Russian Orthodox

For many generations, a wealthy Russian-American family has been tracking down an important and priceless ancient family relic; the Holy Chalice of their ancestors. This is the gilded cup used by the clergy to serve the Mystery of the Eucharist to the ancient Emperors of Byzantium, and their successors after the fall of Constantinople in 1453. With nothing but dead ends and hard stops to show for their efforts, the family turns to employ Thomas Fernandes, a former Roman Catholic priest who himself was once called upon to recover a holy relic for the Vatican. But the family is not the only ...

Izdanie vkljuchaet v sebja 32 pravoslavnye molitvy svjatym: Molitva Voskresshemu Spasitelju. Molitva ko Gospodu Voskresshemu. Molitva ko Gospodu Iisusu Raspjatomu. Molitva ljubimomu svjatomu....

Izdanie vkljuchaet v sebja 79 pravoslavnyh molitv za boljashhih: Molitva o bol'nom, kotoromu net nadezhdy na vyzdorovlenie, kotoryj muchitsja i muchit drugih, skoree byl prizvan k Bogu. Molitva o boljashhih ko Gospodu. Molitva o tom, chtoby uhazhivat' s ljuboviju za boljashhimi. Molitva ob iscelenii bol'nogo....

Izdanie vkljuchaet v sebja 50 pravoslavnyh molitv o semejnom blagopoluchii: Molitva devicy o supruzhestve. Molitva pri brakosochetanii. Molitvennoe vozdyhanie hristianskoj suprugi vo vremja beremennosti. Molitvy v opasenii nasilija devstvennosti i celomudrija….

Izdanie vkljuchaet v sebja 187 pravoslavnyh molitv: Pravoslavnye molitvy svjatym. Pravoslavnye molitvy za detej. Pravoslavnye molitvy o semejnom blagopoluchii. Pravoslavnye molitvy za boljashhih.

For more than a millennium, the Russian Orthodox Church has shown astonishing survival skills—from the Mongol yoke, to tsarist demagoguery and enlightenment, Soviet atheism, the chaotic 1990s and now two decades of Vladimir Putin. In this provocative new book, Lucy Ash reveals how, under Putin, religion is being stripped of its spiritual content and used as a weapon to control the population in a way never seen before. Orthodox clerics and their acolytes are trying to drag Russia backwards into a new Middle Ages.