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I am Alpha and Omega
the beginning and the end, says the Lord,
Who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty.
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Once, answering questions from radio listeners on the air of the Orthodox radio station “Radonezh”, I heard the question: “There is such a book “For God is With Us,” you wrote it, didn’t you? And the Old Believers say that this is their book.” I had to explain how this book appeared, why I came up with the idea to publish it.

The book “For God is With Us” consists of 3 parts: 1st part “Dispute”, 2nd part “About God”, 3rd part “The Path to Salvation”. Part 1 – “Dispute” – is based on the work of the Old Believer writer F.E. Melnikov “Where did faith in God come from (a public debate in Soviet Russia),” written in 1920.

In the forties, one of the magazines of the Moscow Patriarchate published a short story about how an atheist lecturer spoke in the village of Pokrovskoye. The story was called "Bee". He came to us in 1978. One astronomer professor (now the rector of the cathedral) brought several sheets of photographed text, which had neither a title page nor an end, so the author was unknown. I read them. I really liked the story, and I kept thinking about how to revive it, bring it closer to modern times - after all, many years have passed, everything has changed: both science and people. When I was on vacation, I took up the remodeling. In those years, there was no literature that simply and clearly told about faith and salvation, and this story could become a small outlet for Orthodox Christians. We took the “skeleton” of the story as a basis, expanded it, and made our own changes. In our version, the atheist Matyunin turned into Matyukhin (I wanted to tease him with irony, I remembered “tyukha-matyukha”), the mute Trofimushka spoke: dialogues were specially composed for him, texts were written for Matyukhin, Demyan Lukich, and other participants in the debate. Much was included from the holy fathers, from modern writers and researchers.

They composed a preface in which there were two characters - boxers in the spiritual ring, chapters in the book turned into rounds (these images were close to me, as a former boxer). They came up with a cover: death-atheism has raised its scythe over the village of Pokrovsky. They gave the book to the author - S. Lavrov. Since I lived in the Sergius Lavra for several years through the prayers of St. Sergius of Radonezh, I decided to give the author the name S. Lavrov - Sergius Lavra, the place of my spiritual birth.

The first book was called “How atheism was buried in the village of Pokrovskoye.” The book was copied using photocopiers. Many began to retype it, some on typewriters, some, like us, copied. Some kind people were found who published a brochure abroad. We didn't sell it, we gave it away. The brochure immediately spread throughout Russia. Then the idea came to write the second and third parts, explaining what faith in God is, what the meaning of the Church Sacraments is, and how to live as an Orthodox Christian. The book gained volume and began to be called “For God is With Us.” Why?

When our family lived in Siberia and I worked in a mine, persecution began. Atheism was then in full swing. Local authorities tried their best to “reason” with our family through meetings, radio, and newspapers. The local newspaper published an article: “Not a single person lagging behind on the way.” It wrote that a home church had appeared in our house. Representatives from the authorities came to look at this church and at the same time talk with us. There was no one at home, the police looked through the window and saw the words “For God is with us” written in white paint on the doors.

God is with us. “God is with us, understand the pagans and submit, as God is with us,” these words sounded in my soul since childhood, they reminded me of Christmas, instilled confidence: God is with us. “If God is for us, who can be against us?”

Now this book has sold millions of copies; few church people do not know it. She, like a bee, spread her message about God throughout our vast country.

Many years later it became known that the text of those pages belongs to the Old Believer religious publicist Fyodor Efimovich Melnikov. Since then, when reprinting the book “For God is With Us,” we always indicate the authorship of the 1st part of the book: “based on the book by F.E. Melnikov "Where did faith in God come from."

Archimandrite Ambrose (Yurasov)

Among the countless celestial bodies, planets and stars, our Earth is a tiny, unnoticeable speck of dust, and on this speck of dust man lives: here his fall occurred and here his salvation took place. The Creator of the world Himself, having assumed human form, descended to earth and lived under human cover for thirty-three and a half years, but the creation rebelled against its Creator and put Him to death on the cross.

What is man compared to God? Nothing! But now, as once upon a time, he poses a daring challenge to Heaven; in his madness he denies his Creator and thereby condemns himself to eternal destruction.

However, faith in God cannot disappear. She lived and will live among the people as long as the world exists. She lives in the hearts of such pure people as Demyan Lukich, a wise old man whom you, dear reader, will meet on the pages of this book.

Like God is with us

The House of the Life-Giving Trinity has always been and is recognized by the heart of Russia, and the builder of this House, the Venerable Sergius of Radonezh, is “a special guardian and helper of our Russian kingdom,” as Tsars John and Peter Alekseevich said about him in 1689, a special patron, guardian and leader of the Russian people, Perhaps it would be more accurate to say - the guardian angel of Russia.

