Cathedral repentance for the king. Do we need public repentance? Bryansk blogger Vladimir Chesalin spoke about lawlessness against himself

6. Why has no mutual understanding been reached with the diocesan authorities yet?
We consider this circumstance an unfortunate misunderstanding. Someone really does not like that the Russian people responded to the call of His Holiness Patriarch Alexy II of Moscow and All Rus' and the Holy Synod to unite and repent to the Lord in order to forgive the sins of the Russian people, liberation from the yoke of Satan, the revival of Holy Rus'.
We think that only the enemies of the Russian people, the satanic forces, can deliberately impede the holding of the All-People's Repentance.
In 1612, the military militia of Minin and Pozharsky gathered. At present, a spiritual militia is gathering at the monument of the Sovereign Emperor Nicholas II. Our weapon is repentance, our enemy is our sins, and when we get rid of them, we will be strong by the grace of the Holy Spirit.
Now the movement for repentance is beginning to gain more and more strength precisely from below, from the midst of the people. We believe that under the pretext of criticizing the repentance of the people, his enemies have hidden goals: to compromise the very idea of ​​​​the Holy Orthodox Monarchy and prevent the forgiveness of the Russian people, implored by the sacrificial feat of the holy royal martyrs and new martyrs of Russia from Our Lord Jesus Christ Himself, to Whom honor and praise forever and ever. Amen.

For several weeks now, colorful posters have been adorning the streets of Voronezh, calling for "the rite of nationwide repentance at the monument to the martyr Tsar Nicholas II." Correspondents "MOYO!" dialed the phone number indicated in the ad to find out to whom and what the Voronezh residents should repent of.

A friendly female voice said that there was a special place for us on the bus and we could perform the rite of repentance on Saturday, April 1.
- Come at six in the evening on Friday to the monument to Chernyakhovsky, there will be a lot of people. You must first sign up with your last name.
The dispatcher explained the route in detail.
- First, we will go to the Zadonsk monastery and bow to the relics of St. Tikhon of Zadonsk, then we will take a bath in the holy spring, take some water with us and move on. The rite of repentance will take place at the monument to Nicholas II in Mytishchi from 12.00 to 15.00. Take a piece of cardboard with you to put under your knees, on which you will stand during penance. After that, we will go to the Bogolyubovsky monastery, where the archimandrite himself will meet us and bless us. That's where we'll spend the night. You will have to sleep on the floor, so bring warm clothes. And in the morning you will take communion and the rite of unction will be performed over you. Then we will go to bow to the Vladimir Icon of the Mother of God and the relics of 11 more saints, and only on Monday morning we will return to Voronezh.
- And how much will it cost? we asked.
- A bus ticket will cost you only 600 rubles, and we don’t know how much you will spend. For example, an annual prayer for health in a monastery costs 200 rubles, proskomidia also costs 200. You can donate money to monasteries.
Our interlocutor said that the rite of nationwide repentance is being held with the blessing of Patriarch Alexy II.
- Orthodox priests will go with us. We all need to repent of regicide, so that Russia will be reborn, so that both your personal and public life got better.

Naturally, no one objects to the revival of our country. But how much does the Orthodox Church approve of repentance at the monument to the king, because all this is very reminiscent of idolatry? With this question, we turned to the head of the youth department of the Voronezh-Borisoglebsk diocese, Father Oleg.

Indeed, at confession, the parishioners began to confess to me the sin of regicide, says Father Oleg. - And when I asked how they killed the king, they only shrugged their shoulders in bewilderment. In fact, at the moment there is a group of people who are trying to cause a split in the church. According to our data, each regional center There are representatives of schismatics in Russia, including clergy who have organized business in the rank of repentance. At the same time, they refer to the words of the patriarch that the Russian people need repentance for past sins. But repentance makes sense in the transformation of the way of life, thoughts and actions, so as not to repeat past mistakes ... The schismatics act, hiding behind the words of the patriarch, taken out of the context of one of his speeches. They even give out invitations for trips outside temples when parishioners come out after prayer. In fact, people are deceived under a plausible pretext and collect money from them. Indeed, in order to organize any religious events on the territory of the Voronezh-Borisoglebsk diocese (like any other), it is necessary to have the blessing of the ruling bishop, i.e., Metropolitan Sergius, and in writing with his personal signature. The schismatics have no blessing.

By order Voronezh diocese An Orthodox parishioner took part in one of these trips and spoke about his impressions:
- I saw a terrible sight, reminiscent of mass hysteria. At the monument to the tsar in Mytishchi, a motley crowd of people is on their knees. Above them rises a man with a mouthpiece in the clothes of an Orthodox priest and enumerates various sins. At the same time, behind the roar of the crowd, you clearly do not hear the words. Some are crying, some are laughing, some are wringing their hands. The action resembled a meeting of sectarians... After that, everyone went to the monastery to a certain elder. A gray-haired man with a beard, in monastic robes, came out to us, before whom the crowd also fell to their knees. Each in turn crawled up to him and kissed his hand. There was something slavish about it... And at every step they demanded money from you: buy an icon, donate it to the brethren, perform unction, and so on. I spent more than a thousand rubles, limiting myself in everything.

At the origins of this movement is a Voronezh priest, who at one time was expelled from the diocese by the former Voronezh Metropolitan Methodius for disobedience. The schismatics are very cautious, and it is difficult to get any information about the leader. They say that they act in line with the Orthodox Church. This whole situation is reminiscent of the numerous secret societies that operated in Russia in the 18th - XIX centuries. True, in this case, secrecy has only one goal - profit.

Here is what Metropolitan of Voronezh and Borisoglebsk Sergius says about the "nationwide repentance" at the monument to the last Russian emperor:
- The canonization of Nicholas II and his family as martyrs does not satisfy the newly-minted zealots of the monarchy. Monarchist predilections resulted in the heresy of kings. In some parishes, unauthorized akathists are distributed, where Emperor Nicholas II, (by the way, who abdicated), is called the redeemer tsar, who, by his martyrdom, "redeemed the sins of the Russian people." For an Orthodox Christian, this is heresy: we confess the only Redeemer - our Lord Jesus Christ. Those who live now need to repent of their personal sins. Repentance today, before it's too late, should be for those who sow confusion and division among the Orthodox, pervert Orthodox dogmas.

I've heard this question for a long time, but I never really understood it, to be honest. Is it that I need to list the "historical sins" of the Russian people in confession? Or just the sins of my immediate ancestors? Or his own complicity in the deeds of the godless authorities - that he joined the Komsomol and passed the exams in history-diamat at the university? And all these collective "rites of repentance for the sin of regicide" seemed to me something artificial and unviable.

And now I think I'm starting to understand what's going on here.

But first, what is repentance? For some, this is a beating in the chest of “yahzhev all”, for some, an endless enumeration of unsightly details, for some, the rejection of bad habits.

And everyone has probably heard what this word literally means in biblical languages: Greek metanoia- "rethinking", Jewish teshuva- "return".

That's it, rethinking, re-evaluating what happened, and returning to the point where you went the wrong way. That is, a conscious change in one's behavior. This is the very essence, and the rest, including confession, are rather external forms and manifestations. In general, this is the alphabet for a Christian.

Why am I talking about this again? Two seemingly completely different events led me to new thoughts. The first is a survey of Muscovites about. There is no need to argue about whether our streets, quarters and stations should bear the names of murderers. They shouldn't, but they do.

