Category Archives: Orthodox Faith and Life

The Basis of the Social Concept of the Russian Orthodox Church

The Bases of the Social Concept of the Russian Orthodox Church are called to serve as a guide for the Synodal institutions, dioceses, monasteries, parishes and other canonical church institutions in their relations with various secular bodies and organisations and the non-church mass media. This document shall be used by the church authorities to make decisions on various issues relevant within particular states or a narrow period of time, as … Continue reading

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Baptismal Sponsorship, Past and Present

The parents may say, “Church is very, very important,” but if they do not go to church every week and devoutly receive Holy Communion, and say their private prayers, and pray at meal-times, such exhortations will be recognized by children for the hypocritical clap-trap it is. Continue reading

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Address of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill to the Fullness of the Russian Orthodox Church

There can be nothing more significant for us today than the continuing fratricide which is blazing on the territory of Ukraine, taking away more and more lives. What is happening today, primarily in the Donetsk and Lugansk regions, and how are the members of our Holy Church to assess these events? Continue reading

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(Russian) О Таинстве Крещения

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THE GREAT LENT – A Week by Week Meaning

There are institutes and symbols adopted by nations, churches or groups of men which represent certain ideals accumulated in the past. These institutes, that is precepts recognized as authoritative, and symbols represent the thoughts and feelings of those who created or adopted them and put in them all the experience of the past, often through struggle and sacrifice. Continue reading

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(Russian) Чему у них поучиться? Свято-Германовский съезд молодежи.

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(Russian) Об исповеди и душепопечении детей и подростков

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(Russian) Русь еще жива

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Visit of The Kursk-Root Wonderworking Icon of The Most Holy Mother of God of “The Sign”

His Eminence Gabriel, Archbishop of Montreal and Canada, concelebrated a Moleben or General Service of Prayer and Intercession with the Akathist to the Most Holy Mother of God, before Her wonderworking Kursk-Root Icon of “The Sign” with the Rector of our parish and other local clergy in our church on Sunday evening, May 26, 2013.

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