Trukhanov Mikhail Vasilievich
(1916-2006), archpriest, spiritual writer.
| prot. Mikhail Trukhanov serves a memorial service at the Butovo training ground. |
Born in 1916 in the village of Bolshaya Tarasovka, Klintsovsky district, Saratov region, in the family of priest Vasily Trukhanov.
Since childhood, he and his brother served in the church: he came out with a candlestick, served censer and prosphora. After the revolution, due to hunger and persecution, the family was forced to move from place to place. The father priest, as deprived of voting rights, was not issued food cards, nor were they issued to members of the disenfranchised family.
Mikhail, as the son of a priest, was not taken to school; he was educated at home. In November 1929, I managed to enroll directly into the 8th grade. At school he experienced bullying as "the son of a priest." He studied very well. After finishing 8th grade, at the age of 14, he had to get a job.
To continue his education, he moved to Tashkent and worked as a photometrist at the Geodesy, Astronomy and Cartography Trust. In 1934-1937 visited four complex expeditions. On Sundays and holidays in the cathedral he served the bishop, offered vestments and stood with his staff during the services.
In the spring of 1937, he passed exams for 10 classes as an external student and submitted documents for admission to the Moscow Institute of Geodesy, Aerial Photography and Cartography. He was enrolled in the aerial photography department. Regularly attended services. Since 1939, he became a parishioner of the St. Nicholas Church in Kuznetsy and the spiritual son of Fr. Alexandra Smirnova.
Arrest
On February 26, 1941, at half past midnight, a search was carried out in the student dormitory. The search lasted until 11 o'clock in the afternoon, everything was carefully checked. A long-standing petition for a blessing for monastic tonsure was found. During the investigation, he was kept in Butyrka prison in solitary confinement cell No. 212. He was accused of “organizing a Bible study circle.” They were called in for interrogations mainly at night.
On June 5, 1941, a Special Meeting of the NKVD of the USSR sentenced him under Art. 58-10, 58-11 of the Criminal Code of the RSFSR to 8 years in the ITL for “a/c agitation, organization and leadership of the illegal a/c group of churchmen “Moscow Theological Christian Society”, recruited new people, organized illegal gatherings.” Yu.F. Leshchenko and V.P. Uglovsky were involved in the same case. and others. The verdict was signed by L. Beria. He “admitted himself partially guilty.”
In the wild
Shortly before his first arrest, Mikhail met Vera Alexandrovna Leonidova, a parishioner of the Moscow Epiphany Cathedral. She was a Muscovite, worked as a draftswoman at a closed factory. At the very first meeting, Mikhail unexpectedly said that his future was in the camps. Vera Alexandrovna visited Mikhail in the camps and exile, gave him the Holy Gifts and supported him throughout his 15 years of imprisonment. She said that all these years she knew only work and the temple. She was fired from a closed factory for corresponding with a prisoner, and worked from home.
After his early release in March 1956, Mikhail came to Moscow and married Vera Alexandrovna. Soon he was reinstated at the Institute of Geodesy and Cartography and graduated from it. A special event occurred in the life of Mikhail on March 9, 1958 - in Chernigov he was ordained to the priesthood by His Eminence Andrey, Bishop of Chernigov and Nizhyn.
From October 1963, Father Mikhail, having passed the seminary exams as an external student, studied at the Moscow Theological Academy for four years. Having completed it brilliantly in 1967, he received a candidate's degree in theology. During this time, he was awarded a pectoral cross and elevated to archpriest.
The time when Father Mikhail began his priestly service fell during the period of new persecution of the Church initiated during the era of N. S. Khrushchev. Because of his zealous service, the priest was not allowed to stay in one place for a long time, but he could not help but talk to people about God. Father Mikhail served in various churches of the Moscow diocese and acquired many spiritual children. His last place of ministry before leaving the state in 1979 was the Church of St. Nicholas in Pushkin.
Second arrest
In 1953, 12 days after Stalin's death, he was arrested and taken to Krasnoyarsk. At first they “sewed” terror (as someone who knew the principles of atomic energy), then, after the execution of Beria, they “settled” on “anti-Soviet agitation.”
