Материалы 3 сентября 2019 г.

28 августа в Паломническом центре Псково-Печерского монастыря открыли замечательный детский городок и несколько спортивных площадок.

За 9 лет служения произошло немало удивительных случаев. Уникально притяжение, которое испытывают сретенцы к этим людям и этому краю.

Христос, христианский Бог, превозмогает справедливость любовью, и мне это кажется восхитительным.

Высоко, на соседнем дереве, как раз напротив могилы, сидела парочка голубей и ласкала друг друга клювиками.

Ты говоришь, например: «Люблю». Но «люблю» может и обозначать «я нуждаюсь в тебе». И это не есть чистая любовь. Просто на самом деле мы имеем необходимость в некоторых людях.

Гость программы: меценат и общественный деятель Екатерина Анисимова.

Кто составил самый первый сборник акафистов на Руси? Есть ли канонические нарушения в столь любимом у нас акафисте «Слава Богу за все»? Что делается для создания «золотого фонда» акафистов?

At the end of the conversation, Pat. Bartholomew offered Abp. John a prayer rope and said: “Keep in touch,” to which Abp. John answered: “Of course, Your Holiness, we will keep in touch.” Less than two weeks later the Patriarchate released Abp. John without prior notice.

“We are pleased to welcome you, Your Eminence, on your birthday, on an island where there are many saints are venerated, and especially the Holy Hierarch Spyridon. We pray that the Lord will help your Church overcome the difficulties connected with the Church schism and disorder,” Met. Nektarios said, showing the true love that always exists between the best representatives of the Greek and Slavic Orthodox traditions.

“Our holy monastery was flooded with a multitude of Aiginians to congratulate and receive the blessings of our abbess!” the monastery's statement reads.

“This is already the fifth month that the church I went to as a child belongs to the supporters of the OCU,” Bp. Pimen said. “It is forbidden for me and other believers who are attached to the church in their souls to go inside.”

The so-called “Orthodox Church of Ukraine” (OCU) is built upon a foundation of ethnophyletistic nationalism, which its supporters only prove more and more as time goes by.

Vasily Kursaksa (born 1981) is a graduate of the Russian Academy of painting, sculpture, and architecture, a member of the Russian Artists’ Union and the Moscow Artists’ Union, the Painter’s society, and a member-correspondent of the International Academy of Culture and Arts and of the Russian Academy of Arts. Vasily Kursaksa’s works are displayed in museums of Russia, China, Italy, and are also in private collections in Russia, Germany, and the U.S. he lives and works in the town of Sergiev Posad (where the Holy Trinity-St. Sergius Lavra is located).

Now I have a big family and a home in St. Petersburg. I love each and every person of the Novodevichy Convent and the eyes, voice, and smile of Mother Superior are ever before me. When the time came to return from the convent I didn’t feel as though I was going home, but rather leaving home, as the convent had made me one of it’s own and captured my heart. Departing from there was a very heavy thing for me and I literally cried. How could I not?

Гост: пуковник у пензији Видоје Ковачевиће, председник Удружења ветерана 63. падобранске бригаде