A Study Guide Priest Ioann Kurbatsky. Kaluga, 2022 Foreword You are holding a study guide designed for Sunday school classes with teenagers aged 13–14 and older. It is no secret that after the age of twelve, children often stop going to church, lose interest in worship, and in matters of faith altogether. And while in…
Educational Department of the Moscow Metropolia of the Russian Orthodox Old-Rite Church Introduction Dear fathers and mothers, and dear children! We would like to draw your attention to the fact that this little book, in addition to the Holy Gospel—retold in simple and understandable language for children—also includes explanations from the Holy Fathers, which we…
The Old Testament The Creation of the Invisible World Before the creation of the world, the Lord created angels, that is, bodiless spirits, who fulfill God’s will and announce this will to people. When appearing to people, the holy angels take on a visible form, for example, in the appearance of young men, to show…
ON THE WORLD Everything in this world has a creator. A book was written by an author, then prepared and printed in a publishing house. A pencil was made in a factory designed for pencil production. The plan of a church was designed by an architect, and then builders raised the walls — and thus…
According to ancient pious customs, children in Old Believer families were taught to fast from the age of two or three. Today, the more common practice is to begin fasting labors upon emerging from infancy, around six or seven years of age. It is at about this age that a child begins to understand the…
How can a child be prepared for confession? To answer this question, we have gathered advice from several priests: