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.
Sunday, January 26, 2014, in the Transfiguration of the Lord Temple, after completion of the Divine Liturgy, the clergy and the faithful had the joint prayer to Our Lord Jesus Christ. They asked for the protection for Ukraine from all visible and invisible enemies, to stop the bloodbathiness and fratricide, to stop using the weapons against people, to save free, impartiable and independent Ukraine...
Today we have heard the Gospel about the family tree of Jesus Christ – Our Lord (Mathew I:1-25). I want to separate two parts here. The first is about the genealogy of Joseph the husband of Mary, of whom Jesus was born, who is called Christ. And the second is about the miracle of the Birth of Jesus Christ from the Holy Spirit...
It so beautiful in Ukraine on Easter! Stars are still in the sky when the lights of Easter candles begin to the blink everywhere timidly. Endless human streams will move along the road from the temple to the temple and the good news will be heard, and everyone will take home sanctified sweet-scented Easter cake and brightly smiling Easter eggs in a smart basket.
Sunday, January 19, 2014, in the day of the great Christian holiday the Theophany and Baptism of Savior Jesus Christ, in the Transfiguration of the Lord Temple in Kyiv, after completion of the Divine Liturgy was a Great Blessing of Water.
A lot of people are looking for happiness. They look for it and think that it is in money, comfort, family life, work or somewhere else. But happiness is to reach God’s Love. Happiness is to be with God. This is happiness and “all other things will be added”, as the Lord said...
"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?