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We are not responsible for the actions of the Ukrainian authorities. We are responsible for the actions of the Ukrainian people. We are responsible for the actions of the Ukrainian people. Can I answer?

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Of course. You know, I often have to answer such questions. I broadcast the program of the Nadezhda radio every week, from 11 p.m. to 4 p.m. live.

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People call me and ask me different questions. Sometimes they ask me, honestly, are you for the union of the Church? Or do you object?

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I say, I object. Because we are not talking about any union. We are talking about mutual respect, acquaintance, mutual love. If a family lives next to us,

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for example, Boris, Igor, and Ivanov, if we say that we are friends, it does not mean that we will live in the same apartment and solve all our problems together.

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Not at all. We will have good relations. We will respect Ivanov's values. You will not find a single Catholic church in Rome or Paris

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without Orthodox icons. The church gives a great reproduction. It is very big, you can see everything. I was in Rome on Easter.

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There are huge icons of the Resurrection, and the Ascension to the Angels. These are not our canonical icons, which are made according to Western models.

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These are our icons, the icons of the Orthodox, of the last centuries. And a huge reproduction is decorated by the Catholic Church. They appreciate it.

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This is the most important thing. It is a dialogue. It is not about living in the same kitchen. There is a development of the search for the point of contact

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between these neighbors, Ivanov and Boris. This point has existed for a long time. Jesus Christ, the Bible, the faith in God, it's all one.

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I am a Protestant, and you are an Orthodox. How do we connect? We read the same Bible with you. Even in the same sign language.

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We don't even have it, but in this case, we have it in the opposite way. Right. The question arises when a person comes to me and says,

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you know, this tragedy, what is this tragedy? My daughter, my granddaughter, married a Baptist. This is horror.

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Imagine, she married a Tatar. This should not be remembered. I will add, this is an important thing. By the way, I must say that I was surprised to discover

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that in the book of the table, Father Sergius of Bulgakov, there is a list of marriages of Orthodox Christians with Lutherans, with Catholics.

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It was all done before the revolution. We think so, we open it now. The only one who was forbidden to marry, paradoxically, was Storobryatsy.

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You can't marry him. This question, can you pray with Catholics? If you can marry a husband and a wife, then how can you not forget to pray together?

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Yes, please. Can I say a few words? Yes, of course. I think there is one more thing.

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If families are friends, then it can be a common blessing. If there is an understanding that in this family they have lunch at one o'clock,

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and in the evening they have a quiet relationship, then it's good. But they always have lunch together. They have lunch three hours later.

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It's a disgrace. It's also not a good thing. But it's not enough, because such a thing is not sustainable.

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If people can go out and plant a tree together, and build their own house, then it is really a union in a joint action. I often say to our Archbishop,

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that he is talking not about ecumenism as a union, but about the ability to act together in the Christian spirit. By the way, there is one more question. What is just Christianity?

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What are the boundaries? The witnesses of the Eagle, the Prophet, the Apostle, the Apostle of God, they all have their own boundaries.

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They don't just go to Christianity or communism. There is something else. The attitude is different. And something is united by Christ.

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It's a fairly broad community. We need to understand that in this community we can act as Christians. But there is also a question of joint action,

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joint relationship with the Lord. This is also a problem. Let's at least start inside Christianity. Then we can act.

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Maybe not then. I agree with Christianity, but later on. What do you mean later on? I said it badly, I admit.

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We need to start everything from the beginning. But the question of the embodiment of Christianity is simpler. Maybe it will help.

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Thank you. A wonderful addition and illustration is our Russian Library Society. Of course.

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Where help comes from the International Library Society, where together the Orthodox, Catholic, and Protestant works are managed. And they do a great job.

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They have printed 2.5 million children's Bibles in Moscow. And they have spread all over Russia. This is wonderful. It's wonderful that this book is read

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by Protestants, Catholics, and Orthodox. And when this generation of children's Bibles and adults read the same books, it will be very good.

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You know, I have an answer to your question. It's a simple and naive question. It's a very important question. What is the methodology,

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the method of approaching Christianity in the Christian Church? I would answer it in my favorite way. Not in my words, of course.

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But in the words of Father Alexander, who often repeated them in his sermons. The main thing is unity. This is our main faith.

