Afterlife. Existence of the afterlife or no matter to know the fate of the dead

What is physical death?

Answer: Termination of all organic functions, death.

What happens after death?

Answer: Death has a deep meaning. Discovering the essence of death, we learn the secret of life. What continues after the grave can only be known by a person with an awakened consciousness. You are asleep and therefore do not know what is on the other side of death. There are many theories, everyone can have their own opinion, but it is very important to experience from your own experience what relates to the secrets of the other world. I can assure you that the souls of the dead live in the other world of this great nature.

Why is there a fear of death?

Answer: The fear of death exists because of ignorance - a person is always afraid of what he does not know. When consciousness awakens, ignorance disappears, and then the fear of the unknown ceases to exist.

We know that physical body decomposes in the grave after death, but what happens to the soul? Where does she go?

Answer: The soul of the deceased continues to exist in higher dimensions nature. This actually means that disembodied souls can see the sun, moon, stars, rivers, valleys, mountains - everything that we see, only in brighter colors.

Is it true that if we commit atrocities and indulge in debauchery during our life, and repent at the moment of death, then we can save our soul?

Answer: For an unworthy person, all doors are closed, except for one - repentance. Of course, if we repent, even at the last minute, we can count on help to correct our mistakes.

Why do we come to this world as ghosts after death?

Answer: You should know that on this planet there is a parallel universe - the area of ​​the fourth dimension, where the dead live; this invisible world intersects with ours without mingling with it.

Where does the soul of a man who takes his own life go?

Answer: Suicide suffers greatly after disincarnation. They live here and now in the dead zone, then they enter a new body and are born again in this vale of tears, and when they reach the age at which they committed suicide, they die against their will, perhaps at a moment when they are most involved life.

Are spirit and soul the same thing?

Answer: The spirit is what we are, and the soul is what we have. Therefore they are different.

Do animals and plants have a soul?

Answer: There is. The souls of plants are found in the mythology of all peoples - they are known as fairies and the like. Animal souls are innocent creatures. Recall that in Latin the very word "animal" (animal) comes from the word "soul" (anima).

Is there a higher court after death and who administers it?

Answer: After death, we must review the entire life we ​​have just lived. We relive it in reverse order, mind and heart. When this flashback is completed, we must stand before divine justice - before the Angels of the Law, who in Eastern culture are called the Lords of Karma. They judge us by our actions, and as a result of this judgment, we either immediately return to a new womb to be reborn here in a new body, or temporarily go to rest in the worlds of light and happiness, or, finally, we have to penetrate inside the earth where we are hellish worlds full of torment and suffering.

When a child dies at birth, where does his soul go?

Answer: It is written that the souls of children fall into limbo - the zone of the dead, and then enter a new womb and are reborn in this world.

Why do people die at birth?

Answer: By the law of fate; parents who were cruel to their children in past lives must go through this harsh lesson in order to become better and learn to love because of this suffering.

Do the rites that are performed after death help souls?

Answer: Any ritual helps the souls of the dead. Of course, the prayers of the mourners give consolation to the souls of the departed.

It's hard to believe this, but it's a fact. And the author of these lines was also, rather, a skeptic - until he witnessed this in St. Petersburg.
One important advice. Do not rush to try to go out on your own using modern technologies. It must be remembered that the load on the psyche unprepared for such contacts is very large! Perhaps it is enough for you to go to church, light a candle and pray for the repose of friends and relatives who have gone to another world? Comforted by the fact that the soul is immortal. And separation from people dear to you who have passed into another world is only temporary.

Revelations

The first targeted contact - that is, a connection with a specific person who went to - was the radio bridge, which was established by the Svitnev family of St. Petersburg.
Their son Dmitry died in a car accident, but the parents found a way to hear their dear voice again. Candidate of Technical Sciences Vadim Svitnev and his colleagues from RAITK, using specially designed devices and a computer, established contact with the world of the dead. And it was Mitya who answered the questions of his father and mother! The son buried by them answered from the next world: “We are all alive with the Lord!”.

