Stefan Domuschi Priest Biography

Stefan Domuschi is a priest, teacher of the Moscow Theological Academy, candidate of philosophical sciences, candidate of theology, teacher of the University of John the Theologian 06 February G. Spiritual beauty will save the world to discuss the spiritual education of society. How moral laws help to live, build relationships, families in our difficult time Nile Anvarova: Hello, dear spectators and listeners of the Mediametrics channel.

The program “Hero of the Future Time”, its presenter Nail Anvarova and our guest, priest Stefan Domuschi, teacher of the Moscow Theological Academy, candidate of philosophical sciences, the candidate of theology, the associate professor of the Department of Philosophy and Theology of the Department of Religious at the Moscow Orthodox Institute of John the Theologian, on the air.

Hello, Stefan! Stefan Domuschi: Hello! Nylya Anvarova: Father, first of all, today we will reveal the topic "Spiritual beauty will save the world." We will discuss moral laws, and how they help us to build relationships, improve our lives, and help to build families in our difficult time. Where, unfortunately, debauchery, self -love and vulgarity became popular and lead our young generation the wrong way that we should follow.

Both according to God's laws, and by moral laws. And, of course, the first question, probably, he will be the most commonly asked about how you decided to take such responsibility, become a priest. Stefan Domuschi: It's hard to say that I decided, somehow I never remember that I had any other thoughts on this score so that I made some other plans. I was just born in the priest’s family, and my father was born in the priest's family.

And at first it was such, an almost unconscious choice, because I was not going to engage in anything else. And only over time, years in this became some kind of conscious thought to be a priest, serve God, serve people. Well, perhaps, it cannot be said that I really, I still have realized the end and is unlikely to at all, can be fully realized by some depth of this choice.

God brought, I listened to this call, which was and followed him, I think so. Nylya Anvarova: Well, your great -grandfather was a priest, as far as I know. Stefan Domuschi: Great -grandfather was a priest, yes. Nylya Anvarova: You know, you say, at the age of 12, it seems to me that 12 years old is more such a conscious choice that you came to this, but this is also early, at the age of 12 these are completely children.

Stefan Domuschi: Early, but I do not think that it was some kind of serious and deep conviction and, moreover, I do not give the meaning here in this case. Because it is much more complicated and much more significant, when people do not make such a choice from the church environment, when nothing supported them, nothing led them to this. It was not difficult for me to make such a choice.

Another thing is that the family had such an atmosphere that I wanted to go to church, it is really very important, because the family can have another situation. Nylya Anvarova: And how your family survived the Soviet time, when, so to speak, they did not believe in God, the authorities presented so. Stefan Domuschi: My great -grandfather was formed in the territories as a person, as a person who was not controlled by the Soviet regime before the year, it was Western Belarus, then it was Poland.

Therefore, in a sense, he, as a Christian, formed and designed some of his views even before he faced some kind of godless reality, with godless power, with this regime. And my other, no, not my great -grandfather, my grandfather, he was born and also grew up in that part, it was Bessarabia, this is where there was also not before, even before the war there were simply no Soviet orders, there were no murders of priests, executions.

Therefore, this is also a village, his family was very traditional, very believers, pious people, they wanted services, they lived Christianly. And when adult people face this, they can convey this knowledge, their experience, and the experience of faith already to their children. Another thing, my father, he already lived and was formed in the Soviet country, we have in the family the preserved clippings from newspapers, where, for example, the article could be called this: “How to save Sasha,” that is, my father, and the question was raised almost at a city -born level, how to make the father and mother not scored his head with his religious stupidity to this boy, and there was even such an appeal from the face of such an appeal.

Pioneers: Father and mother, do not deprive Sasha of his happy pioneering childhood, let him grow up a happy boy in a happy socialist country. But it turned out differently, Sasha grew up a priest and behaved so in life that his children also decided to become priests and devote his life to God and people. Because not only me, my brother is a priest, and my sister married the future priest, now he is also a priest, her husband.

Here, something like that.Nylya Anvarova: You know, we somehow talked about communities, and you said that the communities are not easy to form people there to spend time there, but to learn to love, love each other, love and understand each other. I would also like to talk about it, that, probably, the family had such an environment that a believer is an Orthodox person, this is still the person who gives a lot of love and warmth to others.

Stefan Domuschi: You know, I will begin, probably with such a strange example. Imagine that you are going in the train early in the morning, you are sitting in a car in which all other places are empty.

And suddenly a person comes in and sits down exactly next to you, although the rest of the space is also free. One percent of any person will be the first thought: why, is there really no places of others, would have sat in another place. Because in us, literally, at the subconscious level, this feeling of antipathy is laid down or at least alertness to a stranger.

And this is the action of sin in us, the action that began with the act of Adam and Eve. And here we are people, we really, inwardly very wary of others. For us, selfishness is characteristic, precisely for fallen creatures. And just Christianity and the Church, the Christian family, is the place where we should fight in ourselves, this is the place where we should work with this, with this feeling, in the end, of course, to perceive another person, someone else's person, as our own, to learn to get out of this self -forage selfish.

