Joint prayer for the united Ukraine – God’s country

On Sunday, March 30, 2014, in the day of prayers for the killed innocent heroes of Maidan forty days ago, in the Transfiguration of the Lord Temple, all community honored Heavenly Hundred and prayed that all dreams of people, who sacrificed themselves for the better future for Ukraine, for the rebuilding of new, light, just and united Ukraine – God’s country...

About the cross of Jesus Christ, about the cross of ordinary person and about the opportunity to gain through lost

We have heard in the Gospel: “For whoever would save his life[d] will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake and the gospel's will save it.” And every time I hear this I think about a little seed. It ruins. When it is planted into the ground it starts to ruin. But a little sprout comes out of that seed and it is very little in comparison with that seed. It grows and gives the life to a new, big and beautiful plan...

Sunday of the Veneration of the Holy CrossOn Sunday of the Veneration of the Cross, March 23, 2014, in Kyiv, in the temple of Transfiguration of the Lord, the Holy Cross was carried out for veneration after the Holy Liturgy...

About the ability to be spiritual and not blind person

I want to remind you once again one of the main thoughts, which was brought by Jesus Christ. It is the idea that a person who believes in the Truth must not be blind. I want to lay the stress on the idea that he has to be spiritual and one who can see everything. Why? Because he/she has to see the world around us. Jesus all the time stressed that and told: “That scribes who live only according to strict laws can listen, but can’t hear; they can look, but can’t see.”...

About the spiritual and physical healing due to our faith and the faith of our close people

Today we have heard the Gospel (Mark II: 1-12), in which the Lord made the miracle of the healing owing to the people’s faith. It is true that a faith has the main importance in the person’s healing. We see that four friends let down the bed on which the paralytic lied through the removed roof to the Jesus Christ. And the Lord saw in this act their faith. He saw the faith of all – the paralytic and his friend, who brought him...

Joint prayer for God`s wisdom for state government

On Sunday, March 16, 2014, in the Transfiguration of the Lord Temple, after the Divine Liturgy, the clergy and the faithful held a joint prayer for God`s wisdom for the leaders of the state, for the soldiery and civil leaders of all levels...

About the first students of Jesus Christ and about the search of own fate

Every person on the Earth in its own time asks a question: “Why I do not understand the things that are happening around me? Why does everything happen not in the way I want to? ” And this soul continues: “Why did that happen in such way? Why do I have this situation? For what purpose did it happen? Why did everything happen? ” Every wise and intelligent person starts to think about it. But how can we understand all that? How to do it? ...