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there are a lot of values, but probably. the most important value and what inspires and supports a person is faith and the awareness that i am loved by the lord, he comes to us in joy, in sorrow, he is with us every day, we can go with him. you and i are in such an amazing place, a holy place for belarusians, we remember how frescoes were unveiled in this temple, this is an archathedral and is the mother of all churches, all catholic churches in our metropolis, minsk-mogilev, so this is my place, this is my cathedral, this is the temple in which we

priests gather once a month to pray, dear, we love him, and as for these frescoes of all this beauty, naturally, it was all done by human hands, with the help of the state we also managed to renovate and open these frescoes, and you are in the place of parishioners, not often, but i do, because we also have such prayers, vigils , and then we take our place with our parishioners, as they say, you need to be with the people, you need to feel them. 2 years have passed since you were in such a difficult, let’s say frankly, place of duty, taking into account the political background against which you came here, have you managed to solve the problems, is everything working out? of course, going down in history does not mean just turning over the album cards to see how it was today, it is our day, issues are being resolved, naturally, everything will not be resolved at once, we need to slowly, naturally,

the first question is, let’s say, personnel issue there are many more... of our shrines, parishes that do not have their own personal priest , rector, and this is bad, because the flock must have their own shepherd who will be with them every day, pray every day, enter into their lives, talk, then he knows better, he will feel better, there are many believers, but we need more brave ones, new churches are being built, especially in the city of heroes of minsk, we have a lot of churches being built, and there are also questions about where the church was, where the parishes were, this is mogilevism, there are parishes, there are shrines, but unfortunately, there are very few people who would go to this very shrine , not only to pray, as we return to our parental home, where the first words are faith and love, where there is tenacity, where there is comfort, feeling, that you are careless because the pope is there, this is exactly how

a church, a shrine, a parish church should be perceived. they say the church in belarus is polish, all politics comes from the west, what kind of catholic church is it in belarus today? kosciel prays with the tongue, with the heart of our believers. an entire commission is working to ensure that the entire world the developments of different languages, and especially latin, are translated into the belarusian language, so that it is accessible, so that a person can speak the way he speaks, how... the day in his family can also speak in the words of the gospel, and if you enter any of our churches, the city of the hero of minsk,

well, then we will hear prayer in our national, state languages, so what someone says or said there, it was, our dream is that people who come to the church, catholics come to our church, so that they understand, how we address them, and so that we too can understand them, what they expect from us. here, perhaps, here is an amendment somewhere to our culture, to our foundations, traditions, to our morality, we see, even on the internet there is now one like this, for example, i like the statement that the catholic church can support same-sex marriage, others are absolutely against it . here we can also take into account our belarusian mentality. each society has its own, well, developments, its own tradition. our home is our home, it is natural that the decoration of the church is ours the church is different from the decoration in africa, america or asia, we have our own spirit, our own mentality, but the words of jesus christ,

they are the same, we try so that in our catholic church, in belarus, people can pray freely, with dignity, as they say to pray to hearts, we are kastsel with the peoples. again, we hear from the west that there are catholics in belarus. how much independence belarus has, you can also draw conclusions. everything is learned through comparisons. let's take the number of priests. 1989, that’s not a lot, there are about 50 priests in the entire republic, that’s very few. let’s compare with today, these are us priests, give or take about 500 people, there are also a lot of churches, shrines, and not only churches, but these are also monastic people. what was, what is, where the word should be inserted here, we are developing. how many churches were built during the years of independence, is there such a figure? about 100, probably a lot of shrines , which, like this, has its own very rich

history, although it also varied in different years, and after all, temples were revived, and , of course, of course, those temples are being revived, which were under the jurisdiction of other organizations, sports or others, or in general they were, say... closed , no human foot had ever set foot there, they opened again, people came in, made repairs, did restoration, and we are waiting for this work in babruisk and also there is one in the mogilev region, we are working on it, there is still room for some kind of mystery , how such amazing frescoes were discovered here during the restoration, behind one icon and they wanted to restore this icon, and they decided to remove it, they are removing it, and there is another icon, another older, but apparently..." maybe they didn't time or finances to restore, well, we waited until this moment and now it is being restored, again, let’s say, it’s not something that will surprise, but will attract a person with its beauty to the true path to god, we are one people,

belarusians, as you think, to whom is it beneficial today to artificially divide us into catholics, orthodox, by this i mean in general some kind of division by nationality, rather than by religious preferences? the church of society consists of families, for example, even in my environment there are families in which the husband and wife are different nationalities, different religions, there are even those who don’t believe, they also have children, everything is fine with them, why? they are guided by love, love first of all, we invite those who do not support our opinion to come, return to their father’s house, look then give their definition and their opinion. how is really happening here and how things are with us today. we can say that those who are trying to divide us so artificially are more likely pursuing some kind of political interests rather than

those who do this are trying to divide us, they do not act in the gospel way, when we have big holidays, events, symposiums, you can see that we have not only catholics present, but also representatives and the main representatives of other religious ones.

