Церковь на реке

9 Устя / 22 августа. Воскресенье. Теленеделя 13-я по Пятидесятнице. Сретенский убежище. Божественная литургия. Хор Сретенского монастыря.

В соответствии с благословению архиепископа Владивостокского и Приморского Вениамина 4 и 5 сентября закачаешься Владивостокской епархии будет пробыть чудотворная Албазинская икона Божией Матери «Слово телеса бысть».

The higher one climbs, the more—we are told by scientists—gravity weakens; the less one can feel earth’s pull, the more one’s ties to earth are loosened; it becomes so much easier for one to depart from earth’s demanding and contending presence. One becomes so much lighter.

Thus, this Light is not a light of the senses, and those contemplating it do not simply see with sensual eyes, but rather they are changed by the power of the Divine Spirit. They were transformed, and only in this way did they see the transformation taking place amidst the very assumption of our perishability, with the deification through union with the Word of God in place of this.

Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia urged people to think over reasons of fires raging in Russia and make corresponding conclusions.