my city, because i love it very much, it is not expensive and will always remain expensive. i have been working as a teacher for 30 years, and if i had the opportunity to rewind time, i would probably choose the same professional path. the most interesting thing in the profession is promoting a child. that's when they come to us in fifth grade and we study their abilities, their needs. mentally imagine how this child can develop. a teacher must... be demanding, be able to be happy for children, instill in them confidence in their own strengths, the most valuable thing for a teacher, when his students reach heights, this is a great reward for me, that at the same time i feel, of course, pride and joy, working with modern children, i would like to lay in them , first of all, responsibility, to myself, first of all, and before the outside world, until a person... begins to demand

something from himself, he does not have the right to demand something from others, the child must understand that he goes from his parental family to school and he represents his family, and family is the most valuable thing for me teaching work is a mission, sometimes this mission is difficult to achieve, but it must be accomplished by someone, why are you not me, on the other hand, it is an opportunity for self-realization when you succeed in a lot... at school, then passion comes, and with this excitement you captivate the children, maybe not all of them, but many of them, then these children are grateful to you for the fact that at the right moment you tried, well, to give them some kind of acceleration, they began to develop the way i saw it.

good afternoon, comrades svorovtsy, i’m sending it, comrade priest, let’s go before class let's pray as usual. you, the heavenly king

, the comforter of the souls of truth and everywhere , filling all the treasures of good things and the giver of life, come, all powerful ones, and cleanse us from all defilements and save our blessed souls. now you and i are in the church of the holy apostle and evangelist john the theologian. it is housed in a former seminary building, which... now the minsk suvorov military school has sheltered, that is, this temple is the home temple of this educational institution, and services are held here, divine services are performed, and of course, most importantly, liturgy, and suvorovites have the opportunity to be communicants not only of the oral sermon of the clergy, but also to be participants in the sacraments. confession, the sacrament of communion, to be

involved in the liturgical life of the church, some of the suvorovites help the priest at the altar, take out candles, serve censers, thereby serving god together with the priest at the altar. this is truly a unique opportunity, because the peculiarity of this institution is that with all the students here... of humanity, life develops in such a way that the main leadership positions, of course, are all representatives of the fair half , the main positions in the army, and the most important thing in the family is occupied by a man, the man is the head of the family, suvorovites, by the way, they are also after... they have the right

to devote themselves not only to military service , they often become sovereign men, occupy important positions that influence the life of the state, life. people, here the church has a unique opportunity to communicate with men, talk to them about the most important thing, because the most important thing for a man god appears, this is how it was established, the man was always responsible for the relationship with god, the man always stood guard over spiritual security. it must also be said that a clergyman and a person liable for military service are united. safety. the church is primarily responsible for the spiritual security of a person, for the safety of his soul. the church very much desires that after death a person’s soul should be alive, capable of life in the next century, a free person and living

with god. this is the purpose of our salvation. suvorovites have military service, they also have your own safety. they answer. for the safety of the body, for the safety of the borders of the state, for our physical safety, so to speak, we complement each other, it is impossible to defend the state without preserving your own soul, without preserving your own spiritual state morally pure, otherwise you will do more harm than good, but and we, the church, also need to be protected on earth... we need defenders, an army, so that we can preach calmly, can perform divine services calmly, and thereby serve god to the people.

our main events that are held here are the weekly orthodox hour with suvorovites, where we talk about biblical history, tell the law of god, talk about the main holidays, the main holidays of the church, we also... tell the life of ascetics, glorified saints, but also, those who have connected their lives with military affairs, a priest is assigned to each company; it is he who is considered the confessor of his company, where he conducts his studies. our main focus, of course, is

spiritual security with spiritual knowledge, because military people, in the future they will be in special situations that a civilian will not encounter. which the church considers in no way acceptable, children are also very interested in the topic of family, they love to listen, are interested in all sorts of rules, what can help them create a good family in the future, what can help them become a good husband,

have a loving, strong family, their eyes light up, they ask a lot of questions, they are interested, just like children's parent. relationships, how to relate to parents, to your future children , you are also interested in issues of marital relations, the topic of family is also in demand today in other institutions and formations, because such an important topic as god and family is not entirely, perhaps not entirely completeness, is covered in our educational institutions, maybe this is not their task, this is probably the task of the church. but to show the family from the point of view of christian teaching and talk about god, but these questions that everyone constantly faces, there is no such person who would didn’t think about the meaning of life, about god, about family , these are lively dialogues, sincere dialogues,

for example, we have also been cooperating for more than 13 years with the thirty-third gymnasium of the city of minsk, one of the best gymnasiums in the republic, belarus, thanks to the very active position of the director yakubovskaya oksana borisovny, who loves her students and wants to give to them. also the most precious and most important thing is to introduce them to spiritual knowledge, to introduce them to the life of the church, to give them knowledge about the family. in fact, a priest, here i am, when i serve in a parish, most of the questions are from parishioners, it is most often connected with the family, these are child-parent relationships, these are marital relationships, and of course some other personal issues in the personal sense. and over time , i also realized that there is a need, a very

