{"id":5877,"date":"2026-01-11T22:27:45","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T20:27:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.st-sergius.info\/?p=5877"},"modified":"2026-01-21T22:51:30","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T20:51:30","slug":"rozhdestvenskij-detskij-prazdnik","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.st-sergius.info\/en\/rozhdestvenskij-detskij-prazdnik\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas children's party"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On Sunday, January 11, after the end of the divine service in the parish centre of the Cathedral of St. Sergius of Radonezh, a children's Christmas party was held.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The pupils of our Sunday school, under the guidance of Matushka Elena, prepared for parents and guests a theatre performance based on Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale \u00abThe Snow Queen\u00bb. The young actors perfectly conveyed both the beauty and the meaning of this story - about loyalty, friendship and the power of a good heart. <\/p>\n\n\n\nngg_shortcode_0_placeholder\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Snow Queen\" width=\"720\" height=\"405\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mSly2HDP1M0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen src=\"about:blank\" class=\"lazyload\" data-load-mode=\"0\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Patriarchal Exarch of Africa, Metropolitan Constantine of Johannesburg and South Africa, warmly congratulated the children and adults and presented gifts to the young participants of the performance. <\/p>\n\n\n\nngg_shortcode_1_placeholder\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As is tradition, the children were congratulated by Father Frost and Snow Maiden. After a merry round dance, each child received a gift, and the streets of the gingerbread town were filled with stories from the life of St Nicholas, as a reminder that the Christ Child calls us to charity and attention to our neighbours.<\/p>\n\n\n\nngg_shortcode_2_placeholder\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At the end of the festive part, a joint meal was held.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thank you to everyone who helped in the preparation and implementation of the holiday. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">May the gracious joy of Christmas strengthen our families and inspire our children to do good!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Sunday, January 11, after the end of the service in the parish centre of the Cathedral of St. Sergius of Radonezh, a children's Christmas party was held. The pupils of our Sunday school...<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5917,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":2396,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tekushhaya-zhizn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.st-sergius.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.st-sergius.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.st-sergius.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.st-sergius.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.st-sergius.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5877"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.st-sergius.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5918,"href":"https:\/\/www.st-sergius.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5877\/revisions\/5918"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.st-sergius.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.st-sergius.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.st-sergius.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.st-sergius.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}