Patriarch Kirill calls for forgiveness on last day before Great Lent | Top Russian news and analysis online | ‘RIA Novosti’ newswire: “On the last day before Great Lent, the head of the Russian Orthodox Church called on believers to forgive others and apologize to those they are in ‘real conflict with.’
‘The more we are guilty toward someone, the harder it is for us to ask for forgiveness,’ Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia said in downtown Moscow’s Christ the Savior Cathedral on Forgiveness Sunday.
He said it is easy to follow the Christian tradition of saying sorry on that day and apologize to those you have good relations with.”