Help for the multiblog: http://www.dimitrysmirnov.ru/blog/don... ------------ A conversation between Archpriest Dimitry Smirnov and students of the Zernyshko Sunday school at the Transfiguration of Our Lord Church in the Lyubertsy deanery. Questions: 1. The child behaves differently in Sunday school and in a regular school. (04:51) 2. I don’t want to be a black sheep at school. (05:49) 3. Is it possible to leave hated lessons? (13:15) 4. Is it possible to leave a hated teacher? (16:41) 5. Why do we commit so many sins, and yet God forgives us? (22:14) 6. When does our Guardian Angel come to us? (25:51) 7. What length of skirt should an Orthodox girl wear? (26:23) 8. Which saints should I pray to in order to improve my living space? (27:56) 9. At what age do people fall in love? (31:00) 10. What Orthodox schools are there in the center of Moscow? (31:05) 11. What should I do to improve my relationships in the family? (31:20) 12. How should I pray before eating at school if I believe in God but my classmates don't? (33:23) 13. What should I do when my wife is Orthodox and my husband is Jewish? (37:48) 14. How can I celebrate the New Year? (40:27) 15. How should I celebrate my birthday during Lent? (42:16) 16. What should I do to make sure my children obey and respect their parents as they grow up? (42:56) 17. What does becoming an adult mean for a young man or woman, first of all? (44:29) 18. What influence do computer games have on the external and internal state? (46:26) 19. Is it possible to play computer games? (47:28) 20. How to protect a child from computer games? (48:29) 21. What is the attitude of Christians towards gambling, including computer gambling? (49:38) 22. What shows to watch on TV and what websites to visit - this choice remains on our conscience? (49:52) 23. How to help a child who goes to church and Sunday school not to feel like a black sheep? (52:38) 24. A teenager of 15-16 years old does not want to go to Confession, he believes that personal communication with the priest does not give him anything good, the priest is a stranger to him. What to do? (54:48) 25. Alcohol, cigarettes among children, yard companies. How to resist? (56:47) 26. Grandchildren are interested in computer monsters, various skeletons, zombies, revived mummies. For them, real heroes are witches and vampires. What is this - the development of progress, inevitability or the machinations of human enemies? (59:57) 27. One radio program hosted by an American pastor talks about how people come to faith. The peculiarity is that it doesn’t matter which one. All churches are generalized and presented as one whole, including sects. Is it harmful for a teenager to listen to such programs, or should we be indulgent about this? (1:01:33) 28. Why is it bad to watch everything on TV? (1:04:21) 29. What’s special about the fact that we, young people, wear pants below the waist down? It’s fashion. (1:06:11) 30. I don't like reading, but I know I have to. What should I do? (1:06:50)