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Pastoral word

The Healing of the Centurion’s Servant: What Faith Was Christ Looking For?

ARCHPRIEST PAVEL VELIKANOV | 17 JULY 2016

Fasting, attending Divine services, reading prayers – which of these actions brings us closest to God? Yet, what is really important, is not to neglect the essential, the absence of which makes all of the above meaningless. Archpriest Pavel Velikanov discusses today’s Gospel reading.