Then “open” trials had already begun - in the presence of employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the KGB and other “selected” people. When the presiding judge at the trial read out the verdict, an elderly man loudly and hastily blurted out: “Judges! What are you doing? You give a person 10 years. For what? You yourself know that your defendant is a very decent person! Ah, judges! Presiding officer: “Don’t disrupt the legal process, citizen! Bring him out!” And the guards, taking the offender by the arms, began to lead him out of the courtroom. He kept shouting: “Judges! Come to your senses! What are you doing? Come to your senses!
In Central Asia
After the Bolshevik revolution, due to famine and persecution, the Trukhanov family was forced to move from place to place in the Volga region. The father-priest, deprived of voting rights, was not issued food cards, nor were they issued to members of his family. When famine began in the Samara region in 1923, the family moved to the Tashkent diocese. There was no school there, and the father himself taught the children arithmetic and grammar. Six years later, the family had to leave again, and this time urgently, due to the possible arrest of their father. The school at the new location did not accept children of “disenfranchised” children, but in November 1929, Mikhail still managed to enroll directly into the 8th grade. At first, he experienced bullying as “the son of a priest.” He had to endure a lot of ridicule not only for his origin, but also for his unsightly appearance and shabby clothes. But the future priest studied very well, and soon, thanks to his great abilities, classmates and teachers began to respectfully call him “professor.”
After graduating from eight years of school, Mikhail left for Tashkent at the age of 14. His father blessed him with the Gospel, saying: “Read, meditate and do it, then the Lord will be with you and then you will have everything that He pleases, but we are poor, and, except for bread and three rubles of money, we cannot give you anything.” .
After completing the courses for draftsmen and cartographers, Mikhail entered the trust of geodesy, astronomy and cartography as a photometrician. In 1934-1937 he visited four complex expeditions. On Sundays and holidays in the cathedral he served the Bishop of Tashkent, offered vestments and stood with his staff at the services. And then he had to lead a harsh lifestyle: he ate only once a day in the dining room and rented housing, accepting the conditions of the landlady not to use the kerosene stove. He recalled that he was protected from youthful temptations by the fear of sinning and being punished for sin, as well as his unsightly appearance.
Proceedings
- About the origins of the Christian faith. Moscow. 1993
- How to be saved in the modern world. Apology for Christian fasting. Moscow. 1993
- A touch of love. Moscow. 1994
- Wonderful are your works, O Lord. A word about the six-day period. Moscow. 1995
- Memories: the first forty years of my life. Moscow. 1996
- About the remembrance of the dead. Moscow. 1996
- Orthodox view of creativity. Moscow. 1997
- About passions and the fight against them. Moscow. 1998
- The path to truth is humility and love. Moscow. 1999
- Prayers. 1999
- Christian thoughts on marriage.
Unknown saint - Father Mikhail Trukhanov. Maxim Leskov
How many other saints are there in Rus', revered by the hearts of the people, but not canonized by the council...? Warrior-martyr Evgeniy Rodionov, monk-seer Abel - these names would seem to be known and loved by the entire Orthodox world, but for some reason they have not yet been glorified as saints. It is possible that for their canonization, as was already the case with St. Seraphim of Sarov, the decision of the synodal commission is not needed, but the royal will of the future Sovereign is necessary. God knows…However, there are other names of God's saints who are not so well known, but no less loved. Among them is a wonderful priest, a true confessor of the Christian faith, Archpriest Mikhail Trukhanov.
Father Mikhail spent fifteen years in camps, prisons and settlements as a confessor of the Orthodox faith. For the first time, while still a student at the Institute of Geodesy and Cartography, he was arrested in 1941 “for organizing a Bible study group” and “served” in the camps until 1956, for a total of 5555 days.
He taught his spiritual children that “the revival of Russia, like the transformation of the world, must begin with the transformation of oneself. And transformation begins with the humble consciousness of one’s unworthiness and with a cry before God: “Lord, forgive me my past and strengthen me so that I do not sin in the future! Be with me as You were with our righteous fathers!”
