Alexey Dudin Biography

Lavrentieva: - I apologize, and do not depreciate the past experience. Once we spoke with Frederica de Graf on this subject-she is a psychologist at the first Moscow hospice. And she says that in such states there is a great risk about his previous spiritual experience, which the Lord gave you, to tell you that it seemed to me, or I was so sensitive-I felt, or just some kind of coincidence.

In general, all at once to devalue and be in an incomprehensible state. Alexey Dudin: - Let's try to make out this question of yours. Firstly, we must look at the fact that in the spiritual development of a person there are different stages. And a person, age, is one thing when he is in a state of edition, and the Lord at that moment literally pours out the streams of his love on him, and any human prayer is heard, and everything spiritual is so easily given and brings a huge number of joys.

And, in general, this, probably, is just the experience, which, most importantly, cannot be depreciated and not lost, because this is a certain bail that the Lord gives a person in his salvation, primary. And then the time of labor comes, the time when every prayer is often, every business is given with a feat. And not because the Lord wants a person, let’s say, to complicate his life, but because a person is so arranged that what is easily given to him is less appreciated by him.

Therefore, often spiritual fruits, subsequent after this stage of the initial churching, are given with great difficulty. And at that moment, probably, a person can feel the crisis of his faith and feel: how is it, Lord? You were so close, I prayed to you, I almost have a almost constant Jesus prayer from my heart, and then, as they say, you can’t knock out a tear from your eyes, and you can’t turn, and your heart is dry.

Indeed, there is such a stage of the human development of spiritual. And it is important at this stage not Lavrentiev: - Do not get stuck. Alexey Dudin: - Rather, do not despair. Because, when it was easy for a person, and then it became difficult, he can quit everything and stop doing it, move away. And in this case, you need to watch that this crisis is not connected with this, and explain to a person.

And the confessor always explains that you need to go further, that now a new stage has come. If that which used to be given an advance was so easy, now you need to work hard in order to get the grace of God. This can be one aspect of what you are talking about. There may be a completely different aspect. Because a person often, having received spiritual joy, knowing that he can always come to the temple, repent, confess, take communion, he risks turning into the so -called professional Orthodox.

And this professional Orthodox person, in general, is such a terrible creature that is trying to exploit the mercy of God in relation to himself. And he goes and does everything he wants first, and then, when it becomes bad, shouts: “Lord, bad! Save - I die! Therefore, the Lord sometimes leaves at such moments. If you and I are often to blame, violating those boundaries of spiritual life that the Orthodox person should have, we ourselves touch the impurity of this world, which takes the warmth of our soul, then the Lord can stop giving us grace.

Why pour out grace to someone who does not value this grace and does not store? And it is very important to see what this crisis is connected with. If this crisis is due to the fact that, for example, we are uncontrollably begin to consume all entertainment content that modern civilization offers us, then we ourselves are to blame for the cooling of our soul. Because, if we look at everything in a row, we open the gates of our soul through vision and our other feelings for all sinful things, then that our soul has cooled down and our faith, in general, weakened?

Because, indeed, everyone knows the apostolic expression that faith without deeds is dead - you know this very well. But at the same time, faith is not something static, this is what is changing all the time in a person. Vera either grows, or, conversely, begins to degrade, depending on whether a person acts by faith or does not act on it. Therefore, you always need to look for what reason a person is now falling into despondency.

Because, I think, a person begins to experience the crisis of faith, or interpret those events that occur with him as a crisis of faith, when he falls into a certain state of despondency and loses joy. You just need to see for what reason the person lost this joy. He himself is often guilty of this. And then you need to repent again, close the gate for all this unclean, which is washed out the heat of our soul, and re -return to the first state of severity.I don’t know who, but I remember, when I had the first posts, God forbid to eat something imminent, for some reason the boundaries that a person initially exposes for himself so as not to touch anything forbidden, then he, becoming so professional Orthodox, begins to blur it: I am already experienced, I already know, if I am a little, if I am a little?

And begins, for example, to quote John Chrysostom. John Chrysostom says that fasting is the last Christian virtue. It is clear that after love, after mercy, after the rest of all things, but nevertheless, this is a Christian virtue, and she stores and saves the human soul from many misfortunes, troubles and evils. Therefore, if you feel such a state, you need to go with your confessor and figure out: where does the warmth of your soul go, what happens to you.

