Prayer for Russia, the Orthodox Church and the salvation of all Orthodox
Christians The flu, which has frightened the whole world, is just the tip of the iceberg.
Pray that you will not fall into misfortune. Father Gabriel speaks about the importance of congregational prayer from 10:39 min:
10:39 (...)now everyone is terribly afraid, even Christians are afraid. 10:44 But look how this simple Christian and Russian peasant behaved: he put everything into the hands of God and God had mercy.
10:54 Therefore we must, if we are Christians, show our faith. 11:00 Of course, we shouldn’t neglect the doctors’ recommendations, but under no circumstances should we be cowardly, afraid, or tremble.
11:12 Now we must all unite in prayer. Pray for Russia. Because it was not just the Lord who allowed it. Something more serious and maybe scary is coming behind this.
11:27 And now we Christians are required to pray for our Motherland, for our people, for the Orthodox Church. I would even like to recommend that everyone read it together now, all Orthodox Christians. After all, there are our brothers in Greece, and in Georgia, and in Bulgaria, and in Romania, and in Serbia, Macedonia, and so on, all over the world, in America there are our Orthodox Christians, and in Australia there are our Orthodox Christians, and in New Zealand there are our Russian Orthodox churches.
12:00 Pray for everyone now, so that the Lord will have mercy on us. Because something more serious is coming, not from the corona virus. It will pass on its own, like all previous flus, they passed. But what will come after this, I am afraid that there will be something more terrible.
12:19 And, therefore, the Lord, if they pray, if there is a small number, a small flock, who pray to the Lord, pray to the Lord for our country and for all the Orthodox, maybe we will somehow survive this.
12:34 I don’t know what will happen, but everyone should pray, because it’s not just this pandemic of fear, it’s overtaken. So someone needs it.
12:48 We don’t know what will happen. But something will happen. Therefore we all must pray.
12:54 and if the Lord was ready for Sodom and Gomorrah, if he found 10 people, he would have mercy on these two cities, if he found 10 people, and in general there were about 400-500 thousand people in both cities and in the suburbs. These are the largest cities of that time, 200 thousand in each, and many more on the outskirts, and I am ready to pardon ten people here.
13:23 And if we pray, let there be a few thousand of us, because millions must suffer, we must all pray.
13:34 and maybe look at what time Father Eli (approx. Patriarch of Georgia) blessed to pray at a certain time,
13:41 Let us all pray for our Motherland, for our Church, and for all Orthodox Christians around the world. Amen __________ NATIONAL PRAYER OF GEORGIA With the blessing and holy prayers of Patriarch-Catholicos of All Georgia Ilia II, the Prayer is performed at 6, 9, 12, 15, 18, 21 and 24 hours.
At the appointed hours, short prayers are performed according to the established order. The Lord's Prayer is always present in them, and the rest of the prayers vary.
The rank is as follows:
6 am – prayers begin with the Trisagion according to Our Father, then Psalm 22 and troparion to the Cross of Christ;
9 am – Our Father, Psalm 50 and Virgin Mary, rejoice!;
Noon – Our Father, Psalm 90 and Open the doors of Mercy to us, O Blessed Mother of God!;
15 o’clock – Our Father, Psalm 142 and Troparion to St. Nina;
18 o’clock – Our Father, 69 psalm and troparion to St. George the Victorious;
21 o'clock - Our Father, 127 psalm and troparion to St. Nicholas the Wonderworker;
Midnight - Our Father, Psalm 133 and prayer May you rest in peace with the saints.
