The Apostle Paul would not have given his disciple, the Holy Apostle Timothy, the following advice: Use a little wine, for the sake of your stomach and your frequent ailments

(1 Tim. 5:23). For drunkenness is nothing but

the frenzy of the natural mind, the transformation of the heart, the impoverishment of meaning, the deprivation of reason: all of these

not only from wine drunkenness, but also from

from drunkenness, rage, and unseemly lust.1

How to love the Lord Jesus Christ?

Most of all, it strengthens and strengthens our love

Heartfelt Meditation on Sufferings to Christ

Christ. For this it is good to choose one of the sufferings of Christ every day, to meditate on it in detail, and to remember it more often during the day. From this we will always get

the spirit of patience, meekness, daily voluntary mortification, and grateful, completely

devoted love for Christ. "How do you spend

time?" the aliens asked one, almost not

who knew how to read the hermit. The hermit said:

"Our Saviour has endowed me with sight, and I have always

I'm watching." — "For what?" — "For the Passion of Christ.

They are always in front of my eyes. In them I find

everything I need, and nothing sticks so much

me with love for my Lord Jesus Christ, as the sight He has given me"2.

All of us, without exception, can imitate this hermit!

1 Jerom. Vladimir (Musatov). The Elder's Answers to the Questions of the Cell Disciple. Moscow: Podvorie Svyato-Troitskoy

Sergius Lavra. 2002.

2 St. Boniface of Feofania // Old Age Councils of Some Domestic Ascetics of Piety

18–19 centuries. Moscow, 1913.

How can we protect the soul from addiction to perishable things?

Meditate reverently and gratefully

about the greatness of one's soul granted by grace and

its multiplicity in the eyes of God. Imagine, as in a picture, the vastness of the earth, and examine impartially the objects that fill it:

how insignificant they will seem to you in comparison