This incredible two-way contact has been going on for over a year. Parents record all conversations in electronic form - more than 3,000 files-answers to their questions. The information coming from the other world is amazing - a lot goes against our traditional ideas.

I asked several questions to Natasha and Vadim Svitnev, Mitya's parents. Here's what they said.

- By what phrases, facts, intonation do you identify the interlocutor from another world?
"Can't you recognize your child's voice from billions of other voices?" In any voice there are intonations, shades peculiar only to him. Our Mitya has a characteristic, recognizable voice - very soft, penetrating to the very heart. When we showed the recording with Mitin's voice to his friends, they became interested in when they were made, being completely sure that this was done even before the tragic events that interrupted Mitin's life.

We communicate with quite a large number people from that world. In conversations, they introduce themselves to us by their first names. Among Mitya's friends there are Fedor, Sergey, Stay, Sasha, Andrey was once mentioned. And Mitya himself is sometimes called by friends from another world by his “nickname” on the Internet, which he has long chosen for himself - Mytya, a mirror image of the name Mitya. Welcomed to the contact Vadim and his colleagues. For example, one of those who moved to another world, Vadim's head of service, got in touch with a congratulation: "Vadyusha, I congratulate you on the Day of the Fleet!" And to the question: “Who am I talking to?” answered: "Yes, I am Gruzdev." Moreover, apart from this person, no one has ever called Vadim “Vadyusha”. And Natasha is sometimes addressed by maiden name Titlyanova, jokingly calling her Titlyashkina, Titlyandiya.

What does it look like from there on Earth?
- From the other world, this question is answered like this: “Your life is a huge anthill. You hurt yourself all the time. On Earth, you are in a dream."
Is it possible to predict certain events from the world of the dead?
- Events that are removed in time from the present moment, from another world, are seen less clearly than nearby ones. There were many predictive or pre-emptive messages, such as a warning about a gang attack on a neighbor's boy three months before the actual incident.
- What needs do people have in the next world? For example, physiological - breathe, eat, drink, sleep?
“Regarding needs, it’s quite simple: “I am fully alive. Mitya is the former. “We have a busy time, we hardly slept for three months.”

Once Mitya said in a communication session: “Now, mom, listen carefully,” and I heard him sigh. He breathed laboriously loudly so that I could hear his breathing. These were real, ordinary sighs of a living person. They tell us that they have no time to eat - a lot of work.

Family ties

How close are family contacts?
- Mitya often tells me about my mother - her grandmother, that she is there, and my mother, like my father, also attended contacts several times. At the same time, when I began to miss my mother very much, Mitya invited her, and since she is Ukrainian by birth, she spoke to me in pure Ukrainian. Vadim also talked with his mother. Of course, family ties remain.
- How do they live and where do they live - are there cities, villages?
- Mitya told us that he lives in the village and even explained how to find him. And one of our contacts sounded his address when he was called for communication: "Forest street, northern house."
Is the date of departure of all of us predetermined or not?
- There is no talk about the date of departure during our contacts. We are constantly reminded that we are immortal: "You are eternal in our eyes."
- Were there any clues from the world of the dead in household items?
- Once Vadim was told at the contact that he had 36 rubles in his pocket. Vadim checked it and was surprised to see that it was exactly 36 rubles.
Egor, our youngest son, was repairing a bicycle and could not determine the malfunction, while Vadim was conducting a communication session at that time. Suddenly Vadim turned to Yegor and said: "Mitya says that your axle is damaged." This has been confirmed.
Are there animals in the underworld?
- There was such a case: once the guys from the other side brought a dog to a communication session. We heard and recorded her barking.

Believe in yourself

- Why do only a few make contacts with loved ones?
— There are always two parties involved in a contact. You have to believe in yourself and take the first step. Love and faith will surely be rewarded. Absolutely anyone who has shown perseverance will be able to communicate with their loved ones. Recently, we had just a woman who lost her son. We had a session. Everyone was shocked. The woman recognized her son. They talked, very personal messages were received.

