(Russian) Икона Божией Матери, прославившаяся чудесами в уделах Богородицы – на Афоне, в Иверии (Грузии) и в России,- названа по имени Иверского монастыря на Святой горе Афон. Первое известие о ней относится к IX веку – временам иконоборчества, когда по приказу еретической власти в домах и храмах уничтожали и предавали поруганию святые иконы. Некая благочестивая вдова, жившая недалеко от Никеи, хранила у себя заветный образ Богоматери. Скоро это открылось. Continue reading
“The Lord has revealed to me,” said the great Elder, “that in your childhood you had a great desire to know the aim of our Christian life, and that you continually asked many great spiritual persons about it. But no one has given you a precise answer. They have said to you: ‘Go to Church, pray to God, do the commandments of God, do good—that is the aim of the Christian life.’ Some were even indignant with you for being occupied with profane curiosity and said to you: ‘Do not seek things that are beyond you.’ But they did not speak as they should. And now poor Seraphim will explain to you in what this aim really consists.”
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(Russian) Преподобный Серафим Саровский преподавал всем следующее молитвенное правило: «Всатвши от сна, всякий христианин, став пред святыми иконами, пусть прочитает… Continue reading
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(Russian) Боже, милостив буди мне грешному. (Поклон)
Господи, Иисусе Христе, Сыне Божий, молитвами Пречистыя Твоея Матере, преподобных и богоносных отец наших и всех святых помилуй нас. Аминь.
Слава Тебе, Боже наш, слава Тебе.
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Just as God blessed the first humans, Adam and Eve, to live as a family, to be fruitful and multiply, so too the Church blesses the union of a man and a woman. Marriage, however, is not a state of nature, but is rather a state of grace, and married life is a special vocation (no less than the special calling of monasticism), requiring a gift or charism from the Holy Spirit – this gift being conferred in the Sacrament of Holy Matrimony.
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