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He broke away from the church.

- Let's clarify! In your place (in the underworld) such trifles as incest and sodomy are not condemned?... - Lammert just shook his head negatively. Silas, deep in thought, kicked another pebble. -Have you ever noticed how the underworld resembles a church?

In a practical way, psychology has come to exactly what the Church has been teaching for two millennia: a person can change himself only by himself, of his own free will.

In the light of modernity, there is nothing more contrary to progress than “limited believers” who blindly accept texts thousands of years ago and observe canonized religious laws. Thus, modernity seeks to destroy this religious obstacle to progress through an all-out, large-scale attack involving the media, education, law and global politics. This attack is as big as it is brutal.

In modern society, where cruelty and hatred towards others are often cultivated, the struggle with other people for gaining high social status and appropriating maximum material wealth is encouraged, the Church must preach in word and demonstrate in practice its faith and conviction that compassion, mercy , sacrificial love for another person is a universal and absolute ethical value.

The gospel story of Jesus Christ can be compared to a collection of treasures from two thousand years ago, located in a safe under two locks. To touch these treasures, you must first open the safe, and to open it, two keys are required. One key is the belief that Jesus was a complete man with all the attributes of a real flesh and blood man. However, a second key is needed - the belief that Jesus was God incarnate. Without this key, the safe will not open and the treasures will not sparkle: the Gospel image of Christ will not appear before the reader in all its radiant beauty.

The church is close, but walking is slimy. The pub is far away, but I walk slowly.

Jesus came to Jerusalem and found that oxen, sheep, and doves were being sold in the temple, and there were money changers sitting around. And, having made a scourge of ropes, he drove everyone out of the temple, also sheep and oxen; and scattered the money of the money changers, and overturned their tables.

And when some spoke of the temple, that it was adorned with costly stones and deposits, He said: The days will come when what you see here will not be left stone upon stone, everything will be destroyed.

Let's be honest, all the religions of the world have arisen only because of man's fear of death. All religions exist only because they promise eternal life.

Kiev-Pechersk Lavra will fall. All the grace of the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra will go to Optina Pustyn. I won't live to see it, but you'll see.

Everyone is going against Russia, that is, against the Church of Christ, for the Russian people are God-bearers, the true faith of Christ is kept in them.

We must allow women to actively participate in the work of the church. Women's talents are needed wherever important decisions need to be made. Today our task is this: to think about the specific place that a woman can take in order to assume part of the church authority.

Opening the doors of temples also means opening them digitally so that people can enter no matter what stage of life they are in and so that the gospel can help everyone. We are called to bear witness to the Church, which is the home of all.