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Week 19 after Pentecost
Sunday Gospel Luke, VII:11-16 Jesus Raises a Widow’s Son
Celebrating the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary
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The feast of Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary was solemnly celebrated in the Transfiguration of the Lord temple in Kyiv. This holiday reminds every Christian that he or she should walk the path of life straightly, courageously overcoming steep rapids, worshiping the God only. Not selfishness and hypocrisy, not cheating, deceit and greed are counselors and companions of a genuine Christian, but love to a neighbor, the awareness of sin and opposition to it, striving for justice and peace and responsibility for your word given to God. This is actually boundless devotion to God – the one, which had Joachim, Ann and Mary...
Joint prayer for God's care of Ukraine
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On Sunday, December 1, 2013, in the Cathedral of the Lord’s Transfiguration, the clergy and church community prayed for all those injured in Kyiv's Independence Square on the night of November 30, for the Ukrainian people, for God's care of Ukraine for the welfare of future generations.
About temptation through the wealth, about wisdom, and the God's law
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The matter is not that a man is rich. The matter is his wealth blocks his relationship with God. A man begins to trust only in himself and his wealth. Why is it bad? As a connection with the truth becomes blocked...
Spiritual traps: arrogance
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Ukrainian people have one favorite saying: "If I knew where I fell down, I would put some haulm there". It is one of the main national features of Ukrainians, as the famous Ukrainian writer Ostap Vyshnya considered. "If we knew that this building fell down, we would put it in another place" - wrote the humorist in one of his works So, if people knew about their souls a bit more, knew about that traps, which were chasing them in the invisible spiritual world, they would not make their lives more and more complicated. They would not think so much where to look for rescue. They would not visit psychologists, psychotherapeutists, extrasensory perception adepts, sorceress and witches, creating only more problems.
To be or not to be happy
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God gave each of us free choice, gave us complete freedom in our deeds. And it depends on each person how we will use this freedom of choice in our life, in relation to ourselves or others, what we will do with it, we will do good (to go the way of life) or to do something annoying, evil (go the way of death). So with our own free will we can be happy or suffer permanently, be dejected, loosing heart more and more, plunging into the darkness deeper and deeper, that will devour the soul, making us even more miserable.
Native language is the way to God
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"Have you ever heard a nightingale croaking, and a crow trilling, a sparrow clanging , and a сrane weeting? Of course you have never heard that. Everything in the world is created according to the principle of nature accordance. Every bird glorifies God with its language, and we, the Ukrainians, have to glorify God with our mother nightingale tongue as it was planed by the Creator, because the native language - is the way to God?
What means cloning of people and animals?
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The word-combination "cloning of a human" (creation of alike, of repetition) itself causes a protest in my soul and has not even grey but black colour.
Is it possible to clone (to repeat) already existing person?
A human being is a union of spirituality and corporality (soul and body). And the primary element of this union is soul. Exactly for a soul, for the fulfillment of its mission a body is created.