Be the heirs of the Apostle Paultranslated

– Preaching the Gospel has always occupied me since the moment I accepted the Christian faith. While still a young man, when I believed in Christ, I wanted to serve in God’s field. I was a student at a Soviet educational institution and had a desire to tell everyone about Christ. I wanted my classmates to also believe in God, to believe in the Church and take the path of salvation. Subsequently, of course, when I became a clergyman, this activity continued in a different way.

Archpriest Dimitry Novakovsky, head of the Missionary Department of the Kaluga Diocese, talks about promising areas of Orthodox educational activity and how religious processions help contemporaries see the Light of Christ's faith.

– The Gospel message is one for all times. But each era in the life of our people has some of its own characteristics. For example, in the twentieth century, church preaching was very difficult for most of the century. How are things today?

– The present time is very favorable for preaching the Gospel in the modern world, because there is every opportunity for this and nothing stands in the way. Thank God, you can go to preaching freely and proclaim the truth everywhere. We can publish newspapers...