Holy Monica Movie. Orthodox saints of Western Europe. Married by order

The phrase "Christian family" is already in itself configures something very benevolent. Husband and wife pray, attend the service, teach children the law of God. Children grow up, become monks or priests, and the parents themselves are at old age, they also take a victim. Such a common opinion about the ideal image of a Christian family. But there is one holy woman in the history of the church, the life of which is the complete opposite of this stereotype.

Married by order

Love is not a feeling, but a choice. Now many books and articles are written about this, but Holy Monica had to open this truth independently: she was married, not even asking her opinions. Iv-th century - so it was accepted.

And it was not that there was a problem that the girl did not meet with a future husband before the wedding, but that he was not a Christian. Or, as they would say now - was unbelievers. That is, she turned out to be forced to live with a man of another worldview, which was absolutely different looking at everything that is important for a person in life.

Lovers are not those who look at each other, but those who look in the same direction. The author of this aphorism is unknown, but the other is known - Monica was completely devoid of this joy. Nevertheless, "... she calmly transfers his treason, he remembers Augustine," she never had a quarrel with her husband. "

Such circumstances could be thrown into stress and cause unbearable suffering. Monica considered otherwise. Life with an unbeliever husband is not a problem, but the task, and in Scripture there are recipes for its decision. "Also, you, my wife, obey your husbands so that those of them who do not conquer the Word, their life without the word purchased were when they see your pure, God-fearing life," teaches the Holy Apostle Peter. This is exactly what Monica came. She never reworked him, knowing his hot-tempered character. "She served him as the Lord and tried to buy it for God," writes Holy Augustine. In the end, she won. Patricia was baptized. But between these two events - the wedding and baptism of her husband - there were long years of living years, the birth of three children, countless treason of her husband and the same countless prayers of his wife for him.

In the case of Monica, the task of handling a husband in faith was complicated at least two circumstances. The husband did not see any problem in the fact that he "went to the left." And, apparently, did not even hide them, since his son speaks about the "treason." To become a Christian, he had to convince him that such behavior was betrayal, and he should refuse once and for all. But what is the most difficult - monica and it was necessary to find the strength to forgive the walking spouse. She managed both.

The only source of information about the life of Saint Monica is the memories of her son Augustine. It does not give detailed descriptions of how she led to the faith of her husband. But you can highlight a few rules of the saint, which give some idea about it:

Never blame her husband for his shortcomings, no matter how terrible they seem

I sincerely obey him, considering himself his maid

In no case do not blame him in anything, even if it seems quite fair

Always pray for him

Not very similar to that Monica is happy in family life. In fact, a significant part of the years allotted (and she lived 56 years old) is stressful situations and mental injuries. It's not just that the husband has changed. Most likely, he more than once increased his voice to his wife. He was with whom to take an example. In other families, the relationship with which Monica and Patrias supported, the husbands even beat their wives, and no one considered it a special tragedy. At least Augustine recalls that his mother's girlfriends went with bruises. But Patricia did not raise his hand on Monica, although, as the son remembers, was a very quick-tempered man. Now they would say that the holy possessed emotional competence - knew the feelings of his loved ones, his own and knew how to apply these knowledge with benefit for the whole family.

A separate story is to communicate Monica with girlfriends. Women often complain to girlfriends on their lives, including - and on other friendships. Monica patiently listened to their complaints, but never supported their grumbling or condemnation. "My mother reported every friend what promoted the reconciliation of both."

Live Monica in our time, she would collect full chairs for trainings on personal growth and art of communication. Faced with a huge number of stressful situations, she solved all these situations calmly, skillfully completing every conflict with the world. But her main victory is the salvation of the Son.

Sandro Botticelli. Holy Augustine bliss in prayer contemplation. Fresco. OK. 1480

Mother's prayer

Patricia and Monica had three children - two boys and a girl. Senior called Augustine. The boy grew up and began to lead far from a pious life. He lived with his girlfriend, as they would say, in a "civil marriage." They had a child. Next - worse. Augustine fell to the sect of Manicheev, and, carried away by their teachings, managed to bring his friends to this organization.

What could Monica could do in this situation? Call your son to correct, order prayers? She had two simple techniques: she prayed herself and asked familiar priests to convince the Son in the truth of Christianity. One of the priests answered her: "The son of such tears cannot die." In other words: you cry so much about him that he will definitely become a Christian. "In conversations with me, she often recalled that she took these words as if they sounded with her from the sky," Augustine writes.

How did the holy monica prayed? Ordered fortyst in seven temples? Did the akathists read? No, of course, all this was not in her times. But one thing we know exactly - Augustine was in sekt for a long 10 years. All this time, the mother did not lose hope. And, in the end, Augustine became an Orthodox Christian. His mother died in the year of his baptism. She was then 56 years old, son - 33 years old.

At first glance, not the strongest result of missionary work: for 10 years - only one addressed. But let's remember who this person became - one of the greatest holy christian churches, equally been revered by Orthodox, and Catholics. His "Confession" still remains one of their most powerful Christian books. In addition, among other things, there are such words: "Yes, if I am a decent son, Lord, that's because you gave me a faithful slave to me."