The last years of his life, Father Mikhail lived in the Holy Spiritual Skete near Minsk, in Belarus, together with monk Nikon (in the world - Leonid Kalugin, former director of the Minsk refrigerator plant, who was subjected to political persecution for attempting to be nominated as a candidate for the presidency of the Republic of Belarus in 2001 ).
On Trinity Sunday 2005, I was lucky enough to be received by Elder Mikhail Trukhanov. Our conversation lasted more than three hours, comforting and strengthening me in my faith for many years. I don’t yet have the right, dear reader, to share with you the details of this meeting, but I can testify that until today, almost everything that the perspicacious elder warned me about has happened. I say “almost” because the main thing of what was said remains in the future, the hour of which has not yet arrived.
As a farewell, Father Mikhail gave me his prayer book, compiled in the Gulag. Recalling how the prayer book was written, Father Mikhail said: “I have only one thing valuable there: those prayers that were dictated in the conditions in which I was. - Which? Here, let’s say, I’m... in an unconscious state, stricken with pellagra (and this is a disease that is usually fatal). Dystrophy, everyone understands, is exhaustion. The skin peels off like fish scales. This is what we say, for example, dermatitis. Dementia is dementia - and dementia is the kind when you forget everything.
Here you can also say that, for example, I forgot this and that, but not this. I even forget how letters are written, how numbers are written, what my mother’s name is, what the names of my teachers or those comrades with whom I was friends are called. Absolute lack of memory! I knew a dozen psalms by heart when I got to places not so remote, but in that state I knew nothing! I didn't know any prayers. All I had left was, by feeling, the awareness of the need for prayer. And I only said: “God, be with me!” And this prayer - “God, be with me!” I then carried it with me for decades, until the Lord restored it all again...”
The main place in the prayer book was given to the Prayer of Repentance; these are its words, which have not lost their saving meaning today.
Lord, have mercy, forgive and save us!
We are all guilty of the fact that, under the reign of godlessness in the country, we lost our zeal for observing the Gospel commandments of Christ and the rigor of our moral behavior.
We did not prevent the desecration of our shrines, the destruction of churches and monasteries.
We were afraid to openly and boldly confess even our faith in our Lord Jesus Christ before people.
We were cowardly silent and did not protest, hearing and knowing about millions of persecuted people, imprisoned in prisons and camps, tortured by hunger, cold, hard work and shot for the truth of Christian life.
We slavishly greeted and applauded blasphemers, wicked rulers and murderers.
Our sins and those of our people testify before God against us all. “Woe to us that we have sinned!” (Lamentations 5:16).
Nowadays we have deception and wickedness everywhere, insults to widows and orphans, verbiage and corruption of youth, drunkenness and debauchery, the murder of unborn babies, murder and obvious, already legalized, service to Satanism.
We are horrified by what we see and hear. “Horror from everywhere!” (Jer. 49:29).
GOD! Send Your workers to Your harvest in our country, so that they would enlighten the peoples of Russia with the light of the Gospel of Christ, strengthen them in faith, lead them to repentance and guide them on the saving path of Christian life.
In your hand, LORD, is “power over the earth.” You rule “over the kingdom of men” and you give it to whomever you want. And, knowing this, we humbly beg You, LORD, to raise up a “needed man” as the ruler of our country, a man after Your heart, an Orthodox Christian, so that he treats all our people equally, fulfills Your good will, guides the peoples of Russia to faith, repentance and saving life in the Orthodox Church.
GOD! Knowing that for the grave sins of our fathers and for our sinful life, Your wrath fell on Russia and on the peoples inhabiting it, we now beg You, LORD, to arouse in us, the peoples of Russia, heartfelt contrition for the sins of apostasy from the Gospel teaching of Christ and encourage us all, in a deliberate three-day fast, to nationwide repentance, so that You, LORD, having despised our sorrow and heartfelt repentance for the sins committed by us and our fathers, have mercy and forgive us all.
GOD! Turn away Your anger, which is righteously moving against us and our country. Have mercy on us and guide us on the saving path of life according to Your commandments, according to Your holy will.
