in various biblical disciplines, which will then help in teaching in parishes, who will lead sunday schools, prepares specialists who will be able to conduct various conversations in educational institutions, in schools, in principle, the entire education system at the minsk theological academy is built in such a way that the output the result was a ready-made specialist who could carry his...

wein, kohl, hadash, tahad hashamash. what has been is what will be, and there is nothing new under the sun. this is the book of ecclesiastes, one of the books of the old the testament, in which king solomon, presumably the author of this book, sets out his teachings, including to his descendants, and this book is in many ways the result of the life of king solomon. his search, and the verse that

we have just read is at the very beginning, this is the ninth verse of the first chapter, where king solomon reflects on the fact that on earth everything that was everything that will be, it already existed once, when - something happened, and as he himself writes, there is nothing new under the sun, in fact, a phrase that will later become popular in many languages ​​when the groups are small, it is always very easy to find an approach to

today, dear brothers and sisters, we are celebrating the third parental saturday, concluding this year, with this, in this christ, and the church reminds you and me of the importance of commemorating the mustache, remembering that that... as the holy scripture writes: god is not the god of the dead, but the god of the living. now we are in the church of the holy great martyr george the victorious in the city of baranovichi and it is located almost immediately at the entrance to

the city, as if welcoming those entering the city and inviting you to prayer. this temple was built just recently; last year was the fifth anniversary of its consecration. this temple and its rector and builder is father dmitry baena. when the temple was being built, one of the main ideas was to maintain the temple in a single style, so that there would be no clutter, so that nothing in the temple would distract believers from prayer, because the way the temple is arranged very often affects the interior the state of believers. and for a very long time father dmitry looked for where he could paint icons, how to paint them, in what style, then one day bishop stefan tells him about an icon painter who comes from bulgaria, now

lives in st. petersburg, and tells him that he is a good master, a good icon painter, he painted another chapel near baranovichi and father dmitry, having gone there, saw... the icons, he really liked them, they order icons from this master, now all the icons in the church, almost all the icons, are letters from this author. my whole life is connected with this city, i was born here into a family of just ordinary workers, my mother works at a factory as an engineer, my father is a mechanic at another factory, in principle, our family is not particularly different, the only thing is, then when we began to sort out our family tree... it turns out that along one of the lines, up to the 15th century, at the moment, there is a priestly line, and there were priests and deacon and panumaria, people who help during worship, the last of that line who was connected with the church was my

great-great-grandfather, konstantin travin, he was the regent, the leader of the church choir in nizhny novgorod cathedral, which was in the kremlin, unfortunately, only two notebooks and his photograph were preserved from the great-grandfather; during the soviet period, the great-grandmother, fearing the consequences, was forced to destroy all documents related to his activities as regent, his notebooks, but that’s when we started looking for information, this was the first photograph, the first documents that i came across when we began to study our genealogy, and then, when i... began to grow up, at the age of 6 my grandmother brought me to church for worship, it was just an ordinary weekday, without any holiday, there was a service in the church, a liturgy, there weren’t very many people, but i remember this day as a day when in

silence without any fuss, and for the first time i could pray, of course, back then -childish, simply, perhaps, without special prayers, but for me this day was remembered as the day when... for the first time i consciously came to the temple and communicated with god. the priest and i, we are all ordinary people, so, of course, in each of us there are some sinful principles, sinful passions that they gnaw at the person who is present in it. and here it is very important how we perceive this sin. and the holy fathers teach about redirecting sinful passions to good. eat. in church tradition, church literature, the concept is righteous anger, when the anger that is in a person is directed for good, for example, to fight sin, or when the holy fathers recommend that if a person is angry, then redirect the energy

that he spends on anger , for some good deed, this is the law of conservation of energy, it and today it is relevant when a person redirects his... negative emotions for some positive deeds, positive activities, and this is even consistent with modern psychology, when there are some negative emotions, there are negative... feelings, do not keep them in yourself, not to engage in self-gnawing, but to redirect them to some positive emotions, good deeds, the holy fathers teach about the same thing, so that the sinful beginning is redirected to doing good deeds, therefore, when, including in me, i feel the beginning of some sinful passion then i’m trying to redirect to some good deeds, and if this is in relation to... people, according to the thought of one of the holy fathers, we must learn to see a person: