Spiritual and moral nourishment and personality development

Nurturing

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Spiritual care for monastics and laity

Hieroschemamonk Ambrose loved the Lord infinitely, and all the love of which his being was capable, he gave to his Creator through His creation -
through his neighbors. Out of love for God, he left the world and took the path of moral self-improvement. But just as love for God in Christianity is inextricably linked with the feat of love for one’s neighbor, so the feat of personal improvement and personal salvation for the elder was never separated from the feat of serving the world.

Father Ambrose's senile ministry began with caring for the brethren of Optina Pustyn. But the elder’s service was not limited to the monastery. This ascetic, who lived in a small cell, managed to expand its walls into immense spaces. People of all ranks and positions, residents of the most distant provinces –

everyone knew the humble and perspicacious Optina elder.
Thousands of believing souls flocked to Father Ambrose in Optina Pustyn. How often the cell attendants of Father Ambrose, yielding to the numerous requests of visitors to report to the elder about them, told him: “Father, they are waiting for you.” "Who's there?" -
the old man will ask.
“Moscow, Vyazma, Tula, Belevsky, Kadir and other peoples,” answer
the cell attendants. They waited for several days for a ten-minute conversation with the elder. There were not enough coachmen for the haul between Optina and Kaluga, as well as rooms in numerous Optina hotels.

Father Ambrose spent the whole day among the people who came to him for advice and revered their mentor. Giving instructions to everyone according to his spiritual needs and spiritual development, he delved into the situation of everyone who turned to him, determining his personal character, his inclinations, and lovingly indicated the best outcome. Everyone left him comforted and with a lighter heart.

The spiritual experience of Elder Ambrose was so rich that he seemed to read the thoughts of those who came to him and often pointed out their innermost secrets and secretly denounced them in conversations. One day a nun came to him for confession and told him everything she remembered. When she finished, the elder himself began to tell her everything that she had forgotten. But regarding one sin, named by the priest, she insisted for a long time that she did not do it, and then the elder replied: “Forget about it, I said so.” And before he had time to finish his speech, his sister suddenly remembered that this sin had actually been committed by her. Shocked, she brought sincere repentance. If the elder talked with someone in front of the people, he did not have the habit of denouncing directly and sharply, but he taught so skillfully that his reproof, despite the presence of many people, was understandable only to the one to whom it was addressed.

Having learned from personal experience the saving power of humility, the elder sought to teach this to his spiritual children. To the most pressing question of every person, how to live in order to be saved, the elder gave such humorous answers: “We need to live unhypocritically and behave exemplarily, then our cause will be right, otherwise it will be bad,” or: “You can live in peace, only not to the south, but to live quietly.” "We have to, –

The old man also said,
“
to live on earth as a wheel turns: just one point touches the ground, and the rest will certainly strive upward; but as soon as we lie down on the ground, we can’t get up.” At first glance, these are simple and humorous words, but what deep meaning is contained in them.

Father Ambrose received visitors either by talking with each individual, or went out for a general blessing, first to men and then to women. Sometimes in the summer he went out into the air to meet the people. The bent old man walked slowly along the poles, which were installed from the porch and served as a support for him to move, while at the same time holding back the people from the pressure. Father Ambrose stopped from time to time, giving answers to those who questioned him. Thousands of questions rained down on him from the crowd; he listened to everything attentively. People approached the elder with all sorts of questions. "Father, –

someone will ask,
“
How can you bless me to live?”
“Father, ”
asked another,
“
where will you bless me: to get married or to a monastery?” Questions one after another: “I am dying from poverty”; “I lost everything that was dear to me in life. I have nothing to live for"; “An incurable disease is tormenting me. I can’t help but grumble”; “My children, in whom I invested my life and soul, became my enemies”; “I have lost faith, I do not see the goodness of God. There are only curses on my tongue.” Who to go to, who to trust, to whom to cry your heart out, who will remove from a person this stony numbness of long-term hopeless suffering? And everyone came to the elder as their last refuge. And among these rapids of grief, sin and despair, Father Ambrose stood with a loving heart, healing everyone. How many times did he resolve the most difficult, desperate and confusing everyday issues with two or three friendly, heartfelt advices. Thus, apparently, someone’s fate was decided in passing, important issues were resolved, but always, with the blessing of the gracious elder, it turned out well and the decision turned out to be wise and correct. Many, having some kind of business, wanted only one thing, that at the beginning of this business the elder would silently bless them.

