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dear fathers, brothers and sisters, i thank everyone for our joint prayer today, for the wonderful divine service, the revived monasteries, the eye rejoices when you look at this wondrous beauty, and it is even impossible to imagine that all this beauty was darkened by human sin. i

often visited venigorod, i came here just to walk around the city, look, i was on this hill, walked between these buildings, and my soul i was torn, looking at the abomination of desolation, with what joy today do you look at this resurrected monastery, which not only rose from the ashes purely outwardly materially. beautiful buildings were recreated, but it rose and spiritually from the ashes again became a place of prayer, a place of pilgrimage , a place of spiritual unification of people, so, today’s gospel reading about those called to the wedding feast shows us a certain picture of the spiritual state: people, their attitude to

the most important thing , to god, it is quite obvious that under the owner of the feast, the master is hiding god himself, it is he who invites you to the feast, and one refuses, because he bought the land, well , it’s a big deal, you have to look at what you land, whether it was sold to him, for which you gave money or not. what needs to be done with this land, should it be fertilized, or is it possible to sow crops, well, it’s an important matter, yes , he refused, he didn’t go to the feast, well, here’s the second one, well , he bought a second oxen, no need to smile, it’s like ours now, dear agricultural machinery, strong business executives will go to the temple today if they were brought to the farm territory with

a modern imported combine harvester is expensive, but they’ll probably take a look first, and see if everything is in order or what the equipment is, does everything match, and the last thing is why someone refused to participate in the wedding feast, a person got married, but really, the most important event in life , well, where to go, these are these life examples, they show, among other things, and everyone can ask themselves: what would i do in this situation and if a person answers himself honestly, then he will almost exactly repeat everything that was repeated these people, those who refused to go to the feast, the master, that is, to a meeting with god himself. but what can we do to change our life priorities, they don’t change , centuries, millennia pass, it’s very... difficult for people to change these priorities,

well, something can help us do this, and something can help us experienced... with which it is impossible to compare anything that happened in the past, comparisons will always be incomplete, because our time is filled with such dangers for human life, for the human soul, for the human salvation, as it did not happen in the past, there were still some clues, vertical dimensions, that is, spiritually. dimension of human existence, and today the desire for comfort, for wealth, for power, has destroyed this vector in the minds of a huge number of people, a wonderful parable is given to us, firstly, so that we

think about ourselves, this is about us, this parable, so that we ask ourselves, where are we in relation to god, and what place does god occupy in our lives? but in order not just to answer this question theoretically, because theoretically, one can say, oh, the lord occupies a very important place, i get up every morning, cross my forehead, pray, i believe in god, from the point of view of the relationship with other life priorities, where does this relationship with god lie, to be honest ? let's start answering ourselves, then neither in first, nor in second, nor in third place , but somewhere there again on the periphery of life, but everyone wants to be saved, we all believe that the divine judgment will come and determine where we will remain in eternity, everyone, everyone

wants to be saved, especially a believer, so in order to be saved, you need to correctly build your life priorities, but how can you be saved if you visit a temple? this is the twenty item on the agenda, everything has been done, but then there is time, but i will say, especially since there is a holiday there, people will gather, doing good to one’s neighbor, again not on some, not on the fifth, not on the tenth place in life, if there is a need for someone for our help, for our support, everything should be relegated to the background, thought should be a priority about how i can help this person? i must say that i have met such people, it’s amazing, with them there is always light, somehow in the soul, calm, joyful, these are the people who immediately respond to someone else’s misfortune, and even to someone else’s request,

and among them there are very rich people, of average income, and those with little or no income, different categories of people, why, but because the words of god, they are universal, they are for all times, for peoples, and indeed, no reference to any time can prevent you from lining up correctly our priorities, the main one of which is our communication with god, so attending services, at least on sundays and holidays, is not just a custom, but a vital priority. we don’t go to church, we don’t pray, we don’t partake of the holy mysteries of christ, we break our connection with god, well then what hope is there for salvation , some people think like that, well, yes, but i don’t go there, well, that’s how you compare it with

your neighbor , so he’s a total bastard, and i seem to be okay, but will god really not justify me, well, well, besides, it’s easter i was there, the keys were shining, i went to christmas, and so on, according to the scheme, as... they say , justifying ourselves. once again i want to say that today’s parable is a parable for all of us. she seems to challenge us, she demands an answer from us. where is our most important priority in life, what comes first in our lives? and now, if you realize that it is not the lord, not the church, not prayer, not even good deeds. first place, because many other things occupy these priority positions in our lives, if we say that yes, everything that is about the lord teaches us today, including through this parable, this is not about me, in the sense

that i do not have god at the center of my life, he is not my priority, i turn to him when things get bad, when i go to the doctor, and the diagnosis is terrible, here everyone immediately runs to god, to the church, and immediately becomes believers. but what does this mean in the face of god? i ran under pain of death, you understand that no medicines will cure you, no procedures will help. and then i became a believer as much as the lord requires of us faith. the priority becomes prayer, visiting monasteries, accepting the holy mysteries of christ, and trying to change your own. why can’t this be done earlier, not when a person is approaching the end of his

earthly existence? therefore, today’s gospel reading forces us not only to think about where we are, in this system of values, in this system of relationships with god, which the gospel speaks of, but where are we in general in relation to god, where is the lord, what place? in life he takes, and we will ask the lord that first of all he will forgive our sins, our weakness, our petrified insensibility, i often talk about this in sermons, this is callousness of the heart, the inability to perceive anything other than the material world, the inability, among other things , to feel the power of communication with god through prayer. we must clearly understand where we are in this system

; to be honest, yes, we are there, among those who bought land, bought an ox, got married, and did not respond to god’s call. now is the time for all of us, my dears, for our entire country, in a sense, for the entire human civilization that has entered its most dangerous period. think about where we are in relation to god to revive faith in the heart, and i am primarily addressing our orthodox people, but these words can be addressed to all the peoples of the earth, where we are in relation to god, if god still remains on the periphery, then i doubt that humanity... still has a real life potential in the face of the enormous threats

that today face the entire human race, may today’s gospel reading help us to renew it again and again our faith, to determine our life guidelines, with all our soul, with our mind, with the strength of our spirit, cling to the lord so that he is next to us, so that life with him is not just a priority, but the main dimension of our earthly existence. and then we will truly find salvation, in this world, in eternal life. and if such an appeal to god, under the onslaught of the enormous problems that the entire human race faces today, sets in motion: a global movement of people towards god, then maybe the lord will prolong

human history, from us, from people depends, because on the other side there is a good and loving father who calls us constantly, and whose calls we do not hear, or forget about them, or simply ignore them. through the prayers of the holy venerable sava of storozhevsky, an amazing saint of god, an ascetic, whose feet illuminated this earth, whose life of piety laid the foundation for this wonderful monastery, through the prayers of these holy saints, may the lord help all of us, our people, all members of our church, to remain faithful to christ even until death and be able to follow that path

the path of salvation that he has determined for us, i congratulate you all on this holiday. this is news first. hello, in valery korablev's studio in this episode. the two hostages are now safe, but in captivity of hamas militants, two hundred more israelis, how did the night go in the conflict zone? and when the ground operation.