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noble grand duke alexan , my dear all, the strength of strength, god's help, pray, god remember you, let us pray to the holy blessed grand duke alexander. the holy blessed one is great to prince alexandra prayer.

the quick helper of all of them who are zealous in resorting to you, our warm representative before god, the holy noble prince alexander, look mercifully upon us, unworthy, with many iniquities and obscene sins, who have created the kraks of your relics, now flowing from the depths of the heart to they cry to you, in your life you were a zealous defender of the orthodox faith, in us in it, with your warm prayers , unwaveringly, you carefully carried out the great service entrusted to you, with your help, add to us, in which years, you are called to eat in it, you, having defeated the regiments

of adversaries, drove them away from the russian borders, taking up arms against us: do not harm all visible and invisible enemies, you left the corruptible crown of the earthly kingdom, chose a silent life and are now righteously crowned with a permanent crown, reigning in heaven, we intercede for us, we humbly pray to you, a quiet and serene life, to the eternal kingdom the steady procession is organized by your intercession. approaching the throne of god with all the saints, pray for the russian state, for this city, for orthodox christians , may the lord god preserve them with his grace, in peace and health and longevity, and in all prosperity in the coming summer, may we always glorify and bless god, in the trinity of saints, the glorified one, the father and son of the holy spirit,

now and ever and unto ages of ages, magnified, magnified, saints.

your eminence and eminence, venerable bishop-metropolitan varsanfiy, dear gentlemen governors, alexander dmitrovich, alexander yurievich, dear high-ranking guests, military commanders , mothers, brothers and sisters, of course, today is a very special day, which we, we, leningraders, st. petersburgers, could only dream of. when we came to the alexander lavra, which was still closed, i well remember my visit to the lavra before the year fifty-seven, that is, before the famous student youth festival in moscow, which served as the occasion for a wonderful

a man, whose name i don’t remember, simply, he was authorized by the council for religious affairs in the city of leningrad, but of course, he was a hidden, but genuine son of the church, and took advantage of... this festival, which is somewhere there in moscow, he achieved the opening of the troitsky cathedral of the alexander nevsky lavra, telling the frightened city party chief, what if delegations come here, what are we going to show them these ruins, the answer is, we won’t have time to restore it, don’t worry, there will already be a service there, they will come, we will say , what this is what previous generations brought to, and we are restoring, this was the dialogue, he was a wonderful person, and as a result the laurel was opened. i already said once that together with my mother, i immediately came to the opening of the lavra, i remember a heap of garbage, such a suspension of dust throughout the cathedral, dirt, but already orthodox women who, with rags

and mops, began to put troitsky in order the cathedral, well, then it appeared in all its beauty, but in order not just like that, from... you need to remember how much happened here, here in lavskoye vladyka metropolitan benjamin of st. petersburg was betrayed to the garden, a group of people from the corresponding security unit entered to arrest him, with them alexandersky, who then began to approach this alexander of vedensky and said to vladyka metropolitan benjamin: “vladyka, bless.” he didn’t bless him, he said: “father alexander, doesn’t this remind you

of the garden of gethsemane?” and he was immediately arrested. and of course, he never came out, he died. these are so wonderful. people here prayed, worked and passed on all this spiritual treasure to us. and now, of course, the alexandra nevsky lavra is the spiritual center of st. petersburg and one of the spiritual centers of holy russia. the alexandra nevsky lavra combines both the past and the present. our youth are educated here, here is the theological academy, seminaries, and regents are also educated, that is, what is called. all aspects of church life are very actively developing, which should develop in such a place, but for me, as a petersburger and always called myself a leningrader, now i am not afraid of this word, because i was born in leningrad, when i

i see something that is changing, or something that will change in the near future, in the appearance of the city, in church life, in the state of the churches, then of course, thanks... to god my heart is filled, i would like to wish you your eminence , to the entire episcopate, the clergy, the people, of course, the gentlemen governors, in their person all the authorities , our army, the baltic fleet, i would like to wish god’s help, because you can be very strong, powerful, rich and you may not be able to cope with those tasks, who are standing in front of you. and today russia faces not some ordinary tasks related to general growth and development. today russia faces the task of emerging victorious from the struggle that is now being unleashed against us by the forces of evil. and there is no need to downplay

the difficulties of the moment we are experiencing. today we need the mobilization of everyone, the military, the political forces. and of course, there must be a church. mobilized primarily in order to pray for our authorities and troops, but also to be there, on the front line, as our wonderful... regimental priests are working now and unfortunately they die, but do not leave the front line, someone said to one of these priests, father, we have there, as we call the convoy, there is a second echelon there and a third echelon, you know, there is a kitchen, there is a medical unit, there’s a hairdresser’s shop, you should go there, there, why are you standing here at the brestwer, here you have a bakhneto and you don’t have one, the lady said: i’m not a hairdresser or a cook, but i’m the one who is called upon to support

our soldiers in this difficult moment they should come out of this parapet and go on the attack, five such priests died because they were not in there were convoys and not even a parapet, but they went on the attack without weapons and were killed , we remember their names and we will always pray for them, this is a hero... next to us, no need to turn the page of history, today there are many heroes from secular, and i know that many clergy, without any fear, with trust in the will of god, in the most difficult places of military operations, carry out their service, therefore my heart, of course, hurts very much when i think, when i pray for those who today protects our homeland. and you everyone, my dear ones, especially the monastic brothers, i urge you

to unremittingly pray for the authorities, for our president, the supreme commander-in-chief, for our army that stands in defense of our fatherland. the city of st. petersburg is, as they now say , a cultural capital, i don’t really like it, what does a cultural capital mean, it is necessary to define that there are more museums or more cultural people here. st. petersburg is simply a capital, if you want, an imperial capital, a historical capital, a cultural word, it is impossible to attach to the word capital, then you limit the meaning to the spiritual, political, intellectual range of the place that st. petersburg is. i am not calling for a drastic change in phraseology, but i have already said in my disagreement with this. capital, it is more than a cult, it is generally a capital, the imperial

capital of russia, today our state capital is moscow, the first city, but as i always tell muscovites, st. petersburg is not the second, so let ’s live, work, pray with these thoughts, for this so that our city grows, rises from strength to strength, so that first of all, of course, spiritual life is strengthened, the faith of the residents of st. petersburg is strengthened. because as experience shows: faith is the force that can mobilize all other forces inherent in man, and the power of reason and the power of will, and the power of memory, all other forces, they are mobilized when there is the power of faith. once again i would like to congratulate your eminence, in your person, the entire episcopate, all the clergy, all our believing people, all the residents of my native st. petersburg, words of gratitude, appreciation and blessings on the two governors who

are here today. through the prayers of the saint, the blessed grand duke alexander nevsky, may the lord protect the russian land, the city of moscow and st. petersburg, from famine, destruction, cowardice, flood, fire, sword, from invasions of tribesmen, from internecine warfare and from everything that can weaken , tear strength of our people, we still have a lot... we need to do not only on a national scale, but i’m not afraid to say on a world scale, while remaining a holding force, a holding force is one that does not give the opportunity for total world evil to take over the entire human race, and may god help us, this is how we carry out the great historical, spiritual mission of our church, so that... our fatherland prospers, our people become spiritually stronger,

peace and tranquility are restored in the world and justice, i heartily congratulate all of you, my dears, on this day, god bless you. hello, there is a news release on channel one, in the studio maxim sharafuddinov and briefly about the main thing. explosions in the gas sector - the most powerful fire since the beginning palestinian-israeli conflict. tsahal announced the expansion of the operation. the un genasams are calling for an immediate truce; there is a new wave of anti-israeli protests in different countries.