I must say that we are researchers in a rather new business for everyone, and contact of this kind, carried out with people completely unfamiliar to us, was the first in our practice. And I also want to say that the walls that surround us exist only for us. On the other hand, they are completely transparent. They see us, hear not only our speeches, but also our thoughts. We are told: "You run in the fog." And they also say: “Give me your hand!”, “Here everyone is forgiven.”

Probably, among the adult population of the entire planet, one cannot find even one person who in one way or another did not think about death.

We are now not interested in the opinion of skeptics who question everything that they have not felt with their own hands and have not seen with their own eyes. We are interested in the question, what is death?

Quite often, polls cited by sociologists show that up to 60 percent of respondents are sure that the afterlife exists.

Slightly more than 30 percent of the respondents take a neutral position regarding the Kingdom of the Dead, believing that they are most likely to experience reincarnation and rebirth in a new body after death. The remaining ten do not believe in either the first or the second, believing that death is the final result of everything in general. If you are interested in what happens after death to those who sold their souls to the devil and gained wealth, fame and reverence on earth, we recommend that you refer to the article on. Such people gain prosperity and respect not only during life, but also after death: those who sold their souls become powerful demons. Leave a request for the sale of the soul so that the demonologists perform the ritual for you: [email protected]

In fact, these are not absolute figures, in some countries people are more willing to believe in the other world, based on the books they have read by psychiatrists who have studied the issues of clinical death.

In other places, they believe that it is necessary to live to the fullest here and now, and what awaits them later does not bother them much. Probably, the range of opinions lies in the field of sociology and living environment, but this is a completely different problem.

From the data obtained in the survey, the conclusion is clearly visible, the majority of the inhabitants of the planet believe in an afterlife. It's really exciting question, what awaits us in the second of death - the last breath here, and a new breath in the Kingdom of the Dead?

It’s a pity, but no one has a full answer to such a question, except perhaps God, but if we recognize the existence of the Almighty as fidelity in our equation, then of course there is only one answer - there is a World to Come!

Raymond Moody, there is life after death.

Many eminent scientists at different times have asked the question, is death a special transitional state between living here and moving to the other world? For example, such a famous scientist as the inventor even tried to establish contact with the inhabitants of the underworld. And this is just one example of thousands of similar ones, when people sincerely believe in life after death.

But if there is at least something that can give us confidence in life after death, at least some signs that speak of the existence of the afterlife? There is! There is such evidence, assure the researchers of the issue and psychiatrists who have worked with people who have experienced clinical death.

Moreover, the psychologist has many adherents from the scientific community. Well, let's see what kind of facts they give us as proof of the fantastic idea of ​​​​the existence of afterlife?

I’ll make a reservation right away, we are not now addressing the issue of reincarnation, the transmigration of the soul or its rebirth in a new body, this is a completely different topic and God will give, and fate will allow, we will consider this later.

I’ll also note, alas, but despite many years of research and travel around the world, neither Raymond Moody nor his followers could find at least one person who lived in the afterlife and returned from there with the facts in hand - this is not a joke , but a necessary note.

All evidence for the existence of life after death is based on the stories of people who have experienced clinical death. This is the so-called last couple of decades and the term "near-death experience" that has gained popularity. Although already in the very definition an error crept in - what kind of near-death experience can we talk about if death did not actually occur? But well, let it be as R. Moody talks about it.

Near-death experience, journey to the afterlife.

Clinical death, according to the findings of many researchers in this field, appears as an intelligence path to the afterlife. What does it look like? Resuscitation doctors save a person's life, but at some point death is stronger. A person dies - omitting physiological details, we note that the time of clinical death is from 3 to 6 minutes.

The first minute of clinical death, the resuscitator conducts necessary procedures meanwhile, the soul of the deceased leaves the body and looks at everything that happens from the side. As a rule, the souls of people who have crossed the border of the two worlds for some time fly to the ceiling.