But not everyone came to Father Ambrose for business. Some only took up his time and thereby burdened him greatly. He himself complained about such visitors in his letters: “Old age, weakness, powerlessness, much care and oblivion and many useless talk do not allow me to come to my senses. One explains that his head and legs are weak, the other complains that he has many sorrows; and another explains that he is in constant anxiety. And you listen to all this, and also give an answer; but you can’t get away with silence; they get offended and insulted.” And how hard it was for him to endure the murmurs of those whom, due to pain, he could not immediately accept. So one day, an exhausted old man with downcast eyes was barely wandering among the crowd of people, and after him someone’s voice was heard: “Such malice! walked by and didn’t look.” “This is how we live day after day,” the elder wrote in one of his letters, “and we are considered unfair in welcoming those who come and come. And my weakness and failure before God and people are to blame.” And always the elder not only did not grieve over his illness, but was in a cheerful mood and even joked. And those who expressed grumbling soon began to regret their impatience and asked the elder to forgive them. The elder received visitors until the evening, taking short breaks for meals and short rest. Sometimes after lunch, when the elder was weak, he received visitors in his cell. And after the evening rule, the monastery brethren came to him for daily confession of thoughts.

Russian

Morphological and syntactic properties

feed

Verb, imperfective aspect, transitive, conjugation type according to A. Zaliznyak’s classification - 1a. The corresponding perfective verb is to nourish.

Root: -.

Pronunciation

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Semantic properties

Meaning

1. outdated to guide someone, most often spiritually ◆ No example of usage (see recommendations).

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A nursing mother's fear of spoiling her figure

We admire paintings by old masters depicting the Madonna and Child, admiring the amazing complexion, the radiance of the eyes, the radiance of the forehead, the roundness of forms, the soft grace inherent in blooming female beauty. When a young mother discovers such changes in her appearance, she does not always understand that she has become more charming and sweeter, because in modern fashion we have a cult of fashion models from the catwalk: skinny, angular, with a mask of arrogant indifference on their faces. Do not be sad that during breastfeeding no diets, trainings or shaping will return you to your girlish slimness, because... the hormonal background that ensures lactation does not allow a nursing woman to lose weight. As soon as the baby refuses his favorite “sissy”, your figure will decrease in both weight and volume. In the meantime, the baby needs your milk, by striving to lose weight you can harm breastfeeding, since the natural psychological dominant breaks down and there is less milk in the breast. You will be able to wear your old dresses when the baby no longer needs breast milk. Now, please, work on your figure, but do not forget that by saying goodbye to girlhood, you gain femininity, and this is a law of nature.

Who cares for the Orthodox?

