This text initially appeared on a brand new website concerning the Christian renaissance in Russia, referred to as Russian Religion. Their introductory video is at finish of this text.
St. Anatole the Youthful of Optina (1917)
“There might be a storm. And the Russian ship might be smashed to items. However folks will be saved even on splinters and fragments. And never everybody will perish. One should pray, everybody should repent and pray fervently. And what occurs after a storm?
…There might be a peaceful.’
At this everybody stated: ‘However there isn’t a extra ship, it’s shattered to items; it has perished, all the pieces has perished.’
‘It isn’t so,’ stated Batiushka. ‘A terrific miracle of God might be manifested. And all of the splinters and fragments, by the desire of God and His energy, will come collectively and be united, and the ship might be rebuilt in its magnificence and can go by itself approach as foreordained by God.
And this might be a miracle evident to everybody.” [Orthodox Russia, 1970, no. 1, p. 9].
St. Seraphim of Sarov (+1833)
“Earlier than the beginning of the Antichrist there might be an incredible, protracted conflict and a horrible revolution in Russia passing all bounds of human creativeness, for the bloodletting might be most horrible: the rebellions of Ryazan, Pugachev and the French revolution might be nothing compared with what is going to happen in Russia.
Many people who find themselves devoted to the fatherland will perish, church property and the monasteries might be robbed; the Lord’s church buildings might be desecrated; good folks might be robbed of their riches and killed, rivers of Russian blood will circulation…
However the Lord could have mercy on Russia and can deliver her alongside the trail of nice sufferings to glory.”
St. John of Kronstadt (+1908)
“I foresee the restoration of a robust Russia, nonetheless stronger and mightier than earlier than.
On the bones of those martyrs, bear in mind, as on a robust basis, will the brand new Russia we constructed – in accordance with the outdated mannequin; sturdy in her religion in Christ God and within the Holy Trinity! And there might be, in accordance with the covenant of the holy Prince Vladimir, a single Church!
Russian folks have ceased to know what Rus’ is: it’s the footstool of the Lord’s Throne! The Russian particular person should perceive this and thank God that he’s Russian”.
“The Church will stay unshaken to the tip of the age, and a Monarch of Russia, if he stays devoted to the Orthodox Church, might be established on the Throne of Russia till the tip of the age.”[198]
Elder Aristocles of Moscow (+1918)
“An evil will shortly take Russia, and wherever this evil goes, rivers of blood will circulation. It isn’t the Russian soul, however an imposition on the Russian soul. It isn’t an ideology, nor a philosophy, however a spirit from hell. Within the final days Germany might be divided.
France might be simply nothing. Italy might be judged by pure disasters. Britain will lose her empire and all her colonies and can come to virtually complete wreck, however might be saved by praying enthroned ladies. America will feed the world, however will lastly collapse. Russia and China will destroy one another.
Lastly, Russia might be free and from her believers will go forth and switch many from the nations to God.”
“Now we’re present process the occasions earlier than the Antichrist. However Russia will but be delivered. There might be a lot struggling, a lot torture. The entire of Russia will grow to be a jail, and one should enormously entreat the Lord for forgiveness. One should repent of 1’s sins and concern to do even the least sin, however attempt to do good, even the smallest. For even the wing of a fly has weight, and God’s scales are actual. And when even the smallest of excellent within the cup suggestions the stability, then will God reveal His mercy upon Russia.”
St John of Shanhai and San Francisco (1938)
“Shake away the sleep of despondency, O sons of Russia! Behold the glory of her struggling and be purified; wash yourselves out of your sins! Be strengthened within the Orthodox Religion, in order to be worthy to dwell within the dwelling of the Lord and to choose His holy mountain!
Leap up, leap up, come up, O Russia, you who from the Lord’s fingers have drunk the cup of His wrath!
When your struggling shall have ended, your righteousness shall go along with you and the glory of the Lord shall accompany you. The peoples shall come to your gentle, and kings to the shining which shall rise upon you.
Then Raise up your eyes and see: behold your youngsters come to you from the West and the North and the Sea and the East, blessing you in Christ eternally.Amen” [Ibid, p. 94].
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