At the same time, they feel wonderful and free, clearly realizing that a wonderful and wonderful life awaits them. wonderful Life. Others, on the contrary, are frightened by the picture of what they saw, they are not drawn into the tunnel, they rush home to their family, apparently looking for protection and salvation from something not good.

The second minute of clinical death, the physiological processes in the human body freeze, but it is still impossible to say that this is a dead person. By the way, during the "near-death experience" or forays into the afterlife for reconnaissance, time undergoes noticeable transformations. No, there are no paradoxes, but the time that takes a few minutes here, in “there” stretches to half an hour or even more.

Here is what a young woman who had a near-death experience said: I had the feeling that my soul had left my body. I saw doctors and myself lying on the table, but it did not seem to me something terrible or frightening. I felt a pleasant lightness, my spiritual body radiated joy and absorbed peace and tranquility.

Then, I went outside the operating room and found myself in a very dark corridor, at the end of which I could see a bright white light. I don’t know how it happened, but I flew down the corridor towards the light at great speed.

It was a state of amazing lightness when I reached the end of the tunnel and fell into the arms of the world around me .... the woman came into the light, and it turned out that her long-dead mother was standing next to her.
The third minute of resuscitators, the patient is torn from death ....

“Daughter, it’s too early for you to die,” my mother told me ... After these words, the woman fell into darkness and does not remember anything else. She regained consciousness on the third day and found out that she had gained the experience of clinical death.

All the stories of people who have experienced a borderline state between life and death are extremely similar. On the one hand, it gives us the right to believe in an afterlife. However, the skeptic sitting inside each of us whispers: how is it that “a woman felt her soul leave her body,” but at the same time she saw everything? That's interesting, she felt or still looked, you see, these are different things.

Attitude to the issue of near-death experience.

I am never a skeptic, and I believe in the other world, but when you read the full picture of the clinical death survey from specialists who do not deny the possibility of the existence of life after death, but look at it without liberty, then the attitude to the issue changes somewhat.

And the first thing that amazes me is the "near-death experience" itself. In most cases of such an event, not those "cuts" for books that we love to quote so much, but a complete survey of people who survived clinical death, you see the following:

And another oddity, which is little paid attention when psychiatrists describe the borderline states of a person close to death, although this is not hidden. For example, the same Moody admits that in the review there are many cases when a person saw / experienced a flight through a tunnel to the light and other paraphernalia of the afterlife without any physiological damage.

This is indeed from the realm of the paranormal, but the psychiatrist admits that in many cases, when a person "flew into the afterlife", nothing threatened his health. That is, visions of a flight to the Kingdom of the Dead, as well as a near-death experience, a person acquired without being in a near-death state. Agree, this changes the attitude towards theory.

Scientists, a few words about the near-death experience.

According to experts, the above-described pictures of the "flight to the other world" are acquired by a person before the onset of clinical death, but not after it. It was mentioned above that critical damage to the body and the inability of the heart to provide life cycle destroy the brain after 3-6 minutes (we will not discuss the consequences of critical time).

This convinces us that, having crossed the mortal second, the deceased does not have the ability or way to feel anything. A person experiences all the previously described states not during clinical death, but during agony, when oxygen is still carried by the blood.

Why are the pictures experienced and told by people who have looked "on the other side" of life very similar? This is quite explained by the fact that during the death agony, the same factors affect the functioning of the brain of any person experiencing this state.

At such moments, the heart works with great interruptions, the brain begins to experience starvation, jumps in intracranial pressure complete the picture, and so on at the level of physiology, but without an admixture of otherworldly.

A person at this moment observes the effects of "flying through the tunnel to the light." A shadowless lamp and doctors standing on both sides of the table and in the head amplify the hallucinations quite well - those who have had similar experience know that vision begins to “float” even before anesthesia.

The feeling of the soul leaving the body, the vision of doctors and oneself as if from the outside, finally coming relief from pain - in fact, this is the effect of medications and a malfunction of the vestibular apparatus. When clinical death occurs, then in these minutes a person does not see or feel anything.

