Representatives of the Yekaterinburg diocese took part in the Day of Family Communication at the Ural State Medical Universitytranslated

Representatives of the Yekaterinburg diocese took part in the Day of Family Communication, which was held on October 10, 2026 at the Ural State Medical University.

The future doctors were greeted by the deputy governor of the region - regional Minister of Health Tatyana Leonidovna Savinova, and the rector of USMU Yuri Alekseevich Semenov. The event was also attended by the confessor of the medical university, head of the medical department of the Ekaterinburg diocese, cleric of the St. Nicholas Church at the Ural Mining University, Priest Mikhail Popov. The rector of the Ural Theological School, head of the Department for Cooperation with Universities, Hieromonk Korniliy (Zaitsev), read out the welcoming speech of the head of the Yekaterinburg Metropolis to the young families participating in the action.

– Today our country celebrates Family Communication Day. In the Gospel, the Lord says: “Where two or three are gathered in My name, there I am in the midst of them.” In the middle of the family - the first small Church, the first school of love, the first school of mercy. Everything that a person knows about goodness, he first learns not from books or lectures, but from his mother’s hands, from his father’s word, from simple, living communication with those who gave birth to and raised him. Today is the day...