Church of the Intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Ussuriysk
Aerial ordeals are obstacles through which every soul must pass after death on the way to the throne of God for private judgment. From the sins listed below, remember and select those to which you are involved. Next, you need to repent of them, before the priest, to God in the Sacrament of Confession. Confession is performed during the evening service. You can prepare for confession using various sources, as you wish. Either according to the 10 commandments, or according to the 8 main passions, or according to the 20 ordeals.
1st ordeal: “sin in word” (tongue). Idle talk, idle talk, ridicule, evil and indiscreet jokes, indecent speech, verbosity, slander, foul language, anecdotes, obscenity, vulgarity, name-calling, laughter, peevishness, vileness, incitement, taking the name of God in vain, rudeness, swearing, blasphemy (blasphemy is a sin against that which belongs to God or the saints: the use of the Church Slavonic language and sacred texts idlely or in mockery. Thus, one can often hear the expressions “the voice of one crying in the wilderness” or “the appearance of Christ to the people.” Blasphemy can also be an action when parodying priestly services or any in a different way. You cannot sing songs of the Eucharistic canon in everyday life), not stopping the blasphemous actions of others, singing bad and passionate songs, disorderly exclamations, thoughtless or careless speech, infatuation with empty fables and fairy tales, obscene and unclean kissing, forcing others to take an oath, vicious gestures and argot, for example, prison, which has satanic roots.
2nd ordeal: “lie”. Lie, oath-breaking (violation of an oath), failure to fulfill vows made to God, concealment of sins in confession, flattery, sycophancy, meanness, cowardice, imagination, artistry, perjury, disgust, secrecy, deceptions, false oaths, failure to fulfill promises, perjury, deceptions in the form of a “joke” "
3rd ordeal: “slander”. Slander of one's neighbor, condemnation, humiliation (humiliation), curses, slander, ridicule of a person (especially of his shortcomings), as well as listening to all this, failure to protect a person from false accusations, insults, insults, sneaking, complaints, sacrilege (insult, desecration of a shrine ), contributing to the sins of others, impudence, cynicism (an open, defiant, dismissive and contemptuous attitude towards the norms of public morality, cultural values), threats, mistrust, doubts, forgetting one’s own sins and shortcomings, inattention to them, the desire to hear praise.
4-ordeal: “gluttony.” Gluttony (means “to rage about the belly,” or for the pleasure of the belly. To consume food and drink in excess, not actually for the needs of the body, but out of passion), gluttony, gluttony, laryngeal rabies (means “to rage about the pleasure of the larynx.” To be too picky or inventive in food or drink, loving to the point of addiction all sorts of delicacies that are so tasty and pleasant that you don’t want to swallow them right away), gourmetism, delicacy, voluptuousness, untimely and secret eating, eating food without prayer, breaking fasts, excessive drinking of wine, drunkenness , passionate kissing, feasting, smoking, drug addiction, substance abuse, gambling addiction, etc., obscene dancing, in a word, all kinds of pleasing the belly, excessive attention to the flesh, use of cosmetics, perfumes, etc.
5th ordeal: “laziness.” Laziness and negligence in serving God, despondency, abandonment of church and home prayers, parasitism and performing one’s duties with negligence, self-justification, stubbornness, inattention, oblivion, idleness, cowardice (losing in spirit from troubles, persecution, oppression, sorrows and illnesses), weakness of will, idleness, carelessness (a state of extreme carelessness, irresponsible attitude towards life), hack work, obstinacy (the love of doing everything contrary), lack of obligation, coldness and lukewarmness about spiritual things, negligence about praying for neighbors: relatives, church pastors, authorities, soldiers, all living and dead, rare visits to temple, parasites, carelessness at work, complete idleness (this applies to people who do not work for whole months, live on savings or interest and at the same time lead an easy carefree life), pampering with sleep, vagrancy (this is not just sloths and parasites, but people who abandoned their homes, families, and service). Against the dangerous disease of carelessness and neglect of one’s soul, the best remedy is constant remembrance of death. “Remember your last days, and you will never sin,” the Bible says. Thoughts about sudden death, judgment, hell, heaven and eternity are very saving. And not a single thought is so diligently obscured by the enemy as this one.
6th ordeal: “theft.” Sins committed against someone else's property, all kinds of theft and theft, gross, obvious, secret, with the help of cunning, speciousness and violence, thefts, adventures, scams, complicity, plagiarism, fraud, also non-payment of wages to employees, theft of church property.
7th ordeal: “love of money.” Stinginess, greed, the search for profit, over-concern, acquisitiveness (accumulation of material values). Those who, having the opportunity to help a starving man, out of stinginess reject him and thus bring him to death, are murderers.
8th ordeal: “covetousness.” Covetousness (when, under the guise of some right, but in fact in violation of justice and philanthropy, they turn someone else’s property or other people’s labor into their own benefit, covetousness - greed (this includes all types of extortion and bribery), foul profit (receipt of profit, gain for the bad, unjust by. The concept can include any measurement, weighting, deception, but also any income that brings evil to people - for example, based on the satisfaction or incitement of sinful passions), usury (extracting excessive benefits by exploiting the predicament of the debtor, or in general any transaction, in which there is a disproportionate enrichment of one party due to the need or constrained position of the other party), appropriation of someone else’s property, extortion, robbery, robbery, failure to repay debts, subterfuge, fraud.
9th ordeal: “untruths.” Untruths of all kinds, seducing people into committing any sin, no matter how minor, providing false information in any form and scale.
10th ordeal: “envy.” Annoyance, hatred, gloating, this also includes sins committed by SIGHT: indecent looking, curiosity, excessive admiration for the creation of human hands.
