4/27/2017
Archpriest Andrei Sommer
The preparation for the youth conference is now in full swing. What awaits its participants? The Deputy Chairman of the Synodal Youth Department and the President of Prince Vladimir Youth Association, Archpriest Andrei Sommer, tells us.
My generation knew many rectors—true pastors who gave their souls for their sheep.
Olga Rozhneva, Archpriest Andrei Sommer
Monks were gathering potatoes into sacks, and Vladyka Laurus himself, who was sixty then, together with all his archimandrites and other brothers was very dexterously digging in the wet ground and nimbly searching for potatoes in the mud, all of their gray beards bending low.
If we compare today with September 11, 2001, our feelings are different.
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Orthodox Christianity teaches that a person finds happiness and meaning only in God. But this ideal can be replaced with the notion of service to another god, in this case, revolution. Devoting one’s life to revolution might at first bring a degree of satisfaction, but in the end delivers sorrow and tragedy both to the revolutionary and to his family and entire nation.
