Father Michael Petropeliuk, rector of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker Church
Posted on 09/24/2022 5:39:03 PM PDT by marshmallow
Originally appearing on Ria.ru, this article covers the unique tradition of Russian gold mining corporations to build a church after every major successful business venture. As it is machine translated, we apologize in advance for any errors.
At the end of August in the Tenkinskiy district of the Magadan region, on the territory of the gold-mining company JSC "PAVLIK" the church of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker was consecrated. It is the second largest church in the region. Lev Ryzhkov, a correspondent of RIA Novosti visited the ceremony and saw with his own eyes how gold miners live and work in the Far North.
Domes among the hills
The road from Magadan to the settlement named after Gastello, near where Pavlik gold mine is located, is not a short one. The distance is 376 kilometers (~234 miles); and at least 300 (186) of them are without asphalt. The road is old, unpaved, and laid in the 1940s by prisoners. It is one of the legendary Kolyma tracts. After the exit from the Kolyma federal highway, there are only two settlements on the more than three-hundred-kilometer-long road. There are 29 people in the village of Madaun and 1,500 in the Ust-Omchug district center. You may drive a hundred or two hundred kilometers, but you won't see a soul. Bears come out to the track at night, and you will easily see foxes in broad daylight.
After six hours of journeying and another turn of unpaved road between the hills, suddenly golden domes appear. This is the church of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker – gorgeous and sparkling. Which, it would seem, shouldn’t be standing on these harsh cliffs. But it does.
Father Michael Petropeliuk, rector of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker Church
"In terms of splendor and fullness of church utensils.................
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So why are we reading about this piece of Russian propaganda? Remember they’re the “enemy”. Just like I am sure there were priests in Nazi Germany but they were still the bad guys back then (even though they might have decent individuals living during the Third Reich, Pope Benedict XVI was a kid during this time)
The pledge in schools is unconstitutional. I’d hang him-the teacher.
wrong thread-heh heh.
Why is the pledge unconstitutional ?
*Godwin’s Law
And who says they’re the “enemy”?
Are they building ‘churches’, or just adding buildings for the government church?
You don’t get to keep invoking “Godwin’s Law” when your President keeps referring to the Ukrainians as Neo-Nazis.
Note the anger they're displaying on this wonderful and uplifting thread.
Kind of like wolves defiling stuff they can't eat.
Neocons aren’t the pro-Christian or pro-Christianity types.
As of today, he is the only clergyman in the church. Matushka Kristina helps as a chanter. Father Michael is even now looking for singers, among the staff of Pavlik.
“There are already guys who are trying to sing. We have three altar boys, all Pavlik employees. But church singing is very difficult. Especially in the Church Slavonic language. So you have to learn to read the Church Slavonic first. And know the services,” explains the rector.
However, according to him, it is here, not in the urban areas, that people sing with more soul. It is as if talents reveal themselves in the northern conditions.
The parish is a living organism which is always growing. We have already had ten baptisms and there is a wedding planned for the end of August.
The is a difference between the Russian people and Putin’s regime.
Putin’s regime is utterly evil.
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