With you Orthodox youth club all issues. Owl explanation. Social work is actively carried out
Every Sunday (with the exception of Lent and the Twelve Feasts) from 17.00 to 19.00, prayers with an Akathist to Peter and Fevronia are served in the church in front of the miraculous icon with a particle of relics. O. Alexy reads a sermon devoted to issues of love, the search for a soul mate, the subsequent family life. We record sermons and then post them on our forum here. We are planning to release a book of sermons.
The prayer service is followed by tea drinking, which also takes place in the temple, in the warm season - on the temple grounds. On average, 300-350 people come to the tea party!
We invite famous Orthodox performers to perform:
- Andrey Selivanov, poet
- Bolshoi Theater singer Fyodor Tarasov
- singer
- singer
- violin virtuoso
Sometimes the wonderful choir of the Club or the Club members themselves give small concerts.
Tea drinking usually ends at 20.30. After that in summer time– master classes on historical ballroom dancing. Since December 2011, the Club has created a school of historical ballroom dance“Chamomile Waltz”, classes are held in premises at Chekhovskaya metro station. In the summer we also play volleyball, badminton, and chess; in winter - snowball fights, gatherings at the Grabli cafe on Tverskaya metro station or a walk around Moscow.
Every Saturday the Liturgy is served in the courtyard of the church near Zvenigorod (the village of Alyaukhovo, a church in the name of the Royal Passion-Bearers). This is followed by a friendly tea party. Website of the temple in Alyaukhovo
Labor was organized to restore the Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary - Kostroma region, Kady district, Rubtsovo village. Abbot – .
If possible, we work in the Vysoko-Petrovsky Monastery (Petrovka St., 28). We really need help there, we'd love to see you join us!
In the summer of 2012 it was organized summer camp in the Tver region at the Nikolo-Terebensky monastery.
Social work is actively carried out:
Helping orphanages, veterans' homes, organizing excursions for children.
In 2011-2015, together with the Center for the Orthodox Family of Peter and Fevronia on Varvarka, the children visited correctional boarding schools, gave performances, concerts, and held master classes on making holiday cards. Excursions to the Vysoko-Petrovsky Monastery, the Bell Ringing Museum, and an amusement park at VDNKh are organized for children. Targeted assistance is provided to the disabled and elderly. Some Club members participate in the Big Brothers program. Big Sisters" (Big Brothers Big Sisters international volunteer program).
Also, in 2011 - 2016, every 2 weeks we went to a children's correctional boarding school at Semenovskaya metro station.
Since 2015, on weekends, Club members go to the Children's Home for the Deaf-Blind in Sergiev Posad, and regularly take part in packing people's lunches for the Food Fund.
We help lonely elderly people and disabled people in Moscow to the best of our ability. We actively collaborated with the Russian Birch Foundation and the Rus Food Foundation.
We regularly participate in events for elderly people and veterans of the Tverskoy district of the Central Administrative District of Moscow.
The Club operates a pilgrimage service - trips to shrines in Russia and abroad, historical excursions around Moscow.
Assistance is provided to the Borodino rural hospital with a nursing department (140 km) and to a boarding home for the elderly and disabled (Drovnino, 150 km). Gerontological Center in Ryazan We help lonely elderly people and disabled people. We cooperate with the Russian Birch Foundation.
The Club has formed 11 prayer groups by agreement. (Every day at 22.00 Moscow time, members of the Club read a prayer according to the agreement of St. Peter and Fevronia. The participants are divided into groups, now there are, as already mentioned, 10 groups. On average, each group has 30-40 people). Recruitment for the 11th group continues. To register for the group, please write a letter to: [email protected], (Alla), indicating your first name, last name and telephone number.
The Club operates a creative workshop for making holiday cards. New people are always welcome in the workshop; they will teach you how to make real masterpieces with your own hands!
The club actively takes part in the St. George Games, organized by the Synodal Department for Youth Affairs and the Moscow Sports Committee.
