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If until today you have always put off regular reading Christian literature, then there were two whole reasons for this grace-filled deed. Firstly, March 14th— day Orthodox book . The holiday is very young, introduced 4 years ago. But reading for a Christian is an important part of spiritual work. And now the other day begins, a great time for spiritual exploits!

The most important book for a Christian should undoubtedly be the Holy Scriptures. In addition, these are patristic works, the lives of saints. In addition, in recent times on the book market a lot of different books of Orthodox authors appeared. And, of course, you need to remember that not all of them are equally valuable. Among these books there are those that are completely non-Orthodox in essence, there are those in which genuine Orthodox teaching mixed with occult or pseudoscientific notions. Every person has their favorite books. According to the website lib.pravmir.ru we offer you 10 most read modern books useful in spiritual work.

1. - a book by Archimandrite Tikhon Shevkunov. Published in 2011. The book aroused great interest among the reading public. So, by October 2012, the total circulation of the book amounted to one million one hundred thousand copies. As Archimandrite Tikhon himself said: “I told almost all the stories that were included in the book during sermons. All this is part of our church life.”

2. — last work Orthodox author Viktor Likhachev, who passed away in 2008. The writer did not have time to finish his book, but he hoped that everyone who reads it will recognize himself in it, feel that boundless love for Russia, for the Russian village, which the author nourished, let faith in God and the hope that that the Angels, our heavenly patrons, will never leave us...

3. " Prologue in the teachings for each day of the year "— the book was compiled in 2007 by Archpriest Viktor Guryev. "Prologue" is an ancient Russian collection of hagiographies, originating from the Byzantine chronologists, in which the lives of the saints are arranged in accordance with the days of their church memory. In addition, the "Prologue" is decorated with understandable and often entertaining passages from the ancient Patericons, parables imbued with thoughts of repentance, mercy, Christian love for one's neighbor, spiritual perfection and the salvation of the soul.

4. "Father Arseny" is a book that came out of the pen unknown author, clearly shows the reader the triumph of love over evil, life over death. Father Arseny is the image of a holy elder - a zealous man of prayer, sober, meek, who completely entrusted himself into the hands of God. The first editions spread throughout Russia and beyond its borders and made the book "Father Arseny" one of the most beloved in the Orthodox world.

5. "Soul After Death"(O. Seraphim Rose) - probably there is no such book that so clearly, accessible and understandable reveals the posthumous experience of a person and gives the concept of angelic and other world. The book contains two thousand years of experience of the holy fathers. The publication has a twofold purpose: firstly, from the point of view of the Orthodox Christian doctrine about afterlife, to give an explanation of the modern "post-mortem" experiences that have aroused such interest in some religious and scientific circles; secondly, to cite the main sources and texts containing the Orthodox teaching about the afterlife.

6. "Easter Red"(Pavlova N.A.) - it was after this book that the author became widely known. The book is already 11 years old, but it does not lose popularity. It tells about the three New Martyrs of Optina - Hieromonk Vasily and monks Ferapont and Trofim. It's three perfect different person their paths to God were special. The ascetic life is amazing, many readers note that after reading this book, they immediately want to visit Optina Pustyn.

7. "Who will hear the linnet?"(Likhachev V.V.) — a novel about the motherland and the Russian soul. He leads the reader along the roads of the Russian provinces. Main character embroiled in real adventures: he carries miraculous icon, evading bandit pursuit... And internally, one goes the way of spiritual growth: from unbelief to faith, from confusion to blessed peace, from mental blindness and deafness to seeing and hearing the miracle of God.

8. "Ways of Heaven"(Shmelev I.S.) is a novel about the fate of the skeptic-positivist engineer Viktor Alekseevich Weidenhammer and the faithful, meek and internally strong Darinka, a novice of the monastery who left the monastery to connect her life with Viktor Alekseevich. Through suffering and joy, by mysterious and incomprehensible ways for the worldly mind, these heroes are led to the Source of Life. Internal plot The book is a "spiritual battle" with passions and thoughts, temptations and attacks of dark forces.

9. "Chief of Silence"(Vsevolod Filpiev) - the book is addressed to eternal questions- love and hate, loyalty and betrayal, truth and lies. The heroes of the book solve these issues differently and sometimes unexpectedly. An action-packed, realistic narrative takes the reader into the events that take place in the winter of 2002 in Moscow and in North America. Together with the characters, the reader finds himself in St. Petersburg of the 19th century and in historical times princes Boris and Gleb. The story-parable is designed for a wide range of readers, and everyone is free to interpret it in their own way.

