While we were standing and watching the devastated area, an old woman approached us. Our first and immediate reaction was to offer her some money. She refused our offer. She told us that she did not need anything. She said, "I am very exhausted. I am so exhausted that I don’t even have the strength to pray. Please pray for me."
Valery Dukhanin
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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).
He was particularly able to win people’s hearts, and the patients always remembered him. He was ever serious, and at the same time amiable and affectionate, calm and satisfied with everything, always inwardly joyful. He attracted people, and they would become attached to him. Patients of all categories loved him—political and criminal, young and old.
On February 7, 2011, an unsung hero of the Russian Orthodox website community reposed in the Lord. The Moscow Archpriest Maxim Obukhov has left this eulogy of Alexander Dyatlov, who made great contributions to the technical side of Orthodox charitable causes.
St. Nikolai Velimirovich
"Today, salvation has come to this house" said the Lord upon entering the house of Zacchaeus the sinner. Christ was the salvation that came and Zacchaeus was the house into which He entered. Brethren, each one of us is a house in which sin dwells as long as Christ is distant and to which salvation comes when Christ approaches it.