GOD! Forgive our grave sins, committed by us in deed, word, thought and all our feelings. Strengthen us with Your holy grace, so that we may henceforth live according to Your will and not sin, calling on Your All-Holy Name for help and salvation, doing everything for Your glory.
Amen.
“This is the truth,” taught Father Michael, “the Kingdom of God. We cannot get there with any other ticket other than love. By righteous life. Repentance and prayer. A prayer of repentance and a prayer for the Lord to be with us. This is all that is required of us and of every Christian!”
These wonderful words could complete the short story about the miraculous meeting with Elder Michael. But this would be a half-truth, since our last meeting with him took place, surprisingly, on the day of his repose in the Lord. And although we were a thousand kilometers from each other, he was in Belarus, and I was in the Moscow region, but for the Spirit there are no borders or distances.
On March 16, 2006, I had a very unusual, vivid dream in which Father Mikhail, so joyful and bright, as if rejuvenated, blesses me. I try to get closer to him, to kiss his blessing hand, but for some reason the priest moves away. I take a few steps behind him and suddenly notice how the priest’s face freezes and transforms into the image written on the icon. I step back and see a huge icon of the holy new martyrs and confessors of Russia. The priest’s face is almost in the very center, or rather, to the lower left of the center of the icon. I remember that I was amazed at the huge number of saints written on the icon, and I could not understand why the priest, about whose fate I had not had news for a long time, appeared to me in such a way.
Only a week later did circumstances bring me to Moscow and I learned that the priest appeared to me on the day of his death. I was shocked and hurried to the Vagankovskoye cemetery to the resting place of Father Mikhail Trukhanov. And since then, his grave has become for me, as well as for a large number of his spiritual children, a place where you come with pain and sorrow, and leave comforted and spiritually healed.
May the scribes and teachers of modern theology forgive me, but for me, Father Michael, regardless of his official canonical status, is a holy saint of God, both during his life and after it, helping seekers find the path to God, the path to Truth and Repentance. Eternal memory to him!
Maxim Leskov
Archpriest Mikhail (Trukhanov)
Archpriest Mikhail Vasilyevich Trukhanov was born on September 14, 1916. in the village of Bolshaya Tarasovka, Klintsevsky district, now Saratov region, in the family of priest Vasily Trukhanov. Great-grandfather o. Michael built churches. My father graduated from the Kyiv Theological Seminary and received a blessing to marry Akilina Ivanovna Bondarchuk, who spent eight years in obedience at the monastery. They had twelve children, but ten of them died in infancy. Only two remained - the tenth John and the eleventh Michael. Famine began in the Samara region and in 1923 the family moved to the Tashkent diocese. There was no school there, and the father himself taught the children arithmetic and grammar, getting them to write correct calligraphy.
In 1929, the family had to urgently leave Tamerlanovka in the Aral Sea due to the decision to arrest their father. They arrived in Turkestan, where they experienced severe poverty and starvation. They were not accepted into school as children of deprived people. Mikhail entered school only in 1929, straight into the eighth grade. He had to endure quite a bit of ridicule for his origin, unsightly appearance and shabby clothes. But soon, thanks to his great abilities, classmates and teachers began to respectfully call him professor. Ah, oh. Throughout his life, Mikhail remembered with gratitude those who showed him mercy during that difficult time.
After graduating from eight years of school, Mikhail left for Tashkent at the age of 14. His father blessed him with the Holy Gospel, saying: “Read, meditate and do it, then the Lord will be with you and then you will have everything that He pleases,” but we are poor, and apart from bread and three rubles of money we cannot give you anything. After completing the courses for draftsmen and cartographers, Mikhail went to work at the trust for geodesy, astronomy and cartography. Even then, he had to lead a harsh lifestyle, eating only once a day in the dining room, accepting the conditions of the hostess, renting housing not to use the kerosene stove. He recalled that he was protected from youthful temptations by the fear of sinning and being punished for sin, as well as by his unsightly appearance.
In 1937 Mikhail, on the advice of a colleague, goes to Moscow to enter the Institute of Geodesy and Cartography, having passed the ten-year exams as an external student. On the way, he made a stop in Turkestan, and for the last time met with his father, who on the same day left for Alma-Ata, and in November, along with the entire clergy of the cathedral, was arrested, exiled to Kolyma and died there.
