’s earth, try people , de, vin will be added and sho, de, vin with whom God has given gifts to you, the term for help over the power of grace given to you, you can do it. and blessed with all the filthiness of the flesh and the spirit of the saints of God, but the axis of that bіda, scho mi, prospering in the vіtsі, not prospering in the grace of the mind of God, as if our Lord Jesus Christ prospered with him, but on the contrary, we grow up Little by little, we let ourselves be spared by the grace of the All-Holy Spirit of God and we are shy in different passages by sinful and richly sinful people. But if someone, being awakened by the whispering wisdom of God to our salvation, to go around the strongman, to be called for the sake of it to the morning before God and the chuvannya for the sake of the well-being of his eternal salvation, then that, hearing the voice of his own, is guilty let us forgive the sins of honesty, and through the honesty of Christ, for the sake of the coming of the Holy Spirit, in the midst of us honourable, and in the midst of us is the Kingdom of God in power. The word of God is not without reason, it seems:"Tobto - those people, like, unrepentantly and on the edge of sin, who pov'yazali їх and do not allow their violence and awakening to new sins, to come to the New, our Savior, with full repentance on rolling with Him, not respecting all the evil of sin zv'yazok, Let's try to break the shackles of this day, so people will sweat it out before the face of God more snow with blessings of Yogo grace. come", - say the Lord: " and if your sins will be, like scarlet, then how will I kill them".

So if the holy mystic John the Theologian put such people in white clothes, then. dress up the truth, and " finits in the hands of їх"like a banner of victory, and they sang the stench of God's miraculous song" hallelujah". "Beauty in your sleep, you can inherit nothing". About them the Angel of God said: " tse essence, that came in the form of great sorrow, that nourishes its own rizi and whitens its rizi in the Blood of the Lamb", - nourishing suffering and whitening them at the parishioners of the Most Pure and Life-Giving Mysteries of the Flesh and Blood of the Lamb Immaculate and Most Pure Christ, the first for all the century slain by Yogo by the will of God for the salvation of the world, always and until now sealed and crushed, but not saved in the guidance of the eternal belly, at the sight of sympathy at the terrible judgment of Yogo and I will change the mind and change every mind to the fruit of the tree of life, which our human race wanted to save the enemy of people, who fell from heaven Dennik. not only granting them the Redeemer in the fruit of the Seed of the Friends, who corrected death by death, but giving us in Zhenya, the Mother of God Mary, who erased in Herself and erase the head of the serpent in the human race, I will not reach the Intercessor until the Sin of His own and our God And I won’t sort out the representative for the most soulful sinners. For this God Matir is called Virazka bisiv, "because there is no possibility of bis destroying a person, abi t Only the person herself did not step into the water to help the Mother of God.

Yes, your love of God, I am guilty, wretched Seraphim, explain what the difference is between the deities of the Holy Spirit, what the priestly monastic indwells in the hearts of those who believe in the Lord God and Savior Jesus Christ, . The Spirit of God will tell us the words of our Lord Jesus Christ and sleep with Him, forge a urochist, our hearts are happy and our feet are fervently on the paths of peace, and the spirit is flattering, bisivsky, fluidly wise to Christ, and di yogo in us is rebellious, scrupulously choosy carnal, greedy eyes and worldly pride. " Amen, amen, I say to you, living skin and believe with me, do not die for ever": Whoever can have the grace of the Holy Spirit for the right to believe in Christ, as by the dumbness of people, and died spiritually in the presence of any sin, then do not die forever, but there will be resurrections of the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, who takes sins to the world and grants grace - grace About this grace, revealed to all the world and our human race in the Bogolyudin, and it is said in the Gospel: " in that he lives and lives as a light of a person", and added: " and light shines in darkness and darkness Yogo is not surrounded It means that the grace of the Holy Spirit was granted at the time of the christening in the name of the Father and the Sin and the Holy Spirit, without respect for the fall of people, without respect for the darkness of our souls, nevertheless shine in the heart of peace with the abundance of Divine merits of the priceless light of Christ. Christ, in the presence of the unrepentant sinner, even before the Father: Abbo Father, do not be angry until the end for the unrepentance of Qiu!, but then, in the presence of the beastly sinner, on the paths of repentance, we will gladly and follow the evil spirits, dressing up the great evil spirit with a new robe like, like about the method of a Christian life, I’m talking more and more to the hour of your love of God.

