5/8/2014
Metropolitan Onuphry of Kiev and All Ukraine
By His glorious Resurrection, the Lord once again bestows upon us eternal life and bliss, returns us the lost Paradise.
Metropolitan Onuphry (Berezovsky)
His Beatitude Metropolitan Onuphry of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church on the eve of the Thursday of the Great Canon gave a word about the passion of lust.
Today is a day of peace and God’s good will, and we, Orthodox Christians, humbly worship our Creator and thank Him for the fact that His love has not left us, sinful.
The Most Glorious Resurrection of Christ is a celebration of the triumph of good over evil, truth over falsehood, light over darkness.
May the feat of fasting bring enlightenment of soul to us all, make us able to feel the presence of God in our lives, and draw us nearer to Him.
This great Victory is called the Victory of life, and what is wonderful in this Victory is that God gave it to man.
The most important goal of fasting is humility before God.
The unfortunate Herod did not realise that Christ, who was born in Bethlehem, was not born to be the King of the Jews. Christ is the King of all the earth and of heaven, and He does not seek power over men as the kings of the earth do. He wants to embrace all people and warm them with His divine love.
We have to try to lead our lives so our eyes and our thoughts would be ever directed to God; then we will see that our entire life is filled with His presence and His all-encompassing grace.
What is needed to restore Eucharistic communion between the Phanar and the Russian Orthodox Church? Is there a threat to Ukrainian Orthodoxy from the Muslim world? How should the Church and its clergy carry out their mission today, and how do today’s trials affect the spiritual life of the faithful?
May our souls become blessed deserts where we will go to pray. They are so necessary for our salvation and for the salvation of this world.
By His All-Glorious Resurrection, the Lord gave every man gifts of grace, necessary for man to survive; that in the troubles, difficulties, and trials that fill earthly life, man would not break, but preserve his human dignity, decency, beauty, and nobility, with which the Lord has adorned each of us.
Nebuchadnezzar for us today is the Coronavirus. We must tolerate and suffer through it and correct our lives. We must, first of all, pray to God, and repent of our sins, because they are the reason that this spiritual Nebuchadnezzar is taking us prisoner.
We offer below the text of Metropolitan Onuphry’s initial remarks at the press conference.
If in simplicity and humility we seek God, our Creator and Savior Who already came into the world and completed the podvig of our salvation, then the Lord will send each of us our angel, or our star today, which leads us to Christ, our Creator and Redeemer.
Deacon Sergei Geruk, Metropolitan Onuphry (Berezovsky)
Rating: 9.4|Votes: 34
In this talk with His Beatitude Metropolitan Onuphry of Kiev and All Ukraine on the Church of Christ and pseudo-churches, the primate speaks about what it means for him personally to be in the Church and how he makes decisions that could affect the fate of many people.
Rating: 9.6|Votes: 24
How can we combine the modern rhythm of life with our life in Church during the week before Pascha? And in general, how can we combine the religious and the secular in our lives—the spiritual and the daily routine?
Rating: 10|Votes: 78
Our churches are being taken away from us, but our communities are remaining true to the Church and are becoming even stronger. Our Church is being slandered, but our temples are filled with people who do not believe in falsehood but seek the truth. As the holy apostle Paul said, Being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we suffer it: Being defamed, we intreat (1 Cor. 4:12–13).
Sergei Geruk, Metropolitan Onuphry (Berezovsky)
Rating: 10|Votes: 10
If we love God, we love everyone—our father and mother, our neighbor and fatherland, as well as other peoples. If we do not love God, we will never be able to love anyone; we will always be prone to committing a sin.
Rating: 9.4|Votes: 40
His Beatitude answers the questions of his flock about the fast, the Church, and the faith.
Rating: 9.4|Votes: 65
As soon as the world begins to love us we cease to be servants of Christ and become slaves to the world; and this is the most terrible falsification there can be in life.
Rating: 9.1|Votes: 32
Hold on to the Church that cherishes the purity and integrity of the Orthodox faith, and in all the rest things Cast thy care upon the Lord, and He will nourish thee (Ps. 54:53).
Rating: 10|Votes: 34
In this brief interview, His Beatitude Metropolitan Onuphry of Kiev and All Ukraine speaks on fasting, modern man, and role models.
Rating: 9.3|Votes: 39
On the eve of the Thursday of the Great Canon, the “Standing of St. Mary of Egypt”, His Beatitude Metropolitan Onuphry talked about the main danger that comes from the passion of lust.
Rating: 10|Votes: 37
Our conversation is about how to properly spend Great Lent, and how to avoid mistakes and extremes, in order to find “your measure” in your Lenten labors.
Rating: 9.6|Votes: 25
The sole path to destroying sinful consequences is to destroy the sin itself. Christ the Savior, by His Nativity, by taking upon Himself our human nature, brought Divine power to Earth, with the help of which every man can and should overcome his sins, even if they are very great and heavy.
His Beatitude Metropolitan Onuphry speaks on the most important miracle in every man’s life, and the speedy aid and miracles of St. Nicholas by prayers to him.
Rating: 10|Votes: 4
How were simple fishermen able to spread the news of the Resurrected Christ throughout the whole world? Why do we not bury the dead on Pascha? Do we have to fast before Communion during Bright Week? His Beatitude Metropolitan Onuphry speaks on these and other issues in this interview.
The primate of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church gives practical recommendations for how to defeat the sinful inclinations of the soul.
Rating: 10|Votes: 9
"Fr. Kirill lived according to the Gospel, unswervingly fulfilling the commandments of Christ. He found a Gospel in a building destroyed by shelling during the war, when death was hovering all around. Thus the Lord called him. He carried the Gospel with him and read it, and every word of Christ remained in his heart until the end of his days. In this way the desire to devote his whole life to God was born."
Rating: 10|Votes: 5
"We believe that the Mother of God, who so many times defended our land, today stands with tears by the throne of her Son praying for us. And we must, having cast aside anger, hatred, and malice, and having armed ourselves with love and forgiveness, strengthen our podvig of prayer in order to stop the flow of maternal tears, that children might not be made orphans, women—widows, children—invalids, that our cities and towns might not be destroyed, and houses abandoned. Such is the goal of the All-Ukrainian cross procession—a walk of peace, love and prayer for Ukraine."
Rating: 9.3|Votes: 3
In this interview with the Synodal Information-Education Department of the UOC, His Beatitude Metropolitan Onufry of Kiev and All Ukraine answered questions about why the Russian Orthodox Church is not participating in the Pan-Orthodox Council which should begin its acts on June 19. He also expressed his view on whether the crisis of Council preparations will influence the situation of religious life in Ukraine and worldwide Orthodoxy.
Metropolitan Onuphry (Berezovsky), Metropolitan Agathangel (Savvin)
Rating: 10|Votes: 1
The beautiful Black Sea port city of Odessa, home to several Orthodox monasteries and splendid churches, is still reeling from the utterly horrifying incidents of May2, 2014. A population famous for its diversity and upbeat love of life turned against itself and committed fratricide.