Arriving in Moscow, Mikhail was amazed by a large number of churches. He loved to visit the Church of the Resurrection in Sokolniki and prayed there for the granting of wisdom to him in order to succeed in the sciences. Having received a bad mark on the first exam, he went to church and, with a vow to become an exile in Siberia, prayed - asked the Lord to allow him to stay here for at least three to four years, and to lay the foundations of His one truth. The Lord exactly fulfilled his request and Mikhail lived in Moscow for three years and seven months until he was arrested and sent to the Gulag for 5555 days. Fr. called the school of humility, prayer, patience, suffering and experimental learning to fully trust in the always good will of God. Mikhail during his stay in the camp.
Mikhail went to the rector, and he, taking into account his work experience in the trust of astronomy, geodesy and aerial photography, allowed him to retake the exam in mathematics, at the same time finding out which subject he could still fail and, taking his word that he would not make any other requests will not contact him. Having become a student, Mikhail turned out to be one of the best students. One day the rector called him and gave him an additional allowance. Mikhail regularly attended services on Sundays and holidays. Rector of the Church of St. Nicholas (in Kuznetsy) Fr. Alexander (Smirnov) showed special attention to him, after the service he invited him to dinner and allowed him to work in his library. This was very supportive for the poor student. One day he complained that he would hardly be able to thank him. To this o. Alexander replied that at one time a merchant helped him and then ordered one of the young people to do the same.
February 25, 1941 In the hostel where Mikhail lived, a search was carried out, an old request for a blessing for monastic tonsure was found, and he was arrested. He was charged with organizing a Bible study group. In a cell in Butyrka prison, he decided to observe the pre-Easter fast, which was mistaken for a political hunger strike. Cellmates consider his arrest a misunderstanding and believe in his imminent release. In early June, he was sentenced to eight years in forced labor camps. Arriving at the cell in a joyful mood, reading to himself the words of the psalm “Praise my soul the Lord,” he began to ask the Lord to honor him and, in conclusion, to preach the Gospel of Christ to those who had not heard it, and to lead those who had not yet lived it to the Christian life .
In Unjlag, outside the city of Gorky, Mikhail was enrolled in a high-security logging brigade. Exhausted from backbreaking work, he could never fulfill the daily quota, did not receive the required quota of bread and physically failed. Soon he could no longer go to work due to the onset of heart disease, accompanied by swelling of the limbs and dropsy, and soon pellagra was added to this - a serious disease of the digestive system, from which many prisoners died in those years.
During his illness, he lost his memory and forgot almost everything. But the need for prayer remained. And since all the prayers were forgotten, he began to turn to God in his own words. Mikhail knew the power of prayer from childhood, when his terminally ill father asked him, nine years old, to stand in front of the image of the Savior and ask for his father’s healing; a day later his father stood up healthy. Then, in Turkestan, when there was no food left at home, he, on the advice of his mother, began to read an akathist to St. Nicholas and unexpectedly he was offered a well-paid, feasible job. And now, in the camp, Michael was saved by the prayer “God, be with me.” God sent Michael and people there who saved his life. In 1946 he was transferred to the Far East. In February 1949, he received formal release from the camp, but was actually left in Vanino until further notice. In March 1951, he was transported to the Krasnoyarsk Territory, where he healed a woman with many children who had cancer.
And, a new arrest, and a 10-year sentence. During the transfer, on the way, he told the prisoners a book he had just read about the principles of atomic energy, and he was charged with an article about organizing terror on Red Square. Until March 1956 he stays in the Omsk camp and a wonderful event takes place here. His father, when Mikhail was seven years old, intensely prayed to the Lord which of the children should be a doctor and which a priest. Mikhail’s lot fell to be a doctor, which greatly upset him, but his father kept repeating that the Lord had appointed him to be a professor. And then, unexpectedly for himself, Mikhail begins to work as a doctor - a cardiologist, radiologist, and head of an epidemiological laboratory. Then he surprised his fellow doctors with his knowledge of difficult medical issues and ignorance of lung issues, which was reflected by the lack of systematic knowledge.
