The head of the youth work department held a conversation at the Eureka educational centertranslated

On October 23, Priest Roman Nikitin had a conversation with 3rd grade students at the Eureka Educational Center. Topic of the conversation: “What are we talking about? Winged words, proverbs, sayings and obscene language in our lives.”

“What could be sharper than a knife, heavier than a stone, but at the same time has no weight and cannot be touched?” — the conversation began with this riddle.

In the first part of the conversation about Roman, he tested the children’s erudition, knowledge of popular words, and understanding of phraseological units, including those of biblical origin. Behind each biblical word there is a whole story with illustrations.

Thus, while understanding the expression “Make your contribution,” the children were able to hold real Greek coins of 5 and 10 lepta in their hands.

And while analyzing the expression “Bury your talent,” priest Roman comments, “I asked the guys if there were any talented people in the class. Half the class raised their hands. The adults present at the lesson smiled ironically: it turned out to be immodest. Although if we remember the original, unworldly meaning of talent, then the second half of the class who did not raise their hands is worthy of blame. After all, according to the Gospel, each person is given his own talent, or even more than one, which he must multiply and use for good for the sake of salvation.

In the second part of the meeting...