Category Archives: Religion

Russia Video: Orthodox Easter – 2009!

Happy Easter!

Hello, today I offer you to watch Orthodox Easter Ceremony video. We will see and listen to Patriarch Kirill. I watched several videos of him and came to conclusion that he is a very intelligent and wise person. So if you are Christian or not, if you are Orthodox believers or not I recommend you to watch any video where Patriarch Kirill speaks:

Russian Patriarch’s Easter Address:


Easter ceremony in the Christ the Savior Cathedral:

Happy Easter!
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Svet and Kyle

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Russian Video: Annunciation in Russia!

Hello,

Today Russian Orthodox believers celebrate Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin. The Annunciation is Heart of Russian Orthodox Church Holidays!

The Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin is one of 12 church holidays, which is held in memory of the revelation to the Blessed Virgin by the angel Gabriel that she would conceive a child to be born the Son of God.

During this big holiday orthodox believers are allowed to eat fish. As you remember now there is Great Lent in Russia. And there are just two days when people who keeps the fast are allowed to eat fish. One of Church tradition this day is releasing doves.

Today we offer you to watch a video about Annunciation Old-Believers Service in Russian Village Andronovo (Moscow region). I think that’s very interesting!

If you like this video let’s continue to watch! To make it easier for your browser we hid the rest of this movie behind links “Part 2”, “Part 3”, … “Part 5”. Click the link to watch a part of the movie and click again to hide the part.)

Link: Part 2

Link: Part 3

Link: Part 4

Link: Part 5

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Svet and Kyle

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Russian Video: The Great Lent in Russia!

Hello,

Joyful Maslenitsa is over. And now there is the Great Lent in Russia: forty-eight days of fasting and prayer before Easter (19th of April, 2009)… only two days during this period Orthodox Christians allowed to eat fish, and no fish, meats, eggs, milk etc for the rest 46 days… But the main thing about the Great Lent is to try to change yourself, try to become a better person. And as always priests tell it is not that important what food you will not eat the main thing is not to eat your close, don’t accuse people who does not keep fasting.

Video in English about the Great Lent:

Video in Russian about the Great Lent:

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Svet and Kyle

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Russian Video: Epiphany in Russia!

Hello,

Today we are watching a very beautiful video from Russian city Tumen (Тюмень), placed in Siberia. Our friend (a.Psi!) made the movie of Epiphany Service. It’s difficult to believe that he used just his cell phone camera.

Read more and watch another video about Epiphany in Russia: Russia: That Is Cold!– Epiphany

Best wishes!
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Svet and Kyle

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Russian Video: Uman! Rosh Hashana!!

Hello,

We have a very interesting documentary video in our collection. This video shows that thousands of Jews come to one little Ukrainian town Uman to celebrate there Rosh Hashana (Jewish New Year). Yes I wanted to publish it tonight — but this documentary was in Russian so I found a better one in Hebrew! [Think that for most of our readers Hebrew is the same strange language as Russian but this video is interesting to watch because it shows us the festival from inside point of view!]

For our readers who wants to know more why all these Jews come to celebrate Rosh Hashana in Ukraine town Uman:

Uman is the burial place of Rabbi Nachman of Breslov, the Rebbe of the Breslov group of Hasidic Jews. Rabbi Nachman spent the end of his life in Uman, and specifically requested to be buried there. During Rosh Hashanah (The Jewish New Year) there is a major pilgrimage by Breslov Hasidim and others to visit the grave in Uman; this has increased in recent years to the point where some 30,000 chassidim attend each year (mainly men). This practice dates back to 1811, the year after Rabbi Nachman was buried in Uman. The Rebbe told his hassidim, before he died, that they should join him for Rosh Hashana, and this is why the devout Breslov Hassidim still visit him every year for the Jewish new year.

Readers who want to know even more can read Rabbi Nachman’s Strories.

Best wishes,
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Svet and Kyle

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Russian Video: Catholics in Kazan got a New Church!

Hello,

We always emphasize that Russia is multi-ethnic and multi-religious country. Today we want to show you a video about community of Roman Catholics in Kazan, who are celebrating the opening of a new church:

Ildar Khanov, a local sculptor, is building what he calls a Temple of All Faiths. He sees it as a cultural centre of the future and a unique meeting point for people of all beliefs. The construction, financed with his own money, has been under way for the past 13 years. But the idea came to him years earlier.

“I had this idea since childhood. It really is the goal of my whole life. I wanted to find a way towards understanding among people. The temple is meant to symbolise peace and unity,” he said.

We wish all our readers to have high goals in life
and we wish your best wishes become true!

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Svet and Kyle