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"And went Jesus about all towns and villages teaching in schools, preaching the Gospel of the kingdom, curing all ilnesses of people" (Мат. 9.35).
In such general features the Holy Gospel describes before us that great work which Christ did on the earth. But not only Christ went about all towns and villages when He lived on the earth. We believe that Christ goes throughout the earth nowadays, among all peoples, He is in our Ukraine, in each our village and even in each house, in each soul He has his place, He cares for everybody, preaches the Gospel of His Kingdom, curing any illness in them.
We believe that He is not far, that not him but He looks for us and is in us.
The final task of Christ's work is to unite all Christ's children and cure in them any illness that separates them for all ages.
But the first step to the all-world unification is the unification of Christ's children of all peoples into the United (Soborna) Church. It means the all-world unification of all Ukrainian communities spread all over the world.
How can oeople unite into their Church? The Church is a free brothership of people of good will, free unification of Christ's children. By only free will the united people will create the true Christ's Church, the head of which will be Christ himself. Christ's blessing messengers should come with blessing message because Christ said,
"Go, and teach all peoples" (Mat. 28,19).
And who had to guide those Churches which Apostles- blessing-messangers created ? The Church of every nation should be guided by itself, should by its own strength and help of Christ's grace build its life, elect the workers among themselves for serving the Church. Only under such condition of voluntary building of the Church of each nation Christ's life can be fully and in detail revealed in himself/herself as Apostle Pavlo says "by alive stone in the structure of its Church" (I Petr, 2.5). So, one of the main grounds of the life of each Christ's Church is its will, independence in its church administration. And Christ's unification between Churches of each nation is possible only as a free brothership of Churches.
The word "autocephaly" is Greek, being translated it means "he is the head for himself". The autocephallous church is that Church which is the head for itself, creates its guiding bodies for itself , freely lives by its church life itself in the brotherhood unity with other Churches.
The Russian bishops and clergy in Ukraine who used to guide its Church by the orders of Russian synods and Patriarch, as we called themselves autocephallists and were separated from "foreign Russian guidance" became to name us "splitters", besides among our people lacking social understanding the word – autocephaly became almost abusive, it was twisted, mocked at and such a situation continues nowadays.
As a result of all this, the people laugh at the main founder of the church – Christ.
That the Ukrainian Church was under Moscow church power was a real fact but was it in accordance with God's truth, and wasn't it a great violation of any truth?
The dependence of the Ukrainian Church of Moscow church in 1686 – is such a lie that the Russian bishops must turn red , be silent about it, and when they are God's children they must turn from it but not to defend it. .The history about the dependence of the Ukrainian church of Moscow power says how it was done, how Moscow tsar without consent of the Ukrainian church for the money and presents bought the Ukrainian Church from Tsarhorod Patriarch for themselves. What a great lie!. And violence was used, too during this action.
Thus, getting rid of Moscow Patriarch the Ukrainian Church restored God's truth against the human falsehood, corrected a great historical falsehood of its church life, to which it was forced to die. "We, clergy, believe in the victory of holy truth of the Ukrainian Church over the hostile, human falsehood . We express our hopes that all in all, the truth will dominate in Ukraine. The Ukrainian people will free from all-aged shackles and the Church will freely annunciate the Word of Christ's truth." For this great martyrs died for Ukraine.
"Our native Earth, Our Native People have such a hard fortune during a long time that in certain terms any streams of water fllood them. Once, it is said, that the whole Ukraine was flooded by the sea. But the sea went down, the ice melted and it, as a flower bloomed and accepred our native people. But several times it was repeated again.
Maybe still during the times of migration of peoples in IV-V centuries the folk water streams flooded our forefathers on their earth. Then already in historical times our people were flooded by polovetsky, Tartar and Crimean oppressors. But all these oppressors came and went away and our people live and prosper.. Not only physical, but also spiritual Polish-Moscow flood turned into ruins the earth as well as the soul of our people themselves. But also as it came , in the same way it went away, and our people live and revive. We believe in God that an owful communist flood that by its waves tried to take away the people's belief and all that is the dearest for them, all their human nature, their will, nation, also disappears as it came and the people will be saved from it and will live. The main thing is to get rid of moscow ferment. And Holy Ukrainian Autocephallous Orthodox Church the same as Christ,its Head, having resurrected from dead will no longer die and death has no power over it".
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