What do priests live on? How does a priest work?

From the book: Yulia Sysoeva. "Notes of a priest: features of the life of the Russian clergy."

Most of all they hate those who are smarter or kinder - those who have surpassed you in something. Because there is no point in hating someone who is lower than you and has less skills - there is nothing to envy. Consciously or subconsciously, these haters understand that their priests are higher and purer, and that the truth is on their side, and this makes them feel humiliated and begin to hate them.

On January 16, on the official website of the Russian Orthodox Church, a draft document of the Inter-Council Presence was published for public discussion: “Professions compatible and incompatible with the priesthood.”

This document points to a pressing problem. He says that in modern realities, clergy are often simply forced to combine priestly service with work in a secular profession (for example, in the diaspora or in villages), since the small number of parishioners simply does not allow them to support their family with parish funds. However, such a combination is recognized in the text of the project, so to speak, as a “necessary evil.”

The document indicates that, ideally, clergy should be “fed from the gospel,” that is, from the donations made by parishioners for their pastoral and liturgical activities.

Wherein, text of the novella proposes to limit the list of professions that clergy can engage in, excluding from it all professions that can be considered immoral, all professions related to the carrying and use of weapons, business, civil service and court activities (including legal practice), as well as law enforcement. And in addition, prohibit the clergy from any medical activity, professional sports, dancing, singing and acting.

Thus, the document, willingly or unwillingly, touches on a number of complex issues of church life, such as:

• What example do the Lord, apostles and saints set for us in terms of combining professional and spiritual life?
• Is it generally permissible for a clergyman to have any non-church specialty and in what cases might it be needed?
• What to do if work in your specialty benefits the Church, people and the development of the personality of the cleric himself?
• How to organize the activities of parishes in such a way that priests (in the diaspora or villages with a small number of parishioners) do not have to be distracted by outside earnings?
• Which specialties are truly canonically and morally forbidden for a clergyman, and which actually have no grounds for prohibition?

Since the draft document assumes and directly calls on the Church to discuss this text, we will try to answer the questions it poses or at least give its authors and our readers new food for thought.

Lord, apostles and saints - words and life example

First of all, let us consider the example of the life and teaching of the Head of our Church - the Lord Jesus Christ, as well as his apostles and saints, in whose life and words we always find a solid foundation for the organization of our lives.

The Lord himself had the profession of a carpenter and, before entering public service, he helped his betrothed father, Saint Joseph the Betrothed, in his work. Also, after entering public ministry, the Savior not only preached, but also healed many people suffering from illnesses. Of course, His healing had more in common with miracles than with medicine, but it can also be qualified as a profession. At the same time, the Lord, healing the sick, not only helped their bodies, but also disposed their souls to accept His teachings, that is, His actions also had a strong missionary effect.

The Apostle Paul, as the document under discussion rightly mentions, explained to believers that priests can rightly claim to be supported by the community: “Do you not know that those who officiate are fed from the sanctuary? that those who serve the altar take a share from the altar? So the Lord commanded those who preach the Gospel to live from the gospel” (1 Cor. 9: 13-14). However, he himself never lived on donations, preferring to weave tents, and honest work did not at all prevent him from enlightening half of the Roman Empire.

The other apostles also often worked during their travels. Many of them, following the example of the Lord, healed the sick, and the author of one of the Gospels, Apostle Luke, was even a professional doctor.

Among the saints, prayerful work and sacred service were often combined with physical or mental labor. The most severe ascetics, reading prayers, immediately wove baskets, carpets and ropes for sale. Many clergy were writers or poets. In the first centuries, several of the saints who wrote apologies for Christianity were engaged in advocacy. Also, many saints were teachers and builders. Some of them combined their professions with the priesthood and quite successfully.

A special place among the professions of saints is occupied by healing and medicine. Saint Luke of Crimea was a practicing surgeon and teacher, and in general a huge number of saints worked in the field of health care and social assistance. These are the unmercenaries and the venerables and even the saints.

In addition, the words of the Lord also link the mission of the apostles in the world at least with healing: “as you go, preach that the kingdom of heaven is at hand: heal the sick, cleanse the lepers” (Matthew 10:7-8).

Thus, we can say that the saints set us an example of combining priestly service and useful activities that do not interfere with it.

Can a priest have a profession and where might he need it?

In modern realities, most likely not only can, but also should, and several arguments can be given for this.

