Orthodox Parables and Stories: The Prayer of a Child

Father Seraphim loved children, these paradise flowers. In his life, several touching incidents from his life are told. For example, the Simbirsk landowner E. N. Pazukhina came to visit the priest in 1830, but the cell was locked from the inside: the elder did not accept. Some tried to do the monastic prayer: "Through the prayers of the saints, our father, Lord Jesus Christ, our God, have mercy on us," but the door did not open. “Finally,” a visitor reports, “I turned to a lady standing next to me at the door with a little girl, so that she would make the baby say a prayer, saying that she is more worthy than all of us. And as soon as the baby made a prayer, at that very moment the door opened. "