Therefore, the family is a school of love, a school of concessions, a school of sincerity, a school of building some deep, trusting relationships. When I open my soul to another and is ready to perceive it as respectfully, with love. Nylya Anvarova: Without fear, so to speak. Stefan Domuschi: Yes, not only selfishly using it and even without using it at all. It seems to me that the community is just such a place where we learn to love, because when you come to the temple, and there is a person that you do not know nearby, it is very easy to love at such a level, just respect it, observe some etiquette.

Nylya Anvarova: Because you have no, in principle, interests of even common ones. Stefan Domuschi: Yes, and when this person is in close communication with you, difficulties begin to appear here, nuances begin to appear, because you constantly communicate with him, and then there is only a reason to learn this love, but first patience and condescension, and then love. Nylya Anvarova: It's like in a family, while you, for example, are just a guy and a girl, they just have some kind of communication, they say, a flower and bouquet period.

And when the family is already becoming, it is formed, then there are already completely different laws, it is already more serious, of course, it should be stronger. Stefan Domuschi: But it is interesting that the beginning of these relations and the purpose that we must come to, they are very similar in something. Because when a person only falls in love, what does he feel for the object of his love?

First of all, he is ready to sacrifice, he does not look at anyone else, for him this girl is the only one or this young man for her is the only one, he is ready to forgive a lot, he is ready to endure everything. And then, when this period of love ends, the time comes when we learn to build our relationship, and we must come again, but only not sensual, but meaningful. When we are really ready to sacrifice again, when it really is again for us to be the only one we love and do not look at anyone else when we really can endure, condescend, sacrifice.

But only now this has already been suffered, it is already consciously built. So love and true love are in many ways similar. Nylya Anvarova: You know, we called the topic precisely "Soul Beauty will save the world." Why did I touch on this topic. Because today, unfortunately, the fact that we see, for example, in social networks of popular, on television, on some youth channels, everything is very contaminated.

And this vulgarity, debauchery, the use of alcohol, some depraved life, it is all promoted, as if it is fashionable, this is how cool, and in general, this is a canon. And when, indeed, this is why this youth, yes, we understand, somewhere it is flooded with Western politics to corrupt our youth, because youth is the future of our country. They will also then become mothers and dads and will be in such an incorrect, say, environment to educate their thirds, which is where such black roots of the problem come from.

We understand, of course, that it really, maybe Western politics, exists everywhere. But why did it take root with us, why is this happening? Stefan Domuschi: You know, I am not at all a supporter to blame someone else for everything, the West or anyone else.We live in one single European context, because, in my opinion, Russian civilization, Christian civilization, this is undoubtedly East European civilization, albeit with its accents, but accusing someone else, this is most often unproductive.

Because if a person of a holy life, then, as the apostle Paul says, everything is clean clean. And if a person does not have any dirty thoughts, evil intent, he, as a child, will not perceive something bad. And on the contrary, if this is in a person, he is just shy or ashamed, or some kind of inspection system, this was crushed in it, then, as soon as freedom appears, it immediately blooms in it with a magnificent color.

Nylya Anvarova: Now there is a lot of freedom. Stefan Domuschi: Yes. Here, of course, it seems to me that if you ask, for example, how Christians could withstand this, then only one way, this is a personal example and all kinds of support for all that good that now exists and is developing. Nylya Anvarova: So there is no personal example of young people in families?

Stefan Domuschi: Why, no, I would not say. For example, there are people who spend their lives on drinking, on drug addiction, but there are many people who spend it on sports, science, on the development of culture. A lot of art schools, many sports fields. Another thing, it seems to me, it would be necessary to maintain even more. Because there are probably two paths that one seems very simple, the other seems difficult.

The first is to take and prohibit everything that seems wrong to you, but such a prohibition always gives rise to opposition, always gives rise to a desire contrary to making. The forbidden fruit, it turns out, is even more sweet. Despite the fact that you can simply not support this and support the good, support the good. And a person, in fact, walking along the path of sin, in the end, when this sin is tastes, he is of course sweet, but still he begins to feel consequences quite quickly.

If it is not supported on this, on this path, but to support and in every possible way to advertise, in every possible way lead to the fact that the correct, healthy spiritual path, it is here, then many people will follow this. So, it seems to me that the point is not to arrange such an ideological or moral total control of everything and everything, but simply to develop the good that is in a person, what is in society, and it will win, I am sure of this.

Nylya Anvarova: You know, I want to know when we have lost such a true faith in general, we have a very large number of people who, while even baptized, are anti -Christian Orthodox. That's when we lost this thread, that you need to live differently, not just put the checkmarks that I am baptized, I wear a cross, I go to church once a week. Stefan Domuschi: There is probably no point in the specific, historical one, to name the date, number or even the era.

This all happened very gradually. Because if we look at the first Christian communities, then the person who came to it, to this community, he knew why he had come. He knew how to live, he studied for a long time, passed the announcement, underwent training. Then, when the whole empire was Christian, in his own way, of course, a person also lived in this culture, he was formed in it, his society itself supported.

Nylya Anvarova: And the children, it turns out, also grew up. Stefan Domuschi: Then, when in Rus', it was a Christian state, and the society itself supported this, and it seems that it was good, but this was one significant minus, which, probably, was almost impossible to avoid. The consciousness of Christianity of each individual person decreased and decreased.