UOC Chancellor: How can church raiders pray if their "god" is in malice?
Metropolitan Anthony. Photo: Metropolitan's Facebook
Metropolitan Anthony said in a sermon that people who raid and destroy churches of the UOC are preparing a terrible future for themselves. The video of the sermon was published on the Metropolitan's Facebook.
"How can you pray in those temples where they drag out believing people, beat them, break their arms and legs? And how can one then calmly go into that church and pray in it? If there is no love, no faithfulness to the Spirit, if you do not even understand people who do not share your views. Well, build your own temple if for you God is not in mercy and love but in aggression, hatred and anger. Build to him such a temple and "pray" there. How can you pray in a temple built on love?" said the bishop.
He noted, "When we build a temple, we build it not only for ourselves but also for our children, we build it for generations." And when this church is raided by people who "even in their thoughts do not plan to go to the temple of God, they ruin this temple. And according to Apostle Paul, whoever destroys the temple of God, God will destroy him”.
As earlier reported, the UOC Chancellor explained why the UOC does not switch to the new calendar.
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