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[The film was made in a joint effort with the U.S. Embassy in the Philippines.] [The film is available in English and Spanish. The film was made in collaboration with the U.S. Embassy in the Philippines.] [The film was made in collaboration with the U.S. Embassy in the Philippines.] [The film was made in collaboration with the U.S. Embassy in the Philippines.]

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[The film was made in collaboration with the U.S. Embassy in the Philippines.] [Music] [Music] [Music]

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[Music] (dramatic music) (somber music) (somber music)

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(somber music) (dramatic music) [ Music ] When a person sets high ideals and big goals, he often forgets how short his life is.

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Many people, with some kind of aggressive joy, have been trying and are trying to find scientific arguments that do not refute the ancient teaching that the human spirit is indestructible. Meanwhile, this desire for destruction, this desire to deprive humanity of the most sacred, most heartfelt, most ancient hope,

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[Russian] [ Music ] [ Singing ] [ Singing ]

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(choral music) [ Foreign Language ] [ Foreign Language ] [ Foreign Language ]

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[ Foreign Language ] [ Music ] (speaking in foreign language) (speaking in foreign language)

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(speaking in foreign language) [ Foreign Language ] Alexander served to tell about his spiritual experience, contacts with him, conversations with him.

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And I saw that he was a man of warm, living faith. He is a wise man who never remains indifferent to the opportunities that open up for him to preach the Gospel. [Russian translation] Alexander, one of the last conversations with him,

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which I spoke about when I was singing "Father Alexander" and I will repeat it again. I asked Father Alexander, "Now, for the first time in 70 years,

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the Church has the opportunity to be a People's Deputy. I say, "If you were chosen, it would be very easy." And it was necessary to see the spiritual enlightenment of his face when he said, "Lord, our business is the preaching of the Gospel.

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We have no time to do this." [VIDEO PLAYBACK] [SPEAKING RUSSIAN] (speaking in foreign language)

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[Russian] What is movement? It is a change of place in space. But there is no space in which the soul of a person is enclosed. The spirit of a person, invisible, unnoticed, weightless,

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is like a guest in this natural world, where everything can be weighed, measured or seen one way or another. And when the human thought came to the supreme revelation about the One God through the Bible teaching, It has always, one way or another,

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testified to the reality of the indestructible spirit. Indestructible should have been what has nothing to do with the world of things. (choral music)

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(choral music) [chanting] (choral music) [Music]

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[Music] [Choral singing] [Choral singing] [Music]

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How much is embedded in the spirit and consciousness of a person things that he does not need to adapt to the environment. The aspiration to higher knowledge, the aspiration to selfless knowledge,

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the most diverse abilities, those inherent in the genius of man. They are not needed for the survival of people. Moreover, it is by possessing these gifts that a person often puts himself in danger and even a threat of death.

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The axe of the murderer cut the priest's head on his way to the temple. The priest who went to bring the bloodless victim became the victim himself. And it is recalled that he was so much burned by his non-Russian blood, [ Speaking Foreign Language ]

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[ Music ] [ Foreign Language ] The Soviet intelligentsia is a helper, an educator. One person is not allowed to be a helper.

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It is not allowed. It is a missionary, a preacher. He must love, simply love, the tribe to which he is sent. You know, the French writer Bernard Nosse said,

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"Le prêtre c'est un homme manger." "The priest is a man who is eaten alive, eaten alive by his faithful and loving parishioners." "The priest is a man who gives himself to the end."

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[Russian] [ Foreign Language ] [ Foreign Language ] (speaking in foreign language)

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and the whole amount of human reason led to the fact that the impossible is impossible. And so, at first, one person started what seemed impossible.

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[Music] [Music] [Music] (ethereal music)

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(ethereal music) (speaking in foreign language) (speaking in foreign language) (speaking in foreign language)

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(speaking in foreign language) (speaking in foreign language) (speaking in foreign language) (speaking in foreign language)

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[ Speaking Russian ] (speaking in foreign language) (speaking in foreign language) (speaking in foreign language)

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[Russian] [Russian] (speaking in foreign language) (speaking in foreign language)

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[Russian] He himself was going his own way, a way of ascension from the natural joy of life,

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which was in him a lot, to the joy not of this world, but of the joy of the joyous mystery. [ Foreign Language ]

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(speaking in foreign language) (speaking in foreign language) (speaking in foreign language) (speaking in foreign language)

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The sin of murder, which is taken upon itself by someone, but in the perspective of his own fate, his end is neither sad nor fearful.

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His end is bright. From his end, light falls on all the life he has lived. And we must again and again remember

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that there was a time when Not as a spiritual leader, but as a missionary, he was certainly the only one for the whole sixth part of the world.

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All religions and philosophies, one way or another, speak of the immortality of the spirit. But Christianity tells us something more. It tells us about the life of the future century, not just about the natural immortality of every human "I" in a different dimension, but about a new stage of space evolution. This is a look that penetrates the veil of what a limited human mind can present today.

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We will all change. This is a transformation, a mutation, a new stage of evolution. "But not for those who will come only after us, and we will no longer be needed, but for all the souls that were ever created in the world. We will all change," says the Apostle. [ Foreign Language ] [Russian translation]

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[Russian translation] [Russian] [ Music ] [ Foreign Language ]

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He went into the room and said he would talk to the children. I can't say for sure, although it would be wonderful. I just want to say that this was what was supposed to sound like for the child. And then the children had to leave because their mother asked for consolation.

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As he began to speak, the mother began to grunt and cry. [ Foreign Language ] I thought that I would leave very soon. But I pray and I calmly think about it. The meaning was this. He, of course, spoke of the suffering of Christ. [Russian]

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[ Foreign Language ] When he left, his father said, "Why don't you buy a car or hire a driver?" He said, "I need a catwalk." When we left the playhouse and walked down the long corridor,

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we saw a TV set in the hall. They were broadcasting some Orthodox program on TV. I don't remember what it was about. (speaking in foreign language)

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We went in there. He suddenly turned around to us and in his eyes there was a wonderful glow, such joy. And suddenly he says, "Here, they have already called." [music]

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(speaking in foreign language) (speaking in foreign language) In fact, the fullness of the disclosure of the human "I", its bliss, is not at all in not having an obstacle,

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but in overcoming the obstacle, in being a winner, despite the black storm raging around, and being driven out of the truth for the sake of it, is not unhappiness, but the greatest honor.

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I don't believe in anything accidental or blind, because in such events there is always a higher meaning that is revealed only from a distance. Only from a distance.

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Blessed means happy. [ Music ] (speaking in foreign language) [Russian translation]

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"For God does not reign in this world, for the Prince of this world is Satan," said the Lord Jesus. And we ourselves know perfectly well that in the world there are blind destructive forces of nature and society, evil passions, decay, hatred. God does not reign, but the battlefield,

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in which both good and evil participate, and the elements, and the free will of man. The Kingdom of God is not just a futurology, not just words about the future.

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It is already here. (speaking in foreign language) [Russian] but it grows into this world.

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Where perfection reigns, power, beauty and love, there the Kingdom of God is louder and louder proclaiming Himself.

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This is what Christ reveals to us. He told us, "Repent, the Kingdom of God is near." And I bring this word to you.

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