{"id":26982,"date":"2022-03-28T06:44:28","date_gmt":"2022-03-28T10:44:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/?p=26982"},"modified":"2022-03-28T08:46:42","modified_gmt":"2022-03-28T12:46:42","slug":"appeal-of-the-clergy-of-the-russian-orthodox-church-calling-for-reconciliation-and-qn-end-to-the-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/?p=26982","title":{"rendered":"Appeal of the Clergy of the Russian Orthodox Church Calling for Reconciliation and an End to the War"},"content":{"rendered":"
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FREE FLOW OF INFORMATION<\/p>\n

A report from Virtue Online – the Voice for Global Orthodox Anglicanism<\/a><\/p>\n

Russian Priests for Peace News March 1, 2022<\/p>\n

(Click here for the original Russian version <\/a> published in Google docs.)<\/p>\n

We, the priests and deacons of the Russian Orthodox Church, each on our own behalf, appeal to everyone on whom the cessation of the fratricidal war in Ukraine depends, with a call for reconciliation and an immediate ceasefire.<\/p>\n

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We are sending this appeal after the Sunday of the Last Judgment and on the eve of Forgiveness Sunday.<\/p>\n

The Last Judgment awaits every person. No earthly authority, no doctors, no guards will protect you from this trial. Caring for the salvation of every person who considers himself a child of the Russian Orthodox Church, we do not want him to appear at this court bearing the heavy burden of maternal curses. We remind you that the Blood of Christ shed by the Savior for the life of the world will be accepted in the sacrament of Communion by those people who give murderous orders, not into life, but into eternal torment.<\/p>\n

We mourn the ordeal to which our brothers and sisters in Ukraine were unfairly subjected.<\/p>\n

We remind you that the life of every person is a priceless and unique gift of God, and therefore we wish all the soldiers – both Russian and Ukrainian – to return to their homes and families unharmed.\u2028We are bitterly thinking about the abyss that our children and grandchildren in Russia and Ukraine will have to overcome in order to start being friends with each other again, respect and love each other.\u2028We respect God-given human freedom, and we believe that the people of Ukraine should make their choice independently, not at gunpoint, without pressure from the West or the East.<\/p>\n

In anticipation of the Forgiven Sunday, we remind you that the gates of paradise are opened to anyone, even a person who has sinned heavily, if he asks for forgiveness from those whom he humiliated, insulted, despised, or from those who were killed by his hands or by his order. There is no other way but forgiveness and mutual reconciliation.<\/p>\n

“The voice of your brother’s blood cries out to me from the earth; and now you are cursed from the earth, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood from your hand,” God said to Cain, who envied his younger brother. Woe to every person who realizes that these words are addressed to him personally.<\/p>\n

No nonviolent call for peace and an end to war should be forcibly suppressed and regarded as a violation of the law, for this is the divine commandment: “Blessed are the peacemakers.”<\/p>\n

We call on all the warring parties to engage in dialogue, because there is no other alternative to violence. Only the ability to hear another person can give hope for a way out of the abyss into which our countries were thrown in just a few days.<\/p>\n

Let yourself and all of us enter Lent in the spirit of faith, hope and love.<\/p>\n

