"Love is costly and contradicts the benefit"

The priest from the Moscow Region took over the functions of the Ministry of Health

This is the father of Dionysius. On the third day, he entered the city’s hospital, near which he lives with consumables for insulin pumps, which he bought for their own in order to distribute to parents, whose children are sick with diabetes, because other of them do not receive the cannulas and catheters from October 2017 for free.

There are a lot of questions at once (as subordinate clauses in the second sentence).

It turns out that the priest is dissatisfied with the policy of the authorities? Where did you get the money? Why did he need to call journalists? Anyway: is it possible to believe an Orthodox priest who calls himself by the name of the unbridled ancient Greek God?

We went to him, and he answered everything.

Father Dionysius - in the world Denis Sokolov - met us at a deserted railway station. He looks like Dionysian. You can easily imagine it in Himatia and with filled Kanfar. But he was in an open jacket over a blue cash, below which sports pants with stripes peeked out. He said: "As I understand it, you are you, and I am me." And he invited the Dodge to the Dodge car. "Travel" that is.

Travel about. Dionysius to Vera began at a medical college. He even worked for four years in intensive care and was about to go to the Medacademy, when he suddenly turned into a seminary. "Medicine could not answer all my questions." Now Sokolov is 41, he has eight children, he loves cinema, Nabokov and Pelevin, and since 2003 he serves as the rector of the Trinity Church in the village of Drachevo, Moscow Region. From the bell tower, it is clearly visible that it stands between two rustic halves: an old poor and cottage rich. The temple is the only place where their inhabitants intersect.

- Have you heard the news? The father asked. -A robot priest appeared in Germany. Live!

Sokolov is convinced that faith is more based in practice than on theory. And what humanity will a robot show, from which you can only choose a voice and type of blessing?

- As long as human in people, the world will live. As soon as we all become robots, we will end. The law is law, but no one can cancel love. I can say that despite the opposite views in dogma with Muslims, with Armenians, Catholics and others, I often see Christians more in them than in myself. Because God gave them what we often lack - genuine philanthropy, ”said the priest. And I remembered the case. As was in Tibet. And he saw a monk who boiled a kettle in the sun with the help of a stainless steel lens. There was a yellow hat on the monk. That is, he followed the teachings of Gelugp ("virtue" in our opinion). Dionysius's father was aware that the students of this school of Buddhist thought pursued for a long time. And he wanted to support the monk. But only one word knew. He said:

-Ge-lug-pa.

The yellow -bearing man hugged the priest, pressed against him and repeated:

-Ge-lug-pa.

“The language of love is universal,” summed up Fr. Dionysius.

I also remembered the case, too. As it was on Solovki. And I wanted to write a note about the rector of the distant monastery. They told me that before you should write to him SMS - with a request to bless. I grimaced, but wrote. The monk replied that before it should be written by the SMS to the rector of the monastery, which is in charge of a wandering. I wrote to him. The abbot (without fools) replied that he should ask the patriarch. Of course, the phone did not give, but it is quite clear to whom the patriarch would send my message.

And then the father bought a cannula without any demand and arranged a humanitarian action.

“The church,” I was surprised, “is a very hierarchical structure ...

To which Father Dionysius answered with a sermon about independence. We offer to supplement it with a reprint of the Bible. Here it is:

- In 2008, I had acute pancreatitis. I lay in intensive care for a long time. Diabetes mellitus is an inevitable complication after the destruction of the pancreas, ”the priest said on the way to the hospital. - Then the daughter fell ill. Her diabetes arose, apparently, after a flu -like infection. She became sluggish, refused food. My thought flashed right away. But I drove it for a long time. And then he measured sugar.

That is, I encountered this personally. And when infusion sets stopped issuing in the pharmacy, I tried to solve the problem with a traditional way. He wrote to different authorities so that the state would fulfill its obligations. But the situation has come to a dead end: a month passed, two passed, three, four. And I realized that other people were involved in this besides me. I, coming to the pharmacy, heard them swear. What can I do in this situation? Also swear? The demons are only expected from us. So that we spoil the relationship. And they will collect their harvest.

In internal, I am sure that to do good secretly - more correctly. But what I do today, I do not do for praise.

