Metropolitan John Snychev Biography

Metropolitan of St. Petersburg and Ladoga John Snychev-five years that Metropolitan John in St. Petersburg served, Orthodox Rus' listened to the words of the Lord, the words of truth and parting words, anger and pain, denunciations and the recovery of questions, the word of hope and hot confidence that if the lost people return to God, Russia will not revive, and the Russian people are not revived He will die.

Often Metropolitan John tried to tie to any political party, various social movements, and give his words a political meaning. The Vladyka himself in one of the conversations said: “We must strictly distinguish politics from our pastoral affairs. Well, if we see that ours are exposed to this danger from pornography, that everything is abandoned for drunkenness and other means of molestation, our duty of the archpastoral, at all costs, protect our passenia and prayerfully lead them to recovery.

But since this is coming with the knowledge, but if not with the knowledge, then at least by the connivance of the government, then naturally the archpastors and shepherds themselves need to turn to them - on whom this distribution or suppression depends. Because this matter is not political, it is purely moral, archpastoral. Moreover, we, the archpastors and shepherds, set the task: to teach the Church to enlighten the Russian society.

And if we teach him this, then we must understand the state of the spiritual and moral societies of all our actions should be focused on this return of the spiritual and moral principles of our society. ” The years that have passed since the death of Metropolitan John more and more highlight its value, the meaning of his words and instructions. How can we not understand that all these countless parties and political groups are invented in order to confuse people, confuse them and deceive them!

The people, united by a general understanding of the meaning of their existence, general concepts of good and evil, general religious and moral views, are invincible and terrible for enemies. The main thing for Bogoboric, destructive forces is to cut off the people from their spiritual leaders, from shepherds who know the dangers and know how to overcome them. To blind the people, and to intimidate the sighted or destroy - this is the principle of action of the forerunners of antichrist, preparing the establishment of the World Antichristian dictatorship.

Their weapon is a lie, their patron is the devil, the hate of the human race, the father of all lies and untruth. We have the only way of salvation - the path of unification around our centuries -old shrines, the path of revival of Russian collegiality and sovereign, the path of spiritual insight and purification. We will be able to break through to God through the thickness of lies and slander, a heap of Christnavian, which means that we can revive Holy Rus'.

Get back - Russia will die. Tell me, why was the Orthodox Church throughout the Russian history that was a repository of the sovereign spirit of the people? Isn't this spirit a lot now? The very concept of sovereign - church origin. Sovereign is the state self -awareness of the people, who assumed the church obedience of the "holding", that is, ready to stand to death on the way of Satanic evil, eager for the world.

This concept was introduced by the Apostle Paul in his second message to the Christian community of Solunyan. Sovereign implies the state embodiment of a moral-religious ideal, the construction of a state that recognizes not so much the earthly, carnal prosperity of citizens as the creation of the best conditions for the salvation of the soul, for the creation of good and suppress evil.

To destroy power means destroying the Law of God, to establish satanic lawlessness, no matter what “legal” clothes it was rushed. Agree - in any society, if it wants to avoid bloody chaos, there must be a law. In the foundation of any legislation lies a moral law, determining that there is evil and that good. Evil must be convicted and punished, good is taken under protection and put as an example.

This moral law is the Law of God, which underlies sovereign. Conscience testifies to each of us about it. The only trouble is that our multi -result sinfulness drowns the voice of conscience, dulls it. Therefore, in its maximum fullness and clarity, the Law of God is contained in a church doctrine, and the church does not tire of reminding us of it, taking care that an understanding is where good and where evil is not stopped among people.

Evil is often striving to disguise themselves under the good with regard to whether the sovereign spirit has dried up in the Russian people, no, not exhausted. Therefore, the forces of evil are striving to destroy Russia. After all, man is not an unconscious animal. Go out into the street and ask a hundred people in a row: what is the meaning of life? How many will be able to clearly answer?

But the answer to this question determines the whole life of a person. The meaning of our life is the salvation of the soul. Life is not limited by the framework of birth and death, the soul of a person is immortal, and our earthly being is only an exam, and our fate in eternity will also develop from how we pass it. It is difficult for unbelievers to understand this.And the truths of church doctrine are comprehended not by the logic of reason, but by the experience of love, not with the head, but by the heart.

This is accessible to everyone, the Lord is ready to reason for everyone - you only need to enter the church and accept the spiritual healing it offered. After all, disbelief is a disease of the soul, but the church is a kind of hospital where they treat not a body, but a suffering human soul. The bona -hearted Lord will never leave us - we ourselves leave Him, with all our lives boldly saying: “We ourselves will figure it out, we ourselves are managed, we will arrange everything ourselves.” So they arranged, look and rejoice - the results, as they say, are evident.

