Primate of UOC tells believers how to build spiritual life in family

His Beatitude Metropolitan Onuphry of Kiev and All Ukraine, in his Sunday sermon, said how family people should build relationships if they seek spiritual perfection, reports the Information and Educational Department of the UOC.

The Primate stressed that everyone can achieve holiness. For this, it is not necessary to take on a special feat.

"Purification of the soul is accomplished by small feats," emphasized His Beatitude, "unnoticed, often unknown to anyone."

It is enough to work constantly on the purification of one's soul, making efforts on oneself, when there is a desire to condemn someone and, instead of irritation, show patience and love for one's neighbour.

In the family it is very easy to implement, said the Archpastor. "A man comes from work: a small feat of his wife – do not meet him with hostility: I’m busy working around - cooking, bringing up children… And you work badly, earn little, come home to sit and watch TV ... and these reproaches are endless. Hold, wife, your tongue. Meet him and say: my dear husband, you're tired, I'll give you a meal now, have a rest. "

"If the husband wants to weed his soul, then he shouldn’t rebuke his wife – you undersalted the food, cleaned badly, breed children badly, work badly, look at me badly ... Abstain yourself too. Maybe your wife said something or did something wrong, forgive and tell her: Thank you, you did well. It is okay, it is fine," said His Beatitude.

"Small feats like that a person must perform every day and thus step-by-step purify his soul from anger, from wrath, from those weeds that root in us," concluded Metropolitan Onuphry.

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