OCU announces fundraising for "first Ukrainian-language monastery" on Athos
The presentation of "the project of the restoration of the first Ukrainian-speaking monastery on Mt Athos". Photo: Ukrinform
The OCU has announced a fundraiser to create in one of the abandoned cells of the Pantokrator Monastery, which was given to the OCU in 2022, "the first Ukrainian-speaking monastery on Mount Athos", Ukrinform reports.
"The first stage is to collect about 800 thousand euros for the restoration of the historical part. The second stage is the development of the Ukrainian centre, a pilgrimage house, a refectory, a gazebo, a prayer room and a confession room," said the organizer of the fundraising, businessman Denis Rudenko.
The initiators of the project decided to raise money for a bus and hand it over to the OCU in order to take war veterans and servicemen to rehabilitation for free.
"So that the soldiers could not only pray next to the monks and work in the garden, in the household, but, walking on the territory of Athos and having certain conversations with the monks, could be healed. Because I call it between us in the team as ‘a sanatorium for the soul’," said Rudenko.
As reported, on 11 May, the OCU announced the creation of monasteries on the territory of two eparchies.
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