“Do not participate in the fruitless deeds of darkness, but also expose...” Ap. Pavel In January 2009 (before the election of the new Patriarch, when there was an active discussion of candidates in the media and on the Internet, Colonel Kvachkov accused the then Metropolitan Kirill of sodomite sin. “Can you imagine a fagot becoming the head of the Church?! This is what we are now we have, and this church will teach us? I’m talking about church hierarchs, the Church, the fullness of the Church is both the clergy and the world... Will fagots teach us now?! God forbid! "- the officer finished emotionally (V.V. Kvachkov) Well, I’ll add, a liberal and Westerner (the current prime minister) was the head of the Russian Federation, why can’t a sodomite become the head of the church? Moreover, the well-known brisk minion of Three-fingered A. Pochinok was painfully good at getting him out of the wine and vodka business. Tell me, who is your friend... Indeed, the successor Baltz - Riediger, who in turn called Berl Lazar the venerable brother, and Yeltsin the second saint Vladimir, cannot teach us, sinners, love and conscience. Moreover, another hypocrisy of the Russian Orthodox Church was manifested in the awarding of Mr. Pochinok the Order of St. Sergius of Radonezh, most likely because he howled at Gundyaev, dissuading him from duty-free trade in vodka and tobacco when the latter was a “metropolitan.” The official elite of the Russian Orthodox Church has become rotten and has become a shameful (to put it mildly) mouthpiece of the Russophobic-oligarchic regime. And not so long ago, Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Rus' voiced his version of the disaster at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in 1986. According to him, the accident was retribution for human sins. The patriarch made this statement at the liturgy at the Kiev Pechersk Lavra, Interfax reports. “The Lord could have stopped the hand of the operator who, while controlling the reactor, made a terrible mistake. The Lord allowed it. And many people, through their deaths, may have contributed to the atonement of sins,” Patriarch Kirill explained his point of view. It turns out that the Great Patriotic War, in the opinion of the “Holy One,” was a punishment for our people for their sins. The feelings of believers really should not be offended, but it is absolutely necessary to bring out the pro-regime church obscurantists. Devils in robes who hate Lenin, Stalin and everything Soviet are enemies of the Russian PEOPLE, enemies of RUSSIA, enemies of ORTHODOXY. Flirting with this scum is the last thing. Those who cover for them, who curry favor with them, cannot be called patriots, much less communists. These are enemy and demonic minions and slaves. The highest hierarchy of the Russian Orthodox Church today is a rotten pro-regime-commercial “pseudo-national opium” structure. If you want to pray to God, follow CHRIST’S SERMON ON THE MOUNT: “Go into your room, close the door behind you and pray to Your Father in secret, and do not say unnecessary things, like the pagans, who think that they will be heard for their many words.” Pray to God, but don’t trust priests. Today, you can count the honest and respectable priests among all the priestly rot on one hand. The Pharisees devoured the sincere Archbishop of Chukotka and Anadyr Diomede, and everyone who disagreed with their ecumenical heresy and hypocrisy was immediately pushed aside and ground into powder. Dear comrades, fellow citizens! I completely agree with the opinion that there are HONEST and NOBLE clergy in Russia, but... they are a MINORITY, because the power in the country is from Satan, and the top of the church and, as a consequence, the majority of local clergy serve this power. The number of new churches is inversely proportional to the number of kindergartens and schools; the growth of the number of priests is inversely proportional to both the quantity and quality of doctors and teachers. In this sense, SUCH a religion is really “the opium of the people” and it is carried out by obvious “devils” of the Kuraevs - the Chaplins and others like them. And it is completely useless to complain to the big devils about the little devils (it’s like the president complaining about the minister of defense). “A raven will not peck out a crow’s eye.” Like the state, so is the church. Under Soviet rule, we had two main religions: Orthodoxy and Islam, and sectarians, along with homosexuals, were sent behind barbed wire. And that was absolutely fair. The state served the people, and the church abhorred the love of money. Whoever wanted to believe, believed without hypocrisy. If a priest “sanctifies” a den of debauchery, then who is he if not the devil? There is more than enough information about this. Our church is increasingly turning from Russian Orthodox into PSEUDO-Orthodox. I periodically go to the Alexander Nevsky Lavra: the prayers are full of the Old Testament - Abraham, Isaac, Moses, Rebecca, Judith, Solomon, etc. And they want to educate Russian parishioners to imitate this evil spirit. The heresy of the Judaizers in full. Nightmare... By 2025, a chip will be implanted in the brain of every Russian. Such a program is already being launched. Orthodox writer Valery Filimonov talks about this four times a week on radio Slovo. The officialdom of the Russian Orthodox Church does its best to hush up this problem. There are individual speeches, but there is no systemic analysis and counteraction to this evil. The creeping aggression of the Antichrist is coming to Russia with the tacit consent of Kirill and his associates. THE MAIN AND COMPLETELY OBVIOUS ACTION (MISCEDS) OF THE MOSCOW PATRIARCHY IS SERVING THE INTERESTS OF AN ANTI-RUSSIAN REGIME HOSTILE TO RUSSIA OF THIEVES AND TRAITORS. Comrades! I always speak out not against FAITH, but against priestly anti-Soviet and anti-Stalinist obscurantism. Against the heresy of the Judaizers, which under Judas Cyril and his associates flourished in full bloom in the Russian Orthodox Church. I have never denigrated and do not denigrate the FAITH, because since the age of 20 I have consciously considered myself an Orthodox believer, and I was baptized in infancy by my aunt Natalya, who sang in the church choir of the Spasskaya Church. I rebuke Judas. To grovel before today's Jew priests is the last thing. This is obscurantism. It was precisely this kind of scum that Christ drove out of the temple. ORTHODOX, UNITE! BAPTIZED, BECOME ORTHODOX! DEvils in robes have captured the earthly church! P/S And now, compatriots and fellow citizens who have read this article, give your ratings: those who stand for God’s Truth, put the “plus” sign; those who are for unctuous lies - a minus sign. Let's decide between our own and those of others.

