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It's been three years since we asked for a room for prayer service. But we didn't receive any answer. We received a letter twice asking us to tell them what decision to make, positive or negative. But even on these letters we didn't receive any answer.

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We received a letter with the address of the person who was going to be a mayor of Moscow. And the name of the person who was going to be a mayor. I have this letter in my book and I don't have it with me. This letter is a reminder of the person who was going to be a mayor.

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We received this letter from the office of the mayor. The office of the mayor was reprimanded for giving this letter to the state police. Now we can understand that they really received this letter. The person who was supposed to be reviewing our letter is known.

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But we could have asked him. It was last year. It was an autumn letter. We can clarify everything later.

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It would be good if you addressed this person. If you were asked to address this person with a letter. And it was sent to you. What is his fate?

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The person who was supposed to be addressed with this letter should not talk about anything. He should ask a question with a specific answer. I would like you to do this. I am very curious what you will answer.

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Since then, there has been a pause. We lost hope that we would receive something. That we would be given something. Some time has passed.

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We got tired. And the events that prompted us to ask you again. To raise this issue. It is connected with the following.

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Although these were not serious remarks. Replies to our service at home. In the home environment. We were there.

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The neighbor said, we cannot forbid you to pray here. It was so added. Although nothing had followed from this remark. But there was such a swan.

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Then, when I was in the Committee on Relations with Religious Organizations. They told me, we do not forbid you to pray in the home. And this was also underlined. It is difficult to predict what the legislative basis will be.

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In order to keep us from here. One of the possibilities is that this is a residential house. And if this is a church, then this apartment must be removed from the housing fund. This is agreed with the Moscow government.

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That this apartment must be removed from the list of the housing fund. And put in the list of the non-residential housing fund. This is a very long procedure. We must prove something to someone.

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This will be associated with very large difficulties. And it is not known how this will end. And then it is impossible. This is a private apartment.

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And this is a family. It just so happened that this room was occupied by a member of their family. Which, as a result of an accident, died. And they got rid of this room.

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This is a religious family. The boy died in this tragic accident. They believed and agreed that we would pray here. But this is not the option.

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That we would have an apartment. Which was transferred to the community. And the community wants to move it from the non-residential housing fund. And then use it for concerts.

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This is not the option. Those who are watching us understand our situation. And the impossibility of transferring the house from the housing fund. And on this basis, we can probably be evicted.

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Of course, there will be letters and signatures. With the desire to believe in the people. We do a lot with the desire to believe in the working people. How these requests are being fulfilled is not known.

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How they are being fulfilled. Recently, I was in the Committee on Religious Relations. And with the conversation with the officials it became clear. That we were categorically told.

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That we would not get anything. The first thing I asked was, will there be a church? They told me, this is absolutely excluded. And there is talk.

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To take the land for the construction of the church. It is also improbable. And in the central part of the city, this is 100% excluded. Now, some part of the non-residential housing fund.

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Where you can get a church. This too. And this too. We will not get anything.

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In general, I left there with a full promise. Not to give anything. And the conversation was quite frank. We sat and talked.

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These were officials. Probably they will not come up with what to do with us. Probably they will not come up with what to do with us. They just represent.

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I had no intentions to leave the church. I had a very unpleasant conversation with them. In which they told me quite frankly what was possible. Of course, you can write.

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Well, what? They did not even answer. They did not even answer. Not only that we are not trying.

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The state is not trying to establish a normal relationship with believers. We are just for people. Well, you did not give. But there are probably some grounds.

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If there are legal grounds, if they are fair, give us an answer. And if we even tell the public, people will understand. You did not give, there are grounds. And if there are no such reasons and there is an opportunity, why not satisfy the faith?

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And in our church, the passion is multiplying. I regret that you came a little later than you came earlier. But you saw that here there was much more than when you were in the church. And for us, the absence of a room is a serious obstacle in our spiritual life.

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Well, we have here in the service, in the winter, 50-60, even 70 people. And in these conditions, of course, it is very difficult. And the danger is multiplying. The increase in the number of people.

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And of course, now in the summer, we visit the Sephardim. We visit the Sephardim. It's like a communion, a cup. It's like a cup.

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Like a republic. We have a video about this. I don't know, in general, there is no such canonical necessity. But in order for us to go further, where are we going?

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We multiply or we die. We must look. Compared to last year, if we compare these days with last year, then somewhere 2.5 times more. In the summer of last year, in general, it was half.

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And now, I think, it's even half. And this tendency continues. This new teaching continues. Probably, this is the reason why we have nothing in our heads.

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If we were given the right, I think that all the events would be complete. But in addition to our main legal activity, the commemoration of the commemoration, our parish is also doing a papal service. We recently had a papal service.

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But we are not doing a papal service in Moscow yet. But, in principle, we have a lot of work. Missionary activities. Because missionary activities are now needed to a much greater extent by those who are outside Moscow.

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Far from the people. They are torn from the spiritual centers. And people are very much spiritually wild. And that's why we made such trips to the house, to the south of the roof, a thousand kilometers away.

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There we had several papal services, we performed in a spiritual way, we had a concert in a spiritual language. I really liked it. A lot of people were gathering. And they come to us through the village of Vyshchor.

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And there, in all the places, there is a music school where children are taught. And the teachers of the music school were present with their children at these concerts. I liked it so much that they want to introduce them to the course of teaching the law of religion. And I promise to help in every way.

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But, of course, we would like to listen to our music again. It would be good, of course, to go out of our city with the same goal, there, to the house. But now the only obstacle is that these events are extremely expensive. Because they are very expensive, and there are a lot of people and very large expenses.

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And we found such a charitable people, a charitable organization that donated money for this purpose. And we went. And such an event became possible. But who knows, maybe God will give us something this time, someone will agree to take these expenses on themselves.

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We also plan to build a mosque. And there are many plans. But the development of the parish life, of course, comes to a peak. And for this you need a room, for this you need to have the opportunity to gather together somewhere.

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And you see, we can't do it here. And so we can't hold many events that are very important for a person. And what are these events? Meetings and events outside of the service time.

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The service is like a home opera, but it is a kind of a higher manifestation of how we can live spiritually. And then comes the worldly life. So there are still such events in the parish life that allow you to connect the spiritual life of a person with the worldly life, and which reveals to a person the spiritual life, the earthly life, now, the eternal connection,

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which helps him better to learn the commandments of God, to perform them better, to understand other people better, and, accordingly, to love them in the Gospel. And you can raise children through this. In short, to hold such events that are not only service, but are very grateful to the actions of a person.

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But, unfortunately, we still do not have the opportunity and the prospect of having such opportunities. Why? They don't give a place. There is no place for such events.

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Now, for example, the service is over. I am very sorry that our parishes are now disbanded. It would be good to sit down now, to discuss our common problems. It would be possible.

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And, for example, someone could not come to the service today, but he can come, for example, to the second part, to participate in the regular events. And we would have already planned certain events. The fact is that I don't think that anyone would be interested in such events, such communities,

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because it is seen by the naked eye that this is no longer an event, but some family, some community, and that it is already starting to live a full life. And that this community has a life-giving power and will be less and less addressed to those who will give us a piece of their own from their own four, as they used to do before,

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when they closed everything on themselves. A ticket for socks, go get it from them. To buy sugar, a ticket, again go to them. To go to the book, everything, everything, everything, you have to go to them.

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Everything is with them, everything is with them. And here, if a spiritual family is formed, a life-giving one, which is able to do a lot in front of them, then this is exactly what is not needed. This is probably the main reason why they want to destroy us.

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But nevertheless, we still have such a spiritual family. We have served three Easters here. Of course, when we started to serve, people were different, I didn't know anyone. Then, little by little, we got to know each other, served here, and prayed together.

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We have a wonderful church choir, a very good workmanship, church singing. We already have a relationship inside the parish. And I could say that now we have already laid, if we make such a comparison, if our parish is not a strong family, as it has become, so hard,

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then it is not ugly, as it was before. But something like that, you know, liquid, or something, you know, not yet hardened, but already exists. And its existence is already proven by the fact that we had very serious difficulties with the inner difficulties of the spiritual life. And there were such events that influenced our parish.

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If something exists, if it is alive, imagine, it means it is holding on. And if it is not, if everything happens, it will fall apart and scatter back. No, we will not scatter, it will remain. And what is your bishop now?

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Our bishop now... You know, this is a very difficult question. The cathedral has decided to send our ruling church, the Church of St. Lazarus, to rest. For what reason?

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The cathedral is in a foreign church. It was in May. The ruling church sent a message to the cathedral, in which it claims that we are a catacomb church, and there was no act of uniting the catacomb church in Russia, the foreign church, in any way.

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And therefore it believes that as a catacomb church, our parish, as a catacomb church, it can exist as an administrative unit. Yes, as in the past. To which the cathedral responded by sending it to rest. How the events will unfold further, we do not know.

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But the situation for us is that we do not receive any documents from the cathedral. And therefore we are obliged to commemorate as we commemorate. That is, as if nothing had happened. We commemorate the Russian capital, the Russian Foreign Church, and St. Lazarus as our ruling church.

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But the days of such existence are numbered. What will happen next, we do not know. Here. Who knows what will happen to us.

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So we have a very tense situation inside the church, there is a lot of unpleasantness, a lot of anxiety. And also the attitude towards the church does not allow to calm down, does not allow to do what is necessary. And how many other such visits exist, which also prevent you from being in the room?

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In Moscow, at least. You are the only one. Yes, we enter the system of foreign churches. And this is a state, this is a high-ranking church.

