Interfax<\/a> \u2013 Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia believes that the main achievement of August 1991 is revival of religious life and end of atheistic persecutions in Russia.<\/p>\n\u201cPerhaps, the Lord allowed destroying churches, insulting shrines, shedding blood and suffering in order to open divine logics of life and mystery of God\u2019s will to our people and through our long-suffering history to the whole world,\u201d Patriarch Kirill said in his sermon after festival service in the Kursk Root Hermitage on Thursday.<\/p>\n
The Patriarch noted that the way of hardships our country passed in the 20th century was not taken in vain, as the whole society was able to \u201credeem its guilt before God, to redeem the sin of apostasy with suffering, blood and misfortunes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cOn certain moment of history the Lord \u2013 as there was no any human will in it – on the day of His glorious Transfiguration tempered justice with mercy and stopped more than 70-year atheistic captivity,\u201d the Patriarch said.<\/p>\n
Thus, he reminded believers that events which took place in the country on August 19, 1991, happened on the feast of Transfiguration. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Kursk, September 24, Interfax \u2013 Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia believes that the main achievement of August 1991 is revival of religious life and end of atheistic persecutions in Russia. \u201cPerhaps, the Lord allowed destroying churches, insulting shrines, shedding blood and suffering in order to open divine logics of life and mystery of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1784],"tags":[13,296,1004,954],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aoiusa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4020"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aoiusa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aoiusa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aoiusa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aoiusa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4020"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.aoiusa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4022,"href":"https:\/\/www.aoiusa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4020\/revisions\/4022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aoiusa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aoiusa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aoiusa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}