10. "We have repentance"(abbot Nikon Vorobyov) - letters addressed to their spiritual children, laity and monastics. Father Nikon edifies, instructs, calls for repentance and patience, shows what needs to be done, what thoughts need to be kept, consoles, teaches how to treat sorrows correctly: “The Fathers have long said about our times that people will be saved only by sorrows and illnesses. Healthy and happy forget about God, oh future life: live as if they will live forever on earth and never die. And sorrows and illnesses make a person break away from earthly interests and turn to God... Save your souls with repentance, patience and humility.”

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Prayer before reading spiritual books:

Lord Jesus Christ, open my heart's eyes so that when I hear Your Word, I understand it and do Your will. Hide not Thy commandments from me, but open my eyes, that I may understand wonders from Thy law. Tell me the unknown and secret of your wisdom! I trust in You, my God, and I believe that You will enlighten my mind and meaning with the light of Your mind, and that then I will not only read what is written, but also fulfill it. Make sure that I do not read the Lives of the Saints and Your Word as a sin, but for renewal and enlightenment, and for holiness, and for the salvation of the soul, and for the inheritance of eternal life. For You, O Lord, are the enlightenment of those who lie in darkness, and from You is every good gift and every perfect gift. Amen.

Veronika VYATKINA

The prologue is an ancient Russian collection of hagiographies, originating from the Byzantine hymns, in which the lives of the saints are arranged in accordance with the days of their church memory. In addition, the Prologue is replenished with a large number of edifying articles that have never been placed in the Greek Synaxaries. With a brevity of presentation, they contain the teachings of John Chrysostom, Basil the Great, Ephraim the Syrian, Theodore the Studite. Like a flowering meadow, the Prologue is decorated with understandable and often entertaining passages from the ancient Patericons, parables imbued with thoughts of repentance, mercy, Christian love for one's neighbor, spiritual perfection and the salvation of the soul. All this made the Prologue unique. Orthodox Encyclopedia, a daily companion of a Russian person. Undeniable and literary influence Patericon: collections of teachings abounded with stories from it, they were quoted by the later lives of the saints and Domostroy, spiritual verses were composed on them. In modern times, plots from the Prologue were often used by Russian writers. Real collection instructions was compiled according to the leadership of the Church Slavonic Prologue by Archpriest Viktor Guryev, a well-known spiritual 19th writer century.

For a wide range Orthodox readers, as well as for specialists involved in the study of certain aspects of homiletics, moral theology, sectarian studies, liturgical theology, general church history, history of the Russian Church, church art. The publication can be used as educational material for pupils, students and teachers of spiritual educational institutions, teachers, students and graduate students of theological universities and faculties.

Guryev Viktor Petrovich

Biographical Dictionary. 2000: Guryev Viktor Petrovich - archpriest-writer (1842 - 1912). He graduated from the course at the Moscow Theological Seminary. Collaborated in Soulful Reading"And in" Kormchem. Several editions of teachings for the people on the leadership of the Chetiah Menaia, Patericons of Athos, Kyiv and others. - See “Archpriest V.P. Guryev” (“Church Gazette”, 1912, No. 3).

encyclopedic Dictionary F. Brockhaus and I.A. Efron: - Guryev Viktor Petrovich (born in 1842) spiritual writer, archpriest. His works: Reading the Menaia in the teachings for every day of the year (M., 1896; this is not a presentation of the Reading Menaia, but moral lessons extracted from the lives of the saints); Prologue in teachings (M., 1889; 3rd ed., M., 1901)

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real book- "Prologue in Teachings" Part I and Part II has been adapted to modern language from the following source: Edition of the Holy Trinity Sergius Lavra 1992 (reprint reproduction of the edition of the Athos Russian St. Panteleimon Monastery. 1912)

Adaptation of the text to the modern Russian language Troyanova Alexandra. Internet version © 2002, Pagez.ru

