About Corruption, Conspiracies, Predictions, Vanga - Alternative View

About Corruption, Conspiracies, Predictions, Vanga - Alternative View
About Corruption, Conspiracies, Predictions, Vanga - Alternative View

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The main popular belief at all times was the belief in damage and evil eye. They say, someone "with a black eye" sends damage, while another can remove it. Throughout its history, the Church has not known such a thing as damage, but believes that a person cannot “sport, jinx” another. In the Gospel parable about the demoniac Gadarene (Mark 5: 1-13), it is said that when the Lord expelled a legion of demons from the unfortunate man (according to the Roman count - up to 10 thousand), the demons asked Him not to send them into the abyss of hell, but to allow enter the pigs grazing nearby. The Lord allowed, the demons entered the pigs, which literally went berserk, ran and drowned in the lake. Who are demons? Fallen but powerful and immortal spirits. And if these powerful spirits cannot enter the pigs of their own free will, then how can a mortal person or a frail grandmother jinx another person with something? No way. And thenwhat people call damage or the evil eye is either an attack on a person by demons for his sins and negligence about the salvation of the soul, or a person's self-hypnosis that he is corrupted, and more often both. Demons attack only by the permission of God (see Job 1: 9-19; 2: 1-8) to admonish a person or his family so that they repent and become true Christians. This is called the punishment of God, only “punishment” must be understood in Slavic: “order” means teaching, instruction; “Punished” means taught, instructed, instructed. God teaches us through calamities, so that we do not harm our souls, but none of the people can send damage to us: only we spoil ourselves with our sins. As soon as a person is corrected, God drives away evil spirits from him.or the self-hypnosis of a person that he is spoiled, and more often both. Demons attack only by the permission of God (see Job 1: 9-19; 2: 1-8) to admonish a person or his family so that they repent and become true Christians. This is called the punishment of God, only “punishment” must be understood in Slavic: “order” means teaching, instruction; “Punished” means taught, instructed, instructed. God teaches us through calamities, so that we do not harm our souls, but none of the people can send damage to us: only we spoil ourselves with our sins. As soon as a person is corrected, God drives away evil spirits from him.or the self-hypnosis of a person that he is spoiled, and more often both. Demons attack only by the permission of God (see Job 1: 9-19; 2: 1-8) to admonish a person or his family so that they repent and become true Christians. This is called the punishment of God, only “punishment” must be understood in Slavic: “order” means teaching, instruction; “Punished” means taught, instructed, instructed. God teaches us through calamities, so that we do not harm our souls, but none of the people can send damage to us: only we spoil ourselves with our sins. As soon as a person is corrected, God drives away evil spirits from him.only “punishment” must be understood in Slavic: “order” means teaching, instruction; “Punished” means taught, instructed, instructed. God teaches us through calamities, so that we do not harm our souls, but none of the people can send damage to us: only we spoil ourselves with our sins. As soon as a person is corrected, God drives away evil spirits from him.only “punishment” must be understood in Slavic: “order” means teaching, instruction; “Punished” means taught, instructed, instructed. God teaches us through calamities, so that we do not harm our souls, but none of the people can send damage to us: only we spoil ourselves with our sins. As soon as a person is corrected, God drives away evil spirits from him.

But because of our inherent pride, we don't want to admit that, they say, God is punishing me for my sins, but it's easier to blame my neighbor: “He spoiled me, jinxed me, and I'm white, fluffy … What sins do I have?” They say, someone is to blame for my troubles, and not my iniquities have brought me to illness. It is easier to blame a neighbor, a black cat, a hare who crossed the road, a needle and thread, the earth from a cemetery, washing dishes or cleaning at the wrong time, spilled salt, cut hair, etc., for their troubles, and not their sins and deviation from God. After all, I don’t want to improve, but it’s easier to go to the sorcerer or to the grandmother - let them remove the damage from me, and as I lived in sins, I will continue to serve my passions and thus go to hell. Therefore, various healers and fortunetellers are popular now, because people do not want to change their lives and give up sinful pleasures,and at the same time, they want everything to be fine with them, and even to go to heaven after death! It doesn't work that way. And on human spiritual illiteracy, these healers reap such a financial harvest that the Church has never dreamed of. True, no one accuses those healers of lack of spirituality for this, for some reason …

Also, do not forget that the thought and belief of people has great power: if you think about something for a long time and strongly believe in something, then often it appears and comes true. That is, with our thought we can create something that does not exist or give some thing special properties (not without reason, there is in Eastern cults the so-called revival of an idol with our thought). If a person believes that he has been spoiled or someone thinks that he can “spoil”, then there is a high probability that someone will get sick or even die: not because there is actually damage or evil eye, but simply people of their own strong faith and long thoughts about it will bring themselves to illness and death. No wonder, there is such a half-joking saying in church use: "Do not ask for a long time, otherwise God will fulfill." It is not a prohibition to ask something from God,and a warning not to desire to receive something from God with all your heart and with all your thoughts, not to grieve that God does not give it, otherwise this, ardently desired, which a person thinks about day and night, will be given to him, but will he "swallow" he is this gift is unknown. A person will ask God for something, beg, and then it will harm his soul, and even he will begin to grumble at God, why, they say, gave! That is why we say in the prayer "Our Father …": Thy will be done … And the Lord says in the Gospel: "You do not know what you are asking for" (Mark 10:38). Thy will be done … And the Lord says in the Gospel: “You do not know what you are asking for” (Mark 10:38). Thy will be done … And the Lord says in the Gospel: “You do not know what you are asking for” (Mark 10:38).