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Prayers for Russia
- Prayer to the Lord for the salvation of Russia
- Prayer to the Lord for Russia
- Prayer to the Lord for the Fatherland. Nicholas (Mogilevsky)
- Prayer for the agreement to save Russia
- Repentant prayer to the Lord in days of turmoil
- Prayer to the Most Holy Theotokos for Russia
- Saint Tikhon, Patriarch of Moscow
- Holy New Martyrs and Confessors of Russia
Prayer to the Lord for the salvation of Russia1
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01:45
Lord Jesus Christ, our God, accept from us, Your unworthy servants, this fervent prayer and, having forgiven us all our sins, remember all our enemies, those who hate and those who offend us, and do not repay them according to their deeds, but according to Your great mercy , convert them: the infidels - to orthodoxy and piety, for not one of them will perish for our sake, the unworthy; the faithful will avoid evil and do good. By Your omnipotent fortress, mercifully deliver us all and Your Holy Church from every evil situation, and the Russian country from fierce enemies and the power of their freedom. Your faithful servants - in sorrow and sorrow - cry out to You day and night, hear the painful cry, our much-merciful God, and bring their lives out of decay. Grant peace and silence, love, affirmation, and speedy reconciliation to Your people, whom You have redeemed with Your Honest Blood. But to those who have departed from You, and to those who do not seek You, it will be revealed, so that not a single one of them will perish, but everyone will be saved and come into the understanding of the truth: so that all, in unanimous agreement and in unceasing love, will glorify the most honorable Thy name, patient and kind, Lord, forever and ever. Amen".
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Prayer to the Lord for Russia
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02:10
On our Fatherland, Russia, pour out Your grace, O God! May all the peoples inhabiting it be united into one family, You, the Heavenly Father, confessing with one mind, organizing their entire lives with one accord of faith, may there be one flock and one Shepherd, may there be bread for us powerful and spiritual for everyone without exception. May there be peace and love between everyone and may the machinations of enemies, internal and external, the evil sowers of tares in Your field, through writing, word or deed, bring unsteadiness into the minds, will be powerless. speech into hearts, temptation, discord and all filth into life. Send, Lord, good workers to Your Russian field, may they announce it with the words of Your truth, may they enlighten it with the example of life by faith. Send, Lord, sensitivity of heart to the people, so that they may understand the holy speeches of Your chosen ones, may they understand Your holy will and do it unchangeably and with joy, so that Russia will be truly holy, may she unite with one mind and one accord into one great Brotherhood of Christ, in thought, in word and deed faithful to God and His Christ. May our Russia be a truly ecclesiastical power, guided in all its affairs by the teachings of the Orthodox Church. Lord, Lord of the world! Visit our country with Your grace, may it be clothed with holiness, like a robe, and may its sons in their humility be worthy of the wedding garment, in which they must enter into the palace of the Kingdom of T voego. Amen.
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Prayer to the Lord for the Fatherland. Nicholas (Mogilevsky), Metropolitan of Alma-Ata2
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02:03
Lord God, our Savior! We fall to You with a contrite heart and confess our sins and iniquities, which are the irritation of Your kindness and the refuge of Your generosity. For this reason, Your righteous judgment has come upon us, Lord: strife and disorder have come upon us, murder and bloodshed, enmity and malice have multiplied to the extreme. But, Most Merciful Lord, look down from Your Holy heights on the tearful prayers of Your poor, sorrowful people, turn Your wrath into mercy and give us help from sorrow. We know that from the ancient years in times of temptation, our country was saved from destruction only by the faith of Christ, only by prayer and tears of repentance from the snares and snares of the enemy. For this reason, in the tenderness of our hearts, we cry out to You: protect our Fatherland even now from the enemies who are destroying it, ignite in our hearts love for Your Holy Church and teach us the virtues so, even to death, stand for Your holy faith and for the glory of Your Holy Name, and so Establish and glorify Your Church with Your omnipotent strength and deliver her from every evil situation. For those who have crucified You, O Lord, and for Your servants to pray for each other, You commanded to pray for those who hate and offend us; do not repay them, O Lord, according to their deeds and the wickedness of their undertakings. , they don’t know what they are doing, but instruct them to live brotherly and virtuously May they turn to You, their Master, and together with the sons of Your Church, glorify You, the One in the Trinity, glorified God forever and ever. Amen.
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Prayer for the agreement to save Russia
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Lord our God, Jesus Christ, with Your most pure lips You told us: “If two of you agree on earth to ask for anything, then whatever they ask will be done for them by My Heavenly Father.” With deep faith in the immutability of Thy words and Thy immeasurable mercy, we ask You to hear all the praying Thy servants who have agreed to humbly ask You for the increase of love and the eradication of all evil and hatred in Russia, for the salvation and well-being of our country, for the faith and wisdom of Russian rulers and their love for their people. However, not as we want, but as You, Lord; May Your holy will be done for everything. Amen.
