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Paul (Troitsky)

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Secret elder: corrected language
Fr. Dimitry tells about another interesting event when he was searching for a good offer to buy a country house near Moscow. He accidentally took the wrong train and had to get off at some intermediate station. He was waiting for the right train and saw an advert about the sale of a house at a very good location and at a very good price. He became very happy, visited the house and even made an advance payment. He was thinking only about this happy coincidence. But the day before the final conclusion of the deal, Fr. Vladimir Vorobyev called him. He received a letter from Fr. Paul and pointed at one phrase: "To Fr. Dimitry - he should not buy the house (underlined twice)". Fr. Dimitry was shocked and had to cancel the deal. But a month later he suddenly inherited a house under the will about which he did not know. The house was located even in a better place than the first one.
Bishop Panteleimon (Shatov) provides an example of how the will of God was revealed through Fr. Paul: if the person did not ask and did not want to follow it, the elder did not reveal it. When Abbess Juliana (Kaleda) was had a secular name Masha and worked as a nurse in a hospital, she decided to get married. She had a blessing from her parents, from the priest, but she did not explicitly ask Fr. Paul about the Lord’s will. She only informed Fr. Paul about her plans and so Fr. Paul did not write about the Lord’s will himself because she did not seek it. But she had some disquieting thoughts and in the next letter did ask about it. So Fr. Paul replied that he understood that his response would greatly upset everyone but there was not the Lord’s will for her to marry. So she rejected her fiancé's proposal. Then she started to ask whether she should meet another man, but it was gradually revealed that the Lord’s will for her was not to get married at all but to become a nun. Later she became the abbess of the Conception Convent in Moscow.
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