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? ...

About wisdom of forgiveness of enemies and about wisdom in difficult moments of life

Great Lent begins, and there are difficult moments. It is necessary to prepare for the feast, it is necessary to be able to forgive. But you should forgive wisely. In what way? It should not be in the way that you forgive a person, and he/she betrays you immediately… Therefore, it is necessary to be wise. If you have not enough wisdom, you can ask God for help: "God, give me Your wisdom, give me Your wise love..."

About the forgiveness before the Great Lent, about the trials of the Ukrainian people and about the power of prayer

We know that Lord can do everything. He said: "Keep asking and it will be given to you. Keep searching, and you will find. Keep knocking and the door will be opened to you". And we have asked today. We asked during the Liturgy, we will ask at home, we will gather together with our families to pray, because it is not the problem of Crimea. Therefore I ask you pray sincerely...

About the Day of Judgment and about the proper choice: life or death

Today we have heard the Gospel (Matthew 25: 31-46), which the Lord gives us before the Lent that we could understand what our life is, how we have to purify and to understand the idea of religious life and purification of the soul to enter His Kingdom...

About the prodigal son and about the “property” of every man, how to get it and to spend it

We listened to the gospel (Luke, XV :11-32), which stated that one of the sons took some property from his father … Where did he spend that? First of all let’s become clear with the word “property”. What does every man have?...

Про Фарисея і Митаря, про зло від фарисейства - як воно виникає і як його викорінити

I want to stop on such thing as Pharisaism. What it is? Why it makes a lot of evil for the Earth? It is true that this Pharisaism is everywhere now. It is all over the country. We still remember the Soviet times. We were told that we lived in happy and good country... We see that our authorities say we live well today, that our economics develops. They told us all the time like Pharisee: “We are doing everything for our people, that they could live happily”...

Про мудрість Закхея і про те, як сьогодні запросити Ісуса до свого життя і до свого помешкання

We listened the Gospel about Zacchaeus and you should think whether you would like to be on Zacchaeus’ place? Would you like to climb up on the tree and look at prophet Jesus, at Messiah, to look at Him with hope that He would come to your house? Would you like to do it? Surely. But a lot of time passed. How can we do it now?