Silence of lambs

In Ukraine, the number of believers over the past year, according to official statistics, has become more than 11 percent. In Russia, if we approach from a formal point of view, with interest, too, everything is in order, and some religious holidays turn into grandiose shows. The Day of Slavic Writing and Culture, which will be held next Saturday, is one of them.

In addition to traditional processions, fiery sermons about the acts of the Holy Equal -to -the -Apostles Methodius and Cyril, the primary teaching of the Slovenian, festive concerts will be held in many cities and weights around the world. The largest of them, of course, will be a theatrical performance on Red Square in Moscow. Executive Secretary of the Patriarchal Council for the culture of the Arch. Tikhon (Shevkunov) worked on fame: numerous choral groups, well -known soloists of leading musical theaters, popular film and pop artists will take part in action. It’s just not clear what it has to do with faith and art that is born from its depths.

Well, yes, a certain number of church chants will sound. But this is so, for order. The emphasis is on the scoop, on the work of the "living legend" of Soviet music Alexandra Pakhmutova. “There will be one amazing premiere in this concert. This song "Our Primer" is called, and the whole country will be attended by its premiere, ”Putin's confessor pleased the journalists.

There really is something to rejoice. Especially in the situation of "the onset of the supposedly progressive Latin on Cyrillic." The co -author of Pakhmutova - Nikolai Dobronravov - speaks of our language situation in these words.

They will sound on the day of the holiday and greetings addressed to Patriarch Cyril. After all, this is the day of his namesake. He will also say his speech. However, what kind of words these will be - approximately clear.

In general, Patriarch Cyril is silent more recently. Silent, even when he says. We hear something so streamlined, blessed, correctly Slavophil. And even symbolic actions resemble the figure of silence.

Here, he visited the Primate of the Russian Orthodox Church, for example, the Marfo-Mariinsky monastery in Moscow, went into the orphanage that existed with it. Very good, showed care for children. But he did not report anything about the state of church charity, did not express concern about the collisions of good men on volunteers of mercy. And the raids go . Both for orphanages, and on those who are engaged in helping homeless.

It is silent and pure lane. And his silence on a variety of issues today is becoming a landmark. It is especially painful in the situation with Ukraine. It collapses under its own weight "Russian World". Only for concerts is enough.

Of course, there is this cultural and spiritual space, uniting different Slavic peoples, the Russian world. By the way, the exhibition “Serbian Church Art of Hungary”, which is now being held in the Rublevo Museum, testifies to him. You look at the iconuxvii -sole with diptychs, and there are all familiar names, and everything is on Cyrillic. But this is there, in the past, or in modern times, but at a depth.

And on the surface - a political ideology that frightens the younger brother. So the younger brother was not allowed by the head of the church foreign policy of Metropolitan Hilarion (Alfeev) to Ukraine. Absolutely irrational fear, one might say. But with this fear, the Patriarch will now have to reckon every subsequent action, even the participation of Moskal the name of the rivers in Hirotony in Ukraine, to discuss with Kiev.

The Orthodox factor in politics is minimal today. Say, recently, the media actively discusses the role in the Donbass of Konstantin Malofeev, chairman of the board of the Vasily Great Foundation. The very one that brought the "Gifts of the Magi" to Ukraine. But what, by and large, does it have an attitude to religion?

In ancient Rome, before the start of the battle, fortune -telling on the insides of the birds, the consuls (which were simultaneously in the army of priests) sometimes sacrificed themselves to the gods, crashing into the thick of the enemy army. Today, religion leads to the concert of Alexandra Pakhmutova, and it is extremely rare to talk about religiously motivated actions that have fateful significance.

This is the structure of the moment. The Russian Orthodox Church was in a gilded corral. Formally, it is surrounded by honor, friends with the state. But every day the space for the maneuver narrows.

Photo by ITAR-TASS/ Valery Sharifulin