Firstly, a profession is always a certain educational level and life experience, which can serve to strengthen the authority of a clergyman among his flock.

Secondly, a priest may have a very small parish in a rural area and/or a large family, be sent to a church abroad, where the community is also very small, be for one reason or another banned from priestly service, or receive an injury incompatible with priestly service (fingers). , eyes, etc.) and find himself in other circumstances when he will have to find an alternative source of livelihood and the profession can greatly help him in this.

Thirdly, today priests are often entrusted with many responsibilities and obediences that require certain professional training. In this regard, any professional skill may be useful. For example, construction - during the construction of a church, legal - during the registration of a parish, journalistic - in publishing, medical - in the organization of social assistance services, pedagogical - in the work of a Sunday school.

Fourthly, the profession of a teacher, doctor or, say, writer has great weight in society and can help a priest in preaching the Word of God.

Benefit to the Church, your neighbors and your own soul

It also happens that a person simply cannot help but realize the talents given to him by God. They are literally bursting out of him. This happened, for example, with the Monk John of Damascus, whose confessor for some time, out of humility, forbade him to write poems and spiritual hymns, until he was admonished by the Mother of God herself that there was no point in hindering St. John and that he was doing a godly deed.

Or a closer example to us is the already mentioned Saint Luke (Voino-Yasenetsky), who was not only a bishop, but also a true master of surgery, saved thousands of lives, wrote many scientific works and brought tens of thousands of colleagues and his patients to Christ.

Or the now living hieromonk Photius (Mochalov), who won the “Voice” project, sings touching Russian romances for people, interspersing them with spiritual chants, and by his very presence on the stage prompted many to think about the place of God in their lives and about that modern pop art can be decent and beautiful.

Does a person really need to “clip his wings” and be prohibited from engaging in some interesting professional activity if it helps him to open up more fully and, perhaps, even gives additional strength to his main activity in the church clergy? If his activity additionally serves in the opinion of society for the good glory of the Church? If thanks to her many people receive help and support? This is unlikely to be the right decision.

Is it possible to help priests not to be distracted by secular work?

In the first century, when the apostles needed to free themselves from worldly concerns and focus on preaching the Gospel, the Church founded the institution of diaconate. Deacons were called to “take care of the tables,” that is, to engage in economic and administrative duties in communities. Thus, the Church was transformed in order to successfully carry out its main function - the salvation of human souls. Perhaps it's time for a new reform?

This does not mean the invention of another clergy, but a much less radical proposal, which has already been expressed by Metropolitan Hilarion (Alfeev) - to rebuild foreign parishes on the model of the Greek “church quarters”. In such a block, four buildings are being built nearby - a temple, a refectory (priest's house), a Sunday school and an apartment building. The premises of the latter have a separate exit in the opposite direction from the temple and are rented out to street cafes, workshops and shops. And the money received for this rent supports the temple, Sunday school and the priest’s family. This is roughly how we can solve the problem of churches in the diaspora.

With rural churches, everything is somewhat more complicated, but you can come up with something for them, for example, redistributing the income of large city cathedrals in their favor or giving rural priests a one-time diocesan subsidy in the form of an inexpensive car, a cow and several dozen chickens, so that they can feed themselves. of your farm.

Specialties that a priest can and cannot practice

The list of exception professions presented in the draft document under discussion can be divided into three categories: absolutely correct restrictions, restrictions that are correct with reservations, and completely incorrect.

Unconditionally correct restrictions include canonically prohibited professions - those related to the carrying and use of weapons, doing business, usury, judging and inquiry, as well as a number of immoral professions, which we will not describe in detail.

Those that may be limited with reservations include civil service, professional sports, performances on the stage, in theater or cinema, as well as legal practice. Can't a priest represent the interests of an offended citizen in court? Doesn't he, like a real shepherd, have the right to stand up for him if he can? What can hinder fathers' sporting achievements? Everything here is so situational that it would be better to leave permission for clerics to engage in such professions at the discretion of the clergy, who give a personal blessing in each specific case.

Finally, what is most confusing is the ban on clergy to engage in any medical activities. It's clearly not very well thought out.

First, the example of the saints and the Lord, as well as His words, indicate that healing is an honorable, acceptable, and even desirable service for priests.

