hello, father sergei. good afternoon. you are the chairman of the synodal department of the belarusian orthodox church for interaction with the armed forces and other military formations. what is it like, what does it mean, who are the people who work there?

inviting a priest to participate in taking the military oath, of course, by this time there were already many traditions of interaction between the church and the army, the metropolitan and i discussed for a very long time what kind of participation this should be, so as not to to interfere, at the same time to be useful, and to receive the priest, as a military unit should, but you remember, then there were very...

more agreements were signed, more directions were assigned in this regard, this is how the synodal department. now the synodal department consists of five of us, the chairman of the synodal department, three deputies, an assistant and one civilian, a former military man, well, as a specialist. we should have such a party that we do not violate any framework of interaction from the outside and military personnel. now we have signed agreements with the ministry of defense, with the ministry of internal affairs, with the command of the internal troops, with the ministry of emergency situations, with the state border committee, with the dsaf and...

but all these categories that i named, they require a certain sacrifice in their service, here, of course , the church helps, so that a person realizes, understands what it means to lay down his soul for his friends, the church has always blessed the defender of his fatherland for a feat of arms, well, then everyone a defender of the fatherland, he must know: what he

is protecting, not only a building, not only a house, but now it is very important, and you and i live in a time when it is very important to protect our spiritual state. people, our traditions , the spiritual component on which the people are based, if we lose our traditions, first of all, spiritually, then we can lose ourselves, and as a people, traditions help to unite them, just like cement holds bricks together and a building stands, so too spiritual tradition, national traditions, they are very important to know.

sometimes he falls away from god, and having fallen away from god, he loses connection and loses the moral and spiritual strength of a person, and takes the path of crime, the path of betrayal, then all those negative facts and moments in life appear

that we know about and that we so want avoid, but we also blame god for everything. it’s god’s fault, where is god, where was god, that there is a war going on, where was god, that such a catastrophe happened, where was god, and is god to blame, because man creates all this, the lord gives man everything he needs, to he has achieved perfection, moreover, we all know this, but sometimes a person just thinks that oh, but no one sees, there is no policeman nearby, i can run the red light. maybe there is no policeman nearby, i can break something there, when i am nearby, then we already behave differently, so faith, it helps to ensure that a person always has this policeman inside, who would not

allow him to cross those boundaries of morality that would serve to destroy a person’s personality, and well... in any case, no matter how we say it, the church serves in order for a person to become completely like god, a person, and in everything , first of all, a person stands, and depending on what kind of person he will be, then we can talk about how he fulfills those functional duties, or that service , which he assigns himself, so i briefly touched upon the task that... the synodal department assigns itself, to help first of all, well, together, we, the clergy, the officers, we are improving together, this does not mean that i am so perfect, i'm coming to the military unit, no, i'm i’m also working on myself, i, too, as a person , am not quite perfect, i strive for

perfection, constantly strengthening myself in faith, in the knowledge of god, well, all this helps to ensure that my choice is based on... love on the law of all forgiveness . these are turbulent times, the situation in the world is heating up. what are the moods, the unrest among the fighters, since you communicate with them, there is probably a confession, yes, some kind of personal communication with the priest, is there any place for fear? you know times have always been hard, always have been complex. today we are talking about current times. on the border, i served on the border of the soviet union, then in turkmenistan , on the border with afghanistan, this is the eighty -first, eighty-four year, the war in afghanistan, it was also a very difficult time, times always test a person

for what he is, but fear, fear it is always present in people; we cannot be said to be fearless. so that a person frees himself from that

spiritual burden that sometimes drives us into a certain corner, and from this everything is expressed in our affairs, actions, when we are calm , when we are loving, when everything is fine with us, and yet our actions are different, however, we want to treat a person differently, we want to do something different, say hello to a friend, be involved, yes. and if it’s hard for us , we immediately assign, and our actions are the same , we can be insolent, we can be rude, we can show some kind of aggression, when a person shows this, it already indicates that he has something inside not everything is calm, somewhere something is tormenting him, tormenting him, so here again a priest must come to the rescue, in general, in life it’s not like in the song, but first of all there are planes, and girls then, it ’s the other way around, how to find the right words for a person in such an ambiguous state,

you probably know, well, not always right away and it’s easy to find these words, but i always try to have a conversation in order to identify the problem most of all, pay attention to human qualities, what a person should be, no matter what the action is, how to offend you.

