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Акафист жен, чад своих во утробе загубившихA mother's sigh for her childrenChildren about deceased parentsCanon of Ecumenical Parental SaturdaysA touching canon to the Most Holy Theotokos, read by the wife who destroyed her child in her wombМолитва 2-я перед учением детейМолитва детей об усопших родителяхМолитва о детяхPrayerful follow-up with the canon of repentance about the sin of killing children in the womb (abortion)Молитвы о непослушных детяхОбъяснение церковных молитв детям(о даровании детей)About the gift of childrenAbout children and godchildrenAbout children in military serviceAbout the development of the mind in childrenParents about deceased childrenCanons
Canons of the Ecumenical Councils, Canon 53: On the prohibition of marriages between recipients and parents of those adopted.Canons of the Ecumenical Councils, Canon 71: About the prohibition of students of civil law from observing the pagan customs of their schools.Canons of the Local Councils, Canon 140: About the possibility for a bishop to tonsure a girl into monasticism before the age of 25, in the case when…Canons of the Local Councils, Canon 15: About anathema to those who leave their children and do not nourish them, and do not, if possible, lead them…Canons of the Local Councils, Canon 16: About anathema, under the pretext of piety, withdrawing from the world and leaving their parents without…Canons of the Local Councils, Canon 18: On the prohibition of children of clergymen from participating in blasphemous gatherings.Canons of the Local Councils, Canon 30: On the prohibition for the children of clerics to marry pagans or heretics.Canons of the Local Councils, Canon 44: A recommendation to clergy not to grant their children freedom until the latter acquire full self-control and…Books of the Fathers
Old Testament prophetic schoolsChildren's faith and Optina Elder AmbroseHistorical teaching about the Fathers of the Church (Volumes I-III)To my children. Memories of yesteryearsTestament to spiritual childrenFrom the memories of the childhood of the late professor V.V. BolotovHow to prepare for fasting, confession, and communion for children and adolescentsDisadvantages of modern church and religious education and the reasons that gave rise to themAbout vanity and how parents should raise their childrenArchpriest Alexander Vasilyevich Gorsky - founder of the scientific school at the Moscow Theological Academy (mid-40s - early 60s)Advice for spouses and parentsElderly conversations of the Venerable Leo of Optina, recorded by his spiritual childrenParochial schoolsLessons
God's Law for Children