Book Description

“Wealth without work Pleasure without conscience Science without humanity Knowledge without character Politics without principle Commerce without morality Worship without sacrifice. https://vidjambov.blogspot.com/2023/01/book-inventory-vladimir-djambov-talmach.html SchemaArchim. Sophrony writes: “God, by His grace, deigns to unite with man so closely that man becomes God, like God the Creator in the image of His being. Those who do not believe this and do not pray to the Saints did not know how much the Lord loves a person and how he magnified him.” At the same time, the degree of glory among the saints is different. As the apostle Paul writes: “There is one glory of the sun (God), and another glory of the Moon (the Mother of God), and another glory of the stars (saints); for one star differeth from another star in glory.” (1 Cor. 15:41). In the parables about mines, the Lord says to the faithful slave who has acquired ten minas: “Take control of ten cities.” So, the chosen ones of the Lord receive from the Lord and His glory and take part in the building of His Church by Him. Moreover, this honorable service to the Lord begins for many saints still here on earth and continues after their repose. All Christians need to comprehend the beauty of the highest achievements on the path to Christ and know about the holiness of human souls, so that, as a result, in them that “poverty of spirit”, which Christ placed as the basis of the “Beatitudes” (Matthew 5: 3). As St. Isaac the Syrian: "Keep always in the memory of those who excel you in virtue, so that you will constantly see in yourself a lack against their faith." Therefore, it is necessary to learn from the experience of the Church of Christ not only those ideals that are achievable in modern times, but also all those great achievements of the saints, which, humbling us, would amaze with their greatness and beauty of Christian deeds and virtues. Writing about the "way of salvation" is a very responsible business. It is bad if a person at the same time will rely only on himself and limit himself to his inventions. One is the Truth on earth: This Truth is Christ Himself (John 18:37). And only that can be affirmed that is proclaimed in the Gospel and the understanding of which is explained by the Holy Fathers of the Orthodox Church and confirmed by the centuries-old experience of glorified saints and ascetics of piety. Therefore, all the most important provisions on the "way of salvation" must be confirmed by texts from Holy. Scriptures and creations of the Holy Fathers of the Orthodox Church and devotees of piety and examples from their lives. St. fathers. As Bishop Ignatius Brianchaninov, the Monk Nil of Sorsk, never gave instructions or advice directly from himself, but offered to the questioners either the teaching of Scripture or the teaching of the Fathers.