The Head of the UGCC: "Forgiveness – is the recovery and change of our life"

It was said by the Father and the Head of the UGCC, His Beatitude Sviatoslav on 8 March, on Sunday of the Paralytic, during a sermon in the Patriarchal Cathedral of the Resurrection of Christ in Kyiv.

According to the Preacher, the Lord forgives man his sins; he makes him clear, sinless, "His forgiveness removes all human weakness, every sign of evil". His Beatitude Sviatoslav emphasised that the Lord came into the world to us to change and eliminate everything that destroys us and paralyzes. Church, especially in Lent, encourages everyone to proceed to the holy sacrament of Penance - Confession and "outlive on their own experience the change that God gives as the forgiveness of our sins and offenses".

"Modern man thinks himself, that to ask forgiveness is humiliation. Because it is difficult to admit that we did something wrong - continued the Preacher. - Forgiveness – is a rise of a man; sin paralyzes and does not give us the opportunity to resist evil".

"Do not hesitate to accept God's forgiveness, with which He wants to raise us, because the laws of spiritual ascetic life are the laws of social life. In our Ukrainian society there is much that paralyzes us. And at a time when we are called to protect our lands from unjust assailant, such a paralysis becomes a matter of life and death of our country ", - concluded His Beatitude Sviatoslav.

UGCC Department of Information