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What is faith? Does the Orthodox Church teach faith? And does it exist in the church itself? Where is the line between strict canons, long and verbose rituals performed in a dead Church Slavonic language, and true faith in the living God? What is the role of a priest in the church and what is the real life of a minister of the Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate? What is there behind the glitter of golden crosses and mitres, the rustling of phelons, the pomp of rites, and the lengthy chorales on the krylos? What are the church bells ringing and what are they silent about?
Holiday means "holiness". The consecration of cakes, water and earthly fruits does not replace the sanctification of the soul. And this sanctification is achieved through repentance. Jesus Christ ascended to the cross and died, "having conquered death by death" and redeemed human sins. And He rose again on the third day, as it was commanded. From that moment on, the New Testament began to be written and a new faith emerged, a new Church was created. For two millennia, the Church of Christ has experienced times of formation, prosperity, persecution, decline, division into the West and the East, and suffered from internal schisms.
«Go and make disciples of all nations! In the Epistles of the Apostles we read: «That all may be one! What kind of unity does the Moscow Patriarchate preach? Why do all the peoples of the world pray in their own languages, and only in the territories subordinate to the Moscow Patriarchate are national languages of worship still considered a sin and a crime against God?
Where is the line between politics and the church in Ukraine, and does it exist at all?
Is it possible to offer a candle to God and a poker to the devil, and how to get out of this vicious circle where the word of the bishop has more weight than the word of the Gospel?
The answers to these and many other questions can be found in the book Exodus by Fr Ihor Savva.
The backstage of the inner church life, the relations between priests, laity, bishops, the powers that be, and at the same time the author's personal life story. The revival of Christianity in Zaporizhzhia, the construction of a church and the creation of a temple of one's own soul, sifting the grain from the chaff and the wheat from the tares - this is the idea and content of these diary entries.
