Patriarch Cyril visited the Odessa Theological Seminary

22/7/2010

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In the evening on July 22 Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia, Kirill acquainted with the Holy Assumption Monastery Odessa, where he visited the Holy Assumption and St. Nicholas Church, as well as the gateway temple in honor of the holy princes-martyrs Boris and Gleb.

Then the Holy Lord visited the Odessa Theological Seminary, he examined the temple-museum in honor of the holy Apostle Andrew. As his primatial blessing of the Russian Orthodox Church gave the oldest spiritual school in the southern Ukraine beautiful icon of the holy Apostle John the Theologian.

On behalf of teachers and students of the Holy Lord of the rector of the SLM Archimandrite Seraphim was donated to the painting “Christ in the Desert”.

Then in the hall of the seminary Patriarch turned to the future pastors with primatial word, in which he noted that “everything you’ve come to the spiritual school, and I hope to inner call of the heart, to deepen their knowledge of God and prepare themselves for self-service of the Church of Christ. At the seminary are taught certain subjects, whose task – a statement of divinely revealed knowledge of God, peace, man, the future life. From inmates requires special diligence in studying theology. Not only must the mind to perceive the divine truth, but to make sense spiritually, to experience the knowledge taught in the seminary, and not only to accumulate the amount of knowledge for themselves and for their erudition.

And do not think that education ends with the diploma. We must learn throughout life to be worthy priests, “said St. Cyril.

Patriarch was accompanied by the Metropolitan of Odessa and Izmail Agafangel and the Bishop of Belgorod-Dniester Alexis, vicar of the Odessa diocese.

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