On 13 August 2023, the 10th Sunday after Pentecost, His Beatitude Metropolitan Onufriy of Kyiv and All Ukraine led a Divine Liturgy in the Holy Dormition Kyiv Caves Lavra, the Information and Education Department of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church reports.
The Primate celebrated the Liturgy in the church of Venerable Agapitos of the Kyiv Caves.
The church of Venerable Agapitos is situated, in fact, in the monastery’s wall, so the faithful could take part in the divine service. However, access to the territory of the Kyiv Caves Lavra is still blocked by security officials upon instruction of the Preserve. A divine service in the Lavra church of the icon of the Mother of God ‘Life-Giving Spring’ also took place today. There, believers had to be given Holy Communion through the fence.
Metropolitan Anthony of Boryspil and Brovary, the chancellor of the UOC, Bishop Lavr of Irpin, Bishop Mark of Borodianka, and the clergy of the monastery concelebrated with His Beatitude.
After the reading out of the Holy Gospel, His Beatitude Metropolitan Onufriy addressed the flock with a word of sermon.
At the divine service, prayers were offered up for peace on the Ukrainian land; for the deliverance of the enemy; prayers were also offered up that the Lord would have mercy on our people and save the desperate and those who had lost their homes, as well as for God’s blessing to people of good will helping those who are in need. The Primate asked God for His mercy to the Ukrainian people, asked the Lord to make the state authorities wiser, strengthen warriors with courage, free prisoners of war, heal the sick and give shelter to those who have been deprived of their homes.
Following the Cherubic Hymn, His Beatitude performed the ordination of a priest. Deacon Ioann Kovalchuk, a cleric of the church of the icon of the Mother of God ‘Seeking of the Lost’ in the city of Vyshneve, became a priest.
After the dismissal, the Primate greeted the flock on the occasion of a Sunday and blessed the faithful.
During the Divine Liturgy, an unknown man came into the church of Venerable Agapitos of the Kyiv Caves in the Holy Dormition Kyiv Caves Lavra and hit an icon of the Saviour with a stone twice.
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