Another thing is surprising: why not just rename this station, as was done a little over a year ago with "Podbelsky Street" (another revolutionary), now - "Rokossovsky Boulevard"? I'm not talking about how in the late 80s they changed the name of many stations with communist names. And if "you need to start somewhere", then why not start with the inspirer and organizer of the Red Terror, V.I. Lenin?

And I seem to have an answer to this question. It turns out whether to leave the name of the killer on the map of Moscow is a “debatable issue”. And discussion is admissible only on a secondary name. Well, you can still think about whether Prince Kropotkin was worthy of the station named after him adjacent to the Cathedral of Christ the Savior, or how we should relate to 1905 with its barricades (two stations on the purple line).

But in this way we diligently avoid the question of the entire Soviet legacy. Yes, we admit, there were disgusting figures, like Voikov, or, say, Beria, but they were convicted, we got rid of them. Otherwise, everything is very ambiguous, we recognize both great achievements and certain excesses ...

Try to say this in confession, speaking about your own sin: not everything is so simple, there were significant achievements. And here everything is quite simple: millions of people were killed, many of them were glorified by us as new martyrs. Their murder seemed to go unnoticed - in Moscow so far there are no streets that would bear their names, there are no monuments in their honor. And one has only to call this murder a murder, as a chorus of voices will follow: not everything is so simple, the losses are exaggerated.

What does Voikov have to do with it? Yes, despite the fact that all this fuss around the renaming of the station is intended to show that there is absolutely no agreement in society about the crimes of the Bolsheviks, which means it’s better not to touch anything. And that these crimes themselves were, in fact, the “excess of the performer”: well, Voikov, Yurovsky and a couple of other people killed the royal family, so they are scoundrels, and we have nothing to do with it. But we are the heirs of great victories, the red flag over the Reichstag, Gagarin in space - this is all ours forever. But the Cheka and the Gulag - no.

That doesn't happen. You can refuse an inheritance, you can accept it - but then you accept all the costs, all encumbrances, all the debts of the deceased. In this case, it is a debt of memory, the burden of a terrible past and the need to comprehend it. Until that happens, we as a society are not immune from the repetition of this abomination.

Rethinking past events and changing behavior, remember?

The second thing that made me think about national repentance is . He is no longer talking about the communists - about the democrats, who today are in opposition to the authorities. He notes that practically none of them rethought in the public space their experience of working for the same government in the early 2000s. That is, yesterday they were “for”, today they are “against”, and it all somehow goes without saying, without trying to analyze past mistakes and misconceptions.

Moreover, the same applies to the experience of the nineties. They are usually painted with either black or white paint. Only very rarely can one hear from those who consider them cursed - and where did the current stability and spirituality come from, if not from there? And from those who call them blessed - and where did this blessing evaporate, who and what mistakes did they make?

We, as a people, as a society, are like children who suddenly start playing pirates or astronauts and just as suddenly quit the game, so that at dinner there is nothing left of either a black-flagged frigate or an interplanetary cruiser. And tomorrow there will be a new game, and the day after tomorrow another one, and no one will remember what they played there the day before yesterday.

It's definitely time for us to grow up. This means, first of all, taking responsibility. Can it be collective? Don't think. But she can be solidary.

Collective responsibility is when one soldier is caught AWOL, and now the entire company is canceled dismissals. It's simple, we can do it. Solidarity is when we think and decide together what and when went wrong with us and what can be changed. Yes, at the same time we often argue, do not agree on assessments - this, of course, is difficult and sometimes unpleasant.

Repentance is needed not for show, not for condemning individual guilty parties (of course, not ourselves), but for the sake of recognizing a simple thing: everything that has happened and is happening with our country is not the result of the actions of mysterious Jewish masons or individual villains, but a natural consequence of the actions of our own people, including ourselves. And now it is we who determine what our grandchildren will inherit and what word they will remember us with. We, and not the world behind the scenes, are not internal enemies or individual irresponsible comrades.

Such repentance is not so much an event as a long and very difficult process of awareness and change.

In order not to be unfounded, I want to give just one personal example. This year, for the first time in all these years, I participated in "" - I read at the Solovetsky stone the names of two citizens who were shot and completely unknown to me. To them I added the name of Brigadier Commissar Alexander Mikhailovich Kruglov-Landa, my great-aunt's husband, who was shot in October 1938 and rehabilitated in 1956. I knew for a long time that he lived in the world and was killed - but only this year I took the trouble to figure out who he really was, how and when he died.

It turned out to be quite easy, the information is on the net. Kruglov-Landa, before his arrest, acted as head of the Political Directorate of the Red Army, and indeed his biography is an exemplary biography of a Bolshevik commissar. Probably, that's why I was in no hurry to find out what I imagined about it ... I liked the biography of my own grandfather much more - a born nobleman, a professional military man, a veteran order bearer.

And yet, Kruglov-Landa was killed on a false charge, he had no descendants left, to keep the memory of him is my duty, which I forgot about. He established this system in our country, he certainly contributed to the Great Terror in one way or another, and he fell victim to it in the end. And he could fight like my own grandfather, and meet the victorious spring in Berlin, Vienna, Budapest, in high ranks and military awards.

In those very thirties, photographs of nobles and officers were erased from family albums; today, the names of NKVD officers and commissars are carefully erased from family memory. But there were millions of them, they left many descendants. Where are they all? Or, as Sergei Dovlatov asked: “We endlessly scold Comrade Stalin, and, of course, for the cause. And yet I want to ask - who wrote four million denunciations? Or, going back to the same nineties - how did it happen that after the victory over communism, we voluntarily gave the battlefield to marauders?

Do I have the right to remember only that part of personal or family history, the history of my people, which looks beautiful and promises honors and benefits? Do I have the right not to draw conclusions for the future? Rhetorical questions, Certainly. But without a real answer to them, without a genuine rethinking and return to the right path, we will continue to circle in the dark from generation to generation, repeating previous mistakes, yearning for yesterday's mirages.

Nowadays, among a small part of the Orthodox clergy and laity, the so-called "Order of the nationwide repentance of the Russian people" has become widespread. The inspirers of this "Chin" offer all Orthodox people to personally repent of the betrayal and murder of Tsar Nicholas II and his family members, regarding participation in the "Chin" as the only possible form of rebirth of the Russian people.

It must be said that they start from wrong premises and therefore arrive at wrong conclusions. First of all, they misinterpret the Epistles of His Holiness the Patriarch and the Holy Synod on the 75th anniversary (Message I) and the 80th anniversary (Message II) of the assassination of Nicholas II and members of his family. These Epistles are called upon to play the role of camouflage devices for them in order to hide the anti-Church activities of some of them. But even if we proceed from the assumption that they act sincerely (which does not fit with the nature of their actions), then even then it is not possible to achieve the results they desire.

First of all, one phrase is taken out of context, which is present in the First and Second Epistle, which is given a broad interpretation in any sense, namely: "The sin of regicide, which occurred with the indifference of the citizens of Russia, is not repented by our people. sin lies as a heavy burden on the soul of the people, on their moral self-consciousness. On this phrase, as well as on an arbitrary interpretation of the tragic events Russian history the whole ideology of "Chin" is being built. However, in Epistle I this phrase is followed by words that give the key to a correct understanding of this issue: "And today we, on behalf of the whole Church, on behalf of all her children - dead and now living - bring repentance before God and people for this sin. Forgive us, Lord! We call to repentance all our people, all their children, regardless of their political views and views on history, regardless of their ethnic origin, religious affiliation, their attitude to the idea of ​​a monarchy and to the personality of the last Russian emperor.

