Metropolitan Maximilian and Bishop Konstantin visited the Orthodox camp “Rodnichki”translated

On July 13-14, 2026, Metropolitan Maximilian of Irkutsk and Angarsk and Bishop of Bratsk and Ust-Ilimsk Konstantin made a traditional visit to the children's diocesan Orthodox camp "Rodnichki", which each of the bishops led at one time for 11 years. The counselors with gratitude and love presented the rulers with a gift of a counselor's uniform: a green T-shirt and a yellow bandana. Now there is a 2nd shift in the camp. The shift leader is priest Georgy Bazhin, the program manager is priest Sergiy Novikov. As Father Sergius said, he was inspired to create the program by the podcast of Pavel Shchelin and Father Andrei Tkachev - their conversation about the “Creed.” It was about how to become a real person. That the scientific picture of the world, as well as multiple “pseudo-scientific” ones, puts man at the forefront, and everything else begins to be viewed through the prism of man. And sooner or later they come to the conclusion that there is no objective understanding of the world: everything can be decomposed into some conditional “atoms” and “particles”, and only our subjective perception remains. But a real person and his true existence are possible only through Christ, Who creates this world. As in the “Symbol of Faith”: “Everything happened to them.” In addition to important Theological...