Moscow is sure: “Poroshenko’s Church” is not from God
The new church structure being created in Ukraine under the patronage of President Poroshenko cannot be “from God,” since it is built on anger and hatred, Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Rus' said on Sunday, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
The official website of the Russian Orthodox Church reports this.
“Listen to those who are fighting for the so-called independent united church, listen to the intonations, listen to the words. What malice, what hatred! Can anger and hatred really come from God? No!" - said the Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church in a sermon after the Divine Liturgy.
He believes that “all those who today strive to establish the so-called independent church and who, for the sake of this, are ready to destroy the lives of other people, break their church life, break into churches and monasteries, seize them by force,” speak “the language of force and hatred” , and not in the “language of God,” their church cannot “do the will of God.”
“Listen to the leaders of the schism. With what hatred they speak! Is this a pastoral word? Is this a word of love? And listen to His Beatitude Onuphry, the hierarch of our Church, who never says anything bad even about schismatics. People pray and cry that there is a schism. But no one proposes to the state to destroy the schism by force, and they don’t even say rude words to schismatics,” noted the Primate of the Russian Orthodox Church.
To distinguish light from darkness, the patriarch added, one does not need to “philosophize a lot,” but rather “listen carefully to those who talk about light, but in fact are in darkness.” According to him, very difficult events are taking place in Ukraine today, and “the forces of evil, which disguise themselves as an angel of light, have rebelled against the Orthodox Church.”
Let us remind you that on December 15 in Kyiv there will be held, initiated by the Ukrainian authorities and supported by Patriarch Bartholomew, i.e. “unification council”, as a result of which they plan to create a church structure dependent on Istanbul and Bankova. At the same time, the canonical UOC stated that it was not going to participate in this event, calling it an “illegal gathering.”
Due to the decision of Constantinople to begin granting autocephaly to the church in Ukraine, the Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church on October 15 announced a severance of communication with the Patriarchate of Constantinople throughout the canonical territory of the Russian Orthodox Church, including Ukraine and Belarus.
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