to take care of righteousness and sin in peace freedom and servitude do not combine with each other but are in a struggle with each other, therefore, in order to achieve peace with god and to be filled with the light of grace. to serve two masters, because either he will love one and hate the other, or he will hold on to one and neglect the other, he cannot serve god and mammon, and in another place the son of god declares that whoever is not with me is against me and whoever does not gather with me, he wastes, therefore, when we celebrate the event of christmas, we should not only

honor the incarnation that happened in ancient times, we not only remind ourselves of the events that took place more than a thousand years ago, but nowadays they have become for many only one of the reasons for greetings, gifts and fun leisure. christmas prompts us to choose a life path, do we accept the son of god or do we reject him, are we among the shepherds and magi who worship the divine baby or are we among the servants of the accursed herod who think to kill this baby so that it does not change our life, the christmas of christ brings peace to the world, proclaims the truth, illuminates the path of righteousness and eternal life, bestows the reconciliation of us people with

our heavenly father, at the same time, the coming into the world of the son of god prompts us to fight, to fight against evil and against sin and against the darkness of this age and without victory in this struggle does not achieve real peace dear brothers and sisters, all these considerations echo in our hearts during the most difficult trials of war that our ukrainian people are going through, we did not want this war as a people, we sought to live peacefully with understanding with all our neighbors but the enemy cunningly and insidiously broke the peace and invaded our land, shedding blood and sowing death, wanting to destroy our statehood and our very ukrainian identity more than three

decades ago, we broke free from centuries-old slavery, threw off the yoke, became independent, started building our own sovereign state, those who kept us in captivity did not could endure our achievements and our success. devilish malice and envy prompted them to start a war, but in it they will definitely be defeated, because the truth is on our side, and where there is truth, there is god, and with by god we will certainly win with the help of god our people have already achieved many victories by destroying the plans of the kremlin tyrant quickly conquer us we have already achieved a moral victory after all people of good will condemn

the acts of genocide, terror and numerous war crimes committed by the evil russian empire on our land and now all holidays days, we with a special feeling ask the lord to help us overcome the opponents who brought the mountains to our home, to help us finally drive out the earth that has invaded the ukrainian land, and thanks to the victory of the truth establish a just and lasting peace, i celebrate through the two christs, we affirm the conviction that it will be so, but at the same time, we remember those who defend the truth and freedom of our soldiers who are now defending us from russian aggression, the warmest prayers and most heartfelt wishes are heard today for our newest heroes, let's also remember and our

brothers and sisters who are forced to celebrate holidays in captivity on temporarily occupied ukrainian lands, let us remember our military and civilian prisoners and other unjustly imprisoned and ask lord, for their protection and quick release, let us remember today in prayer all the forced migrants and refugees, may the mercy and help of god be with you. after all, christ himself was a fugitive and hid from the malice of herod in a foreign land. let us remember with a grateful prayer the volunteers, donors and all people of goodwill who during the severe trials of war , help those in need, may the lord

bless all your good deeds with success and rewards, i congratulate the president of ukraine volodymyr zelenskyi, chairman of the verkhovna rada, with a hundredfold merry christmas and a new year ruslana stefanchuk, the parliament of ukraine, the prime minister of ukraine, denys shmyhal, the government of the leaders of local communities and all those who are called to work for the benefit of the ukrainian people and serve them, may the lord inspire you with wisdom and help you in the fight against the enemy, the light shines in the darkness and the darkness has not enveloped him, he proclaims to us the gospel, christ was born and brought this invincible light that drives away the darkness of evil despite all the difficult current trials, the joy

of the nativity of christ fills our hearts, driving away sorrow, pain and grief, and light in may the star of bethlehem direct us all to the son of god with whom we are able to defeat all evil. i heartily congratulate the fullness of our local orthodox church and the entire ukrainian people

. and we, o god, out of your great mercy, pray and listen and have mercy . we also pray for the authority of our most blessed metropolitan father.

amen for the power of our army and peoples to wash and live a peaceful life in all piety and purity of body

, we still pray to deliver us from the invasion of foreigners, to listen to the voice of the prayer of us sinners and to protect all the people of ukraine from our frequent ordeals, and to have mercy on the lives of his soldiers who defend our state, to save

them from the deadly wound of every mental and physical illness, to protect from all sorrow, calamity, and misfortune, and after them healthy and in peace, all-merciful lord , listen to us and our hetmans for the blessed and forever unforgettable founders of the builders and also providers of the world temple this and the holy monastery, this and all

the cats of our brothers and sisters who lie here and everywhere, the orthodox lord, god for mercy, life, peace, health, salvation, god for greetings, forgiven, forgiveness of sins, slaves of god, cats, mothers of our brothers and sisters, those who teach, learn brothers and all the parishioners of the holy temple, this is to protect them from

all sorrow, anger, trouble, not the spirit of the soul and body, so that they live peacefully, that you are healthy and well-being in this day, overcome everything, merciful lord, hear us and have mercy i mentioned that the gifts bring goodness to the holy and all-honest temple for the fact that they work hard, they sing to all the people present, i hope something, this is great from you, we send a lot

to the father and the son and the holy spirit, now and forever and forever and ever. , here they are,

our god, you listened to moses when he raised his hands to you and strengthened the people of israel to the little one, armed jesus news for the battle and commanded the sun to stand still today, lord, hear why we pray to you, they moved your pious ukrainian people, bless him deeds, increase his glory by victory over the enemy, the almighty strengthened our state with your right hand, save the army, send your angel to strengthen the defenders of our people, give us everything we ask for salvation, reconcile enmity and just to the peace, firm , raise up, lord, invisibly, your right hand, which your rabbiut intercedes for all the same to whom you decided to lay down your soul in the war for the orthodox faith, our pious people and the state

forgive theirs and on the day of your righteous retribution , serve in vinnytsia incorruption, for i am the power of the kingdom and the power from you helped everyone we place our hope in you and we send you glory to the father and the son and the holy spirit now and forever and ever and ever, for you belong to all glory, honor and worship to the father and the son and the holy spirit now and forever and ever and ever,

as long as they are always protected by your power, we weakly send you to this father and son and to the holy ass , now and forever and ever

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of the most holy patriarchs orthodox archbishop of constantinople and new rome ecumenical patriarch bartholomew of alexandria, theodora of antioch, anna

of jerusalem, theophilus of serbia, porphyry of romania, danilo of bulgaria, a neophyte of the georgian line of the most blessed archbishops and metropolitans of kyiv, george of gelada , ronim of the polish garden, albanian nastasia, the czech land words, or not, rostislav , the prelates, the governor of the autocephalous orthodox churches, the most blessed archbishops and bishops, may god change his reign always now always and forever and ever, amen to your most blessed epiphany

the metropolitan of kyiv and all ukraine and the feast of the assumption of the kiev-pechersk lavra, the holy archimandrite, may the lord god remember in his kingdom always, now, always, and forever, the most blessed metropolitans, archbishops, bishops, orthodox priesthoods, deacons, the spring of our order, god -protected ukraine, our sovereign ukraine, all the people of her honor and ages the unforgettable founders, donors and builders of the holy temple and this monastery, those who sing there as

brothers and all of you orthodox christians, may the lord god remember in his kingdom always now always and forever and ever to his ancestral lord the

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