Primate of the UOC: we are offered to violate Divine Law – no good ever comes of it

A sin cannot be justified by the circumstances of life. Looking for a way out of difficult circumstances, you need to follow the commandments of God. This was stated by His Beatitude Metropolitan Onuphry of Kiev and All Ukraine during his sermon on the first day of the Dormition Fast, 14 August, reports the Information and Education Department of the UOC.

"Today’ life is complicated – people are looking for some way out of a deep crisis affecting all. This crisis is not so much physical as spiritual," the Patriarch said.

He noticed that the people who find themselves in difficult circumstances often try to impose principles that are not consistent with God's commandments. "We are offered to violate the Divine Law. As if one has only to do as we are advised, everything will be fine. But if we break the law of God, nothing good will come of it," he stressed.

"This is not God who's cruel to us. What the Lord commanded the man – to be humble, to forgive, to pray, to fast, to be merciful – is all one needs most."

His Beatitude stressed that "the law that God gave the man is the path that leads him to the blessed eternity. It is for the blessed eternity God created the man, and there are no little things on this path. We have to perform all that is written on it."

According to the Primate, do not look for excuses to their infirmities. "If we do something that violates the Divine Law, we must repent, ask God for forgiveness and do not justify ourselves by the circumstances of life," said Metropolitan Onuphry.

Recall, 14 August, about 5 thousand pilgrims gathered to receive blessings from His Beatitude Onuphry, who celebrated the Liturgy at St. Anna’s convent, located in Vashkovtsy, Chernivtsi region.

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