humanity, apparently, until the end of the whole world, your holiness, last year - there were a lot of such signs, it seems to me that they were good, but i want to know your attitude towards them, well, of course, this is the return of the icon of the trinity, the author, the authorship of the rev. andrei rublev, cancer of prince alexander neevsky, it has now been installed on a historical site in st. petersburg, and you have found the revered icon of the kazan mother of god.

now you can bow to her in the kazan cathedral, it seems to me that these are good signs, in your opinion, and is there some kind of secret in this? meaning? well, these events are so significant that , of course, it is important to try to understand, firstly , why this happened now, but why this could not have happened before, why the patriarch , constantly passing by this icon, did not ask himself the question that this was not... done right now, but it happened, and how and what happened at some point, you went through it, as you did before, and what happened, here i pass, look at the icon and think how they finally learned to fake antiquity , not realizing that before...

she had gained undeniable spiritual strength, she became the pillar of orthodoxy throughout the world. our church not only plays some kind of cultural role ; it is located outside the fields of public life, there on the periphery, serving pensioners, it is at the center of people’s lives. and then, when all these wonderful changes in our lives took place, the mother of god appeared. and not a malicious soul, openly. our people to

open hearts to accept this grace, so everything is connected very closely and the state of people, the level of their faith, spiritual. and the miracles that the lord performs. again i will say that wisdom cannot penetrate into an evil soul. therefore, these events indicate a great shift that has occurred in the consciousness of our people and in the spiritual life of people. your testimony is now in prayer, it seems to me that most of all they are crying out to god, our guys are there on the front line. in the trenches before the battle, accepting enemy attacks, thank god, we already had a feeling of the absolute inevitability of victory, it will happen, we will get it, but people continue to die, both soldiers, and my colleagues,

journalists, and ordinary ordinary people, citizens, both in the operation zone and in the border areas, how can we help them? how to reassure, how to give hope? the answer is a question to which i personally don’t have an answer: how, because it’s all very individual. one word should be addressed to a warrior who is given a most dangerous task, associated, perhaps, with direct contact with the enemy, and he realizes that there is little chance of even returning after this task, another thing is... the commander who is, maybe outside such a zone of direct reach from the enemy, but makes responsible decisions, and so on, you can climb this ladder to 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. which was accompanied by enormous suffering of people, was not capable of destroying the life of our people. these are the trials that befall us today; they, of course, hurt, but they are not capable of killing, they do not capable of shaking us as a people, they are not capable of crushing our worldview, which directly includes love for the homeland. and readiness to defend it, therefore it seems to me that every test 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 today what is happening to us is this is an examination of our maturity, including spiritual maturity. how many years have you lived in conditions of religious freedom? and the question is: what is it? everything brings to us, as a people, as a country, i am deeply convinced that if there had not been this revival. god forbid, if such an internecine war had occurred, it would have proceeded completely differently, its consequences would have been very dangerous for our country, but today the people, the country has the potential to repel

those who want to crush our fatherland, just like this we pray in a special prayer at the liturgy for peace. for the cessation of hostilities, for our victory, but 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.

as you know, we have people who did not want to become stronger, and 2 years ago, in february twenty-two, they began to leave the country. they are increasingly called frightened people, and so these frightened people, who probably had the illusion that heaven on earth is there in the west and they will feel good there, have now apparently said goodbye to these illusions, because they are beginning come back, come back, more more , there are two points of view here, some say we need to help, we need to bring them back, and others say, don’t help, society without... these will be cleaner, how christian? hmm,

well, i don’t want to say anything from my own wisdom or insufficient wisdom, i would just like to refer to the word of god. parable of the prodigal son. here are two sons, one prudent, who worked, toiled, helped his father, the second, having inherited money, squandered it, and then came. ragged, unhappy, and of course , indignant, because that son is prudent, and the father accepted this prodigal son, this is the same parable for all of us, there is no need to push away a person who has sinned, if this person comes with a feeling of repentance, awareness of his guilt, now, if, if these people who left russia and even spoke out somewhere there , that... they said against it, but returned with the understanding that they really

made a mistake, then their homeland cannot reject them, here is a different approach to this topic, as soon as christian, i cannot formulate i can, 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... i say, drawing attention to this, drawing attention to the fact that that among these people there are quite worthy people, but those who made a mistake or were frightened, or really tried to find something in life that was more convenient for themselves, comfortable for themselves, but were disgraced along the way, and if they return to 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 these days, but please tell me, in general, all countries, peoples, in this... world rift, in this confrontation, are they generally capable of overcoming this schism, agreement, friendship, for love, and you, taking into account your after a lot of international experience , do you still look forward with pessimism or optimism? with realism, not optimism, not pessimism, but realism, not everything is so simple, not at all, not everything is so simple, 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, southern and northern

vietnam, i remember the civil war in laos, i was then on the territory of this country on a humanitarian mission. by the way, i was a member of the group of directors of one fund, which was created by the world council of churches to help suffering people in southeast asia. and we visited a small group of an international village, a place where military operations were taking place, 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 the case with on the one hand, of course, a very interesting topic for me, on the other hand , quite dangerous, but then the lord led me into...

the persecution of the russian canonical orthodox church in ukraine, first the seizure of the kivopechersk lavra, then attempts at bans in the canonical church, it seems that they want...

