Today, a large number of people who have understood with their minds or felt in their hearts that God exists, who are aware, albeit unclearly, of their belonging to the Orthodox Church and who want to join it, are faced with the problem of CHURCHING, that is, entering the Church as a full-fledged and full-fledged member of it. member.

This problem is very serious for many, since upon entering the temple, an unprepared person is faced with a completely new, incomprehensible and even somewhat frightening world. Priests' robes, icons, lamps, chants and prayers in an obscure language - all this creates in the newcomer a feeling of alienation in the temple, leading to thoughts about whether all this is necessary for communication with God?

Many people say : “The main thing is that God is in the soul, and it is not necessary to go to church.” This is fundamentally wrong. Popular wisdom says: “To whom the Church is not a Mother, God is not a Father.” But in order to understand how true this saying is, it is necessary to find out what the Church is? What is the meaning of its existence? Why is her mediation necessary in a person’s communication with God?

In order to answer these and many other questions that arise for a person standing before the open gates of the Church, this work was written.