Adolescence raises fresh questions for parents: how to talk with a teenager, keep emotional closeness, earn trust, and shield them from the world's temptations. Moscow parish priest and educator Fr. Alexei Uminski shares pastoral and parental experience, guiding us to support the 'difficult' teen so that his heart stays open to God.

Confession is the threshold to the Eucharist - a courageous return before Christ with the priest as witness and intercessor. The guide shows how honest self-examination heals our inherited blindness, leading us step by step to communion where the light of Christ gradually dispels every trace of darkness.