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DOMUS PATRIS

Archimandrite Nikolai Sokolov

Remember the Past [2:24]

It may seem meaningless to grub in past memories and revive "phantoms of history". It's passed and thanks God that it passed!

But for those who investigate a period of repressions the whole issue is absolutely different. They tell us that we should realize where this kind of politics comes from, why such governmental system existed and why they created this age of terror and fear. If we get to know it one day, we will have a chance not to repeat the mistakes of the past.

Exclusively thanks to many efforts of historians and associations we got the "Books of the Memory of Victims of Political Repressions”. For the Russian Orthodox Church it is an opportunity to put straight the historical record and to discover the phenomenon of "new martyrs" and to suggest them as examples for everyday life.

Nikolai Sokolv's Sermon

On this Sunday, the holy Orthodox Russian Church celebrates the memory of the new martyrs and confessors of Russia.

It wasn’t long ago that you and I had to fear speaking out about these events, which happened in our country in the terrifying 1930s and ‘40s, when the blood of our fellow countrymen was spilled in our own territory, in the territory of Moscow, in the territory of the North, the South, the West and the East. Our countrymen were ki...

Do we need to remember history?

It may seem meaningless to grub in past memories and revive "phantoms of history". It's passed and thanks God that it passed!

But for those who investigate a period of repressions the whole issue is absolutely different. They realize that our past influences deeply our present.

Suppose we've discovered a mass murder and the respective burial place: after several days of bewailing, the remains are buried in some new place with a cross on top. Wha...