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  1 ConcernTheQuest   |              Situation of the Modern Church~
  2 ConcernTheQuest,1 |          there. My entrance into the Church occurred in 1975, and already
  3 ConcernTheQuest,2 |              for the preparation for church service. Already, in 1987,
  4 ConcernTheQuest,3 |             councils, that is of the church parish and of the office
  5 ConcernTheQuest,4 |   Jurisdiction [the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad], and another student,
  6 ConcernTheQuest,4 |              day inner school in the Church. People come to me who have
  7 ConcernTheQuest,4 |          come to me who have gone to church for many years, and even
  8 ConcernTheQuest,4 |            people who are all in the Church and all have their own confessors
  9 ConcernTheQuest,4 |          happen to be passive in the Church. ~We now have all witnessed
 10 ConcernTheQuest,4 |         miracle: persecutions on the Church Herself have ceased. When
 11 ConcernTheQuest,5 |            infancy. And so, when the Church journey began for me, my
 12 ConcernTheQuest,6 |              twenty-three years, the church warden. In 1927, in the
 13 ConcernTheQuest,8 |        Sergei Posad reared me in the Church. I had close acquaintances
 14 ConcernTheQuest,8 |             close acquaintances with church people who have passed through
 15 ConcernTheQuest,8 |              of the Russian Orthodox Church. Now the majority of them
 16 ConcernTheQuest,8 |              in good memory, in some church service etc.... For example,
 17 ConcernTheQuest,8 |           one who helped to keep the Church working after the Patriarch
 18 ConcernTheQuest,8 |          will see the rebirth of the Church, he listened to me with
 19 ConcernTheQuest,8 |              he was, he brought back Church tradition, in particular
 20 ConcernTheQuest,8 |        grasped this living legend of church people belonging to a noble
 21 ConcernTheQuest,8 |          nothing is completed in the Church with pride and that church
 22 ConcernTheQuest,8 |           Church with pride and that church activities are carried out
 23 ConcernTheQuest,9 |              the various sections of church education. There were periods
 24 ConcernTheQuest,10|           Efrem Sirin expressed this Church truth with the eternal words: “
 25 ConcernTheQuest,13|           current for the modern day Church?~V.E. This work changes
 26 ConcernTheQuest,14|              but direct death of the Church body in many of its members.
 27 ConcernTheQuest,14|           You know that the Orthodox Church does not partake of the
 28 ConcernTheQuest,14|             Catholic division of the church community into priests and
 29 ConcernTheQuest,14|            be semi-literate with the Church for this often leads to
 30 ConcernTheQuest,14|         ruinous consequences for the Church. In Catholicism, for example,
 31 ConcernTheQuest,14|        providence of the Head of the Church concerning Her Whole Body.
 32 ConcernTheQuest,14|             The Lord established His Church, which, was gained with
 33 ConcernTheQuest,14|       priesthood, and to deprive the church people with education is
 34 ConcernTheQuest,15|           You said that the Orthodox Church does not assist the artificial
 35 ConcernTheQuest,16|        relationships which build His Church, are controlled by Her Head.
 36 ConcernTheQuest,16|              look at the past of our Church, then we will see, that,
 37 ConcernTheQuest,16|        synodal administration in the Church) and the end of the nineteenth
 38 ConcernTheQuest,16|           And any attempts to return church life in such a form as in
 39 ConcernTheQuest,16|          nothing that each change of church life, of her character,
 40 ConcernTheQuest,16|           not only for a part of the Church but for everyone.~
 41 ConcernTheQuest,17|           now most dangerous for the Church?~V.E. What is needed is
 42 ConcernTheQuest,17|              lines to the modern day church life whether it be the nineteenth
 43 ConcernTheQuest,18|        intentions make the Christian Church unhappy.~
 44 ConcernTheQuest,20|         somehow disappeared from the church horizon. It is something
 45 ConcernTheQuest,21|             concerning the Christian Church, which for at least three
 46 ConcernTheQuest,21|             the outcome, that such a Church was in the State during
 47 ConcernTheQuest,21|              this is translated into church language then the members
 48 ConcernTheQuest,21|              then the members of the church will realize for themselves
 49 ConcernTheQuest,22|           succeeded to appear in the Church who see the main Fire-the
 50 ConcernTheQuest,22|          Fire. But people behind the church border, people not in the
 51 ConcernTheQuest,22|            border, people not in the Church are beginning to sense this
 52 ConcernTheQuest,22|          anything, the border of the church is conditioned by stone
 53 ConcernTheQuest,23|             for the Russian Orthodox Church appears to be most important.
 54 ConcernTheQuest,23|           any missionary work in the Church, in a Church with a great
 55 ConcernTheQuest,23|             work in the Church, in a Church with a great potential and
 56 ConcernTheQuest,24|          come to the activization of church life, in the transformation
 57 ConcernTheQuest,24|           people now are accepting a church person, before anything
 58 ConcernTheQuest,25|       present surviving. The Russian Church has gained a great experience
 59 ConcernTheQuest,25|           the Lord prepared Her [the Church] for service for hundreds
 60 ConcernTheQuest,25|          Hades would not conquer the Church, it does not say anywhere