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Lactation crisis: 3, 6, 9 months

The baby made a growth spurt, and the mother, tired of household chores, did not have time to provide for his increased needs for milk. WHO recommends that mother and child rest for a day. Let him suckle all day, even constantly, and the milk will come as much as he needs, because... The most powerful stimulator of lactation is the process of breastfeeding. “A tired mother doesn’t give milk,” said one six-year-old girl, watching the development of her little sister. The truth certainly speaks through the mouth of a baby. Take into account that all housework can be done by any family member, even a housekeeper, but only the mother can breastfeed. If there are no au pairs, set priorities so that breastfeeding comes first as the most important thing for the baby, and the rest - if possible. A nursing mother should rest when the baby is sleeping, walk with him, and eat a varied and nutritious diet. If for some reason these conditions are not met, mother’s milk is still healthier for the child than the milk of a well-fed and not tired cow. If a mother gets sick with ARVI or another infection, maintaining hygiene and wearing a mask, she needs to continue feeding, since milk contains antibodies against the infectious agent that protect the child from the disease.

Rule for introducing complementary foods

According to WHO recommendations, in civilized countries complementary foods are introduced no earlier than six months (later is possible). They start with dairy-free porridge or boiled zucchini without salt and sugar in water or breast milk (or formula for artificial babies). From six to nine months, complementary foods are introduced slowly: one type for two weeks, starting with one teaspoon, adding a teaspoon each subsequent day. If the child does not like complementary feeding and refuses to eat more than one to five spoons, remain on this dose daily; complementary feeding is still considered introduced. And after 10 days, offer the next complementary foods in the following order: 6 months: zucchini. 6.5 months: porridge (buckwheat or oatmeal). 7 months: second porridge (buckwheat or oatmeal) or broccoli without salt, sugar, and animal milk. 7.5 months: chicken yolk (starting from 1/4) or better quail, can be added to porridge or vegetables daily. 8 months: baked yellow apple or pear puree. 8.5 months: apple or pear juice, diluted 1:1 with water from 10 to 80 ml over two weeks. 9 months: meat pureed into vegetables and porridge. The best is beef, beef tongue or rabbit, turkey. Vegetable oil 1/2 tsp. in a day. 9.5 months: undiluted juice, dried slice of bread, cauliflower, pumpkin, rice porridge, corn porridge. From this age, each complementary food is introduced faster - in 5 days. 10 months: mashed potatoes, boiled fish - pike perch; boiled onions. 11 months: baby noodles, bananas, kiwi, carrots. It is better to cook yourself than to feed from jars. Freezing can only be prepared in glass containers, and not in plastic containers, because... During the process of deep freezing and thawing, polymer film and plastic release carcinogen dioxide. None of the complementary foods is mandatory for a child. Everything is selected individually from the proposed scheme. Already digested complementary foods are given daily at different feedings during the day before the main breastfeeding. And after each complementary feeding, it is imperative to give breastfeeding - the child must end each meal by sucking on the mother’s breast. Natural animal milk, porridge with milk, kefir, yogurt, cottage cheese are allowed by WHO only after a year, cheese and butter - from 1.5 years, boiled chicken egg white, steam omelet from 1.5 - 2 years. Meat broths should not be given to children under 2-3 years of age. All first courses are prepared in vegetable and cereal broths. Boiled meat is added there in pureed form before eating or in the form of meatballs and small pieces. Until the age of 3, you should not give your child chicken, as a source of purines that threaten acetone crises, as well as chocolate, cookies, pancakes, cheesecakes, and pancakes. Candy is not recommended for children under 3 years of age. The child receives sweets in the form of vegetables and fruits, incl. compotes, juices, jelly. Up to 6 years of age, sausages, sausages, ham, and smoked meats are prohibited. If a child gets sick with something, a gentle diet is established for the duration of the illness, for infants - breast milk or its substitutes, at an early age - milk porridge, vegetable purees, jelly. The duration of breastfeeding, according to WHO recommendations, is advisable up to 2-4 years, depending on the desire of the child and the mother’s ability. There are examples where breastfeeding continued successfully even after a week-long break due to separation from the mother. Of course, after 1.5 years, breast milk is not so much nutrition for the child as a remedy for all sorts of problems, because it reliably connects him with his mother. I would like to give young parents one more piece of advice: do not put off the baby’s baptism “until better times.” Better times will come precisely because of baptism. The Guardian Angel, bestowed in the Sacrament of Baptism, protects the child more reliably than parental vigils. The best spiritual nourishment and medicine for a Christian is Holy Communion. Sorokousts for health and prayers to Jesus Christ, the Mother of God, and the holy saints of God will help solve many problems in raising a child, since it is known that “a mother’s prayer will rise from the bottom of the sea.” Yes, parenthood is a joyful, inspired and sacrificial work. And the reward for it is healthy, sensible, loving children.

