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intercede from all sorts of intrigues, enemy them, lord , the time of life, stumbling radiance and salvation, will come. receive with your prayers from christ the lord, we will become like him, drink and glorify with the denoting father and the holy spirit forever and ever. your eminence, your eminence, dear alexander alekseevich dear brothers and sisters. i heartily congratulate you all on this wonderful holiday. this is not only a holiday of this land

one of the very first to adopt christianity on expanses of russia but this is a holiday of all russia that is why i am with you today. because indeed the adoption of christianity here in this place served as a very strong impetus to the spread of the faith of christ in all the outskirts. we know what history is. this diocese is not at all simple, as the history of the earth passed here. fronts probably the most terrible and difficult is the front that took shape during the great patriotic war. but there were many other invasion of the nephews. as if the border part of great russia is all historical

russia, this earth took on many blows. but as they sometimes say, in order to really harden a person. he must learn to take blows from people brought up in hothouse conditions. these are people with no experience. and therefore, they are very vulnerable. and when something suddenly falls on your head, a failure in work on family life, some kind of diagnosis is such that it is not known how the person will end, this unpleasant thing is completely lost and maybe a dangerous thing unsettles him. and what does a knocked out person mean? this is the one that can't really already contribute to the life of his family society state. these are usually external enemies,

conquering the land, including those terrible enemies who entered the land of vitebsk during the great patriotic war. after all, they really wanted to sow fear in the souls of confusion, loss of orientation so that the people and the land become easy prey. but we know that this did not happen, because the spirit of our people was preserved in the most difficult moments of history, but if we talk about the church. those are hard times for us lasted much longer than the great patriotic war, and everything happened, including on this land and in the regions of the russian federation bordering vitebsk, we know how

difficult it was for orthodox christians. how were the tasks and goals set that during this or the next five-year plan to completely get rid of religious beliefs, but was it easy just for our parents, yes, and for us people of the older generation who remember these times very well. but they coped, went through these tests, saved the orthodox faith and today the orthodox church is the spiritual support of russia, belarus and ukraine of all our fraternal slavic countries and even not only slavic countries. this great gift of the orthodox faith must be strengthened, especially in the hearts of young people. because young people are under the strong influence of the modern information flow and

most of them have not yet developed a clear criterion, that is, the ability to evaluate what is reaching their sight and hearing their consciousness. and that's very therefore, it is important to work with young people, so god grant that new opportunities open up. we made full use of the fact that the grace of god through the word of the church through the transmission of the holy secrets to our people strengthened faith and piety and love for the fatherland and love for each other, so that the strife of this world was really overcome and human sins of unrighteousness, lawlessness and crime were overcome. i

came to vitebsk land with a special feeling, i have already spoken about this, because i am 25 years old. was associated with smolensk served as archpastor there. and at one time, when i was the rector of the then leningrad theological academy, suddenly unexpectedly sent to smolensk, many took it as a link, but in fact it was, as it were, conceived as a link. and i thank god for every day lived in smolensk because the experience that i got in this russian is not black earth. i would never have received it either in st. petersburg or in moscow or in any other places. and, probably, he could not be a patriarch today who knows the life of our church in depth, if i had not gone through that smolensk experience. that is why i always visit the diocese of our church with great attention and love, because it is here that

the spiritual life of our people is formed. therefore, first of all, i wish everyone who lives in this wonderful vitebsk land. strengthen in the faith, remember that this is primary; all other loyalties are secondary. but without this faith and love for god, and again, expressing loyalty to god in secular language , no human loyalty can truly form, and we know how marriages are destroyed, how love is destroyed, if there is no faith and responsibility before god, if there is no responsibility before god and responsibility before the country at a difficult moment, it can recede, and a person who fears the lord and knows that the betrayal of his people the great sin will never will do. that is why i

insist that the basics of orthodoxy be taught in schools, this is absolutely necessary, because it is necessary to form the consciousness of children. in love for god, for our neighbors, for our people. i am very hope. that the ancient vitebsk land, which showed us saints and, first of all, the greatest holy year of god in russia, will also be an example of faith and piety, but remembering saint euphrosyne, one cannot but be amazed at her life path. her deep faith. this is the case when the pure in heart will see god. indeed, today this was said in the holy scriptures, which we heard and

once again i want to emphasize that this love, which is brought up by the church, love for god and love for one's neighbor is the fundamental basis loyalty to everything that is dear and significant to us. here is the holy venerable euphrosyne. she gave a wonderful example of how a person is brilliant, enlightened in those days. became a saint well, isn't this an example for our powers that be? we honor euphrosyne. let's follow her path, it's no coincidence. she has been famous for centuries. name someone else who is so revered by the people in belarus before whom they bow the knee, to whom they turn their prayers to that very euphrosyne. which combined both

public service and an undoubted influence on a society with the deepest faith and, therefore, did great good deeds, because the pure in heart will see god. how can you keep your heart pure? purity of heart is what a child has? purity of soul what forces are now working to soil this pure soul with dirt? in order to develop vices in the souls of adults, entire industries, cinema literature work for this. i won't go any further on this list. you all know what a huge machine works to ensure that there is never any purity in the heart. to dominate.

passion, lawlessness, sin, which is sometimes even presented as heroism and for the right way of life. but the church insists on it. that the purity of the soul is the most important and fundamental moment in the development of the human personality, and everything else grows from this. i am happy to say again that i had the opportunity to visit. this is the place to pray with you in front of st. euphrosyne of polotsk and ask. she has a petition before the face of god for the land of white russia for the land. all rus' for all of us for strengthening the faith orthodox. and most importantly, for maintaining the sober mind and purity of conscience of our

contemporaries. and if so. then a truly bright future awaits us without any ideological illusions, without everything that had to do with propaganda at one time, a genuine bright future, where the purity of the human soul, therefore, delivering such sermons. as you now hear, calling people to purity of life, we have concern not only for the personality of each, but also for our families from our church for a very wide sense of the word, but the whole universe. may the lord help us all keep the orthodox faith in our hearts. to grow in this faith, to grow in love and respect for each other in the preservation of our

historical national shrines. and the most important thing is to preserve the ideal of holiness, which should be for each of us the very goal of which the christian is strengthened, the christian must be strengthened on the path of his life journey towards the lord who is the savior of the world. and with whom we associate our salvation in this life and in the life of the next century. amen to all of you. i heartily congratulate you on the holiday.