12/11/2018
Metropolitan Luke (Kovalenko)
The stronger our faith, the deeper the strength of our patience, and vice versa.
And that is just how we with our tongues weave ourselves eternal torment.
How important this is now, in particular, in these sorrowful days, to have such consolation in our hearts.
The godly labor that the martyrs and passion-bearers performed is closest to us when sorrows and calamities come to the world.
Metropolitan Luke of Zaporozhye and Melitopol
Everything that the devil is doing today in this world is a war on love—because he is absolute evil, and God is absolute love.
If you don’t know what to do, do what the statutes say, the law. We have our Church canons, we have the statutes.
Moral persecutions of the Church have never ended because vice has always reigned in this world. We are weak, and we often don’t know how to act in one or another situation. Where can we get courage? Of course, first and foremost in the Church sacraments. Live with Christ, and He will surely help you.
First of all, I want to thank you for becoming an instrument of God’s providence, thanks to which Christ grants our Ukrainian flock crowns of confession, and perhaps martyrdom.
Rating: 9.7|Votes: 28
Summing up, I like would to stress that you should always take an active position, especially in matters of paramount importance, which is exactly what the question of the defense of our faith is.
Rating: 9.4|Votes: 46
The apotheosis of this lawlessness was the formation of the so-called “Orthodox Church of Ukraine” on the basis of structures that had fallen away from the Mother Church, whose autocephaly the Patriarchate of Constantinople single-handedly established by issuing a tomos.
Rating: 9.4|Votes: 178
Whereas His Beatitude Metropolitan Onuphry of Kiev and All Ukraine chose to return his invitation unanswered to Constantinople, giving us an example of meekness and humility, Met. Luke offers us an example of fiery, righteous zeal—both examples that are good and necessary in the Church.
