I am not sure however this is
The Greatest Virtue
is Love
Love of Neighbor
After the love of
God, the greatest commandment is the love of one’s neighbor.
You shall love the
Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul and with all your
strength. This is the first and great commandment. And a second is like it:
You shall love your neighbor as yourself. On these two commandments depend all
the law and the prophets
(Mt 22.37–40, Mk 12.30–31, Lk 10.27, Lev 19.18).
There is no
commandment greater than these (Mk 12.31).
Love of neighbor
necessarily follows from the love of God, and there can be no true love of God
without it.
He who says he is in
the light and hates his brother is in darkness still. He who loves his brother
abides in the light and in him there is no cause of stumbling. He who hates his
brother is in darkness and walks in darkness, and does not know where he is
going for the darkness has blinded his eyes.
If any one says “I
love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his
brother whom he has seen, cannot love God whom he has not seen. And this
commandment we have from Him, that he who loves God, should love his brother
also (1 Jn 2.9–11, 4.20–21).
Religion in Russia
Today
With nearly 5,000
religious associations the Russian Orthodox Church accounts for over a half of
the total number registered in Russia. Next in numbers come Moslem
associations, about 3,000, Baptists, 450, Seventh Day Adventists, 120,
Evangelicals, 120, Old Believers, over 200, Roman Catholics, 200, Krishnaites,
68, Buddhists, 80, Judaists, 50, and Unified Evangelical Lutherans, 39.
Many churches and
monasteries have been returned to the Church, including the St. Daniel
Monastery, the current seat of the Moscow Patriarchate, the spiritual and
administrative center of the Russian Orthodox Church.
Some statisticians
estimate the percentage of believers at 40 per cent of the entire Russian
Federation. Close to 9,000 communities belonging to over forty confessions had
been officially registered in the country.
The majority of
religious Russians are Christians. The country has over 5,000 Russian Orthodox
churches. Many are built anew or under repair on parish and local budgets
money.
No comments:
Post a Comment