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There is a catacomb, but they are there in Greek. Ah, in Greek. Well, these are our visits, they just somehow disconnected from somewhere and commemorate Greek. The most curious thing is that almost all religious education in Moscow receives a room.

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Almost all. Here, please, the White Brotherhood, all the metro is glued, taped, paper. The 50s, well, whoever arises, they have a room or rent. Who is disinterested in you? Well, everyone knows this. That is, the temple of Satan is even registered, but there are also rooms.

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Unfortunately, we have such very difficult, heavy visits. And the most curious thing is that we are Orthodox. We lead our branch of the Patriarchate. In general, it would seem, it would seem.

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We should have a room for Orthodox. Maybe you want to make an offer? Let's pray, we'll all drink tea and talk, okay? Let's pray. The song is sung in the background.

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The heavenly joy, the earthly delight. I am the beauty and the silence, the soul, the eyes. In the light of the feast, the light of the dust burns. What does the fire say? And let the world be given a vision of peace.

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In the light of the feast, the light of the dust burns. What does the fire say? And let the world be given a vision of peace. In the light of the feast, the light of the dust burns. What does the fire say? And let the world be given a vision of peace.

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In the light of the feast, the light of the dust burns. What does the fire say? And let the world be given a vision of peace. In the light of the feast, the light of the dust burns. What does the fire say? And let the world be given a vision of peace.

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In the light of the feast, the light of the dust burns. What does the fire say? And let the world be given a vision of peace. In the light of the feast, the light of the dust burns. What does the fire say? And let the world be given a vision of peace.

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In the light of the feast, the light of the dust burns. What does the fire say? And let the world be given a vision of peace. Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.

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Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our debts, as we also have sinned. Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our debts, as we also have sinned. Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our debts, as we also have sinned.

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Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our debts, as we also have sinned. Amen. In some countries there are our Russian Orthodox churches. But the old emigration has died out, and the youth has been dispersed.

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Well, not very much. You can probably notice in England that somewhere the Russians prayed to God, and then less and less and disappeared. This happens sometimes. This is how it is in Australia.

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The whole church is empty, and there are only a few people left, even the priests. They, like us, if we are not accepted here, as some say, we can ask the Australian government to give us the opportunity to go to all the churches, to the priests, to the choir, and to pray there. Among us, our parishioners, there are many wonderful specialists who work in the world.

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Yes, yes. They are very supportive. The members of the parish, whoever left, they would not sit on someone's neck like on a breadboard, but they could perfectly earn a living and bring benefit to the country in which they live.

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Well, let's take, for example, Father Stephan, a wonderful artist. Here we have Elena Pevchia, she is a wonderful math teacher. Valery is a builder, a crane operator, and he can do it too. Elena is an accountant, she can count and everything.

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She is an iconographer. By the way, I am a scientist in the field of nuclear energy. I wrote a dissertation on hydrodynamics and the safety system of nuclear power plants. I have 34 scientific papers.

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Then, by the way, I participated in an international conference held in Melbourne on hydrodynamics. And there are such laboratories. I have been teaching mathematics for 8 years. I was a professor at the Institute of Higher Education.

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Our parish is not just people who came to the bread. These are wonderful people, specialists. I am just surprised why... My mother is a dentist.

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So, well, and also others. We have a lot of specialists here. It would seem that the country should keep such people and provide them with some opportunities. And we are not needed here.

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We are here, as you know, there is an expression, this is probably for Americans, boys for beating. When someone is in a bad mood, someone upstairs, they beat us. It is important whether we are guilty or not.

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How many other parishes, like you, not only in Moscow, but in other cities or localities, do you have contact with them? Do you support each other somehow? Well, in general, some of them, let's say, exist in a catacombs.

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They have reconciled, they exist, and they agree to exist. In Moscow, you know, Moscow is a special city, and a special relationship. Somewhere more loyal, but in Moscow it is terrible. We are still in Moscow, we are still in Golodnitsk.

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Another parish to which we were going to give the Old Abryaginian church, then refused. And the Abryaginian is Suldov, right? Khan's religion. And the Marfa-Marinskaya religion, too, right?

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And in other cities, you also have, in Ryazan, in Kirovka, you also have, but you want to know about their existence. Yes, but you do not have contact. No, we have contact. Well, let's say, in Ryazan, it is a common Dali temple.

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Dali temple is destroyed, very destroyed. Cold. In Russia, winter is cold. We are doing very badly, and in general, there is no prospect of this community.

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But we also consider it a good condition. But this is not Moscow, you know. And in Ryazan, Patriarchs refused to give this temple. They said that they would not give it to everyone.

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They even said that they would not give it to everyone. And in Moscow, they refused. Even here, they refused, even the foundation and the bricks. Even here, they refused, even the foundation and the bricks.

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Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. you

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you you you you

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