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Priest Valery Dukhanin

How Christ Revealed Himself to an Ordinary Girl
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How Christ Revealed Himself to an Ordinary Girl

Priest Valery Dukhanin

That was a tough time; the era was breaking into pieces. In 1990, Anya’s mother made up her mind to leave for Israel with her daughter to try her luck there. She seemed to have all the rights for it due to her origin. She soon realized that luck and happiness are not connected to a place or even origin. True happiness can only be granted by the Giver of happiness, and it grows in a pure heart, or at least a heart that is being purified.

What to Do If You Can’t Forgive Someone Who Has Offended You
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What to Do If You Can’t Forgive Someone Who Has Offended You

Pastors’ Answers

Forgiveness Sunday has come and gone, but the need to continue forgiving our offenders remains. How can we do this when we are greatly offended, when we mentally understand the need for forgiveness but our heart resists it in every way possible?

A Scandalous Topic: I’m Not a Descendant of Apes
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A Scandalous Topic: I’m Not a Descendant of Apes

Priest Valery Dukhanin

For some reason, the words of St. Paisios the Athonite and the Holy Hierarch Luke (Voino-Yasenetsky) sound more convincing. One was uneducated in worldly terms but acquired the Holy Spirit and therefore also the gift of insight; the other was the greatest of scientists who thoroughly knew the human body. And they both speak as one about the falsity of the theory of evolution.

Can We Have a Permissive Attitude Towards Drunkenness?
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Can We Have a Permissive Attitude Towards Drunkenness?

Pastoral Responses

Is drunkenness a mortal sin?

Russian Pastors on How Christians Should Spend their Vacation
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Russian Pastors on How Christians Should Spend their Vacation

It is just the right time to have a rest. But do many people enjoy their vacations without any harm for their bodies and souls?

What is the Meaning of Passion-bearing?
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What is the Meaning of Passion-bearing?

Pastors’ Words on the Day of the Holy Passion-bearers Boris and Gleb

Priest Valery Dukhanin, Priest Dimitry Shishkin, Archpriest Artemy Vladimirov

The holy, right-believing Prince-Passion-bearers Boris and Gleb were the first saints to be canonized in Rus’. Despite this, many Christians, and especially in our time, do not understand the meaning of their podvig. And really, where is the virtue in being meekly killed? Deacon Valery Dukhanin, Fr. Dimitry Shishkin, and Archpriest Artemy Vladimirov speak about the meaning and importance of the podvig of the holy princes and the last Russian tsar.

Don’t Trade Christ For “Likes”! Russian Pastors on “Virtual” Life and Innermost Thoughts
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Don’t Trade Christ For “Likes”! Russian Pastors on “Virtual” Life and Innermost Thoughts

What Christians should do in order not to “drown” in this sea of words which have become worthless?

Why Do We Need The Ladder?
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Why Do We Need The Ladder?

Answers from pastors

Anna Erakhtina

In our time, many laypeople ask the question: Why should people of the twenty-first century act according to rules written by monks and for monks in deep antiquity? Why should they read monastic books in which there isn’t even a remote mention of the problems that we face today?

How to Maintain a Prayerful Spirit Throughout Lent?
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How to Maintain a Prayerful Spirit Throughout Lent?

Pastoral advice

We are now in the fourth week of Great Lent, and many of us feel some cooling compared to the first days due to the hustle and bustle of everyday life. How can we keep a prayerful and focused spirit through the whole of Lent? How can we keep from losing the spiritual fruits acquired in the first days?

How Should We Build Our Prayer Rule?
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How Should We Build Our Prayer Rule?

It is impossible to imagine a meaningful Christian life without a daily prayer rule. But what should this prayer rule be? How long or short, and consisting of which prayers? How can we prevent our daily prayer rule from becoming purely a formality? What should we pay particular attention to, and what mistakes should we avoid? And what is the most important thing in a prayer rule?

From Defeat to Victory. The Protection of the Mother of God, Part 2
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From Defeat to Victory. The Protection of the Mother of God, Part 2

Priest Valery Dukhanin, Priest Nicholai Bulgakov

The feast of the Protection of the Mother of God is a feast very warm and dear to us, because in it is expressed the special closeness to us of the Most Pure Virgin. She spreads her veil over all those who pray, regardless of how righteous or pious we are, if only we turn to her with our whole heart.

“Repent and live, or refuse and die!"
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“Repent and live, or refuse and die!"

20,001 victims of cannibal Joshua Milton Blahyi

Priest Valery Dukhanin

To say it right out and frankly, it would be hard to find anything comparable within the last several hundred years. He is still alive. What did this man do?

“If any fast is a joy, then the Great Fast is a great joy”
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“If any fast is a joy, then the Great Fast is a great joy”

Orthodox Pastors at the Beginning of Great Lent

Deacon Valery Dukhanin

The Fast is always the possibility to become better, to conquer ourselves, to conquer our bad habits, organize ourselves for spiritual life. If the time of the fast did not come, we would just go on spinning like hamster in its wheel in our earthly affairs and rarely remember any kind of repentance.

Pastoral Words for the Fourth Week of Pascha
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Pastoral Words for the Fourth Week of Pascha

Valery Dukhanin, Igumen Nektary (Morozov), Priest Sergei Begiyan, Priest Dimitry Fetisov

The fourth Sunday after Pascha is dedicated to the Gospel of the paralytic, who spent thirty-eight years by the pool of Siloam waiting for healing, and was finally delivered from his serious infirmity by the Savior Himself. That unfortunate man was physically paralyzed, while we are spiritually paralyzed to one or another degree.

Yoga and other eastern practices
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Yoga and other eastern practices

Valery Dukhanin

In their quest for health, wellbeing, or even the development of esoteric powers, many of our contemporaries are turning their attention to various Eastern practices, particularly yoga. What, however, does this wisdom of sunny India have in store for us?

The Fast, the Violin, and the Jackhammer
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The Fast, the Violin, and the Jackhammer

Valery Dukhanin

The fast is not a diet or temporary vegetarianism. The fast is first of all a spiritual activity by which we attempt to bring our soul and flesh into submission. Fasting teaches us to control our nature, rule over desires that arise, and through this, to achieve the most difficult victory—victory over our own selves.

What is Occultism?
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What is Occultism?

Valery Dukhanin

The seduction of occultism is directly connected with man's first fall into sin. The devil tempted our fore-father and mother by telling them that if they taste of the forbidden fruit, they will receive secret knowledge that will make them powerful, like gods: In the day you eat of it (the forbidden fruit) your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil (Gen. 3:5).

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