"He who goes to a Soviet church through ignorance..."

He who goes to a Soviet church through ignorance, maybe does receive grace: but he who knows and knowingly associates with her – this is for his condemnation. However, not everyone will perish there, and not everyone will be saved here; on Judgment Day, there will be questions asked about works, and love.

- Protopriest Michael Rozhdestvensky (+1988), catacomb confessor and last surviving priest ordained by Hieromartyr Joseph of Petrograd (+1937). Quote from In the Catacombs, by S.V. Shumilo. Translated by Seraphim Larin.