need, but there are other aspects of life, there are other life situations where our presence as believers, as people, it is expected, the education of patriotism is also about you today, every person who comes to the church, comes to the shrine, is a citizen of one or another another country, like us we say, a small homeland, but we can talk a lot about a small homeland, we must also remember , naturally, that we need... to educate those people who know how, love, pray, know, understand, but also know how to defend their interests, defend their opinion , love for the homeland, moral education, demographic issues , there are some projects that are being carried out and the essence and truth of our teaching, family, children, love for new life, we understand every life, every new life born,

as a gift of god, catholic our church teaches person, teaches families to accept every gift of life, all these moral, all these values, this is our battlefield, how to be on the wave with young people today, there is a phrase that you need to swim to the depths, you need to be with them, you need to listen to them , yes, we also have youth days, we invite young people, not only to prayer, as they say on hikes, these are pilgrims, we go for several days. monastics, and not only, they run their own channels there, tiktoks, it’s all there, we started talking about restoration, and of course, we are all watching with trepidation the fate of the butslovskaya shrine, there is a chance, hope that it will be possible to restore, as it was before , what happened there, this fire, this disaster, destroyed, but here i would also like

to thank all the rescuers, all the services that for every person who touched this particular shrine, in that difficult time, the time has come to restore it, and not only the roof itself, the roof, what was burned, but we need to look at the shrine, also for the future, what else can be there , well, to reveal, as you said, to reveal something, some secret, maybe somewhere... there is something, and here, too , words of gratitude for our president alexander grigorievich, who , you probably heard, it was said on television, follow up, help, the temporary roof is already covered, the walls are drying, work is underway on the project, and not only the shrine itself, but also the building and the territory, so that there really would be such a highlight, so that people could come there and pay homage and relax. when will nestvizh church open its

doors to tourists? the work will continue for another year or two and will appear before ours in full glory. with the eye, people come and pray, and also, as for tourists, too, but there they are already these organizations, restoration builders, as they say, approach this with trepidation, so they also have a big, let’s say, gratitude not only from us, but from me i think that i will, i will express the opinion and gratitude of the whole society, is she a little born? when my parents lived, when my mother especially lived, but i traveled very often, always returning to my small homeland, it inspires, it lights us up, it is a person returning to others, i very often also return to my parishioners, precisely to villages, but i not only remember and ask them, and i have such a wish for them, i say that in your house, your father’s house there is no gas light and life, so that... to return precisely at your own risk, for which reason you like

the path that did you choose in your youth? the words of jesus christ, follow me, they sounded then, they also sound today, sometimes they sound, we hear them with our hearts, and sometimes they also sound in the words of another person, and this in my life, it was such a priest, father casimir the jesuit, once upon a time when i was young, i was 13 years old there, he asked or said: “do you want to go, how important in our lives is that spiritual mentor, confessor, that person who, well, let’s say, will give a hand, that road that... i let's say i chose, yes, she is mine, it seems to me that she is mine, but according to ours, according to our deeds, according to our actions, of course, people judge this, but it is also important in this way, for each person, one or the other, say, religion, so that we do not change the one with whom we set out on the journey for what we met along

the way, otherwise we will rub both the guide and the goal and you won’t get there, there are a lot of spectators, they even ask us how the metropolitan lives, and where he lives, and does he have enough free time to do some other interesting thing outside of work, maybe he has a hobby, you know, what you sing is good, we don’t have a set working day, talk about rest, vacation such service 24/7, well sometimes yes, sometimes it happens longer and, but as they say when they ask me why i don’t go on vacation, i i’m answering this a little jokingly, but i’m not... straining myself, the archdiocese is very big, these are two regions, there are many parishes, there are many people, we still need to get to know them, we are very , well, often on the road, and this may even be good, because we get to know the beauty and meet

people, and new regions, new views, let's say, of course, of course, polesia, and there mogilyovshchyna, our pastors, and these blue lakes admire the beauty of the country, this is all ours, this is all dear, a hobby in my house: we sang to my family very often, in the morning, when i was little was, then i woke up precisely to the singing of my father, somehow it came in, but i love it too sing folk songs, why, because they are alive, or maybe just a line, there is one folk song about my mother, i added one more column, one verse, that is, you also write poetry, well, no, well, to say that i write poetry,

but that is, there are moments when the words take shape on their own, at first i didn’t sleep, when i’m in the world, i’m often wondering, for memory in the house, you’re hand -embroidered by you, with the quart of a gun, the charm of bad luck, and for memory in the house, you’re hand -embroidered by you , kveztse... my friends are charmed and unsuccessful, i will spread the yago, like sumna and mountain,

akunuўya ў bastards, for the sake of justice, it has passed , for the sake of matulina’s hands, ask... i yana with you for sure , i’m jumping with you, for the sake of my father, for my mother’s hands, i’m asking for it with you for the sake of it, i’m jumping with you for the sake of my soul. we are returning, we must be ready to return to our father’s house, but again there, although we never remember our parents , we forget or in the slightest way, so that our parents also wait for us and open and allow us to enter our father’s

house. thank you for the interview, thank you, someone might hear something new or think about it