The Holy Monica Tagastinskaya (Tagastkaya), later known as the mother of Blessed Augustine, was from the family of Christian Berber: people wild, but pious. In the traditions of this people, it was accepted that the daughters were brought up by the mother, but the faithful old maid. It was as it turned out with Monica: they were engaged in her upbringing and instruction, a commemorative maid, a woman is strict and peculiar.
For example, despite the desperately hot climate of those places (and the main years of the saint's life passed in North Africa, on the territory of modern Algeria), nanny forbade his pupils to drink water, except during lunch. As the Blessed Augustine himself writes in his "confession", it was guided by this considerations: "Now you drink water, because you are not disposed of wine, and when you will become hostesses of cellars and storage rooms in a honeymoon, water can be trapped, and the habit of drinking will remain in force. "
It is interesting that from these teachings the girl really heard the word "wine" - only here the effect was the opposite of whom the maid was sought. Monica, as the most elder and judgment, often sent to the cellar to dial wines from large barrels. To torment the thirst, the girl could not not drink a seductive mounted liquid from the jug, which was in her hands - and so, gradually, a simple desire to quench thirst more and more reroyed in a truly disastrous habit. Subsequently, Monica itself will remember this period as a real danger - the fact that now we would be called an unpleasant word "alcoholism".
This story ended as unpredictable, as it began. Another maid, young and daring, who accompanied the young hostess in these campaigns in the cellars, did not fail to speak out about what was happening, overwhelming Monica, which by the time of the two sips passed on to whole glasses of blame, bitter drunkard. Interestingly, one of this wart had enough a girl to stop his secret libations and all the subsequent life to be extremely moderate in the consumption of wine. Augustine writes like this: "We look at this injection, she looked back at her night, immediately condemned her and got rid of her."
Shortly after that, a certain statesman named Patricia, pagan religion appears on the scene (not urgent, and simply "by duty"), "a man of emergency kindness and inholic amusement" - how the blissful Augustine, who knows about him Patricia is not obsessed, because he falls his father's father. Yes, Monica is married. By local standards, the marriage is extremely successful: the house - the full bowl, the husband loves, children are born.
Well, the fact that the spouse quite frankly does not store loyalty, and even regularly flows into anger - so everyone lives, what is there. Neighbors, Vaughn, also with a bove regularly appear, although noble ladies. By the way, how does it turn out that the patricians never hit Monica? In general, they don't even quarrel - he just pokes, smoky, and then calm down and even his guilt recognizes that it is quite unprecedented in these parts. The thing is that Monica, in contrast to his neighbors, will not re-with her husband, and Krotko demolides his frills.
Therefore, when the tide of anger falls, Patricia himself understands that he was wrong, and even his wife, seeing her judgment and calm, asks to explain what and where his mistake is. And with mother-in-law, Monica relations were wonderful - however, not immediately. At first, the bad maids were restored to their older Mrs. Against the younger, however, the meekness and humility of Monica led to the fact that the mother-in-law sorted out in all the imaging and the son herself complained that there was a breakdown and tents among his servants. Patricia ordered to punish the gossip, after which no one dared to steer the young hostess.
But as for the change of Patricia ... Monica constantly prayed that her husband and children would enlighten with the light of true faith. In the case of a spouse, the situation was as follows: seeing that his spouse and family life differ with it from what was going on in the houses of his friends, Patricia straight asked Monica, why it turns out that she does not scandalite with him, but remains meek and loving that helps her and gives strength.
So, gradually, since the words of his wife he learned about Christianity, about prayer, about the commandments. Gradually, a simple interest was replaced by the thirst to learn more and more, and then Patricia and I used to understand how the sinful was his previous life, I took the holy baptism in the Easter day, I sincerely believed in Christ, asking for my wife for forgiveness for impurity and emotional, and body. From Bluda Patricia refused decisively and immediately, but with his angry character struggled the rest of his life - however, quite successful.
However, it was long to live for long: just a few years was happy Holy Monica with her "new" husband, enjoying the wonderful, fulfilled mutual respect and love marriage. A few years after his appeal, Patricia died, leaving Monica widow with three children. True, the children were already quite adults - and, I must say, delivered a lot of trouble, especially the eldest of them, Augustine.
All three children - Augustine, Navigiy and punched - were unresolved. The younger, reaching mature age, they themselves accepted baptism, and drove, early remaining widow, did not want to associate himself again to bonded himself and retired to the monastery, where it became famous for a mobility life. With August, a long time it was very bad.
Patricia loved her children, especially the older. He very much wanted his son to be notable and scientists, and therefore hired him the best teachers and gave a brilliant education. Being a pretty, noble, non-heedled and eloquent young man, Augustine held life in pleasure: pagan theaters, circus, wine and women. It is known that he had an extramarital son, who was given the name of the Adeodat, which means "given from God." At some point, Augustine suddenly decides that all the material benefits - evil, after which, along with quite a serious enthusiasm of astrology, with his head goes into Manichaean.
Monica continually prays about his children - and especially about Augustine. She asks for the bishops and the devotees known to her about special prayers - and once she had a wonderful dream, who was easy to interpret definitely: in her prayers the son will be saved. Monica took the spirit, but it comes 383 years old, and Augustine is invited to Italy: the care of Patricia is rewarded, his son is recognized by a scientist man and invite first to Rome, teach rhetoric, and then to Milan, the main court rider.
However, the Monica was not waiting at all! She is frightened, it seems to her that in the distant corrupted Rome Augustine and will go back to all the grave! "My mother cried bitterly about my departure and accompanied me until the sea. She firmly grabbed me, wanting or returning back, or go with me, "Blessed Augustine on the events of those days. The holy did not have the opportunity to immediately pick up a mother with me, but soon after the newly connected court riser arrived at the place of his service to Milan, the parent came to him to stay forever.
In the time that Augustine spent alone in Milan, he managed to get acquainted with the Milan Bishop - the Grand Saint Ambrose Medialyan. The preaching of this person and conversations with him were consistently to the fact that Augustine first refused the Manichaean heresy, then began to pray to the Christian God with a request to help in finding a true path, then it was reading the apostolic messages and, finally, he accepted Saint Baptism - in 387 .
It is necessary to say, what joy Tested the Holy Monica, until then, infinitely grieving his senior son! However, again, her earthly joy is short-lived - but this time death comes after Monica itself. In the "confession" of the blissful Augustine there is a very touching point, describing the last days of his mother's life. There, among other things, there are the following lines: "It happened that we were staying together; Looking at the windowsill, we watched from the window to the inner garden of the house where they lived in Ostia. Tired of a long journey, finally alone, we gained strength for swimming. We talked together together. "
Idyllic and perfect picture: Mother and son look into the garden and talk about something (and this amazing detail "leaning about the window sill" - these three words are created by the finished image of trusting family relationships!). Shortly after this conversation, the Holy Monica died, drove to his children not to arrange lush funerals, but always remember her in his prayers.
Interesting such a moment: still living in Algeria, the Holy Monica repeatedly emphasized his desire to continue in one grave with Patricia, but after moving to Italy, she seemed to forgot about these thoughts. When in front of her death of Navigiy, sorrow, said that it would be better if the mother would not die in a foreign land, but at his homeland, Monica quickly cut him out and indignant in such words, saying that there was no need to busty about the bodily skiing, but should believe In God, able to resurrect any, buried anywhere.
When the Holy Monica moved to the Lord, she was fifty-sixth year. This event happened in Ostia, in the same 387, when Augustine accepted the Holy Baptism. After a thousand years, in 1430, the relics of the Holy Monica were transferred from Ostia to Rome, which caused a wave of new folk reverence and adorations.
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Holy Monica is not just an image of pious wives and mother. This is a girlfriend woman, a mother-girlfriend, loving and suffering. A person who is subject to his passions and torture injustice from others, but saving all the prayer. A woman who addressed his relatives to God - and gave the world of one of the greatest philosophers and theologians.

Litania Saint Monica

Jesus, hear us.

Heavenly, God, gaze.

Son, Redeemer of the world, God, have mercy with us.

Holy Spirit, God, have mercy.

Holy Trinity, one God, have mercy.

Holy Maria, pray for us.

Holy Maria, without sin, conceived, pray for us.

Holy Joseph, Holy Family Chapter, Pray for us.

Holy Monica, the prevent of widow awe, pray for us.

Holy Monica, Mother of St. Augustine, pray for us.

The Holy Monica is truly tireless in prayers about his appeal, pray for us.

Holy Monica, the protection of his son who fell, pray for us.

Holy Monica, awarded that her tears about the Son were not in vain, pray for us.

Saint Monica, conspired by seeing the appeal of his son, pray for us.

Holy Monica, which, together with her son, it was encountered to talk about God and eternal life, pray for us.

Saint Monica, which prayers with sons found peace of God's peace, pray for us.

Holy Monica, never by the intercession of his mothers, who, as she herself, pray and cry, pray for us.

Holy Monica, who has already come to the rescue of many mothers in their fear of heart, pray for us.

Holy Monica, went to the random strengths against the temptations of this world, pray for us.

