The authorities must realize that they should take a step together with the Church so that the nation reconciles. If this is not done, everyone will receive what is theirs,” said Bodbe Archbishop Metropolitan Iakob during his sermon.

As Metropolitan Iakob noted, if someone has power, it has been received from the Lord.

“The authorities must realize that they should take a step together with the Church so that the nation reconciles. If this is not done, everyone will receive what is theirs. Because as this accumulates, the Lord watches and will repay everything accordingly. No one can deceive the Lord — neither a member of the Church nor a non-member. It is necessary that we take some step. After all, we are not fighting for chairs; I am ready to give up any chair so that my nation may be well. Otherwise, let us look at examples of who does what — some live only to hold onto their chair until the end. When we go to God, we will not stand as bishops, nor as presidents, nor as prime ministers, nor as emperors, nor as rulers,” noted Metropolitan Iakob.

According to him, we must think about what God wants.

“How many years have passed since we supposedly emerged from the Soviet Union, yet some have remained Russians in their minds, Mongols in their minds, because the previous one always fights the one before it.

What do I call ‘Russianness’? I am not touching the nation; I am referring to the form of governance. The previous government must destroy the one before it, then the next one destroys that, and so on — this happens everywhere.

I call on everyone to think about living together and not having tension. If we think about adopting some laws just to stop someone at some point? Let us think about what God wants,” noted Metropolitan Iakob.