Thematic short films
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MCL Psalm 149 ENPUB
The Orthodox Svyato-Tikhonovsky University of Humanities was founded nearly 15 years ago with the aim of contributing to the revival and development of the spiritual tradition of choral singing in ...
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MCL Spirit ENPUB
In the Orthodox catechism the following definition is given for this Sacrament: Baptism (Greek, baptismos – to submerge in water) is the Sacrament in which the believer's body is submerged ...
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MCL Passion ENPUB
On the 6th and 7th of April 2008, the weekend of the annunciation in the orthodox Church, an astonishing cultural event took place in the Cathedral of Moscow. At about 8:00 pm a group of Russian and ...
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MCL Psalm 141 ENPUB
Pearl of Lake Ladoga
The Saviour's Transfiguration Cathedral on Valaam island is one of the most respected in Russia. It was revived in 1989, and last year it received the right to subordinate to the Patriarch directly. Before that there was no monastic life on Valaam for fifty years, its temples were exposed to defilement. In the XVIII century the monastery had been devastated many times during military collisions of Great Novgorod with its western neighbours. As a result the hand-written treasures of the monastery and texts about the lives of its founders - Saint Sergei and Herman of Valaam - have not survived. This rather complicates the research of the early history of the well-known monastery and the definition of the exact date of its foundation.