Holy Fathers about the Church and Salvation

Archimandrite George (Kapsanis) Deification as the meaning of human life

The fruits of the spirituality of deification

Spiritual nourishment, which the Orthodox Church teaches in its worship, patristic theology and monastic tradition, is a guide to deification, and it decisively places Christ, the Incarnate God, the God-man, and not just man, at the center of life. Great joy enters our lives when we realize the height of our calling, when we realize what bliss awaits us.

Such nourishment sweetens the bitterness of all everyday sorrow and the pain of suffering with the hope of deification. When the hope of deification leads us through life, and likewise we see each other as called to become gods, then we relate to our neighbors completely differently. How much deeper and more serious nourishment we can then give to our children! What kind of God-pleasing love and respect will parents be filled with for their children if they realize their sacred duty and calling to help them achieve deification - that for which, by God’s grace, they were born into the world! And how can parents help their children with this until they themselves have taken the path of deification? But how much genuine human dignity, without egocentrism and the pride of godlessness, will appear in us upon the realization that we were created for such an amazing purpose.

The Holy Fathers and teachers of the Church theologize that in this way, overcoming the everyday anthropocentricity of fallen human consciousness, we truly become individuals, we become truly human. We meet God with respect and love. With the deepest respect, we give everyone his true dignity - as one who has the inheritance of deification, looking at him as the image of God, and not as an object that can be used. Until we come out of the self-centered limitations of our “I”, we are only individuals - not persons. When we follow the path of deification - with the help of Grace, promoting It and our efforts - at the moment when we break out of the isolation of our individual existence and begin to love, giving ourselves more and more to God and our neighbors, then a personality is born. In other words, we find ourselves where our “I” meets the “Thou” of God and the “Thou” of our neighbor - because it is in the communion of deification, for which we were created, that only we can open up completely, open up and enjoy each other pure, not selfish.

This is the spirit of the Divine Liturgy, in which we learn to transcend our petty individual desires inspired by sin, demons and passions, and learn to open ourselves to the sacrificial communion of love in Christ.

Awareness of such a high purpose as deification can give true consolation and fulfillment to the human personality. The Orthodox “humanism” of our Church is based on this divine calling of all people, and therefore leads all the powers of the individual to their fullest disclosure. What other humanism, no matter how progressive and courageous it may seem, is as radical as church “humanism”, which elevates man to becoming a god? Nowhere except the Church will you find such philanthropy.

