Patriarch Alexy urges priests not to hide from challenges of modern world behind church walls
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Moscow, November 10, Interfax – Patriarch Alexy II of Moscow and All Russia urged clerics to more active sermon in the modern society.
“Nowadays it is impossible to hide from challenges of secular world behind church walls. The pastor should go and meet people, support those weak in spirit, help find the truth to those who seek it, help to make the right choice for those who are in doubt,” he said on Saturday, opening the conference Pastoral Ministry: Traditions and The Present in frames of the Pravoslavnaya Rus (Orthodox Russia) exhibition forum in the Moscow Manezh exhibition hall.
According to Alexy II, today the priest should not only give “well-informed and worthy answers” to questions of the present world, but also be able to protect his flock from temptations and sins brought to the world by “exterior freedom.”
“In these evil times, the pastor should be watchful, feel the needs of his contemporaries, and be able to tell the truth from lie,” the Patriarch believes. He also warned priest against the temptation of vanity and pride and urged them “not to hide Christ behind themselves but to open Him to people.”
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