Dear brothers and sisters!
The holy and light feast is coming - the Intercession of the Theotokos. The history saved a lot of fact of Holy Mother’s protection of our people, Cossack’s army; She gave strength to our warriors in fight with enemies. That is why in Ukraine this feast got the second name – Cossack’s Pokrov. And in this day people also celebrate the Day of Ukrainian Cossacks.
The parable of the talents in the spiritual sense tells cometh Jesus Christ in His second coming to Earth. The parable of the talents in the spiritual sense tells cometh Jesus Christ in his second coming to earth...
In the Gospel of Matthew (Mt. XXII:35-46) the Lord showed and emphasized the main and the greatest Commandment of God – to love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the greatest and the first commandment. And we must understand it correctly. Just to know is not enough, it is important to understand it...
On Sunday, September 21, 2014 in the Transfiguration of the Lord Temple, Archbishop Alexander in concelebration with Bishop Vasyliy and Bishop Nicholas ministered a Divine Liturgy in the honor of the great Christian feast - Nativity of the Theotokos...
True Christianity is one thing and the other thing is formal Christianity. You can screen yourself behind such words as “Christian”, “Christian world”, “Christian country”, “We are with God’”, etc. But if you do not make steps in the way to change the society on the Earth, to change it for better and lighter future, you will not hide in that words…
If a man does something in his society, at work, or in family, he carries responsibility for the success of this deed. Maybe, the man does very little thing, but it is important for God. And if a man does not do it in a good way, the Lord will take it away and will give to other people, who will do it in a good way...
According to legend, the Vladimir Icon of the Mother of God was written by holy apostle and evangelist Luke during the life of the Virgin on the board of the table at which Christ, Mary and Joseph had refected. The icon remained in the Jerusalem until 450. When Theodosius the Younger ruled, the icon was moved to Constantinople. At the beginning of the XII century the Patriarch Luke Hrisoverg sent a special copy of it as a gift to the Grand Duke of Kiev Yuriy Dolgorukiy...