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dear lord, i salute and rejoice that i had the opportunity in this cathedral, which is very close to my heart, to perform a divine service and bless everyone. who wanted to come under the blessing. kaliningrad

- this is a special place for our entire motherland well, a special place for the russian orthodox church. i remember well. with what great difficulties the church took its first steps. how few were orthodox people, and if there were such orthodox, then weaned from going to church? and how difficult it was to preach the word of god when i felt in my eyes that not everyone understands and not everyone ready to accept this sermon, but it was not the spiritual death of people, but some kind of dream, some kind of lethargy provoked by that. a way of life that was formed in a state that declared itself atheistic, and especially here on the very western border of kaliningrad in a city that for a long time

was generally closed to the public without special passes. remembering that time, i at the same time thank the lord for the many people with whom the lord brought me here , i remember those clergymen. mostly fortunately most of them are alive, but someone left us. i remember the kind lay people who helped me in the then difficult ministry in the city of kaliningrad, and when today i saw all of you, suitable in length, i was glad that people approached me. much much younger than me are the same people who already represent a completely new generation of russians, and how the soul rejoices when you see bright faces

filled with faith and piety. it is very important that the orthodox faith does not weaken in any way in our life and in the life of every person. today christian beliefs throws down the hardest challenge, because human value is, first of all, what corresponds to the will of god, what corresponds to his plan for the world and for man. anything that goes against god's plan. this is not a value. these are the devil's temptations. this is falsehood , deceit and destruction. and today, when the boundaries between states between peoples are blurred, when people come into close contact with each other, when we, especially here on the kaliningrad land

, undoubtedly have an influence from the outside, how should we cherish everything that the thousand-year spiritual experience of our people has given us, what is fixed in the life of the church and in its preaching, what really goes against the cord. a certain current, which is now capturing more and more people, but which really leads a person to salvation. to be a christian today means to be a courageous person who does not succumb to temptations and is able to defend his faith and his position in life. yes indeed. not so long ago we lived as would be in an atheistic society and the then power, especially in certain periods

of time. she openly opposed the church. they even set some temporary boundaries for the existence of the church, after which a time of complete atheism should have come, but all this could not be carried out for one reason only, because all these plans went against. of the people against the faith of the people against the values ​​that have developed under the influence of the orthodox faith, and we know that the ideology that sought to destroy orthodoxy , christianity, has left, but the church has remained, and now this is a vivid example of how people who are not powerful can be weak. but the strengthened powers of divine grace become victorious over those who are strong, but who is

deprived of grace? and today times are no less difficult. and perhaps, in a sense, more crafty and even more complex, and today the orthodox christian is required not only courage and firmness, but also the wisdom of the ability to distinguish between spirits, because the spirit of demons is not infrequently dressed in angelic clothes and tries to represent evil yourself in bright angelic robes. this one the wise ability to discern spirits comes to man, there is no reading of books. although, from this too, but first of all from the real spiritual experience that we gain through prayer through communion with the lord through the communion of the holy mysteries of christ. when we take communion, we receive the body and blood in

the healing of the soul and body. and this means that not only bodily ailments, but also spiritual weaknesses and temptations are capable of being incinerated by divine grace given through holy communion, provided that we do not automatically receive communion, if we do not we formally treat our faith, but we try to live according to god's law. builds such relationships with near and far as they come from our christian responsibility and from our christian convictions. i would like to wish all of you, my dear ones, to keep the faith in your heart. and so only so that vera does not turn into some kind of ethnographic value. a certain

cultural value faith is not ethnography or culture faith is what connects a person with god and faith lives only when a person unites with god in prayer, when this movement occurs, it is two-way in one direction and the other. we raise prayers to god, and the lord answers us not in thunder and lightning, but in many signs that you need to be able to distinguish between these signs from the general stream in which a person is immersed. walking along your life path first of all, i would like to wish all of you, my dear ones , to keep the faith alive, which becomes such when we live by this faith. it is especially important not to forget god's temple. and

i emphasize in our time. it is god's temples become a place. special spiritual concentration and resistance to the spirit of malice, because here, through our prayer , grace is granted to us that is able to strengthen our spiritual bodily strength and resist all evil, therefore sunday visit to the church, the divine liturgy, i will say this severe word. this is the duty of a christian , if he wants to be a true christian, if i turn to god with a prayer, he wants to receive an answer to this prayer, going to the temple cannot be occasionally it should be a real need. again

i remember the difficult times when the religion of the faith was expelled from the life of our people, and yet the churches were overcrowded, and this, of course, led to confusion and even some indignation of the then rulers, who could not understand, but what was the matter and propaganda works ideology penetrated in all spheres of life, and people go and go to temples, then the ideologists did not understand that they were going, because there is a living source, drawing from which a person becomes spiritually stronger, wiser, gains wings that lift him above sinful everyday life. and today when visiting the temple is not associated with any difficulties with any concerns, and politicians, public figures, workers and people living in the countryside

of different ranks and professions can easily visit the temple without any fear. today , of course, it is a special responsibility on all of us not to leave ourselves without temple prayer to visit whenever possible every sunday. and, if it is impossible every sunday, then at least once or twice a month as a last resort. i'm telling you this now because i know what i'm talking about. i know, that it is in prayer in the temple that we acquire special strength and even wisdom. in the temple, thoughts appear to us that sometimes help to resolve difficult family problems in the relationship between husband and wife, between parents and children, the lord, in response to prayer, and faith, as his answer, gives

these good and right thoughts. priests who accept confession know how sometimes a believer talks about his life experiences. tells how the lord answered prayer. what a miracle was revealed in life and these testimonies are really are important, including for strengthening the faith of those who do not yet have such evidence. and from the bottom of my heart , my dear ones, i wish you all the preservation of the faith. all indispensable upbringing of children and youth of children and grandchildren in the orthodox faith adults are responsible for children for youth. that is why i insist on developing work with children with youth in the church and by grace. of god, here in the kaliningrad diocese, much has been done and is being done to ensure that this is how we all the world today must cash in on this

problem so that our the youth did not perish under the onslaught of malicious and godless and sinful agitation through various kinds of images and symbols. the so -called works of art literature and various information messages. this spiritual resistance to the temptations of the temptation of the greek is the only thing that can save a person today, and if we talk about the country, about the people. then what can protect a person from spiritual and spiritual ruin as soon as he is a prayer and ardent faith, let it be so once again i want to say that with a special feeling i pronounce these words here on my own western

border of russia and my prayer that the orthodox faith be kept here in the kaliningrad region, that churches be filled with believers, that our youth, our children, be brought up in the christian spirit, that the people become spiritually strong and able to resist those temptations. the source of which is not so far away from us geographical regions. yes, it helps. the lord for all of us to keep the orthodox faith and holy russia. amen happy holidays to you all.