It is necessary to understand that to the church, it is impossible to come to God with the “inspection goal” - how, they say, there are things, what are good? The basis of the true, living faith that there is a free gift, believe me! Give me, son, your heart is parable. You can enter the church only by prolonging your proud seal under the yoke of obedience to the commandments of God.

This, by the way, is a stumbling block for many. It often happens that in words they advocate for Orthodoxy, but when it comes to business, they do not gain the strength to break pride. But this is the point. Orthodoxy is not a naked teaching, it is primarily asceticism. The path of increasing spiritual, the path of insight and internal illumination is, first of all, the path of struggle with your “passions and lusts”, the path of painful cleansing of the heart from numerous detrimental passions, which came in it, according to our negligence, their poisonous nest.

Here is labor, sweat, tears. Here, a person is actual - not shocking - a willingness to take a cross and follow Christ. If we turn on this path - nothing is scary: no forces, no insidiousness, no power. For those who are jealous of salvation and deeds testifying to their jealousy - keeps the Lord, saying: you and Vlasi and the main of the response are the essence of the MF.

Not a single hair will fall from the head of such warriors of Christ without God's permission - he protects the Lord of his faithful, tempting sorrows, cleansing like gold in the crucible. As long as the Russian ascetics will remain among the people, but this is not the work of the “elected” - the destiny of every believer, Russian Orthodoxy will stand indestructible. From the point of view of external dangers, the main threat lurks in the desire of powerful international forces to create a unified world pseudo -sorgelia, dissolving the truths of Orthodoxy in it.

All this happens within the framework of a long -standing Masonic plan to create a world supranational authorities - super government agencies, the common contours of which are already emerging in numerous international organizations. Such a development of events is fraught with a threat not only for Russia - it is a threat to all of humanity, because in the case of the dash plan, the saving spark of Christianity in most countries will be completely repaid.

In short, if you call a spade a spade - the greatest danger to the Orthodox Church is a frantically leading preparation for the coming of the Antichrist. But we will not lose heart, let us recall the promises of God: I will create my Church, and the gates of Adov will not overcome its MF. Did this state of the church affect? Does she worry today, like the whole Russian people, some confusion?

There is another - the consequences of seventy -year captivity that are not overcome to the end. For seventy years, the church was crucified and drove with such hatred and sophisticated cruelty that the last few years of relative rest - the term is far from sufficient to completely recover. I must say that for the church this situation is Nenov. It is repeatedly found in world history, so that the spiritual experience of Orthodoxy allows you to choose the most effective ways of healing.

Another thing is that this healing is carried out not by the spiritual, fertile means familiar to the world, but by unusual administrative measures: orders, instructions, power pressure. The main thing here is to cure the human soul, to arouse and cleanse his conscience. Let the visible inconsistencies in church life do not embarrass us. These are human deeds, and the saving power of the Church is the power of God, which does not depend on our advantages and shortcomings.

If the church is a hospital for the soul, then patients are inevitably in it. And the disease of our soul is sin, its accessibility to passions, or, speaking of secular language, our moral imperfection and commitment to vices. The whole question is what to pay more attention to? Either on painful phenomena - wounds and ulcers, or on the results of treatment. And these results are obvious - today, even at the most inveterate atheist, the language will not turn to deny that it was the church for centuries that was the main repository of moral purity.

Witnesses to Tom are the Countless Holy ascetics, who shone in Rus' with fertile talents and the righteousness of life. No, damage did not touch the church. Grace acts in it as before; The difficulty is that not everyone is able to perceive its action. Our trouble is that people have a sense of spiritual perception of the world. The Lord said about these: they have the eyes, and they do not see, and the ears are in, and do not hear Eaz.Rejecting the truths of the Church, we commit spiritual suicide, much more terrible than bodily death, for we deprive ourselves not of this temporary life, but the life of eternal, blessed, complete higher meaning and spiritual celebration, holy joy, about which, living in the sinful world, we cannot compose concepts!

Knowing this, can the Orthodox Church look indifferently, how people die, becoming a victim of pernicious errors, temptations and temptations? And our modern life is simply crowded with them. The enemy of the salvation of the human, Satan, knowing that salvation is possible only in the bosom of the Church of Christ, applies all ways, strains all his strengths to avert people from the Church, to prevent treatment.

There is a non -time spiritual confrontation, the battle for human souls. That is why the earthly church is called the Church of the militant. The church freely testifies to the world about its readiness to heal its ailments. The trouble is that not everyone will introduce this testimony. Yes, and no wonder - that stream of moral impurity, which pours on a modern person from TV screens, from radios and from the pages of newspapers, is able to darken the most sound worldview.

After all, what's going on? Consistently and methodically our people are inspired by any ethical and moral norms are a ridiculous relic of the “damned past”. The result of all this is the bred youth gangs, the growth of crime, drug addiction and drunkenness, children's prostitution, countless groups of semi -craftsmans, “Pankov”, “Metallists” and candid Satanists.