A serious life

"An amazing disease has appeared today, it is a passion for entertainment. There has never been such a need for entertainment as it is today; people forgot how to live a serious life, work for the benefit of those in need and inner spiritual life, and they began to get bored! And they change the depth and content of spiritual life for entertainment! What madness! Exactly children deprived of intelligence! And meanwhile public entertainment is already a public vice, already a public passion! This is where the shepherds should direct their strength; they must bring to life the content that it has lost, to revive the meaning of life for people. But, of course, the shepherds must prepare themselves for this ... The shepherds should be at the height of their vocation!" -- St John of Kronstadt