Today the great post begins. As you know, many stars in our days stretch to faith. But there is a singer on our scene, which manages to combine work on the stage and the real service in the church. Olga Korumukhin is not just a believer man, keeps all posts and Orthodox traditions, but also herself constantly sings in church church. Today Rock Diva congratulates Womanhit readers with the beginning of the Great Post and is divided by his favorite fragment from the church literary heritage
Olga Korutukhin: "With the beginning of the Great Post, dear brothers and sisters! I re-read ... from your beloved ... and share: "Let's talk about the dangers that lie on our way to live and deep Orthodox faith. Listening to our conversations, it would be possible to think that it would be enough to bother jealousy about Orthodoxy, as it was done: you are already in the kingdom of heaven. But, unfortunately, we have an opponent - the Devil; We should take a step - and he is here like here. I will tell about three directions, from where you can wait for his impact; This will help to be better understood that such true Christianity is.
The first danger adopters the one who begins to read Orthodox books, is fond of them, but is mistaken in applying reading his own life. St. Ignatius Bryanchaninov (who, along with St. Feofan, can be called a guide star for the current century) wrote a book under the title "Proposition of modern monasticism": every Orthodox time should listen to him. He warns inexperienced readers from unnecessary passion by examples from the life of Holy Fathers and devotees: Otherwise, he writes, "a non-happy dream of perfection" essay, departs the humble tasks of everyday Christian life (ch. 10).
This is extremely common illness. We think about anteric feat, and nearby, right in front of the nose, someone got into trouble, but to help - it does not come to mind. Or, "From the position of sublime Christianity", we begin to displacing others, forgetting about Christian love and kindness, without which our whole "hill" is a penny. It is necessary to learn from experience how to apply the patristic teaching and itself. Scripture to our level and practical circumstances. Spiritual life is not the theory, not an algorithm. All that we learn in Orthodoxy must enter, our life in our lives. It happens, we read about Isihazme and Jesus prayer, with zealous pronounce it, and remain still blind to their own passions and deaf to the needs of the neighbor, and this was necessary to reliably assimilate before starting to Ishhazma. Everyone should read books on their forces and the level of training (those that I listed above are suitable for beginners), read without fantasy, with humility, with clear consciousness of how much we are strongly influenced by the Mira and how far from Christian perfection "(Hieromona Seraphim Rose, "Danger on the way to live faith") ".