Air ordeals, or the Exam, which cannot be avoided. Archpriest Oleg Stenyaev

The basis of the book of the famous preacher, missionary, theologian, publicist Archpriest Oleg Stenyaev "Air ordeals, or the Exam that cannot be avoided" was lectures given by him at various times in the Trinity-Sergius Lavra, in other monasteries and parish churches. The pages of the publication deal with the value of earthly life, death, highlight the biblical and patristic justification for the doctrine of ordeals - a kind of exam that the human soul passes after death. A detailed story about each of the twenty ordeals ends with a story about what awaits the soul of each of us later: about a private judgment, about the afterlife of a person, about the resurrection of the dead and about the last Judgment.

“Earthly life is the most important and responsible time in the matter of our salvation, because here our fate is decided, where we will be in eternity. The mistake of many people is that they put off the moment of repentance until death, although, of course, they do not know when their last hour will strike. They consider themselves healthy and strong and do not really think about the fact that both health and strength can disappear in an instant, ”the author of the book writes.