That is, the Orthodox Church, on behalf of the highest church authority, testifies that it was a crime, a sin, and brings repentance for this sin committed on our earth. At the same time, all citizens, even non-Orthodox ones, are called to realize this crime. The message contains an appeal to the state authorities to legally condemn "the committed atrocity, thereby restoring the continuity of their loyalty to the law and morality." It focuses on the moral assessment of what happened and calls on all citizens to comprehend the spiritual and historical tragedy. Message II again states that "The memory of perfect lawlessness, the feeling of guilt for its impenitence has not been blotted out among our people. The murder of the royal family is a heavy burden on the people's conscience, which keeps the consciousness that many of our ancestors, through direct participation, approval or silent connivance, are guilty of this sin. crime will move us to commit on this day a general repentance for the sin of apostasy and regicide, accompanied by fasting and abstinence, so that the Lord hears our prayers and blesses our Fatherland with peace and prosperity. On this day, we call on and bless the archpastors and pastors of our Holy Church to perform memorial services for the murdered Emperor Nicholas II, his wife Empress Alexandra, their children - Olga, Tatiana, Maria, Anastasia, Alexy, their faithful servants and all in the time of fierce persecution for the faith of Christ tortured and killed, and the Lord Himself knows them."

Thus, the rite of repentance for the sin of regicide, in the form in which it was proposed by the highest church authority, has already been completed in the Russian Orthodox Church.

In addition, repentance is the glorification of the holy royal martyrs and new martyrs of Russia, and the construction of churches on the site of the murder of the royal family, and the construction of other churches in honor of the new martyrs, and the collection of materials about their lives, and many other deeds that restore historical truth and justice, unite us with the saints and separating us from the apostates. St. John of Shanghai and San Francisco, in the Sermon delivered in the Brussels Church-Monument in 1962, characterizing the meaning of the tragedy of the Russian people and the ways of their spiritual healing, said: "His blood is on us and on our children." Not only on the current generation, but also on the new one, since it will be brought up in sympathy for the crimes and moods that led to regicide (highlighted by us. - Prot. A.). Only a complete spiritual break with them, the consciousness of their criminality and sinfulness, and repentance for themselves and for their ancestors will free Rus' from the sin lying on it. The Temple-Monument calls to this, it tells us about this. This temple is a candle from the entire Russian Diaspora for the All-Russian Tsar-Martyr, for the royal family and for all those who suffered in the years of hardship: It will remain so until, by the grace of God, a majestic temple is erected on behalf of the entire Russian people over the formidable Yekaterinburg mine> . From the above words it is clear that Saint John understands the sin of regicide in the new generation not as a hereditary sin (like original sin), but as a result of education in sympathy for the crimes that led to regicide; he regards the construction of the Temple-Monument in Brussels as evidence of the repentance of a new generation of Russian people for what was done during the years of the godless onslaught. Churches at the site of the Yekaterinburg tragedy and in other places, about which St. John spoke as the hoped-for mercy of God, were evidence of the repentance of our people in the Fatherland.

This does not mean at all that members of the Church should not or cannot repent for sins, one way or another connected with apostasy from God and faith, or outright rebellion against God; let everyone examine his conscience and come to the realization of his sins. If someone was and is a member of atheistic political organizations, was a flywheel or a cog in repressive mechanisms that destroyed our people spiritually and physically, there are plenty of reasons to cleanse your soul as soon as possible. The one who justifies tyrants and executioners, who turned our compatriots into "camp dust", who persecuted the righteous, of course, continues to this day to be under a formidable predestination - "For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all wickedness and unrighteousness of men who suppress the truth with unrighteousness" (Rom 1, 18 ). If we walk the streets and squares bearing the names of the ideologues of terror, main goal which was destruction Russian Empire, we calmly look at the gloomy temple on the main square of the country, and with its appearance and architecture, and in essence affirming the ancient throne of wickedness among Orthodox churches, then, of course, this is also the fault of the Orthodox. We are responsible for both good and bad, and therefore we must, according to the words of the Apostle, "perform prayers, petitions, intercessions, thanksgiving for all people" (1 Tim 2, 1).

It does not mean the glorification of the new martyrs and the fact that our historical tragedy is recognized by all our people as a spiritual tragedy and that the issue has been resolved and closed. Not at all. In particular, there is still no legal qualification of both the Yekaterinburg tragedy and the numerous crimes of the godless authorities that claimed the lives of millions of our best people (researchers characterize these acts as a series of planned demographic disasters growing to the scale of genocide, which led to the modern depopulation of the people). The Church constantly reminds of the need to adopt legal acts that condemn the crimes of the past and tear us, as citizens, from a vicious heritage and purify our civic conscience. In particular, the recent Statement of the Communications Service of the Department for External Church Relations of the Moscow Patriarchate states: "High representatives of the modern Russian state the murder of the royal family and the repressions that followed the revolution were repeatedly spoken of as inhuman and immoral crimes. However, it is regrettable that this crime has not yet received a legal assessment that would become an integral part of the modern Russian legal framework and would ensure its connection with the thousand-year history of the Russian state. In addition, the appearance of such a legal solution would be clear evidence of the condemnation of this crime and similar atrocities by the Russian state, which, according to international law, is the legal successor Soviet Union. This step would be of great civil importance, since Tsar Nikolai Alexandrovich was the head of state not only for the Orthodox Russian people, but also for representatives of all nationalities and religions of the Russian Empire.

This situation is possible because many of our compatriots live without awareness of the moral and spiritual origins domestic tragedies XX century.

The Church, however, gave an assessment of what happened, glorifying the royal family and the new martyrs at the Bishops' Council in 2000. This glorification shows that the people of God live with the awareness of their rightness and righteousness, staying with them and with the host of Russian New Martyrs in prayerful unity in the One Church - Heavenly and Earthly. It is fundamentally wrong to blame church children for persecution: for we are together with them in one hope and have compassion with them, we kiss their sores, we have them as intercessors for us before God. And this is not due to participation in any "Order", but because we are with them in the same City and in the same citizenship - the Church.

All of the above does not mean that the highest church authority cannot offer another Order, if it is considered spiritually expedient and justified. However, such a Chin can only come from the hierarchy and serve for unity, and not for the separation of church children. Therefore, any other way of introducing any rank of repentance is a lack of rank and an act of seduction and anti-church.

Let us note in this connection the bewilderment caused by the blessing by individual bishops of one of the variants of the "Order of All-People's Repentance"; in our opinion, they, by doing this, exceed the measure of their power, since their blessing can only extend to the corresponding dioceses. But diocesan hierarchs cannot introduce or allow in the dioceses entrusted to them any special "Orders of nationwide repentance", since this leads to division of the people of God. And although the compilers and inspirers of the "Chin" define it as a "project", pointing out that they are not trying to "impose it exactly in the form in which it is presented", but humbly lay "it at the feet of the highest hierarchy in order to facilitate the work of our archpastors and not to experience God's long-suffering, postponing repentance for sins against the Faith and the Tsar, which weigh heavily on our people>, however, in reality, no one pays attention to the word "project": it is used as an official church document. , it makes sense to consult with the Synodal Theological Commission about the consequences of such a step.