Holy Monica, grant the grace of Chadam to be lost so that they were not deaf to the maternal instructions and indifferent to the suffering of mothers, pray for us.

The Lamb of God, taking the sins of the world, forgive us, Lord.

Lamb of God, taking the sins of the world, hear us, Lord.

Lamb of God, taking over the sins of the world, nice us, Lord.

Pray: Oh God, you walked over the tears of the Holy Monica and gave her more of what she asked you. You not only sent the grace of our conversion to her son Augustine, but also raised him to the heights of holiness. Let us, the merciful, with the great trust and humility to pray for you for our children, so that we kindled their salvation and they themselves have been involved in holiness. We ask you about it in the name of Jesus Christ, our Lord. Amen.

Prayer to St. Monica

Wife who fear of the Lord is worthy of praise. Children chew it out, her husband praises her.

Holy Monica, Christian wives example, pray for us.

Holy Monica, an example of its own and prayer contributing to her husband's husband, pray for us.

Holy Monica, a conception of a reverend mother, pray for us.

Holy Monica, the sick's delusion of his prematurely mourned, pray for us.

Holy Monica, protect the innocence of our children, pray for us.

Holy Monica, instructions of the Mothers of Christian concerns of the Blessed Virgin, Mother Mothers, pray for us.

from Litanan St. Monica

Reading the first epistle of the Holy Apostle Paul to Corinthians.

Brothers: Christ sent me not to baptize me, but to gnaw, not in the wisdom of the word, so as not to abolish the Cross of Christ. For the word about the cross for perishing people is eruption, but for us, saved, is the power of God. For it is written: "I will shoot the wisdom of the wise men, and the mind of reasonable rejection." Where is the sage? Where is the scribe? Where is the joint state of the century? Did God dough the wisdom of this world in madness? For, when the world, he did not know God's wisdom in the wisdom of God, it was well-known to be the scientific of preaching to save believers. For and Jews require miracles, and Elleina are looking for wisdom; And we preach Christ crucified, for Jews the temptation, and for ELLININ madness, for themselves called, Jews and Eller, Christ, God and God's wisdom. Because the nomoudro-life of the world's wisdom, and the weak people are stronger than humans.

Chorus: The grace of the Lord all the earth is full.

Rejoice, righteous, about the Lord: *

rightly decently sorry.

Sorry the Lord on the Husls, *

sake him on ten-week psalti.

For the word of the Lord is right, *

and all things are true.

He loves the truth and court; *

the grace of the Lord is full of land.

The Lord destroys the tips of the pagans; *

destroys the ideas of peoples.

The advice of the Lord stands fores; *

friend of his heart - in the genus and genus.

Break at all time and pray, * yes, come together to appear before the son of human.

+ Reading of the Holy Gospel from Matthew.

At that time: Jesus told the disciples to their next parable: like the kingdom of heavenly ten to herds, which, taking their lamps, came to meet the bridegroom. Of these, five were wise, and five unreasonable. Unreasonable, taking their lamps, they did not take with themselves. Wise, together with their lamps, took oils in the vessels of their own. And as the bridegroom slowed down, then everyone fell asleep. But at midnight there was a cry: "Here, the bridegroom goes, go out to meet him." Then all the virgins got up, and their lamps were corrected. The unreasonable was told Wise: "Give us your oil; Because our lamps are exhausted. " And wise answered: "In order not to happen a shortage of and with us and you, go better to the selling and buy yourself." When they went to buy, came the groom, and those who were ready with him on the marriage feast, and the doors were awaited. After the other Viruses come, and they say: "Lord! Lord! Take us away. " He also told them in response: "True I tell you: I do not know you." So, awake; Because you do not know the day, no one, in which the Son of Man will enjoy.

Lord Jesus, let me know myself and know you and nothing to strive for anything as soon as you.

Let me get away from myself, and love you, and to do everything for you.

Give me to humble yourself, and to raise you, and I don't think about anything else as soon as you.

Give me to kill myself and go to you, and everything that happens, take from you.

Let me get away from myself and follow you, and always crave to go to you.

Let me run away from myself and hurry to you to earn your patronage.

Let me be afraid of myself and wake you up to be among your favorites.

Give me not to trust yourself, but to rely on you to become obedient to you.

Let my heart do not strive for anything other than you, and I will become as a beggar for you.

Look at me - and we will be bored.

Call me - and see you.

And always rejoice at you. Amen.

And in wise, and the unreasonable maids had the same lamps, so it was originally between them there was no difference. But reasonable understood that it was necessary to be ready, and retained the necessary reserve.

It must be hearing their refusal, unreasonable Virgin found them with greedy, and you can imagine how they could have revived about wise, being behind the gate.

Nevertheless, we will not be applied to them the norms of relationships that are fully admissible in our everyday life, but do not relate to the parable, which reveals, which Lord wants from us. After all, each of us he loves personally and unique, and if we hope to slip him a foreign fire, and not the one that we roasted and kept in your own heart, how to call it?

So they turned out to be unworthy to enter the feast those whose lamps were not filled with love.

Holy Righteous Monica, Blessed Augustine Mother

"She cried with me more than ever mother we cried over the graves of children" (Blessed Augustine, "Confession").

Born in 332 years in Tagastte from Christian parents, by nationality, most likely formerly foul bubers. Little is known about her youth, almost all information that has come to us is contained in the 9th book "Confession" of her famous son, Blessed Augustine.

She entered the married pagan Patricium, hot-tempered and leading immoral life. At first, the mother-in-law nicknamed her, but Monica with her mildness reconciled her with him. Unlike many wives of his time, Monica was not subjected to her husband's beatings. According to her, he never raised his hands on her due to the fact that she always held her tongue, learning their mouth in his presence (Ps. 38, 1).

Four had three children - the future of Augustine blissful, navigi and punishing. Monica was very sad due to the fact that Patrick did not allow to baptize them. A great suffering for her was the life of the young Augustine, who lived in Carthagin and entered the illegitimate son from the extramarital connection. Her unceasing prayers and tears about the Son turned to Christ her husband under the end of his life.

When Augustine was influenced by Manicheans, Monica was horrified and tried to turn him from an erroneous path. In a dream she was told to show patience and meekness to the son. Augustine was in delusion of nine years, but the mother did not move away from him and diligently prayed for his insight. Once she tried to get help from the Orthodox bishop, previously also former Manicheets, but he refused to join the theological dispute with Augustine, and she comforted, saying: "God will bless you, for it is not possible that the Son of these tears would be lost . "

When Augustine went to Rome in 383, and then to Mediogen (Milan), the mother followed him. Saint Amvrosiy Mediolsky, who had a deep influence on Augustine, imbued with great respect for righteous monica.

After the baptism of Augustine, Monica, together with him, went to Africa, but on the way he died in 387 in Ostia. Here she was buried.

"Before the very day of his permission," Blessed Augustine writes, "she thought not about the magnificent funeral, did not have anyway, so that she was put in the incense or erected a special monument, did not care about the burial at home. She did not leave such instructions, but I wanted only the commemoration of your altar, who served, not missing a single day, for he knew that a holy sacrifice was served there, which "destroyed the handwritten, formerly against us" and won the enemy's victory ...

