Spiritual and moral aspects of education
There is a Sunday
school for Kolomna children in the convent, where they get acquainted with God’s
Law, sing in children's choir, study hagiography, visit holy places
during vacations. Christmas fur-tree celebrations are especially joyful. More
than 1000 children from Kolomna and the Kolomna district come here on those
days. Sisters specially stage musical Christmas performance for children; the
Sunday school makes its own staging. A famous composer and author of children's
songs Grigory Gladkov has been traditionally participating in these celebrations
for several years. The feast invariably finishes with horses-driving and riding
a camel.
The
convent was one of the first to perform social service. In 1995 a boarding
school for residing, training and education of fatherless children and children
that stay without care of parents was established by the convent. Training and
education of children is carried out by sisters. Now more than 50 pupils live
and are trained there.
Since
2002, with a blessing of the Most Holy Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Alexy
II and Metropolitan of Krutitsy and Kolomna Yuvenaly
sisters
have been taking care of
the
Boarding School named
after St. Sergius of Radonezh at the Holy Trinity and St. Sergius
Lavra.