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Moscow Patriarchate appreciates the desire of loving couples to get married on the day of ‘three sevens’ but urge them not to be superstitious
Moscow, May 8, Interfax - The Russian Church calls upon the Russians not to be superstitious with regard to dates with unusual numeric combinations.

‘I would not lash at people in love because they tend to seek for some ‘mystical’ coincidences that would strengthen their feelings. They are romantic, and I think hardly any of them believe in signs and coincidences in the way people believe in God’, Archpriest Mikhail Dudko, responsible for church-state relations at the Moscow Patriarchate department for external church relations, told Interfax on Tuesday.

This is how he commented on the excitement of some Russians who wish to get married on 07.07.07. This Tuesday is the last day for those who wish to register their marriage on the ‘three-sevens-day’ to hand in their applications to the registry office.

The priest noted that many, in choosing the ‘happy day’ for their marriage, do it to ‘boast later to their relatives and friends that they managed to ‘carve out’ exactly this date’.

‘It is as it were an additional tick to the joy of loving hearts united’, he said.

At the same time, Father Mikhail said, there are those, ‘though perhaps a few’, who tend to take serious unusual numeric combinations, such as 07.07.07.

‘In this case, I would like to remind them that the superstition of this kind contradicts the Christian understanding whereby no external sign, either positive or negative, can restrict human freedom’, the representative of the Russian Church said.

Besides, the 7th of July falls on Saturday this year and on St. Peter’s Fast, and no wedding are celebrated in both cases as it contradicts the church statute, the priest remarked.

‘If people want to observe Orthodox canons, they should choose another day for their marriage’, he added.

Πηγή: http://www.interfax-religion.com/?act=news&div=3011

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