Patriarch Kirill called for “spiritual mobilization”

For “complete reconciliation between Russia and Ukraine,” believes Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia, believers should resort to “spiritual mobilization.” In his opinion, now the countries “have lived up to a fateful time”, which should encourage their citizens to reconsider many things.

“We should renew our faith, sharpen our consciousness and our memory, look at many things differently, which we looked at yesterday without much attention and care. And then our spiritual mobilization, to which I now call everyone, will help the mobilization of all the forces of our fatherland, ”said the clergyman during today’s sermon (quoted by RIA Novosti).

He also called on believers to rally around “Rus”, which allegedly became the object of an external threat and whose independence and identity “many” want to destroy. “So that the Lord delivers, especially our youth, from having their lives cut short in this internecine strife,” said the patriarch.

speeches, spoken Patriarch Kirill after the start of the military operation in Ukraine, repeatedly provoked a critical reaction among foreign clergy. In May, the head of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine, Epiphany urged deprive the head of the Russian Orthodox Church of the throne, since Patriarch Kirill is spreading heretical ethnophyletic doctrine about the “Russian world”.

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Andrey Sapozhnikov