a special time has come, i call it a time of concentration, russia has really gained strength and material, intellectual, scientific, military, many forces, but russia has undoubtedly gained spiritual strength, it has become the support of orthodoxy throughout the world, our church is not just playing some kind of cultural role is located outside the fields of public life, there on the periphery, serving pensioners, she is at the center of people’s lives, and then, when all these wonderful changes in our lives took place, the mother of god appeared, and not not an evil soul, into the open soul of our people, to open hearts to accept this grace, therefore everything is connected very closely, and the state of people, the level of their faith, spirituality, readiness to perceive the shrine. and the miracles

that the lord performs. i’ll say it again, wisdom will not enter into an evil soul. therefore, these events indicate a great shift that has occurred in the consciousness of our people and in the spiritual life of people. your testimony is now praying, as it seems to me, most of all we are crying out to god the guys there, on the front line, in the trenches, before the battle, accept. enemy attacks , thank god, we already have a feeling of the absolute inevitability of victory, it will happen, we will achieve it, but people continue to die, both soldiers, and my colleagues, journalists, and ordinary ordinary people, townspeople, and both in the operation zone, so in the border areas, here’s how to help them, how to calm them down, how to give them hope?

did not turn out to be capable of destroying the life of our people, so the trials that fall to our lot today, they, of course, hurt, but they are not capable of killing, they are not capable of shaking us as a people, they are not capable of crushing our worldview, which directly includes love for the homeland and readiness to defend it, that every test is sent to us not for our destruction, at least spiritual destruction, but in order for us to become better after passing these tests, therefore, in a sense , what is happening to us today is an exam for our maturity, including spiritual maturity, for so many years you have lived in conditions of religious freedom, you have built temples, monasteries opened, steel

to partake of the holy mysteries of christ , priests work in the armed forces , guys confess, take communion before going on the attack, now it’s like a completely different dimension of this spiritual life, the question is this: what does all this bring to us, as a people, as country? i am deeply convinced that if there had not been this revival, god forbid if such internecine warfare had occurred. then it would have proceeded completely differently, its consequences would have been very dangerous for our country, but today the people, the country have the potential to reflect those who want to crush our fatherland, this is exactly how we pray in a special prayer at the liturgy for peace for the cessation of hostilities. for our victory, that’s it, but

we hope that it will be so. once again i want to emphasize that our victories are forged not only on the battlefield. they are forged, starting from kindergartens and schools, they are forged in some of our youth groups, where young people think about the country, about the future, about their own lives, in educational institutions, and of course, the church continues to carry out completely special service, god grant that by mobilizing all the forces that we have, we could become stronger,

hmm, well, i don’t want to say anything from my own, from my own kind of wisdom or insufficient wisdom, i would just like to refer to the word god's parables about the prodigal son, here are two sons, one prudent, who

worked, labored, helped his father, the second, having received money as an inheritance, squandered it, and then came, ragged, unhappy,

that among these people there are quite worthy people, but those who were mistaken or frightened, or really sought to find something in life that is more convenient for themselves, comfortable for themselves, but they were put to shame along the way, and if they return to their home with repentance, then the father’s job is to accept them, at all now...

they are generally capable of overcoming this split, agreement, friendship, love? and taking into account your great, great international experience , do you still look forward with pessimism or optimism? with realism, not optimism, not pessimism, but realism, not everything is so simple, it’s not at all, not everything is so simple, i really don’t care i went through some amazing experience, i was in 119 countries of the world, and in different eras, i’m good. i remember the war in southeast asia, south and north vietnam, i remember the civil war in laos, i was then on the territory of this country on a humanitarian mission, by the way, i was a member of the group

of directors of a foundation that was created in the world council of churches for helping suffering people in southeast asia and we were visiting a small group of an international village. places of military operations in order to identify projects to which this money should be allocated, then i came into contact, of course, with this suffering of people in the jungle. i won’t tell you everything, but on the one hand, of course, it was a very interesting topic for me, on the other hand , it was quite dangerous, but then the lord brought me into contact with the enormous suffering of people, and i realized that providing help is the the answer that christians must implement, that's why uh... i don't know if i fully answered the fact that, what did you ask me about, but my thought went

into that past, based on this past, i would like to do the same today. the persecution of the russian canonical orthodox church in ukraine, first the seizure of the evopechersk lavra, and then attempts at bans in the canonical church, it seems that they want to make our church one of the engines of the gigantic... led to the creation of a schismatic church in ukraine . unfortunately, she was supported by