In addition, in the "Exhortation", which precedes the "Chin" itself, such an interpretation of the tragic events of 1917 is given, which cannot be accepted without violating history and common sense. We read: “After the capture of the tsar by a state and military conspiracy in March 1917, already three days later, the Synod, on behalf of the Church, canceled the commemoration of the One anointed by him to the kingdom and issued a decree to commemorate the perjurious Provisional Government at divine services. Behind this apostasy of the military of the upper class, members of the tsarist government and members of the Synod naturally followed the connivance of regicide by the people and the army, deceived in their conscience by such perfidious "blessings" and orders. Like lightning from head to toe, the whole society was struck by the betrayal that crucified Holy Russia. Everything here is not true. It is not true that Holy Rus' was crucified in 1917 - Holy Rus' disappeared from Russia gradually, visible evidence of this transformation was the abolition of the patriarchate, when Tsar Peter legally turned the Church into a "Department"; The Church of the century did not have the opportunity to convene a bishops' council, and the free voice of the Patriarch was not heard: Nevertheless, the authors of both the "Exhortation" and the "Order" place a terrible responsibility on the Church in the person of the Synod for everything that happened in those fateful days. As if there was no abdication of the Tsar in favor of the brother of the Grand Duke Mikhail, who knew nothing about it, the abdication of the Grand Duke Mikhail in favor of the Provisional Government and the future Constituent Assembly: Are we going to take myths out of history, will we believe them and educate the people on them?

In our opinion, the outstanding Orthodox thinker Ivan Alexandrovich Ilyin deeply understood and expressed the essence of the tragedy of Russia in the 20th century. Let us turn to his article "Why did the monarchical system collapse in Russia?" He answers this question as follows: "Russia lacked a strong and faithful monarchist sense of justice." I. Ilyin has in mind such a sense of justice, which is inextricably linked with the will and action. Such a sense of justice - loyalty to the monarchy, the duty to observe it - was not in all layers of the then Russian society - from top to bottom. With the lower classes, everything is clear: the meaning of the monarchy was lost in almost all strata of the then society. Let's go to the top. I. Ilyin writes: "... The Sovereign and the Grand Duke renounced not only the "right" to the throne, but their religiously consecrated, monarchical and dynastic duty to observe the throne, rule authoritatively, save their people in the hour of greatest danger and return them to the path of fidelity, responsibility and obedience to one's lawful Sovereign". Ilyin points out that neither Nicholas II nor Michael II had legal right to abdicate the throne, to talk about it under any pressure, under any betrayal - means to move away from the monarchical sense of justice. Continuing, he says: "Being a member of a dynasty means not only having a subjective right to the throne... but a sacred duty to save and lead one's people..." Why did such a radical weakening of the monarchical legal consciousness in the highest ruling stratum before the revolution take place? "... Over the past decades, the confident and imperious well-being of the Russian ruling Dynasty seemed to have been shaken. Perhaps the revolutionary pressure weakened her faith in her vocation, shook her will to power and faith in the power of the royal title, as if her sense of that the Throne obliges, that the Throne and fidelity to it are the beginnings of national salvation, and that each member of the Dynasty can one day become an organ of this salvation and must prepare himself for this fateful hour ... "This is where this historical event comes from: the Dynasty in the person of two sovereigns She did not strain the energy of her will and power, stepped away from the throne and decided not to fight for it.She chose the path of non-resistance and, it’s scary to say, went to her death in order not to cause a civil war that one people had to wage without a king and not for tsar... When you contemplate this living tragedy of our Dynasty, your heart stops and it becomes difficult to talk about it: The people were freed from the oath and left to the will of their seducers. IN open door a stream of the most damning assertive temptation in history gushed, and those who poured this temptation wanted power over Russia at all costs." from a fundamental misunderstanding of the essence of the Orthodox monarchy.In addition, there was no expression of the will of the people, no representative assembly was convened to clarify this will (Zemsky Sobor), and even in war conditions this was impossible.

Consequently, the penitential formulations proposed in the "Order" and arising from the postulated "betrayal" cannot have a place among the Orthodox, many of whom remain ideologically loyal to the monarchy.

After all, we are offered to personally repent of absolutely fantastic sins, which is violence against the conscience of the faithful. For example: "I did not condemn the lawful overthrow of the divinely established power, the abolition church commemoration The Anointed One of God, the decision of the Synod to commemorate the perjurable Provisional Government at divine services (March 1917) and through this - betrayal of the oath of allegiance to the God-established authorities and the cessation of prayer for the Orthodox state>. In another variant of "nationwide repentance", an even more radical self-flagellation is proposed: "Lord, have mercy on us for participating in the revolutions of 1905, 1917: Lord, have mercy on us for participating in civil war: Lord, have mercy on us for treason to the Motherland and participation in hostilities on the side of the enemy and cooperation with the invaders, for violating the military oath to the Motherland: Lord, have mercy on us for treason to the Motherland and the treacherous flight of the Russian scientific and creative intelligentsia abroad after the collapse of the Soviet Union. ..” It is difficult to imagine how one can repent of imperfect sins. The Church has never required those who come to the temple to repent of the sins of their parents.

The compilers of the "Order" (they call themselves "zealots of national repentance") introduce a dogmatic innovation - the "hereditary sin of regicide", which is not washed away even by baptism, but only by participation in the proposed "Order". Moreover, nothing helped the Russian people in the past and does not help in the present - neither the glorification of the Royal Passion-Bearers, "because, according to them, the recognition of the holiness of the Royal Martyrs does not free us from sin, there is no purification, a change in consciousness, the rebirth of a person into a new creature> (and it happened, in their opinion, belatedly, only in 2000; as the "zealots" say, "killed and glorified"), nor the construction of majestic temples at the site of the murder, because "the construction of the temple alone does not destroy sin: you can't get rid of God. Indulgence does not save from the wrath of God." These words are a mockery of the sincere sacrifice for the construction of temples of many people, which the ideologists of "Chin" now declare "indulgence." Priest Daniil Sysoev rightly writes in the article "Theological temptations of the monarchist movement" that "if. .. we will accept the now so popular doctrine of the second hereditary sin of Russians - the sin of regicide, which, in addition, is not washed away by baptism, then we will inevitably come to heresy against the 10th article of the Creed. After all, it turns out that the greatest Sacrament of Baptism is not able to wash away from our souls the supposed filth of regicide, passed down to us from our ancestors. " However, no arguments of the "zealots" shake.

In the ideology of "Chin" one can clearly see the desire to divert the consciousness of the faithful from the true culprits of both the Yekaterinburg atrocity and the terror organized against the Church. "Creators of catastrophes" who carried out ritual murders are skillfully removed from the circle of the accused. There is only one culprit - the Russian people, which must recognize and accept the stigma of apostasy.

The activity and ideology of the "Chin" inspirers give grounds to speak of them as sectarians, whose main task is to split the Church, to bring confusion into church life, opposing some priests and bishops to others.

The leaders of this sect act secretly, hiding their names. But from some sources it is known that they themselves, by their origin, are far removed from the Russian people, whom they hypocritically call to repentance; they themselves, fiery fighters against TIN and new passports, have funds registered under new passports in their names and the names of other persons; they themselves receive significant funds from "nationwide repentance", having real estate even abroad. Apparently, they want to lead the Russian people into a dead end: along with the so-called "nationwide repentance" to impose the glorification of Grigory Rasputin, Ivan the Terrible, maybe Stalin, as well as a new dogma about the "tsar-redeemer", and then laugh at the people and Russia: that public cannot have good goals.