I’ll tell you more, so that you understand more clearly, what you understand under God’s grace and how to recognize it and in what it is especially manifested її action in people illuminated by it. The grace of the Holy Spirit is light that enlightens the people. About tse to speak mustache Pisannya. Thus, the God-father David said: The lamp of my feet is Your law and light to my stitches, and it’s not Your law that speaks to me, even if it has died away from my humble.". That is the grace of the Holy Spirit, which is expressed in the law by the words of the commandments of the Lord, it is a lamp and my light, and it is not the grace of the Holy Spirit, as I so diligently and diligently acquire, that I pray about the share of Your truth, enlightened me in the dark turbot, tied with the great ranks of my royal dignity, then I would take the stars of my own, want a spark of light, to illumine the way of my dear life, dark in the face of the unkindness of my enemies? And indeed, the Lord repeatedly manifested for rich witnesses of the grace of the Holy Spirit on those people, who sanctified such Vins and shone with the great spirits of Yogo. Busha Rizi Yogo, who shines like snow, and students of Yogo fall down in fear If Moses and Illa appeared before New in the same light, then, in order to grab the light of Divine grace, which blinded the eyes of the learners, "clouds", it is said, "autumn їх". And by such an order, the grace of the All-Holy Spirit of God is in an invisible light for everyone, as God reveals the spirit of God.

- Yak, - I asked Father Fr. Seraphim, - know me, what am I trying with the grace of the Holy Spirit?

- Tse, your love of God, even simple! - vіdpovіv vіn me, - to that the Lord seems: " the whole point is simple to know the mind". That whole of ours lies in the fact that we ourselves cannot think of the Divine mind, which does not boast (do not write), because we do not see the light of it. The mind, with love to God and neighbor, to create all kinds of people." for the salvation of you. About which mind the Lord said: God wants everyone to be saved and to come into the mind of truth". And to His apostles about the lack of a mind of Vin saying: " Are you not understanding Scripture and parables?"I know about the same reason in the Gospel there is about the apostles, what" let the Lord know the understanding of Scripture Perebuvayusche in your mind, the apostles for a long time bachili, chi perebovaet the Spirit of God from them chi, and passed on to them and bachachi perebovavaniya of the Spirit of God with them, they firmly said that they were holy and completely pleasing to the Lord God. Tsim and explain why the stench of their messengers wrote: " call to the Holy Spirit and to us and only on these bases and proclaimed their message, as the truth is immutable to the bitterness of us, we believe - so St. the apostles clearly perceived in themselves the presence of the Spirit of God...

I vіdpovіv: - Still, I do not understand why I can be firmly convinced that I am in the Spirit of God. How can I myself recognize the identity of Yogo's manifestation?

Father o. Seraphim vіdpovіv: - I already, your love of God, having told you that it’s even simpler and reporter to you, how people are at the Spirit of God and how they can understand God’s manifestation in us ... What do you need, father?

“It’s necessary,” I said, “so that I understand the good.

Todi o. Seraphim took me by the shoulders and said to me: - Now, father, we are offended by the Spirit of God with you. Why don't you marvel at me?

I vіdpovіv: - I can't, father, marvel, for your eyes shine hoarsely. Your appearance has become bright behind the sun, and my eyes ache in pain.

Father Seraphim said: - Do not sneer, your love of God, and now you yourself have become as bright as I myself. You yourself are now full of the Spirit of God, otherwise you would not have been able to do such a thing.

I, having healed my head before me, quietly saying to me in my ear: - Call to the Lord God for the mercy of Yogo, which is not visible to you. You could see that I did not cross over, but only prayed to the Lord God in my heart and said in the middle of myself: Lord! worthy of it clearly and with embodied eyes, bachit those zіshesta of Your Spirit, as you will honor Your servants, if you will be at the beautiful glory of Your glory! First axis, father, the Lord and vikonav mittevo humbly prohannya wretched Seraphim ... How can we not blame Yoma for this Yogo's invisible gift to us both! So, father, do not wait and the great hermits show the Lord God His mercy. Tsya grace of God favored to comfort your mournful heart, like a mother loving children, for the representation of the Mother of God herself ... - Well, father, do not marvel at me in the eyes? Just marvel, do not fight - the Lord is among us!

