This book is intended for beginners. How does it differ from the countless manuals on Christian piety that are so abundantly published today? The fact that it was written in our days, at the end of the twentieth century, the fact that it is alive for today, the fact that today it will help people timidly standing on the threshold of an Orthodox church, timidly looking inside: “Will they drive them away?” ..Natalya Sukhinina’s essays, published in the newspaper “Family” over the past five years, showed many people lost among the bustle and godlessness the way to the temple. By republishing them as a separate collection, we hope that they will help our readers find their own path, and perhaps help those who consider themselves to have found it to reconsider the correctness of some of their views, and most importantly, teach them to be more tolerant of those on their way.