Stop the war.<\/p>\n

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Questions related to this article:<\/div>\n
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\n Can the peace movement help stop the war in the Ukraine?<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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Abbot Arseniy (Sokolov), representative of the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia to the Patriarch of Antioch and the Whole East\u2028
\nAbbot Nektary (Morozov)\u2028
\nPriest Alexy Antonovsky\u2028
\nAbbot Nikodim (Balyasnikov)\u2028
\nPriest Hildo Bos\u2028
\nPriest Vasily Bush\u2028
\nArchpriest Stefan Vaneyan\u2028
\nHieromonk Jacob (Vorontsov)\u2028
\nPriest Alexander Vostrodymov.\u2028
\nPriest Dionysius Gabbasov\u2028
\nPriest Andrey German\u2028
\nArchpriest Evgeny Goryachev (veteran of the Afghan War)\u2028
\nHieromonk John (Guaita)\u2028
\nPriest Alexy Dikarev\u2028
\nPriest Alexander Zanemonets\u2028
\nArchpriest Vladimir Zelinsky\u2028
\nArchpriest Peter Ivanov\u2028
\nArchpriest George Ioffe\u2028
\nDeacon Ilya Kolin\u2028
\nArchpriest Andrew Kordochkin\u2028
\npriest Lazarus of Lenzi\u2028
\nArchpriest Andrei Lorgus\u2028
\nAbbot Peter (meshaninov)\u2028
\nArchpriest Constantine Momotov\u2028
\npriest Eugene frost\u2028
\nhieromonk Dimitry (Pershin)\u2028
\nfather Alexander Piskunov\u2028
\nArchpriest Stephen Platt\u2028
\nArchpriest Dionisy Pozdnyaev\u2028
\nArchpriest George Roy\u2028
\npriest Nikolay Savchenko\u2028
\nhieromonk IBAS, instead (of Senchukov)\u2028
\nArchpriest Joseph Skinner\u2028
\nArchpriest Dimitry Sobolewski\u2028
\ndeacon Pimen Trofimov\u2028
\nArchpriest Alexander Shabanov\u2028
\nhieromonk Cyprian (Countrymen)\u2028
\npriest John Leontiev\u2028
\nArchpriest Vitaly Shkarupin\u2028
\nArchpriest Sergiy Dmitriev\u2028
\nArchpriest Vladimir Korolev\u2028
\nArchpriest Sergey Titkov\u2028
\nPriest Artemiy Morozov\u2028
\nPriest Alexy Zorin\u2028
\nArchpriest Andrey Lvov\u2028
\nArchpriest Sergiy Storozhev\u2028
\nPriest Ilia Gavryshkiv\u2028
\nArchpriest Vitaly Fonkin\u2028
\nPriest Artemiy Kolyagin\u2028
\nHierodeacon Elisha (Romantsov).\u2028
\nPriest Gleb Krivoshein\u2028
\nDeacon John Myzdrikov\u2028
\nDeacon Valerian Dunin-Barkovsky\u2028
\nPriest Vladislav Bogomolnikov\u2028
\nArchpriest Vladimir Drobyshevsky\u2028
\nPriest Vadim Karpenko\u2028
\nArchpriest Gleb Vechelkovsky\u2028
\nprot. Theodore van der Voort\u2028
\nPriest Fyodor Kosolapov\u2028
\nPriest Anthony Lynov\u2028
\nPriest Anthony Kovalenko\u2028
\nArchpriest Dionysius Kuznetsov\u2028
\nPriest Dmitry Lukyanov\u2028
\nPriest Pavel Kasperovich\u2028
\nArchpriest Valentin Bonilla\u2028
\nHieromonk Onesimus\u2028
\nthe priest Alexei Pichugin\u2028
\nArchpriest Oleg Shulgin\u2028
\nArchpriest Dionisy the wards\u2028
\nArchpriest Victor Teplitsky\u2028
\nArchpriest Anatoly Bark\u2028
\npriest Alexey Cosoleto\u2028
\ndeacon Alexander Pushkarev\u2028
\nhieromonk Hilarion\u2028
\nArchpriest Alexander Dubovoy\u2028
\nArchpriest Pavel Serdyuk\u2028
\npriest John Burdin\u2028
\nfather Alexander Kuchta\u2028
\ndeacon Dmitry Korostelev\u2028
\nArchpriest Georgy Zavershinsky\u2028
\nArchpriest Andrey Kuzma\u2028
\npriest Paul Countrymen\u2028
\nfather Dimitry Vinitsky\u2028
\nthe priest George Khristich\u2028
\npriest Anthony Serafimovich\u2028
\nmonk Laurel (Solomon)\u2028
\nDeacon Alexey Perunovsky\u2028
\nArchpriest Vasily Petrov\u2028
\nDeacon Stefan Kuzmin\u2028
\nPriest Dmitry Ushakov\u2028
\nPriest Yakov Korobkov\u2028
\nPriest Alexander Nasibulin\u2028
\nArchpriest Mikhail Ilyin\u2028
\nPriest Konstantin Lebedev\u2028
\nHieromonk Peter (Belov)\u2028
\nHieromonk Seraphim (Standhardt)\u2028
\nDeacon Andrey Georgievich Morozov\u2028
\nDeacon Alexy Khilko\u2028
\nArchpriest Mikhail Fast\u2028
\nProtodeacon Igor Panachev\u2028
\nArchpriest Mikhail Evgenievich Klochkov\u2028
\nPriest Alexander Lebedich\u2028
\nDeacon Vladimir Olshevsky-Davydov\u2028
\nPriest Vasily Maksimishinets\u2028
\nArchpriest Peter Korotaev\u2028
\nArchpriest Igor Precup\u2028
\nArchpriest John Gate\u2028
\nArchpriest Sergiy Markevich\u2028
\nPriest Oleg Usenkov\u2028
\nPriest Alexander Novikov\u2028
\nPriest Sergiy Voinkov\u2028
\nPriest Anthony Kopaev\u2028
\nDeacon Oleg Karlashchuk\u2028
\npriest Dimitri Savin\u2028
\nArchpriest Pavel Kivovich\u2028
\nPriest Mikhail Bakker\u2028
\nArchpriest Igor Tarasov\u2028
\nPriest Sergiy Dudin\u2028
\nArchpriest Andrey Lobashinsky\u2028
\nArchpriest Mikhail Nemnonov\u2028
\nPriest Roman Savchuk\u2028
\nPriest John Terauds\u2028
\nAbbot Varlaam (Borin) Abbot Anthony (Loginov)\u2028
\nDeacon Oleg Ageenko\u2028
\nArchpriest Alexy Shishkov\u2028
\nHierodeacon Kliment (Volyansky)\u2028
\nPriest Vyacheslav Shafarenko\u2028
\nPriest Sergiy Dyrman<\/p>\n

Priests and deacons of the Russian Orthodox Church who wish to subscribe to the letter can write to\u00a0russianpriestsforpeace@gmail.com”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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