So, on the ninth day of my illness, fifty-sixth year of my life and for the thirty-third of mine, this believer and pious soul was resolved from the body ... For her, death was not bitter, and there was no death for her. It was imperatively indicated and its morals and "Vera Nelitary" ...

It was glad to remember, - according to Augustine, - that in this last disease, gentlely thanks me for my services, she called me a good son and remembered me with great love that she never heard from me abandoned by her gross or offensive words. But what, my God, our Creator, Is it possible to compare my respect to her with her ministry? I lost in her the great comforter, my soul was wounded, and as if the life was rejected, which became united; Her life and mine merged into one. "

And from the mouth of the blissful Augustine, such a prayer for his Holy Mother rested:

"Yes, she will be in the world with her husband, to whom and after which he was not married to, which served" bringing the fruit in patience "to acquire it to you. And the insanity, the lord of my God, you are in your slaves, my brothers, your sons, my gentlemen who serve Word, Heart and Letter to make it, remembered by the altar of your Monica, you have a servant, together with Patricks, once Her husband, through the flesh of which you introduced me into this life, and how, I do not know. Let them remember them, my parents, on this transient light, and my brothers in you, the Father, staying in the Orthodox Church, my fellow citizens in the eternal Jerusalem, which sighs in his way, from the beginning of him before the end, the people of yours . And let the prayers of many fully fulfilled her last request to me, - after my confession, and not only through one prayers. "

In the 6th century, her relics were postponed in the crypt of the temple in Ostia, and in 1430 - in Rome, where they rest since.

In Saint Righteous Monica, a sample of the Christian sample is seen, and they honor it as a patroness of lonely mothers and Christian parents, whose children fell into various misconceptions.

Holy righteous monica, moths of God about us!

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The lives of the righteous monica, the mother of blissful Augustine

Word on the day of memory of righteous monica Tagastinskaya (4/17)

In the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit!

Dear brothers and sisters in Christ!

However, being true Berberka, the nanny sometimes fell into extremes. In an effort, for example, sovereign to teach girls to moderation and patience, the nanny did not allow them to drink water during the day, except for dinner time.

In his famous "confession", Blessed Augustine recalled this as follows: "For a truly upbringing of his ... (Righteous monica) was not so praised her mother, how some nurserly maid, who wore her father on his back, as usual to bear the babies of the girls older. For this, for her old age and clean morals, she used in a Christian house honorable from the owners. Therefore, she was assigned to her concern for the Master's daughters, and she diligently carried her. Full of holy strictness and inexorable in punishments, when they were required, she was intertwined, reasonable and judgment. She, for example, allowed the girls, even despite burning thirst, drink water only during a very moderate dinner behind the parent table. She saved them from a thin habit of a reasonable word: "Now you drink water, because you are not disposed of wine, and when the houses in the man house will become hostesses of cellars and storage rooms, the water can be trapped, and the habit of drinking will remain in force."

Is something that can overcome the secret illness to our if you, Lord, do not awake on us with your healing? No father, mother and educators, but you are present, which created us. Who call us. Which even through. People do good to save the soul. What did you do then, my God?

What began to treat? What healed?

Did you remove the rough and sharp walker of others, as a medical knife, taken out of your unknown reserves, and did not cut all the rotten with one blow?

The maid, who walked along with her, arguing, as it happens, with the younger mistress, with an eye on the eye, reproached her in this offense and called "bitter drunk." We were visible to this prick, she looked back at her firm, immediately condemned her and got rid of it.

You, however, pay them not for what you are doing through them, but for their intentions.

She, getting angry, wanted not to cure the younger mistress, but to bring her out of himself - secretly, because it was already so came with the place and with the time of a quarrel, or because she herself was afraid to get into trouble for the late den. You, Lord, who ruling to everyone, that is in heaven and on Earth, turning back for the purposes of its aqueous punching and subordinating a raw flow of time. You madness of one soul healed another. If anyone has been fixed by his word to whom he wanted to fix, let him, after my story, does not attribute this correction to his forces. "

Most often, such education leads to the opposite result: children, striving to escape from the progress of the body of overly severe rules, fall into much more dangerous and terrible sins than, for example, eat fish to the great post or - a little less to work on the garden ...

History from the life of righteous monica, let and with a good end, testifies to us about the same ...

And it is we will give him the answer for their children.

Let us follow the royal way, without falling into dangerous extremes, as if the pious of these extremes did not look!

And again - what a terrible example for modern parents and confessors!

However, even the most terrible mistakes of Lord Volya to turn to good, if we still try to correct them.

Later, under the influence of his spouse, Patricia will take the holy baptism, the family life will become different. But it will be required for many years, many sufferings will be overcome.

The fate of most married Berberok, as a rule, sufficiently heavy. And Monica was not hoping to be an exception, preparing precisely to the difficult and not particularly happy life. However, there was one important difference between her and other women: unlike the majority, Monica, although foresaw the future difficulties of marriage, still sincerely wanted to overcome them. To overcome not by maximally removing the husband, but by raising the love of love for him, let him be imposed on her parents, albeit the pagan ... After all, the image of God lives in the pagan, you only need to be able to see it.

Monica's life - on the contrary, an example of how the love of one of the spouses turned out to be able to save and transform even the most unsuccessful as if marriage.

As his forces, Monica tried to support her husband, helping him in all his good endeavors. She created the atmosphere of comfort and peace in the house, so that Patricia, coming from service, could truly relax.

Knowing the hot-tempered character of the spouse, Monica in the moments of his anger did not contradict him or a matter or even a word; Seeing that the husband was sought and calmed down, she calmly explained him his mistake. Often, after such a conversation, Patricia himself recognized that he was boiled in vain. In addition, despite the unbridled temper, the Patriculties not only did not hit his wife - which was generally in the custom of Berber - but never really quarreled with her.

The righteous, in response to the questions and complaints of her husbands, as if joking, blamed not by her husbands, but their own, for example, unrestrained language. And the Council was usually given only one: since the minute, as the marriage contract was read, wives were to read by his document that turns them into loyal assistants, and in fact, in the maids of their husbands. From now on, remembering his position, they no longer have to be entered in front of their husbands. In that barbarian society, in which there was probably such unusual behavior, perhaps, it was indeed the only opportunity to preserve the world and, at least partly, to instruct her husband on the righteous path.

Unfortunately, not only because of the hottestness of her husband had to tolerate chagrins: following the pagan nuts of that time, Patricia moreantly changed the spouse. Of course, Monica could also arrange a scandal, but she understood that it would not fix anything, but again spoil relationships with her husband and finally climb the path to his correction. Therefore, Monica, hiding tears and pain, continued to behave in relation to the wrong husband calmly and smoothly - again and again and again praying to the Lord that he drew the patrician to himself and instructed him on the chastity path.

The Holy Monica could not not take care of the fact that Patricia, being a pagan, ruined his soul with all sorts of passions and the worship of false deities. She could not directly teach him - it would only cause irritation, - but it was diligently prayed to God for his spouse, asking him to turn him to the truth. He herself tried to behave, as a Christian, his own life, to be the truth of Christ's teachings, following the same advice of the saints of the Barrier Apostles Peter and Paul:

Patricia sincerely believed in Christ and accepted the Holy Baptism.

