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St. Nikon, Abbot of Radonezh, the closest disciple and successor of St. Sergius of Radonezh (+ 1392), was born in Yuriev-Polsky. Having heard about the angelic life of the Radonezh wonderworker, the boy came to St. Sergius and asked to be tonsured into a monastic image. The Monk Sergius foresaw the purity and prudence of the boy and gave him a test - he sent him to his disciple, the Monk Athanasius Vysotsky (+ after 1401; memory of September 12). But even the Monk Athanasius did not immediately accept him. Only seeing the persistence of the boy, he tonsured him into a monastic rank.
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Post-Christian Society in Modern EuropeMaria AlferovaTraveling through France or Italy, one is struck by the abundance of names associated with Christianity. Along the way, one encounters "Bois de Dieu" - "God's Wood" and "Rue de la Croix" - "Cross Road...
The Power of Words
"Welcome or No Entry?" - Reflections on Religious Restrictions
On the Diversity of Religions
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What happened in paradise?
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Ukraine, America, and the Subversion of Orthodox Christianity
Why God's Pronouns are Masculine, Not Feminine
My neighbor Antonina Stepanovna, the one who doubts everything
Community disservice: people are working in a church as punishment
The Very Idea of a "Non-Practicing Homosexual" is Nonsense
"We stopped climbing into the windows of our lovers"
Belt and cassock
Александр Цветков, создатель музея Николая Бердяева
Non-random meetings
Patriarch
Thank you all for your prayer
I sincerely thank all of you for praying for me. I know that this prayer is daily, the whole Church prays, and, probably, without this prayer it would be impossible to carry out the Patriarchal ministry. But when they pray for me on this day, a personal day, with which the very appearance of a person in life is connected, then, I think, this prayer is heard by the Lord, and help is poured out on the one for whom they pray. And through those present here, I thank all of you now, my dear bishops, fathers, brothers and sisters, who today, all over the face of our earth, in all the fullness of our Church, have been offering up prayers for the Patriarch.
Heritage
Anatoly Torkunov: «What’s really important is how many students are blood donors»
On August 26, Mr Anatoly Torkunov, member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, rector of the Moscow State Institute for International relations at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, chairman of Trusteeship Council of the Foma Magazine, turns 70. Mr Torkunov is talking with Parsuna on Spas TV about happiness, forgiveness, normal young people, and a university church.
Patriarch
Russia an Island of Freedom in Raging Sea of Cancelled Morality
Indeed, Russia is capable to resist alien, godless, anti-Christian forces. Those forces which aim their sting at human hearts, so that we lose our ability to tell good from evil. Gone from the political vocabulary is the concept of sin: they enforce a new model of behavior, claiming that good is what they please. But when so-called civilized world, by and large, picks up this idea, Russia, just as in the past times, has the guts to disobey. We must stick to the notion of good and evil, not from political interests or someone's ambition, but from that moral law which God has placed in our souls, in the human nature.
Heritage
Alexey Savvateev: "Wisdom is you take on exactly the problems that you can solve"
Life is not equal to mind, life is an irrational and a very chaotic thing, and if these bastards ever design a homo sapiens, I mean, turn a man into a robot — this will be the end of history.
Patriarch
Russia Is Fighting Against Global Evil
Powerful propaganda forces in the world today are working to destroy the concepts of good and evil, and Russia here is fulfilling a special mission to preserve the traditional worldview, which allows people to remain truly free. This opinion was expressed on Thursday by Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia in a sermon after the liturgy at the Donskoy Monastery.
Heritage
Cancel reporting, teachers’s pay and my math program, – three solutions by mathematician Alexei Savvateyev, if he were to become Minister of Education
Why mathematics is a language of God and what miracles happen in a scientist’s life? Why proof of unscientific nature of homeopathy is unscientific, and why lack of forgiveness is dangerous? These and many other very extremely interesting issues were discussed by mathematician Alexei Savvateyev and Vladimir Legoida in Parsuna TV show.
Patriarch
The Church and clergy on social media
Any clergyman who participates in discussions on Facebook, Twitter, LiveJournal and other online communities must constantly remember the responsibility that is imposed on him by speaking in a public space. People look at you primarily as priests. The careless and sometimes outrageous statements of individual clergy cast a shadow on the entire Church of God, causing waves of reciprocal discussions in the blogosphere, in which the subject of attacks becomes not so much the author of the lines him-self as the Russian Orthodox Church as a whole. Nobody forbids you to participate in the life of Internet communities and leave your comments in the topics, but it is necessary to act with judgment and discretion.
Heritage
Russian State Duma deputy Yevgeny Primakov: «I'm not a forgiving guy»
People who did wrong and were unjust simply cease to exist for me. Let me give you an example. One of the instigators of that campaign recently died in a tragic accident. TV channels called me on the strange assumption that I would want to comment. I said I wouldn't, what was done was done. I leave my personal feelings to myself.
Patriarch
The Church’s relationship with the secular media
It is important to remember that they judge the whole Church by each priest, and “thanks” to the media, any unpleasant incident causes a wide resonance. It is also important to remember that there are pastoral questions, and there are questions associated with church-social or church-state relations.
Heritage
Russian State Duma deputy Yevgeny Primakov: «I'm you hired employee»
Yevgeny Primakov joins Vladimir Legoida on Parsuna Show to discuss the origins and projects of the Russian Humanitarian Mission, his work as a member of parliament, and how faith found its way into his life.
Patriarch
Personnel in the Church’s media
For two decades of unrestrained existence of our Church press, the issue of the quality of journalistic personnel in the Orthodox media has remained invariably relevant. I remember how, when I was the chairman of the Department for External Church Relations, in a fit of temper one day, I rebuked my employee responsible for media: “Can we still not find anyone to work with us who is both religious and good at writing?”
Heritage
Artem Oganov: «A scientist who is dishonest is a dead scientist»
Science does not forgive dishonesty. Unfortunately, the category of scientists engaged in fraud and forgery is not so rare. There are people who made a brilliant career using this trick. But then their schemes were exposed, since there is a time all cats eventually get out of the bag. In such a situation, nothing will save the fraudster. Science will be merciless.
