Before the trip must go to church, confession, communion and ask for a priest blessing the trip. Do not be discouraged if you do not receive such a blessing. As a rule, priests, lay people are trying to dissuade from such trips. There is a deeper meaning. The fact that the holy water sources - a heavenly medicine. She served for the healing of body and soul. If you're nothing, and everything in life you have right, ask yourself: Why should I go to the source? Is this not a way of "spiritual entertainment"? Because the source is traveling people with serious problems of life. This may be an illness or personal drama ... And they're all in need of urgent assistance. And how do they get this immediate assistance, if the source jostle hundreds of people, most of whom came here just for the sake of curiosity?

Else you should know that the action of God's grace, though quick, but very cautious. By the holy font need to start slowly, with a prayer and a deep inner faith. That the Holy Spirit in the water, began its curative effect, it is necessary that the soul reigned peace and quiet. That is why the holy spring have to go your way, and not as part of "palomniche symmetric group. And the best way to go not one, but a few days. As a rule, close to the source of a monastery or a village, where you can find accommodation. Holy Spring is in the holy place, and that pochuv sponded to the grace to let her join you, it takes time. The longer you are going to stay at the source, the greater the benefit will be the body and soul. The Holy Spirit does not apply to people hurrying, hurrying, business - those who want to "fast spirituality." Many of my friends who bought "tour to the source" in any agency, later said that no action on them, this water is not produced. And there is nothing to wonder: "pilgrims" who come to the source of a large group, will never receive the grace. After all, they squeezed into the narrow confines of the schedule. Before leaving on a bus they need to "run into the temple, to explore the area, listen to the guide, to collect some water and, if possible, take a dip in the font. But is it possible to receive grace on the run? In any case. In addition, such "orthodox tourists" to stop people who have come to the spring with really serious problems. Sometimes difficult to see how a person suffering from pain, sitting on the sidelines and waits patiently to plunge all the "tourists". Do you want to become like "tourists"?

Go to the source, if you really need help or healing, and then a miracle occurred. I know of one happy family, where six children. The first ten years of married life are husband and wife were childless, and thought that they should live so all my life. The wife showed congenital, due to which she could not give birth. Parents and friends tried to persuade her husband to leave her and marry another, women's health. But, fortunately, among them was true love. They decided to stay together, no matter what. And once they were approached by a woman, a nun. She said: "God gives you children, but you need to go to St. Sergius in the Trinity-Sergius Lavra. There is a fontanelle: a dip into it, and some water with a dial. " Did. And a year later came the baby, followed by two, three ...