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Having lain in the Russian grave for more than three hundred years the Ukrainian Church arose in the twenties under the leadership of Metropolitan Vasyl Lypkivsky gathering millions of its children to be saved, but the power of a red beast rebelled and killed clergy who were the spiritual gold of the nation and transferred the right over souls in Ukraine to pro-Moscow clergy because it trusted them and has it as its own.
During these terrifying times millions of souls could have died in the Underworld because of the atheistic system of evil but thanks to faithful divine services of the UAOC the souls were saved for the eternal life with God not scared of taking an excruciating torment in the name of Christ's Church for Ukraine.
In the forties with blessing of Metropolitan Dionisiy Valedynsky the UAOC arose for the secomd time and already having a legal autonomy and canonical consecrations began with a great real eagerness to serve its people in difficult times of enslavement of Ukraine by a brown beast of fascism which came to change communism. And in these times the Ukrainian Church competing with the foreign Russian Church under pressure of beast power took care for saving the souls of Ukrainian children and with God's blessing spread God's teaching with mother's love all over Ukraine strengthening each soul for saving that nobody would give his/her soul to Satan. As God teaches "Don't be afraid of those who can destroy your body but can't destroy the soul, but be afraid of that man who can destroy your soul and body in a fiery hyena". In 1943-1944 again a red beast won Ukraine and with all cruelty began to kill believers and clergy of the UAOC, caressed only those who agreed to communicate with the ROC but their number was not considerable. The majority of them about 99% became martyrs of their Motherland for a spiritual freedom of Ukraine. .
The third rebirth of the UAOC began at the end of the eighties - at the beginning of the nineties by Metropoilitan Ioann Bondarchuk a year earlier as the independence of Ukraine was declared . And again there were difficult times of awakening the people from spiritual stiff in death, but the Church being excited in the spirit of the first rebirth with faith in bright ideals of the Church which will serve Ukraine in saving souls, worked with all its output. And all was good until its enemy Filaret was taken to it, who fought against it from the outside and said, - " There was not, is not, will not be the Ukrainian Church" . Then Satan helped him to come into inside of our Ukrainian Church and destroyed a life-giving spirit of the Church by his poisoned mentality. Joining with the UAOC he by his dark intrigues took everything from It and drove out Its honorable ministers of religion. But it is not in God's plans for His Church which cares for saving the souls to disappear in Ukraine. That is why God blessed the return of Vladyka Moisey, Metropitan of the UAOC of the second rebirth of canonical archbishop consecrations of Ukraine, legal autocephallous status not only in Thomas of 1924 (given by All-Universal Patriarchy Gregores VII), but native by spirit with the UAOC of the first rebirth to serve together with the UAOC of the third rebirth for saving souls and unifying them voluntarily into one United (Soborna) Church of Ukraine which will nobody divide and separate.
That is why today God's Church arises from the grave of Moscow church of dead traditions and opens its eyes and sees great changes in the world... First of all It happily saw that the Ukrainian people were and remained on its preeternal land. But alongside with this, It saw that a difficult fortune threw about our native people all over the world. Thus, the Ukrainian people almost became the all-union nation.
The restored to life Church must be such one for its people. It must bring satisfaction, create the native life for the children of their mother - Ukraine, thrown out all over the world.
The restored Ukrainian Church saw the greatest changes in the status of the Church on the whole in the world. It saw that under new circumstances of the world life the Church must not be either the state, nor ruled by the state but it must be separated from the state, it must occupy such a plot of the land which can't be taken by other organisation. Christ's Church must recollect now the commandments of Christ and turn to Him, became the Heavenly Kingdom on the earth with its Heavenly Father but not the Kingdom of this world whose Prince is Satan. Thus, the Ukrainian Church must be the kingdom of heavenly happiness on its native land, for its native people.
But the most main freedom and rebirth of any Church under new world changes - it must be freedom from those old dead forms of the church life that through the state organization by Tsars and slavery before this world from church leaders of Russian and other East (and West) churchus brought to spiritual stagnation and paralysis of the whole church . That is why the Ukrainian Church being on dogmatic bases of orthodox faith must be on the way of a new church building with belief into eternally life-living strength of Holy Spirit in the Church and with the thought that church canons are ( as church canonists say) a usedul archive for the new creativity bit not the collection of laws to be executed. In this archive it is necessary first of all to refuse from that which contradicts the Holy Writ and created in it under the influence of emperors and tsars as for example unequality of states in the Church, humiliation of believers and others. Thus, on the grounds of these prerequisites the restored Ukrainian Church puts as the basis of its life and creativity:
1) freedom, autonomy, independence of any foreign church centre;
2) all church-folk unification (sobornist), brotherhood and equality of all believers in the affairs of church life;
3) complete indifference towards politics, non-interference in any state affairs, separation from the State.
All church life and creativity should be conducted on the national ground , and in another way it can't be because it (Church) is created for the Ukrainian people, it is created by the Ukrainian people themselves. It is no doubt that for the Ukrainian Church to fulfil all its ideas, conduct its life, necessary specific foreign conditions, especially, freedom of faith and understanding, non-interference of the State into the deeds of the Church, freedom of publishing, word, meetings, on the whole, those conditions which any free public life demands . And when the Ukrainian Church was restored to a new life it must live and struggle for this life, must win favorable conditions for this in the name of God's glory and saving the souls in Ukraine.
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