UOC priest at prayer standing: With heart and soul, we are in the Lavra!

On April 5, 2024, near the walls of the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra, the prayer of dozens of believers and clergy of the UOC sounded again. After the end of the prayer service, a clergyman said that despite the fact that they have to pray outside the sanctuary now, "with our heart and soul, we are in the Lavra."

'We thank you, Lord, brothers and sisters, for your prayers. We need to gather more often – for home prayer, for communal prayer, in this place... Although we stand outside the walls of the Lavra, our soul and heart are in the monastery. The venerable Pechersk saints hear our prayers. The world stands by prayer. If it weren’t for prayer, for those secret righteous people who pray, who moisten their faces with tears, perhaps this world would be filled with sins and would have fallen long ago,' said the clergyman.

During the Great Lent, a special place is occupied by the prayer of repentance, Orthodox Christians humbly ask God to forgive and enlighten their offenders, as well as for the forgiveness of their own sins.

'We pray that the Lord preserves our Orthodox faith. We pray that God sends peace to our Ukrainian land. We pray that He enlightens those who struggle with faith and forgives our own sins,' the priest noted.

As the UOJ wrote, every day throughout the year, believers pray to the Mother of God for intercession and comfort.