Secondly, there are no canonical prohibitions to this. In the Nomocanon, which the authors of the document refer to, the rule they cited about the complete inadmissibility of bloodshed is in the wrong place and sounds completely wrong. In fact, the following is written there: “Presbyter, healer monk, or cut vein, let there be a holiday of sacred rites for 7 days,” that is, after the operation, let him not perform sacred rites for a week.

The danger of involuntary murder, which actually serves as a reason for defrocking, is no greater for a surgeon than, say, for a driver, builder, cook, electrician and any other professions that a priest might engage in. In addition, in a strict sense, even the death of a patient on the operating table almost never means a medical error by the surgeon. Surgeons work in teams, where everyone is responsible for their own small area of ​​work, and the patient, as a rule, comes to them with severe injuries or diseases that in themselves can lead to his death.

Thirdly, it is not clear why a priest should be prohibited from practicing medicine in the broad sense. After all, in addition to surgeons, there are also dentists, clinical psychologists, otolaryngologists and ophthalmologists, laboratory assistants, phthisiatricians, pediatricians, radiologists, nurses and other medical workers, whose work can almost never lead to the death of the patient, as well as veterinarians, who basically don't work with people.

Fourthly, as noted above, medical activity is aimed at the active expression of faith through action, at helping one’s neighbor, and can also serve to convert the doctor-priest’s patients to God.

Fifthly, there are already a lot of doctor-priests in the Church, what to do with them? And historical practice testifies in favor of such a combination, not only in the person of St. Luke of Crimea, but also in the example of healers at large monasteries and seminaries.

More detailed arguments in defense of physician-priests can be gleaned from articles “Heal the Sick” priest Mikhail Kapchits, published on the portal Bogoslov.ru, who also believes that this item should be removed from the list.

Fighting causes instead of fighting effects

The appearance of such a document in itself is symptomatic and indicates that many priests today are forced to combine their clergy duties with professional ones.

And in this regard, creating acceptable conditions for the ministry of priests in rural areas and in the diaspora appears to be much more important than creating a list of professions that are compatible or incompatible with the priesthood.

Perhaps, after all, the time has come to redistribute church expenses in favor of organizing the lives of priests, deacons and clergy - sextons, choristers and other church workers. So that strong communities will finally begin to appear in our churches, and priests will truly be freed from worldly concerns and combining professions for the sake of their two main functions - offering the bloodless Eucharistic sacrifice and pastoral counseling.

Andrey Szegeda

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We must remember that the priest is a forced person and he has no particular place to complain. A secular person, let us repeat once again, if he is not satisfied with the level of wages or relations with his superiors, he can change jobs. It is impossible for a priest to change parish on his own. As a last resort, the priest has the right to complain to his bishop, but this does not always help. The bishop can say - be patient, humble yourself, and that’s all. And it is not customary to ask for a more profitable parish for financial reasons. A priest does not serve to feed his family! If you want to feed your family, go to work, not become a priest. We had a deacon we knew who had the imprudence to ask his bishop for ordination to the priesthood, since his deacon’s salary was not enough to support his family. What came of this is not difficult to guess - he never received the priesthood after that. That's the whole moral.

But the main expense item for all modern churches is not the salaries of clergy and workers, but utility bills. Electricity for a modern parish costs the same as for a commercial organization. If you calculate the average income of an average (not rich) Moscow church, then utility bills take up more than half of all income combined, there’s no time for fat. For example, if the average monthly income in a church is fifty thousand rubles, then a “utility” costs thirty-six thousand. And salaries also need to be paid to accountants, watchmen, singers, cleaners and other working people who, for some reason, also want to feed their families. In addition to salaries and utility bills, there are also household expenses, as in any household.

Citizens who are aggressively opposed to the Church consider priests to be hypocrites, openly thinking that the Church preaches absolute non-covetousness: they say, you should walk around in rags and bast shoes, and live in a TV box. And having a personal car is simply a crime, the same as trafficking in drugs and weapons.

The Church has never preached such nonsense. The question is in relation to material values, and not in their availability. No one is prohibited from having a decent car or a nice house, or a few decent cars and a few decent houses, but this should not be the goal of life under any circumstances. You can’t get attached to this with your soul. As King David said (and he was far from a poor man, by our standards he was simply an oligarch), even if wealth flows, do not cling to it with your heart.

