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Не существует такого врага, который мог бы помешать нам в духовной жизни. Есть только один враг — это мы сами. Только одна болезнь — это эгоизм.

Картинка стала настолько реальной, что герои выглядят почти как актеры, соответственно уровень погружения, или иммерсии, значительно вырос.

О том, как в обществе воспитывать базовые нравственные ценности, рассказывает протоиерей Александр Азаренков, автор информационно-образовательного проекта «Семь уроков жизни»

«Прекраснее дружбы ничего нет на свете. Она служит утешением в настоящей жизни. Что может быть выше и драгоценнее того, как, когда у тебя есть кому открыть своё сердце, поделиться тайнами, поверить сокровенное?»

Любая война, идущая на земле, задолго до этого начинается на небе – в мире, невидимом плотскому глазу. Брань не стихает никогда – здесь, в миру, мы видим только ее тени, слабые отблески, хотя и они кажутся нам беспощадными.

Наше очередное московское паломничество пройдет в основном… по музейным залам. Именно в музеях хранятся сегодня несколько величайших русских святынь. Надо обязательно помнить об этом, планируя свое паломничество по Москве.

О добре, традициях народа и готовности к смерти - пресс-секретарь Патриарха московского и всея Руси Кирилла иерей Александр Волков в эксклюзивном интервью «АиФ».

26 января 2017 года Святейший Патриарх Московский и всея Руси Кирилл выступил с докладом на открытии V Рождественских Парламентских встреч, организованных в Государственной Думе Федерального Собрания Российской Федерации в рамках XXV Международных Рождественских образовательных чтений «1917-2017: уроки столетия».

As in years past, a cross-jurisdictional group of Orthodox Christians from around the country will also be present at the rally and march, taking a stand for the lives of the millions of innocent children who have been murdered. Met. Tikhon will lead a prayer service for the victims of abortion after the rally’s speeches, before the march. His Beatitude will also offer the benediction at the annual Rose Banquet in the evening following the march.

Just a few days before the January 26 opening of an international Orthodox film festival, Ukrainian authorities announced that the screening of all Russian films would be banned.

Our holy father Anton of Martqopi arrived in Georgia in the 6th century with the rest of the Thirteen Syrian Fathers and settled in Kakheti to preach the Gospel of Christ.

Because of his great virtue, Saint Arsenius was consecrated as Archbishop of Kerkyra. He became a defender of widows, a father to orphans, and a comfort for the sorrowful, and so God rewarded him with the gift of miracles.

The Holy Virgin Martyr Euphrasia was born at Nicomedia into an illustrious family. She was a Christian, and was noted for her beauty.

He lived in an age when the Christian West was shaken by the Protestant Reformation. While others around him were pursuing luxury and lascivious pleasures, he studied the Holy Scriptures and the writings of the Fathers.

Fr. Mihai reposed in the Lord on January 25. He is known as a man who devoted himself entirely to others, and especially to orphans, the sick, and the poor.

Saint Macarius lived during the thirteenth-fourteenth centuries, and was distinguished by his lack of covetousness.

Saint Macarius the Faster of the Near Caves of Kiev was a deacon.

Protest and unrest is growing in Greece against new directives coming down from the Ministry of Education to “eradicate sexual prejudice” and “homophobia and transphobia” through a new leftist education program.

Saint Mark Eugenikos, Archbishop of Ephesus, was a stalwart defender of Orthodoxy at the Council of Florence.

Saint Macarius of Alexandria was a contemporary and friend of Saint Macarius of Egypt (January 19). He was born in the year 295, and until the age of forty he was occupied in trade. Later, he was baptized and withdrew into the desert, where he spent more than sixty years.

“Perhaps one of the most serious temptations of government service on any level is corruption,” the patriarch said, opening 2017’s Nativity Parliamentary Meetings.

The symposium is an annual tradition started by a scholarly society at Princeton University and attracts scholars, clergy, and laity from around the world who are interested in combining serious scholarly inquiry with faithfulness to the Tradition of the Church.

January 20, in the afterfeast of Theophany (the Baptism of the Lord), the Orthodox Church honors the one who (as it says in the canon dedicated to him) “wast found worthy to touch the head of Christ the King,” and of whom the Savior Himself said in the Gospel: Among those that are born of women there is not a greater prophet than John the Baptist (Lk. 7:28). On this day, the apodosis of the Theophany, we would like once again to remember the great Forerunner of Christ.

Having gathered my last strength, I decided to go to church, figuring it’s no problem if I died: I’m in a monastery, and they can serve my funeral here. I wanted to go to one last service. And in this joyless state I headed for church. When the anointing began, I was barely able to venerate the icon of the Equal-to-the-Apostles Nina, after which the abbot of the monastery Schema-Igumen Agafon (Chesnokov) anointed me with oil.

That Christ is the precise image of the Father is put forth in the book of Hebrews (1:3). This is refined in Nicaea’s language of “homoousios” (“same substance”). But while that language speaks of “being” or “substance,” we easily lose sight of what is being put forward.

Сви смо чули за овог човека. Али се наша мисао највероватније тек овлаш дотакла његовог имена. А оно је достојно сваке пажње. То је Јосиф, праведни Јосиф, заручник Пресвете Дјеве и наводни отац Господа Исуса Христа.

„Корупција је вероватно једно од најозбиљнијих искушења у државној служби на сваком нивоу,“ – истакао је Његова Светост патријарх Кирил у свом говору пред посланицима Државне думе 26. јануара.

Света школа, шта је то? То је она школа која је Светог Саву начинила Светим Савом, која је њега, младића, бегунца са царскога двора претворила у свето биће.

Данас, на Савиндан, Његова Светост Патријарх српски г-дин Иринеј служио је Свету Архијерејску Литургију у крипти спомен Храма Светог Саве на Врачару.