When the house on the village burns, you have two ways: either go to the stove, or climb the bell tower and beat in the bell to draw the attention of others. So I beat the bell.

Yes, of course, the hierarchy is a hierarchy. But tell me, please. Here the man on the street stumbled and fell into the mud. Do I need to call the boss or do something myself? Still, we must decide some things without waiting for the sanction of the commanding organs. Remember the good Samaritan. The man was beaten on the street, and he was lying bloodied on the road. The priest walked and passed by. And the assistant priest walked and also passed by. They had some excuses, things were important, church. And there was a pagan, the Samaritan, and helped. The gospel teaches us independence. Before you do evil, call and ask.

-It seems that everyone is somehow reading the Gospel.

“I completely agree with you,” Dionysius Father dangled his head. - The Lord said: "Love each other." He did not say: "Love only those you like." But love is costly and contradicts the benefit. Therefore, it is easier, of course, to do nothing.

To worldly issues.

Dionysius’s father “analyzed the entire Internet”, found the most acceptable supplier and ordered two mailboxes of infusion sets - at all. “We are all observed with one specialist, I clarified how many families, and informed them in Wotsap.”

70 thousand rubles came out. “I don't have my own money. Money belongs to my parishioners and like -minded people. Priests have an official salary, 15–20 thousand. But living on it is extremely difficult. Therefore, the priest does not leave the flock. This is traditional and completely natural. If you are a good priest, then people will not give you an abyss. Any good specialist - at least a doctor, even a priest - will enjoy the trust of people. ”

In the hospital about. Dionysius was already waiting for a group of parents and a doctor. Marina Evseeva is sick of the seventh year. The child of Irina Kudryavtseva on this day celebrated the 10-year “anniversary” of his diabetes. Eight -year -old Vara Lantesova was diagnosed with the disease when she was a year and four months. “Three days of coma,” her mother Victoria recalls. Ivanova Olga, son Maxim, 11 years old, "sick from four." Melushkina Ekaterina, son Yegor, 4 years old, “we have been sick for a year and three months” ... All children receive a disability pension - 12 with a small thousand. And the last few months, 7500 have to be given to infusion sets.

“There are ten pieces in the package,” says Victoria Lantsova. - One is enough for three days. And if something did not get into it, then not enough. The cannula can bend. It happens that two or three are changing in a day.

“Every year we have the same thing,” parents complain. -From October-November and until March the month is stable. Probably there is no financing.

“How,” someone objects, “these are federal benefits, it is laid in advance.”

The mechanism of issuing infusion sets is as follows. Each month, the endocrinologist submits an application to the farm of the hospital. Farmotdel sends her to the Ministry of Health. The Ministry of Health lets the sets in the pharmacies in the field.

“In pharmacies they tell us: they did not bring it. We call in the farm, they too: no in warehouses. Where do the money go? Moms ask. “We write complaints, and they do not suit the inspections of the Ministry of Health, but the only doctor in the area.”

Having distributed the sets, the priest takes out an insulin pump with a tube running away from the bosom, running into the cassock, and explains the principle of its action on the fingers.

- Here is the device itself. Inside the reservoir, insulin is recruited into it. Our infusion set is connected to it: a tube and a needle. The needle is usually inserted into the front surface of the abdomen. In the pump there is a programmer that ensures the flow of insulin into the blood constantly.

The pump has a very high -quality Swiss motor, so it costs at least one hundred thousand rubles. But why on a tube, an elementary plastic tube, it is written “Made in Mexico”, and not “made in Russia”, and parents of children with diabetes are forced to buy them at 700 rubles. for 1 pc.?

On the way back to the priest, the endocrinologist called and asked not to mention her name in the note and not to publish photos with her. The leadership of the hospital learned about the action of Dionysius. The woman was alarmed, although she did not participate in the organization of the meeting. She was just not against it. But the hierarchy is hierarchy.

“In this case, we act on the principle of“ do not harm, ”the father admonished us.

Then there was tea with donuts in the Trinity Church. Ants crawled around the table. From a photograph on the windowsill, the former patriarch watched. On a shelf at a hot metal furnace stood a spray from burns.

Father Dionysius several times annoyingly remembered the robot-priest.

I thought that if he was created in the image and likeness of Sokolov, there will be nothing bad.