The Shameful Oath the African Clergy Have Made to the Patriarchate of Moscow

The Russian invasion of the Patriarchate of Alexandria under the pretext that about 100 clergy in Africa want to belong to Moscow, has also produced … oaths!

We quote an "Oath" signed by these clergymen, who declare that they are joining "voluntarily" with Moscow without any "personal financial gain", but with the "sole purpose" of saving their soul which is in "spiritual danger" from the moment the Patriarchate of Alexandria recognized the Autocephaly of the Church of Ukraine, which for Moscow is still a "schism".

Holy Hieromartyr Hermogenes the Wonderworker, Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia (+ 1612)

St. Hermogenes of Moscow (Feast Day - February 17)

The Hieromartyr Hermogenes, Patriarch of Moscow and all Rus, was born in Kazan around 1530, and was descended from the Don Cossacks. According to the Patriarch’s own testimony, he served as priest in Kazan in a church dedicated to Saint Nicholas, near the Kazan bazaar. Soon he became a monk, and from 1582 was archimandrite of the Savior-Transfiguration Monastery at Kazan. On May 13, 1589 he was consecrated bishop and became the first Metropolitan of Kazan.

Patriarch Kirill Criticizes Modern Literature

May 10, 2012

Interfax

Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia is concerned with the spreading of low standard literature in Russia.

"Today a consumer attitude has penetrated into almost all spheres of life, and literature is not an exception. If we look at bestsellers, it becomes clear that, at least in the sphere of fiction, these are books based on suspenseful plot, quick change of events and peripeteia in the life of heroes," the Patriarch said at a session of guardians of the Patriarch's Prize in Literature.

According to him, such works, instead of thoughts, reflections, tragedy, and true drama reflecting difficult perepeteia of human life, "offer us 'action' that accustom people to emotional doping instead of sober understanding of life."

The Patriarch stressed that such literature teaches a person a superficial evaluation of events, that "doesn't give him exact moral guidelines" and as a result "spiritually impersonalizes the reader, merges him with the crowd, making him an atom of world culture."

According to him, here lies "the danger for the whole society."

"Art that doesn't accept guidelines of the moral and beautiful becomes anti-art, and culture, anti-culture," the Church Primate said.