UOC cleric: Blood and seizure of temples – such is Phanar head’s “love”
Archpriest Vitaly Chersky, a cleric of the Chernivtsi-Bukovina Eparchy. Photo: a screenshot of the video from the "1 Kozak" Youtube channel
Blood and seizures – such is the "love" of Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople. Archpriest Vitaly Chersky, the rector of the UOC Church of the icon of the Mother of God "Life-Giving Spring" in the village of Mykhailivka, Chernivtsi region, said this during the prayer standing in Kyiv on August 21. The video of the speech of the cleric of the Chernivtsi-Bukovina Eparchy was published by the "1 Kozak" channel.
The priest noted that instead of peace, tranquility and unity, the Phanar head brought “the love of strife” to Ukraine, and the Chernivtsi region felt its consequences.
“Our churches have been seized; there are also churches where they still perform round-the-clock prayer standing. This is our Mykhailivka, Chervona Dibrova, Boyanchuk, Goroshivtsi, Zavoloka, Mykhalcha, Ryngach, Yasenia, Kalnivtsi, Stara Zhadova, Dobrynivtsy, Vaslivtsi, Berezhnitsa and, the most painful, Zadubrivka where, on the day of it rector's death, blood was shed,” Father Vitaly said.
As reported, now the UOC community in the village of Mykhailivka is praying in a new church, which they managed to build in a year instead of the seized one by the OCU.
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