Before Poroshenko’s arrival, the icons were disinfected. Even the Uniates got sick of the “president’s traveling circus” on Easter
The head of the Ukrainian Public Relations Association, Yaryna Klyuchkovskaya, spoke about Petro Poroshenko’s visit to the Uniate Church in Kyiv.
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Already in the temple itself, the parishioner discovered “square faces with a characteristic expression, black jackets and springs to the right ear. On the bench in the first row there are pieces of paper with a handwritten inscription: “Do not borrow.” A couple of guards were stationed at the bench, trying to keep tired people from sitting on the bench.
“After midnight, half a dozen videographers entered the church and took up strategic positions,” Klyuchkovskaya continues the story. “At some point, the guard who was standing next to us took cotton swabs out of his pocket and soaked them with alcohol from a bottle. Having received the signal, he approached the icon in front of the altar, crossed himself in a sweeping manner, and with all his heart bent down to kiss it (and in fact, wipe it with alcohol). A minute later, the already crowded church was filled with broad-shouldered people who, in a semicircle, returning to the altar, surrounded the President and his family.”
“The cameras were rolling, the presidential family was baptized, kissed the icon,” notes the professional PR woman, “and the guards scanned with suspicious eyes the grandmothers, women, men and children who came to pray on the occasion of the Resurrection of Christ. The show lasted 15-20 minutes, after which the entire round dance left the church, finally allowing the confused people to concentrate on the liturgy.”
“I understand everything: the war, security measures,” concludes the Ukrainian patriot. - But what is this show for? What are these overnight church tours for? It seems to me that a truly devout person would go to the All-Night Vigil in the church in which he is a parishioner, and would not organize a traveling circus with guards, interfering with the spiritual, mystical process for which people go to church on Easter night. I think that for a truly believing person, the sacrament of resurrection should be immeasurably more important than the hypothetical voices of parishioners of churches of various denominations, bought for the opportunity to look at the back or profile of the President.
I am convinced that a tour of night temples, the organization of which probably involves hundreds of people, has nothing to do with faith, and has everything to do with empty window dressing, which for some reason we usually call “political PR.” While suffering on the cross, it is unlikely that Jesus thought about how, through his death and resurrection, some would want to raise their political ratings.”
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