Peter Davydov, Archpriest Mikhail Kharchuk
The presence of children in the church gives me special joy. Thank God, we managed to arrange a good Sunday school, and children attend it willingly. We try to avoid just cramming the catechism at classes, but we have a lively dialogue about the life of Christ, about the commandments, and what not.
Fr. Lawrence Farley
And the pagans are still around (at least here in Canada) and they are still noisily raging. They are not dead or even asleep. They are wide awake (and ‘woke’). They don’t worship Zeus or Apollo anymore. The idols currently ascendent here in the West have different names.
Alexander Dmitriev
No one knows exactly what love is. And love is cultivated in everyone. You begin to take part in the life of your soulmate, you begin to understand him or her.
The army of Christ is made up of the lame, the elderly, and the infirm. Everyone kept on walking with prayer, toughing it out despite the pain of blistered feet at every step.
Fr. Anthony Rusakevich
Since there are no ready-made solutions to this fundamental spiritual problem, at least some preventive measures can be taken that will protect us against a possible crisis of faith, “laymen burnout”. These rules are quite simple. Let’s call them “life hacks for tired laymen”.