let's say in conversation there, and he uses a weapon, then of course, a weapon is used against him, of course, a person who defends his fatherland can kill another person, of course, encourage the killing of a person by a person, this will not always be right, and the church has a practice when, while defending his fatherland, whoever participated in... the war killed, then not as a punishment, but for

cleansing, for correction, so, calming the conscience , imposed a certain epithem, removed for some time from communion, this was the case, that is, showing that this is not elevated to the rank of dignity, so, but in at the same time, i must cleanse myself in order to spiritually, to calm down, yes, to bear responsibility, among the saints also... there are people who were once fighters, military personnel, yes, and now they are, as it were, patrons of military personnel, who are these people, why, well, maybe a few examples, they are still became saints , we can, yes, we can name the same george the victorious, ion the warrior, the centurion longenus at the cross of the lord, we can bring many military personnel who became martyrs, well, the heavenly patron, the army - this does not mean a magic wand, of course, what if we have george the victorious, which means

we must win everything with him, first of all, this is an example of building our spiritual way of life, our service, looking at the example of our heavenly patron, because all these saints, they sacrificed, sacrificed their well-being, position, continued endure suffering, refused everything... the fact that we now put this at the forefront, well-being, so, material, advancement in position, sometimes you are surprised, so... some refuse remain with faith, so there is something in a person that is the strength of spirit, the strength of faith, knowledge, somewhere in something he knew that he refuses, he is being tempted, here is your position again, here you will be a governor again, you will again have money have, you will be in a position, but just

refuse, well, what can i say, yes, i refuse, i gain everything, no, he continues... to revere this is the most important thing in the heavenly patron, what we must pay attention to, the strength of spirit, the strength of faith, this helps us to fulfill our duty with dignity. and if the heroes of our time are in the cathedral of saints, well let's look at our belarusian lands, blessed valentina of minsk, because now there are few, perhaps, those witnesses left who appealed and visited her.

i walked so much, lit candles , i prayed so much, i went to church so much, and now i’m sick, but if he had seen, that’s when they told me how much hardship you bore, blessed valentina, of minsk, but she didn’t lose, she didn’t blaspheme god , and she also strengthened everyone who came to her in faith in god, and this was her most important sermon.

which helps to lead and strengthen side by side, so this is the word of god, which strengthens a person, inspires a person, this is a moment of communication, and a moment of confession, a moment of prayer that the priest performs, everything goes towards strengthening the spirit of a person, a person lives not only in a material shell, a person must to be strong in spirit, a person’s soul, spirit, it is much more important in business.

moreover, i’ll even give an example in lida, on the territory of the lida border detachment a temple was built in honor of st. sergei radonichsky, where he constantly participated in

in the life of a military collective, a clergyman, they had a tradition of starting the work week on monday with a prayer service and blessing. it so happened that father alexey was absent one day, he was traveling along the border, and he was absent and did not conduct a prayer service. first. this is not the case in the collective, it’s us here as civilians who sort it out among ourselves, sometimes it even exists between churches, it’s necessary , but sometimes we ourselves come up with it, but in the military, there is no disagreement, in the military collective, please, they turn, but what about us? catholics, what's the difference? v sacraments, well, yes, but there we do not touch upon the sacraments, we are concerned with the preaching of the word of god, to which god calls, and he is alone, and he is alone, but if the priest changes, if,

say, a catholic, a muslim, his participation is necessary, say, directly from a representative of one or another denomination, then... the priest must facilitate, he must have contact to help resolve the spiritual problem, the situation that is developing for the military man, well, in general, the priest in order to unite spiritually, not to separate, but to unite , in general, slope down it won’t work on the religious principle, no , no, of course not, news recently appeared that the armed forces of belarus have instructors for working with religious servicemen. please explain this innovation, what it means, who these instructors are in the armed forces, what they will do, what exactly is their need in the ranks.

due to the fact that this year ministers who did not undergo compulsory service were called up, they were called up to undergo compulsory service, but clergyman. who took an oath at the throne, before taking the sacrament, he takes an oath at the throne, a certain rite is performed, a wedding to the throne, and this oath for him becomes dominant in his life, he has no right to violate this oath, and well, otherwise he will be subject to the corresponding canonical punishment , when a clergyman is called to...

the outcome, which means it is decided by ordination, some kind of vicious circle, a vicious circle, you see, this is how it happened, we talked for a long time, discussed this topic, this is the ministry defense for these clergymen was the position of instructor, that is, a clergyman, he is undergoing military service as a conscript, but at the same time he is an assistant to the deputy commander for ideological work in those spiritual and moral issues that are entrusted to the clergyman, but at the same time the question is with we managed to solve it with weapons, that is, yes, there is an understanding for the clergyman that

he is not because he doesn’t want to, but because he can’t, for us the oath at the throne is the crowning of the throne, this is also serving one’s fatherland, the priest’s weapon is his sermon, about... the word of god speaks, this is his word, this is his way of life, his faith, this is his weapon, even during the great patriotic war, when the church was persecuted and oppressed, but the priests, those who had already accepted the camp, were priests , they accepted, they participated, but they did not participate with weapons, they took the cross in their hands, they raised them with a word, they participated there in the partisan movement, they... created a new life, this is how archimandrite pionius is, he created a hospital, that is, organized a hospital at home, they hid it somewhere in order to return the wounded. into formation, this

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