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03 August 2020Patriarch Kirill says there is not a drop of truth in rumors about his wealth
Moscow, August 3, Interfax - Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia urged his flock not to believe rumors about him and other Orthodox hierarchs.
"When you read the most terrible things about the patriarch, about hierarchs, about priests, please remember that there is usually not even a drop of truth in them, but all these things are aimed at compromising those who proclaim the truth of God so that the people stop listening to them and trust them. Well, what are you telling us, look what they write about you!" the patriarch said during his Sunday sermon at the Church of Prophet Elijah in Moscow.
He noted that"not only lay people are subjected to this temptation", and told how once an hierarch asked to help him financially from personal funds, referring to the fact that the primate's capital allegedly totaled to six billion dollars. "This nonsense reached the hierarch's mind, and he believed in it," the patriarch complained.
"All these things are said and written to prevent us from telling God's truth. If we start saying the things pleasant to the powerful, any criticism addressed to the Church will immediately disappear, they will carry us in their arms," the head of the Russian Orthodox Church said.
According to him, "the fact that the Church is not carried in the arms today (...) witness to the fact that the Church in a quiet voice, but supported by the divine power, seeks to address people the words filled with Divine truth." "God grant that it will be so until the end of times," Patriarch Kirill said. |
