for the monastery in which we are now, how does it fit with you? this is the position of an administrator and the ministry of a monk, the position of the manager of affairs is compared with the position of the prime minister of the church. well, they can rather compare. eh, secular external people, church people, are well aware that this position, uh, one of the most important, but not the most key in the system of church management, now his holiness patriarch kirill has much more assistants. management of affairs. currently. this is the department that carried out communications between his holiness the patriarch and patriarchs and bishops, and within the russian federation and the connections between the hierarchy. well, sometimes we act as such a consulting center. sometimes we

act uh as such a good christian tribunal sometimes as a statistical office and sometimes as an ambulance . this is the responsibility of case management, so it’s unlikely that i’ll be in this sense the prime minister of the church can be called, although the question that you raised regarding the combination of administrative obedience in the church and monasticism and the management of the monastery. this is of course a serious question. on the one hand, i try to live like the brothers of the novospassky monastery live in accordance with the thousand-year-old institutions of monasticism, and on the other hand. maybe

i understand them better than outwardly, because they are my brothers about it. although, of course, it is not easy, despite the fact that we write interviews within the walls of the monastery. uh, and now we can even hear echoes of the inter evening service. this is for a 24-hour news channel. the main and most discussed news. this week, this is the statement of the hmm president, and the partial mobilization of her announcements in the country that the bible says in general military duty and in what cases are secular people and priests allowed to take up arms, firstly, the holy scripture states that war? unfortunately, this is a satellite of the history of mankind. it has been since ancient times. and apparently. it will be until the very end. this

pain is evil. it's a sickness that doesn't a-a smooth out due to the fact that it's related to damage to human nature. the propensity to sin and, uh, this damage very often gives rise to fratricidal hatred, which leads to war. so scripture accepts this as a given. scripture recognizes that there are times when it is impossible not to take up arms in defense of the truth in defense of those who need this protection. hmm there is, uh, in the gospel of luke , i think the moment hmm heard a sermon holy baptist of the lord holy forerunner and many people of different professions come up to him and

ask. and here's what we should do. we can do this thing, you can do this work, all the connections with what you say, and repentance about truth, purity, including the warriors come up to him and ask. and what should be done? here's a forerunner than talking you're talking about. mm, be content with your salary, don't offend anyone. in general, they are left in the moral paradigm. that is, he does not say that they do not have the right to bear arms and should immediately leave their military duty. he says that they are required to carry a sword, but they must also be honest, and fair, not selfish and so merciful. as much as possible. so

the question is not about that. perhaps war or impossible, as a phenomenon, there is the question of, firstly, here and in the war, and on which side you are fighting on the side. uh, defenders of justice and truth or vice versa. this is a savage war of conquest, and a war aimed at satisfying self-interested aristocracy and the like. of things. if, uh, this is a war for justice and truth, then a person is obliged to take up arms and protect his loved ones. st. philaret, in my opinion, moscow said, these are connections that god loves the world, but

since in the world, alas, there are not peaceful people of the world impossible to achieve without the help of the military. and in this case, yes, it is necessary that priests cannot take up arms, priests, yes, priests who offer a bloodless sacrifice. they cannot take up arms, moreover, if the priest has anything to do with the shedding of blood, even which is called accidental - this will already become an obstacle for him to perform divine love for service, but at the same time, the counselors are obvious. and as a shepherd, they should uh, have care in all these who are in the rear for those who are. and maybe even more about those who are, because here it is special. and an example is

needed of kindness, honesty, purity and prayer, and with encouragement, and a warrior who is under bombs, it is clear that he almost always remembers god and needs such spiritual strengthening . therefore the presence of a priest during the fighting of combat units. it is a duty and a feat. although a priest's feat and duties are very often identical concepts among my acquaintances priests. now there are several who want to go at once, as volunteer chaplains to the war zone . how the church organizes this work to send priests there, and how many such priests are now in the war zone, there are many

who want to. in order to fulfill this desire, such a priest needs to take a blessing from his archpastor, because every priest he is responsible for his community for the monastery for the transition, you can’t do one good deed and leave another, so he needs to take care. this is such a blessing and resolution of the question of who will serve in his place and, if he volunteers to contact the synodal liaison department with the armed forces, which will organize this business trip. here in general. a simple scheme on september 9, while performing his pastoral duty in his zone, he was a soldier, a cleric died kazan diocese, anatoly grigoriev and he

left four children, how the church organizes assistance in the family of the deceased priest. this is not the first dead clergyman. uh church. e-e takes upon himself unconditionally and a lump sum payment and then monthly payments until the child is engaged in arranging the life of these families , arranging and educating orphans of children who have remained orphans, but in relation to this. barrels from the tatarstan metropolis from the kazan diocese we are in touch with his grace bishop kirill constantly from the moment we received the news of the death of the father, vladyka has been doing and

will do everything, as far as i know him, so that this family will not be left without concrete and effective help unconditionally. ah, the church. hmm does not abandon his shepherds and all of them. and it will be done and will continue to do so. but this is natural next week on september 29, at least as announced in the state duma, fairly large-scale hearings on the ban on lgbt propaganda should take place. ah, the hearing is massive because, uh, representatives of the parent expert community and representatives of religious denominations will be invited to these parliamentary discussions. ah, for today i remind you, lgbt propaganda is prohibited only among adults, as far as you think, uh, the