"Finally," the blissful Augustine writes, "she acquired her husband for the last days of him; From him, a Christian, she no longer cried over what she suffered from him, non-Christian. She was a servant of your servants. Which of them knew her, they praised you, read and loved you in it, for her presence was feeling in her heart: her holy life testified about him. "She was a wife of one husband, rewarded his parents, piously led his house, Diecent was to good deeds." She brought up his sons, tormented as during childbirth, whenever she saw that they were knocking on your way. "

Christianity completely changed the whole life of Patricia. He repented in former sins, absolutely left for a blob and tried to die his quick-tempered temper; From Patricia-Christian Monica no longer had to endure anything that she suffered from the heathen. For her, finally, the days of genuine, no darkened marital happiness come.

True, happiness was unhappy on Earth: shortly after its treatment and the wonderful change of patricians fell ill and died. But Monica knew that now, when their marriage was truly Christian, even death would not be able to separate them - she continued to pray for her deceased spouse, living with memory of him, not thinking about repeated marriage.

"The chickness of bad maiders," the Blessed Augustine recalled, the mother-in-law restored her mother-in-law against her, but the mother of my help, the constant patience and meekness won such a victory that she herself complained to his son on gossip groups who violated the world between her and the daughter-in-law, And demanded punishment for them. After he, who, listening to the mother, caring on the order among slaves and on the harmony in the family, the senses issued at the discretion of the issued, it threatened that each, if, thinking to please, would be to boil to the daughter-in-law . No one was dared, and they healed in a memorable sweet friendliness.

"Lord, whoaring me!" You sent this kind servicance of your own, in the wise of which created me, another great gift. Where they just did not get along with each other and quarreled, there she appeared, where she could, the duplicator. She listened to both sides of mutual, numerous and bitter, apartments, which soul usually swell, a swollen and extinguishable quarrels. And when the presence of a friend was poured by the whole acid of undigested anger on the missing enemy, then my mother reported to every thing that promoted the reconciliation of both. I would consider this kind quality insignificant if I didn't know about the bitter experience, that countless people (there is some terrible, widespread sinful sinful infection) not only transfers the words of their angry enemies angry enemies, but also adds to them that has not been said. But he should have a human man not what to excite and disperse with the evil words human enmity, but, on the contrary, strive to dick with her with the words of good. Such was my mother; You have affected her in the secret school of her heart. "

But not only from her husband or from the maids had to endure the saint Monica. Even the young Augustine was a lot of soulful suffering with his pious mother.

Father very much wanted Augustine to become an important person - risor and a lawyer, so Augustine received a wonderful education. However, at first he was also not baptized and, apparently, the Christian parenting of mother was not so deeply penetrated into his heart. With all the heat of youth, Augustine was given to the pleasures of youth: pagan theaters, circus, women. From one of them, ungolimated origin, in 372 he even had a son named the Adeodat ("given from God") outside of marriage. In addition, suddenly moving to another extreme, Augustine almost ten years shared the heretical teachings of Manicheans, who denied the flesh, created, in their opinion, Satan, and even "drew" in this heresy of several friends. How, it should have been poured by blood Monica's heart, when she found out about it, it was very good to see her son by the cloud, but even harder - heretic!

His road to God was long and hard.

But in addition to Augustine in the family there were few more children: his brother of Navigiy and sister, whose name is unknown to us. However, becoming adults and independent they accepted the Holy Baptism. Daughter, just like a mother, early widowed and, not wanting a second marriage, took a monasticism, asking many feats.

Surprisingly, not only about the sons and she took care of her daughter, but also about their friends. "About all of us who lived before the success of her in the friendly Union and received the grace of your baptism, she cared so, as if we were all her children, and served us as if we were her parents." In addition, "she was merciful and he forgot his" debts to his debtors "," the Blessed Augustine.

But, how it is different from the relationship of many current mothers to the misfortune that happened to their children. Even those who consider themselves in church-worn Christians. Even those who clearly sees that their child is all deeper in sin. Not most of them are satisfied with only the utterance of indifferent and terrible words:

"What about this? Now everyone lives so much, youthless youth can not ... I would only be healthy yes successful! ".

What a terrible, disgusting blindness! How can earthly success, body health should be higher than the health and salvation of the immortal soul? These words are not a Christian, but the most malicious genets.

Meanwhile, the days and nights spent in temonic prayers about Augustine, her son, Holy Monica.

"And you move your hand to your hand," writes Blessed Augustine, "from the height and" extracting my soul "from this deep darkness, when my mother, the faithful of your maid, mourned me to you more than mad mothers of dead children. She saw my death because of his faith and the Spirit that had from you, and you heard her, Lord. You heard her and did not despite tears, the streams of irrigated land in every place where she prayed; You heard her. Where, in fact, was the dream that you comforted her so much that she agreed to live with me in the same house and sit at one table? In this case, it was denied me from disgust and hate to my blasphemy delusion.

She dreamed that she was on some wooden board and a shining young man comes to her, smiling having fun; She is sad and crushed in sadness. He asks her about the reasons for her sorrows and daily tears, and with such a kind, as if he wanted to not know about it, but to instruct it. She replies that grieves over my death; He ordered her to calm down and advised to watch carefully: she will see that I will be there the same place, where and she. She looked and saw that I was standing next to her on the same blackboard.

Did you not kill his hearing to her heart? Oh you, good and almighty, who care about each of us as if he is the only object of your care, and about all as about everyone.

Ten years passed, during which I was lying around in this dirty abyss and in the darkness of lies; I often tried to get up and broke even stronger, and in the meantime, this clean widow, piety and modest, such what you love, encouraged by hope, but inexorably in your crying and crashes, continued to sorrow about me in the watches of all my prayers "And your prayer prayer came to her", although you also allowed me to circled and skidd me in this Mol. "

So, let the Holy Monica becomes a model of behavior for those mothers, which fell into such life circumstances. Let them also, as a tearful prayer for their children, ask God for the relief of sons in the immutable hope that their sons will be out of trouble.

But this is possible only under the condition that the mother itself is firmly in the church and leads Christian life according to the commandments of the Lord.

Meanwhile, the God gave Augustine and some of his notice. He did it "... through ... one bishop, focused by the church and read in books (...). When my mother mowed him to honor me to his conversation, refute my delusions, wean from evil and teach good (he came so with the people who found decent), he refused that it was, as far as I realized later, of course, reasonably. He replied that I was prettier, because heresy for me is mine, I am proud of it and already embarrassed by many inexperienced people with some trifling questions, as she herself told him. "Leave it there and only pray for him to God: he himself, read, will open, what a misconception and some great dishonesty." And he immediately told that his mother was seduced by Manichei, and she also gave him a boy; that he not only read all their books, but even rewrite them and what he opened, without any discussions and persuasion, as needed to run from this sect; He fled. When he told about it, my mother still did not calm down and continued to insist even more, praying and pouring into tears so that he saw me and talked. Then he said to some irritation and annoyance: "Stay, as it is true that you live, so true and the fact that the son from such tears will not die."

