E.N. But now the biggest charge and most terrible word, which is not heard so much maybe in the high church circles, but is current among the parishioners, is the label of renovation. They hang it on every unaccustomed occurrence in church life.

V.E. It is easy to answer that. I already said that renovation is before anything else schism; it itself is a movement is mixed in its own representatives. But the Lord Himself creates everything new, like when He said, “Behold I will create all new.” This creation in Christ is an inalienable part of life in Christ. But with regard to the charge, whom did they not accuse... They accused Elizabeth Fedorovna of Protestant intentions when she created her society of mercy. The hierarchy, like Germogen (Dolganov), accused her. So what is especially here is not needed to survive. It would be little who speaks at the end of the end to another mouth that you do not throw off your scarf. It is needed to simply have in view that it is often the personal opinion of some people. So let it be.