Patriarch Kirill remembered his Soviet childhood
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Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia urged all believers to put their religious beliefs first. Even if they go against public opinion. As an example, he remembered his Soviet childhood. Then the future primate had to refuse to join the pioneers, and then the Komsomol. The corresponding statuses would have prevented him from attending services in the Church.
The Patriarch performed at the St. Petersburg Philharmonic at a memorial evening dedicated to Metropolitan Veniamin (Kazansky). This is one of the victims of the so-called “Petrograd process” of 1922. Metropolitan Veniamin, and with him Archimandrite Sergius (Shein), John Kovsharov and Yuri Novitsky were accused of resisting the seizure of church valuables. They were shot. And in 1992, the Russian Orthodox Church canonized them as saints.
Citing the New Martyrs as an example, Patriarch Kirill asked the flock to act according to their conscience and God’s law, and not to please others, under the pressure of the environment.
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