In conversations with me, she often recalled that she took these words as if they sounded with her from the sky. "

"My mother cried bitterly about my departure and accompanied me until the sea. She firmly grabbed me, wanting or returning back, or go with me, "recalls Augustine. However, the young scientist took the final decision; To take the same mother with him, he could not yet get a new place. Therefore, Augustine deceived the mother, saying that he only wants to hold a friend in Rome, and, having risen on the ship, left Carthage. Monica remained on the shore, praying and crying.

At this time, Monica arrived in Italy, after all, not wishing to be separated with her son. She was undoubtedly nice to know that the Son was renounced by the heresy, but he was still not an Orthodox Christian.

"From my message that I am no longer magenics, but not an Orthodox Christian, she was not filled with joy as if unspecified news: my miserable situation left her calm in this regard; She mourned me as the deceased, but which you have to resurrect; She imagined me as the son of the widow lying on the mortal ordress, to whom you said: "A young man, I tell you, get up" - and he came to life and "began to say, and you gave him his mother." Therefore, her heart did not flop in a stormy delighted when she heard that he had already been made to a significant part, what she had prayed daily with tears; I have not found truths yet, but all the lies left. Being sure that you promised to fulfill her prayers, trust the rest, she was very calm, with complete conviction, he answered me that before she would leave this life, she would see me a true Christian: she believes in Christ. "

"So I said and cried in a bitter heart crushing. And I hear a voice from a neighboring house, I do not know that a boy or a girl, often repeating the Naraspev: "Take, read! Take, read! ". Exceived, I returned to the place where the alpiration was sitting; I left there, leaving, apostolic messages. I grabbed them, discovered and silently read the chapter, the first eye on my eyes: "Not in pirants and in drunkenness, not in the bedrooms and not in a breakdown, not in quarrels and in envy: Enjoy the Lord Jesus Christ and the care of the flesh is not Turn into lust. " I did not want to read further, and I did not need: after this text, my heart poured light and peace; disappeared the darkness of my doubts. "

Alas, almost immediately, in the same year, as if by completing the final greatness, the holy monica dies.

"Navis is the day of the outcome of it from this life; I knew this day, we did not know about him. It happened - I think the secret of your care is that we stayed together; Looking at the windowsill, we watched from the window to the inner garden of the house, where they lived in Ostia. Tired of a long journey, finally alone, we gained strength for swimming. We sweetly talked together and, "forgetting the past, rushed to the fact that before us", asked each other, before the face of truth, - and this is what the future eternal life of the saints, - "I have not seen that eye, did not hear the ear and It did not come to the heart of a man "- but we thired of the heart were eager to straighten into the jets of your heavenly source," the source of life, which you ", so that, sprinkled with it with water, in the measure of our comprehension, could somehow hug her thoughts. When we came in conversation, we came to the fact that any pleasure delivered by bodily feelings, mastered by any earthly light, not only comparisons with the joys of that life, but even mentioning next to them, then, asking him the most hearts, and more involved We went through one after another all the creation of it and reached the sky, where the sun, the moon and stars shine on the ground. And by going to ourselves thinking and speaking about your creations and wondering them, we came to our soul and left it to reach the country of the inexhaustible completeness, where you eternally feed Israel food of truth, where life is that wisdom, through which everything What is what happened and what will happen. She herself does not arise, but it remains as it is, what was and what will it be. Rather, there is no "was" and "will" for her, but only one "eating", for it is eternal, the eternity does not know "it was" and "will" ... You know, Lord, that day, when we talked, Notaging for this conversation seemed to us this world with all his pleasures, and the mother had me: "Son! As for me, then in this life I'm already not in sweetness. I do not know what else to do here and why be here; With worldly hopes, I am finished here. There was only one thing why I wanted to still stay in this life: before you die, see you by an Orthodox Christian. The Lord gave me more fully: gave you to his slave, seeking earthly happiness. What should I do here? "

I do not remember that I answered her, but did not go and five days or a little more, as she slightly in the fever. During the disease, she fell into a faint and lost consciousness for a short time. We came running, but she soon came to himself, saw me and brother, who stood right away, and said, as if looking for something: "Where am I?". Then, seeing our deep grief, said: "Here you bury your mother."

My brother said something, wishing her not such a bitter end; It would be better for her to die not in someone else's land, but in his homeland. Hearing it, she alarmed from her thoughts, asked him an inhonal glance and, translating her eyes on me, said: "Look what he says!", And then turned to both: "Put this body where you have to; Do not worry about him; I ask about one thing: remember me at the Altar of the Lord, wherever you come. "

I did not know when your perfect goodness began to disappear in her heart this empty desire. I was happy and wondered, seeing her mother, although, however, in that our conversation at the window, when she said, "What should I do here?", I could not see her to die in his homeland. After I already heard that when we were in Ostia, she once trustfully, as a mother, talked to my friends about contempt for this life and about the good of death. With this conversation, they were not in the amazement before the courage of a woman (you gave her) and asked, really she was not scary to leave her body so far from his hometown.

Genuinely, truly, sincerely and the right of the believers in God, the Lord manages and is advantageous of the deepest spiritual revaluation of his previous life. And the highest sense of his death sees in serving God in his church and is that and in death not to be out of church commemoration of the deceased in the faith and hope of resurrection and eternal life.

"So, on the ninth day of your illness, at the fifty-sixth year of my life and for the thirty-third of mine, this believer and piety soul was resolved from the body ... For her, death was not bitter, and there was no death for her. This was imperatively testified and its morals and "Vera Nelitary".

"It was gratifying to remember," according to Augustine, "that in this last disease, gentlely thanks me for my services, she called me a good son and remembered with great love that she never heard from me abandoned by her gross or offensive words. But what, my God, our Creator, Is it possible to compare my respect to her with her ministry? I lost in her the great comforter, my soul was wounded, and as if the life was rejected, which became united; Her life and mine merged into one. "

"Yes, she will be in the world with her husband, to whom and after which he was not married to, which served" bringing the fruit in patience "to acquire it to you. And the insanity, the lord of my God, the Slaves of yours, my brothers, your sons, my gentlemen, who serve Word, Heart and Letter, so that it reads this, they remembered the altar of your monica, your servant, together with Patricia, once Her husband, through the flesh of which you introduced me into this life, and how, I do not know. Let them remember them, my parents, on this transient light, and my brothers in you, the Father, staying in the Orthodox Church, my fellow citizens in the eternal Jerusalem, which sighs in his way, from the beginning of him before the end, the people of yours . And let the prayers of many fully fulfilled her last request to me, - after my confession, and not only through one prayers. "

In the face of Holy Monica and her children, one of which was Augustine Blessed, we see an example of a particularly living relationship in the family. Relationship between mother and her children.

Pray, brothers and sisters, that such a non-estate faith with the prayers of the Holy Monica Tagastinskaya rooted in us and would serve as a saving eternal life for us and our conjunctions.

It happened in the city of Ostia in 387.

