Russia (bbabo.net), - "How not to strive for the unity of Christianity, for the unity of the Church? We pray at every Liturgy for the unity of all God's Churches, for the reunification of all." With these words, on the day of his enthronement, Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia addressed the Divine Liturgy in the church of the Right-believing Prince Alexander Nevsky in the skete of the same name near Peredelkino.

Prayer for the unity of the Church, according to the patriarch, is present at the center of the Church's consciousness.

“Because we will never put up with the division of the Church, with the appearance of schisms, heresies, everything that violates the unity of the Church,” says his sermon, published on the official website of the Russian Orthodox Church.

The patriarch delivered this sermon on the day of St. Mark of Ephesus, who at one time (14th-15th centuries), understanding the importance of unity, was well aware that one cannot capitulate and give up positions before those who do not bear true unity. We cannot refuse what we believe in and what we profess in the Orthodox Church.

According to the patriarch, he single-handedly averted a huge danger emanating from political forces that sought to spread the influence of the West to the Byzantine east. And bring to it the cultural, political, religious unrest that raged then in the West.

The Patriarch called today to combine prayers for reunification with concern for the purity of the faith.

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