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"Fraternal" embrace of Metropolitan Daniel

April 5, 2013 Boris Kolymagin

Today it is possible to hear that the church is an army built on the principle: "I am a boss, you are g .. but." Say, just removed from the post of head of the synodal department for interaction with the Armed Forces of Fr. Dimitri Smirnov loves this image very much. It, of course, maybe so. Just do not forget that the hierarchy in this army is an employee, and the “pyramid” is turned on top down: the one who became the “top” is located below and experiences the largest pressure. What, by the way, was written by the permanent lord of the Surozhsky Anthony. If the “top” begins not to serve, not to look for the truth, but simply to command, then the trouble. And the people leave the Orthodox Church, and temples are empty, as it happened where he had just visited a series of lectures Fr. Dimitri - in the Arkhangelsk diocese, where in the village of Khokostrovye the missionary community of Fr. John Privalova.

The defeat by the fundamentalists of the Kosostrovsky Sretensky Church and the transfer of his abbot to the Cathedral “under the supervision” in the “hedgehog” has already been said . It would seem that after a fight to wave his fists. Moreover, recently in the church there have been serious laids and several worthy priests have been brought out of the state, they were out of work. But now I caught my eye, which recently seen the light “Bulletin of the Arkhangelsk Metropolis”, which is entirely dedicated to the sparking. And it became obvious that history continues and for many people is still relevant.

In the room, as befits a departmental publication, a lot of space is reserved for the ruling bishop. The lord is there, the lord here, and here is an interview with him. A detailed such interview about why you need to drive and spread rot the Kochetkovtsev. And also about the world and Christ's love of the word. Good words. Just an angelic image of the bishop arises. If not for knowing that about. John Privalov after the “fraternal” embrace ended up in the hospital , that now the process of his recovery is not completed, you might think that everything is okay.

Following the bishop, an article by the Honored Sectobrac, the “expert on destructive cults and sects” Alexander Dvorkin. However, he does not say anything new. Just creates the image of the enemy. It requires shooting as frantic dogs - in a religious, of course, context.

And here is the Protodiacon Andrey Kuraev. It shows, by the way, that in old age you can be a diligent student. I remember in November 2011 on the air of the Komsomolskaya Pravda radio, he fought with the atheist historian. The words of the latter were the reason: "It stinks of you!" Taking this invigorating phrase into service, Kuraev in intra -church showdowns, following the example of an atheist, began to shout that it smells of a totalitarian sect from Kochetkovites. And in the "Bulletin" he repeats what was said. He thinks, it is likely that believing Arkhangelogor residents with his fists to prove the truth and uterus. Media fighter was mistaken. The church fence is not a place for postmodern games. Yes, and the hall of the regional library (where the correspondent of the publication was preparing the material), probably, too. After the statements that sounded there, that Lomonosov is a snack, etc., many intellectuals will definitely not give Kuraev’s hands.

But something else is interesting. Thoughts that the protodiacon sometimes broadcast are included in a glaring contradiction with its practice. He, like Vladyka Daniel, speaks of love and strangles, broadcasts about freedom and builds a prison.

At the beginning of Great Lent, I managed to visit the missionary liturgy in the St. Isaac's Cathedral. The Serbian and Greek choirs sang remarkably. The bishop of Peterhof Ambrose read aloud all the so -called secret prayers, and after the Holy Scriptures, which sounded in Russian, the preaching uttered in the place. Kurayev, who commented on the department, said that in ancient times they preached six times at the same worship, the symbol of faith began to sing in the Russian Church popularly only in 1918 with the beginning of “red terror”, and in Orthodoxy there are many different practices and should not be unified. Golden words!

It is interesting to note that the missionary liturgy included a significant part of what was recently charged with Fr. John Privalov as "a violation of the charter and priestly oath." With the change in the abbot, missionary activity at the Okostrovsky parish came to naught, and in Sunday service, instead of two hundred people, now you can often see no more than ten.

Apparently, in order to justify this destruction, and was released on a chic coated paper with a large circulation “Bulletin of the Metropolis”. Although all the accusations of his authors against the community of the spaceship, which are attributed to the “heresy of Kochetkovism”, could be answered with the words of Metropolitan of the Ryazan Paul, told by him in an interview with the Kifa newspaper: “Do not rush to draw hasty conclusions and call people sectarians or schismatics. This is the matter of the church. "

It is strange that Metropolitan Daniel goes against the episcopate, who did not want to arrange witch hunt. At the past bishop's cathedral, he was made to understand this with a certainty. Apparently, the laurels of the Chukchi bishop Diomid gone into the split do not give Daniel peace. Moreover, in the Russian Orthodox Church there are many people accuse Patriarch Kirill of “renovationism” and they need a leader. In the church fence, the fundamentalists really collected a lot of combustible material, and the fire can flare up at any moment.

Photo by ITAR-TASS/ press service of the Arkhangelsk and Kholmogorsk diocese