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Chapter 13. Holy Monica

The Holy Monica is the mother of Blessed Augustine (354-430), Bishop of Hippon, the author of beautiful books about faith and church. It is very popular in the West and almost not known from us. About the life of his mother Blaz. Augustine told in the ninth book "Convention". I will not retell her biography. I'll just give a holistic fragment from the book Blaz. Augustine. It will not be about the prayers of St. Monica for his son, lost in the manician heresy. Words of sv. The Amvrosia of the Mediogenian to the Mother, which is crying about the rejecting Christ Augustine: "Son of so many tears can die, and we have known. But how did this amazing woman lived with her husband-pagan? What did she bring in this marriage from the cultivation of her Christian family? Here is an instructive and quite modern story about it:

"For a truly upbringing, she was not so praised her mother, how some nurserly maid, who wore her father on his back. For this, for her old age and clean morals, she used in a Christian house honorable from the owners. Therefore, she was assigned to her concern for the Master's daughters, and she diligently carried her. Full of holy strictness and inexorable in punishments, when they were required, she was intertwined, reasonable and judgment. She, for example, allowed girls without looking at burning thirst, drink even water only during a very moderate dinner at the parent table. She saved them from a thin habit of a reasonable word: "Now you drink water, because you are not disposed of wine, and when the houses in the man house will become hostesses of cellars and storage rooms, the water can be trapped, and the habit of drinking will remain in force."

And, however, imperceptibly littered to my mother. Passion for wine Parents usually ordered her as a girlfriend abstained, get the wine from the barrel. Having dropped there through the top hole of the vessel, it, before pouring it into a clean wine in a bottle, the edge of the lips slightly silent him: she could not more, as she did not like the wine. And she did it at all on the tendency to drunkenness, but from the excess of boiling forces looking for the exit in fleeting jams; They are usually suppresses deep respect for elders in adolescent souls.

And so, adding to this daily drop daily by a drop, it rushed to the fact that with greeding almost full cups began to absorb undeveloped wine. Where was the insightful old woman and her inexorable bans? Is something that can overcome the secret illness to our if you, Lord, do not awake on us with your healing? There is no father, mother and educators, but you are present, who created us, who call us, who even through. People do good to save the soul. What did you do then, my God? What began to treat? What healed? Did you remove the rough and sharp walker of others, as a medical knife, taken out of your unknown reserves, and did not cut all the rotten with one blow? The maid, who walked along with her, arguing, as it happens, with the younger mistress, with an eye on the eye, reproached her in this offense and called "bitter drunk." We were visible to this prick, she looked back at her firm, immediately condemned her and got rid of it.

Pupil in chastity and abstinence, submitting to parents rather from obedience to you than you from obedience to parents, she, by entering the marriage age, was presented to her husband, he served as Mr., and tried to buy it for you. He told him the whole of becoming her who made her beautiful for her husband: he respected her, loved and wondered her. She calmly transfers his treason; I never had a quarrel with her husband about this. She expected you to be so worried about him and, believing in you, he will become chaste. And besides, he was a man of extremely kindness and frantic angry. And she knew that it was not necessary to contradict an angry husband not only the case, but even a word. When she saw that he was discouraged and calmed down, she explained his act; It happened that he was boiled without a sense. In many women, the husbands of which were much causing, the individuals were disfigured by bins from slap; In a friendly conversation, they accused their husbands, and she is their language; As if she gave them a serious advice to them: since the minute, as they heard the reading of a marriage contract, should consider the document that turned them into maid; Being remembering about your position, they should not be entered in front of their gentlemen. Knowing, with a touch of her husband you have to live, they were surprised; Not having disliked and it was not possible that the Patricia beat his wife or so they quarreled and even on one day they raised. They asked her friendly, what is the reason; She taught them their custom, about which I mentioned above. His digestible - thanked who did not have learned - suffering.

The chipping of bad maiders first restored her mother-in-law against her, but his mother helping, constant patience and meekness won such a victory that she herself complained to his son on the gossip of maids who violated the world in the house between her and the daughter-in-law, and demanded punishment for them. After he, who, listening to the mother, caring on the order among slaves and on the harmony in the family, was summarized at the discretion of the issued, she threatened that each, if, thinking to please it, would turn to her daughter-in-law. No one was dared, and they healed in a memorable sweet friendliness.

Lord, who mild me! You sent this kind servication of your, whose whale created me, another great gift. Where they just did not get together and quarreled, there she appeared - where he could - the duplicator. She listened from both sides of mutual, numerous and bitter apartments, which the soul, a swollen and excretory sorce, usually express the soul. And when the presence of a friend was poured by the whole acid of undigested anger on the missing enemy, then my mother reported every only what promoted the reconciliation of both. I would consider this kind quality insignificant if I didn't know about the bitter experience, that countless people (there is some terrible, widespread sinful sinful infection) not only transfers the words of their angry enemies angry enemies, but also adds to them that has not been said. But he should have a human man not what to excite and disperse with the evil words human enmity, but, on the contrary, strive to dick with her with the words of good. Such was my mother; You have affected her in the secret school of her heart.

And finally, she acquired her husband finally for his days; From him, a Christian, she no longer cried over what she suffered from him, non-Christian. She was a servant of your servants. Which of them knew her, they praised you, read and loved you in it, for her presence was feeling in her heart: her holy life testified about him. She "was a wife of one husband, rewarded his parents, a piously led his house, diligent was to good deeds." She brought up his sons, tormented as during childbirth, whenever she saw that they were knocking on your way.

And finally - you allow you by the mercy of your calls to us by your ministers - about all of us who lived before the rest of her in the friendly alliance and received the grace of your baptism, she cared so, as if we were all her children, and served us as if we were Her parents. "

What a rich life in Christ appears to us from these pages! The holy monica lived in her husband's house simply and daily. Nobody scared her: "Ah-ah! We live in a blobe. Not applied with her husband. "She, by making a marriage contract, told her husband what was spoken in ancient times all the Romans:" Where are you, my kai, there and I am yours. " And he became her lord. So simply - humanly and in Bobby: the wife began to delight her husband, serving him. That's all!

Well, what is she worried about? Does she save herself? This makes the Lord. And he will find it everywhere. Nowhere will leave. So it turns out: the wife goes around her husband, in all he pleases him. Evil does not, but only good. So what does she have to fear in the world?

See how simple law that tries to fulfill St. Monica. All he focuses at one point - obedience to her husband. Would she dare to upset his pagan husband of this kind of dissatisfaction:

Are you a rapid shoe? Today we have a palate. And on Sunday, how can you go to the bath? No no! And now why on the sofa lay down? Parent Saturday has come. Step march to church! Old people will remember their own.

Somehow I watched a meeting with one Metropolitan on TV. So gets up in front of the microphone, a brisk such an old woman in a handkerchief and asks: "Is it possible to wash on Sunday? And then I study my all the time. "Metropolitan replied:" How good on Sunday you have to visit. "The old woman sat down. Satisfied, probably. Ivot introduced myself such a picture. She will come home and come on her husband with a nose in response to Metropolitan poke: to dinner, to dinner you need to walk on Sundays! But the Saint Monica would not do so. And the shape of her husband would not become appropriate.