Shortly before his arrest, Mikhail was introduced to Vera Alexandrovna Leonidova, a parishioner of the Epiphany Cathedral. She was a Muscovite and worked as a draftsman at a number plant. At the first meeting, Mikhail unexpectedly said that his future was in the camps. Vera Alexandrovna visited Mikhail in the camps and exile, gave him the Holy Gifts and supported him throughout the 15 years of his imprisonment. She said that all these years she knew only work and the temple. She was fired from the number plant for corresponding with a prisoner, and she worked from home. After early release in March 1956 and complete rehabilitation, he goes to Moscow, where they register their marriage with Vera Alexandrovna. Mikhail is recovering at the Institute of Geodesy and Cartography and uploading it.
In 1958, Archbishop Andrey of Chernigov ordained him to the priesthood. Since October 1963 Fr. Mikhail, having passed the seminary exams as an external student, studied at the Moscow Theological Academy for four years (the first year by correspondence). Having completed it brilliantly in 1967. he received his Ph.D. in theology. During this time he received two awards: a pectoral cross and an archpriesthood.
The time of priestly service of Fr. Michael fell during the period of persecution of the Church in the 60s. Because of his zealous service, he was not allowed to serve in one place for a long time, but he could not help but talk to people about God. Served Fr. Michael in various churches of the Moscow diocese and acquired many spiritual children. His last place of ministry before leaving the state in 1979 was the Church of St. Nicholas in Pushkino.
In the 90s, open senile care began for Fr. Michael to the believers of Moscow, and all of Russia. At home at Fr. Michael gathered people of different classes, monastics and creative intelligentsia, scientists and doctors. And no one left him without being comforted and fed.
In 1993 – 2000 theological works of Fr. Mikhail. During that period, they had a significant influence on the formation of the deep Orthodox worldview of many people who then came to the Church. These are works such as: “On the origins of the Christian faith.” M. 1993; “How to be saved in the modern world. Apology of Christian fasting." M. 1993.; “Touch of Love” M. 1994; “Wonderful are Your works, O Lord. A word about Shestodnevo. Eucharist. About the Providence of God." M. 1995 and others.
Since the beginning of 2000, Fr. Mikhail begins to get seriously ill, but continues to receive people, pray and help in the most difficult circumstances, even taking long trips to visit his spiritual children. Fr. passed away. Mikhail March 16, 2006 in Belarus. He was buried at the Vagankovskoye cemetery in Moscow. Mother o. Mikhail - Vera Alexandrovna passed away on January 11, 2011. at the age of 98. She still had to work hard to publish the works of Fr. Michael and perpetuating his memory.
“God is wonderful in His saints,” we can say after reading the biography of Fr. Mikhail. Eternal memory to him!
Based on materials from the book “Mikhail Trukhanov (Archpriest). Memories: The first forty years of my life", Minsk. Rays of Sofia, 2010.- 320 p.
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Crown of thorns disease. Experience of overcoming cancer
“I cannot agree with such views, my dears,” I enter into the conversation.
– It turns out that some person doesn’t seem to be needed by God?! Malakhov’s views are far from Christian; moreover, they are imbued with Eastern occultism: karma, reincarnation. Is it possible to agree (I’m not talking from a Christian point of view, even just from a moral standpoint) that some person can be harmful to the Lord, like a cancer cell to the body?! “Or maybe we, who live with our own worries, have forgotten about God,” the elderly man noted bitterly, leaning his whole body on the saving stick, “maybe the Creator really doesn’t need us?”
“You know, I think a person has positioned himself in this life in such a way that God does not need his actions,” the gray-haired man in an elegant sweater continued his thought. “And an unnecessary person, like an unnecessary hair, is removed with the help of his own vicious lifestyle, vicious thoughts, vicious deeds.
- No, brothers, sorry! – I disagree. - It's not like that at all. Remember how the Lord with infinite love searched for one lost lost sheep, leaving hundreds of successful ones. The Lord has no unnecessary people. There are lost sons, but we remember from the Gospel parable how the Father met his lost child...
