the Excessive pumping of the theme of the danger of coronavirus COVID-19 can lead to loss of mental balance and consequent weakening of the immune system. This was stated in the program “Church and world” on TV channel “Russia 24” the head of the Department for external Church relations of the Moscow Patriarchate, Metropolitan Hilarion.
According to him, apart from the possibility of biological warfare, there is also the possibility of bio-psychological war when people are scared of what happen, scared of the rampant virus and the danger in which they and their loved ones, and begin to lose immunity because of the fact that concentrate on the negative and not the positive. The Metropolitan called it a very dangerous psychological situation of which more and more psychologists say.
Therefore, said Hilarion, regardless of any investigation of the causes of the virus he would like to encourage all the audience to pay more attention to their own spiritual, mental and physical health.
“in order to defeat the virus, we all need a very strong immunity, and this immunity is acquired by us not only on a physical level, but also on spiritual and mental,” he explained.
the world Russian people’s Council, headed by Patriarch Kirill, recently appealed to the Prosecutor General and the Investigative Committee of Russia with the requirement to investigate the causes of the pandemic, paying special attention to the production of vaccines. According to Metropolitan Hilarion, the concern of the world Russian people’s Council is justified.
Churches in Moscow will open for parishioners in the near future, consider in Russian Orthodox Church. However, in the ROC intend in this matter to follow the recommendations of health authorities, noted Hilarion.
According to him, he hopes that in the next few days in the Russian Orthodox Church get permission from sanitary authorities to open temples at least in the Liturgy time that believers could come to the temple to light candles, serve notes to communicate with the priest. The next step will be the opening of the temples for worship, says Hilarion, thus, likely to set certain standards — for example in relation to the distance between believers and the total number of believers in the Church.