great need, to tell parishioners in advance about the church’s view of the family, because when someone comes to you, they are often addressing a problem that has already happened, and you know that history has no going back, many things can no longer be done. and we here, as probably doctors, most often say that prevention is best, it’s best to find out this in advance, to consult with a priest in advance, because it is often very difficult to correct, some things are possible, but others cannot be corrected at all, and i conduct such courses at the church of the archangel michael in the city of minsk, this is the sukhrevo microdistrict, where we... gather , study the bible using the example of families from the bible,

using the example of marital relationships from the bible, using the example of how god treats man, the family in the holy scriptures, we also look at how we should live as people, how to build our families so that they are filled beatitudes prepared for god, for the family. my parents were born in the city of novomoskovsk, tula region, my father graduated from the moscow institute of chemical technology, he is a chemical technologist, my mother graduated from the tula polytechnic institute, she is a programmer, she graduated. and the institute with honors diploma, she had a choice, they gave

her priority right to choose the distribution, she really liked belarus, so she chose belarus, she was sent to the city of baran, arshansky district, there was then the red october plant, which produced communications equipment, my parents moved in this way back then to the bssr, and accordingly, i also moved with them then for... my father, he all the time, as he said in his words, he all the time wanted to be a priest, according to my father's line , my grandmother, my great-grandmother were very religious people, my great-grandmother had 14 children, and mine, my grandmother was the fourteenth of this family, she was from the nobility, she valued her faith very much, she was a very pious person, her husband was a cleric temple, served in the temple in those days. i begged all male children to return alive from the great

patriotic war; this desire to serve god, of course, was passed on to my father. my dad, he was about 38 years old, he decided to become a priest, he really wanted to work for the good of the church. this did not happen simply; in those days everything was more complicated than it is now. the father is a very... courageous man who was faithful to god, uh, faithful to his duty, he built, after his ordination, he built a temple in the city of baran, in honor of the transfiguration of the lord, also laid the foundation and built the lower church in honor of the venerable sergius of radonish in the city of baran, then he moved to another place of service, in the city of gorki, there he built a temple in honor of the most holy theotokos, the spreader of bread. mom, she worked as a programmer at this plant, and then we have five

children in our family, mom even, in order not to send us to kindergarten for a while, worked with dad at the plant in two shifts, that is, mom went to work at night so that she could be with her during the day. us, dad went on the day shift, that’s what happened, and then mom of course i watched, we had twins, it was almost impossible for my mother to work, she was with the children all the time, now my mother is retired, my father had a huge influence on me. for my future life, my father and i often talked about serving in church, the fact is that from about the age of four or five i was with him at the altar, served, was a sexton, we served. in a relatively small temple, and i was his full-time panomar already at the age of 5-6, i helped him with everything, for me it was a great honor, when i grew up - sometimes i was even afraid, when i thought about the priesthood, i was somehow afraid, because i was not sure that i could serve as worthily as my father did. i graduated from secondary school number 15

, the city of barani, also graduated from a music school, then the question arose of where to go, and... my advice was to go to get an education as a psychologist, a practical psychologist, because he said that from his practice , most people turn to with family issues or with personal psychological issues and says: he sometimes gave me the example of st. basil the great, he he said that he also received a secular education first, everything possible at that time, then he served very... graciously in the field of christ, so my father told me that i also need, first it is possible, and this is good, it will be to receive a secular education, thus, in 2003 i entered the maxim tank pedagogical university, the faculty of psychology, specializing in practical psychologist and

english teacher, which i graduated in 2008, in 2009 i entered... in the city of minsk, i was lucky enough to go nowhere not to move, to serve in one place, i have always worried about the church, as long as i can remember, it has always been important for me when some issue was considered, how god looks at it, what is known about this issue in the holy scriptures, how the holy fathers looked at this question, for me it was such a moment of truth for me. before joining the clergy in the church of christ, which the lord acquired with his honest blood,

i, of course, joined a small church, this is the creation of a family, a matter. that i studied at in fact, in minsk there are a lot of good girls, beautiful girls, but i was always worried about the question of how to find the one who will be my wife, i really wanted the lord to bless this business, but i didn’t understand how to do it, even though i studied to be a psychologist, i knew a lot of things, but in fact, just like the wise solomon says, a wise wife is from god, and when i heard these words, i prayed for a very long time... i prayed for about a year i prayed every day, i understood that this was a very important step in life, after about i was a year old then, when i was studying at the university, i worked part-time at all sorts of different jobs, then in the temple i met my wife, our relationship began very quickly, from the moment we met, on the third day i proposed, because it seemed to me that

