Patriarch Kirill wished ieromonahu Photios save monastic modesty after the victory – BBC

26.12.2015, 21:08

The Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Kirill in his Facebook has congratulated the priesthood Photios, who won the fourth season of the show “The Voice».

«I congratulate father Photios with a victory in the competition” The Voice. ” The company from the beginning has been highly controversial, and even, I would say, dangerous to the monk. Because the bandstand and the monastic vocation as it were incompatible, “- he wrote.

However, according to the patriarch, “the result, surprisingly, turned out to be positive – I think, and for his father Photios, and for all those who listened to him and who loved».

According to him, congratulating priesthood Photios, he “would like to wish it to retain the natural behavior, modesty, which is inherent in the monastic rank and which people – both church and non-church – define the spiritual state of the priest».

“I want to remember that you elected the monastic way on the value and meaning more than the victory, which you won. For many, voted not only for voice but also for the way “- said the Patriarch.

Previous was reported that in the fourth season of the musical show” The Voice “won monk Photius from the team Grigory Leps.

The show “The Voice” is on Channel since 2012. In the previous three seasons, the winner is the pupils Gradsky – Dean Garipova Sergei Volchkov and Alexander Vorobyov.

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