Interaction between youth and Samara diocese of the Russian orthodox church in 2001–2019 by V.N. Yakunin

“…The youth department of the Samara diocese carried out the following forms of activity in 2001–2019: liturgical (participation in divine services as singers, readers, altar servers; joint prayer, reading akathists; regular par-ticipation in church sacraments), didactic (study of Holy Scripture and Sacred Tradition, pri-marily the Liturgical Tradition of the Church; lectures and thematic reports by invited ex-perts), social (assistance to the disabled and elderly; fundraising, including intangible), volunteer (assistance during Orthodox events, participation in events, organization of parish holidays, assistance to the parish), leisure (pilgrimage trips, sporting events, watching films with commentary by a priest, visiting theaters, philharmonic societies, museums). …”