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well, and so on, along this ladder you can climb the highest level , so i think that there cannot be such a single answer , but this is what i would like to say, god does not send the people trials that they are not able to endure, even the great patriotic war the war, which was accompanied by enormous suffering of the people, was not capable of... destroying the life of our people, these are the trials that fall to our lot today, they, of course, hurt, but they are not capable of killing, they are not capable of shaking us as a people , they are not capable of crushing our a worldview that directly includes love for the homeland and readiness to defend it, so it seems to me that every... test
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is sent to us not for our destruction, at least spiritual destruction, but so that after passing these tests we become better, therefore, in a sense, what is happening to us today is an exam of our maturity, including spiritual maturity, for so many years you lived in conditions of religious freedom, you built churches, opened monasteries, you began to partake of the holy mysteries of christ , priests work in in the armed forces, the guys confess, take communion before going on the attack, this is a completely different dimension of this spiritual life, the question is: what does all this bring to us, as a people, as a country? i am deeply convinced that if there had not been this revival, god forbid, if such internecine warfare had occurred, it would have proceeded completely differently.
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its consequences would be very dangerous for our country, but today the people, the country have the potential to repel those who want to crush our fatherland, this is exactly how we pray in a special prayer at the liturgy for peace for the cessation of hostilities for our victory, so well... we hope that it will be so. once again i want to emphasize that our victories are forged not only on the battlefield, they are forged starting from kindergartens and schools, they are forged in some of our youth groups, where young people think about the country, about the future, about their own lives, in educational institutions. and, of course, the church continues. carries out a very special
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service, god willing, that by mobilizing all forces, that we have, we could become stronger, first of all, stronger spiritually, become more courageous, more selfless, more focused on the readiness to serve the fatherland, and even if necessary, lay down our lives for our friends. as you know, we have people who did not want to become stronger. and 2 years ago, in february of the twenty-second year, they began to leave the country, they were increasingly called frightened people, so these frightened people , who probably had the illusion that heaven on earth is there in the west and there they will be well, now, apparently, we have said goodbye to these illusions, because they are starting to return, they are returning and more and more, there are two points of view here: some say:
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we need to help, we need to bring them back, and others say, no need to help, society is cleaner without these it will be like a christian, well , i don’t want to say anything from my own, from my own , as it were, wisdom or insufficient wisdom, i would just like to refer to the word of god , the parable of the prodigal son, here are two sons, one prudent, who worked, worked, father, the second, having received money as an inheritance , squandered it, and then came, ragged, unhappy, and of course, he was indignant, because that son was prudent, and the father accepted this prodigal son, this is the same parable for all of us, there is no need to push a person away who has sinned, if this person comes with a feeling of repentance, awareness of his guilt, if if... if these people who left
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russia and even spoke out somewhere there, said something against and said something, but returned with the understanding that that they actually made a mistake. then their homeland cannot reject them , i cannot formulate another approach to this topic other than the christian one, well, there may probably be some other law enforcement topics, the degree of involvement of these people in some kind of criminal actions, but this no longer concerns the clergyman, but i say paying attention to this, drawing attention to the fact that among these people there are... quite worthy people, but those who made a mistake or were frightened, or really tried to find something more convenient in life, yourself for yourself comfortable, but they were disgraced along the way, and if they return to
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their home with repentance, then the father’s job is to accept them, in general, now the whole world is simply in the flames of war, no matter where you look. remember how you were, well, essentially, the minister of foreign affairs of the orthodox church, yes, forgive my comparison, and it seems to me that you then flew to different cities and countries, but more often even than sergei viktorovich lavrov in ours, but please tell us, in general, all the countries, peoples, in this world rift, in this confrontation, are they even capable of overcoming this split? consent , for friendship, for love, and you, taking into account your great, great international experience, with pessimism or optimism, still look forward, with realism, not optimism, not pessimism, but realism, not everything is so simple, not at all, not everything is so simple,
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god really brought me through some amazing experience, i have been to 119 countries of the world, and in different eras, i remember well the war in southeast asia. south and north vietnam, i remember the civil war in laos, i then was on the territory of this country on a humanitarian mission, by the way, i was a member of the group of directors of a foundation that was created in the world council of churches to help suffering people in southeast asia, and we visited a small group of an international village, a site of military operations . in order to identify projects to which this money should be allocated, then i came into contact, of course, with this suffering of people in the jungle, i won’t tell everything, but this was on the one hand, of course for a very interesting topic for me, on the other hand
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, and quite dangerous, but then the lord brought me into contact with the enormous suffering of people, and i realized that providing help is... the answer that christians should implement, that’s why, uh, no i know whether i fully answered what you asked me about, but my thought went to that past, based on this past, i would like to do the same today, the persecution of the russian canonical orthodox church in ukraine, first the seizure of kivopechersk laurels, and... then attempts at bans in the canonical church , it feels like they want to make our church one of the engines of a giant conveyor belt for producing hatred towards russians towards russia as a whole, do you think they will succeed at least in anything?