Can priests work in secular jobs or do business? In Russia this is not accepted and does not correspond to church rules. And given the round-the-clock employment, it is simply unrealistic for a priest to work. In Russia, priests are busy serving almost around the clock, unlike priests in foreign churches. Why? It happened that way. Probably, our country still remains Orthodox, although it’s hard to believe. A priest who suddenly dares to go into business can be called to the carpet before his ruling bishop and given a choice: either business or holy orders. They can be seriously punished. Therefore, priests do not risk doing business openly, and, to be honest, rarely anyone does it. I was told about one Krasnodar priest who ran several sausage stalls on the Black Sea coast. He became so carried away by this matter that he completely neglected the service and the parish. Finally his bishop found out about this and quickly put him under ban. Abroad, in the Russian Orthodox Church, on the contrary, priests are forced to work in secular jobs in order to feed themselves and their families. I emphasize that it is in the Russian Church, but in other local churches the situation is different. Firstly, the parishioners there do not support a priest, since he is perceived as an equal. There is some influence of Protestantism here - after all, Protestants do not recognize the priesthood at all. Parishioners communicate with pastors on equal terms. And if he is the same as all the other parishioners, then why is the parish obliged to feed him?

We have a different attitude towards priests. In Russia, the veneration of the priesthood is still preserved as a special blessed gift that is not given to everyone.

Father in a personal car

Many citizens who are aggressively opposed to the Church consider priests to be hypocrites, sincerely thinking that the Church preaches absolute non-covetousness: they say, you should walk in rags and bast shoes, and live in a TV box. And having a personal car is generally a crime, like selling drugs and weapons. The Church has never preached such nonsense.

So, since many believe that the Church preaches non-covetousness, when they see a priest in a car, they really like to throw a couple of accusatory phrases at him like:

Why are you, father, driving a car? It’s not allowed according to religion!

Or again, looking at the shabby Zhiguli:

The priests drove around here in Mercedes...

By the way, about Mercedes. Remember the famous Soviet-era film "Beware of the Car"? The main character of the film, Yuri Detochkin, was very fond of stealing Volga cars, which were elite at that time. But this was, I think, in the late sixties. Now imagine exactly such a car that survived until the early 2000s. Introduced. So, the director’s camera is transferred to two thousand and one, to a busy Moscow highway called Varshavskoye Shosse. On the side of the road, emergency lights flashing, stands the unfortunate twenty-first Volga, steam pouring thickly from under its open hood, like from a broken heating main. And the priest and mother are jumping nearby, trying to cool the ardent temper of the seriously hot engine.

An absolutely reliable incident from life, which I had the good fortune to contemplate while driving through Varshavka.

Here are the Mercedes! But they say priests only drive new foreign cars...

Once again you come to the conclusion that our people cannot be bothered with envy, and even if it is a “sacred” thing to expose the priest of money-grubbing and hypocrisy, we must expose the opium dealer for the people.

However, for a priest, as for many, a car is primarily a means of transportation, and often simply a vital means of transportation. The priest constantly has to travel for needs. Can you imagine if in a rural area a parish consists of several small villages located several tens of kilometers from each other and not connected to each other by any decent bus service... How to move around such a parish?

One priest lived in such a wilderness where it was possible to move around the parish only by three types of transport - a military "Ural", a tractor "Belarus" and a people's "UAZ". Of these three types, the priest chose the modest UAZ. So rumors spread to the local bishop, located five hundred kilometers from the priest’s parish, that the priest had healed well and was driving around in a jeep. When the bishop honored this priest with his visit, they laughed together, looking at the priest’s “jeep,” which looked like a sports mustang from a survival race. And they laughed even more when the priest told how one day bandits from a neighboring regional town came to them. They arrived, of course, in imported UAZs, popularly called “wide jeeps,” but the “wide jeep” sat up to its belly where our folk vehicles easily pass. A local tractor driver had to help them out for a box of vodka.

Another incident from rural priestly life. One priest bought a Nine, old and rotten, but very cheap - there was no money for a normal car, but he needed to drive. This “nine” drove for several kilometers and died. The father brought it to the mechanic, who opened the engine and took it out - what do you think? - wooden pistons! It turns out that local craftsmen carried out professional “pre-sale” preparation on the destroyed car, turning wooden pistons on a lathe. It's amazing that the car even traveled with them. Yes, there are still masters with golden hands in Rus'.