11th ordeal: “pride.” Pride, vanity, contempt, grandeur, self-will, self-exaltation, arrogance, hypocrisy, dishonesty, blasphemy, ignorance, boasting, contempt (they say, I don’t want to know anyone!), arrogance (pompous importance), conceit, self-praise, disrespect for parents, disobedience to superiors , hope in one’s wealth, in oneself, especially in spiritual matters. Habit of arguing. Also, taking on overwhelming spiritual labors (sometimes out of a desire to literally imitate a saint), ingratitude to God for a special benefit, an arrogant look (also expressed by a reluctance to say hello first or to respond to a person’s greeting) and the most dangerous thing - demonic seduction: contacts with fallen spirits, in the form angels, “clairvoyance”, contacts with the “higher mind”, all this is accepted as a “gift from above” or “chosenness”.
12th ordeal: “rage and wrath.” Hard-heartedness, malice, hatred, rage, irritability, embitterment, short temper, quarrels, squabbles, hysterics, scandals, obsession, mercilessness, treachery (“breaking faith” is betrayal, and deliberate deception of someone else’s trust).
13th ordeal: “grudge and memory of malice.” Repaying evil for evil, rancor, gloating, revenge, vindictiveness, sabotage, bullying.
14th ordeal: “murder” (in thought, word and deed): assassination attempt, use, production of all kinds of instruments and preparations for murder, abortion (and complicity in it), blows, kicks, pushes, fights, wishing for the death of others, words curses, people's disgust from the path of salvation, the desire for death in intense grief, filth eating (dead meat).
15th ordeal: “witchcraft.” Witchcraft, incantations, charm, enchantment, fortune telling, divination, belief in astrology, horoscopes and other superstitions, witchcraft, healing (extrasensory perception), witchcraft, witchcraft, shamanism, appealing to “grandmothers.” Witchcraft, conspiracies, calling on demons (even unconsciously), curses “as a joke”: for the weather, circumstances and anything else, it is also a sin to call someone a witch, devil, etc. communication with sorcerers, following signs.
16-ordeal: “fornication.” Unclean words, thoughts, desires and deeds, intercourse (sex) before marriage or outside of marriage, cohabitation outside of marriage, voluptuous views, lustful dreams, fantasies, intoxication, pleasure, defilement in bed, vulgar jokes, temptation to fornication, temptation to one’s own nakedness , fornication touching, providing a place for fornication, prostitution, pimping, violation of vows of celibacy, falls, dreams of fornication, permission for fornication for others, sexual perversions between spouses, masochism, wearing seductive clothes, production, sale, viewing of corrupting literature.
17th ordeal: “adultery.” Failure to maintain marital fidelity, prodigal falls of persons who have dedicated themselves to God.
18th ordeal: “Sin of Sodom.” Unnatural sins. Incest, prodigal perversions, homosexuality, lesbianism, malakia (handjob), self-satisfaction, seduction of minors, violence, masochism, self-torture, oral, anal sex.
19th ordeal: “heresy.” False wisdom about faith, doubt in faith, apostasy from the Orthodox faith, superstition (empty, meaningless wisdom), distortion of faith, failure to go to Church, schism, rejection of church rules, sectarianism.
20th ordeal: “unmercy and hardness of heart”: cruelty, insensibility, ruthlessness, persecution of the weak, petrification, callousness, lack of concern for children, the elderly, and the sick. Not giving alms, inhumanity, heartlessness.
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The ordeal of the soul after death - what is it?
For Orthodox Christians, the most important days after the death of a person are 3, 9 and 40. Where did these numerical values come from? They are closely connected with the ordeals of the soul in Christianity.
- It is believed that during the first 3 days from the moment of death, the spiritual substance is still on the earthly plane, so that the last moments can be close to its relatives and people dear to the heart.
- On the 3rd day, the funeral and funeral service traditionally take place. Now a guardian angel descends from Heaven for the soul, taking it with him.
- From days 3 to 9 - she is in Paradise, enjoying all the delights of heavenly life.
- After which the soul awaits a meeting with God. And then comes the most difficult part - in the period from 9 to 40 days she finds herself in hell, undergoing ordeals.
- On the 40th day, the Heavenly Judgment takes place, and at it the fate of the soul is finally determined.
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Ordeals imply “dates” with demons, whose will was carried out by the deceased during his lifetime. Ordeal in exact translation means “customs”. They can be roughly compared to passing through a customs checkpoint, where tax collectors in the guise of demons take payment for specific sins.
Christians believe that it is very important for the soul to pass this test with dignity, because it will influence the decision of the Heavenly Court.
The “Life” mentioned at the beginning of the article tells that the human soul is accompanied by two angelic beings in the process of experiencing ordeals. The total number of ordeals according to the same publication is twenty (although in other sources their number can increase to thirty or even more).
Each ordeal is under the control of specific demons (unclean spirits). Their task is to drag the soul they have into the Kingdom of Satan.
Demons compile and present a list of the deceased’s sins that fall under a specific ordeal (for example, at the ordeal of lies - a list of times when the deceased lied). And angelic beings make up the same list, but of good deeds that a person has done in his life.
With a predominance of good deeds over bad ones, the soul will be able to move on to the next ordeal. But in the case of unseemly actions outweighing, when the forces of Light cannot provide any arguments, demons joyfully drag the soul into the hellish world.
There are also intermediate options, when the amount of good and evil created by the deceased is the same. Then victory remains with God’s love for mankind. In some situations, the Lord's mercy is so limitless that it overcomes the lack of good deeds against the backdrop of numerous bad ones.
Who keeps track of the good things we do while living on Earth? This is the task of our personal guardian angel. According to the Christian concept, each person receives a personal heavenly protector upon performing the rite of baptism.
The bad, accordingly, is considered by the demon, who is called upon to push a person to commit various sins.
