Petr Guryanov Priest Biography

Pyotr Guryanov - You know, the moment is even like this: when we entered the seminary, we received 46 people. And all of them were released most of the incoming children of priests. And they studied well, that is, everything is fine. But they were expelled. It was a shock for me at all. Then I only realized: the children were forced to go to the temple, observe posts, to observe prayer rules.

And then, when they became adults, when they were already in their lives, they went out into the worldly sea, they realized, they simply forced them. And in this regard, I never force my children to pray. I just say: “Have you prayed before bedtime in your own words? I ask: “Do you want to be with me to the liturgy? And Nastya is already everything, she will think: I’ll go, not to sleep, to sleep, not to sleep.

And still I am to her: “Nastya, we went to my service, pray, take communion. It is necessary to somehow maintain a connection with God. ” She is already an adult, 10 years: "Okay, dad, let's go." It’s not that you can respect me, but with God - you communicate with them in a children's language. But to vaccinate this - a holy communion, spiritual grace - from the very infancy. And then, when they already become adults, all the same, they need to give the right to choose.

And maybe I'm mistaken, but children never need to be forced to go to the temple. It seems to me that this will not give anything good. Lavrentieva - and how difficult it is for you to give this moment of release when you give your child the right to choose, the right of free will?

You don’t want to - don't go to the temple today. But it is probably very difficult for you to leave him at home Peter Guryanov - of course, I am unpleasant. The most important point - you know, when I come to the liturgy, young parents come with their children Lavrentiev - and your child is at home. Pyotr Guryanov - yes. And my child is at home. Many children come, who have several children.

They suffer there, hard for them, but still come. And indeed, I, like my father, are a little unpleasant for me. It happens because of this even a little annoyed, it happens that you come, and not only you are scolding a child, but you still try: "Nastya, then let's pray with you before bedtime." And still I try to explain to them that Sunday is exactly the day for God.

Not only for children, but I say to people: “You see, the Lord could give another commandment: six days to your Lord, one day, please, to himself. But he said: work for six days, and only one day. ” Even if you think about it: not one day-one and a half to two hours a week on Sunday devoted to your God. And do everything you want for six days - work, earn money for your family, you want - pray, you want - do not pray, no one forces us.

But that's one day, Sunday, he asks to devote to himself. And what is most interesting, I then stumbled upon the words of John Chrysostom, where he says that those people who used Sunday for their enrichment, the Lord then, when a person already becomes a conscious age, he loses this wealth, immediately and sharply. That is, which was purchased on Sunday. He has such an idea that perhaps he takes health, and perhaps just wealth itself.

And leaves a person with nothing. Literally, I can’t give him a word, but it was John Chrysostom that spoke about it. The Matsan is this thought that you have just voiced, it is so ambivalent. On the one hand, it is understandable and there is probably absolutely necessary pedagogy in it so church. On the other hand, it seems to me, one small step remains of here to see such an avenger in God, such a legislator that: yeah, you have not come, now I will deprive you now.

And such a caricature idea of ​​the fear of God arises. That Christians are therefore trying to do something, morally or in such a church-disciplinary-service, posts-because they are afraid that God will punish. Peter Guryanov - no, everything is very simple here. I also thought about it before. And not just for many years, but for several years I thought why God is just such a formidable judge.

For example, for failure to fulfill on Wednesday and Friday-a person accidentally ate some kind of candy, and there was milk, it turns out, dry. Everything, a person tears hair on himself: the Lord will punish you. Not really. And the answer is simple, it is in the Gospel. Christ says to His disciples: "By this, everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love between you." This is one of the criteria, probably one of these axioms, lighthouses of those that an Orthodox Christian should have is love, namely love for neighboring people.

There are times that a person could not come to the temple on Sunday, he did not succeed. I wrote the thesis in the seminary, I had the topic "Disciplinary Part of the Old Russian Charters." And just there, it is as a discipline that it is said that it is undesirable to miss four Sundays. Three Sundays are somehow permissible, but for no good reason it is very bad. And here, you know, such a moment - at least once a month, a person should still come: “Lord, thank you.Thank God I am alive, well, on my feet.

" After all, nothing happens without the will of God. If the Lord says that even “all the hair is considered on your head”, and we are just at least like people, just thank you, it seems to me that we are just obliged to come. Because if a person does something to us, we will come, thank him-a box of sweets, a bottle of something there. As father, Dimitri Smirnov, says: "The box is better." And this God himself gave you life - God Himself - is it really impossible?

Therefore, what can we bring as gratitude? Here we came: “Lord, thank you, we are alive and good, children, thank God, well-fed, dressed. Bless you for the coming week, bless for the coming month, year. Thank you. And forgive me, I repent in sins. ” Do not forget, because we have a real opportunity - confession when a person repents of his sins. This does not mean that I will go out after your radio, I’ll go sin and come to confession, they will forgive me everything.

Confession is a conscious repentance, that is, a change in your life. Matsan - You uttered a word that I personally seem very expensive and valuable, maybe even central in the relationship of man and God, this word is gratitude. But you can somehow to yourself, I don’t know, track, articulate, when and how did you come to this thought about what you need to thank everything?

That gratitude is such one of the most first strings that connects man and God. Pyotr Guryanov - You know, it was when he served as a deacon, the moment. I’ll tell you such a case, I probably also fell into pride. Remember, the Gospel moments, when you came in, the publican and Pharisee to pray? Matsan - of course. Pyotr Guryanov - the driver stood aside, was afraid to go to the temple with me - I repent in this regard - the same thing happened.

When I served as a deacon, I once met my friends with my friends. Well, someone had to have a court-from to lifelong. Someone has already been planted. Because I had a teenage childhood, one might say, rich, stormy. God forbid, of course, from this. And when, being a deacon, I remember this moment is still fine - how I went to the altar, I think: “Lord, thank God, that I am not like them.

The great post ended, because from the beginning to the end it was pierced. " And you know, when I went into the altar, it was as if they gave me a hammer right on the back of my head: stupid, what are you talking about? You are exactly the same Pharisee as the one who once went into the temple. And it was then that I realized that it was necessary to thank this, not that I am so correct, but to thank you for having given you to stay with the sacrifice that lightning did not hit you when you touch this shrine when you are communed, you hold the body of the sinners in your own hands.

It was at this moment that then dawned on me. This was probably the first or second year of Deacon ministry. And after that, I already stopped thinking how good I am, that my whole post, which I was pierced then, the whole cat under the tail left this thought. Lavrentieva is Peter's father, I have long been signed on you on social networks.