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From the life of the rural priest

Writes Gennady Mikheev, via photopolygon.com:

...- What happened then, after the revolution? Like everywhere shouting that we are God-bearing people. And the people took - and Porush temples. And also your temple destroyed ...

- We have learned from the grandmothers, a priest was here. He communicated only with the Lord, in the rest looked like from above. Grandparents remember in the temple of our all in gold was. This is an external, beautiful charms and piled up. And the spirit of Orthodoxy implored.

- And what is it, this spirit?

- This is the spirit of love. Love to all, without selection. The result was that the master of the Church as it appeared in the side ...

... We talk and father milked goats. Managed by dashing like a lifetime did. At about. George's two fold. The first - the people, the parish. The second - the subject of peasants' need, in other words - a beast. Cows in the family of a village priest. Georgi Kondratyev there, but there are three goats, seven sheep, sheep and chickens.

The priest throws a beast meets, clean the barn, milking, herd encounters. Wanted sheep if lost. On my mother Galina - the house and the children. So they divided duties.

Of course the "double shepherd" of. George calls himself jokingly. He generally likes to joke, to communicate and easy (at least in the world) is not inclined to complain about the problems of everyday life.

My first question to him: "Father - and without the stomach ... Is Well it happens?" "Age of Christ" (in any of the remains. George) for an Orthodox priest, white - it's time to grow a solid Mamon. For skinny. George - as a monk -chernets. He would schema - and the hermitage. The father instantly replied, "I unfastened belly. The path goes - a snack ... "

In the regional center of the city of Bolgar father rides a bicycle. It's not the pursuit of health - no car. Most of the money, which managed to gather a few years, gone to church, "domes". It would be good to buy three machine or purchase the three lakes dozen houses.

However, to be fair, the lion's share of aid from the "benefactor." So he was asked to name the father. This entrepreneur named Andrew. He lives in Togliatti, but the Three Lakes native mother of Andrew.

Who covered the roof of the temple, the iron is still the same, "benefactor" bought. But the work pays brigade priest. There were times when there was nothing to pay. Then about. George sat on his bike - and in the villages, to beg for grain farmers. Bread sold - and paid the masters.

Temple still looks matter - both inside and outside (although restored brickwork, holes patched) - a shining gold "domes" seen for many kilometers around.

It's like a sign, as a symbol of rebirth. And in fact in the village of mood such that in twenty years there will be no one at all. At about. George is an opinion: reviving the temple - as a grafted branch to the feral tree.

Just by the way, and with the economy. It only takes one person with a fresh outlook, a kind of "cultural inoculation" that people would believe in the best.