the patriarch of constantinople. it is well clear to everyone that the patriarch of constantinople is not a free person. he is greatly influenced by those who have power in this world. well, and without his own support, without his own flock in the place where he is, i mean turkey, but really to a person. “i became aware, well, quite a long time

ago, that our political opponents, opponents of our state, were thinking about the reasons for the influence, at the beginning of the soviet union, and then russia, on the arab world in the middle east and mediterranean, that is, on the orthodox world. and they brought out this the judgment that the main, main soft power that supposedly carries out the state policy in relation to these regions is the russian orthodox church, they were of course mistaken, because the russian orthodox church has never exerted political influence, but in some ways they are not, what in what - they were not mistaken, well, spiritually - that’s for sure, because we are brothers with those same people in faith. in this sense, of course, the russian orthodox church was

a factor in the development of good fraternal relations with greece, with the orthodox arab world and with this entire part, the balkan countries, in this sense, of course, soft power, but not only on our side, but on the other side, in general, in general, this is spiritual power, it cannot be hard, spiritual power is always aimed at achieving, well... what is called those ideals that are spelled out in the gospel, so completely abandon the interpretation of soft power that at that time western analysts attributed to the russian orthodox church, i will at the same time say that the church, of course, played a very important role in preserving spiritual unity of orthodoxy, that’s when these schismatic processes began

, and they do not succumb to this kind of pressure, although this pressure is being exercised, and some are giving up their positions, but some heads of churches courageously resist, naturally, for well-known reasons, pronouncing the names of these people i won’t, but i thank you for your courageous, firm position aimed at preserving unity with the russian orthodox church, which means this is the fight for the unity of all orthodoxy. you mentioned the eastern mediterranean, that’s exactly where

the places where christ was born and walked his earthly path, now everything is also on fire. and despite the fact that all world religions in the holy land unanimously declare that they pray only for peace and for nothing else, the war continues, so how do you think, how to find the road to peace in the middle east? well, of course, i don’t and can’t have any political recipes, yes, probably all the recipes have been tried for a long time and none of them work out. first of all, it means that there is quite a strong tension between arabic population and the jewish population, again i will not go into any political, possible reasons for this, economic ones, although probably both are present, but

this tension, it was not born today, it existed in the past and therefore, if we talk about what - in ways to overcome this conflict and generally reconcile people, it seems to me that we need to very actively involve religious leaders, respected muslim leaders, respected jewish leaders, and christian leaders, because if there really is between leaders and... but influence the prevention of further military escalation, but this is only worth dreaming about for now, because, as i understand, with

all the desire of some religious leaders to actively... get involved in this issue, not everything turns out as it should i would like, well, let’s hope, really, your holiness , most russian families celebrate christmas, here is my, probably traditional, but every year very relevant question, how , among these troubles and anxieties of ours, can we clean up the space so that there is room for festive... this is joy for me festive joy is a state of mind , i know that for some people , joy is synonymous with joy, but there is a difference, yes, there is a big difference, you can’t have fun all the time, you’ll go crazy, fun in general is

such a very energy-consuming emotion, everyone is knows, you can’t laugh all the time... it hurts, but what is needed is for there to be joy in the heart, for our evening to be balanced, then the next day, the head from this feeling, so that we really perceive what we are experiencing as an important spiritual event, here in my opinion, of course, some people who do not share religious beliefs will not agree with this; in my opinion, without faith in god this is impossible. i’m telling you from my own experience, i can’t imagine how it’s even possible to have joy, the same joy we’re talking about in the holy spirit, if you deny both the spirit and god and close your entire worldview within the framework of that only material world, which exists, which

means you close your life within the framework of this material world, and then what? and then a hillock and nothing, and didn’t take anything with him, and didn’t take anything with him, so if a person believes that everything ends with a hillock, but this is an unhappy person, moreover, if you don’t believe in eternity, if you don’t believe in the judgment of god, then this greatly influences your motivation here, if there is no god, then everything is permitted, the classic said, this is how it turns out, live as you want, do what you want, there are some laws , you can bypass the laws, but if you understand that nothing ends with any mound, the soul is immortal, you will appear before god, you you will... be judged by how you lived, then your brains turn on, and a sense of self-preservation arises, and 20 times a person will think, but i need to cheat now

