And something else from the “opera” of irresponsible attitude to the Sacraments. Justifying their evil-doing actions (performing sacraments without proclamation and the Church, the purpose of which is one – membership in the Church! Performing sacraments without proclamation – an evil act, evil, sometimes irreparable in the second form of existence), priests say: if I do not baptize or perform another sacrament, in which they have a need, then clients will still go to another temple (shop, or directly to the supermarket – those who are attentive will understand what I am talking about!), it’s better that I earn money! (Which is tantamount to: if I do not do evil, that is, do not satisfy their demand, then another priest will fulfill this order…, and you have to live for something!??). Instead of trying to proclaim (but, to teach someone – you need to know yourself; if a priest is a pagan, a priest, what will he teach?!), to warn, try to stop from doing evil to themselves and them(!), to bring to their senses, to responsibility – immediately, without the slightest attempt to avert evil, satisfying absurd selfish, animal arguments, with which they finish off their dead conscience, they undertake to do Evil – to baptize (without preparation, without proclamation) in general, abstractly into the status of a Christian, not into a specific community, but into an abstract patriarchate or an abstract incorporeal universal church!? If a person does not want to be proclaimed, to learn (at the end of proper Orthodox proclamation, a person should understand that the sacraments of the Church (the Church itself) – are absolutely not what she thought and what she wanted to use; instead of egotistical, individualized self-affirmation, which leads to hell, to death, personal self-denial of egotistical individuality, death for egotistical self for the sake of birth into hypostatic, catholic Life of the Most Holy Trinity in the Body of Christ, which is constituted by the Mystery of the Eucharist – hypostatic communion in the communion of the Holy Spirit), then let her go to another priest, and the presbyter, who refused to perform the sacrament (rather the act of the sacrament, in which the whole community should participate!) without proclamation (which should have ended with the “buyer’s” desire to become a member of a living community!) did good to them and to himself! Which will definitely bear fruit in its time! Although those buyers will go to another priest, who will do this evil to them, but when in their lives this evil will manifest itself in hellish torments, then they will have a foothold for repentance, – ruefully asking themselves: perhaps, we made a fundamental mistake, because the father, from whom we left (and how glad we were when we easily achieved from another priest what we wanted, and the price was acceptable), warned us that these are not games, and about money, “donation” he didn’t mention at all, although we tried to raise this topic… That is, that father wanted nothing from us (neither money nor donations), only our happiness… And then repentance begins, the search for the truth… Each of us in this life is a sower, not a reaper! What you sow – you will reap; sow good – you will reap sheaves of joy and life, sow evil – you will reap the fruits of grief, torment, and judgment…
Regarding the proclamation, the Church has never been concerned that someone, hearing that they need to learn, be proclaimed, work, will go away and not want to be baptized; because the proclamation lasted a year, two… until the person became ready to bring the promises of baptism, to die for the life according to the elements of this world and to start living the life of the parish, as a living member of the Body of Christ. The Church did not complain even because someone during the process of proclamation would die unbaptized. They prepared for baptism for a long time, and during this period anything could happen to the person: unexpected death, various diseases with a lethal outcome or other life dangers, trials that would prevent the performance of the church act of baptism in the second form. Christians were not concerned! “Died unbaptized – what an irreparable grief” – say those who think paganly! And Christians do not see a problem in this, but care only about one thing – the proper preparation for the sacrament, which in its time will be performed by the Lord (in which form of existence (in the second or third) – it does not matter; remind that all sacraments are performed by the Lord, and the church through proclamation and divinely established acts (which are the fruits of the Eucharistic life and creativity of Christians) creates conditions for the personality, in which it will be able to receive the grace of the Holy Spirit, enter the Kingdom of God). And now Christians have become fearful: they are afraid to postpone baptism for a month or two, to learn a little, to prepare, afraid to somehow not be late, to manage to baptize (themselves)!? On the contrary, the Church restrained, discouraged from hasty Baptism (and from participating in any church sacraments). No one was in a hurry (because they knew the reality, the truth – the Resurrection of all and everything in Christ – see above). Nothing bad (ontologically) can happen to anyone anymore! And evil (which for the hypostasis is essentially a postponement of the revelation of the Kingdom of God), performing irresponsibly (without proper proclamation and repentance) Sacraments (showing the Kingdom of God to the unprepared; throwing pearls before swine – see above), a lot of harm can be done! Priests, do not do evil to yourself or to others!