Sunday of the Veneration of the Holy CrossOn Sunday of the Veneration of the Cross, March 19, 2017, in Kyiv, in the temple of Transfiguration of the Lord, the Holy Cross was carried out for veneration after the Holy Liturgy...

About the Pharisee and the Tax Collector, about the prayer and the salvation

Why did Jesus Christ tell that parable? The explanation is just at the top this Gospel. There is one sentence, when Jesus said: “When the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on earth?” And next He told about some people, who exalted themselves with their righteousness, but in such way they humiliated other people...

Confession as the tool for happiness

The happiness is such a short word, but it absorbs all human needs, dreams and desires. People make huge mistakes when they try to chase it and later people pay for it with the great sufferings. And the hardest sufferings are spiritual sufferings, because there is no handmade medicine for it...

Baptism of our Lord and TheophanyIn the morning of January 19, 2017, in Kyiv, in the Temple of Transfiguration of the Lord, a solemn prayer service was celebrated Bishop Vasyliy in concelebration with Bishop Nicholas dedicated to Baptism of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and the great miracle - Theophany...

Eve of the TheophanyOn January 18, 2017, on the Eve of the Theophany (Eve of Baptism) Archbishop Alexander in concelebration with Bishop Vasyliy ministered the festive prayer service and accomplished the first Great Rite of Water Consecration in the Transfiguration of the Lord Temple.

Christmas  in Kyiv, Ukraine, in theTemple of Transfiguration of the LordIn the morning of January 7, 2017, in the Temple of Transfiguration of the Lord, Bishop Nicholas celebrated the solemn Divine Liturgy in honor of the Nativity of the Lord.

On Christmas Eve, January 6, 2017, in the Transfiguration of the Lord TempleOn Christmas Eve, January 6, 2017, in the Transfiguration of the Lord Temple, Bishop Vasyliy in concelebration with Bishop Nicholas made the solemn thanksgiving service, during which five loaves, wine, oil, wheat, kutia (sweet grain pudding, Ukrainian traditional Christmas dish), fish and other gifts of God were blessed to celebrate the birth of our Savior Jesus Christ...