russian orthodox church. expansion of this ban is justified. is it necessary? well, we agreed at the very beginning that i am not the prime minister of the church, so i can hardly broadcast on behalf of the church like this, so i will tell you how clergy as a citizen of our fatherland. uh, it's natural that evil is evil and things should be called by their proper names. the point is that this is the law. on the prohibition of lgbt propaganda to minors in its practical action, it turns out to be imperfect media content literature. cinematic works of

documentary film, a circle with the inscription plus 18 is pasted on all this, and this is where it all ends. at the same time, all this remains fully accessible to a minor, therefore, yes, many citizens of our fatherland, social forces organizations, including the church of the front, believe that the discussion of this new law and in the prospect of its adoption is an important and absolutely necessary thing if we want to preserve, to one degree or another, the integrity of not only morality, but the mind and health of the younger

generation priests today we are ready to speak frankly with young people on frank topics. what do you mean by explicit topics? well , for example, if a person comes to confession and admits that he is gay . uh, well, this is confession a on confession here you really need to listen everything that a person says is another matter, that confession is often perceived from the outside, as a kind of conversation with a psychotherapist. actually. confession is a sacrament involving a situation, and of the three, the first is god and the second is a person who confesses god's sins as a witness priest. he testifies before god in front of the church, so that something while the inspector

brings repentance and, uh, performs a permissive prayer according to the commandment of the lord as the lord and determined this sacrament to be effective, here, so, uh, confession is a conversation with god. the thing is, there was a recent argument at a company where we were discussing how generation z and millennials are different from the older generation. well, for example, here are us eighties. i went to school in the nineties, and then it was cool to be a tough, unbreakable independent business. and today, it seems to me, young people, they are more sensitive, this one, i insist on precisely this definition, they are concerned about such things as environmental problems, separate waste collection, in general, the future plan. and, to be honest, we didn't even think about it. do you agree with this that they may even be

somewhat less pragmatic, that a generation of sensitive young people is now growing. but in what sense, in the sense that, based on my experience with young people. uh, youth belonging to any era, she is always sensitive, hot and sympathetic , another thing is that of youth in every era. there are temptations, there are trials, and the enemy of the human race, of course, is trying his best , this kind fire of sensitivity and indifference repay each time in your own way. here in a certain era of the nineties. i myself was born in the seventy-fifth year in the nineties. i graduated from high school, entered universities and today

i am a university, so yes, i remember this time. uh, there, this is sensitivity, responsiveness and indifference. she, of course, extinguished the image. first a tough bandit, then a tough businessman, both. yes, really a person should be tough and adhere to the belief that you will give? bit off your finger ? uh, far, not everyone has become cool gangsters, thank god and not all, thank god became a cool businessman, but those who became them later, when they got older many of them revised this philosophy of theirs, however, then in the nineties. yes, this image he tried to extinguish. this clarity and responsiveness is characteristic of youth in our time. i think there is another test. there is another temptation, i

remember once i was at an event in the manezh and i see there is a small waiting room, as if there were guys cadets, or young sergeants law enforcement officers who are supposed to maintain order there. they all sit there in such chairs, as they lie in the airport. yes, and they all sit with their heads bowed. i thought to myself guys. the poor are tired of slumbering. everything is probably the same morning, and then i looked closely, and they have such a gleam in front of each, they are all looking at their phones. without exception, this whole waiting room is all sitting on the phone. right now. it seems to me, for the sensitivity of responsiveness and the sacrificial ability to

self-sacrifice of our youth. here is such the temptation of life in a gadget, she listens to the heart more abruptly than administrative work in the management of affairs. this is the 21st century, the century of artificial intelligence , biotechnology, in this regard, how do you see the future of monastic institutions in general? i would have predicted its heyday in due time. er, monasticism was born and strengthened as a response, and a believing pious heart to some blurring of piety. here are the everyday life teachings. christ 's message has become commonplace for many, and

it was necessary for especially jealous hearts. something more is over persecution, then. here life has become. calm even very. comfortable for christians for the clergy of the church, and such zealous hearts needed a feat, so they went into the desert. this is how monasticism was born. right now, uh, everyone has listed these benefits of modern civilization. from these benefits are already fleeing. we know there are facilities that offer non- chemical detox sessions. or is it a little alcoholism detox from the modern way of life take away the phone people. they live in wooden houses cooks buckwheat, in saucepans comes to his senses from

this modern civilization, sophisticated in creating a comfortable environment. if in the future humanity will invent. uh, more and more some new ways to make life easier, then these sincere zealous hearts, for which there is little ah, such a fairly calm, even life in the world. even if they seek piety for an opportunity for an ascetic life, i therefore think that monasticism is waiting for the flourishing of the future thank you very much. vladyka what did you reply to our questions. is it most important for soldiers at the front to feel that

they have not been forgotten? here i come to the front line to them. i don't see. he is not afraid, so we are together and this is the most important thing in what we do and anyone can do it. you don't need to know how to play the violin to do this. it is very important. if i am an artist, i should be here where the heart beats now, where the fate of the entire world order is decided. nieves, who can never choose what to watch tv shows today.

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the third day of the referendum on joining russia ends in the republics of donbass zaporizhia and kherson regions, following the results of three days, the turnout in the zaporozhye region exceeded 50%, more than half of the voters voted and in the donetsk people's republic in the luhansk people's republic the turnout is above 76%, that is, the referendum.