So, by the way, high percent people who took the same LSD admitted that at these moments they gained "experience" and went to other worlds. But do not consider this the opening of a portal to other worlds?

In conclusion, I would like to note that the survey figures given at the very beginning are only a reflection of our belief in life after death, and cannot serve as proof of life in the Kingdom of the Dead. The statistics of official medical programs look completely different, and can even discourage optimists from believing in the afterlife.

The other part looks much better though of course oh full recovery there is no speech, and it is rather difficult to understand where they have their own memories, and where they have arisen after conversations with a psychiatrist.

But in one sense, the inspirers of the idea of ​​"life after death" are right, the clinical experience really changes the lives of people who have experienced this event. As a rule, this is a long period of rehabilitation and recovery of health. Some stories say that people who have survived the borderline state suddenly discover in themselves previously unseen talents. Allegedly, communication with angels meeting the dead in the next world radically changes the worldview of a person.

Others, on the contrary, embark on such grave sins, that you begin to suspect either those who wrote in the distortion of facts and kept silent about it, or ... or some fell into the underworld, and realized that nothing good awaits them in the afterlife, so you need to “smoke up” here and now before death.

And yet it exists!

As the mastermind behind biocentrism, Professor Robert Lantz of the University of North Carolina School of Medicine, said, a person believes in death because he is taught to die. The basis of this teaching lies on the foundations of the philosophy of life - if we know for sure that in the World to Come, life is arranged happily, without pain and suffering, then why should we value this life? But this also tells us that the other world exists, death here is birth in that world!

Most people, having reached a certain age, begin to think about whether there is an afterlife, how our dead live. Most religions preach another world, where a person is freed from all troubles and worries, but in order to get a place in Eden, it is necessary to earn it by pious behavior in earthly life. After atheism began to lose ground in recent decades , parapsychologists, psychics , scientists of non-traditional directions have proved that the afterlife exists. What is happening on the other side of visibility and what gave rise to such conclusions?

Is there an afterlife: evidence

Many seers (Vangelia Gushterovp - Vanga, Grigory Rasputin - Novykh, the Tanzanian boy Sheikh Sharif) did not doubt the existence of the other world and that each person has his own place there. Direct evidence of the posthumous existence of real, historical figures (mainly the Virgin Mary) can be considered Fatima Miracles (1915-1917) and Lourdes Healings . Some scientists who adhere to an atheistic worldview, when asked whether there is an afterlife, the evidence for which in most cases are indirect, answer in the affirmative.

Academic neurophysiologist N.P. ankylosing spondylitis , whose profession itself does not accept any mysticism, in her autobiographical memoirs she tells that the ghost of her late husband repeatedly appeared to her. At the same time, her husband, who also worked in the field of medical physiology, consulted with her about problems unresolved during her life. If initially nightly encounters with a ghost caused concern in a woman, then after his appearance in daytime all fears disappeared. Natalya Petrovna did not doubt the reality of what was happening.

Famous American visionary Edgar Cayce , introducing himself into a somnambulistic state, made about 25 thousand predictions, in one of which he indicated the time of his death with an accuracy of an hour. When diagnosing diseases, E. Casey achieved an accuracy of 80% - 100%. He was deeply confident about his reincarnation and reappearance into the world in a different way.

Some researchers, based on real events, phenomena and phenomena, read as an indisputable fact that scientists have proven that the afterlife exists. However, contact with the other world is possible only with individuals - "guides": individuals who are in a stressful or borderline state, or people with extrasensory abilities.

The latest evidence for the existence of an afterlife can be considered the search for residents of Novosibirsk M.L. Babushkina graves of his father, who died during the Great Patriotic War. Maria Lazarevna found his burial place as part of the Search group. At the same time, according to the expedition members, she indicated the resting place with amazing accuracy. In an interview with television, M.L. Babushkina quite convincingly explained to reporters that his voice led the searchers to the grave of the father, and he also indicated, to the nearest meter, the location of the remains of the front-line soldier.

