Ukrainian media are hounding the Kyiv Metropolitan for refusing to support the ATO
The newspaper “Zerkalo Nedeli”, considered influential in Kyiv, joined the persecution of the Primate of the UOC of the Moscow Patriarchate, Metropolitan Onufry, who, along with other hierarchs, on May 8 refused to stand up in the Verkhovna Rada during Petro Poroshenko’s speech glorifying the participants of the so-called. ATO in Donbass.
“With the beginning of the war in Donbass, doubts that the UOC-MP has its place in the Kremlin’s geopolitical project were dispelled,” the newspaper emphasizes.
“Metropolitan Onuphry turned out to be perhaps the best choice for the position of primate in wartime conditions. Again for Moscow. A man devoted to the ideals of Russian Orthodoxy and the Patriarch of Moscow. A disciplined monk means, if necessary, ready to endure suffering,” the author of the publication quips.
“Now the faith is “in the Tsar and the Fatherland”, Easter is May 9, the deity is “Holy Rus'”, the relic is the banner of victory, St. George’s ribbons are instead of crosses on the body, and since they have already begun to consecrate churches in honor of the NKVD workers “who fell in the line of duty” “MGB—KGB, apparently, and the corresponding canonizations are just around the corner,” writes Zerkalo Nedeli.
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“Martyrdom, if it suddenly happens, will become the lot of the church “on the ground.” Parish priests are the ones who need to strain themselves... Fathers - even those who don’t particularly like Ukraine - cannot like the fact that the grass begins to smolder under their feet,” the newspaper warns.
“The fact that among those who sowed the wind and made us reap the storm are representatives of the UOC-MP - preachers of the “Russian World” - we remember and will not forget for a very long time. The time will come for payments on these accounts someday,” Zerkalo Nedeli specifies the threat.
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