The press secretary of the patriarch condemned the priest who spent the "Murka" in the church house

Priest Alexander Volkov, a spokeswoman for His Holiness Patriarch Kirill, commented on a video that appeared on the network, on which during the parish meal, the priest performs the thieves song "Murka".

“The video, where the priest is in the subcriminal, with the cross, in the church, apparently, the house sings a thieves song about Odessa lesson, is beyond possible and permissible,” he wrote on his page on the Facebook social network.

Volkov added that “it doesn’t matter what our brothers are doing at home, although it is necessary to hope that for the most part there are no reprehensible”, “but behind the church meal in the presence of other priests and laity to sing“ Murka ” - below the dignity of a person wearing a Jerely sanger.”

The representative of the Russian Orthodox Church also complained that other participants of the feast, apparently, "also sing along," and expressed the opinion that such manifestations should be put to put a barrier.

“Of course, we need to do something with the sometimes arising problem of the stylistic mismatch of our form and our content. It is sad. The saddest thing is that many people judge the whole church, about all its priests. And here you can’t explain anything,” the clergyman wrote.

Volkov’s publication has collected dozens of comments. Some users who did not even see the video hastened to justify the singing priest. Others considered the video "Funny" .

Still others doubted the very fact of the incident, and the fourth condemned the authors of the video, who recorded and posted "such" on the network.

The video itself was discussed on Tuesday, April 3, on his account on Facebook , Andrei Kuraev, the Theologian. He also clarified that the “personal secretary of the Archbishop of the Tiraspol and Dubossary Archimandrite Venedikt (circus)” acts as a soloist in the video. According to Kuraev, this priest serves in the Moscow Church of the Three -dealing on the Kashirsky highway. The action captured in the video takes place in the "large refectory" of this temple.

When exactly the video was recorded, it is unknown. As Kuraev noted, "by clothes (people in the video) it is clear that this is a warm season, not reporting, of course, from the scene."