dear brothers and sisters, today we honor the memory of amazing saints, whose feat became an example of not just family fidelity, but also deep love between spouses, pure relationships between a man and a woman, the correct attitude towards one’s family responsibilities, an inspiring example...

abstractly understood salvation, but a full life with god, making earthly life the threshold of the kingdom of heaven. at the same time , different images of holiness have been revealed in history. it cannot be said that some profession or lifestyle or financial situation if they are not obviously bad, making a person incapable of a holy life in christ. the church knows the rank of saints; these are christians in the rank of bishop, who at different times in different countries worked on the governance of the church. venerables are monks who left the world and served god with special deeds. they suffered voluntary poverty. the rank of noble princes, in modern language, represents to us politicians and at the same time warriors who are in charge. the corner

was not set by personal ambitions about serving god , one’s neighbors, one’s fatherland. the righteous are clergy who worked not in the monastery, in the world, had families, were often burdened with ordinary earthly worries, but at the same time were able to acquire abundant spiritual gifts. the diversity of saints testifies that in any... field one can please god, but at the same time, every christian chooses to imitate the saints in a way of life that is close to his life circumstances, or better yet, close to his heart, and this is natural, since holiness has no only a purely spiritual dimension, when we admire the feat of the saints of god, we turn to them with prayerful help and receive it. but at the same time we don’t always

think about what specific example their lives give us, in which we can imitate them, therefore the pedagogical significance of the life that the righteous led is very important, and it happens that the church, some periods of history, draws our attention on certain saints, or special examples of their lives, famous ascetics, because... this aspect of their feat has special significance here now. in this sense, the lives of peter and fevronia, their virtues for which they were glorified by the church, are of exceptional importance especially for modern man. sometimes one hears that previously there was not such widespread veneration of these saints, that their popularity, they say in secular language, is...

previously, their feat did not attract exceptional attention and did not evoke special admiration, since the attitude towards family, marital fidelity and purity of life was different than today, all this was worthy of attention and respect, but it was not something special, the married family is true were considered indisputable values ​​in christian societies, both in the east

and in the west, then most people could not imagine that the family would become an object in the second half of the twentieth and 21st centuries. in many countries of the world , an ideology has spread according to which family relationships are almost a tolerable evil; the ideal is considered to be a so-called free relationship, when a man and a woman do not take on any obligations, and change each other, like people change clothes or a car, without having any obligations. historians and anthropologists testify that

a person has never lived outside the family, families could have different types, but this form of human organization has always existed, and today the ideologists ... of the so-called global world are trying to conduct a unique experiment on humanity: the family, declared an institution, limiting human freedom, the ideal proclaims complete individualism and liberation from all traditional forms of human existence. we regret to see that such views are spreading and coming from... not ours. society, since not everything is going well in our family sphere. for example, according to the national statistical committee, in 2023 in belarus there were almost three divorces for every five marriages, but at the same time, our people

retain the conviction that the family is the most important value and good, and divorces and breakdowns of family relationships... are something abnormal , deviation from the ideal, and sociological surveys concerning our youth show that young people put the future first in order to have a good, happy family life. and it is quite natural that both society and the state today are looking for models that they can and should emulate. who will set a living example of family relationships, close and understandable to every person for whom the family remains the most important component of personal and public life, therefore the day of remembrance of the holy noble princes peter and fevronia has received

special relevance in the modern situation, and people of our time have seen in the relationship between peter and fevronia fevronia is an example of that supra. not only realized, but also felt the connection between human happiness and joy and the ability to love and maintain love for life. in this case, the number of divorces will be reduced and in a completely natural way

we learn from small things, improve in small things, because the word of god tells us who will be unfaithful to little ones, who will trust him more. through the prayers of the holy noble princes, may the lord strengthen our families and grant all married couples the gracious joy of mutual love. happy holiday, dear brothers and sisters.

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