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Repentant prayer to the Lord in days of turmoil
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01:32
Lord, God Almighty, look upon us, Your sinful and unworthy children, who have sinned before You, who have angered Your goodness, who have brought Your righteous wrath upon us who have fallen into the depths of sin. . You see, Lord, weakness and spiritual sorrow, the corruption of our minds and hearts, the impoverishment of faith, the departure from Your commandments, the multiplication of family disorders, divisions and discord. Church members, You see our sorrows and sorrows from illnesses, famines and civil strife that occur. But, Most Merciful and Humane-loving Lord, give understanding, instruct and have mercy on us, the unworthy. Correct our sinful life, quench discord and discord, gather the scattered, unite the scattered, give peace to our country and deliver it from grave troubles and misfortunes. All-holy Master, enlighten our minds with the light of the teachings of the Gospel, warm our hearts with the warmth of Thy grace and direct me to do Thy commandments, so that the all-holy and holy may be glorified in us Your true name, the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, now and forever. Amen.
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Prayer to the Most Holy Theotokos for Russia
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00:16
To the intercessor of the Russian land and constant prayer for us, ask the Lord for peace for the people, so that the name of God may be sanctified in us forever. Amen.
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Saint Tikhon, Patriarch of Moscow3
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02:46
Oh, our good shepherd, great holy Patriarch Tikhon, as if you were a city on high, your good deeds still shine before men. We, like you, stand before the throne of the Most Holy Trinity, with great boldness in prayers before the Lord. Look now at us, sinners and unworthy of your children, to you, for you, who have great boldness before the Creator of all, now we fall down and fervently pray: pray to the Lord, may He give us the determination to acquire This is the piety of our fathers, which you have acquired from your youth. In your life you were a zealous protector and guardian of the true faith, help us to unshakably observe the Orthodox faith. Your quiet soul has greatly succeeded in divine humility, teach us to feed our minds not with the turbulent human wisdom, but with the humble knowledge of the will of God. In the face of the fierce enemies of Christ, you boldly confessed the True God; with your prayer, strengthen us, the faint-hearted, so that we too will always and everywhere resist the spirit of godlessness and flattery. To her, the corner of the Bogy, do not adequate to you (names), and we are not in the same way and mourn the deliverance, but we will be shed and tutrard, generosity and love, let it endure to attack us. Ask us for unflagging patience even until the end of our lives, peace with the Lord and remission of sins. Holy Father! Tame the winds of unbelief and unrest in our country, may the Lord establish silence and piety and unhypocritical love on the Russian land. Through your prayers may he preserve her from internecine warfare, may she strengthen our Holy Orthodox Church, may she not become depleted of true shepherds, good workers, those who rightly rule the word of the Gospel and truths. God bless the lost sheep of Christ’s flock. Most of all, pray to the Lord for strength, that the Russian land may be reborn with holy repentance, and with one heart and one mouth glorify Divnago in His saints, glorifying God in the Trinity, the Father and the Son and the Holy ago of the Spirit forever and ever. Amen.
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Holy New Martyrs and Confessors of Russia
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02:12
Holy New Martyrs and Confessor of the Russian Church, hear our earnest prayer! We, like nieces from you, still exist as youths, listening to the passion-bearers of old, and thought in our hearts how kindly and praiseworthy it is to imitate such, which is neither torment nor death more than once the best from God's love. Well done to you, for you have followed the nature of the faith and patience of those whom you have heard of and loved. And since at any time we may be faced with an unexpected test, ask from the Lord for the gift of courage, which is so useful in living as a human being. Having sanctified all the ends of our fatherland through your suffering, as prayer books are common to all of us, pray to God to deliver His people from a yoke that is more terrible than any other. May the schisms in our Church be abolished, may they all be united and may the Lord bring His workers to the harvest, may the Church not become impoverished with good shepherds, who have the power to enlighten with light and There are such a great number of people who have not been taught the faith or have turned away from the faith. You are unworthy of God’s mercy, even if you suffer for your sake, may Christ our God be merciful and have mercy on all of us who call for your help. Let us always offer to Him, our Savior with the Father and the Holy Spirit, contrition for sins and thanksgiving for everything, glorifying Him forever and ever. Amen.
