Smirnov Dimitry Nikolaevich - clergyman of the Russian Orthodox Church - rector of the church of St. Mitrofan of Voronezh at Khutorskaya and seven more churches in Moscow and the Moscow region. A very bright charismatic personality in church and social activities and a very frequent guest in the popular program “Conversations with the Father”, which is broadcast on the Soyuz channel. Smirnov Dimitriy Nikolaevich, plus everything else, and the host of the television program “Dialog under the Clock” of the channel “Spas”. His voice can also be heard on the Radonezh radio in the Annunciation program.
Dimitry Nikolaevich Smirnov
He is a native Muscovite born on March 7, 1951. His great-grandfather was also a priest, and his grandfather was a white officer. In 1968 he graduated from school with a physical and mathematical bias. He received higher education (in absentia) at the Moscow Pedagogical Institute, where he studied at the sculptor's art and graphic department. Then in two years he graduated with an external degree from the Moscow Theological Seminary and then, also with an external student, in a year and a half from the theological academy.
Father Dimitri also does a lot of missionary work, he is the leader of the Orthodox movement and the founder of the Separate Division project, whose goal was to protect family values, work with juvenile delinquents and combat abortion.
Smirnov Dimitry Nikolayevich still occupies different positions from the chairman, co-chair, vice-rector, dean, etc., there is nothing to list, but we actually do not need this, this information is open and anyone can find it.
Since 1991 - rector of the church of St. Mitrofan of Voronezh, where he still serves today. Married, has a daughter, Maria, who is a philologist by education and works with pupils of the orphanage at his father’s church.
Inconvenient person
However, Dimitry Nikolayevich Smirnov is better known to viewers and listeners for harsh and sometimes very biting statements and sharp satire, which is often heard on television or radio broadcasts, in discussions of a burning topic, in answers to various questions or addressed to liberals and their opinions, with which he often has controversial positions.
In order to somehow shed light on what kind of person he is, it is worth paying attention to some of his statements, because opinions about him are contradictory and often very critical. However, be that as it may, he thinks and says things that are quite right and necessary for each person, since the degradation of society is very obvious, which is probably why we need people like clergyman Dimitry Nikolayevich Smirnov, who speaks a modern and understandable language without smoothing, embellishing or veiling the problems of people and society as a whole. Of course, some people may not like this and will “cut their ears,” while others will really benefit. Although he is a priest, he is not afraid to express his opinion directly, especially since it is usually "not in the eyebrow, but in the eye."
Dimitry Nikolaevich Smirnov: quotes
You can learn a lot from him and he has a lot of interesting quotes. So he says:
- “If you ask any person what sin is the worst, then you can hear different answers: murder, adultery, theft, betrayal, meanness, etc. But in fact, there is nothing worse than unbelief, since it is precisely it that gives rise to all these grave sins. "
- “A person reads prayers by dozens and thinks to please God with this. But only stupid people bargain with the Lord, because for Him it is important not quantity, but sincerity at this moment. Sometimes it’s better to just cross yourself, but from the heart. ”
- "They say:" Do not judge, but let us not be judged. " And really shouldn't the lame laugh at the hunchback. Because we all have a hunchbacked soul and a lame faith. ”
- “Repentance is not an Aim Sori.”
- “If for every sin a brick fell on our head, then the Cheops pyramid would have been left from us in a week.”
- “Without love, life is mean, dull, and hopeless.”
- “Love is not the feeling of fire that poets write about, and when“ I want to have ”, and when“ I want to give ”my strength, time, mind, means and living space.”
- “Those who believe in the soul, let them eat in the shower, drink in the shower, and when the girl likes and marries in the shower. In the shower, you can go for a salary. Faith in the soul is a lack of faith. ”
Conclusion
And about those who left the church because of resentment against those people who behave tactlessly and selflessly in the church of God, he replied with the parable: "I, like in a bakery, got rude once, so now I don’t eat bread anymore." That's how he knows how to make fun and teach good truth.
I must say that Smirnov Dimitry Nikolayevich will not go into his pocket for a word, but he is a very smart and wise, lively and interesting conversationalist who has enormous spiritual experience, and therefore we all have something to learn from him. Everyone knows how to criticize, but not everyone can do it.