Yes, and demons contribute to the strengthening of faith in the corruption and power of sorcerers, so that signs come true, that the predictions of the seers are fulfilled, etc. - and all with one goal: to divert people from the true - the church path of salvation. A huge empire of evil fallen spirits is aimed at ensuring that superstitions and false cults, pleasing to demons, are strengthened and confirmed, and the true faith that hinders them is compromised and persecuted. Demons pretend that spells, conspiracies act on them and run away from a person, but in fact they do this so that various would-be healers deceive themselves, considering themselves great exorcists, whom the spirits allegedly fear. In fact, ethereal spirits cannot be afraid of any spells and actions of a mortal person, but only the real presence of the Holy Spirit in a Holy person drives them away. Demons can weaken diseasesto establish a business, to return a spouse - if only a person believed in sorcerers, did not go to church and did not correct his sins. Fallen spirits first attack a person, and when he goes to a sorcerer or healer, they move away from the sick person, thereby creating the appearance that the conspiracy has helped, "the damage has been removed." Or, if someone praised a child or cattle, then the demons then attack the object of praise, so that people think that the person who praised has a “black eye”. Or when something is served through the threshold, the demons will do some nasty thing to make people afraid of the threshold. Or, knowing the fear of a black cat, the demons adjust so that after the cat crosses someone's road, a misfortune happens to that person. Either on the same day or in the same place they harm people to make people think there are bad days or bad places. True,no one notices and counts those cases when nothing happened after a black cat - and there are many more such cases. And just as no one remembers those cases when a grandmother or a psychic did not help, did not cure, and there are more cases than those when they provided "help". The same applies to the fortunetellers (Nostradamus, Vanga): demons used to predict them, but now they themselves fulfill predictions so that people would believe them and leave the Church. And how many predictions did not come true, did anyone count? It's just our psychology: a prophecy will come true - everyone remembers and trumpets the whole world, and if it doesn't come true, they just quietly forget, and everyone thinks that all the prophecies are coming true. This is not true. In addition, prophecies (including horoscopes) are drawn up in such a free and broad form that they can be interpreted as you like, and they are suitable for any person,country and time (for example, the words "you will have an interesting meeting today" - will suit anything, from meeting a kitten to a date with a tax inspector!)

Why can not conspiracies be used? Because conspiracies are often associated with goblin, mermaids, brownies, kikimors, etc. Yes, they actually exist, but they are not so kind and helpful: and these are demons that take any form in order to seduce and destroy those who trust them. It is because of this that the Church has always opposed witchcraft, magic, conspiracies and others. The Holy Fathers teach: diseases are sent to people either so that we begin to correct our sins, or so that, enduring sorrows, we draw closer to God and purify our souls. And the healers seem to say: there is another way, I will remove the disease, and there is no need to correct, they say, keep on sins … thereby destroying their souls! And the diseases then return in a more severe form. And who knows if the cases of incomprehensible suicides or insanities are connected with the fact that people "spoke" in childhood ?!

