In the evening when the sun guilds the iconographers' shop and all work at the hermitage is almost done. Recently we went for a walk all together again saying our prayer rule and counting beads.
Do you like early morning or the hour before sunset more?
Do you like early morning or the hour before sunset more?
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Not many people know that we have a night liturgy every night, and even less know the way the sisters sing. The singing is almost recitative, in the style of small hermitages of Athos. Fr. Sergiy calls this style "not beautiful one" but inviting to pray.
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#TabynHermitage
#archpriestSergiyBaranov
All links: sergiybaranov.taplink.ws
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Your holiness stinks before God
Spiritual life is hard work. All illusions about yourself are ruined, if it is real and true.
When you first come to Church, you read the Lives of Saints and it seems to you that you pray like them, feel like them and love the whole world like them. But if someone steps on your foot or says an offensive word, everything will be ruined at once.
However, this is precious! Let it all fall apart, let all this our pious shell peel off! Our virtues stink before the Lord.
Let only the bare truth remain: "All men are liars" (Ps. 115:2). And above all I am.
I wish the truth of God that is called unfeigned repentance to everyone. It is not covered by a fig leaf but is bare before God to the bitter end, to the last degree. If any explanations and excuses are blended into this truth, it becomes untruth.
#archpriestSergiyBaranov
All links: sergiybaranov.taplink.ws
Spiritual life is hard work. All illusions about yourself are ruined, if it is real and true.
When you first come to Church, you read the Lives of Saints and it seems to you that you pray like them, feel like them and love the whole world like them. But if someone steps on your foot or says an offensive word, everything will be ruined at once.
However, this is precious! Let it all fall apart, let all this our pious shell peel off! Our virtues stink before the Lord.
Let only the bare truth remain: "All men are liars" (Ps. 115:2). And above all I am.
I wish the truth of God that is called unfeigned repentance to everyone. It is not covered by a fig leaf but is bare before God to the bitter end, to the last degree. If any explanations and excuses are blended into this truth, it becomes untruth.
#archpriestSergiyBaranov
All links: sergiybaranov.taplink.ws
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Service at the Transfiguration Church of Orsk.
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