Print

Lavra: Faithful forced to commune through bars of locked gate (+VIDEOS)

Kiev, April 21, 2023

Photo: news.church.ua

The standoff between the Orthodox faithful of Ukraine and the authorities continued at the Kiev Caves Lavra throughout Bright Week.

The police sealed up certain buildings of the Lavra, detained and charged people for defending the monastery and filming the illegal seizure of its buildings. Yesterday, someone even called in a fake bomb threat at the Lavra.

And today, police closed the entrance to the Lavra’s Church of the Life-Giving Spring, preventing the faithful from fully participating in the Divine Liturgy for its patronal feast, reports the Information-Education Department of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church.

The faithful who arrived after the police closed the entrance were forced to pray behind the wall around the territory of the church. The priests had to come out into the courtyard to confess and commune the people through the bars of the church gate.

Follow OrthoChristian on Twitter, Vkontakte, Telegram, WhatsApp, MeWe, and Gab!

4/21/2023

See also

Kiev Caves Lavra is the Golgotha of the Orthodox world—Serbian hierarch

Kiev Caves Lavra is the Golgotha of the Orthodox world—Serbian hierarch

Kiev Caves Lavra is the Golgotha of the Orthodox world—Serbian hierarch

Kiev Caves Lavra is the Golgotha of the Orthodox world—Serbian hierarch
His Grace Bishop Sergije of Bihać and Petrovac of the Serbian Orthodox Church in Bosnia and Herzegovina says that the Lavra is the Golgotha of the world today, and that the priests of the UOC are “exiles in their own country, who are arrested without grounds, beaten without mercy, punished without guilt or trial.”

The Holy Cradle of Monasticism

The Holy Cradle of Monasticism
Memories of life in the Kiev-Caves Lavra

The Holy Cradle of Monasticism

The Holy Cradle of Monasticism
Memories of life in the Kiev-Caves Lavra
Archimandrite Silouan (Pasenko)
The Lavra is a spiritual phenomenon that didn’t appear by human will, but by the God’s will; and will exist according to its spiritual laws in spite of all worldly vanity.

Lavra abbot given 2 months of house arrest for criticizing Constantinople and schismatics, supposedly supporting war (+VIDEO)

Lavra abbot given 2 months of house arrest for criticizing Constantinople and schismatics, supposedly supporting war (+VIDEO)

Lavra abbot given 2 months of house arrest for criticizing Constantinople and schismatics, supposedly supporting war (+VIDEO)

Lavra abbot given 2 months of house arrest for criticizing Constantinople and schismatics, supposedly supporting war (+VIDEO)
His Eminence Metropolitan Pavel of Vyshgorod, abbot of the persecuted Kiev Caves Lavra, was sentenced yesterday to 60 days of house arrest in a village near Kiev with an ankle bracelet for speaking out against the Patriarchate of Constantinople and the schismatic “Orthodox Church of Ukraine.”

Orthodox continue to defend Lavra in face of blasphemy, mockery, and violence (+VIDEOS)

Orthodox continue to defend Lavra in face of blasphemy, mockery, and violence (+VIDEOS)

Orthodox continue to defend Lavra in face of blasphemy, mockery, and violence (+VIDEOS)

Orthodox continue to defend Lavra in face of blasphemy, mockery, and violence (+VIDEOS)
The whole world has now seen how men, women, and children, pray with tears on bended knee while others mock them, attempt to drown them out with nationalistic slogans, and worse.

There is Nothing New Under the Sun

There is Nothing New Under the Sun
Metropolitan Luke’s Wartime Notes

There is Nothing New Under the Sun

There is Nothing New Under the Sun
Metropolitan Luke’s Wartime Notes
Metropolitan Luke (Kovalenko) of Zaporozhye and Melitopol
We do not choose the time we are to be born in this world, but we do choose how we will spend our time in the world. We choose how to leave this world—either holding on to Christ’s hand, or hooked onto the devil’s tail.

Kiev Caves: State cuts off access to relics, dubbed “cultural values,” and three more churches

Kiev Caves: State cuts off access to relics, dubbed “cultural values,” and three more churches

Kiev Caves: State cuts off access to relics, dubbed “cultural values,” and three more churches

Kiev Caves: State cuts off access to relics, dubbed “cultural values,” and three more churches
According to a letter sent to the Kiev Caves Lavra by the leadership of the state-owned Kiev Caves Lavra National Reserve, the brotherhood and faithful are now also cut off from both the Near and Far Caves and three other churches. The Caves are where the relics of hundreds of saints are located.