The main argument in favor of conspiracies is this: "but it helps!" Yes, sometimes grandmas or sorcerers seem to help, but why? As I said above, people's belief that a grandmother or a sorcerer will heal helps: but this does not mean that the grandmother is right. If the grandmother is a herbalist, then the useful substances of herbs help, and not her conspiracies: helping people with herbs is not a sin, but "slandering" them is already witchcraft. Sometimes sorcerers send people to the temple to receive communion, bring holy water from seven churches, order a magpie for health in seven churches, and when this helps, they attribute the treatment to themselves and their conspiracies, and not to the Sacraments of the Church. The Church teaches that any witchcraft or magic is communication with fallen spirits, and if demons help to heal the body, then at the same time they damage the soul of a person, blocking his path to the Kingdom of Heaven. No one is tracking the subsequent life of people who turned to sorcerers and psychics, and this appeal will certainly reflect badly on the life of the person or child who is “spoken”. St. Ignatius (Bryanchaninov) in the 3rd volume of his collected works (p. 24) says about this: “If he (a person who has come into contact with demons - author), when seeing spirits, gives confidence or credulity to them, then he will certainly will be deceived, will certainly be carried away, will certainly be sealed with an incomprehensible seal of seduction, a seal of terrible damage in his spirit, and the possibility of correction and salvation is often lost”! Therefore, an appeal to sorcerers is an appeal to demons for help, and they - fallen spirits - will help, but for their "services" they will take only one payment - our soul!and this appeal will certainly reflect badly on the life of a person or a child who has been "spoken". St. Ignatius (Bryanchaninov) in the 3rd volume of his collected works (p. 24) says about this: “If he (a person who has come into contact with demons - author), when seeing spirits, gives confidence or credulity to them, then he will certainly will be deceived, will certainly be carried away, will certainly be sealed with an incomprehensible seal of seduction, a seal of terrible damage in his spirit, and the possibility of correction and salvation is often lost”! Therefore, an appeal to sorcerers is an appeal to demons for help, and they - the fallen spirits - will help, but for their "services" they will take only one payment - our soul!and this appeal will certainly reflect badly on the life of a person or a child who has been "spoken". St. Ignatius (Bryanchaninov) in the 3rd volume of his collected works (p. 24) says about this: “If he (a person who has come into contact with demons - author), when seeing spirits, will trust them or gullibility, then he will certainly will be deceived, will certainly be carried away, will certainly be sealed with an incomprehensible seal of seduction, a seal of terrible damage in his spirit, and the possibility of correction and salvation is often lost”! Therefore, an appeal to sorcerers is an appeal to demons for help, and they - the fallen spirits - will help, but for their "services" they will take only one payment - our soul!Ignatius (Bryanchaninov) in the 3rd volume of his collected works (p. 24) says about this: “If he (a person who has come into contact with demons - author), when seeing spirits, gives confidence or credulity to them, then he will certainly will be deceived, will certainly be carried away, will certainly be sealed with an incomprehensible seal of seduction, a seal of terrible damage in his spirit, and the possibility of correction and salvation is often lost”! Therefore, an appeal to sorcerers is an appeal to demons for help, and they - fallen spirits - will help, but for their "services" they will take only one payment - our soul!Ignatius (Bryanchaninov) in the 3rd volume of his collected works (p. 24) says about this: “If he (a person who has come into contact with demons - author), when seeing spirits, gives confidence or credulity to them, then he will certainly will be deceived, will certainly be carried away, will certainly be sealed with an incomprehensible seal of seduction, a seal of terrible damage in his spirit, and the possibility of correction and salvation is often lost”! Therefore, an appeal to sorcerers is an appeal to demons for help, and they - fallen spirits - will help, but for their "services" they will take only one payment - our soul!will certainly be sealed with an incomprehensible seal of seduction, a seal of terrible damage in one's spirit, which is incomprehensible to the inexperienced, and the possibility of correction and salvation is often lost”! Therefore, an appeal to sorcerers is an appeal to demons for help, and they - fallen spirits - will help, but for their "services" they will take only one payment - our soul!will certainly be sealed with an incomprehensible seal of seduction, a seal of terrible damage in one's spirit, which is incomprehensible to the inexperienced, and the possibility of correction and salvation is often lost”! Therefore, an appeal to sorcerers is an appeal to demons for help, and they - fallen spirits - will help, but for their "services" they will take only one payment - our soul!

They say: a person has a gift to help people. First, for some reason this gift became widespread in our country after the collapse of the USSR: it is not clear where all these hereditary healers hid before. The vast majority of healers and psychics are simply making money. But the remaining small part of them most likely have some kind of gift. But - “not everything that is above is from God” (V. Vysotsky). And secondly: we know from the Lives of the Saints that various gifts of healings and miracles were given to Christian ascetics not immediately, but only after many years of daily labor of prayer, repentance and cleansing from sins and passions. As a rule, the Saints themselves were the children of godly parents who had lived their entire lives as true Christians. The future Saints from childhood went to church, ran away from all childish pranks, and prayed more; at a young age went to a monastery or desert,and there for decades (!) they were engaged in cleansing their souls from all filth (for example, the greatest lamp of the Russian Land, St. Sergius of Radonezh became a monk around 1337, and blessed the Blgv. Prince Dmitry Donskoy for the Battle of Kulikovo in 1380 - more than after 40. And then for half a year they go to the temple and - “it’s time, they say, we also see the uncreated light of the Divine …”) Then with tears, sometimes blood was poured over the place of the exploits of the Saints! And only when the passions died down in them, the Holy Spirit entered their souls and through the hands of the Holy ascetics healed diseases, drove out demons, raised the dead, performed other miracles, sometimes predicted the future. And here - for no reason at all from a psychic or a grandmother-conspirator - a gift: without fervent prayer, without strict fasting and abstinence, without regular communion, without struggling with passions, without self-denial,without frequent confession … Yes, and these beauties with their cosmetics "from such and such" in advertising of various clairvoyants are somehow not like people who carry the difficult feat of fighting sin … But free cheese is in a mousetrap: all this is demonic seduction of a person who believed that he had a gift from God. Demons, when they see a person with abilities, but prone to self-delusion and vanity, begin their "work" with him: they send him dreams that come true, send visions and voices that truthfully predict the future, give him a glimpse of the person's past life and his illnesses, and that's it. in that spirit. All the "gifts" from scratch are from demons: these "gifts" are given by demons so that the person who receives them will be bogged down in pride and conceit, and those who turn to him leave the Church. And in order for people to believe, demons act like this: they tell the seer 90% of the truth and only 10% of the untruth that is invisible to people,but it is precisely this tiny lie that destroys a person, like a drop of poison in a bucket of clean water. We must be afraid of such “gifts”, try with all our might to get rid of them through the Church Sacraments and the correct spiritual life, and not trust him and, even worse, call oneself a healer and bring people to oneself, not knowing who this gift is from, and who is talking to you in visions! For the salvation of people, God founded the Church, and the one who seeks other ways of salvation and climbs into another world, not knowing the rules of spiritual security, is doomed to deception and ultimately to the death of the soul, if he does not turn to true spirituality.not knowing who this gift is from, and who speaks to you in visions! For the salvation of people, God founded the Church, and the one who seeks other ways of salvation and climbs into another world, not knowing the rules of spiritual security, is doomed to deception and ultimately to the death of the soul, if he does not turn to true spirituality.not knowing who this gift is from, and who speaks to you in visions! For the salvation of people, God founded the Church, and the one who seeks other ways of salvation and climbs into another world, not knowing the rules of spiritual security, is doomed to deception and ultimately to the death of the soul, if he does not turn to true spirituality.

