Вечернее размышление 💛

Молись по-детски, в простоте сердца о всех нуждах и скорбях твоих, и вручай себя воли Божьей, ибо Господь строит наше спасение.

Преподобный Никон Оптинский.

“Orthodoxy, of course, does not change from one day to the next, or from one century to the next. Looking at the Protestant and Roman Catholic world, we can see that certain spiritual writings become out of date. Sometimes they come back into fashion again, sometimes they go out. It is obvious that they are bound up with worldly things, which appeal to people at one time, or rather to the spirit of the times. This is not so with our Orthodox holy writings. Once we get the whole Orthodox Christian outlook — the simply Christian outlook — which has been handed down from Christ and the Apostles to our times, then everything becomes contemporary. You read the words of someone like St. Macarius, who lived in the deserts of Egypt in the fourth century, and he’s speaking to you now. His conditions are a little different, but he’s speaking right to you, in the same language. He’s going to the same place, he’s using the same mind, he has the same temptations and failings, and there’s nothing different about him. It’s the same with all the other Fathers from that time down to our century, like St. John of Kronstadt. They all speak the same language, one kind of language, the language of spiritual life, which we must get into.”

-Fr. Seraphim Rose, “In Step With Saints Patrick and Gregory of Tours”