Priest Pavel Florensky. Trinity Lavra of St. Sergius and Russia

Meeting of abbots and abbesses of the Russian Orthodox Church in the Trinity-Sergius Lavra

The year 2014 in Russia was eventful. Against this background, the first meeting of the abbots of the Russian Orthodox Church in the history of new Russia in the Trinity-Sergius Lavra looks more than modest. There was almost no mention of him in the secular media, and few wrote about him in the church media. But this does not in any way detract from its significance. For non-believers, the event is truly insignificant. So what if all the hegumens of the Russian Orthodox Church are the abbots, what if it’s St. Sergius’s, what if it’s on the day of his memory? Who cares what they do there in the Church? Here is the dollar exchange rate - this is important! But the well-being and stability of a country depend not only on oil prices or the exchange rate. Sometimes things that are intangible and absolutely impossible for a rational assessment turn out to be the main and decisive ones. Russian history is rich in such events.

The victory over the Mongol-Tatars and the unification of Rus' began with the blessing of Prince Dmitry Donskoy by the Radonezh abbot. Before the fateful meeting of the saint with the Moscow prince, the Russians had no hope of victory. But there was confusion, distrust of each other and fear of defeat. But the Monk Sergius blesses Prince Dmitry with the cross, sends two monks with him, Peresvet and Oslyaba, and sends him to the Kulikovo field to win. Because the Lord is with them, Prince Dmitry and the Russian army. For a secular consciousness, far from everything that cannot be touched or spread on a sandwich, this is complete nonsense. How can the words of some elder, a cross and two nuns be a source of victory? It turns out they can. And the seemingly eternal yoke of the Golden Horde from the cross, blessing and hope in the will of God disappears like smoke.

Time of Troubles. The boyars' intrigues, conspiracies and unprecedented corruption bring the country to the brink of extinction. Polish occupiers in Moscow. Murders, robberies, executions. The authorities are weak and confused. The people are divided and intimidated. A little more - and Rus' will end. But then Prince Dmitry Pozharsky and the townsman Kuzma Minin appear - and history changes. Who are these people - great leaders, people's favorites, famous commanders? No. But it is to them that the Lord entrusts the fate of the Fatherland. And again, through His faithful servant - the Venerable Irinarch of Borisoglebsky - He guides and strengthens the liberators. At the decisive moment, Prince Pozharsky and Kuzma Minin hesitated: should they go to Moscow? There was no unanimity among the Russian militia; one of the leaders of the Russian army, Ivan Zarutsky, killed another governor, Prokofy Petrovich Lyapunov, near Moscow. To save Prince Dmitry from doubts and indecision, Elder Irinarh sends him his blessing and prosphora and orders him to immediately march on Moscow with his entire army, fearing nothing and no one. For this is the will of God. “Fulfill and see the glory of God,” the monk instructed in his message. The militia leaders listen to his words. Moreover, they go to the Boris and Gleb Monastery to personally receive the blessing of the monk. He blessed them for the campaign and gave them his cross. There were no more doubts. The Russian army advanced from Rostov to Pereslavl, and from Pereslavl to the Trinity-Sergius Lavra, where it stopped to venerate St. Sergius. And if at the beginning of the journey these were insecure, doubting people, then, having reached the walls of Moscow, they are already fearless and courageous warriors, confident in their victory. Because God is with them.

Why do modern and sometimes completely non-church people turn to St. Sergius? Because for his devotion to Christ, he has special boldness to ask God for everyone who comes to him. And when problems cannot be solved by earthly means and the obvious mercy of God is required, the monk acts as an intercessor and humble petitioner for his people. So it was then, so it is now. The abbot of the Russian land always remains with his people.

The hegumen is the one who leads the entire life of the monastery, material and spiritual.

On October 8, the day of blessed memory of St. Sergius, the abbots of all the monasteries of our Church, headed by His Holiness the Patriarch, gathered at his holy relics. On the day when we believe that it is closer than ever to us, the abbots of Russian monasteries prayed with one heart and one mouth together with the Russian people who had gathered here from all over the country. With reverence, joy and humility, the spiritual army gathered at their leader.

Warriors never leave their posts just like that. When the army gathers, there will be a campaign, there will be war. And in this war you can become either a winner or a loser - there is no third option. After all, “we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against the spiritual forces of wickedness in high places” (Eph. 6:12). And under the banners of Christ, under the leadership of St. Sergius, the monastic army went to victory. Like God is with us.

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The book “For God Is With Us,” which has been reprinted in large editions for several decades, is one of the most popular modern apologetic works. It is constructed in the form of a debate between an atheist, a lecturer at the Knowledge Society, and a deeply religious, well-read rural beekeeper, who convincingly crushes the common arguments of “learned” atheists directed against “ignorant” believers. For many of those who have come to the Church in recent years, this story has helped to destroy the idols of rationalism implanted in their minds during the Soviet period. It was written by the famous writer Fyodor Efimovich Melnikov, during the time of the Bolshevik persecution of the Church, “in the impenetrable Siberian taiga,” as the author himself pointed out. The brochure was titled “in the impenetrable Siberian taiga,” as the author himself indicated. The brochure was called “Where did faith in God come from. Public leisure in Soviet Russia." Later, this story was revised, supplemented with sections “About God” and “The Path to Salvation”, outlining the foundations of Orthodox teaching, and published under the pseudonym “S. Lavrov." The book is written in a very simple, lively language, which makes it accessible to readers of any age and level of education. It will bring undoubted benefit to both those who have just entered church life and those who have to discuss with non-believers or people who doubt their faith.

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