Russian Orthodox Church leader calls to overcome pride, fight envy | Top Russian news and analysis online | ‘RIA Novosti’ newswire: “On the first day of Great Lent, the head of the Russian Orthodox Church called on believers to overcome pride and fight envy with good deeds and prayer.
‘The life approach of a proud person entails many dangerous consequences, one of which is the vice of envy,’ Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia said Monday after an evening service in downtown Moscow’s Christ the Savior Cathedral attended by over 3,000 people.
‘If other vices are accompanied by a seeming pleasuring, then envy always means anguish,’ he said, adding that an envious person becomes aggressive and that the first murder on Earth was committed by Cain out of envy.”