Schema-Archimandrite Elijah
Alexei Afanasyevich Nozdrin
(March 8, 1932, Stanovoy Kolodez, Central Black Earth Region - March 15, 2025, Optina Hernitage) - clergyman of the Russian Orthodox Church, confessor of the brethren of Optina Hernitage. Russian Church’s most revered elder.
He was the spiritual father of His Holiness the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Cyril.
When you act according to the moral law laid down by the Creator, your conscience approves of your actions and deeds and you feel satisfied.
The Gospel says: All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them (Mt. 7:12).
If we could just fulfill at least this commandment, our lives would be much calmer.
And this is but one commandment!
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