 61 ConcernTheQuest,25|        maintain the Russian Orthodox Church. That is naive. It is needed
 62 ConcernTheQuest,25|          Lord cultivated the Russian Church with the skill for long-suffering,
 63 ConcernTheQuest,29|              service and work in the Church?~V.E. Work is understood
 64 ConcernTheQuest,30|              with sin, that even the Church now tempts.~V.E. Whom does
 65 ConcernTheQuest,31|           are both in and not in the Church. There are people who go
 66 ConcernTheQuest,31|           There are people who go to church and for whom right away
 67 ConcernTheQuest,32|            constrained namely by the Church Herself, by Her structures,
 68 ConcernTheQuest,32|       confused. First, it is not the Church, but it is sin against the
 69 ConcernTheQuest,32|            but it is sin against the Church if the clergyman himself
 70 ConcernTheQuest,32|          either hide the sins in the Church, reprove the sinners in
 71 ConcernTheQuest,32|           are in sin are against the Church.~I have met extolled clergymen,
 72 ConcernTheQuest,32|         played a leading role. In my church path, they were only at
 73 ConcernTheQuest,32|            phenomenons exist, but my church path took me farther away
 74 ConcernTheQuest,32|            memories.~But you see the Church is not only clergymen. Finally,
 75 ConcernTheQuest,33|            deaconess of Kenhreiskaja church, and others. In the ninth
 76 ConcernTheQuest,33|            It is like a cleaner of a church.” Likewise, it is necessary
 77 ConcernTheQuest,33|              of the Russian Orthodox Church. Even now, a large part
 78 ConcernTheQuest,33|         character of our life in the Church, our inertia of consciousness,
 79 ConcernTheQuest,33|              that is the Head of the Church, our Lord Jesus Christ.
 80 ConcernTheQuest,33|     providence of the Lord about His Church.~
 81 ConcernTheQuest,34|          Here, there is the only one Church truth, formed very simply
 82 ConcernTheQuest,35|              of the Russian Orthodox Church and in the plan of church
 83 ConcernTheQuest,35|            Church and in the plan of church life? How will our church
 84 ConcernTheQuest,35|            church life? How will our church life develop further?~V.E.
 85 ConcernTheQuest,35|           quiet voice of God. In the church community consiliarism is
 86 ConcernTheQuest,35| responsibility of each member of the Church for all church activities.
 87 ConcernTheQuest,35|         member of the Church for all church activities. It should not
 88 ConcernTheQuest,35|            is why each member of the Church is responsible for the maintenance
 89 ConcernTheQuest,35|       present local council with the church.~
 90 ConcernTheQuest,36|            be some other form of the church community. What is important
 91 ConcernTheQuest,36|            of the Living[Renovation] Church have already begun to teach
 92 ConcernTheQuest,36|              of the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad] implemented despotism,
 93 ConcernTheQuest,36|             the present state of the church community, are called by
 94 ConcernTheQuest,37|             God’s providence for His Church. So much is attempted. Peter
 95 ConcernTheQuest,37|           Peter I struggled with the Church with Her hierarchical stem.
 96 ConcernTheQuest,37|           the struggle with definite church service subjected to eradication.
 97 ConcernTheQuest,38|        hamper the development of the Church and to lead to a tendency,
 98 ConcernTheQuest,39|             of the whole Body of the Church. This was highly difficult
 99 ConcernTheQuest,39|           well-known expression “the church in paralysis.” Incidentally,
100 ConcernTheQuest,39|         kills the free breath of the Church Body. What can one say?
101 ConcernTheQuest,39|             existed was an incorrect church organization, in the sense
102 ConcernTheQuest,39|             read about all times the Church served man instead of God
103 ConcernTheQuest,40|       understand the problems of the Church before the Revolution?~V.E.
104 ConcernTheQuest,40|            Ioann (Shahovskii) “White church.” Even sectarians have their
105 ConcernTheQuest,40|           And why when we did have a church the priest never recounted
106 ConcernTheQuest,41|              to you dangerous in the Church?~V.E. Extoltation. It is
107 ConcernTheQuest,42|              day research. When some church abnormality appears, a schism,
108 ConcernTheQuest,42|        schism, a heresy, or simply a church scandal, it always is a
109 ConcernTheQuest,42|           the vision of the Union of Church Renewal. It was a reaction
110 ConcernTheQuest,42|           was a reaction to abnormal church organization when all church
111 ConcernTheQuest,42|         church organization when all church organization was called “
112 ConcernTheQuest,44|            so much maybe in the high church circles, but is current
113 ConcernTheQuest,44|           unaccustomed occurrence in church life.~V.E. It is easy to
114 ConcernTheQuest,45|          special organization of the church parish, but now, in history,
115 ConcernTheQuest,45|            peaceful, quiet, positive church work. As regards to any
116 ConcernTheQuest,45|            parish life. Now forms of church brotherhood is not universal.
117 ConcernTheQuest,45|           just in time to repair the church or to do something else.
118 ConcernTheQuest,45|           the Saints, instruction in church history, and if only to
119 ConcernTheQuest,46|              You spoke about how the church struggle should not take
120 ConcernTheQuest,46|           and may the clergy and the church community not to acquire
121 ConcernTheQuest,46|           journalistic disputes. For church relations, unity, there