11/17/2011
Metropolitan Benjamin (Fedchenkov)
One can only imagine the joy, gratitude, and deep emotion that overwhelmed Kolechka’s soul! St. Seraphim had clearly performed a miracle! The saint answered him directly and explicitly that exact same question of what is “God’s will”!
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“So, only now,” a thought struck me, “now something can be said to them, now they are capable of hearing it, for their souls have melted. But there in the hut there could be no thought of teaching.” I understood that we must first warm the sinful soul, and correct it only afterwards. His Holiness could do this—he greatly loved these sinful but miserable children of his. And he warmed them with his love.
