Recipes for Saving Families, from a Priest and a Psychologist
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Marriage and Family

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Recipes for Saving Families, from a Priest and a Psychologist

Archpriest Pavel Gumerov, Nadezhda Khramova, Farida Savelyeva

Divorces are a real disaster of our times. Broken lives, the loss of any hope of building personal happiness, unhappy children who are very likely to imitate the behavior pattern of adults, the inevitable diminishing of the role of family and family values in the society—these are the most evident consequences of divorces.

Homily on the Sunday of All Saints
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Saints. Asceties of Piety. Church Holy Days

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Homily on the Sunday of All Saints

St. Luke, Archbishop of Crimea

Innumerable and boundless like the sands of the great Sahara and Gobi Deserts are our contemporaries and those who lived before us. Who are they? What are there lives like?

Getting To Know the Old Believers: How We Pray
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Church History

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Getting To Know the Old Believers: How We Pray

Vladimir Basenkov

There are no longer long services and plangent, angelic singing in our city parishes, and icons of the Rublev school are found far from everywhere. But grains of these olden times, of this semi-monastic life have been preserved, by the will of God, and survived to our day in the Edinoverie (United Faith, Old Rite) parishes of the Russian Church.

Entering Hell on Pentecost – With Prayer
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Saints. Asceties of Piety. Church Holy Days

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Entering Hell on Pentecost – With Prayer

Fr. Stephen Freeman

The cycle of prayers assaulting Hades reaches a climax on the day of Pentecost. On the evening of that Sunday, the faithful gather for Vespers. During that service, they kneel for the first time since Pascha. And in that kneeling, the Church teaches them the boldness of prayer, the cry of human hearts for God’s solace and relief.

St. Augustine of Canterbury, Evangelizer of England
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Saints. Asceties of Piety. Church Holy Days

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St. Augustine of Canterbury, Evangelizer of England

Commemorated on May 26/June 9

Saint Augustine was from Italy, and a disciple of Saint Felix, Bishop of Messana. Saint Gregory Dialogus chose him to lead a mission of forty monks to evangelize the people of Britain. They arrived at Ebbsfleet in Kent in 597.