Demons live around us in the air and space, but the Lord, by His grace, prevents us from seeing and hearing these fallen spirits. Holy Angels, helping people, do not come into contact with them without a special command from God. But demons are just trying to enter into communication with people to seduce us: before they appeared to people in the form of pagan gods, now more often in the form of aliens or in a dream in the form of deceased relatives, as well as succubi or incubi - that is, male and female creatures with whom people can have sex.

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We do not know if there is life in other worlds. Faith or disbelief in the existence of life on other planets does not matter for a person's salvation: the main thing is whether he lives according to the commandments of Christ. But there is intelligent life in space - these are demons, expelled there from heaven. If we analyze the cases of the appearance of aliens to people, then it is clearly similar to the appearance of demons (according to the experience of Orthodox ascetics): 1) many of the newcomers who have appeared hate people; 2) when meeting with them, people are gripped by a terrible fear; 3) for some reason, aliens always look like monsters; 4) after meeting with them, people suffer from nightmares, voices, headaches and other ailments for a long time; 5) taking people into the "plate" humanoids do humiliating, painful and even sexual experiences with them; 6) after contact with "aliens" people have longing and depression for many years. All this can be read in books and seen in films released in the West dedicated to UFOs.

It is believed that if the dead are dreaming, they demand our prayer. May be so. But one must always pray for the dead - regardless of whether the dead are dreaming or not. It's just that demons often come under the guise of departed relatives: the author of the article already knows at least two cases from his parish practice, when at first the supposedly deceased appeared to someone in a dream, and when they were told: “you are not my son or husband!”, They opened his terrible demonic nature. Therefore, we must be indifferent to dreams: not to accept or blaspheme them, and even more so (God forbid!) You cannot build your life according to the speeches of pseudo-relatives who appeared to us in a dream (by the way, from here some peoples have a ban on their wife for a long time cry for her dead husband, for then the “husband” will return and take her to hell).

And if you say "ay!" to the other world, the fallen, not the good Angels, will respond first of all! Therefore, it is dangerous to engage in various meditations, hypnosis, make ourselves available to the "energies of the cosmos," enter ourselves into a trance, etc., since we can open our souls to the influence of demons. Sometimes a person sees and hears demons without wanting it - this is what we call delirium tremens: alcoholics or drug addicts in a state of hangover or withdrawal can hear voices and see different monsters - these are demons, and not a hallucination or a figment of a sick imagination! Here is an excerpt from a completely non-religious Wikipedia article about delirium tremens (alcoholic delirium): "Often the patient" hears "voices, sometimes not touching him, sometimes addressing him and ordering him to do something, mocking him, calling him a drunkard, teasing" … Why does everyone hear almost the same thingalthough people are all different and drink each in their own way? Yes, because all this really exists and a person, when poisoned with intoxicating substances, becomes able to hear and see the world of fallen spirits (by the way, the same can happen when practicing meditation, so it is dangerous for us). That is why it is scary to die in a state of alcoholic or drug intoxication: the temporary nightmare of delirium tremens will turn into an eternal nightmare of hell, from which there is no way out.from where there is no way out.from where there is no way out.

And when a person, either from childhood, has some kind of gift of communication in that world, or as a result of various methods brings himself to contact with spirits, why does he immediately take these spirits for good? On the contrary, as the Desert Fathers teach us, we must by all means avoid contact with that world, so as not to be deceived by the forces of evil. We do not know how to distinguish between spirits. With demons, only the will became directed towards evil, but they retained their external angelic nature, and can appear in the form of bright, beautiful youths, as well as in the form of Christ and the Saints. Great and experienced ascetics were put to shame, mistaking demons for Christ or Angels, but what can we say about us, absolutely inexperienced in spiritual life ?! The first rule of spiritual life: do not react to dreams, voices, or appearances from the other world - so as not to be destroyed by demons!It is better to drive away a good Angel from yourself (the Saints are not offended) than to be deceived by demons. And here - as soon as some voice began to predict the future, so immediately - a gift from God! Or a dream once came true - that's it, God warns me! Demons will send a true dream or prediction a million times, but when they understand that a person has completely trusted them, they will make the person take such a step in which his salvation becomes impossible - for example, suicide: there are cases when ascetics who trusted in demons rushed in the deserts into an abyss or a deep well. In the questions and answers of St. Barsanuphia the Great explains that demons do not show us Christ Himself or the Mother of God or the Saints, but simply a bearded man or an ordinary woman, who appear to us as Christ or the Mother of God or the Saints (for example,in the visions of the pseudo-old man Samuel from near Kharkov, the "Mother of God" with a wristwatch is described, etc.)