In the city, a car is also necessary. Take, for example, the Moscow microdistrict Yasenevo, in which a priest may have several services in different parts of the world in one day. It's not very easy to walk or take a bus. With a local doctor, the area is much more densely packed. If a clergyman needs a car as part of his job, let’s put it this way, why can’t he have his own transport just like a person? Does the Church prohibit traveling by car? Others go to the country, to work, to do shopping, and take their children to school. Why is it that if a priest has a car, then this is the best reason to wash his bones? Many priests, fearing gossip and condemnation, deliberately do not purchase foreign cars, being content with the products of our domestic automobile industry. In some dioceses, bishops prohibit priests from purchasing foreign cars, even old and shabby ones, so as not to tempt people.

But a car for a priest is fraught with another danger: every time he gets behind the wheel, the priest risks losing his rank if he hits a person to death. And here's why: according to church canons, a priest who commits an involuntary murder is defrocked. Of course, any driver in this situation can end up behind bars, but if he is guilty, of course. This is a very difficult topic; any normal person, even if he is three times innocent, will have a hard time experiencing such a tragedy. Unlike secular law, church laws are different: a priest who hits a person, in addition to personal tragedy, regardless of his guilt, will also suffer the strictest church punishment.

I’ll have to tell you another, this time a sad story that happened not so long ago.

No, there are no such categories. “Work” in this case means “service.” Service involves complete dedication. We also did not see the use of the terms “applicants” and “vacancy”, maybe only “vacancy”.

Do such elements of secular work as a career ladder, vacations, time off, advanced training exist?

First of all, there is no social package. Time off? No. Career ladder? Yes, but for this it is necessary, since a monk can become a bishop (a level higher than a priest) and administrative promotions will be available to him - up to the patriarch. There is a leave of absence if the bishop approves, authorizes and signs it. As “advanced training,” you can consider, for example, graduating from a theological academy.

How to become a priest?

“Becoming a priest” is not technically difficult, especially in small towns and provincial dioceses: if a person has been going to church for a long time, knows the service well, is in good standing in the parish and the diocese and needs clergy, then they can be ordained without even bothering with special spiritual education. Another thing is that this is a large internal path. What is needed is an inner willingness to devote oneself to serving to the maximum, and this is not limited to church services on Sunday and the night before. A priest is not an office employee: it’s impossible to go home when called and forget about work on the weekend, there is no social package, no one will pay for sick leave. And there are no guarantees that you will not be banned for any reason, or even without it: if there were a person, there would be a reason.

What education is needed and where can I get it?

Ideally, a theological school (in small towns), then a seminary (analogous to a secular university) - the main institute that graduates future clerics. Seminaries used to be only in the largest cities (for example, SPbDAiS, MDA), now there are many more of them. The top level is the Theological Academy, which you can graduate from already as a clergyman.

How to get a job?

There are no websites for such vacancies. Options:

The rector of a particular temple will petition for the appointment of a specific person to his own temple.

The protege (preparing for ordination) is the son of a priest, and the father became concerned about finding a place for his son.

If it doesn’t matter where to serve, just to serve, then after being ordained and completing the forty-day (something like “training”: 40 days of services), he goes as assigned by the bishop.

What kind of character does a priest need? What knowledge and skills?

If we are talking about the white priesthood, and not about a monk, then you need to be an extrovert. A priest means constant communication with people.

You need to know well not only the Old Testament and the Gospel, but also their interpretation by the Fathers of the Church. It is desirable to know secular and church history, to be able to speak (in seminaries there is a subject called “homiletics” - the art of preaching), but a predisposition to... In a word, you must be an erudite extrovert who loves the temple and church life.

Who should never choose this path?

In my opinion:

not ready for publicity,

not ready for constant self-development,

those who believe that the Church means a lot of money for personal needs.

Is it possible to “change your mind” about being a priest and quit?

In principle, it is possible - that same Okhlobystin... but such people are looked at condemningly. Although I personally understand a person who left the priesthood in a poor parish for a well-paid secular job: everyone wants to eat, including children, and the Gospel does not say that a priest should beg and die of starvation.

Can women become priests?

No, in the Orthodox Church this is categorically impossible. Since biblical times, only men have become priests. This is not discrimination, the dignity of both sexes is equal, they just have a different calling, purpose. For example, only a woman can become a mother. So a man becomes a priest, whose prototype is Christ.