I looked at the words of these words in the guise of yoga, and attacked the smaller godly zhah. Reveal yourself, in the middle of the sun, in the most gleaming brightness of the midday afternoons, disguised as a person, as I speak of you. You bache ruh vust yogo, a little expression of yogo eyes, you feel yogo’s voice, you see that someone is stroking you with their hands on the shoulders, but not only don’t shake your hands, don’t shake yourself, don’t figure yoga, but only one light, weak we stretch far, on a sprat of saplings, and light up with our closeness and a snowy veil, which covers the galyavin, and snow groats, which suffocates the beast and me, and the great old man. Can you show yourself the camp in which I am?

— What are you watching now?! - Asking me about. Seraphim.

“Very well,” I said.

- Is that okay? What about yourself?

I v_dpov_v: - I see such silence and peace in my soul, that I cannot speak with ordinary words.

“Tse, your love of God,” said Father Fr. Seraphim, that light, about which Lord, having said to His teachings: " My peace I give you, not like light I give, I give you. As if in the world were shvidki, the world loved its own, but as you were chosen in the world, for whom the world hates you. Always dare, as I have overcome the world"To the people who hate the sight of the world, let us embrace the sight of the Lord, and the Lord gives that light, which you now have in your own sight; "peace", behind the word of the apostles, " every mind of peremozhnosti". This is what the apostle calls yoga, to that it is impossible to speak with a single word of that kindness of the soul, like repairing wines in quiet people, in the hearts of such yogas, the Lord God provazhu. no time of the earth is prosperous, you can’t give it to the human heart: you are blessed with fire in the sight of the Lord God Himself, why is it called the light of God ... What do you see?—Father Seraphim has fed me.

- Nezvichaynu malt, - vіdpovіv I.

І vіn prodovzhuvav: - Tse nasolod, about how to go to the Holy Letter: " in the darkness of Thy house they will drink, and I will fill you with a stream of malt The axis of the malt is now permeating our hearts and pouring through all the veins of our invisible malt. do you see?

- Overwhelming joy in my whole heart.

І father Fr. Seraphim continued: - If the Spirit of God descends to a person and sings with the fullness of His inspiration, then the soul of a person will be filled with an invisible joy, for the Spirit of God will delight everything that Vin would not reach. This is the joy itself, about how the Lord speaks in His gospel; " retinue if the people, mourning of the mother, more come rіk її; if you give birth to a child, before that you do not remember sorrow for joy, for a person was born to the world. You will have sorrow in the world, but if I care for you, your heart is healthy, and your joys are not to hurt you. Ale, as if there was no joy in it, as you now see in your heart, nevertheless, it is scanty in equal parts, about which the Lord Himself, through the mouth of His Apostle, said, what joys are those. I don’t care for the eye, I don’t smell the ear, I don’t want good in the heart of the people, even God is prepared for them who love Yogo.". The promises of joy are given to us now, and how it is so licorice, good and cheerful in our souls, then what can we say about that joy, as it is prepared there, in heaven, what to cry here on earth? - still wept in your life on earth, and marvel at what joy the Lord makes you feel in your life here... of Christ, let the words of the Lord come upon us: Tі, scho to endure the Lord, tі change the fort, okrilatіyut, like eagles, flow and do not bother, go and do not get, go with strength in strength and appear to him the God of gods in Zion_ rozumіnnya and heavenly visions"... The axis is just our present joy, which is small and short for us, to appear at all of our own, and none of them, in spite of us, the companions of the obscure heavenly nasts ... Well, you see, your Godliness ?"

I vіdpovіv: - Nezvichaynu warmth.

- Yak, father, warmth? We are sitting at the fox's. Now winter is under the wind, and under the feet of snow, and there is more than an inch of snow on us, and grain is falling on the beast ... How warm is it here?

I vіdpovіv: - And so, as if you were in the laznі, if you put it on a stone-stone and from it with a stovpom to bring down steam ...

- And the smell, - having quenched my wine, - is it the same, like from a lazne?

“Ni,” I said, “there is nothing on earth like it to the groin. If for the life of my mother I love to dance and go to balls and dance evenings, then my mother wears me, used to be, perfumes, like bathing in the best fashionable shops of Kazan, but these perfumes do not see such a smell.

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