Elder Paisius (in the world Arseniy Eznepidis) was born on July 25, 1924 in Faras Cappadocia, in Asia Minor, was the tenth child in the family. Saint Arsenius of Cappadocia, who baptized the baby, gave him his name, prophetically saying: "I want to leave a monk behind me." Fleeing from Turkish persecution, the family soon moved to Greece. Arseniy's childhood passed in the city of Konitsa. Here he successfully completed school and worked as a carpenter, wanting to imitate Christ in this as well. In 1945, he was drafted into the army, where he showed extraordinary courage. Many times during the fighting, he took the front seat of his family soldiers, colleagues, saying: "Your wives and children are waiting for you, but I am free." Having retired from the army in 1949, he immediately went to Mount Athos. Elder Paisios spent forty-five years in severe deeds on Mount Athos, in the monastery of Stomion in Konitsa, and on Mount Sinai. Having completely surrendered himself to Christ, he wished to remain in obscurity, but the Providence of God revealed him to people. Thousands of pilgrims came to the blessed elder and found guidance and comfort, healing and peace for their tormented souls. Despite the serious illnesses that constantly haunted him, every day from sunrise to sunset, Father Paisios instructed, consoled, solved people's problems, filled hearts with faith, hope and love for God. At night, when the flow of pilgrims dried up, he prayed and read the letters that came to huge number, and only at dawn he rested for two or three hours to restore strength before a new day. For the whole of Orthodox Greece - and not only for Greece - the elder became a spiritual support, a healer of many human souls.

To be honest, this text is already on the page - it is included in the collection of short stories "Bogdan and his family ( Sunday School)". But the collection is quite large, more than 30 stories, and not everyone likes thick books. Therefore, it was decided to place each story separately, so that the reader can choose whether to watch a short story for him on a couple of pages, or the whole book at once.

Orthodoxy is one of the ancient religions

The word means "rightly praise". Orthodox religion- one of the most widespread in the world, along with Catholicism and Protestantism, ranks third in terms of numbers among the generally recognized Christian religions.

The Orthodox Church emerged as an independent religion in 1054 after the Great Separation, during which there was a final division into the Roman Catholic Church with its center in Rome and the Orthodox Church with its center in Constantinople.

What do the adherents of Orthodoxy believe in?

Here we will consider the main beliefs of the Orthodox, what they worship:

Icons . Believers of this trend treat icons as shrines: they kiss, ask for help. Icons are especially revered, with which cases of “miraculous healing” are associated.

"Holy relics" . According to Orthodox believers, the Saints are God's friends or "pleasers". They do not doubt the authenticity of the relics, unlike scientists, on the contrary, endow them with miraculous healing properties.

They believe in the Trinity. For the first time this theological term was used by Theophilus of Antioch, who lived at the end of the 2nd century, in Holy Scriptures this word does not occur. According to the Orthodox faith, the "Trinity" is God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit. All three persons live in one, in complete unity.

According to one handbook, God can go out of Himself and still be identical to Himself. The Holy Spirit, at the same time, can be on the border of being and other being. "Trinity" is one of the main holidays of Orthodoxy.

Into the immortality of the soul . The "Holy Fathers" teach that the soul and body are united on certain time. After death, the soul returns to the creator, where it awaits the verdict. Evil souls go to fiery hell, and good souls go to heaven.

Honor guardian angels . Angels glorify God, I proclaim his message. They are endowed with a mind that surpasses the human mind, and help in the work of preaching. Guardian angels supposedly protect their people from death or something bad.

The Twelve Spies and the Promised Land (from the Book of Numbers)

The Israelites left Egypt after four hundred years of slavery under the leadership of Moses . Soon they came to the border promised to his people, the land. Moses sent twelve spies ahead to get a good look.

When they returned, ten of them spoke only bad things about that land. They claimed that the people of that area were of enormous stature, in comparison with them, that they were good warriors with excellent weapons. They even became indignant, speaking harsh words to Moses.

The ten spies cried with one voice that they would all perish as one by the sword of these Canaanites. They wanted to choose another leader to take them back to Egypt. What happened? They, seeing how God brought ten plagues on the Egyptians, did not believe that He could deliver them from the Canaanites.

The two spies, Joshua and Caleb, thought the Israelites could easily deal with them. Due to the fact that the people believed most of the spies and did not enter the Promised Land, they had to wander through the wilderness for another four decades.

All the generation that came out of Egypt and did not believe God did not enter the God-promised land. After the death of Moses, the faithful Joshua and Caleb led the people. What does this Bible incident teach us?

As Then, So Today, Satan Uses Intimidation Tactics . It corrupts a person morally and spiritually. Those who have weak faith easily fall for his bait and fall into his disastrous nets.

We need to develop faith in God, trust in his strength, power and what He wants for us a better life. Read the Bible on our website online for free, study it and become stronger in faith!