Metropolitan Philip of Moscow. 01-09 Courage to speak the truth.

Metropolitan Philip of Moscow is a saint we should study in our days. We need courage. In our day lies are treated as facts. It takes great courage to stand against the lies whether they be political or social lies or even lies propagated by hierarchs in the church. Metropolitan Philip stood against the lies and the depravity of Tsar Ivan the Terrible and he was deported to a distant monastery and suffocated two years later. There was nothing glorious about is in on this earth but he gained paradise. It is usually this way in the world. We might confront lies and have nothing demonstrable to show because it. Our confession might not be glorious in a worldly sense. Do we have the courage and the wisdom to know when to confront lies?