In Brest, a church was turned into a concert hall. Tickets sell out in minutes, but believers are not thrilled

Previous concerts took place on August 24 and 25, and the next ones are announced for September 11 and 12. Earlier, ticket prices were 55-65 rubles, but now they have been raised to 75-80. Nevertheless, everything sold out instantly. Literally a few minutes after the link to the ticket purchasing service was published, a Sold out was announced.

Musicians perform with light effects, dance, and are located directly in the altar part of the church, some — behind the altar. The musicians perform world hits in original arrangements. These are not the usual classical music concerts often held in churches, and this caused misunderstanding among many believers, who consider what is happening in Brest a dangerous phenomenon.

Katolik.life gathered opinions about these strange concerts. At the same time, the initial, not always positive, reaction of believers has not yet received any explanations from the clergy. Therefore, they are asking questions to which they await answers.

The main one: are such commercial pop music concerts not a desacralization of the church?

In discussions, some believers support the idea of concerts and are happy that thanks to them hundreds of people far from Christianity come to the church, calling it "evangelization of modern pagans."

But others respond by saying: people are led not to God, but to their own show; the Gospel is not preached at concerts, but "atmosphere," aesthetics, and sensuality are cultivated — emotionality instead of spirituality.

Practice shows that visitors to even spiritual organ concerts in churches mostly remain only concert-goers: they do not become parishioners of the churches. Moreover: such people begin to perceive the church not as a sacred place where the sacrifice of Christ is performed, but as some kind of cultural institution.

Concert-goers, however, note that the main soloist of the project, Yahor Sharankou, is a Catholic believer and makes short statements during concerts, which some consider "sermons." Although in reality, this is not a sermon of the Gospel, but a repetition of philosophical truths like "if you want to change the world, start with yourself."

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As far as believers know, the church was initially provided for concerts without any government intervention — the musicians directly agreed with the parish priest that he would provide the church for performances free of charge.

But then this idea was supported by the city leadership, which believes that such concerts should continue, as they have become a "curiosity" of Brest. Such a situation alarms even those believers who like the idea of concerts in the church.

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Whatever the case, believers await comments from the bishops on this matter. However, in another similar case — when a musician with a questionable reputation recorded a video in the image of Satan in an ancient church in Nesvizh — there was no public reaction from the clergy.

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