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CLERGY OF NOVOROSSIA TO SERVE REPENTANCE PRAYER SERVICE FOR FIGHTERS OF RUSSIAN ORTHODOX ARMY

Portal-credo.ru, 13 December 2014

 

Clergy of Novorossia along with the Russian Orthodox Army will conduct a repentance prayer service on Saur Mogila [a strategic height] in the Shakhtersk district of Donetsk province on 27 December, the famous Orthodox activist Kirill Frolov, who is close to the head of the RPTsMP synod's Department for Relations with the Public, Archpriest Vsevolod Chaplin, reports in his blog.

 

"Fighters of the Russian Orthodox Army will repent for pacifism and defeatism, for the 'Minsk' flirtation with the enemy, and for artificially stopping the offensive of the army of Novorossia, because of which Mariampol (the city of the Most Holy Mother of God), Slaviansk and Kharkov, and Odessa and Zaporozhe are still under occupation, and because of our weakness in faith and lack of will for victory and for resisting treason people are perishing and children are starving," Kirill Frolov writes.

 

In the opinion of the public figure of RPTsMP, the reasons for the failures of "militias" in southeast Ukraine are flirting with the devil and the weakness and inability to defend their holy places. "Every day of our weakness and flirting with the devil and of 'peace' with servants of the antichrist and the occupiers are new deaths. Because of our weakness, defeatism, and incapacity to defend holy things, the Nazi occupiers have already destroyed 62 churches," Frolov writes.

 

"We will repent that we have done so little in order to raise the banners of Sacred Rus and the Orthodox faith over Novorossia and to church her army and people. The year 2015 is the year of Saint Vladimir the Baptizer, whom the "Hochland" and "UkroReich" have renounced and the Orthodox choice and name of which remains Novorossia. The prayer service will be held before the sacred image of the Tikhvin Militia icon of the Mother of God," the Orthodox activist concludes. (tr. by PDS, posted 19 December 2014)

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