From scratch, God never reveals anything to a person, but only when a person by long exploits has cleansed himself of the filth of passions, then He Himself appeared, and then - rarely and a little. The great Saints have had one or two prophecies about the future in their entire lives, and various new seers have hundreds. The Lord or the Mother of God were rarely saints (St. Sergius of Radonezh, at the end of his life, the Mother of God once appeared with the Apostles, but he did not see Christ in earthly life) or did not appear at all, but to various newly appeared "miracle workers" - every day and in crowds. Moreover, the Saints, out of humility, hid words of praise addressed to them from the Lord and the heavenly inhabitants, and in the writings of the newly-minted "ascetics" a significant part is devoted to the presentation of praises to them from the beings who appeared, who introduced themselves as someone from the Kingdom of Heaven. Confidence in your holinesssalvation and pleasing to God comes through in the writings of the "miracle workers", and the true Saint really considers himself to be the worst of all, seeing his even the smallest sins. The saints, with rare exceptions, did not “travel” to the higher worlds, but these ones go there almost every day and bring all sorts of “new revelations”. If all psychics have a gift from God, then how can one wage a "battle of psychics", about which there is a popular TV show: is this a fight between the gifts of the same God? Is it really that God was divided, so that there is a possibility of competition and battle between His gifts? Can you imagine the Saints fighting with their gifts from God? Me not.and these - almost every day go there and bring all sorts of "new revelations." If all psychics have a gift from God, then how can one wage a "battle of psychics", about which there is a popular TV show: is this a fight between the gifts of the same God? Is it really that God was divided, so that there is a possibility of competition and battle between His gifts? Can you imagine the Saints fighting with their gifts from God? Me not.and these - almost every day go there and bring all sorts of "new revelations." If all psychics have a gift from God, then how can one wage a "battle of psychics", about which there is a popular TV show: is this a fight between the gifts of the same God? Is it really that God was divided, so that there is a possibility of competition and battle between His gifts? Can you imagine the Saints fighting with their gifts from God? Me not.

One more point should be noted: as a rule, when people turn to clairvoyants with a problem, they often say: "They" did it "for you!" And note: they almost always name close relatives who allegedly "made" a person. And now native people begin to accuse each other of damage, evil eye, etc., between them there is a quarrel and hatred for each other! For tens of years, people disagree among themselves, accusing their relatives of non-existent damage! From this it can be seen that demons give such information to these "clairvoyants" in order to quarrel people among themselves, so that they hate each other, and perhaps even kill … Here it is "clearly visible" not damage, but clearly visible - the devilish trick of the fallen spirits to incite enmity between people!

It is impossible to be interested in and predict the future, if only because this asserts, as it were, the immutability of our future - thereby we limit the omnipotence of God, Who can change the future at His discretion. And, besides, it cannot be argued that the future is unchanging, since a person can change his future himself: if he lives sinfully, there will be one future (hell), if he corrects himself, there will be another future (heaven). Everything depends only on a person's life - what it is: with Christ or outside of Christ, and only on this basis, good or bad happens to us, absolutely regardless of the stars, Zodiacs, black cats and others. Therefore, there is no destiny: all our lives we change our future every day - depending on how we live. Depending on this, God also changes His plans for us: either cancels or sends punishment;the fate of the country and humanity as a whole depends on this. That is why our planet and the Universe will perish not from catastrophes, but from human sins.

There is no doubt that God listens to any person who turns to Him with prayer, regardless of whether it is a priest or a simple layman and laywoman. And if a pious grandmother turns to the Lord with a prayer for help to someone, the Lord will fulfill her prayer and heal the one for whom she is praying. “Pray for one another to be healed,” says the apostle James (James 5:16). We all can and should pray for each other every day (usually in morning prayers), but this should be done unnoticed by others, not standing out from everyone else. And when a grandmother is singled out from ordinary people, when she is made a special intercessor before God, as it were, she is raised above the rest and turned into a kind of special prayer book for others - here is the sin and the beginning of witchcraft. To single out someone from the ranks of the laity to pray for them is the Sacrament of the Priesthood,which only bishops (bishops) can perform over others. Whoever makes himself a representative for others is blasphemy, that is, he steals the priesthood right that does not belong to him.

