Воздержание
What is Self-Control?
Self-control is moderation in all aspects of life, guided by scripture, ensuring all actions are done with propriety and order.
Question 14. What is abstinence? Answer. Abstinence is moderation in food, drink, and clothing, as well as in speech and all actions. Guided by it, a person chooses what is proper, according to the Apostle: “Let us walk properly as in the day, not in revelry and drunkenness, not in lewdness and lust, not in strife and envy” (Rom. 13:13). Similarly, he says elsewhere: “Let all things be done decently and in order” (1 Cor. 14:40).
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Вопрос 14. Что есть воздержание?
Ответ. Воздержание есть умеренность, соблюдаемая в пище, питии и одежде, также в словах и во всех поступках, при руководстве которой человек избирает для себя то, что прилично, по словам Апостола: «Яко во дни, благообразно да ходим, не козлогласовании и пиянствы, не любодеянии и студодеянии, не рвением и завистию» (Рим. 13, 13). Подобно и в другом месте говорит: «вся же благообразно и по чину да бывают» (1Кор. 14, 40).
Orthodox Confession (Pravoslavnoe Ispovedanie) companion
Rule yourself daily, not just on retreat
Chosen Portion turns the mirror into a daily practice — a short reading and examining question each morning before you lead anyone.
Chosen Portion makes the mirror daily: the ruler-formation questions this collection preserves become a two-minute morning examination in the app.
- A daily formation reading drawn from centuries of counsel to those in authority
- One pointed examination question a day — two minutes, before the meetings start
- Track your practice over weeks and watch the examined life become a habit