We talked about a lot of things then, including the fact that not only priests, but also doctors are increasingly coming to the conclusion: very often cancer is a person’s retribution for destructive emotions, thoughts and deeds. But here it is very important to emphasize: not punishment, not punishment, but retribution. Just like the destruction of the body, for example, of an alcoholic, is not a punishment “from above”, but an inevitable consequence of poisoning.
It turns out that a person’s inability to control his negative emotions even increases the healing time of wounds, not to mention more serious illnesses. This conclusion was reached by employees of Ohio State University as a result of an experiment involving 98 volunteers. As it turned out, irritable people's wounds healed much more slowly compared to those who had a calmer character. According to the study authors, delayed wound healing may be associated with increased levels of the hormone cortisol. The scientists also note that their data is confirmed by the results of previous studies. In particular, some time ago it was found that the rate of restoration of tissue damaged as a result of injuries can be influenced by factors such as family quarrels.
Thus, even scientific research confirms that illness is a consequence of the fact that a person (sometimes without knowing it) has violated and distorted his connection with the Source of Life, with the Almighty.
Orthodox Christians believe that illness is a kind of warning: restore broken connections, think about how you live?
Once a person comes to realize this warning, connections begin to be restored. And if in the future good thoughts and deeds for the glory of God, for the benefit of people, prevail, if a person stops destroying his health (observes the God-given rhythm of life of the body - nutrition, movement, daily routine, etc.), the disease gradually recedes.
When a person persists in his ignorance, selfishness and aggravates his mistakes - he thinks that he will be cured for money, then the “lesson” is taught in a more “understandable” form, right up to the physical destruction of the body.
Based on this, it becomes clear why there are so many ways to treat cancer. Each cancer patient has certain connections (very individual) or the sum of these connections that are disrupted. If you use the whole complex of certain means (primarily spiritual) to restore them, a complete recovery may occur. If partial recovery occurs, it means that the person is “stuck” in the disease. Well, if “you are being treated in the wrong direction,” then you will get zero or negative results.
It is especially important to understand in which of the two “parts” of the body the disturbance primarily occurred - in the spiritual form of life (due to selfish emotions, lack of love, for example), or in the physical body (from internal dirt due to constipation, parasites, etc.). And.). In accordance with this, you need to choose treatment and start working on yourself.
But most often, one factor superimposes on another, aggravating the painful state of the body. In any case, we must understand that cancer is not some kind of “punishment” for a wrong life.
Cancer is a consequence of the fact that for many years we lived in a catastrophic, tragic disagreement with ourselves, in a conflict between our “I” and the will of God.
Moscow priest Artemy Vladimirov expresses very important thoughts on this matter:
“What is our main sin in relation to the Lord God? It seems to me that this is black ingratitude. We, like selfish children, thoughtlessly use the gifts of God, often sacrificing nature to our passions, without caring at all about the consequences. And we often begin to appreciate health, this valuable gift of God, only when we lose it. According to the Russian proverb, “What we have, we don’t keep; when we lose, we cry.” For those who do not want to get sick, I would recommend (in addition to the main thing - fulfilling the commandments of God - do not commit adultery, honor your father and mother, do not take the name of God in vain) to thank the Lord for the gift of health. For a person who thanks God becomes able to embrace the mercy of the Lord. Thanks to the Lord, we learn to appreciate His benefits to us and not waste them in vain.
Last years
In the 1990s, Father Mikhail began openly caring for the elderly for many believers of different ages, ranks and positions. His theological works were published in 1993-2000. During that period, they had a significant influence on the formation of the deep Orthodox worldview of many people who were just beginning their journey in the Church.
From the beginning of 2000, Father Mikhail became seriously ill, but continued to receive people, pray and help in the most difficult circumstances, sometimes even taking long trips to visit his spiritual children. In recent years, Father Mikhail lived in Belarus, not far from the village of Kasyn in the Holy Spiritual Skete near Minsk.
Father Mikhail Trukhanov died on March 16, 2006. The first memorial service for the deceased was performed by Metropolitan Philaret of Minsk, who knew him closely. The priest's funeral took place on March 20 at the Vagankovskoye cemetery in Moscow.
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