On October 21, 2020, in the 70th year of life, the Archpriest Dimitri Smirnov died. The clergyman was highlighted by passionate statements in which he played support and strengthening family values. Its wording was sometimes contracted with generally accepted standards, but remained in the shower, forcing the events to think over the events occurring and rethink them in the context of good and love. Bright facts of biography and the life position of the preacher - in material 24cm.
1. Don Quixote
Archpriest's childhood passed in the Moscow family. The boy received an education in a physical and mathematical school and read out by Roman Miguel de Cervantes "Don Quixote". Moreover, the main character of the work did not seem like a child fun. On the contrary, he sympathized with the character and admired his actions. And the tears came from some episodes.At the age of 15, the future preacher read the gospel that he changed the worldview of the young man.
2. Choice
After school, Dimitri Smirnov entered the art and graphic faculty of the Moscow Pedagogical Institute, and then worked in the house of Pioneers, where he taught the laying and drawing. Then came the awareness of the need to tie a life path with the church.
By the way, the Archpriests knew how to explain complex things, which was traced to pedagogical skills. Anxiety and doubts of people who ask questions, the father laid out and translated into a tongue-understandable language. Sometimes it looked with the elements of humor, to better convey the thought from the point of view of moral postulates. "When a man buys a car, for some reason he registers it ... And the marriage is considered something third," explained the preacher later his position on the relationship in the family.
3. Paradise place
Pedagogical talent Dimitry Smirnova passed by inheritance from the great-grandfather Vasily, whom parishioners considered a born teacher. From 1980 to 1990, the future Archpriest served in the Cross-Promotional Church of the village of Altufyevo, where before the revolution preached the ancestors over the paternal line.Later, the preacher will find the graves of 5 priests of the kind of Smirnovy, and the corner where services were held, will call "a paradise place with amazing nature"
4. On abortion
Since 2011, Dimitri Smirnov has been part of the Patriarchal Council on family and child protection. And later, the priest supported the initiative to eliminate abortions from the OMS system. "So that the state pays for the murder of its citizens is nonsense," argued then Archpriest. The bill did not accept, but the chain of goodness towards unborn children was launched.
Archpriests have repeatedly performed with a proposal to provide material assistance to multi-way and lonely mothers, introduce them a monthly salary. "Well, you can't find such a crazy to take your mother with five children!" - brought the argument of the priest, arguing about employers who reluctantly employ women with raising heirs.
5. Male and female
Dimitri Smirnov's father was distinguished by sharp statements, but admitted that she fell on the side of women. He called the men's "shameless people from Mamienica Sons" and was staring up, that the strong floor is not ready to serve the spouse and children. And to break the vicious circle, urged to create families and pay attention to the upbringing of boys."I also have children, we carefully select movies that are good to see," the greatness of the Holy Martyr Vasily (Smirnova), married and the robbing daughter with people. He urged to speak the topic of floods within the family. "Family is the highest value. Because, if there is no family, there will be no state, "the preacher said.
6. "Batyushka burns"
Even non-churched Russians were familiar with the priest. The rollers with his speeches, youth looking for a "Yutiub" on the Kesteg of "Batyushka burns". By the way, and the preacher tried to catch the mood of young people and played, jokingly over the absurdity of questions.
The question of sinfulness is meat food Smirnov commented: "Even chips are desperately crunchy." But at the end brought the conversation into a serious direction and completed the conversation in a religious key, recalling morality and morality.
7. In the balance of death
According to the Archpriest, he was three times in the balance of death. All three cases were associated with water when the legs drove.
In May 2020, Dimitri Nikolaevich suffered a coronavirus infection that undermined health. At the beginning of the fall, the state of the father worsened, and on September 29 he was hospitalized in the intensive care unit, where he died on October 21, 2020. According to official data of the Russian ROC, the death of the proto will come from a chronic disease unrelated with coronavirus infection.
"One of the best people passed away in the world - Father Dimitri Smirnov. He was my friend, my mentor. Although why was it? There is and will be. Death Earth does not cancel his love. She is above death, "the actor Ivan Okhlobystin responded to the sad news.