Spiritual Father questions

November 5, 2007

FrAthanasios wrote:

I would agree with most of what Namees says except at the very end. I do believe a spiritual father is a must. By this I mean a guide who "has done it before" and is more advanced than ourselves. That way, we can be guided to a "higher" level. In our modern parish filled world, the best placed to start is with your parish priest.

Agreed, Father. I mixed up my terms. What I meant was basically what I said in the second paragraph -- a \"starets\" is a rarity, but a trusted confessor and guide is important. Basically, a person going to their spiritual father shouldn\'t expect to give monastic obedience or to receive clairvoyant advice. Putting those kinds of expectations on spiritual fathers is not fair to them (or to ourselves).

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