Руководство к духовной жизни

Reverend Varsonofy Great and John the Prophet

Varsonofy Great and John the Prophet - the monks, teachers of the spiritual life. Their only work "A Guide to the spiritual life" ( "A Guide to the spiritual life in the answers to the students questions", -. Collection of various instructions devotees to different people and in different occasions Value "Guide to the spiritual life," Reverend Varsonofy and John first of all, it fixed the living tradition of spiritual guidance V-VI centuries, the direct experience of Orthodox monasticism of the epoch "Guide to spiritual life in the answers to the questions of students." -. the most valuable guide to asceticism, consider the set of questions from the practical needs of the monks to the deepest realities of spirit Dervas. Chitty describes life Varsonofy Great and John the Prophet: "We do not know exactly when the Egyptian monk Barsanuphius shut himself in his cell, giving Abba Seridu nastoyatelstvovat over gathered around him ascetics Great Elder did not come out of his cell, communicating with the outside world through showed. his complete obedience (here it is appropriate to recall the attitude of Abba Isaiah with his student Peter an Egyptian) and serve him Abba Serida. Not before and not later than 525 527 Great Elder he moved to a new cell, freeing his former cell to another Elder - John, leading into the same reclusive life and communicate with the world through one of the monks for eighteen years. The community took the form of Kin surrounded keliyami accepted shutter hermits. Fifty-four letters [Answer] Barsanuphius (one short message written by other Old Man), written in response to questions from the monk John Birsavii (Beersheba) is preceded by a meeting of more than eight hundred answers given to various questions Elders and different questioning. The meeting was edited by one of the monks of the monastery (his name is unknown to us), which was witnessed Barsanuphius left his gate, to wash the feet of the brethren and thus dispel doubts one of the questioner, tormented by thoughts that invisible Elder was an invention of Abba Serida ".