A tour of the Holy Trinity Cathedral was held for students of Kamchatka Medical Collegetranslated

There was a tour of the Holy Trinity Cathedral for students of Kamchatka Medical College. The excursion was conducted by the head of the diocesan department for work with youth, Priest Roman Nikitin.

Father Roman says: “In Soviet times, the thesis was popular: “Science has proven that there is no God!” Moreover, the people who quoted this thesis could hardly scientifically substantiate this statement. And science itself has not yet invented instruments that record the presence or absence of the Creator of the Universe.

We discussed this statement with first-year students of Kamchatka Medical College during a tour of the Trinity Cathedral. At the icon of St. Luke (Voino-Yasenetsky), the famous bishop-surgeon, they remembered Bazarov, the hero of Turgenev’s work “Fathers and Sons” (although students still have to study this novel). Bazarov, being a medical student, says about himself that he “doesn’t believe in anything” and denies all universal human values ​​and ideals: faith in God, art, moral standards. A medical student who thinks he knows everything just by dissecting frogs, having only slightly discovered the beginnings of medicine.

But from the icon Saint Luke is looking at us, who, being a professor and surgeon, ...