Similar cases have been repeatedly reported by participants in the search expeditions from Novgorod . According to their reports, the souls of properly disturbed front-line soldiers go out to lone search engines and report the coordinates of the burial. The largest number contacts with representatives of the afterlife were noted in one of their tracts Myasnogo Bor (Death Valley), where in 1942 the 2 shock army was surrounded by the Nazis, most of the soldiers and officers died while trying to break through the encirclement.

Visions of the underworld

• Galina Lagoda from Kaliningrad during clinical death, being on the operating table, she met with a stranger in a white robe, who said that she had not fulfilled her earthly mission, and to complete it, she had transferred the gift of foresight to the deceased.
• Yuri Burkov after a cardiac arrest, he did not lose touch with the outside world, and after returning to life, the first thing he asked his wife was if she had found the lost keys, which the panicked woman did not tell anyone about. A few years later, while with his wife at the bedside of his sick son, who was diagnosed with a fatal diagnosis by doctors, he predicted that his son would not die now and that he would be given a year of life - the prediction came true with absolute accuracy.
• Anna R. during clinical death, she observed a dazzlingly bright light and a corridor leading to infinity, which the deceased was not allowed to enter after successful resuscitation procedures.

On numerous post-mortem phenomena saints, prophets and martyrs, who with sufficient accuracy predict not only global world events, but also the future of a particular person, can be spoken of as real facts. This gives reason to believe that the afterlife exists, how our dead live in it, the inhabitants of the material world remain unknown. This knowledge is beyond human understanding, and only a few cases remind of the other world.

There are special days in the year when the whole Church, with reverence and love, prayerfully remembers everyone “from the beginning”, i.e. at all times, the dead of their fellow believers. According to the Charter of the Orthodox Church, such a commemoration of the dead is performed on Saturdays. And this is no coincidence. We know that on Holy Saturday, on the eve of His Resurrection, the Lord Jesus Christ is dead was in the tomb.

This touching custom is rooted in the deep belief of Orthodox Christians that a person is immortal and his soul, once born, will live forever, that the death we see is a temporary sleep, a sleep for the flesh, and a time of rejoicing for the liberated soul. There is no death, the Church tells us, there is only a transition, a transition from this world to another world... And each of us once experienced such a transition. When a person leaves the cozy womb of his mother in shudders and pains of birth, he suffers, suffers and screams. His flesh suffers and trembles before the unknown and the horror of the coming life... And as it is said in the Gospel: peace." The soul, leaving the cozy bosom of its body, suffers and trembles in the same way. But very little time passes, and the expression of grief and suffering on the face of the deceased disappears, his face brightens and calms down. The soul was born into another world! That is why we can pray with our prayers to wish our dead loved ones a blissful repose there, in peace and light, where there is no sickness, no sorrow, no sighing, but life is endless ...

That is why, knowing about the eternal existence of the human soul “beyond visible death”, we pray with hope and faith that our prayers will help the soul in its afterlife journey, strengthen it at the moment of the terrible last choice between light and darkness, protect it from evil attacks...

Today, Orthodox Christians pray for "our departed fathers and brothers." The first people we remember when we pray for the dead are our deceased parents. Therefore, the Sabbath, dedicated to the prayerful memory of the deceased, is called "parental." There are six such parental Saturdays during the calendar year. The parental Saturday also has one more name: “Dimitrievskaya”. Saturday is named in honor of the holy Great Martyr Demetrius of Thessalonica, who is remembered on November 8. The establishment of the commemoration on this Saturday belongs to the holy noble Grand Duke Dimitry Donskoy, who, having performed a commemoration of the soldiers who fell on it after the Battle of Kulikovo, proposed to make this commemoration annually, on the Saturday before November 8th. Since this year, the Saturday before the Memorial Day of the World Martyr. Demetrius of Thessalonica coincides with the day of the celebration of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God, the memorial parental Saturday is celebrated today.

