What is father listening to?
One day, a priest was riding a commuter train listening to one of Dostoevsky’s greatest novels with his headphones; he was writing a dissertation on it. He totally zoned out. In the meantime, an elderly lady standing nearby was dying from curiosity: What was father listening to?
She first tried to move closer, then stepped away, then sighed a little and even gave him a wink. Finally, she tapped him on the shoulder and asked:
“Batiushka, what is that you’re listening to?”
As truthful and unpretentious as he was, he replied, “Demons.”1
The poor old lady quickly vanished into thin air.
“Let’s be sincere and everything will either increase or vanish, depending on the circumstances,” the priest deduced from this encounter (according to a story by Hieromonk Dmitry Pershin).
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