Can You Dig It? I Know That You Can.

Moscow, June 21, Interfax - Fr. Nikolay Kokurin, an Orthodox priest from the Nizhny Novgorod Region, appeared at an anti-drug rock concert held in St. Petersburg

He pronounced a sermon, blessed the audience and played an electric guitar, the 5 Canal reports.

Fr. Nikolay writes songs to praise God. He has a home music studio which he calls 'the church of underground "rockodoxy"'. He posts each new song in the Internet.

A well-known St. Petersburg musician Ilya Chyort (Russian for Devil) included several songs written by Fr. Nikolay in one of his recent albums.

'Rock-n-roll - King David said he would rock and roll and twist before God. Therefore, he may be considered a patriarch of rock-n-roll,' the priest said.

Now he is going to release a new album of his songs. He never sells his discs but prefers to distribute them to believers and grateful listeners.


Rockodoxy? I like that sound of that.