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Freedom is controversial. We can argue about dogmatic and non-dogmatic things. We are free people with free minds. But the most difficult and wonderful thing

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is love. Because in a dispute, you should not raise your hands to each other. It's better to plant a tree,

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build a church, and work in a Bible office. And the book that lies before us, the book that Father Alexander wants to send

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to all the territories, regions, cities of our huge, difficult and confused country, is an example of practical Christian unity. Indeed, as the great Russian poet

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said, the cards are on the table. And this book was given money. The Vatican gave money for planting the tree. The money of life with God is the money of the Vatican.

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Everyone understands this perfectly. No one hides it. This money was not enough. And this money was given to the state

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budget or non-budget institutions. The Library of Foreign Literature, the publishing house Rodomino, and there on Skribal from different places,

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they held Christian unity. And this book will go to our highest educational institution for the clergy, schools, churches. And indeed, not our words,

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but the words of the Most High, we are not given to guess how our word, how this word will be called. And indeed, sending this book,

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which has long been sent to the world, but to the Russian world, this one, it is sent now. Everything else that existed here were rarities.

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How many books were published in the Library of Foreign Literature with the words of this book by Vladimir Vassilov? Of course, not enough. Now it is also a drop in the ocean.

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It seems to us that this is a colossal amount, how many thousands of books? 20,000. The colossal literature of any Western publisher of such a book

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is a drop in the ocean for us. And therefore, what fruits and what trees will grow out of it, it also depends on our common vision. I don't know, I would probably answer this question.

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I am very interested, you know, I am sorry, please, that I am the first time here. I am also interested in such a question.

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What did you decide to remove from us? I have always been fascinated by all sorts of religions, also Christian principles, such as the prophets of God, Mormon,

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and many cultures that carry the theme of Christianity, for example, Christian science. This culture. How will you break these issues

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so as not to unite them in this universal culture? This is a very sound word, and it obliges almost everyone to unite all religions. Here it is necessary to immediately put a division,

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as it is said in the Bible, in the composition of the Immanuel, a division into false religions, in this issue, in this image.

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How do you put a division into false religions, false Christianity, and false Christian Christianity? I am not afraid that you will be punished. Yes, please.

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First of all, Vladimir Solovyov, after all, he died in 1940, Vladimir Solovyov said that we are talking about the union,

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about the spiritual union. Although he was sometimes involved in organizational projects, he later refused to talk about this topic.

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About the spiritual union of three purposes. The purpose of Catholicism, the purpose of the Orthodox faith, the purpose of freedom of religion.

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As for these new cults, new ecclesiastical cults, there was an article about Mormons and Solovyov, quite critical.

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Solovyov was very supportive of the fate of the Russian Orthodox Church. And then, for the fate of the Russian Orthodox Church, there was a protest against the death of the Russian Orthodox Church. Mormons are also very critical,

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but Mormons are also very critical. And Christian Science, Nikitin said that he had no knowledge, but he had no knowledge at that time either.

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As for Christian Science, I had such an experience, I happened to be in the family of people of Christian Science. They do not represent the religion of the Russian Orthodox Church.

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They are not some very good, pure people. Maybe sometimes, sometimes we just, just, with Mormons, I am fortunate,

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I have no religion, probably I will not have to, because not only a person does his own religious abstracts, he does his own religious abstracts.

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But we will think that the Buddhists and the Buddhists should learn something, something. We will think that the inter-Christian sects should learn something. But for them to learn,

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we need to look for the main religion. And we should not be for people in the society. That's how it is. Russian Orthodox Church.

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Translate a few words. First of all, I will translate a few words. This is the most important. Excuse me, there are some Italian Christians who say

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that if you ask a question about Christianity, they will answer, how to be a Christian. This is a good point. A good point to remember.

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I heard this in Russia many, many years ago. They said in the 40s and 50s. How to do it? Dear colleagues, if there are any more, please.

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If not, if there are, you. You are Alexander's friend, I certainly said it. Of course, please. I like one thing.

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I'm not sure if everyone knows you. I'm not sure either. I'm Vladimir Yurokhin, a teacher. I was invited to one of the first decrees of the Soviet government

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on monumental propaganda, signed by Lenin. The first paragraph lists 10 or 15 names of prominent figures in the revolutionary movement. We now understand that they were the figures of great destructions.