Nowadays, there are too many people who want to deceive people, especially young people, with various pseudo-humane inventions that in fact disfigure and cripple a person, and do not lead him to fullness. Therefore, it is very important now to emphasize this side of genuine Church care. Consequences of spiritual nourishment that does not lead to deification. Young people are looking for experience. Tired of the materialism and rationalism of the society that we, their fathers, handed down to them, our children - the images of God, called by Him to become gods by Grace - are looking for something beyond the rational forms of materialistic philosophy and godless education that we offer them. They are eager to experience true life; it is not enough for them to just hear about God. They want to feel Him, His Light, His Grace themselves. Not knowing that the Church can give them all this and has the experience that they are looking for, many of them are looking in the wrong place, in their search for something transnational, resorting to various cheap substitutions.

Some are fond of Eastern mysticism, such as yoga, others - occultism and Gnosticism, and recently, unfortunately, outright Satanism. As for morality, there are no boundaries for them. Having been emasculated and torn away from their true purpose - to unite a person with the Holy God - moral principles have lost all meaning.

Hence such a tragic rampant of anarchism and terrorism. Many of those who have a deep need to realize the power inherent in them, but cannot, because no one directed them to deification, indulge in all sorts of extremes and violence towards their neighbors. Most young people, and not only young people, waste precious life time and excess strength given by God in order to succeed in the work of deification on sensuality and carnal pleasures. What a pity that often, with the connivance of the state, hedonism and pleasures of the flesh become modern idols, modern “goddesses,” seriously damaging the bodies and souls of young people.

Others, having absolutely no ideals, waste time on various aimless and fruitless activities. Others find pleasure in meaningless racing at speeds that so often lead to disasters and death. And others, after many wanderings, limply surrender to the devilish captivity of drug addiction, this modern plague.

Finally, many, after a relatively short life full of disappointments and failures, consciously or unconsciously interrupt the torment of their aimless searches, reaching the worst form of despair - suicide.

All these boys and girls who drove themselves to such crazy and destructive actions are not strangers to us. These are our youth, children - both God's and ours - disappointed by the rationalistic, self-sufficient society that we handed over to them. They failed to find the purpose for which they were created, the real reason and eternal meaning of existence - because we did not teach this to them, and it, this eternal meaning, remained closed from them. They did not know the amazing purpose of human life - deification. Finding no peace in anything, they came to all this out of despair.

There are already many shepherds of the holy Orthodox Church - hierarchs, priests, spiritual fathers and God-loving laity - who, out of Christian love, daily devote their strength to the spiritual guidance of youth towards the goal of deification. We gratefully welcome their sacrificial efforts and believe that through this God-pleasing work of theirs, Grace will save and sanctify the souls for whom Christ died. The Holy Mountain residents humbly support the Church in this great struggle. Being a real Destiny of the Mother of God, a special place of sanctification and rest in God, Athos abundantly tastes the blessing of deification, lives in communion with God and has a vivid and obvious experience of His Grace, His Light.

This is why many, including a large number of young people, receive benefit, strengthening, and rebirth in Christ through a pilgrimage to Athos or a closer spiritual connection with it. This helps them feel God in their lives. It is revealed to them why Orthodoxy, Christian deed and spiritual struggle are needed, and with what great joy and meaning they fill their lives. In other words, they partake of this amazing gift of God to humanity, of deification.

And all of us - pastors of the Church, theologians and catechists - should not remain silent about deification, forgetting this primordial direction of truly Church spiritual care. Through him, our children and we, the humble ones, laboring daily in repentance and striving to walk in His holy commandments by God’s grace, are approaching the opportunity to rejoice in such an indescribable blessing of the Lord: unity with Him. We are given the opportunity to enjoy deeper joy in this life and gain eternal blessing and bliss.

We should constantly thank the Holy God for the gift of deification, the gift of His great love. To respond with love to His love. Our Lord wants and thirsts for our deification. That more? This is precisely why He became Man and died on the cross: to shine like the Sun among many suns, like God among gods.

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