The Club organizes joint excursions to monasteries, trips to performances and concerts of the Orthodox theater “Living Water”, field trips, and barbecues. The boys take part in sporting events organized by the Moscow Patriarchate (paintball, all-around, charity historical balls).
Since the existence of the Club of the Year, more than 150 married couples have been formed from the Club members.
The club is the winner of the following awards:
Diploma of the Central Prize Administrative district Moscow “Public Vocation” in the category “Bringing Light” December 3, 2012
2. Certificate issued by the Department of Family and Youth Policy of Moscow during the Moscow Festival of Choreography “Dancing City”. Awarded to the school of historical ballroom dance “Chamomile Waltz” (director E.V. Gromova) for the popularization of ballroom choreographic art. September 23, 2012
3. Letter of gratitude to the Club in the name of Saints Peter and Fevronia for participation in the implementation of the International Youth Program “FAITH and CAUSE” signed by Bishop Bronnitsky, vicar of the Holy Patriarch.
4. Letter of gratitude addressed to the President of the Club, E. V. Gromova, for participation in the implementation of the International Youth Program “FAITH and CAUSE” signed by Bishop Bronnitsky, Vicar of the Holy Patriarch.
5. Certificate of gratitude addressed to E.V. Gromova. for organizing the holiday on “Day of Family, Love and Fidelity” on July 8, 2012
6. Certificate of gratitude addressed to E.V. Gromova. for organizing the holiday on “Day of Family, Love and Fidelity” on July 8, 2011
Groups of our Club VKontakte:
1. Revival of the Passion Monastery http://vkontakte.ru/id120701042#/club26666015
3. Making greeting cards http://vkontakte.ru/id120701042#/club26764144
4. School of historical ballroom dance “Chamomile Waltz” http://vk.com/club43412314
6. Collaboration in the Church of the Assumption in the Kostroma region http://vkontakte.ru/id120701042#/club29217930
Diplomas
“First, I probably made the frame. ...The eyes were glued wide for some reason, but it’ll do. Hey, who are you? Here are the wings for you. The wings turned out well, like those of a bird. ...Listen, turn your head to the side. So that’s it, that’s all, or what? The radius is too small. Let me tighten it up. Is that normal? And so? Well, I’ll come up to you from behind, and you look at me, just don’t turn your body. Wow!" - this is how, according to Laura Beloivan, God could create an owl. This text has now been removed due to threats.
Laura Beloivan is a famous blogger, artist, author and has been saving seals in the Far East for many years. Her post on her personal Facebook page contained several unprintable language. It is difficult to surprise users of social networks with them, but they became the stumbling block that brought down a whole rockfall on the author.
Laura received threats with an ultimatum demanding that she immediately delete the post. “Either you edit and delete your post, or I will cause a scandal for you. The execution time is 2 days.”
Beloivan deleted her post andwrote : “I deleted it because strange things are happening in our country: people who consider and call themselves Orthodox Christians increasingly feel offended in their religious feelings, including by literary texts, and declare war on their authors. I'm not the first. A priest wrote to me and strongly recommended that I remove the text.
Today I learned from my Orthodox friends close to the Moscow Patriarchate that a whole campaign has been organized against me: complaints and statements (there are many of them) lie in Roskomnadzor, the prosecutor’s office, the police and God knows where else. In the text that you read, there is no hint of insulting anyone’s feelings, except, perhaps, the feelings of the owl - but she has no claims against me.
…I’m very tired of saying that Orthodox Christians are not the ones who destroy exhibitions, disrupt performances and write to the prosecutor’s office against the authors of texts on the Internet. I’m tired, but I will, because it’s true: censorship, squabbles, vanity and anger have nothing to do with Orthodoxy. It's completely different actually. And about other things."
