here is maria pavlovna luzgova from the city of orenburg asking: please tell me, your holiness, why are deeds of mercy so important. after all, the lord especially highlights them in the gospel. if you do not feed and clothe the poor, then you will not feed me either, i quote from memory. can these deeds alone save oneself? but i am a friend. and it is even difficult for us to imagine what mountains of sin we form throughout our lives. so what, and we think that some good deeds that we do can completely balance out all the bad, wrong, sinful things that we have done throughout our lives, and never. and then how to calculate all this, on what scales to weigh, how much good, so that we can say exactly what awaits us after death, whether we have earned the kingdom of heaven with our lives or not. but here is the text that i just quoted, testifies to the fact that we are saved not by our deeds, but by the grace of god. this does not mean that grace automatically saves us, like we can do whatever we want. here is some grace, here it saves us, so we can not think about deeds, but this would b