Александр Авдюгин - Приходские хроники. диск 1 - текст песни, слова, перевод, видео

The book "Parish Chronicles" is an essay or sketches written in simple language, with optimism, humor and representing short observation stories about the lives of the most ordinary people with whom the author had the opportunity to meet. Each of them has their own everyday problems, their own view of the world, their own destiny. But the time comes when something makes them look at their life differently, and sometimes rethink those things and concepts that seemed completely alien to them, but so familiar: what is the soul, spirituality, sin, virtue and why? a man lives...

Archpriest Alexander Avdyugin is the rector of the Church of the Holy Fathers Joachim and Anna in the city of Rovenki, Lugansk region. He conducts active missionary work on the Internet, is the editor of the regional newspaper "Svetilen", the author of essays and articles about Orthodoxy today.

“It’s somehow awkward to tell your biography, and it’s not proper for a priest to dwell on it in detail. Everything is in the will of God. Well, in short - nothing unusual until a little over 30 years old.

I was born in Rostov, my parents lived on Stanislavsky Street at that time, I graduated from school No. 67, this is on Druzhinnikov Square. I entered the university to study history. Didn't pass the competition. Then the army, returned to his native Portovaya, worked on a helicopter in a military specialty. Then institute, specializing in “Automation and Remote Control”. Further, everything follows the pattern familiar in the Soviet years.

At one time, my parents instilled in me a love of books, of serious classical literature. This hobby influenced a lot. The Lord managed in such a way that I had the opportunity to read books by Bunin, Berdyaev, Bulgakov, Merezhkovsky, Ilyin, which in those days were characterized as anti-Soviet.

I sometimes went to churches for services, but I was not a church member then. There was some kind of latent craving for faith, but what attracted me more was the desire to understand and comprehend, and specifically Orthodoxy. After some time, he went to Optina Monastery, to the Holy Vvedensky Monastery. There he stayed for more than a year and a half.

In the monastery, he carried out various obediences, as a laborer, that is, living and working at the monastery, but not accepting monasticism. For most of my monastic days, I was blessed to work in the publishing department of the monastery. As you can see, there are books again. At the same time, I received spiritual education. The choice of the further path was made in the monastery. God became reality for me.

From there, from Optina, I was invited by the diocesan secretary of the Lugansk-Donetsk diocese to a reception with the ruling bishop, who invited me to take holy orders."