Chairman of the Synodal Department of the Moscow Patriarchate for relations of the Church with society and the mediaVladimir Legoyda tried to reconcile all parties on your page :
“I don’t know Laura Beloivan and didn’t know anything about her until yesterday. Today I heard from people I respect that she helps animals a lot. And this is certainly great and respectful.
As for the text about the owl, I didn’t like it. I understand that this is a metaphor, that it is not about God, but about an owl. That God was needed here as an image, but... There are things that “smell bad” in banter. It seems to me that the same is true here. For example, could I, without being a Muslim, write a test that mentioned “Allah”? Or Jehovah, if I were not a Jew? I wouldn't. Why, even involuntarily and without desire, cause unpleasant feelings in people? Moreover, I would not have written such a text if I were a Muslim or a Jew. (I’ll tell you more, I wouldn’t put such words in my dad’s mouth. Simply because I never heard him swear, although I know that it happened, of course...)
Now the main thing is that my Christian feelings are not offended by this text. They say the author is a Christian. So that's how she sees it. Alas.
We are all different (which in itself is good). And here’s another important thing: someone will consider themselves offended. And, perhaps, he will send (or has already sent) this text to law enforcement agencies. As far as I understand, the priest tried to warn the author about this by writing a personal letter, which later became public property.
I really hope that this (transfer of the text to the authorities) will not happen.
...After all, when the Lord created man with the Word, He used completely different vocabulary. Is it true".
Under the post, Vladimir Berkhin, a publicist and president of the Tradition Charitable Foundation, asked a question:
“Do I understand correctly that you consider a complaint about this text to the authorities as an unchristian act?”
Vladimir Legoyda answered unequivocally: “I am yes.”
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How to study Orthodoxy, where to start? Why are services held in an unknown language? Why is fasting needed? How to combine faith with career? And many more questions arise in our minds today younger generation, Orthodox or just standing on the threshold of the Church.
Zhukovsky Orthodox youth club“MEETING”, which exists at the Panteleimon Church, is a society of young people, very different, but united by a keen interest in Orthodoxy...
The main events in the life of our Club are weekly meetings, which can take a very diverse form: from theological debates to festive good fun. Sometimes, in good weather, meetings turn into a walk, a picnic or cycling. But regardless of the venue, we strive to ensure that the meeting is educational and at the same time relaxed.
A traditional part of our meetings is a heartfelt conversation over tea. The main content of the meeting most often becomes thematic conversation with the participation of experts (a Sunday school teacher and a priest - confessor of the club). Each participant in the conversation can share his thoughts, ask questions that concern him, and participate in the debate.
Topics for discussion are selected based on the interests and wishes of the audience. The range of topics is very wide, but they are all viewed through the prism of the Orthodox worldview and are designed to explain the truths of faith and ways to apply these truths to one’s own life in modern conditions. In addition to conversations, at the meetings you can hear short reports and lectures, the purpose of which is a deeper penetration into the objects of faith.
Our club loves travel: pilgrimage to holy places and simply relax in nature. The geography of the trips extends from the mountains of Crimea, where we spent the night under the starry sky on the ledge of a cave near a mountain monastery, to the distant lakes of the north, where, far from civilization, we became familiar with village life while visiting a familiar priest. We also don’t ignore our native Moscow region, which is rich in shrines.
Our immediate plans for the summer include participation in the regular International Orthodox Festival “Brothers,” which has become a source of new ideas and inspired fresh strength in us.
The club not only involves education and communication, but also gives opportunity to participate in intra-church activities. Among us there are singers, readers, there are those who publish the parish newspaper, create the parish website; someone supports the activities of the Club itself. Those who wish can find use for their talents here.
It is impossible to talk about everything we are doing and what we are planning to do in one article. The main thing is that we strive to become real Christians.
Are our goals the same? Come to the MEETING!
Club meetings are held weekly Sundays at 17:00, usually in school building No. 15 on the 3rd floor in room. 27. Have a passport with you (for pass on duty).
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