Najnishvili Sergey Biography

I liked the way your life developed, how you went to the priesthood. I really liked this long way, so I will start with the question of how you became a priest and when a Christian woke up in you. But if briefly, I never thought to be a priest. At least in the first three quarters of my life in a couple of months I will be 62 years old. By modern standards, this is a pre -retirement age.

And of them, I have been a clergyman for only 15 years. In the year in the Alexander Nevsky Lavra, I was ordained deacons by Lord Nazariy, then Bishop of Vyborg. The sixteenth year went to my ministry in a dignity in the church. And before that I have not been! It is clear that he studied at school, was an October, and a pioneer, and a Komsomol member even a Komsomol.

That is, he was a rather active person, and was not an exemplary student, but was rather non -standard. One of the first ones I had a coat and even with the stripes that I have overheated from the two old ones, and when I appeared in the air village of Kacha near Sevastopol, it caused a splash and perplexity for many: a cured shirt, long hair-all this did not combine that I was, in general, an ideological person.

Apparently, initially there was a faith in me, but I did not believe in what I needed. That is, in the communist ideals that we have been instilled since childhood. And I remember, there was such a moment: I was not immediately accepted into the Komsomol members because of my non-standardness, and I was jealous of it, I learned all the necessary postulates from my second attempt, and then I was accepted into the Komsomol members but the Lord led me, you understand this now, turning to the lived life.

I see how he affectionately led me through all the ups and downs of my life, made it possible to fill his bumps somewhere, gain experience. This is a very interesting path, like every person, if he turns out and analyzes life. I came from Sevastopol in the year, after the eighth grade, to enter Leningrad at the Professional Technical School there you met Tsoi and, in general, there was nothing surprising in this.

If he did not become who he became the legendary musician, then maybe I wouldn’t particularly remember him, although he was a striking man. Moreover, there were few musicians. Someone played dancing in the assembly hall, but then the music then interested me less than the girls; It was for me, rather, the background. But the fact that I found my wife there and fell in love with her at first sight is an important factor for me, because I believe that in life everyone is one of the most important - to find my happiness, create a family, give birth to children, educate them ...

and for this I thank God. When we already finished the third course, I went to my future wife. We were not even particularly familiar, we just saw each other; Then in the hostel she was on duty with the girls, they were with red bandages, followed the order, and so I passed by, and something, apparently, happened in heaven, I stopped. Smelled and said: "Natasha, marry me." She agreed, and we have been together for 43 years.

The first year we met, and then signed when the parents blessed us, but my first words were such a question of the viewers of Irina from Yaroslavl: “It is also believed that the talents are given from God. And how do you feel about the expression "genius and villainy"? It happens that a genius person creates masterpieces, music or something else, but in fact he is a villain.

Can the devil have any talents? And how do they combine? And our free will uses these talents in one direction or another. Suppose a word is given to you. To be able to speak, light, to own oratory is also a talent given from God. After all, you can praise God with a word, preach God, and many of our preachers, whom I love very much, and Orthodox bloggers work a lot in this field.

And you can simply make a lot of money and create evil, bring muck to this world and do it very talented. You can even faded and collect huge stadiums, get money for it, and thanks to this on the screens of the central channels. And so on. But what fruits in this case gives you talent and to whom? After all, the Lord will evaluate us ... I do not want to say: to judge. Because the Lord, probably, will not judge us.

In the rule of the Holy Communion in the third song of the repentant canon to the Lord, we read: "The righteous will rejoice, and sinning will be able to, then no one will help us, but our deeds will condemn us." That is, not God will judge us, but our specific deeds. What you did will be condemned or justified, for the good. How did you use talents? For God or for the opposite?

Of course, talents are given from God. There are obvious talents: artistic, musical; They are visible. And there is, for example, culinary talent. My wife has this talent. For so many years I have been living with her and thank God for the fact that the spouse has been preparing so well. She can make a stew, as they say, from an ax. When we had difficult times, she was preparing incomprehensibly what it was also talent from.Or, for example, not to be offended, not to create any nasty things is also a certain talent, a gift from God.

Talents, as in the parable of talents, should be for us a kind of starting capital, which we must increase. The parable of talents is one of my loved ones, she opens the veil of the future. You know, since childhood I was brought up on science fiction, I excitedly read domestic and foreign science fiction, so my imagination has no limit to at least within the framework of the Earth, the solar system, it easily perceived God, His fantastic power, love, possibilities, creative energy, which is transmitted to us.

If we talk about the holy fathers, their teaching, their disclosure of the Holy Scriptures, we recall the words of Athanasius the Great, one of my beloved saints. It was a deacon for a long time, and at the first universal cathedral in the year it as a deacon made up the first members of the symbol of faith. Then he became a saint and saint. So, he said the amazing words that the revolution made in my soul: "God has become a man so that man becomes God." It is said simply, but so soulful and reliable!

After all, he quotes, in fact, the words of the Savior of Jesus Christ and the Word of the Bible, where God says, turning to us: "I said: you are gods." We are the gods. Sometimes we cannot do elementary things, but it turns out that we are the gods, according to God Himself. Maybe we understood something wrong? Remember how Jesus Christ walked around the Jerusalem Temple, preached, and the Jews took stones and wanted to beat him.

He asks: I showed you a lot of good deeds from my father; For which of them do you want to beat me with stones? To which the Jews said: “We do not want to beat for good deeds, but for the fact that you, being a person, make yourself God” see. And Christ says to them: “Have you read in the Scriptures: I said: you are gods?

Indeed, by definition, we are all the children of God, the sons and the daughter of God. After all, if God gave birth, we do not even have freedom of choice in this sense - we are already children of God, we are like little gods who have the potential to become real gods. But this is a huge, titanic work. Read John Climacus, the progressive movement of a person towards the conciliation.

What work it is! .. Let's get back to knowledge, we will adhere to today's topic. Imagine, knowledge is given to us, but we do not use them. What then is their meaning? This is knowledge that does not bring any fetus. Neurosurgeons of the most developed in the field of medicine of countries such as Russia, the UK, the United States of America, the Federal Republic of Germany, Israel and others explore the brain and say that our brain is involved only in some small part.

We have two hemispheres that are interconnected by neural connections, but only a small part of the brain is involved. And the rest is as if sleeping. He was a hundred percent person who wore a hundred percent god. We are created in the image and likeness of God; We read this in the Bible, in the Book of Genesis. The Lord creates us in his own image and likeness. That is, not God was embodied in the human body, but a man was embodied in the body that the Lord prepared for himself before all this happened.

After all, everything that happens is already in God itself. That is, when creating this world, the presence of a person was already a god, not that it was programmed, but it was clear to him that it would be. And he created the body for himself. In the image and likeness of His God, God created people; That is, as if in his divine body, this is my theological opinion, he settles us, people.

But we must get involved in our huge labors, deeds, knowledge of God, a combination with God, and then we will open those parts of the brain that are open among many St. and saints. How did Maria Egyptian go to the water? How is Maria Egyptian in front of the old man Zosima, praying, ascended into the air? Long work on cleansing yourself in the desert.