Varvara Kashirina

1/23/2015

“Stop Living Like the Heterodox”

St. Theophan the Recluse on education, atheism, and revolution

Varvara Kashirina

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“Stop Living Like the Heterodox”

St. Theophan the Recluse on education, atheism, and revolution

Varvara Kashirina

"But now people not only think it but also speak it, and write it, and print much that is theomachic. Do you think that this will remain without consequences? No."

Stories of St. Theophan’s Childhood Years

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Stories of St. Theophan’s Childhood Years

Varvara Kashirina

Exuberant and impetuous, he was the ringleader of his childhood companions and often made his mother upset. At the same time he was unusually open to new impressions and knowledge. Here are several stories about the holy hierarch’s childhood, which we present to our readers.

“Education is the most sacred of all sacred works.”

St. Theophan on Education

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“Education is the most sacred of all sacred works.”

St. Theophan on Education

Varvara Kashirina

The saint was often asked, “How should a child be properly raised? How can we instill basic moral concepts in his soul?” He would give this advice: “Love your children, and they will love you.” But at the same, time this love must always be joined with reasonable strictness: “Dissolve strictness of authority with meekness, try to earn love with love; true goodness is also not foreign to a strict word.”

St. Theophan in Vysha

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St. Theophan in Vysha

Varvara Kashirina

On January 19, 1894, on the feast of the Theophany, Holy Hierarch Theophan peacefully reposed in the monastery of Vysha, having lived there for twenty-eight years, twenty-two of which were spent in strict reclusion. The period of reclusion is one of the most hidden periods in the life of the Vysha ascetic, known only to the Lord.

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