The article is devoted to the problems of the comprehensibility of the sermon in the Russian and Ukrainian Orthodox tradition of sermonizing. The corresponding opinions of some famous Church activists are under analysis. The problems of the reception of the sermon and of the necessity of making a study of the aesthetic characteristic features of the sermon are touched upon.
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