As a priest was walking alone on the road on a hot day, suddenly in front of him a man with a rifle jumped up out of the bushes.
The man said to the priest, "I have killed 99 men, and you will be the 100th among them."
The priest replied: "I am ready to die, but please give me a little water to drink before you kill me, I am very thirsty."
The man was confused for a while, then the priest was escorted at gunpoint to his hut, where he was offered a glass of water to drink.
While the priest was drinking, the killer died of a heart attack.
Angels descended from heaven to accompany the killer's soul to paradise, but demons argued, "This man has killed 99 men, in addition to having committed many smaller sins. His soul belongs to us."
However, the angels answered the demons: “But he also did two great good deeds for the gospel of Christ that surpassed all his sins. First, he confessed his 99 crimes to a priest, and secondly, he offered water to the thirsty.
No sin, no matter how many times it has been repeated, is greater than God's mercy.
☦ Saint Nicholay Velimirovich
The man said to the priest, "I have killed 99 men, and you will be the 100th among them."
The priest replied: "I am ready to die, but please give me a little water to drink before you kill me, I am very thirsty."
The man was confused for a while, then the priest was escorted at gunpoint to his hut, where he was offered a glass of water to drink.
While the priest was drinking, the killer died of a heart attack.
Angels descended from heaven to accompany the killer's soul to paradise, but demons argued, "This man has killed 99 men, in addition to having committed many smaller sins. His soul belongs to us."
However, the angels answered the demons: “But he also did two great good deeds for the gospel of Christ that surpassed all his sins. First, he confessed his 99 crimes to a priest, and secondly, he offered water to the thirsty.
No sin, no matter how many times it has been repeated, is greater than God's mercy.
☦ Saint Nicholay Velimirovich