The feast of the Council of Moscow Saints with a large-scale religious procession should strengthen those wavering in the faith, said Patriarch Kirilltranslated

Celebrating the day of remembrance of the Council of Moscow Saints with a large-scale religious procession to the walls of the Novodevichy Convent should strengthen people who waver in the faith, His Holiness Patriarch Kirill said about this.

– There are not many capitals in the world where such a holiday is celebrated. This suggests that the city of Moscow and our Fatherland were honored to have saints as a spiritual ideal, spiritual and even political mentors (especially in ancient times), - said the Primate on September 6, 2026 at the end of the All-Moscow religious procession at the Novodevichy Convent in Moscow.

As Patriarch Kirill noted, those who initiated persecution of the faith and the Church, “probably, even in a nightmare, could not imagine that we in such a multitude at the walls of this glorified monastery, which in Soviet times was closed for worship, would glorify the names of the holy saints of God who shone in the Russian land and in the city of Moscow.”

“This alone should strengthen those who waver in their faith.” Because, according to all the laws of the development of human civilization, what happened to our country in Soviet times could not in any way be addressed to the revival of the Orthodox faith, which was exterminated in every possible way and with which...