According to the definition of the Bishops' Council of the Russian Orthodox Church in 1994, the commemoration of our soldiers takes place on May 9th. Since Dimitrievskaya Memorial Saturday takes place on the eve of November 7, the day of the beginning of the bloody coup that marked the beginning of unprecedented persecution against the Church in the history of our Fatherland, today we commemorate all the martyrs who died in the years of hard times. Today we pray for our relatives and for all compatriots whose lives were crippled during the period of theomachism.

They left, but love for them and gratitude remained. Does this mean that their souls did not disappear, did not dissolve into non-existence? What do they know, remember and hear us? That they need us?.. Let's think about it and pray for them.

God grant, brothers and sisters, that through our prayer the Lord forgives many and many voluntary and involuntary sins of our deceased relatives and friends, and let us believe that our prayer is not one-sided: when we pray for them, they pray for us.

Do the dead see us after death

In the memoirs of clergyman Nikolai, Metropolitan of Alma-Ata and Kazakhstan, there is the following story: Once Vladyka, answering the question whether the dead hear our prayers, said that they not only hear, but also “pray for us themselves. And even more than that: they see us as we are in the depths of our hearts, and if we live piously, then they rejoice, and if we live negligently, then they grieve and pray to God for us. Our connection with them is not interrupted, but only temporarily weakened. Then Vladyka told an incident that confirmed his words.

A priest, Father Vladimir Strakhov served in one of the Moscow churches. After finishing the Liturgy, he lingered in the church. All the worshipers dispersed, leaving only him and the psalmist. An old woman enters, modestly but cleanly dressed, in a dark dress, and turns to the priest with a request to go and give communion to her son. Gives the address: street, house number, apartment number, name and surname of this son. The priest promises to fulfill this today, takes the Holy Gifts and goes to the indicated address. He goes up the stairs, calls. An intelligent-looking man with a beard, about thirty years old, opens the door for him. Somewhat surprised looks at the father. "What do you want?" - "I was asked to come to this address to attach the patient." He is even more surprised. “I live here alone, there are no sick people, and I don’t need a priest!” The priest is also amazed. "How so? After all, here is the address: street, house number, apartment number. What is your name?" It turns out that the name matches. "Let me come in to you." - "You are welcome!" The priest enters, sits down, tells that the old woman came to invite him, and during his story he raises his eyes to the wall and sees a large portrait of this same old woman. “Yes, there she is! She was the one who came to me!” he exclaims. “Have mercy! objected the landlord. “Yes, this is my mother, she died 15 years ago!” But the priest continues to claim that it was her that he saw today. We got talking. The young man turned out to be a student at Moscow University and had not received communion for many years. “However, since you have already come here, and all this is so mysterious, I am ready to confess and take communion,” he finally decides. The confession was long, sincere - one might say, for the whole conscious life. With great satisfaction the priest absolved him of his sins and communed him with the Holy Mysteries. He left, and during vespers they come to tell him that this student died unexpectedly, and the neighbors came to ask the priest to serve the first memorial service. If the mother had not taken care of her son from the afterlife, then he would have passed into eternity without partaking of the Holy Mysteries.

This is also a lesson that the Holy of Christ is teaching us all today. Orthodox Church. Let us be careful, because we know that all of us, without exception, sooner or later will have to part with this earthly life. And we will stand before our Creator and Creator with an answer about how we lived, what we did in our earthly life, whether we were worthy of Our Heavenly Father. It is very important for all of us today to remember and think about this, and ask God to forgive us our sins, voluntary or involuntary. And at the same time, make every effort not to return to sins, but to lead a God-pleasing, holy and worthy life. And for this we have everything: we have the Holy Church with her Holy Mysteries of Christ and the help of all the holy ascetics of faith and piety, and above all, the Queen of Heaven herself, Who is always ready to lend us the hand of her maternal help. Here, brothers and sisters, are the lessons that we all must learn from today, which is called Dimitrievskaya parent Saturday. The Kingdom of Heaven and eternal rest to all our deceased fathers, brothers, sisters and other relatives of ours. May God grant that all of us, worthily praying for all Orthodox Christians who have died from the ages, at the same time worthily perform our own life path. Amen.