eh, yesterday you communicate there and you can see it. what faculties would you especially recommend yuriy executioner, i would recommend here it is very simple to listen to yourself and understand what you want. the most important thing is that, uh, a young man should immediately go where he wants, so that he feels that he likes what he likes. and that he is ready to do this all his life, dear friends, my dear viewers. so i really love the city on the volga, which is called saratov. well, engels, too, which is practically the same city on the other side, then other name. what city on the volga do you like? well, this is the answer. and be happy.

god of spirits and all flesh, death according to the right devil, having abolished the belly of your world, granting the lord himself to rest the soul of your dead servants in the days of hard times innocently, the slain sufferings of torture, who suffered bitter death in exile, who took their own names. you yourself , lord, together with the willow, together with the green, together with the dead, carried the disease that had already beaten off. sorrows of sighing, every sin, a deed name by a word or deed or thought, like, good

a person is loved with god forgive me, of course, a person and zhizhi will and will not sin. you wouldn’t be sin, it’s true, your truth is forever and your word is true, as you are all sunday the life and rest of your dead servants in the days of hard times innocently, the slain sufferings of torture, who suffered a bitter death in exile, who took their own names. you yourself are the lord in weight. christ our god and glory to you we send with your original father with your most holy and good and life-giving spirit now and near and forever and ever god's goal is ours

the lord sat down without our imprisonment, god’s own it is you yourself, lord in the name of the father and son and the holy spirit today we served according to the charter of this place and the gospel fasting reading was appropriate, but preparing for worship. i read an ordinary apostolic reading. this is a book of deeds and i thought that something must certainly be said about what is written in that part of the book of deeds, because this combination of butovo’s ministry and

the narrative of the book of deeds is very much in common and, moreover, testifies to something completely unchanged that accompanies the life of the church from its very apostolic foundation. and the speech in the book of acts is about the murder of the apostles. james the brother of god, the first bishop of jerusalem, he was a pious jew. he fulfilled all the laws, he was called a righteous man, not because he was a righteous man in accordance with the christian tradition, but he was a righteous man in accordance with the old testament tradition and did not violate anything, and no matter how there should be no claims against him, but in fact he was the first victim. he is the first of

the apostle was martyred there in jerusalem at the hands of those who in christianity saw a certain spiritual moral challenge to everything that for those people for that local aristocracy at that time was already close understandable, what was invested in their way of life and with what they could not . maybe they didn’t want to leave, but the sermon about christ was a strong challenge for them, because everyone who accepted this sermon could have those high priests. ask those wise men of those princes. why don't you live like this? and they did not live at all, as christ taught that. here recognizing the existence of this fundamental discrepancy between the distorted old testament piety, which had nothing in common with the true piety of the holy forefathers and fathers. these people are undoubtedly in the christian

community. they saw a certain danger, a certain new community appeared, which called for living according to the law, including because that which moses brought, but not the formal fulfillment of this law in spirit and the spokesman for this interpretation, including the old testament law, was jacob. the first bishop of jerusalem who, of course, heading the community became the main goal. and they kill him. and this, of course, was a shock to the christian community. jacob was a holy man in life. he lived, including according to the laws of the old testament, he was filled with love according to the law of the new testament, he did not pose a danger to anyone, only to those who wished to maintain their power over

the community of jerusalem and in general over the jewish world, which they wanted to warn with all their might , a people chosen from receiving christ and his saving commandments. and then the first blood was shed. well, how much later spilled blood? james was the first martyr. and now, how wonderful that the narrative of the book of acts, corresponding to today according to the church calendar and testifying to the first martyrdom of the apostle of james, coincides with our worship here at the butovo training ground, where thousands of thousands of innocent people, most often only destroyed because they kept in

their hearts the faith in the lord and savior and did not go on about godless power. therefore, of course, a special feeling fills the soul when you pray at these graves. after all, it is not such a long time that separates us from these martyrs, if we talk about those centuries that separate us from martyrdom, the apostle of james, and they are in a sense, almost our contemporaries. and here is their suffering, their death, their courage and their faithfulness. the lord should be and for us a very strong sign. and a call for us to maintain this fidelity, despite all the challenges, as they say now, despite all the difficulties that the christian faith faces in confronting those secular godless values ​​that

today they are elevated to the rank of values ​​and civilizational ones. in accordance with which laws are often adopted that are often at odds with the christian understanding of life and therefore courage is also required from our generation today, but most importantly, loyalty to christ we should not buy into any sweet speeches or any politicized cliches that bind this or that society structure undoubtedly material prosperity, but which do not contain anything to connect these values ​​\u200b\u200bwith the christian faith. from that great tradition that our people, including the best representatives of the people, for those who testified their loyalty

to the lord with their life and their death. hmm , every time a divine service is celebrated here, it seems to update everything that has happened to our church throughout its history. and in the center of this story is the confession of christ even to death. once again i would like to emphasize that today it seems like no one is demanding that we renounce the faith, no one raises the question. so, if you do not refuse, you will be deprived of some rights, as it was during the quite recent, but the very way of life is the very direction of development of the civilization of consumption. it is more terrible than any orders from above, it is more terrible than any legislative norms. it

penetrates the consciousness of people in modern times. for whom the desire for comfort and well-being most often replaces all sorts of lofty ideas, and also affects the quality of our faith. we cannot compare ourselves with the new martyrs and even ask such a question. no one knows how we would behave, but in the way of life of most modern christians, as we far from those heroes of the spirit, which is in the moment. we did not falter from the death test, but remained together with christ; this example teaches us to be spiritually vigilant, vigilant, no matter how easy it is. it's just that our life does not become more comfortable, no matter how many different

amenities and pleasures appear. so that you and you remember our calling. be faithful to christ even unto death. and if these thoughts and this desire to be like them weaken, we need to remember real examples martyrdom confession and not only the one that captured the apostle james, but i 'm talking about the confession of martyrdom, which captured the recent pages of our history and visible, the signs of which are these tombstones here at the butovo training ground. therefore, turning today to the martyr confessors of the russian church, we must ask them to strengthen our faith. strengthen so

that the faith is not identified with the customs of the traditions only, but that the faith is a living conscious capable of really fertilizing our life capable of really pushing us to exploits, including the exploit of serving our neighbors, which, in conditions of at least relative, but comfort, often becomes impossible for many of us. so, god forbid that they, at least in a small way, we could be like those faithful. sons and daughters of our church who were not afraid to accept both sorrows and suffering. remaining faithful to their lord and teacher , just as the first apostles, including the first bishops of jerusalem, remained faithful

city, the apostles of james the memory, whom we today glorify with their prayers. may the lord protect our people, our fatherland , our church, and each of us who embarked on the path of serving the lord and fulfilling his divine commandments. amen christ is risen. staying today and celebrating the divine liturgy, i would like to offer him a place. this is the image of the holy great martyr george the victorious, the symbol of victory. below this symbol is a truly spiritual symbol. our people won the terrible last war, this spiritual symbol remains for us as a reminder of the spiritual heroism of our ancestors, and an indication

of what our life position should be in front of every sin and every human untruth. so that george victorious helps us. we will pray to him, including as the patron of our capital city , with his prayers. may the lord protect the land of our russian church and all those who, with faith and hope, turn to his holy name , i ask you to accept this experience.