1380 useful tips of the priest to their parishioners. Archpriest V.M.

The book contains the answers of the famous confessor of the 20th century Archpriest Valentin Mordasov to different questions of spiritual life.

One old man said: “There are a lot of good and pious priests, but one of a thousand can lead a special manner - this is a special The gift of God ".

The author of the Soviets and instructions collected in our publication, Father Valentin (Mordasov) (1998) was just such a confessor. He devoted all his free time from worship. As an inexhaustible source, people who were looking for spiritual admonition or just life council, people, were drawn to it.

Along with difficult purely personal issues, parishioners and pilgrims often have issues that could be conventionally entitled: “As“ how Live in a Christian? ”,“ How to escape ”or“ What is good to know the believer ”, etc. There were a great many questions, and Father Valentine blessed to record answers to some of the most interesting and necessary of them. The priest rarely said anything from himself, all his advice was based on patristic teaching. Only those issues that did not have clarifications in church books with the greatest caution he solved, relying on his huge spiritual experience and prayer.

distinguished by great philanthropy, Father Valentine did not seek to please anyone except God. He believed that pleasing to a person often forces to sin against the truth. Therefore, there is no need to be embarrassed if some of his advice seem difficult or wrong. Our pride encourages us to be in question, that is, to answer the extremely clear answer with a new question. If you go this way, then even the most useful advice will become useless.

We better recall that the truth of God is often inconvenient for human weakness and that you have to be able to accept a bitter medicine, see their sinfulness and move their spoiled creature to repentance and humility. Ignorance of sin does not exempt from responsibility for him, knowledge - encourages him to fight him.

the many years of pastoral experience of Father Valentine, aware of their great responsibility for these tips before God, constant prayer offership to God for the sending of spiritual judgment. We can hope that his advice, most fully presented in this book, will be very useful for many, many believers.

is recommended for the publication by the Publishing Council of the Russian Orthodox Church.