The ideologists of Chin are also trying to instill the idea that the restoration of the pre-revolutionary monarchy is our only political path. Their heads are turned back, and they want everyone's heads to be turned back to the 19th century. In fact, if we learn anything from history and if we ever rise to the level of an Orthodox monarchy, then, of course, in the realization that it will not be the same as it was. In Russia, the symphony of authorities - spiritual and sovereign - will be restored. The dissonance in this symphony largely led to the upheaval of 1917. First of all, there will be a Patriarch and a Tsar in Russia, the Patriarch will take his rightful place in the Assumption Cathedral, and the Tsar will be guided by the spiritual instructions of the Patriarch, and not by random people; in monarchist Russia, the free voice of the Church will be heard, she will make free judgments on all issues public life, she will never again be a shackled "department" in the state. Apparently, this is not what the false friends of the monarchy want.

In conclusion, we note that the gullibility with which individuals, obeying certain inner urges for truth and justice, easily accept new teachings, especially if they are embellished with radical eschatology and all-encompassing apocalypticism, can be considered a regrettable sign of our time; they are ready to hand over their fate to the first person they meet, if only he will speak fluently about the last times that have come. There is a total search for the elders, who, of course, in such a rush demand are: Holy Scripture, holy fathers, great Orthodox theology in such a state of mind find themselves in oblivion; The vast experience of the Russian New Martyrs, unfortunately, often remains unclaimed: they believe in anonymous little books, primitive fiction. All this leads to sad distortions in the spiritual life, of which the "Order of Repentance of the Russian People" serves as an example.

Archpriest Alexy Sidorenko,
Vice-Rector for Research of the Tobolsk Orthodox Church theological seminary,
Candidate of Theology, Candidate of Philosophical Sciences

“Consciously or unconsciously, but the preachers of these pseudo-Orthodox ideas are objectively working to discredit Orthodoxy in the eyes of Russian society, to weaken and split the Church.”

One of the directions of the information war with the “Soviet legacy”, in addition to the alienation of the name “Russia” in their favor by the descendants of white emigrants, is the accusation of the resulting “non-Russians” (that is, the entire Orthodox population of real Russia, and not foreign) of the so-called. "sin of regicide". The best arbiter in this matter is the Russian Orthodox Church, to which, in theory, they should belong.

Therefore, we turn to her opinion. back in 2008.***

How to relate to the Order of "conciliar repentance" in the sin of regicide? Over the past decade, literature has been circulating in the Orthodox environment in which every Orthodox Christian is encouraged to repent of the sin of regicide, even specific sins against royal power were listed.

However, only since 2004, some supporters of such "repentance" began to openly proclaim the need for every inhabitant of Russia to undergo a special "Rite of repentance for the sin of regicide." To do this, bright posters, and now bright Internet sites, invite each of us to take part in the so-called. The rite of the Universal Repentance of the Russian people for the sin of regicide, which is held in the village of Taininsky near Moscow at the monument to the last Russian emperor, and since recently in some dioceses of the Russian Orthodox Church.

Why are the zealots of “cathedral repentance” urging us to go to the Moscow region and what exactly are they calling to repent of there? What arguments exist for such an opinion and does it agree with the Tradition of the Orthodox Church?

In order to answer these questions, we will have to turn to the propaganda literature that is now being distributed among the Orthodox.

They are trying to convince an Orthodox person that nothing more or less weighs on the Russian people, like a curse for the sin of betrayal and murder of the Royal Family in 1917, and a violation of the oath of the Russian people, given in 1613 during the accession to the Throne of the Romanov dynasty. This forms the belief that in 1613 the oath of allegiance to the tsar was taken not only by persons directly involved in the activities of the Zemsky Sobor, but also by all subsequent generations of Russians who share responsibility for the atrocities of the Bolsheviks, and in general for all residents Soviet Russia. Among the supporters of "repentance for the king" a strange doctrine is spreading, that “The curse weighs on the people, and it will pass from generation to generation on our descendants until we repent”.

Obviously, all Orthodox are here called to repent for a crime that they did not personally commit. After all, the calls for “repentance” are not so much about those who really participated in the execution of the family of the royal martyrs, but about the entire population of Russia.

Even unknown to the Church, the concept of the “Cathedral Personality” of the Russian people is introduced, which allegedly needs to repent for renouncing the tsar and for his murder. This new term is used to preach the need for the Orthodox to repent for the sins of their ancestors, some of whom really lost their faith and participated in a rebellion against the state system of the Russian Empire, and also wished the death of its Emperor.

In the Orthodox tradition, on the contrary, it is customary for the sins of the ancestors to bring not repentance, but prayers so that the Lord forgives their sins. Moreover, we offer such prayers only for those members of the Church who, at least before death, brought God the repentance they could for their deeds, and thereby reconciled themselves with the Lord and the Church.

And the conviction that regardless of a person’s closeness to God, he is responsible for the sins of those close to him, or that the Lord imputes repentance and piety of the righteous to an unrepentant sinner, is based on a magical attitude towards the salvation of a person, therefore such a view cannot be recognized as Orthodox.

The doctrine that the blame for the sin of one person passes on to his descendants is contrary to the Word of God. According to the Psalmist, "A man will never redeem his brother, nor will he give God a ransom for him"(Ps. 49:8).

In the time of the prophet Ezekiel, it was widely believed that children were responsible for the sins of their parents.

Here is the answer the Lord gave through this prophet: “If a son is born to anyone, who, seeing all the sins of his father, sees and does not do like them ... fulfills My commands and does according to My commandments, then this one will not die for the iniquity of his father; he will be alive. And his father... will die for his iniquity. You say: "Why does not the son bear the guilt of his father?" Because the son acts lawfully and righteously, he will live ... The son will not bear the guilt of the father, and the father will not bear the guilt of the son, the righteousness of the righteous remains with him, and the iniquity of the lawless with him remains ”(Ezek. 18:14-20).

All this leads us to the idea of ​​the need to repent during the earthly career. Indeed, after the death of a person, only the prayers of the Church can help him, and only if the rudiments of repentance were before death. But never in the history of the Church have attempts been made to accept baptism for the deceased (which is what the adherents of the Mormon sect are doing now), or to repent of his sins at confession. All this is a departure from the ancient tradition of performing the Sacrament of Confession, where the priest convinces the penitent to repent only for his sins ( "The whole rtsy, you made the fir-tree"), and not for the sins of ancestors or living relatives. It is impossible to repent for another person, you can only pray for him. “I ask you, most beloved brethren, that we confess each of our sins while the sinner is still in this life, when his confession can be accepted, when the satisfaction and forgiveness performed by the priests is pleasing to the Lord”, - so instructs us, who lived in the III century, St. Cyprian of Carthage.

The history of the ancient Church tells us about the existence of such a form of repentance as public confession. Gradually, she was supplanted by secret repentance, before the priest. Whether publicly or secretly, a Christian has always repented of his own sin, and not of the sins of others.

Perhaps, due to a misunderstanding, such expressions as “inherited sin” entered the circulation of leaflets distributed, because according to the teachings of the Church, one can only talk about the ancestral sin of Adam and Eve, the consequences of which (human inclination to evil and sin, and not the guilt itself for personal sin of Adam and Eve) passed on to all people. But we receive deliverance from the consequences of original sin once in the Sacrament of Holy Baptism. The Church knows no other "hereditary sins".

However, it is important to understand how to understand all those calls for repentance of the Russian people for the apostasy and murder of the tsar, which are so often quoted by the zealots of "cathedral repentance".