Diak. Georgy Malkov, P.Yu. Malkov. We are always under the wing of God. Life and teachings of Archimandrite Seraphim (Rosenberg).
Vera Koroleva. Biography of Metropolitan of Alma-Ata and Kazakhstan Nicholas (Mogilev), confessor.
Minea is additional. Saint Tikhon, Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus'.
Elder Eli: “The weakening of the family threatens with dire consequences”
Before continuing to acquaint readers with Schema-Archimandrite Elijah (Nozdrin)’s answers to our questions - questions that concern many Orthodox Christians - I would like to talk about one episode that we witnessed. Among those who came to Elder Elijah that day was a woman with a sick son - the boy has cerebral palsy and cannot walk. They are from Central Russia. Georgy Bogomolov, as soon as he found out about them, told them to let them through without a queue. They talked with the priest for about seven minutes, no more. A woman raising her son alone (her husband left) decided not to take up too much of the elder’s time. And she probably had something to talk to him about... But there were those in the queue who talked for 20 minutes, and maybe more. And they asked whether it was worth selling the cow. No one eavesdropped - we ourselves accidentally witnessed such a conversation.
Many years ago I heard Georgy Bogomolov once throw into the crowd: “They come and start talking about cats...”.
And then we met the mother of this sick boy and, while we were waiting for a taxi, we started talking. An amazing woman: calm, persistent. Her son Victor suffered serious complications after being vaccinated. But I didn’t see any melancholy in the eyes. She came to the Church three years ago. Now she feels much better. And a few minutes of communication with Father Eli was enough for her to understand something important.
But let’s continue the story about our conversation with the elder.
– Father, now there are many broken up young families. And not only young spouses, but also those who have lived together for 20–25 years, get divorced. Why is this happening? What needs to be done to save the family?
– It’s all about our morals, of course. We must remember: first of all, there is God, man has a soul. There is eternity. And in order for this truth to be recognized, we have so many arguments that one person will never count them. For this, one might say, a million is not enough. Everything says so. Look at yourself, man! Look around you! Look at life, at history. We have Holy Scripture, which from Adam to this time bears witness to God. And how many examples, phenomena of the other world. We also have thousands of these examples! All this speaks of Divine Truth! There is nothing against it! We will not be mistaken if we say that it is zero. Only the charm of the devil. And those people are unhappy in the full sense of the word who do not want to recognize the Truth. Recognize it as Divine Truth. Like a real story.
And it would seem that we have achieved so much thanks to Christianity, thanks to a morally stable life! A lot of things: both in technology and in culture - a lot of things! In development... For example, rockets, and now wireless phones... Thanks to the New Testament, thanks to Christianity.
But man does not want to admit that he is eternal. That he has a soul. Of course, this is from the devil. And if a person lived according to the Law, he would see how poor he is if he is without God! How unhappy he is - both in this world and in the future, which will inevitably be. Ask any grandmother, ask a scientist. After all, we have so many great scientists. The first university was founded by Lomonosov - he was a deeply religious man. How he talks about the sun! Behold, this terrible mass is like a spark before You - before You, before God! Look at his poems. There have been some of the greatest scientists in the past and this century.
When we live a godless life, the life in us becomes impoverished and falls. Man without God is diminished
What you asked is not from the teaching, no. This is only from the corruption of the soul. These are young people who do not want good things for themselves, who do not want to penetrate history. They don't know anything! They refuse God. They are absolute laymen. Look, they don’t understand life, they don’t know life! And when we live a godless life, of course, the life in us becomes impoverished and falls. Man without God is diminished. He does not truly live: neither internally nor externally. However, he does not want to recognize what is truly positive in life: recognize God, recognize eternity, recognize the immortality of his soul. He doesn't want to. Not because he doesn’t have proof, evidence, but the devil, of course, is just playing around. And just say to them: Lord, let me understand Your Truth! Or the first words of the Savior: “Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand.” This is eternity, this is life right. And if in life there is such a consistent - like now - departure from God, then that’s it! This threatens with dire consequences.
