Archpriest Vsevolod Chaplin urged believers not to grieve in vain over dead pets, but, to show their feelings through good deeds. “Give this situation to God. We don’t know what living creatures will surround us in the afterlife, but, we know that the Lord is merciful to all His living and breathing creatures. Rest assured, the Lord won’t leave any creature that lives with us and is dear to us without His mercy”, the Deputy Head of the MP Department for External Church Relations said in a live broadcast on the Russkoi Sluzhby Novostei (Russian News Service). According to Fr Vsevolod, “We often grieve over ourselves, over the people around us, and over our pets, whilst the natural state of a Christian is joy. Our grief over a dead pet can be shown in good deeds, for example, in our care for another living creature”, he advised. Thusly, he answered a woman who phoned in and told him that she grieved over the death of her favourite pet cat and that she couldn’t get over it.
18 November 2008
Interfax–Religion
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