it is located, i mean turkey, but really it’s not easy for a person, well, that’s why, in all likelihood, this unfavorable context , but also forms the position of the patriarch of constantinople, with which many find it impossible to agree, therefore support, support for the schism in

ukraine is not just a mistake of the patriarch of constantinople, it is his great sin. by the way, i'll be back. to one very much interesting story, i became aware, well , quite a long time ago, that our political opponents, opponents of our state, were thinking about the reasons for the influence, at the beginning of the soviet union, and then russia, on the arab world in the middle, in... the eastern mediterranean, that is, on the orthodox world, and they made the following judgment that the main, main soft power that allegedly carries out the state policy in relation to these regions is the russian orthodox church. they were wrong, of course, because the russian orthodox church

has never exerted political influence, but in some ways they are wrong, in some ways they were not mistaken, well, spiritually - that’s it. developing good fraternal relations with greece , with the orthodox arab world and with this entire part, the balkan countries, in this sense, of course, soft power, but not only on our side, but on the other side, in general, in general, this spiritual power, it cannot be tough. spiritual strength is always aimed at achieving, well, what is called those ideals that are spelled out in the gospel. therefore, completely rejecting the interpretation of soft power that at that time 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, that’s how... the orthodox are wise people and do not succumb to this kind of pressure, although this pressure is being carried out, and some people are giving up their positions, but some heads of churches courageously resist this, naturally, for well-known reasons, the names of these people cannot be pronounced i will, but i thank you for your courageous, firm

position aimed at preserving unity with the russian... orthodox church, which means this is the fight for the unity of all orthodoxy. you mentioned the eastern mediterranean, just in those places where christ was born and passed his earthly path, now everything is also on fire. and, despite the fact that all world religions on the holy land unanimously declare that they pray only for peace and for nothing else. but the war continues. so how do you think, how to find the way to peace? in the middle east, well, of course, i don’t have, and can’t have , any political recipes, but, probably, all the recipes have been tried for a long time and something. nothing comes of this , we are talking, first of all, about the fact that there is quite a strong tension between the arab

population and the jewish population, uh, again i will not go into any political possible reasons for this, economic ones, although, probably, both and other things are present, but this is tension, it was not born today. between the leaders and leaders of these groups there will be if some kind of unanimity has been established about what and how needs to be done to preserve

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 it.

.. i can imagine how it’s possible , i’m telling you from my own experience, not

to have joy, the very one we ’re talking about, joy in the holy spirit, if you deny both the spirit and god, you close your entire worldview within the framework of that only the material world that exists, which means you close your life within the framework of this... material world, and then what? and then the hillock and nothing, and didn’t take anything with it, and didn’t take anything with it, so if a person believes that everything ends with a hillock, but this is not a happy person, moreover, if you don’t believe in eternity, if you if you don’t believe in the judgment of god, then this greatly affects your motivation, here, if there is no god, then everything is permitted, laws, laws can be bypassed, but if you understand that nothing can be done by any small hill ends, the soul is immortal , you want, do what you want, there

you will appear before god, you will be judged according to what you said, this is how it turns out, live as you lived, then your brains turn on , and a sense of self-preservation arises, and 20 times a person will think, but i need to deceive now or i don’t need to, that’s what i need. destroy my family or not, i need to borrow a lot of money, run away somewhere to leave the person from whom the money was taken by a person in need or not, this can be listed ad infinitum, others in 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 commandments... but unfortunately, conscience is a fragile structure, it can be destroyed, weakened, but create - a system

of pseudo-values ​​in which the conscience begins to feel this way, but in general this is not entirely bad, and in this way a person loses the ability to really distinguish good from evil, and this is the worst thing, that’s all that the church does , in general, religious faith, then, what does high art do, by the way, by awakening and developing an aesthetic feeling through art and... through the aesthetic feeling there is a beneficial effect on the human soul, because art is harmonious, and harmony enters a person’s consciousness, into the soul, and harmony is what what could only be from god, because an exploding comet does not carry any harmony in itself, an exploding planet does not carry any harmony, and if the world was created from

all these flying... space inanimate objects, then in this universe there is no there is no conscience, conscience is from god , this is the strongest proof that god exists, but we, we are sometimes told, well , conscience is the results of the development of such a human being, and then conscience is formed under the influence of external factors, culture, then education, and so on , this is not true, what is good is good for everyone, both for the educated and for the less educated. and conscience begins to work in a person when a person violates god’s commandments, even without knowing these commandments, so god grant that the voice of conscience never disappears, and so that we take care of this precious instrument, which, regardless of how often we pray or not pray, whether we go to church or not, but this instrument helps us not to lose touch with

the creator. when we say we are russians and god is with us, it seems to me that the best proof is this 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 a huge number of these wonderful people in our country, that’s it there is a god, right? yes, where there is sacrifice

, death, we expose our lives to danger, where does this come from, from what material substance can this feat itself grow, the giving of one’s own life, well, there is no comment, only from above, only from above, only from above, lord. our conscience controls us, and perhaps a person does not know how to be baptized, or does not go to the mosque there, but the voice of conscience forces him to act as the lord pleases, which is why you must always listen to your conscience and in no case let things go to when conscience is simply destroyed, we sometimes say an unscrupulous person has no conscience.

destroyed the most important thing in the human, in the human dimension of life, so god grant that everyone who works to preserve homeland, this, of course, is both a religious factor and a high culture of upbringing, which includes love for the fatherland, helping others so that all this helps people maintain their conscience, and along with their conscience, responsibility. for himself, for his loved ones, but for his country. your holiness thank you very much for your words for this interview, and once again i congratulate you on the holiday, thank you, thank you, powerful explosions thundered in the morning.