24 hours a day every day be with belarus 24 tv channel and discover, belarus dear brothers and sisters, today the memory of st. righteous john of kronstadt is celebrated about the life of the exploits of this holy archpriest, you know, almost every believer about this amazing ascetic of the vestments wrote dozens of books and hundreds of articles published, his work diaries have forever entered the treasury of theological thought of the orthodox church. people's love does not dry up to this day, when we carefully read those st. john, we can turn

attention to his most important virtue - selfless service. the gospel lord, jesus christ says these words about himself, the son of man did not come to be served, but to serve and give his soul. the atonement of many saint ankh. kronstadt took these words with all his heart and made them the principle of his life. the future great shepherd was born to a poor rural family, although many of his family were clergy. his family lived in the same need as others regard childhood as correct, but faced poverty grief without a costly life of a difficult share of ordinary people. this nurtured his heart with compassion and christian mercy for man, the desire by all available means

to help his infirmity and suffering. he retained this mobile attitude towards people even when he became a well-known all-russian pastor of kronstadt, as he was called the goal of openness to the common people. constant readiness to help st. john won the sincere love of many believers, exerting a beneficial influence on the whole society. they saw in him an example of an active clergyman, who believed that society should be corrected gradually by the example of one's own life. in those days, the tsarist government exiled criminals to the city of kronstadt, who hid in the basements and dugouts of the predrey. john daily visited these outcasts. hmm, but not only had a salutary conversation with them, but helped her to

take care of the sick with his own money, bought food or medicine for them, and sometimes he even took off his shoes and clothes to give to the unfortunate. the ascetic put a lot of effort into bringing forth the word, preaching god not only in the city itself, but also in many other parts of the country. he often liked to travel in order to be able to visit historically memorable and, above all, holy places, communicate with people, perform divine services, while, as a christian and as a priest, he approached the eternal spiritual feat diligently in everything, he would perform the service, pray, observe fasts, he was very strict in itself. did the great shepherd finish his earthly journey in the same poverty in which he was born? well, now the thorny path has become those

narrow gates, which, according to the word of the lord jesus christ is led into eternal life of his earthly life. he saved many from great sinful falls, and under the procession of the righteous john into eternity, his image continues to appeal to the life of each of us and remains an example of indifference, mercy, fiery faith and strong prayer. we must see first. the purpose for which the saints performed their labors. and this goal is the same as every christian's perception of the gospel is to learn to live according to the commandments of god, to be cleansed from sins, to acquire virtues. make the temple of your soul the abode of grace holy spirit so that all this will allow us, at the end of our earthly journey, to enter eternal life.

the churches know of cases when some christians, having recently come to the faith, sought to imitate the very deeds of the saints, forgetting about their goal, they imposed on themselves exorbitant , simple, lengthy prayer rules such unbearable labors. they led them to exhaustion and even to disappointment vera , why did this happen, because a person tried to copy in his life the form of the feat of someone and the saints, without thinking about its main content, a true christian not the one who only fasts extremely hard or prays for a very long time, but the one who tries to build his real life with all the circumstances, possibilities and limitations according to the gospel. then our spiritual life becomes fruitful when

we try to passively do good deeds for us, using the opportunities and circumstances that we have about this, it is especially important. remind yourself today when, despite the widely celebrated new year's celebrations, christians continue to work during the nativity fast, in preparation for the great feast of the nativity of christ, despite the external noise of the new year's feast, true christians must be able to preserve the spiritual world and prayer to god in their hearts. this is an unusual and multi-trumpeted cross, which the lord deigned to bear and which he was worthy to inflict until the last days of his earthly

life. each of us carries our own cross in life and such a carrying of the cross includes not only difficulties and sorrows that we must adequately overcome, but these gifts and opportunities that we should correctly use, looking at the stomach of st. john of kronstadt us here and now, these virtues are important for every christian, regardless of the world of his strength and the circumstances with which he is surrounded precisely by this main inner essence of the feat of the saints. we must keep in mind and try to embody in my life when we read and live. nor the memory of saints, which we find in abundance

in the church calendar. reading the biographies of these ascetics should enrich us spiritually , revealing the meaning of christian virtues more and more deeply, if a person competently applies all this knowledge to his own life, taking into account his circumstances, then his spiritual growth occurs. in this case, the centuries-old life experience that the church treasury of spiritual wisdom keeps in itself becomes an effective help for us. everyday affairs. faced with any bewildered situation, we do not get lost and do not freeze or resolve on how to act. the example of the life of many saints helps us make the right decisions from a worldly from a spiritual point of view. dear brothers and sisters, today, when we are glorified by the fact that the righteous

kronstadt prays to him before the throne of the most high, we also remember his earthly life and the feat that he performed, we will remember that sacrifices for the love of neighbors - this is an absolute, necessary feature a real christian, without which it is impossible to grow spiritually, because it is. it is not only in the great feats, when the saints distributed everything to those around them that they had in our daily life , most often, very little is required to give to our neighbor. a kind word to support him sometimes even just by your presence. with their silence let such modest everyday good deeds be the steps to our spiritual transformation, without which it is impossible to enter into the joy of eternal life, where

saint john of kronstadt now resides, i continue an intercessor to stand before god for all of us with a holiday. good morning, monday, january 2, today a new information day begins with the television news agency in the pavel lazovik studio and see in our issue.