Now we have a brochure “The Last Call”. It is unknown, maybe it was an adult, but they say it was written by a child. Many have read it. Of course, it’s scary to even think, I don’t even want to talk about what this atheism, this retreat, threatens.
So you asked about family. A family is a unit, it is a small part of our society. The state of the family, the strength of the family, determines the state of society. The weakening of the family threatens with dire consequences. All this is a loss of morality, a loss of conscience. Loss of consciousness. Loss of direction, of what is most important in life.
– Father, what does Orthodoxy mean for Russia?
– Thank God that now it is at least called Russia. At least the word in the name of the country is Russia. An ancient word. How many centuries has it already existed? The communists wanted to completely obscure the entire past. How can a plant develop if its roots are cut off? This is how it was with us under the Soviet of Deputies, under the Soviet regime. They didn't want anything old, only new. But this is demonic - it was the devil who set people up to throw away our history, Russia, our roots. Thousands of the greatest heroes and commanders! How many of our inventors are in the past, no matter what! They didn't mention it. Only: revolution! revolution! - as this one shouted, burry. He only needs a revolution. That's all. Of course, Russia is a great country. Holy Rus'! It was called Holy Russia. Indeed, she was great. What great, healthy, strong people they were! What are we all now? Small fry turns out. Even if you look at the appearance.
No, it cannot be denied: thank God, now many people are coming to faith. They come deliberately. This makes me happy. It's nice, of course. People fill the temples and realize why a person lives, what is life and the meaning of human life. Not just in wasting your life. It is in our high morality that Christianity gave birth to. Such is the achievement here of correct life and the realization of our eternal life.
Schema-Archimandrite Iliy (Nozdrin). Photo: Pravoslavie.Ru
– Why do the holy fathers encourage abstinence so much? What does it give us?
Our morality, our strength, our consciousness are built on abstinence
- Well, of course! This goes without saying, abstinence. (Laughs.) Of course, asceticism is built on abstinence. Our morality, our strength, our consciousness are built on abstinence. If you don’t abstain, how can you? The church established its own charter. To our deep regret, people discredit the Church, priests, and bishops. They do not know the essence of our spiritual life at all. Church life, you understand? After all, how did they fight before? For Faith, Tsar and Fatherland!
If there is no abstinence, it will lead to bad consequences. In the family, for example. Take children: their parents allow them a lot. There are many examples of children killing their parents. From what? Because they were allowed too much! Do you understand? This is a matter of education. And the Church is the first to educate a person. For example, in Lent. Not every family will allow you to buy everything they can: for food, for clothing - this is a luxury.
So the son asks: father, buy me a car. Wait, earn money yourself, then buy: a car or something else, an apartment, for example. Then it will be valuable to you. And when all this is handed to you on a silver platter... You have to work hard, then you will value your car, take care of it, even drive more carefully.
– Father, you mentioned bishops. Who is a bishop in the Church? What should be the attitude of the flock towards him?
– If we talk in a secular way, then the bishop is the boss. Christianity must be understood. People attack faith, but they do not have any precise concepts about the Christian faith, about what faith is. Where does the history of Christianity begin? We have the holiday of Trinity. What is the Trinity? This is the descent of the Holy Spirit on the apostles, and therefore on the world. The Lord promised that after His Ascension He would send the Holy Spirit. But we don’t understand... Without knowing faith, we don’t understand the essence of life. After all, everything - from a bug to a huge animal: an elephant, a camel; from a small petal to huge trees - everything lives only thanks to the action of God’s grace. The action of the power of God, the Wisdom of God. Even if the grace-filled power is taken away from a repeat offender, who is scary to even talk about, he will not be able to live even a day. Everything lives only by grace. Youth, godless people, different denominations, confessions - God preserves everything only by His grace. And into the world after suffering and the Resurrection, after His Ascension, the Lord promised to send the Holy Spirit. First to the apostles, and through them to the whole world. The first successors of the Holy Spirit are the apostles. They initiated the leaders of the first followers of the Savior. You should read about it. Unfortunately, we do not know the New Testament, the history of Christianity.