Shortly after the murder of the royal family in 1918, St. Tikhon, Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia expressed his attitude to this atrocity in the following way: “But we, to our sorrow and shame, have lived to the time when a clear violation of the commandments of God is no longer only not recognized as a sin, but is justified as legal. So, a terrible deed happened the other day: the former Sovereign Nikolai Alexandrovich was shot ... We must, in obedience to the teaching of the Word of God, condemn this deed, otherwise the blood of the executed will fall on us, and not only on those who committed it ... ".

There is no doubt that people who approve of a crime turn out to be its accomplices. Therefore, everyone who even mentally approved of the murder of the royal family (as well as any unjust murder) must repent at the Sacrament of Confession.

A similar idea was expressed at the All-Diaspora Bishops' Council in 1938 by Archbishop. John (Maximovich) : “not only individuals are guilty of the sin of regicide, but the whole people, who rejoiced at the occasion of the overthrow of the Tsar and allowed His humiliation, arrest and exile, leaving defenseless in the hands of criminals, which by itself predetermined the end ... there is still no real repentance, obviously the crimes committed have not been condemned, and many active participants in the revolution now continue to assert that at that time it was impossible to do otherwise. Without expressing direct condemnation of the February revolution, the uprising against the Anointed One, the Russian people continue to participate in sin, especially when they stand up for the fruits of the revolution..

In these words of the foreign hierarch, we again see a call to the Soviet people to reconsider their attitude to the Revolution as a rebellion against the state system and the emperor, as the head of this state. Repentance is here John understands already as a reassessment of values ​​​​and condemnation of what happened.

Somewhat later, Archbishop of the Russian Church Abroad Averky (Taushev) speaks not about the assassination of the tsar itself, but about the atmosphere of approval of the October Revolution and the overthrow of the tsar that prevailed in Russia: “Weak consolation for us is that the direct murder of the Royal Family was not committed by Russian hands, but by the hands of non-Orthodox and non-Russian people. Although this is true, the entire Russian people is guilty of this terrible, unparalleled atrocity, since they did not resist, did not prevent it, but behaved in such a way that this atrocity was an expression of the mood that by that time had matured in the minds and in the hearts of the undoubted majority of the unfortunate lost Russian people ... The entire Russian people bear the blame for this grave sin committed on Russian soil ”.

As in the words of St. Tikhon and ep. John (Maximovich), here Vladyka Averky speaks not so much about the fact of regicide, but about the idea that reigned in the minds of the citizens of the USSR of the approval of this sin, and, therefore, complicity in it.

In 1993, the Hierarchy of the Russian Church again turned to the topic of repentance for the murder of the royal family. On July 18, the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church issued a Message dedicated to the 75th anniversary of this monstrous crime, in which the words of St. Tikhon the Confessor and noted that “The sin of regicide, which occurred with the indifference of the citizens of Russia, is not repented by our people. Being a crime of both Divine and human law, this sin lies with the heaviest burden on the soul of the people, on its moral self-awareness. And today we, on behalf of the entire Church, on behalf of all her children - the dead and now living - bring repentance before God and people for this sin. Forgive us, Lord! We call to repentance all our people, all their children, regardless of their political views and views on history, regardless of their ethnic origin, religious affiliation, their attitude to the idea of ​​a monarchy and to the personality of the last Russian Emperor..

Addressing in this Epistle to the children of the Russian Orthodox Church, His Holiness Patriarch Alexy II, as Her Primate, really expressed, on behalf of the entire Russian Church, repentance for what had happened and condemned this sin. There is no doubt that our First Hierarch expressed the repentance of those church people who were somehow (even sympathetically) involved in this crime, so that even the shadow of this atrocity would not fall on the members of the Holy Church.

Mention here" deceased and now living” is also not accidental. Speaking on behalf of the entire Church, His Holiness the Patriarch offered up repentance for sin on behalf of those members of the Church who had already departed to the heavenly world and could not publicly repent of this crime. Here it is also appropriate to recall how, in the rite of a church burial, the priest, on behalf of the deceased, addresses his relatives and asks for their prayers: “cry for me brothers and friends, relatives and knowledge”. However, this does not mean that the clergyman repents INSTEAD of the deceased. Church canons indicate that a pastor should treat a penitent sinner as if it were his own sins. It is precisely this kind of pastoral care that His Holiness Patriarch Alexy II shows us, prompting unrepentant sinners to bring personal repentance.

Thus, for all the inhabitants of Russia, repentance for the sin of regicide should manifest itself in a deep understanding of the fate of our Motherland, in a reassessment of those tragic trends in the history of Russia, which led to the possibility of overthrowing the legitimate head of the Russian state, the subsequent murder of the royal family and other godless deeds. The term "repentance" from Greek means "change of mind", and in these words of the Hierarchy we see precisely this meaning.

In 2000, a significant event took place: at the Bishops' Council of the Russian Orthodox Church, the Royal Family was canonized as holy martyrs. After the repentant words of Patriarch Alexy II, this event became the final sign of the Church’s rejection of the crime against the royal family that took place in 1918. It became the only form of “conciliar repentance” in allowing the murder of the Sovereign and the royal family, the need for which many hierarchs spoke our Church.

Nevertheless, the question of the form of repentance for the murder of the God-anointed king continued to be discussed in the church environment. There was a proposal to hold an “all-church conciliar rite of repentance,” just as the holy patriarchs Job and Hermogenes in 1607 in the Assumption Cathedral of the Moscow Kremlin led the “nationwide repentance” for the sins of apostasy, perjury and condoning regicide, which ended with the reading of a permissive prayer. Rumors began to spread that such a new "Order of Repentance" had a blessing from His Holiness the Patriarch. At the same time, the words of the Patriarch about the need for nationwide repentance were taken literally as a call to arrange a special rite, different from the rite of the Sacrament of Confession, set out in the Ritual.

An appeal to the history of the Russian Church shows that the rite of repentance, which was performed in 1607 Holy Patriarchs Job and Hermogenes, firstly, was not literally universal, and secondly, the patriarchs were not released from the burden of sins by the entire Russian people, as the zealots of the new Rite of conciliar repentance claim (when this repentant rite was performed in the Assumption Cathedral, Moscow was worried and shouting out the name of the second Pretender).

At that time, repentance for treason against the tsar was marked primarily by the glorification of Tsarevich Dimitry among the saints, whose holy relics were opened for veneration in the Archangel Cathedral of the Kremlin. Before St. with the relics of the prince’s mother (nun Martha) and brought “nationwide repentance” (i.e., public repentance before all the people), calling herself guilty before the tsar, the cathedral, all the people, and most of all before her son, that she recognized the Pretender.

Later, the representatives of the laity gave Patras. Job repentant petition, in which they listed a number of their betrayals and perjury and asked the patriarchs to forgive them for betraying the king. In response, a permit was read by Patr. Job, who himself was a participant in the events of the time of Tsar Boris. Patr. Job claimed that just as he used to conjure the people to be faithful to Tsar Boris, now he resolves the people from these oaths of his and asks the people for their forgiveness.

The comprehension of this historical event shows that real perjurers and traitors to the tsar brought repentance, and they brought repentance to the very Patriarch through whom they swore an oath to the Sovereign, and who took an oath for treason to Tsars Boris and Theodore.

As an argument about the possibility of bringing repentance for the dead, the zealots of conciliar repentance refer to the requests of the representatives of the laity that Patr. Job forgave and resolved these crimes not only for them alone, who live in Moscow, but also for the inhabitants of all Russia, and for those who have already died.

