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Well, we also lived in Kyrgyzstan first. There were almost no priests, and we sanctified the day always in the family without priests. So the parents and my siblings, we knelt down on Sunday in our room and prayed and sanctified the Sunday. When there were priests, of course, when there was a church, in Estonia, 100 kilometers already close to us, we traveled there and prayed together, always as an entire family, in the morning before leaving the house. No one could leave the house before there was a common prayer, not very long, but at least common and the same. No one could go to bed before we made a common prayer. It was a bit short; my parents were very prudent, and these practices sanctified us.
My parents, my mother especially, were teaching us in the family. She taught us the old, good German catechism, biblical stories, and the life of the saints. This was my mother’s teaching, and it sanctified our family. During the persecution, my parents warned us about the lies of the communist system in a prudent way, so that we would understand but not speak about it. We knew it was all fake, this communist ideology, and we grew up with that understanding.
Now in the West, there is a new vogue regime, some vogue ideology in some countries, which is complete degradation. This could be, and maybe we don’t know yet, a result of the growing Islamic presence and governments in Europe, where Christians could be marginalized in some way. Then we must ask the Lord for the strength to confess our faith and to be faithful.