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“Who needs to pray for drunkenness? • Russia today Posting in CHAT: Russia" Everyone answered in unison: “To the inexhaustible cup.” I replied: “That's right. Don’t even think about praying in front of the Vladimir, Iveron or Kazan icons - it won’t help.” And everyone felt ashamed. This is how far we can get: it is no longer the Mother of God, but the icon that becomes the main thing for us. It is so easy to reduce Orthodoxy to paganism. Read about the religions of Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome, where each god was in charge of his own side of human life, and people turned to him and made sacrifices. So they forgot the One God, He became unnecessary. And in our veneration of the saints we should not slide down this path. Already, unfortunately, many believers are looking not for God, but for saints, and asking for help not in healing from passions, not in salvation, but in signs and wonders. And this false faith turns out to be one of the serious reasons for the fruitlessness of our prayers and countless prayer services.Here you are right, with such faith the saints can really become the stockade behind which you can lose Christ. Alexey Ilyich Osipov Original source Source link