st. seraphim says, virtue is not a pear, you can’t suddenly eat it.s preceded by years of spiritual labor and struggle with one’s shortcomings, passions, and infirmities. therefore, the more the early years of his life a person steps on the christian path, the more spiritual fruit he can bear. and spiritual fruit. unlike everything earthly, it will not disappear in eternity, but will testify before god about our love for it. dear brothers and sisters, today we again remember that according to the word of the lord jesus christ, the kingdom of heaven is not far from each of us, holy ascetics of piety lived not only in the distant lands of palestine, greece or egypt. they were going through their earthly life. way here on belarusian soil, and some of the saints glorified with the church were our contemporaries. all this tells us that the lord lives, his gospel is true. let us, remembering this, be confirmed in the determination to live according to the gospel, to serve god our neighbor with good deeds, thereby imitating, to the best of our ability, the f

st. seraphim of sarov, father vladimir, hello, hello, hello, father vladimir, you gave him the go-ahead,r your blessing before going on a special military operation, of course, in general, any orthodox christian, let him take a blessing when ... some important things are coming, a cossack is not a cossack without faith, and a cossack, if he is not a warrior, then he is not a cossack either, going back, that’s what andrei was like, well, he was kind, he was wise, he was hardworking, so he is somehow along the cossack line, yes, since he is from semirechensk cossacks, when he had already joined and took the oath, he also took the oath in the cossack church, as is usually the case with us, so i no longer knew him... but from orenburg, i was also accepted into the cossacks, i saw a saber, a whip, here then she only realized that she was still saying something, talking between you, but i didn’t really know that andrei was a cossack at that moment, too, father vladimir, and how did you find out about andrei’s death, my son called a month earlier he left, they were in the same regiment, in diff