Of course, it happens that a person is purely physically so tired of his work or, for example, caring for his patients with his neighbors that this condition is largely associated with his physical component. And this despondency does not have a spiritual background - a person is just tired. Then often a person needs to find a reasonable solution in order to somehow send his work, find a way to relax, come to his senses.

And maybe this is the reason that a person, as it seems to him, is experiencing a crisis of faith. Therefore, we must always understand what exactly now I am experiencing problems. And for this, as I said, a competent, good confessor, or at least a priest, spiritually experienced, with whom you can chat with whom you need to keep in touch is very much needed.

The priest, in fact, is a guide that leads a person to the Lord, helps a person go - a person always goes to the Lord himself. It is important to have such a conductor, because it is very easy to break into one, especially if a person takes some serious feats for himself. Remember how, too, in the edemator it is said: they are also carried out, they fall, as if there is a bundle - that is, those people whom no one directs, they, like leaves from a tree, fall off, and that’s all, and cannot restrain themselves.

Matsan: - Let's get back to this conversation after a small pause. I will remind you that today with us and you in the program “Bright evening”, Priest Alexei Dudin, rector of the Church of the Holy Equal -to -the -Apostles Prince Vladimir in the city of Kommunar in the Gatchina diocese, in the Leningrad region. In the studio of Kira Lavrentiev, I am Konstantin Matsan.

Do not switch. Lavrentieva: - Hello again, dear friends. Today in the studio, priest Alexei Dudin, rector of the temple of the Equal -to -the -Apostles Prince Vladimir in the city of Kommunar of the Gatchina diocese, the Leningrad region. With you, Konstantin Matsan, Kira Lavrentieva, we continue our interesting conversation. Father, the city of Kommunar.

Do they plan to change the name of the city? Alexey Dudin: - Let me tell you so a little from afar. There was a wonderful bell to Vladimir, he still teaches calling the call courses there. And on the bell tower, being a student, he joyfully climbed, and with me there was a slave of God Alexander, the kingdom of heaven, with whom we studied together this rather interesting art of bell ringing.

I asked him, where did he come from. He said that he came from the city of Kommunar, and that it is planned to build a temple there. And my first impression, as I remember now: how the city smells like this - the city of Kommunar. I just had a little so my heart my heart, I think: nothing to themselves, people live somewhere there, the poor, they are tormented with that name. And so it happened that literally after 15 years I was there a rector, even more - after 20, but not the point.

In general, in short, it so happened that in this city the Lord really sent me to work hard. And it was precisely the temple that Alexander still planned to build that I had to build just a rector. Of course, I would like to change such a name, but, firstly, historically this did not exist-it arose as a result of the Komsomol construction. And also a plus due to the fact that it arose as a result of the Komsomol construction site, it was formed due to this of those residents, often prisoners, released a little earlier than his term.

Unfortunately, not from political prisoners, but mainly from petty hooligan criminal. Therefore, indeed, it’s hard: such as they say, the background is serious, heavy partly. And on the other hand, you know, everything in life always exists in contrast. These people who came from the city to the temple and breathed this air in the love of Christ, mutual communication, help to each other, really the living life of the Christian community, they really appreciate it.

And in this regard, it is both difficult and easy for me. Since the year, Kommunar has become a city. Of course, I have a dream - any person can have a dream, not forbidden. Here we have our organization with the name "Svetograd". Maybe someday our Kommunar will become a light-grade. Of course, there was an idea to call him a royal Slav.But also somehow this idea did not find, unfortunately, so far Lavrentieva:-I have not found a response?

Alexey Dudin: - No, she found a response. She did not find financial support, because changing the name for the city is huge costs. You understand that these are cards, and all registrations, and passport tables, and all documentation is a whole thing. Nevertheless, we do not leave hopes. What our city will be, and I hope that it will depend on this and how it will be called.

Lavrentieva:-Father, wherever you served: both in some household premises, or, in general, in rooms that are completely unsuitable for the temple. Even, it was a matter, they served in a women's bath. That is, until you had a temple, as soon as your community nomaded this community. Alexey Dudin: - This was such a time.

It was just the first year - it just had to hold out for a year.