Commands, commands my husband my contemporary. And who only teaches us this? Well, parents, parents parents, and in general the modern atmosphere. This is, I do not argue. But there is another teacher - the church. I whatever the presviter would venture the Saint Monica to say: "And you do not give me a meat with meat. Everyone do as if inappropriate, but with cunning. Challenge, take your pagan to piety. " I wonder how would she react to it? Try to guess (this is to the reader).

When I read in Blag. Augustine about St. Monica, the first feeling excited in this story was joying for her. See how this woman goes in life. Yes, the husband is St. Monica is a pagan, but it does not occur to her that this can be ashamed. Yes, she pleases him in everything. But even if someone tries to say a bad word about her patrician! She's back to this subject and went away. Just like now, many women leave the church, embarrassed by the severity of dislike words belonging to their pagan families. What are these things to listen to insults to your own husband? Well, and that he is a pagan? All the same he is good. Honor husband - honor of his wife, and moral law should not conflict with the statutory. St. Monica did not know such a contradiction, so she was happier than my contemporary.

I envy me. Monica. Brighter envy envied. All she did, as it should be done to do the Holy Wife: did not help anyone in the house, did not upset and - this is so clever! - No one and the word teacher did not hurt. And all in the life of St. Monica was accomplished as he promised to the students of the Holy Apostle Peter: without a word from her side the church in his face Patricia acquired another faithful son. This is what it is written about this in the Apostolic Message: "Also you, wives, obey your husbands, so that those who do not conquer the Word, the life of their wives without the word purchased when they see your pure, God-fearing life. So the saints of the wives who gave birth to God, decorated themselves, obeying their husbands. So Sarra obeyed Abraham, calling him Mr. You are her children if you do good and do not confuse any fear. "

I was born with hatred in the soul to everything in the world. I am every chamber on the way of love was given a huge volitional effort. And if I loved something, then there is no human strength in the world capable of pulling out of my hands this treasure! And I do not recognize a different proud of my love, except for the Lord God. In his hand, the sword, and all those marvelous threads, by which I, in nerazumia, hung my soul, he will destroy them, freeing me from these earthly bonds.

Get away, soul, from green fig tree. Hold her. In the Christian soul hidden the huge power of prayer forces capable of learning and killed. We showed this Lord on the eve of his holy passions. The young spring fig tree did not give the fruit to the Lord and died from his curse. Here is a lesson! We are with you, believe me, we can kill your impatience the whole world. However, how else is his lush krona! Did flower flowers on the branches of this fig tree? Are there tight small figs? Do you ripen? How to know. Out of the mixture, impatient soul. If you can't shift the mountains faithfully, then at least keep your impatience. Look with love for the fig tree and wait for the pores. She is beautiful, right? Do not curse, do not curse it is a live green tree.

In silence, in secret woven my web love. I looked at the Orthodox Church with a thin transparent thread, and now I tell her quietly, alive: fly, fly, my web love! Although rome fly. I do not judge you. You're free. Fly, where you want. Over the world. In the blue sky. Among stars. Fly!

And to say goodbye to you does not give.

I look with children on TV American transfer "Salvation 911", and the soul burns to me, as from the resentment. Actually, interesting is the transfer! In each three or four plots about some terrible genuine events (someone failed somewhere, something happened to someone), and the helicopters fly, the cars rush, hurry to save people from inevitable death. From time to time I love retelling some plots from this transfer to my acquaintances. It turns out it is so funny that no one believes that such a program can be looked, while driving breathing. Here, for example, my favorite story:

A little boy has a leg failed in the toilet, and he could not pull it out from there.

Yes Yes! That is there. It was such a small-little toilet, especially for children. And I imagine: for the salvation of the child, firefighters were called.

Again laughter, the former forest:

Yes Yes! They have there, in America always cause only firefighters to save. Arriving, they unscrew the toilet, carried him together with the boy into the courtyard and cleaned carefully. But the mayor was previously called, or the sheriff (something I ordered something), and he traced that the topopor around the toilet bowl was very careful, without damaging the leg of the boy.

Laugh. And they do not know that I am very, very bitter see this is the most "salvation 911," because, looking at the Americans, I learned: my personal discovery, born by the work of my soul, my heart, my mind, no longer new ! It turns out that the whole world knows the meaning of the words "I love you", which (in my opinion) need more often, as often as possible to pronounce in your family. Here is this poor boy stuck in the toilet. He lies herself on herbal and honey. It is terrible to see him in the hands of a firepower, a sharp painor, which is about to begin to knock on almost his leg. And what do they say gentle parents? But what: "We love you. Do not be afraid nothing. We are near, and how we love you! " The same words shout with a young woman who collapsed on the car in the abyss, whispering the young man who discovered his eyes in the intensive care chamber, speak the handset to a child, crying over the dying father. Everywhere: "I love you. Fight! I like. "

I do not know more defenseless in my nature of words than these. Do you know that when a person tells them, then you can and about God forget? After all, with him at this moment so at the same time that even his name becomes not necessary: \u200b\u200bthe Lord with those who love his creation. This is where the indigenous difference between the paths of the world and monastic. Miiryanina has such internal freedom and the opportunity - to think about God is not always. Because he loves - wife, son, daughter, mother, father. And this love is terribly concrete, symped, like any love. I am so talking about monastic:

There are people who are born with a constant need to think about God. They are from birth: they can not not think about him, because every other thought is boring for them.

Mom, isn't it possible to constantly think about God?

Perhaps if a person is called by God to this. Then he becomes a monk and suits his inner life in such a way that the thought of God (or prayer) does not fall asleep in it never.

From here there are two tracks in the creation of God - to the world and to the monastery. Here the difference is not in the lifestyle (celibacy or marriage), but in the depths of the dispensation of spiritual life. Family is always a very specific love for concrete native people. At a present, gentle and quiet, as if fading, but now is hot. And about this love in the family you need to talk. Do not sugain with gentle words all around! Oh no! But when it comes by the way, say about love ...

There is one trick here. Here are many women complain: "Everything is good in my life. Children grow, enough money, the husband does not drink. One bad thing is Nelskova I have. " Why nonlaskova? Maybe mom in childhood rarely spoke about love? After all, if the child is accustomed to the fact that in his family, love is told calmly and openly, then he, ripped, and himself will tell about it with the same simplicity. There is, by the way, such an opinion: women love ears. There is something in it. Therefore, when I tell my children, "I love you,", I always think: what if my future daughter-in-law will be somewhat happier?

So two stopped by the window. The third has long smored sleep.

Oh, how late! How late! Somewhere our daddy? I'm so bored without him. I love our daddy very much, and you, son?

And I love very much.

Stand two and look at darkness. Somewhere there is a person. At first he watches the wild streets of the new Babylon, then rides in a terrible source train, finally, quickly crosses the felling streets of a quiet suburbs. What is the impenetrable night darkness around! What leads it? Do not you think, proud of the soul, what does your fooling prayer do? Oh no! Just two stood in the light, looking in darkness. "I love him," said one. And she ends like echo, the other. And the Lord attacked her ear and heard them. And here it will give a loving friend! Only he is the Lord God, who said to us: "Love each other! Love. "

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