Yes, in our time there are unworthy priests who do not correspond to the title of a clergyman. And of course, there are believing grandmothers who in paradise will be taller than many priests. But personal holiness does not give anyone the right to steal the prerogatives of a clergyman. Only a person legally assigned to this can perform sacred actions on a person, i.e. priest or bishop: even a deacon does not have the right to independently perform any rites. This is called the Sacrament of the Priesthood: when they take a worthy person and the bishop ordains him to the priesthood, thereby giving him the right to conduct Divine services and pray (intercede) for the parishioners. Many requirements are made to a priest: a husband of one wife or a monk, not a murderer, not on trial, graduated from the Seminary, etc. And here - a certain grandmother,which no one has initiated (and a woman cannot be a clergyman!), puts herself in the position of a priest, daring to perform illegal prayers over a person, and even worse, conspiracies that contain non-Christian and pagan motives that are unacceptable for a church person. And the fact that this grandmother goes to church and takes communion does not mean anything: often grandmothers go to church, but they don’t listen to a priest who says that one cannot speak of illness - and how can you force them ?! In addition, a priest cannot bless a person for conspiracies of diseases or hernias: this is either a deception on the part of a conspiratorial grandmother, or she took a blessing from the priest simply “for any good deed,” without telling him that she would speak. When a priest sins, this is, of course, very bad, and God will ask him,but as long as he is not deprived of the ecclesiastical authority of the right to perform the sacraments, any sacraments and rituals are performed through him - regardless of his personal life. But for a priest, this is more often a sin of the flesh: gluttony, drunkenness, laziness, and so on. But for those who speak illnesses, this is a sin of the spirit, because they, not being priests, dare to do what only priests should do. And these sins of the spirit that various seers sin - that is, pride, conceit, vanity, arrogance, self-exaltation, self-deception - are worse than any sin of the flesh! St. John of the Ladder in his "Ladder" it is said that when a person is overwhelmed by a big demon (passion), then the lesser demons (passions) can leave him. And pride is considered the greatest sin so that, according to the Ladder, a proud person does not even have a demon, since the proud man himself becomes a demon for himself. That is why people possessed by pride easily conquer smaller passions - fornication, drunkenness, avarice, gluttony, anger, laziness, sadness, etc. Because of this, they may seem to outsiders to be great ascetics and ascetics, and not that "these fat and greedy priests" … Although, of course, all these healers call themselves the most sinful "most of all people", but a truly humble person will never allow not listening to the priests and doing what the Church does not allow!but a truly humble person will never allow himself not to listen to the priests and do what the Church does not allow!but a truly humble person will never allow himself not to listen to the priests and do what the Church does not allow!

As a rule, children are more susceptible to diseases and the influence of evil spirits than adults. Knowing this, the Church protects the infant with her prayer, even the unbaptized one. According to the Charter, on the first day you need to call the priest to the woman in labor at home, and he reads the prayer of the first day over her and over the baby (not yet baptized!). On the eighth day, someone (but not the mother) brings the child to the door of the temple, and the priest names him. On the fortieth day, mother should already come to church herself and the priest gives her a fortieth prayer: the child is still not baptized. Then, on another day, they come to the announcement and Baptism, after which Confirmation immediately follows. Eight days later, you have to come to wash the ointment from the baby and cut the hair - this is the fifth time the Church performs her prayer protection over the baby. But due to various reasons, all of the above takes place in one day - and how can you force modern “believers in soul” four or five times with a child to come to church, and then also regularly commune him ?! Yes, when things are bad with their beloved child, parents from grief can go to any step to help him. But somehow, among these steps to help a child, the Church usually takes the last place! First, we will run around all the sorcerers and grandmothers in the neighborhood, we will bow to all the "gods", we will waste a lot of money, and finally - well, okay, to the temple, to the true God …First, we will run around all the sorcerers and grandmothers in the neighborhood, we will bow to all the "gods", we will waste a lot of money, and finally - well, okay, to the temple, to the true God …First, we will run around all the sorcerers and grandmothers in the neighborhood, we will bow to all the "gods", we will waste a lot of money, and finally - well, okay, to the temple, to the true God …

Parents and godparents themselves must pray for the child (“the mother’s prayer is reaching from the bottom of the sea!”) - why is there some kind of grandmother who is no different from them, the same laywoman ?! Without praying for the child, the parent leaves him defenseless against the attack of demons, and, of course, it is easier to blame someone or something for the child's illnesses, not themselves. Easier to refer to the grandmother, let her "talk". But to refer to it as a grandmother is, as it were, a parody of a church parish: people come to the conspirator as a special person, singled out from the usual row - "they say, she can speak." And this is a parody of the Sacrament of the Priesthood, i.e. the grandmother arrogates to herself the right to perform some kind of prayer over others, which no one gave her, and those around her seem to confirm this by bringing children to her. In the book of Numbers (ch.16) the Bible describes a rebellion against the prophet Moses, a certain Korah with accomplices who demanded the priesthood not given to them by God, and took censers to start the ministry illegally: the earth opened up and swallowed the blasphemers! The sin of Korea is committed by those who, having no legal right to do so, elevate themselves to the rank of mediator between the spirit world and the common people!

And nothing good will come from turning to them, and only by His mercy the Lord, who forgives us as His unreasonable children, rarely punishes those who turn to sorcerers, fortune tellers, psychics and grandmothers, but how long will He endure our deviations from Him ?! We ourselves bring God to punishment for us with our iniquities, and then we murmur against Him! And people will first turn to psychics, call up spirits, and then cry - why do they have terrible dreams, children do not sleep, why shadows wander around the house, why things fly, voices are heard, etc. It is their own fault: they summoned the spirits - so they came, take it! The only scary thing is that now it will be very difficult to drive the demons away from the family - there are no Holy Miracle Workers now, as in ancient times!

