Holy Cross Antiochian Orthodox Church - Grand Rapids, MI
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Orthros/Liturgy 9-1-24
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البطريرك يوحنا العاشر في رسالة تضامنية إلى متروبوليت كييف وسائر أوكرانيا أونوفريوس
"تقف بطريركية أنطاكية إلى جانب الكنيسة الأرثوذكسية الأوكرانية الشاهدة والمعترفة"
دمشق، 24 آب 2024
أرسل بطريرك أنطاكية وسائر المشرق للروم الأرثوذكس يوحنا العاشر رسالة تضامنية إلى متروبوليت كييف وسائر أوكرانيا أونوفريوس عبّر فيها عن وقوف الكنيسة الأنطاكية إلى جانب الكنيسة الأرثوذكسية الأوكرانية في الاضطهاد الذي تتعرض له وجاء في الرسالة:
"وصلنا في الأيام الأخيرة خبر إقرار مجلس النواب الأوكراني القانون رقم 8371، الذي يهدف إلى حظر الكنيسة الأرثوذكسية الأوكرانية ومنعها من الوجود وتجريدها من ممتلكاتها، بناءً على اعتبارات ترقى إلى مستوى العقاب الجماعي لملايين المؤمنين الذين تكمن “خطيئتهم” الوحيدة في أنهم ظلوا مخلصين للإيمان الأرثوذكسي الذي تسلموه من القديسين وفقًا للتسلسل الرسولي.
يهمنا في هذا الظرف الصعب الذي تمر به كنيستكم أن نؤكد لكم أن بطريركية أنطاكية تقف إلى جانب الكنيسة الأرثوذكسية الأوكرانية الشاهدة والمعترفة، وتدعو المؤمنين إلى رفع الصلوات من أجل أن يثبتكم الله، مع مطارنة كنيستكم وكهنتها ورهبانها وشعبها على الإيمان، ويمنحكم القوة والصبر لتحمل الشدائد والحفاظ على نقاوة الإيمان، وأن يمسح الدموع عن عيونكم، وأن يغفر للمسيئين إليكم.
تؤكد بطريركية أنطاكية، يا صاحب الغبطة، أن الكنيسة الأرثوذكسية الأوكرانية هي الكنيسة الوحيدة في أوكرانيا التي في شركة إفخارستية مع جميع الكنائس الأرثوذكسية المحلية، والتي تتمتع بالتسلسل الرسولي والكهنوت السليم. وإن محاولة حظرها وإلغائها يعتبر إلغاءً لأقدم كنيسة أرثوذكسية شرعية في البلاد.
إن بطريركية أنطاكية تضم صوتها اليوم إلى أصوات رؤساء الكنائس الأرثوذكسية الذين دافعوا وما زالوا يدافعون عن كنيستكم، ويدعون إلى عقد مجمع عام لإيجاد حل شامل للمسألة الكنسية الأوكرانية. ونؤكد لكم مجدداّ أننا لن نألو جهداّ في رفع الصوت من أجلكم ومناشدة جميع الخيرين في هذا العالم، ولاسيما القادة المسيحيين والحكومات والمنظمات الدولية والمدافعين عن حقوق الإنسان والحريات الدينية، للعمل على وضع حد للتميّيز الديني والعنف الذي تتعرض له كنيستكم، والذي يشكل سابقة خطيرة في القرن الحادي والعشرين لا يجوز السكوت عنها وتكريسها".
Your Beatitude Onophrius Metropolitan of Kyiv and All Ukraine,
Primate of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church,
“If the world hates you, you know that it hated Me before it hated you" (John 15:18)
We have recently received the news that the Ukrainian Parliament adopted Bill No. 8371 on banning the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, preventing Her from existence and depriving Her of all Her property. This ban amounts to a collective punishment inflicted upon millions of believers whose only "sin" is that they remain loyal to the Orthodox faith received from the saints according to the apostolic succession.
In this difficult circumstance that your Holy Church is going through, we would like to assure you that our Patriarchate of Antioch stands by the side of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, whose faithful people are confessors and witnesses. We call upon all believers to offer prayers that the Lord God may sustain in the faith all your Church’s hierarchs, clergy, monastics, and faithful. May God give you strength and patience to endure hardship, maintain the purity of the faith, wipe all tears from your eyes, and forgive your persecutors.
Your Beatitude: The Patriarchate of Antioch reiterates that the Ukrainian Orthodox Church is the only Church in Ukraine that is in Eucharistic communion with all local Orthodox Churches, enjoying apostolic succession and valid priesthood. Thus, the attempt to ban and abolish this Church is an abolition to the oldest legitimate Orthodox Church in this country.
The Patriarchate of Antioch joins the primates of the Orthodox Churches in defending your Church and calling for a meeting of a General Council in order to find a comprehensive solution to the Ukrainian ecclesiastical issue. We assure you again that we will spare no effort in raising our voices for you and appealing to all the good people in this world, especially to all Christian leaders, governments, international organizations, and defenders of human rights and religious freedoms, for putting an end to the religious discrimination and violence occurring against your Church, a matter which constitutes a dangerous precedent in the twenty first century and which should not be tolerated and perpetuated.
“Now may the Lord of peace Himself give you peace always in every way! The Lord be with you all! (2 Thessalonians 3:16).
Damascus, 24 August 2024.
John X
Patriarch of Antioch and all the East
Please note: due to the Metropolitan's visit, there will be NO SERVICES at Holy Cross this weekend (August 24/25)! Vespers on Saturday is at Saint George at 5pm, Sunday morning is at Saint Nicholas with Orthros at 8:50am, liturgy at 10am.
Many years to Rd Luke, who was made a reader by Met Saba yesterday!
Yesterday, we had a beautiful visit with Metropolitan Saba at Holy Cross. He received five people into the Church, tonsured a reader, and stayed for lunch, where he spent a lot of time getting to know us, answering our questions about the life in Christ, teaching us, and giving us his vision of the future of our archdiocese.
All the iconography has now been installed. “Worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness.”
First ever churching of twins at Holy Cross! Many years to the Torres family!
Join us tomorrow at 6pm for Liturgy to celebrate the Dormition of the Theotokos!
Tomorrow, for the education hour, we'll have the catechumens and general adult class combined and we'll be talking about the Orthodox Youth Movement, an important movement in Orthodoxy in the Middle East starting in the 20th century that has a lot to teach us about evangelism for us here in America.
It's really worth knowing about.
Join us tonight at 6pm at Holy Cross for a pan Orthodox Paraklesis as we continue through the Dormition Fast and get to see our new iconography!
Exciting to see all the new iconography going up in our altar! God is good.
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