Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church Kirill, in a Christmas interview for the Rossiya-1 TV channel, said that people who left the country after the start of the war in Ukraine can be accepted back if they return “with the realization that they really made a mistake.”
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He said that “There is no need to push away a person who has sinned if he comes with a feeling of repentance, awareness of his guilt.” It seems that if people who left Russia and even somehow opposed it somewhere returned with the understanding that they really made a mistake, then the Motherland cannot reject them.
There, probably, there may still be some law enforcement topics, the extent to which these people are involved in criminal activities, but this no longer concerns the clergy. And I say, drawing attention to the fact that among these people there are also quite worthy, but they made mistakes, or were afraid, or really tried to find something more convenient for themselves in life, comfortable, but were disgraced along the way.
Although Russian Orthodox Church statements called for peace after the Russian invasion of Ukraine began, Patriarch Kirill’s speeches gradually became increasingly bellicose, and in the summer he was included in the British sanctions list for the first time due to his “support for Russian military aggression in Ukraine.”
This week it became known about the ban on the ministry of the rector of the Church of the Holy Trinity in Khokhly, Archpriest Alexei Uminsky, who opposed the war. In May, a church trial took place over Priest John Koval, who replaced the word “victory” with the word “peace” in the prayer “For Holy Rus’,” which the Patriarch blessed to read in all Orthodox churches in the fall of 2022.
Source: Racurs
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