Vorobiev, Vladimir, fr. The Confessor and His Disciple. Eternity, spiritual illness, and problems facing today’s Christians Translated from Russian by Gheorghita Ciocioi As a spiritual director, one needs great wisdom, patience, and effort, in order to avoid becoming a prisoner of interhuman relationships, misleading or providing wrong directions, tolerating self-deception, or troubling people so as they leave in distress and never return to the Church. A confessor must pray, evince compassion, love, forgive, prove tolerant, be patient. The confessor, the priest, has a key role and an immense responsibility. A priest, a spiritual director, must never become enslaved. He must be free, a servant of God and no one else. He must have a free conscience, always speak his mind, always do what his conscience tells him to do. He must not be shrewd or double-faced. Therefore, many aged or young people’s hearts will love him. He must also, sincerely and ardently, answer all questions that are raised, respond to all spiritual needs. He must hear and feel the troubled heart of a child or a youngster, and find the most appropriate way to answer it, to lend a helping hand, to provide support. And this must never be a merely formal act. Woe to the priest who fails to understand this! Format: 11x20 cm; 128 p. ISBN: 978-973-136-137-6 «« back