If something incomprehensible is going on in the family, this is not a reason to blame the neighbor, but it is necessary to think about the spiritual atmosphere in this family - what is it, grace-filled or graceless? If no one in the family prays, does not receive communion, does not remember Christ, swearing, drunkenness, debauchery, abortion, greed, selfishness, pride and so on reign there. - this means that the atmosphere here is graceless, into which demons rush and attack the child: if a person does not actively go to God, they - without his consent! - the fallen spirits will take possession, for emptiness does not exist in nature. And the parents, instead of their sins, blame the neighbor, the cat, the hare, the earth, the salt - they say, it is they, who are so bad, who have conspired to spoil people's lives! … And so that demons do not attack a child, parents, leading a Christian lifestyle, create a fertile atmosphere that would protect their child from all evil. It is not for nothing that the families of priests with children do not have problems of damage, evil eye, hernias, etc., because they often give the child communion, pray for him every day and lead a church life themselves.

Sometimes children's illnesses are explained as follows: "The Lord punishes children for the sins of their parents!" And they often understand it this way: they say, the father drank, and the son will answer God for the drunk bottles. This is a completely non-Christian opinion. Everyone is responsible only for their own sins. The Lord in the book of Deuteronomy (24: 16) said: “Fathers should not be punished by death for their children, and children should not be punished with death for their fathers; everyone should be punished with death for their crime. " Has the Lord Himself spoken this, and He Himself will break what was said? Of course not. The sins of the parents pass on to the children in a different way: firstly, as an example - the parents use foul language, and the child, looking at them, may take a bad example and swear himself. Secondly, the physical and mental predisposition to a certain sin (you can call this physical and spiritual inheritance). There is a genetic inheritance: if the parents drank, their child's body gets used to alcohol faster than the children of non-drinking parents. And there is also a spiritual inheritance, when the soul of a child is more likely to be struck by the sin that the parents sinned. Not without reason, they used to look at what kind of tribe the bride and groom were from, not out of obvious sinners, or else - "an apple does not fall far from an apple tree." Probably, when conceiving a child and feeding on mother's milk, not only the child's body, but in part his soul receives some influence from the souls of the parents: and an addiction to the sin that the parents sinned appears in it. And this harmful influence of sin can affect up to the third and fourth generations (grandchildren and great-grandchildren); this is what the Lord says (Exodus 20: 5 - 6, also Deuteronomy 5: 9). Why up to the fourth generation (great-grandchildren)? Because this is practically the extreme (with rare exceptions) generation that a person can see in his descendants. And by this, God gives an educational meaning: so that a person sees how his sins affected his children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren, because of which he would repent of his sins and, by his prayer, authority and example, would turn his descendants to a righteous life.

There are probably family demons who pass from one generation to another, seducing this family with some specific sin, from which it will be difficult for her to get rid of. Often, obvious sorceresses, before death, invite some of their young relatives to see them for a "gift", ie. pass the demon by inheritance. It is noticed that if a person's close relatives were engaged in witchcraft, then he may have terrible visions from the spiritual world. And, conversely, in the Lives of the Saints, a special emphasis is placed on the origin of the Saint from pious parents who observed all the ordinances of the Lord (see St. John the Baptist, St. Sergius of Radonezh and Seraphim of Sarov, etc.)

Therefore, parents, if they want to have fewer problems with their child, must observe the following rules: 1) often receive communion - at least once a month; 2) together with godparents pray for him every day at home and regularly in church; 3) be worthy Christians. The participle even genetic abnormalities can heal and neutralize hereditary diseases so that they do not pass to the child. Sometimes to be afraid of the Communion - “they say, there is Cahors, wine; is it not harmful to the child? Firstly, the wine is diluted in half with water during Communion, and the child is given a drop of it. Secondly, it is the Blood of Christ, and it does not have such harmful effects on the body as ordinary wine.

