Father Dimitri (Dmitry Nikolayevich Smirnov in the world) is a brilliant minister of the Russian Orthodox Church and a missionary. He is the rector of eight churches, and also holds the position of the Patriarchal Commission for the Protection of Maternity and Family. Plus, he is the rector of the Orthodox Culture Department of the Strategic Missile Forces Military Academy.
The sermons of Dimitry Smirnov show that this is an outstanding priest who does not leave his active educational work for a minute. His blog is on the Internet. Dimitry Smirnov’s sermons constantly sound on the Radonezh radio station. They can also be heard on television (in the programs “Dialogue under the Clock”, “Union”, “Conversations with the Father”, “Spas”).
Biography of the clergyman Dimitry Nikolaevich Smirnov
He is a native Muscovite. Born March 7, 1951. His father and great-grandfather (who suffered martyrdom and was counted a saint in 2000) were priests, and his grandfather was also a white officer. Mom immediately taught the children to pray and always read the scriptures to them.
Since 1978, he studied at a theological seminary in Sergiev Posad. Then he finished it externally. And then he entered the theological academy and after its completion was appointed a priest to the church of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross in Altufevo.
Spiritual Enlightener and Preacher
Today, many Orthodox believers love to listen to the sermons of Dimitry Smirnov, in which he acts as a fighter with the propaganda of homosexuality. Since he is one of the fierce defenders of traditional family and morality. After all, these are the main Christian values.
For all the versatility of nature, he is considered one of the most intelligent and very convincing public church speakers. The sermons and talks of Dmitry Smirnov are consistent and consistent.
He believes that today, for some reason, a campaign is underway around the world to discredit Christian churches. Western Christianity is losing ground. Even Pope Francis began to speak of a more condescending attitude towards sodomites. Who is imposing all this and who needs it?
Dimitry Nikolaevich Smirnov: sermons and conversations
The leadership of the Russian Orthodox Church has long been warned that a serious war with the church is about to begin, the enemies of Orthodoxy grind their teeth and grumble: “Wait, we will arrange for you!” Through the people, the devil himself acts, he sits in the depths of the inspirers and creators of this new hybrid war.
According to the father, a miracle can save Mother Russia, and only God can create miracles, and He creates them through the Church. And if they begin to discredit it, shame it in the eyes of a baptized people, and blow up temples as a struggle with the Church, you can get the opposite effect - people's solidarity with the church and compassionate attitude towards it.
In one of his sermons, Dimitry Smirnov tells how he once turned out to be a participant in three conferences in Dubna near Moscow, where a huge number of highly educated people gathered.
Disputes about Metaphysics
The conference included a discussion of the theme “Philosophy. The science. Religion". The result was a discussion of materialists and idealists. Archpriest Smirnov was surprised that theologians were in the past as mathematicians and physicists, but they looked more convincing than educated scientists who, according to Smirnov, have “cut off” brains and do not even know that there is such a thing as metaphysics. He felt as though he had before him the biblical story of the beating of infants. In this argument, the priests looked four times taller.
Smirnov claims: no matter what faith a person adheres to (or even is an atheist), he is still the bearer of some inexplicable feeling of the presence of God. And this is so, for he is the creation of God. It is possible that engaged people may not specifically admit this to themselves or deliberately lie.
About religion
Dimitry Nikolayevich Smirnov in his sermons indicates that non-religious people never existed on Earth. Even in the primitive tribes of the Amazonian jungle, there was an understanding of otherworldly forces.
From the very moment that a person departed from God and knew death, arose time, which now counts us hours, days and years.
The father claims that he is always for the people. Nor should one think that Father Demetrius is a revolutionary. Here the priest relies on the words of the Apostle Paul that the strong should bear the weaknesses of the weak, and not please themselves. It is necessary to please the neighbor for good construction. If you are healthy - help the sick, if young - save the elderly and orphans.
And if we talk about the government, then it should make its people happy here in its temporary life on Earth, and not extend its retirement age and thereby steal money from weak people.
About Ukraine
According to the priest, the situation in Ukraine in connection with the creation of a pseudoculture and a split is a quite common story for the Orthodox Church. If the Church will be taken away temples, laurels, and priests - vestments, which has already happened, it will still stand.
Everyone perfectly understands that it is not a matter of clothes, walls, or how the state wants to name the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (canonical UOC). Even if this happens, nothing will change. Onufry is the best. Chose it. Look what a popular instinct. After all, people remember and understand everything perfectly: with the help of some bad manipulations (even with names) they want to divide them into Ukrainians and Russians.
The father says about the creation of a new church structure: this is not a religious problem, but a political one. This circus cannot turn into something genuine. Since such splits are carried out, as a rule, with the help of state structures.
In his interviews, he says that it was not so much Orthodox that started it all, as Parubiy - the Greek Catholic, Turchinov, whose name is Russian, but he is a Protestant preacher, etc. So they want to pinch the true faith more painfully.
And now the struggle for power of the entire Ukrainian establishment (those in power) crosses all borders, and their political confrontation brings only suffering for the people.
Personal life and writing
This vibrant preacher can afford harsher emotional statements. But despite this, representatives of the Orthodox Church and often parishioners themselves and listeners of the priest’s sermons consider him a true defender of Christian values. The sermons of Archpriest Dimitry Smirnov, as they say, are not in the eyebrow, but in the eye.
Father Dmitry’s personal life was very successful. He is married, and his daughter Maria Smirnova, too, has followed in her father's footsteps and is engaged in Christian missionary work. She has a family, she works as a teacher in one of the orphanages he created.
Today, in addition to all his other duties, Father Smirnov publishes books, and his photos are adorned with seven print publications, which describe in great detail his most vivid sermons and soulful conversations. His admirers look forward to new works with great impatience.
This Orthodox minister has the power that can make an unbeliever stand on a truly Christian one.