By the way, theological science is the most extensive of all branches of knowledge. After all, it originates in the Old Testament. But, unfortunately, people don't want to know this. The devil, of course, holds everyone back. Some people believe that a believer is a narrow-minded person. Like Khrushchev, who said that fools cross themselves. Of course, he himself was confused. How many people died through him - thousands of people! Without thinking, he gave up Crimea. And Crimea has always been Russian. A sea of Russian blood was spilled there. He turned out to be a traitor. And he believed that believers could be sent to a madhouse. Yes, that’s how it was done, that’s how it was. How many people were sent! And I almost got there myself.
– Father, I would like to receive your comment on Ukraine. Now schismatics want to take away the Kiev Pechersk Lavra and are collecting signatures on the Internet. How should Ukrainians, how should Russian people react to this?
– This Ukrainian unrest began with the Maidan. The revelry of these presumptuous friends. How many thousands of people died. And how much has been destroyed? And to this day the consequences. Impudence. It's easy for bandits to seize power. Conscience does not exist for them. Law too. As they say: no law is written for fools.
– Over the last 20 years, psychics, fortune tellers, and all kinds of healers have become extremely popular. People are ready to pay them a lot of money for their “help,” often even the last. What is the danger of such hobbies?
The worst thing for us is school, where children do not receive the correct understanding of the essence of life
- This is all a retreat. Loss of real faith. Consequences of godlessness. In the old pre-revolutionary times, we had missionary seminaries and theological schools. Then they gave the correct concepts about faith. And when sects and abnormal teachings arise, these are all, of course, products of demonic power. A person strives to know something true, but there is no right direction, no right teaching. The worst thing for us is school, where children do not receive the correct understanding of the essence of life. And, of course, when a person wants to know something beyond the ordinary, he rushes to all sorts of bait. It's like a bird. Take a chicken: there is no good food for it, and if you give it some sand, it will peck at it too. So are people. They become infected with all sorts of sects.
– Father Eli, how to deal with pride? So you go to church and pray, but you just can’t overcome it in yourself. There are also worries, doubts, and despondency. How to resist them?
– Remember that our entire earthly life is short. It is not guaranteed even for a single day in this world. But the Lord pointed us to eternity. The Lord could create everything for this life. He could deliver from the devil and from everything abnormal and turn a person to Himself. But since man is the crown of creation, he is endowed with will. Here is an example of the 12 apostles, and among them is Judas. The God-Man Savior knows that Judas will betray Him. He could have preserved him, like the other apostles. The Lord gave him everything so that he would believe, but... So the Lord leads every person to good, but retains his will. We are temporary. Our whole life is too short, too limited. And the Lord points to eternity. How many empires, how many states there were... The Lord shows us our future endless eternity.
- Father, last question. You often call for prayer for our President, Vladimir Putin. Please tell the readers of the Pravoslavie.R u why it is important to pray for the President?
- This goes without saying. After all, this is the President. You yourself see from the media what kind of endurance, strength of mind and will you need to have in order to govern such a huge multinational country as Russia. Put anyone - will it work? After all, we are all limited, even if we have ten spans in our foreheads or even more. And the critics... Many of us now like to engage in all kinds of criticism, blasphemy against the President and other authorities. But if you put such a person in charge for one day, will he cope? Will he do much? It’s like the saying goes: I’ll remove someone else’s misfortune with my finger, but I won’t take away my own with my fingers. And it’s the same in our families.
Prayer for President Vladimir Putin is very necessary and important. It is clear that only God strengthens him
What did the revolution do? There was a tsarist regime - what a country it was strong and powerful. With a strong navy, army, police. And when they started to undermine it, what happened? It’s not enough to say, 70-80 million - yes, about 100 million people were killed due to the genocide of the Russian people. How many people were killed without trial or investigation! What a moral! They said that there was exploitation in Russia. This is wrong. What did the communists do? In one place alone, 11 thousand were shot. And how many barges were sunk with people! Kolyma, Solovki, Magadan... How many were killed and executed. What did these “honest” people, primarily Ulyanov, and Stalin, do?
We must hold on tight. The people elected the President. He puts all his strength into the country. Prayer for the President is very necessary and important. It is clear that only God strengthens him.