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this is not just a mistake by the patriarch of constantinople, it is his great sin. by the way, let me return to one very interesting story. i became aware. the soviet union, and then russia , in the arab world in the middle, in the eastern mediterranean, that is, in the orthodox world, and... they made this judgment that the main, main soft power that
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allegedly implements state policy in relation to these regions is is the russian orthodox church, they, of course, were mistaken, because the russian orthodox church has never exerted political influence, but in some ways they are not, that in some ways they were not mistaken, well, spiritually that’s for sure, because we are brothers with those same people of faith, in this sense, of course... the russian orthodox church was a factor in the development of good fraternal relations with greece with the orthodox arab world and with all this part of the balkan countries in this sense, of course, soft power, but not only on our part , but on the other hand, in general, this spiritual strength cannot be rigid, spiritual strength is always aimed at achieving, well, what is called those ideals that are spelled out in the gospel. therefore, completely abandoning interpretation of soft power, which at that time
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western analysts attributed to the russian orthodox church, i will at the same time say that the church, of course, played a very important role in preserving the spiritual unity of orthodoxy, so when these schismatic processes began, then i ... not i doubt that behind this was the political will of not only the enemies of russia, but the enemies of orthodoxy, because to tear the russian church away from the churches of the middle east means to weaken those churches first of all, but by the grace of god, after all most orthodox leaders are wise people and do not succumb to this kind of pressure. although this pressure is being exerted, and some people are giving up
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their positions, some heads of churches are courageously resisting this. naturally, for well-known reasons , i will not pronounce the names of these people, but i thank you for their courageous, firm position aimed at maintaining unity with the russian orthodox church, and this means that this is the struggle for the unity of all orthodoxy.
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first of all, we are talking about the fact that there is quite a strong tension between the arab population and the jewish population, again i will not go into any political possible reasons for this, economic ones, although... probably both are present, but this is a tension, it was not born today, it existed in the past, therefore, if we talk about some ways to overcome this conflict and generally reconcile people, it seems to me that we need to very actively involve religious leaders, respected muslim leaders, respected jewish... leaders and christian leaders, because if
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indeed some kind of unanimity is established between the leaders and leaders of these groups about what and how needs to be done to maintain peace, then this unanimity can be implemented in political concepts, but influence the prevention of further military escalation. but this is only worth dreaming about for now, because, as i understand, with all the desire of some religious leaders to actively get involved in this issue, not everyone. most russian families celebrate christmas, but mine is probably traditional, but every year a very pressing question is how to clear up
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space among these troubles and anxieties of ours so that there is room for festive joy, that’s for me. festive joy is a state of mind , i know that some people have joy, joy is synonymous with fun, there is a difference, yes, there is a big difference, you can’t have fun all the time, you’ll go crazy, fun in general is such a very energy- consuming emotion, everyone is knows, you can’t laugh all evening, then the next day your head hurts, but what do you need? need to, so that there is joy in our hearts , so that our feelings are balanced, so that we really perceive what we are experiencing as an important spiritual event, in my opinion, of course, some of the people who do not share religious beliefs will not agree with this,
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but in my opinion, without faith in god this is impossible, i’m telling you from my own... experience, i can’t imagine how it’s even possible to have joy, the very one we’re talking about, joy in the holy spirit, if you deny both the spirit and god. all your worldview in within the framework of only the material world that exists, which means you close your life within the framework of this material world, and then what, and then a mound. and he didn’t take anything with him, and he didn’t take anything with him, so if a person believes that everything ends with a mound, but this is an unhappy person, moreover, if you don’t believe in eternity, if you don’t believe in judgment god, then this greatly influences your motivation, here, if there is no god, then everything is permitted, the classic
