The world is heresy

The Moscow Patriarchate punished the priest who made a self -prayed for the world

Marking the anniversary of his intronization on the patriarchal throne, February 2, Patriarch Kirill (Gundyaev) issued a very scandalous decree . In fact, this is the first precedent of church repressions in the modern Russian Orthodox Church for prayer for the world. The cleric of the temple of St. The priest John Koval is prohibited in the ministry in the Moscow district of Lublino, and his case was transferred to the diocesan disciplinary commission for pronouncing during the liturgy, addressing God, the words "give us your strong world." The patriarch does not bring any links to the canons that it is customary to insert into such decrees-the decision looks purely voluntarist.

On the one hand, the general prayer for the world is part of each Orthodox worship (for example, in peaceful litany there is a request “On the world of the whole world”). On the other hand, the "misconduct" about. John lies in the fact that he inserted the same meaning into a special prayer, approved by the Patriarch after the start of mobilization in September. According to Cyril, praying in this place is no longer about the world, but about the victory: "Get it, God, to help yours and give us your victory with your strength."

The meaning of “sucker” in this prayer is explained as follows (translated into modern Russian): “Winging wars took up arms against Holy Rus', trying to divide and destroy its unified people.”

The text also includes the support of the support of the “jealous about the unity of the Russian Church” (that is, against the independence of the Ukrainian Church) and about the sending of the fortress of the spirit “soldiers and all the defenders of our Fatherland”.

From February to September last year, another, more streamlined, prayer “On the World in Ukraine” was used in the temples of the Russian Orthodox Church: “The Spirit of Fraternity and the World in our hearts forever confirm! The alien peoples, who wish to and on Holy Rus' are giving up, forbid them and their ideas ... warriors - in your commandments, approve. ” The gradual radicalization of both official Russian propaganda, and, accordingly, the position of Patriarch Kirill directly affects the liturgical, sacramental life of the Russian Orthodox Church. Cyril tries to turn the worship itself and the sacraments into the instrument of "military-patriotic education of the population." The service of the Russian Orthodox Church ceases to be a space in which you can hide from the passions of this world, including the most destructive passion - anger leading to bloodshed and murderer ...

The current head of the Russian Orthodox Church, all 14 years of his patriarchate, demonstrated the installation on the most accurate reproduction of narratives and even the style of the Kremlin elite. Observing the constant toughening of the Kremlin course in relation to the last centers of dissent (for example, the other day the Sakharov Center and the Moscow Helsinki Group were liquidated), Cyril tries to project it to church life.

From now on, any cleric in his church, which will prefer Christ's peacekeeping words to the “patriotic” attitudes of the Holy Priest, can be subjected to canonical repressions. The Moscow Patriarchate becomes part of the repressive machine that performs the prophecy of Christ: “I have chosen you from the world, because the world hates you ... If they drove me, they will drive you too” (John 15: 20–21). On the table, the patriarch has a list of 293 clergy of the Russian Orthodox Church, who signed a brief anti -war circulation last year. Some of these clergy have already lost their places - such as, for example, the former representative of the Patriarch of Moscow under the Patriarch of Antioch Abbot Arseny (Sokolov).

Archpriest Andrei Kordochkin, rector of the Christmas parish in Madrid and the former secretary of the Spirand-Portuguese diocese of the Moscow Patriarchate, became one of the most striking priests in the Russian Orthodox Church. It is also prohibited in the ministry - for three months. With the prospect of prolongation, "if it does not repent." As I managed to find out the New-Europe, a denunciation to the Patriarchate on Fr. Andrei was written by pro-Russian activists from the number of Russian emigrants of the 1990–2000s that settled in Spain, most of whom are not church people.

The last straw was the decision of the Tagansky court of Moscow of January 18, fining the New Gazeta for 500 thousand rubles for publishing an interview with Fr. Andrey. The court recognized him with “discrediting the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation” (part 1 of article 20.3.3 of the Administrative Code of the Russian Federation). In an interview, Archpriest, in particular, criticized the new teachings of Patriarch Kirill about the automatic forgiveness of sins and the entrance to the paradise of all military personnel who died at the front during the “Switch”.

O. Andrei called him “an attempt to sacred violence”: “A soldier who committed a war crime and not repented is more like a terrorist than a Christian martyr.” Master of theology of the University of London and Doctoral at the University of Damage, about. Andrei made up the "gold fund" of the Russian Orthodox Church. But in the conditions of “Svo”, Western education and generally excessive intellectuality become a reason for suspicion of non -properness.

The prohibited Moscow priest John Koval is much less famous than his illustrious Madrid counterpart. O. John is 44 years old, he plays perfectly on the piano and leads blogs, including YouTube. It has Ukrainian origin (from the Luhansk region), but studied in Moscow, at a special school at the conservatory, simultaneously sang and served in the capital's temples. He graduated from the theological-Pasty faculty of the St. Tikhonovsky Theological Institute and was ordained in 2004, for more than 10 years is part of the missionary commission of the Moscow diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church. Name about. John appeared in 2019 under the appeal of the Moscow clergy in support of the detainees in the “Moscow case”. Obeying the canonical discipline, about. John does not comment on his case before his consideration at the disciplinary commission.

However, a perplexed hum is already coming from the Orthodox blogosphere. According to the new logic of Patriarch Kirill, the parishioners are suggested , the nonpatriotic exclamation “peace”, which sounds several times in each service, is time to replace the patriotic “The victory will be behind us!” From the theological point of view, the “wrong” word can become a reason for prohibition in the service only if this word contains the Bonded heresy. It turns out that for Patriarch Cyril "the victory of Russia has ... dogmatic significance." Cyril-“The Priest of the Post-Soviet Civil Religion,” states the telegram channel “On the Church and about people”. “Think for yourself what conclusions should be drawn from this.”

And the problem here is not only in the inability of the Patriarch to formulate the Christian answer to the challenges of “Svo” and to the aggressive propaganda accompanying her, killing the human beginning in people. Maybe a more important problem is the loss of the Russian Orthodox Church as a whole of Christian identity, the remnants of even the reputation that it had in Soviet times, being an obedient tool for the “peaceful foreign policy of the Soviet government”. Since the leaders of the USSR, especially late, were more sane and adequate than the current leadership, the peacekeeping rhetoric of the Russian Orthodox Church of that time was not included in a fundamental contradiction with the spirit and letter of the gospel, bent from the principle of “blessed peacekeepers”. The current tragic stage of Russian history showed that clerical servilism has no boundaries, and the church administration is able to lead far in the opposite direction from God, if earthly power and gross power becomes its God.