Is it possible to become a priest at an adult age?

I don’t know how things are with this now in Moscow and St. Petersburg, since people up to 35 years of age are accepted into the seminary, just like into a secular university. But beyond the Moscow Ring Road everything is simpler. You can also be ordained at an old age. Education is at the discretion of the bishop: maybe they will ask you to graduate from a theological school at least for show, maybe they won’t ask you if the person knows church life well.

What should those planning to become a priest prepare for?

You need to be prepared for maximum dedication. You won't always be able to relax when you want. They can assign you to a poor parish - and then you won’t be able to go anywhere at all. You need to always be in touch and come to the hospital at any time of the day, for example, to give communion to a dying person.

The clergy will be looked at under a microscope, especially his personal life. Curiosity and condemnation in case of mistakes overtake both believers and non-believers. For example, you shouldn’t advertise that you allowed yourself a glass of wine on holiday, and your children eat chicken during Lent for health reasons: “extenuating circumstances” are of no interest to anyone.

What are the pros and cons of the priest profession?

There can be advantages here only if a person feels an extreme need to serve, a calling to serve. If he is “burning” with the Liturgy. Because a priest is not a profession in the secular sense, it is precisely service and complete dedication. Sometimes from the outside it seems like this is a minus. And the person is happy that he can serve.

Cons: current realities of the Russian Orthodox Church. Extreme lack of rights of the priest. Today you are an honorary archpriest in the cathedral, and tomorrow you are a banned nobody. And then it’s good if you are not 55 years old and you have a secular education and profession.

What is the salary of a priest and what does it consist of?

It's different everywhere. In city churches there is a fixed salary, regardless of your employment: you ran around all day to perform your duties or simply served the Liturgy and Vespers. But even within the same city, this salary varies.

Differently. The bishop sets a diocesan tax (annual or monthly) - here, even if you die, pay it back. Then, from the rest, pay all secular taxes and utilities, employee salaries, the needs of the church, buy candles and utensils from the diocesan warehouse - also for the amount specified by the bishop, and he doesn’t care that no one needs a ton of books in your church. And the rest is yours... If there is any left.

In general, the money supply is simply wild: in good churches in St. Petersburg and Moscow, clergy can live more than decently; in the provinces, a priest is sometimes forced to earn extra money at a secular job in order to survive.

What does a typical working day for a priest look like?

As an example, consider the day of the priest on duty in a city church. Liturgy in the morning, then demands in the church (baptism, wedding, funeral service), there may be demands around the city (blessing of apartments, houses, cars, communion and unction in hospitals), conversations in the church - people come with different questions, and so on until evening service, after it - home, if there are no more needs.

Are there any stereotypes that exist in society about the work of priests?

The most important one is the “fat priest in a Mercedes.” Yes, unfortunately, there are excesses, and they are striking. But there are a lot of priests who cannot even buy shoes with temple money.

This also includes the stereotype about the idle mother in sables. Many people just work. They just work. No sables.

By the way, a priest can become “fat” not from an overabundance of money, but from a lack of it: constant stress coupled with not the best - potatoes and cheap pasta during Lent.

What should those who are planning to become a priest be warned about?

You need to know the realities of today: if your father is not an honorary archpriest of a significant cathedral, if you do not have connections in church circles, then most likely you will not get into the parish. And the diocesan tax is growing every year. And let’s be honest: there are practically no saints among the episcopate. The bishop doesn’t care at all how many children you have, whether you are healthy or sick, or whether you went on vacation. Today, unfortunately, money plays a big role in the Russian Orthodox Church. You need to be ready to separate your faith and this money-consuming abyss, which today can be called church power. The bishop’s actions are outside the legal framework, and a simple cleric has no rights and no protection. You can read Andrei Kuraev - the realities of today's Russian Orthodox Church will become clear. He may go too far somewhere, all people are subjective, but in general it will become clear that the Russian Orthodox Church exists precisely as an administrative structure.

It is mandatory to obtain a secular education and work experience in the profession: you never know what will happen to you tomorrow, so such a safety net is very useful (tested on myself). Even if it is not needed, development, life experience and experience of communicating with people - all this is necessary and important for a priest. What can a beardless young man, who only has seminary and winking with regent girls, teach in confession to a man of about fifty?

The main thing is to be ready not to belong to yourself: services, services, church affairs. Serve both day and night.

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