Priests of Kharkiv Churches of UOC-MP Urge Parishioners to Attend Liturgy Led by Patriarch of Moscow at Svobody Square

Priests of Kharkiv Churches Urge Parishioners to Attend Liturgy Led by Patriarch of Moscow at Svobody Square in Kharkiv on 8 May. The situation is made more tense by the fact that the believers will actually be left without choice as there will be no traditional Sunday liturgy in any church of Kharkiv on Sunday, 8 May.

“We are taken aback and we do not know what to do: we should attend the service but do we have to go to the Lenin’s Square to pray?!” complained a parishioner of one of the Kharkiv Churches to the correspondent of obkom.net.ua.

On 7-8 May, patriarch Kirill of Moscow will visit Kharkiv. On Sunday, 8 May, at Svobody Square, a liturgy is to be served with the participation of the head of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church-Moscow Patriarchate, Metropolitan Volodymyr, and many Orthodox hierarchs from Russia, Ukraine and other countries.