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

The book "Parish chronicles" is an essay, or essays written in simple language, with optimism, humor and representing small stories -observations about the life of the most ordinary people with whom the author had a chance to meet. Each of them has their own everyday problems, their own view of the world, its own fate. 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 acquaintances: that there is a soul, spirituality, sin, virtue and why A man lives ...

Archpriest Alexander Avdyugin is the rector of the Church of the Holy Obotter Joachim and Anna of the city of Rovenka of the Luhansk 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 embarrassed to tell your biography, and it is not appropriate for the priest to dwell on it in detail. Everything is in the will of God. Well, briefly - nothing unusual for 30 years.

I was born in Rostov, my parents lived on Stanislavsky, and graduated from the 67th school, this is in the squares of the warriors. He entered the university for the History. I did not go through the competition. Then the army, returned to his native port, worked at a helicopter in a military specialty. Then the institute, the specialization of "Automation and telemechanics". Further, everything is according to the scheme familiar in the Soviet years.

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

I sometimes went into temples for worship, but I was not churching then. There was some kind of underlying craving for faith, but more attracted the desire to understand and comprehend, and it was Orthodoxy. After some time, he went to Optina Deserts, to the Holy Vvedensky Monastery. There he lingered for more than a year and a half.

In the monastery, various obedience was carried, like a worker, that is, living and working at the monastery, but not accepting monasticism. Most of the monastery days was blessed to grate in the publishing department of the monastery. As you can see, books again. At the same time, I received a spiritual education. The choice of the further path was made in the monastery. God has become a reality for me.

From there, from Optina, I was invited by the diocesan secretary of the Lugansk-Dionets diocese to a reception for the ruling bishop, who invited me to accept the spiritual rank. "