Often, to justify the appeal to grandmas, they cite St. blessed Matrona, comparing her with the notorious Bulgarian Vanga. But they are similar only in that both died as elderly women. If you compare their lives, there will be a huge difference. At least the fact that since 1967, Vanga by the then communist (essentially atheistic!) Government of Bulgaria was put in the civil service and began to receive an official salary: an approved monetary rate was charged for her admission. You can imagine bliss. Matrona or other Saints who receive a salary for their miracles from the state that oppresses the Church? Me not. The Bulgarian Church refused to consecrate the temple that Vanga built, since it did not correspond at all to the Orthodox tradition: if God spoke to her, why could He not explain to her,how should temples dedicated to Him be built? The Saints had the gift of miracles and prophecy in the second half of their lives after decades of daily labors to cleanse themselves of passions; and Vanga's unusual abilities began to appear after she got into a hurricane, which is why she became blind, and she gained fame at the age of 30 during World War II - and she lived as an ordinary peasant woman in her house with her husband. Vanga's husband drank himself to death and died of alcoholism: the "clairvoyant" did not save him from death. Vanga's account had millions of fortunes in different currencies: do you know at least one Saint who would have his own bank account? I dont know. She did not want to lie near the chapel, but wanted to be buried in her own home: how can a believer not want to lie in a consecrated place? Her conversations about aliens are more reminiscent of the words of a psychic, and not a saint of God. Many of her prophecies have not come true, but simply far-fetched. Many prophecies just look silly: for example, the invention of a cure for old age from the hormones of a horse, a dog, and a turtle. Protodeacon A. Kuraev has a case in one of his books: when an Orthodox bishop visited Vangu, who had a piece of the Holy Cross in his staff, she, while the bishop was in her house, could not “see” the future. Wow, a "gift from God" that disappears when you meet a great Shrine! And in general, never in the entire history of the Christian Church has no one uttered such a number of prophecies as Vanga: here she is very similar to a medium (pythia, oracle), when a person is simply an unconscious transmitter of messages from fallen spirits.invention of a cure for old age from hormones of a horse, a dog and a turtle. Protodeacon A. Kuraev has a case in one of his books: when an Orthodox bishop visited Vanga, who had a piece of the Life-giving Cross of the Lord in his staff, she, while the bishop was in her house, could not “see” the future. Wow, a "gift from God" that disappears when you meet a great Shrine! And in general, never in the entire history of the Christian Church has no one uttered such a number of prophecies as Vanga: here she is very similar to a medium (pythia, oracle), when a person is simply an unconscious transmitter of messages from fallen spirits.the invention of a cure for old age from the hormones of a horse, a dog and a turtle. Protodeacon A. Kuraev has a case in one of his books: when an Orthodox bishop visited Vangu, who had a piece of the Holy Cross in his staff, she, while the bishop was in her house, could not “see” the future. Wow, a "gift from God" that disappears when you meet a great Shrine! And in general, never in the entire history of the Christian Church has no one uttered such a number of prophecies as Vanga: here she is very similar to a medium (pythia, oracle), when a person is simply an unconscious transmitter of messages from fallen spirits.who had a piece of the Life-giving Cross of the Lord in his staff, then, while the bishop was in her house, she could not “see” the future. Wow, a "gift from God" that disappears when you meet a great Shrine! And in general, never in the entire history of the Christian Church has no one uttered such a number of prophecies as Vanga: here she is very similar to a medium (pythia, oracle), when a person is simply an unconscious transmitter of messages from fallen spirits.who had a piece of the Life-giving Cross of the Lord in his staff, then, while the bishop was in her house, she could not “see” the future. Wow, a "gift from God" that disappears when you meet a great Shrine! And in general, never in the entire history of the Christian Church has no one uttered such a number of prophecies as Vanga: here she is very similar to a medium (pythia, oracle), when a person is simply an unconscious transmitter of messages from fallen spirits.

St. Matrona is a completely different matter. By the will of God, shackled by illness, from childhood she was at the temple of God, had no family or home and spent all her time in prayer to God. This contrasts sharply with Vanga, who had a family and her own home and lived like ordinary people: why would God give her any special gifts ?! With his ascetic and godly life, St. Matrona acquired great gifts from God, and God glorified her among the Orthodox people, who began to come to her for help. And the Church recognized that the spiritual experience of Matrona is true and that she is a true servant of God. St. Matrona did not speak of illness, nor did she bless the water, but simply prayed for those who came to her and instructed with what she could. But she did not duplicate the priests, did not create a counterbalance to the Church! But the grandmothers who speak illnesses create precisely the counterbalance to the Church: people,those who turn to them do not go to church - "why, they say, is the disease conspired?" If that healer had gone through the lifelong spiritual path of Blessed Matrona, one could still think something, otherwise: the day before yesterday she was an activist in the Komsomol, and now she is already a "divine" one, that is, she has two whole icons of the house and has been in the church exactly from the beginning retirement walks, sometimes cleans the church …

And besides, St. Matrona died in 1952 - this is the time when the priests were in the camps, and there were few of them at large. Then God could, as an exception, give believing grandmothers work as if to be the support of the Church (the famous "white kerchiefs"), but now, when churches are almost everywhere open, there are many priests, it is a great sin to create an alternative to the Church of Christ! It is clear that many grandmothers are doing this out of ignorance or good intentions, but they need to be taught so that they stop doing this and do not ruin their souls. In conclusion, let us listen to what the Lord Himself said (Deuteronomy 18: 9-14): “When you enter the land that the Lord your God gives you, then do not learn to do abominations that these nations have done: there must not be one who seeks out his son or his daughter through fire, a soothsayer, a fortuneteller, a sorcerer, a sorcerer,a charm (in our hypnotist - author), summoning spirits, a magician and asking the dead; For everyone that does this is an abomination to the Lord, and because of these abominations the Lord thy God drives them out from before thee. be blameless before the Lord your God; for these nations, whom you drive out, listen to diviners and soothsayers, but the Lord your God gave you something else."

Rector of the Exaltation of the Cross Church with. Tatarintsevo Bronnitsky church district Abbot Faddey (Shavernev)