Metropolitan Anthony of Sourozh. Transaction
words.
The Church refuses to perform funeral services for suicides. After all, the funeral rite presupposes
a number of things. You can't just say, "Lord, this man has sinned, but
he trusted and trusted in Thee to the end," when he did not trust and did not hope.
It is impossible to say: "This man has sinned, but his faith has never been shaken."
After all, one should not mock either God or the deceased. So there is a category
people who simply do not belong to such a rank. But the Church has long said that
If a person commits suicide in a state of insanity, "affect", then
This should – or can – be taken into account. And I think I have to
take this into account almost always: I have seen only one person who
committed suicide in cold blood (and even then it is difficult to say: whether in cold blood.
a person went bankrupt financially and was simply afraid of responsibility). But there are also
some measure of fear and horror, which cannot be considered cold-bloodedness, at worst
In this regard, a number of questions may arise. Shouldn't we have
Any liturgical rites for cases that have not yet been foreseen?
And, finally, there is a personal question. Every individual in the Church has the right
personal charity. Somewhere in the Orthodox consciousness there is: what he does not do
The Church as such, through the big "C", a member of the Church can do. I, of course,
I am not talking about violating something that lies in the essence of the Church. But in
Lives of Saints there is a story about how a priest prayed for suicides and
his bishop forbade him. And there was a night vision to that bishop: crowds of people