or i don’t need to, i need to destroy my family or i don’t need to, i need borrow a lot of money, run away somewhere, leave the person from whom you took the money as a person in need or not, this can be listed indefinitely, in other words, conscience... an amazing inner voice, this voice would not exist if god would not exist, because the voice of conscience is definitely coincides with the divine commandments, but unfortunately, conscience is a fragile structure, it can be destroyed, weakened, or, well, such a system of pseudo-values ​​can be created. in which the conscience begins to feel like this, well, in general , this is not entirely bad, well, and thus a person loses the ability to really distinguish

good from evil, and this is the worst thing, that’s all that the church does, in general religious faith, then , what high art does, by the way, awakening and developing an aesthetic feeling, through art and through the aesthetic feeling turns out to be favorable influence. per person’s soul , because art is harmonious, and harmony enters a person’s consciousness, into the soul, and harmony is something that could only come from god, because an exploded comet does not carry any harmony, an exploded planet does not carry any harmony , and if the world was created from all these flying space inanimate objects, then in... this universe there is no conscience, conscience is from god, this is the strongest proof that god exists, but sometimes we are told, well, conscience - these are the results

development of such a human, and then conscience is formed under the influence of external factors, culture, then education and so on, this is not true, what is good is good for everyone, both for the educated and for the poorly educated, and conscience begins to work in a person, then. .. when a person violates god’s commandments, without even knowing these commandments , so god grant that the voice of conscience never disappears, and that we take care of this precious instrument, which does not even depend on how often we pray or do not pray, shall we enter the temple or not? we enter, but this instrument helps us not to lose touch with the creator, when we say, we are russians and god is with us, no...

but because the physical nature of man, in the name of self-preservation, presupposes dynamics towards oneself, and not away from oneself. you have to preserve yourself, you have to survive, which means you need to come to yourself, and if you give away from yourself, often exposing yourself to risk, well, let’s say, well, the opportunity to weaken your material, so to speak, factor, material component. when we volunteer to face death, we put our lives in danger, where does this come from, from what material substance

, this feat itself can grow, the giving of one’s own life, well, there is no comment, only from above, only from above, only from above, the lord controls us through conscience, and maybe a person... does not go to the mosque, but the voice of conscience forces him to do so , as the lord pleases, that’s why you should always listen to your conscience, and in no case should things come to a point where your conscience is simply destroyed, we say sometimes an unscrupulous person has no conscience, he destroyed the most important thing in human... in the human dimension of life, so god grant that everyone who works to preserve compatibility, this, of course, is both a religious factor and high culture. and

education, which includes love for the fatherland, helping neighbors, so that all this helps people maintain their conscience, along with their conscience, responsibility for themselves, for their relatives, friends, but for their country. your holiness, thank you very much for your words, for this interview, and once again i congratulate you on your holiday, thank you. we are now at the design department costume at kosygin university. costume design is an art, art is always appreciated. this subject is called costume architectonics. a very wild pace, i would say, but

extremely interesting. this is the work of a designer from china, then there are collections from india, brazil, south africa, serbia, a total of 130 brands from twenty countries presented their collections in this showroom. i do everything by hand, it’s similar to working on bespoke carpets. every opportunity to express yourself is a good opportunity. moscow is an amazing city. i came to moscow to present my winter collection. the women here are very fashionable. the russian market is very large. i think now is the time to go out to him, one young lady got drunk on wine with the hussars , asked for the sake of peace to steal a cannon from the regiment and with her own hands shot at a peasant woman

and... sbh, miraculously she didn’t kill anyone to death, what’s the difficulty, her mother was with her there is an important person in the yard, everything is fine with my daughter, she is a normal girl, just like everyone else, and the girl repents, it seems, let’s go to paris, we’ll eat an oyster, one could forgive, but according to the law, siberia is supposed to be, siberia, yes, i ’ll cut out your tongue now, we won’t hang you, we’ll sew it up, so i would tear you apart with horses , where are you, drowning, two, got used to watching videos online, stopped working, install, open , watch russian channels, all series, movies and cartoons. free without

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the state will always support everyone who, with arms in hand, defends our homeland and their family. vladimir putin emphasized this at a meeting with relatives of the fallen heroes. the president invited them to novogorev’s residence to talk about the problems of celebrating together one of the main orthodox holidays - the nativity of christ. everything has passed, anastasia yafimova will tell you. this christmas eve, they are the personal guests of the president. i asked my colleagues to organize pre-christmas and festive events for you , i hope you liked it, there are already big and strong guys here, i see quite old and very young.