In response to such arguments, it should be noted that neither the bishop nor the priest ever allow the sins of either the living or the deceased Orthodox Christians, if they have not brought God the repentance they can for the sins they have committed. Otherwise, there is a profanation of the Sacrament of Repentance, when the forgiveness of those sins in which a person does not repent or even did not commit is announced. When, during the Rite of Burial, the priest reads the Prayer of Permissiveness, he asks God to forgive those sins of the deceased, for which he repented, but did not yet have time to bear worthy fruits of repentance.

Therefore, the fact of resolving the sins of the participants in the Troubles in 1607 is not a reason for us to arrange a special rite of repentance for betraying the tsar and the murder of the royal family. Such actions rather lead a person away from real repentance, distract him from the awareness of those sins that really separate him from God. In addition, in the statements about the guilt of all of Russia and even church people in regicide, an attempt is visible to shift the blame of the true perpetrators of regicide to the Church and those who have nothing to do with this.

Considering the need for Russians to repent of the sin of regicide, it is impossible not to recall the words of His Holiness Patriarch Alexy II that “ The beginning of Russian history was marked by the murder of the Holy Martyrs Boris and Gleb, and is it not in this sin that the national misfortunes that followed him are rooted?. But why are they now calling to repent of the murder of the royal family? Why is it not said about the martyrs Boris and Gleb, about the persecution of St. Tikhon the Confessor and the great host of New Martyrs and Confessors of Russia? After all, we remember that hundreds of thousands of clergymen and most of the bishops suffered during the hard times. Why don't supporters of "nationwide repentance" call for repentance for their murder?

The meeting of the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church chaired by His Holiness Patriarch Alexy II of Moscow and All Rus', held on April 20, 2005, was devoted to understanding the phenomenon of “cathedral repentance”:

“The Holy Synod had a judgment on the initiatives coming from some groups of Orthodox laity to hold a “repentant procession” from different dioceses to Moscow on the anniversary of the murder of the holy martyrs of Emperor Nicholas Alexandrovich, members of his family and those who suffered with them ...

In the Sacrament of Penance, the one who confesses his sins receives forgiveness from the priest and is resolved from sins by the Lord Jesus Christ Himself. This Sacrament reconciles and reunites a person with the Church, restores him to a grace-filled life in Christ, and eliminates the mediation between God and a person that arises due to sinful deeds committed by a particular person. The Holy Synod recalls that in the Church there are quite definite forms of celebrating the Sacrament of Penance, rooted in Holy Tradition and consecrated by centuries of tradition. Departure from these forms seems unjustified and unnecessary. The history of the Church knows examples of nationwide prayerful-repentant feat, raised for the sake of the moral purification of the people in times of unrest and disorder. In particular, the church hierarchy has repeatedly called for understanding and moral assessment of the sinful deeds committed in the past century, when, according to the words of St. Tikhon, “sin darkened the mind of the people ... kindled everywhere the flame of passions, enmity and malice”, which caused persecution of the Church, desecration of shrines, fratricide, including the murder of the holy martyr Emperor Nicholas Alexandrovich and his family.

The Patriarch and the Holy Synod twice, in connection with the 75th and 80th anniversary of the suffering death of the royal family, called for nationwide repentance for this sin. We believe that many children of our Church brought God such repentance, which was expressed in the desire to expel from their lives the sinful obscuration and indifference to the fate of the Church and the Fatherland, which once made it possible to persecute the Church, plunge the country into the abyss of fratricidal hatred and bloodshed.

The true fruit of the repentance brought was the ongoing return of the people to the paths of faith, piety and life in Christ, and its visible evidence is the reckoning of the Russian Orthodox Church royal family and new martyrs and confessors to the canon of saints at the Jubilee Bishops' Council in 2000.

A repentant comprehension of the historical tragedy that has befallen our people should not be accompanied by statements about the invariable and unique acceptability for Orthodox Christians of this or that state system. The Holy Synod recalls that the teaching of the Church on the state system was clearly expressed in the "Fundamentals social concept Russian Orthodox Church".

Recognizing the right of the clergy to individually express their private opinion on various issues,The Holy Synod notes with regret that recently some pastors and, unfortunately, in rare cases even bishops, have allowed themselves to participate in the collective signing of texts that differ in content from the Council's definitions. This actually leads to the creation of groups that prefer conciliar reasoning, which takes place in canonically established forms, an organized expression of one-sided opinions not shared by the entire Church. The Holy Synod determines that such actions are contrary to the canonical conciliar structure of the Church, and points out their inadmissibility for the clergy.”

The conclusion of the Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church shows that quoting the words of His Holiness Patriarch Alexy II about the need for “nationwide repentance” as a blessing for the creation of a new Order of nationwide repentance is unlawful and disagrees with the opinion of the Hierarchy of the Russian Church. "Consciously or unconsciously, but the preachers of these pseudo-Orthodox ideas are objectively working to discredit Orthodoxy in the eyes of Russian society, to weaken and split the Church."

In the same 2005, in addition to the Patriarch and members of the Synod, other hierarchs of the Russian and Ukrainian Churches expressed their attitude about the newly appeared Order of World Repentance for the Tsar. According to Metropolitan Sergius of Voronezh and Borisoglebsk “The rite of conciliar popular repentance for the sin of regicide is artificially imposed on the Church by people who seek to achieve its split. Instead of showing the beauty of Orthodoxy and instilling a moral way of life in people, they begin to confuse them.”.

Archbishop Augustine of Lviv and Galicia, in his report at the International Theological Conference "Eschatological Teaching of the Church", expressed the opinion that “orders of nationwide repentance” are invented by unchurched people as opposed to the rite of the sacrament of personal repentance (recorded in the Treasury).

Thus, in 2005, the Hierarchy of the Russian Church unequivocally spoke out regarding the unauthorized "Order of Repentance for the Tsar." However, the "zealots of repentance", unfortunately, did not heed the voice of the Church, and continue to distribute their appeals throughout all the dioceses of the Russian Orthodox Church. These leaflets contain a photograph of His Holiness Patriarch Alexy II, as well as his statements regarding the need for the repentance of the entire Russian people, which are taken out of the context of his statements and do not at all relate to the initiative to hold processions of repentance to the monument to the tsar.

This shows that the compilers of such leaflets deliberately tempt the faithful children of the Russian Church, slyly playing on their trust in the words of the First Hierarch of the Russian Church.

Such actions of schismatic teachers led to the need to once again voice the opinion of the Hierarchy on this issue.

On December 26, 2007, at the diocesan meeting of the clergy of the Kyiv diocese, the Primate of the Ukrainian Church, His Beatitude Metropolitan Volodymyr (Sabodan), rejected the "order of nationwide repentance", calling on priests “delicately brush aside” the idea of ​​“nationwide repentance” by calling her "more like blasphemy than repentance". "Why should we repent of killing the emperor if we didn't kill him?" Vladyka Vladimir asked rhetorically.

The position of His Holiness Patriarch Alexy II on this issue was announced on December 24, 2007 at the Diocesan Assembly of Moscow. The patriarch condemned the so-called. "rite of nationwide repentance", which takes place in the village. Taininskoe, and noted that this “order” cannot be considered a genuine church affair, because. it has a pronounced propaganda character. The clergy who take part in these actions do it either in spite of or without the blessing of the hierarchy. In addition, the text of the rank itself does not correspond to the decisions of the Holy Synod, because it calls for the abandonment of the TIN, insurance policy and similar identification documents.

