Kiev, January 4, 2019
foma.ru Ukrainian customs officers have refused to allow the Nativity epistles of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russian to be brought into the country to be distributed to the churches of the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church, Vladimir Legoida, the head of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Synodal Department for Relations with Society and the Media wrote on his Telegram channel.
According to established tradition, the message is to be read at the festive Divine services on January 7 for the feast of the Nativity of our Lord Jesus Christ, but the employees of the state border service confiscated the copies of the message, citing non-compliance with certain formalities.
Of course, as Legoida notes, the message can still be read in churches: “The times are not the same: It can be read with a smartphone. Let the attentive staff of the Ukrainian customs prepare for a new star on their epaulettes, since that’s more important to them than the star of Bethlehem.”
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