UGCC shows children’s military-style honor guard before the Shroud

A children’s honor guard in a UGCC church. Photo: the Eucharistine Sisters’ Threads page

A monastery of the Sisters of the Holy Eucharist of the UGCC in Sambir has published a video from the Church of the Nativity of the Mother of God showing children in vyshyvankas, pixel-pattern trousers, and combat boots marching in step to the Shroud and back. The video was posted on the monastery’s social media by members of its press service.

The caption accompanying the video calls on people to come to the Shroud today not as spectators, but to leave before it their sins and pain.

The initiative drew sharp criticism in the comments.

“How are we any different from russia?? Some kind of Hitler Youth version?” Igor Bobkin asked.

“A 40-degree fever dream,” wrote sasha.kagor.

“I thought this was their fashionable Russian armed forces church until I saw the vyshyvanka...,” wrote katarynka.

“Russian IPSO?” Sergey Timofeyev asked.

But there were positive reactions as well.

“This is an honor guard by the Tomb of the Lord – it is a long-standing tradition, older than those who are smearing it in the comments, and this tradition will outlive them. Back in 2000, I also had the opportunity to stand in such an honor guard. The relics of St. Valentine are also kept in this church,” wrote vkocherhan.

Earlier, the UOJ reported that in a UGCC church in Lviv, the Shroud had been surrounded with portraits of fallen soldiers.

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