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said, this is how it turns out, live like do what you want, there are some laws there. you can bypass the laws, but if you understand that nothing ends with a hill, the soul is immortal, you will appear before god, you will be judged by how you lived, then your brains turn on and a sense of self-preservation arises, and 20 times a person will think, and i need to cheat now or i don’t need to, i need to destroy my family or i don’t need to, i need to borrow a lot of money to run away somewhere and... leave the person from whom i took the money as a person in need, or i don’t need to, this is it can be listed endlessly, in other words, conscience, an amazing inner voice, this voice would not exist if god did not exist, because the voice of conscience exactly coincides with the divine
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commandments, but unfortunately, conscience is a fragile structure, it... you can destroy, weaken, but create such a system of pseudo-values in which conscience begins to feel like this, well, in general, this is not entirely bad, well , and thus a person loses the ability to really distinguish good from evil, and this is the most terrible, this is all that the church does , religious faith in general, what it does... high art, by the way, awakens and develops an aesthetic feeling, through art and through the aesthetic feeling it has a beneficial effect on the human soul, because art is harmonious , and harmony enters a person’s consciousness into the soul, and harmony is something that could only come from god, because
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an exploding comet does not carry any harmony in itself, an exploding planet does not carry any harmony. i don't care, and if the world was created from all these flying space inanimate objects, then in this universe there is no conscience, conscience is from god, this is the strongest proof that god exists, but we are sometimes told, well , conscience is the results of the development of such a human, and then conscience is formed under the influence of external factors, culture, then education, and so on. this. it’s not true , what is good is good for everyone, both for the educated and for the poorly educated, and conscience begins to work in a person when a person violates god’s orders...
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a huge number of people who are now , if not at war, then definitely helping our soldiers in any way they can, look, volunteers, we couldn’t even imagine how huge the number of these wonderful people are in our country, this is god, i’m right ? yes, where, where there is sacrifice, where a person gives himself up, there is god, why? but because the physical nature of man...
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towards death, we expose our lives to danger, where does this come from, from what material substance can this feat itself arise, giving of one’s own life, well, there is no comment, only from above, only from above, only from above, god directs through conscience, and maybe a person does not know how to be baptized, or the mosque does not...
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god forbid that everyone who works to preserve their own this , of course, is a religious factor, and high culture , education, which includes love for the fatherland, helping neighbors, so that all this helps people maintain their conscience, along with conscience, responsibility for themselves, for their relatives and friends, but for own country, your holiness thank you very much. for your words, for this interview, and once again i congratulate you on the holiday, happy rossibo, thank you.
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far eastern media tycoon oleg sidinko was dealt with in 2002. the blast wave knocked out an iron door and several windows on the staircase. he earned up to $10 million a year. even then, everyone was sure that the high-profile crime was the work of bandits from the trifonov group. but only the names of those who might have been
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involved in the murder have now become known. this is igor. kovalchuk, co-owner of the largest market in vladivostok, approximately at this distance, he attached a healthy device to a magnet. in addition, the head of the kudo regional federation, alexander yasin, came under investigation. are you an honest entrepreneur? i can report taxes for everything, only for the first million. what caused the massacre of media tycoon oleg sidinko. what crimes do you appear to have committed? yes, because conscience or? we took up this matter and conducted our investigation. you need to figure out the relationship. the best way is a fair fight. this is for you, this is for you. fight. well, you don't think we'll really fight. serf 2.
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celebrate the nativity of christ. on the eve of the holiday , vladimir putin spoke with the relatives of military personnel who died during a special military operation. the conversation took place in an informal setting. anastasia efimova knows what they were talking about. this christmas eve, they are the personal guests of the president. i asked my colleagues organize your pre-christmas holiday events. i hope so.
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the little guests report in detail, they were on red square and at the russian exhibition at vdnkh, at the zoo, the panda was especially memorable, as well as on a tour of the stables at the residence of the head of state, although we didn’t get to ride horses, but everyone was able to pet and treat them. this is american me.
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