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The second paragraph is very short. Exclude Vladimir Solovyov. Probably, it was something too unbearable for those who came to turn the world upside down,

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storming the sky, that they decided to exclude even the name, even the image of Vladimir Solovyov. You know, they tolerated, but if not all, then many and very large people. I remember a semi-anecdotal episode with one of the greatest sculptors,

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whose name I don't want to name now. He decided to create monuments to three of the greatest thinkers of Russia. To Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, and Vladimir Solovyov. Tolstoy's image was captured in the stone, Dostoevsky's too,

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but unfortunately, the sculptor finished the work on the image of Vladimir Solovyov closer to the revolution. So, the sculpture was to a certain extent made, the ban was imposed, and the sculptor, you know what he did?

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He shaved and cut. He conspired with Vladimir Solovyov. He shaved his beard, he shaved his head, and made it unrecognizable, and changed its name.

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He gave the name to this sculpture, Thought. And in this form, it was called, and now it stands on the grave of the sculptor. And it used to stand on the kitchen table, at home, with a writing,

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and then it was removed and replaced with the monument of Vladimir Solovyov. But, no matter how anecdotal this story is, it has a healthy, vital core. Vladimir Solovyov is the embodied Thought.

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And embodied in his human form, why it was impossible to leave him, even without names, like he was. He was an embodied Thought, and the Thought was Russian,

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Russian religious Thought. And his books, which come to us, like the light of the distant, not extinguished, but still distant in time, stars,

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are also embodied Thought. And I understand why the Tolstoy's Lion could be tolerated, like the mirror of the Russian Revolution. They made up with Dostoevsky, who,

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as it was possible to interpret, showed the horror of the social system, that under better conditions people will become better. Why Solovyov was so alien to those who came to destroy

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the state of life, which was not arranged by us, when people aspired to God, and when the value was precisely this, and the world's enslavement was to be put aside.

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I recall the beginning of the reading about God, by Vladimir Solovyov. He says, I came to talk to you about values, which are now not very accepted.

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But this is what is now dominant, and with these dominant values he was gaining materialism. This is what was not there yesterday, and what will not be there tomorrow.

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He did not call it our day tomorrow. We see what interest there is in spirituality now, especially here in Russia. I have heard many times the testimony of Western believers,

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who say, now the faith in the West is fading. In Russia, the interest in spirituality is very great. Do not waste time until this spirit is not tired, until other values come.

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I recall a famous allegory, when the devil is depicted in two forms, Lucifer and Ariman. Lucifer is a dark air,

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which distracts a person from the earthly, leads him to some heavenly spheres, and, in our language, to non-being, does not give him creativity here on earth.

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And Ariman says that all that is valuable is here on earth, on the drop, doing something practical. Spiritual is just something ephemeral, not so significant. Vladimir Solovyov came to Russia as a sign of spiritual unity.

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It was not by chance that he was involved in the Western Church. It was a brotherly kiss. He came as a spiritual leader of those who are on the spiritual path in Russia. I would like to note one more thing.

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Very often now there is an exchange of Christ with some local gods, although it seems to be church and seems to be Orthodox. Orthodox Christianity becomes something ethnographic, something related to folk customs,

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as well as temples, this embodiment of the folk spirit. And it seems to me very important that we have in front of us the majestic figure of Vladimir Solovyov, who understood the Church in its unity,

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in its inseparable unity. I remember the words of my teacher, the editor of the newspaper, Evgeny Ositrov, in the book Two Wings.

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I would like to continue or develop this image, thinking about our Church, the Christian Church. The Church has two wings, the Western Church and the Eastern Church. When a child is asked,

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who do you love more, your father or mother? It is clear that this is a provocative question. It is also quite clear that the Church is one, and the differences, dogmatic differences,

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differences in customs, to me are like differences in languages. And we must learn each other's language, respect each other's values,

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and understand that unity is the main thing. This is what Evgeny Solovyov reminded us today. Thank you. Well, I think that everyone who wanted...

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Maybe we should continue our conversation. And I am in such a situation. I think that now we have a juice, but...

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We will. Yeah.