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“Rome was only a home for countless human hearts. And every heart chose whom it would serve. As long as people loved not the city’s mighty walls or its seemingly limitless power, but God dwelling among them, the city stood. When that love ran dry and nothing remained but pride – everything collapsed in an instant.
“Vladyka, you witnessed the collapse of something everyone thought unshakable. Rome had stood for a thousand years. How do you go on living when stability itself has become a thing of the distant past?
“You want to know why the city fell? Wait. Let me tell you about something else. There are two cities, built by two kinds of love. The earthly city was built by love of self carried to the point of contempt for God; the Heavenly City, by love of God carried to the point of contempt for self. The first glories in itself. The second glories in the power of the Lord.
“the Christians, who, they say, brought disaster upon Rome by abandoning the old gods.
“standing with Rome is best recognized by the fact that she had three audiences with Pope Francis
“At the first opportunity, we display vanity and pride. We show that we lack mercy and behave arrogantly towards our neighbours