His Beatitude: Those offending the Church should keep their mouths shut

His Beatitude Metropolitan Onuphry. Photo: news.church.ua

In a sermon at the Divine Liturgy on the feast day of the holy Apostle Andrew the First-Called, His Beatitude Metropolitan Onuphry noted that the Church will always pray for the persecutors, “so that the Lord would give them repentance for salvation and that they close their mouths and no longer utter those words with which they blaspheme God and hurt the feelings of believers.”

The primate said this in connection with the fact that the other day one all-Ukrainian media showed a program, which insulted not only the clergy and believers of the Church, but also God, and was presented in a blasphemous form.

“Of course, it is sad that on this earth, on which the name of God is glorified, words were heard from the lips of some people who blasphemed God, publicly blasphemed God. These people are not disciples and followers of the Apostle Andrew, they are followers of the prince of darkness, who is a theomachist and blasphemer of God,” His Beatitude Metropolitan noted.

Recall that on the day of memory of the Apostle Andrew the First-Called, the Primate of the UOC officiated the Divine Liturgy in the Kyiv Caves Lavra.

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