Archpriest Mikhail Ovchinnikov Biography

Alla of the good-sized-gazezer of his father Mikhail Ovchinnikov, on September 5, departed to the Lord Archpriest Mikhail Ovchinnikov, whom the readers of his books that amaze the power of the Spirit were known as a man who looked out of his life, after the difficult catastrophe of a different, where he met with the confessor and mother, and after the miracle of God, was returned from the miracle of God.

Non-existence ... by profession, a test engineer-test engineer in Dnepropetrovsk, a man of wide erudition, spiritual warmth, cordiality, mind and great creative potential, who had personal exhibitions of picturesque work, he could not be satisfied only with earthly. In the year, Mikhail Ovchinnikov became a priest. And his pastoral path is an example of fiery service to God and people every minute of His difficult life.

His life was prayed to God when I was lucky to prepare the first “Moscow” book of Father Mikhail Ovchinnikov for the publication “between life and death. Certificates from the threshold of eternity ”she was published at the Pilgrim publishing house in G. But joyful and full of strength, the voice of Father, who was behind the facet of death, said that he was at least outstanding personality.

Father Michael, who got into a terrible car disaster in the year, who did not leave him a single chance of life, survived contrary to the forecasts of doctors. Having survived several clinical deaths, having met in the world ethereal with the clergy and mother, he was returned from the miracle of God, who committed the prayers of close people and his spiritual children.

This is how Father Michael told about these sensations in the book “The Secret of the World of a different. Through the painful, bloody darkness, an indescribably wonderful light gradually appeared-it was not like the flash of a lamp, a spotlight or lamp, it was the whole world permeated with light-life ...

Later, reading the book of Archbishop John Maksimovich “Life after Death”, I tried to understand his sensations so that the Lord did not bring! There was a feeling of something native, acquaintance-but this soul has swept with the native monastery! Here it is - the real hand of Christian help! Michael is connected with the fact that he not only with dignity experienced unbearable torment, but, having gained, in fact, the second life, retained the greatest trepidation before the secret that the Lord revealed him ...

It was therefore that, probably, the priest found the strength not only to return to the priestly service, but also to write about everything that happened to him - sincerely and heartily, in detail to analyze his feelings on the verge of between and death. And the fact that he did not only as a patient, but also as a shepherd, causes special trust ... With excitement, you re -read the lines from the preface to the first - Dnepropetrovsky - to the publication of the book, which was written by Archpriest Vladimir Karpets, now deceased, which at the end of the past centuries was the dean of the Churches of the Sevastopolsky District: “It is truly visible the discovery The secrets of the afterlife life, the meetings of the author, who visited the verge of life and death in the mountain world, with his confessor, Archpriest Konstantin Ogienko and his mother, who have already left earthly life, are provocative.

For his salvation. For the edification and salvation of all of us. In the alarming year, the father was, as usual, with us at the festival of St. Soon after leaving his home, a phone rang like a thunder: - The priest in intensive care in a difficult state. Struck, not understanding what I was asking, I say: - What are his fractures? According to the prayers of loved ones, the father of Michael and his spiritual children, the Lord makes the impossible, unthinkable for our understanding: he returns the priest dear to many to life.

Soon after this obvious miracle, Archpriest Michael is brought to the Toplov Svyato-Paraskevievsky monastery ... With great difficulty, the priest in the altar moves. The knowledgeable father of Michael and so loving the parishioners has many questions, especially about the experience on the verge of life and death. For all questions, the father found the strength to answer cordially, friendly and joyfully - as always.

But suddenly one of the people emphasizing his pain took the wrong note, dropped the frivolous phrase:-Father, how happy you are, what they saw! The face of Father Michael has changed from the pain of heavy memories, and he replied: “You can’t imagine what you say, through what suffering and pain you had to see all this!” Let that spiritual experience that is granted to Father Michael and who became the property of all of us, will bring to many who were touched by this book undoubtedly the benefit of saving souls ...

”After the grave torment, only a person who knows the true price and life and suffering could maintain an unusual torment and love for life. After the release of that book in the Crimea, to the Toploovsky Holy Paraskevievsky Convent, where the priest served, a stream of letters poured, and after the publication in our Danilov monastery the book “The Terned Crown of the disease.

The experience of overcoming cancer ”she withstood more than 10 publications - also a stream of pilgrims to the city of Sudak in Crimea, where Father Mikhail lived in recent years with the whole faithful companion and ally - Mother Lyudmila, with whom he shared love, joy, sorrows, and whom he dedicated all his books. People who came to about. Mikhail, searched for support in their troubles, learned to endure diseases, getting rid of fear, learned to look, first of all, the spiritual resources of healing.

Michael with an open heart met any guest, literally putting his soul into every conversation, in every meeting. With mother Lyudmila, how not to be “unworthy”? I was in Sudak several times at Fr. Michael and mother Lyudmila, we analyzed the archives of his correspondence with children, photographs, talked a lot and recorded precious evidence of his life on a tape recorder.

And I saw how his meetings took place with people, how soberly, reasonably and at the same time he carefully answered phone calls even, at first glance absurd - about, for example, whether a person would die, taking a new passport. The priest understood that there were no unimportant questions, and the answer often depends whether the person would wake up spiritually or would remain in magical ideas about faith.

Among the tape recordings of the pilgrims, there is an amazing testimony of Maya living in Ukraine: “When I was in pilgrimage in the Crimea and came to the Toplovsky monastery on a throne holiday, then, to my happiness, I came to my father Mikhail. I was in deep depression then, which I told the priest. He asked with great participation, why did I have depression? I explained that my father is seriously ill, and it torments me very much.