“We cannot agree with the text of the Mytishchi rank- said His Holiness Patriarch Alexy, - because a special place in it is occupied by the call to repent "for the insufficiency" of the glorification of the new martyrs and the royal family. According to His Holiness, “there is only one redemptive feat — our Lord Jesus Christ, and it is impossible to compare the execution of the emperor and his family with the redemptive sacrifice of the Savior.”.

Also, His Holiness Patriarch Alexy noted the impossibility of comparing this "rank" with the repentance of 1607 - after all, it was the people's repentance for personal sins.

“I declare with all responsibility that this “repentant act” is unacceptable and soul-damaging,” emphasized His Holiness Patriarch Alexy II of Moscow and All Rus'. “It is unacceptable for clergy and laity to participate in ranks similar to the Tainin one.”, — emphasized the primate of the Russian Church.

Priest Alexander Usatov

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  alexey43

  The impossible is inevitable

  20.08.2019 21:12 48

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  Igor Vitalievich Olin Rusrand

  Thousands of citizens have shared the news about the crime of picking blueberries without a license

  In social networks and on various blog platforms, the most popular news of the week was the information that in the Aldan region of Yakutia “a dangerous violator was detained, who without permits collected 2 buckets of blueberries (about 16 liters of berries), which caused damage to the state in the amount of 13 thousand 860 rubles. The authors of the communication referred to the police demanding a license from the attacker to collect more than 5 liters of berry products; payments for payment of the state fee in the amount of 350 rubles; ...

  20.08.2019 19:49 75

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  Rusrand

  Bureaucracy - a lot, sense - little

  The number of officials in Russia is off scale, and the effectiveness of their work is not even zero, but negative. The state apparatus in Russia has grown to such an extent that it has become one of the key problems of the country. Experts calculated that, in a good way, every second official should be sent to the street, but who will allow this to be done? Instead, opportunities are being sought to preserve the bureaucratic status quo (like empty, worthless talk about outsourcing some of the bureaucratic functions) and playing games with statistics. According to the Ministry of Finance, in government agencies of various…

  20.08.2019 19:09 43

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  In Russia, banks offered to block cards when receiving suspicious payments

  Photo: pixabay.com The Association of Banks of Russia (ADB) proposed the new kind fight against fraud. So, banks want to be allowed to block bank card recipient in case of suspicious transactions until the sender himself confirms it. Writes about this "Kommersant". It is noted that the card can be blocked for two days. If the sender of the funds went to the police, the blocking could increase to ...

  20.08.2019 11:51 23

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  sapojnik

  Elections across the throat

  photo: Political clowning There is a funny story in Transbaikalia, which shows well to what extent all these elections are at the throat of the current system, which in principle is not designed for any elections. And there there was a conflict of two basic aspirations of modern Putin's appointees: on the one hand, to remove all competitors, on the other, not to be associated with toxic " United Russia". So,…

  19.08.2019 21:58 59

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  alexey43

  "Vladimir the Great: ..."

  The Independent named His Serene Highness "Vladimir the Great" and one more toponym was added to Peter the Great, Catherine the Great, Veliky Novgorod and the Ivan the Great Bell Tower - there will be a name for the airport. In a sense, this is the moment of truth, of course, very leveled by the decline of education, culture and the complete mincemeat of aesthetic rags instead of understanding the beautiful good-evil, but if you look at the "independents" through the prism...

  19.08.2019 21:38 82

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  Named the regions of Russia with the most expensive gasoline

  Experts of the RIA Rating agency commissioned by RIA Novosti calculated the availability of automotive fuel in the regions of Russia. Residents of the Far North, Moscow and St. Petersburg can buy more gasoline with their average monthly salaries than in other regions of Russia. In Crimea and Sevastopol, where some of the highest fuel prices in Russia, the availability of gasoline is also at a very high…

  19.08.2019 20:55 31

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  Burkina Faso

  Reassessment of the events of August 1991: would defend the State Emergency Committee

  Photo from here Today is the so-called. The liberal and democratic public of Russia is celebrating the events of August 19-21, 1991 as its glorious victory. Victory over totalitarianism and the Soviet partocrats who tried to carry out a coup d'état on that day. But totalitarianism did not pass, and people with good and bright faces defeated bad people with bad faces. This one is strictly naive and obviously ...

  19.08.2019 20:38 74

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  And we are rolling down somersaults along the historical stairs ...

  photo from here Anna-News... I remember that at the dawn of the RUSSIAN spring, we, the inhabitants of Novorossiya, were anxiously awaiting news from the Crimea, which had already managed to escape from the Banderonazi cleansing. We thought that soon all of us, along the same path, would find ourselves together in our native land. Eh, Anna-News, Anna-News ... Strange truth you have now - someone else's. And we are rolling down somersaults along the historical stairs ... Appeared ...

  19.08.2019 19:25 143

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  kajaleksei

  Grandma in two said 3

  I already touched on somehow similar phenomena in the notes: “Grandma said in two” and “Grandma said in two”. Now I decided to pay attention to one funny defect of the popular manipulation, from the same series, common among our guards, who exploit the image of the West, both in the tail and in the mane. On the one hand (when it comes to social security, civil liberties, taxes for the rich, or anything else useful to ...

  19.08.2019 18:50 39

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  Rusrand Rustem Vakhitov

  Who is mad with fat? .. The "revolution" of the libertarians and the silence of the people

  1. SILENCE OF THE MAJORITY If you imagine a person who in the past two weeks would have been deprived of all sources of information, except for the Ekho Moskvy radio and the Dozhd TV channel (and, of course, their pages on the Internet), then there is no doubt: this person would have decided that there was a revolution in Russia! Crowds of thousands take to the streets, they are beaten by riot police and the National Guard, activists are seized, thrown into prison, but new activists rise to replace them. The inhabitants of the Kremlin are shaking with fear, the authorities in the country ...

  19.08.2019 18:09 53

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  Vladislav Shurygin

  STAY ALIVE

  Comrades, against the backdrop of a whole stream of news about adults and children disappearing in the forests (only in the Smolensk region every day (!!!) 3-4 people disappear in the forest), I consider it not superfluous to recall the simplest rules for hiking in the forest that will help you save your life in in case of unforeseen circumstances. It is important to remember that NONE of those who get lost in the forest is not ...

  19.08.2019 14:30 63

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  PNT Catechism: Humanism

  Photo from here The humanistic landmark of world development consists in humanizing a person, bringing him closer to the ideal and revealing human potentials. This landmark is contradicted by the modern practice of dehumanization, dehumanization of a person. Humanism is based on the anthropological image of a true person as a harmoniously developed personality. The systems of education and upbringing worked for the formation of a harmoniously developed personality. However, in Putin's modern system The trainee’s education is being prepared…

  18.08.2019 18:53 60

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  The editors of the "People's Journalist"

  Bryansk blogger Vladimir Chesalin spoke about lawlessness against himself

  The editors of the People's Journalist have already covered the situation of judicial arbitrariness against the Bryansk blogger Vladimir Chesalin. Chesalin V.N. has an active civic position, which does not allow him to be an indifferent layman, silently passing by cases of mismanagement, devastation and negligence that are detrimental to the state. Vladimir is sociable, responsive, and by his personal example contributes to the formation of civil society in Russia. He conscientiously and responsibly makes...