On Victory Day UOC Primate and State Officials Honoured Memory of Deceased in Great Patriotic War
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On May, the day of 63rd anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War the Primate of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church His Beatitude Metropolitan Volodymyr together with clergy and faithful honoured the memory of the deceased soldiers and put flowers to the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in the Park of Eternal Glory.The Most Blessed Vladyka was accompanied by Chairman of the Synodal Department on Youth Affairs Archbishop of
Zhytomyr and Novohrad-Volynskyi Guriy, Superior of the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra Archbishop of Vyshgorod Pavlo, Rector of the Kyiv Theological Academy and Seminary Bishop of Boryspil Anthony, Secretary to the Primate of the UOC Bishop Alexander of Pereyaslav-Khmelnytskyi and Secretary of the Kyiv Metropolis archpriest Vitaliy Kosovskyi.At the ceremony of laying flowers the state leaders were also present. There were President of Ukraine Victor Yushchenko, Head of the Supreme Council Arseniy Yatsenyuk, Head of the Secretariat of the President Victor Baloga, Vice Prime-Minister Ivan Vasyunyk, Kyiv Mayor Leonid Chernovetskyi, Secretary of the National Security Council Raisa Bogatyriova, Minister of Defence Yuriy Ekhanurov and Minister of the Internal Affairs Yuriy Lutsenko, as well as Head of the Kyiv Regional State Administration Vira Ulianchenko.
In the Square of Glory the state and political and public leaders gathered together with veterans of the Great Patriotic War among whom there was archpriest Roman Kosovskyi.
Before laying flowers to the monument those present honoured the memory of the deceased with a minute of silence. During the conversation with journalists His Beatitude Metropolitan Volodymyr emphasized that the Church prays for the dead every day, and also prayed for the health of those who have survived till now.
"Soldiers of the Soviet Army gave their lives for our land, our people and their freedom. Therefore praying for the soldiers takes place at every divine service of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church - those who defend our Motherland today and those who lost their lives at the front in the distant 40-ties - those who had not returned and who passed away to the better life for our peace and wellbeing," noted the Archpastor.
As a sign of commemoration of the deceased the Metropolitan's choir of the Kyiv Theological Academy and Seminary sang the chants from the office for the dead: "With the Saints give rest" and "Memory eternal".
Source:
http://orthodox.org.ua/eng/node/199
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