i i was very worried that such a beautiful girl would not be taken away, that no one would... from the moment of the proposal to the moment of our wedding, 19 days passed, thus our small church was created, this is a very blessed place, a family, on the one hand, on the other hand, this is the place where we need to grow to the measure of christ, this is a school of love, a place where we learn to live and love ourselves, to change ourselves. before getting married, i asked my wife how many children she wants? she says three, i say, okay , i say, come on, i say, at least, no less, if god willing, everything will be fine, both with health and the situation, so - today the lord has had mercy on our family and given us six children, a huge help, this is the joy that comes from the family, this is from my wife, she is

a very cheerful, perky person who loves holidays, her middle name is holiday and joy, and thus she greatly supports the internal psychological microclimate in the family, being a father of many children is a great honor and blessing from god for me, the fact is that my father, he was the only child in the family , but this was due to the fact that my grandmother and grandfather they went through a hard life, concentration camps, they were taken to germany, my grandmother did not have health, the opportunity to give birth to more than one child, so we can... somehow at least a little to cope in a large family , first of all, you need, so to speak, a schedule or

routine, otherwise chaos begins, and this is already scary, in our family we have a routine , we try to stick to it, sometimes it is broken, so, but then we try to return to it , this greatly facilitates our family life, our family values, of course... this is the most important thing for us, my wife , to raise christians, so that our children are christians, our activities in the family, if we break it down like this into three parts, into spiritual, emotional , bodily, then as for spiritual, then we try to pray together, we also try to always read the bible, i must say that my love for the bible passed on to me from my grandmother, because my grandmother on my father’s side, she was a believer, she always had the bible for her..

uh, we try to be varied, my wife tries very hard to cook tasty, a lot, and most importantly, it’s healthy. since a long time ago, probably about 13 years ago, we have switched to a healthy diet, i have a small mill at home, wheat, we make flour ourselves, my wife cooks only with whole grain flour, so we bake our own bread for more than 13 liters. she cooks cakes with whole grain flour , she tries to ensure that no one consumes sugar in their children’s food, so that the children grow up healthy, we also try to give the children a musical

education, with the exception of the last two boys, who are almost a year old, everyone receives from us music education, children also participate in dances, folk dances, perform in folk dances, in this type of dance. my eldest son played football and biathlon successfully, but at some period of time he was injured, it took a long time to recover , now he just plays sports for himself, my daughter likes to lead, do exercises, she seems to me to be the future, she will like to do some kind of sports in the future fitness training, i also have children , especially girls, they love to cook, probably their spouse betrayed this love to them, and i tell them: kids, learn to cook, learn from... dad, mom, because you will already come to the family , there will be a husband, it will be much easier for you, we we love to participate in some projects with the whole family, my wife, she is a creative person,

she was involved in theater, productions, here she is, we perform at sunday school during the holidays, also my wife, she loves photography, she does it professionally, we were inspired to go for a photo shoot in nature. it turned out very good photos, which were exhibited at the exhibition in the national library, as some kind of incentive to show the beauty of having many children. as for me personally, my parents brought me very versatile interest in sports, i just love to run, i love skating , my mother always went to the skating rink with me as a child, you know, the nineties were not the easiest years, especially in baran, so it was necessary... with parents to go , dad in his busy schedule , although i rarely saw him at home, he found time to go skiing with me as a child, i don’t forget this, it

was such an impression, because he usually returned late, when it was already ... it was getting dark and she said that to do, let's go, and we were already driving into the forest, when it was dark, and you're rushing there, rushing down a hill in the forest, and it's dark there, you can barely catch the trees, you just catch this strength, it was of course an indescribable impression, i myself loved it very much play basketball , but now i don’t have the opportunity to do it, i basically, if i have time, i swim, go to the pool to run, i like to run in nature, you just somehow run, silence, nature, that’s somehow very so...

so that when they grow up, they are friends with each other, because brother and sister are forever, it’s not like in kindergarten: today i’m friends with one person, tomorrow i’m friends with another, you can’t change the character of a brother and sister much, but you need to be friends, communicate sincerely , do it and so that it gives joy in life, then the family becomes small church , there is a lot of joy, a lot of life , it’s fun, it’s happy, and in general... well, it’s a family, now we’re talking about many children, but if before there were many children, it’s from five children , that’s why, even when we count , we say one child, two children, three child, four children, we say five children, this already means a lot, in general the birth of a child is also god, imagine, god gave man the opportunity to create something like himself, but he...

doesn’t have such a thing, that is, god himself created man in the image in his own likeness, and gave man the opportunity to create another person in his own image, because of course god gives life to man, but our likeness is also in children, and this is a great honor from god, a great gift from god, that a person can make an equal yourself, create something like yourself, because that everything, everything... everything else that we do in life, this cannot be, it is not like us, it is something else, we build, we do, it in no way correlates with the person himself, out of duty you often confess before the death of people , and often confessing to both men and women, many of them regret that they did not give birth, that is, there was an opportunity, they did not give birth, and they

realized this opportunity to give birth to children... only when this opportunity disappeared, that’s all, what they say, all we can do is just advise the younger generation to also give birth children, a life with many children, it is worth living.