The Head of the UGCC: “Ideology, called “gender” wants to destroy the family institution”

Friday, 08 January 2016, 17:46
In a modern culture the family institution is attempted by new, maybe even worse dangers, than it was in the days of Christ birth… It was declared by the Father and Head of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church, His Beatitude Sviatoslav on the second day of Christmas holidays, on Synaxis of Theotokos, during his homily to the faithful at the Patriarchal Cathedral of the Resurrection of Christ.

Explaining the importance of today’s holiday, the preacher mentioned that on the second day of a bright holiday of Christmas, the spiritual attention of Church is directed to the posture of That, Who participated personally and directly with God in a mystery of begetting the Son of God. And, so today we are celebrating a holiday of Synaxis of the Blessed Virgin Mary. According to his words, an apostolic sermon on birth of Son of God from a virgin was a cell of Church, teaching about a divinity of a born Saviour. Fathers of Church have taught about it from the very beginning of Christianity. Owing to the effect of Holy Spirit and synergy of the Blessed Virgin Mary, we are celebrating Christmas today.

“The tradition of our Ukrainian Church calls Virgin Mary “Gate of Mercy”, through what our Saviour entered a human’s life and was born in a human’s body. That is why in the icon of Nativity of Our Lord, first of all, we see Theotokos, holding her newborn Son. Thus, we call Her Theotokos”, - explained His Beatitude Sviatoslav.

Drawing a parallel with nowadays, the Head of the Church noted that exactly today, in its mysterious way, Nativity of Christ reveals us truth about a common family; that family is a fruitful, indissoluble, faithful union of love between man and woman. There is no other way of living together that can be called a family, like this one. And a task of such family is to work with God in a birth of new life. In this name people join in love, in order to receive a gift that God sends us on earth; the gift of a new human, the gift of a new life”, - assured the preacher.

In today’s Gospel we hear a story about a child-killing role of Herod. “How many new “herods” there are today, who not only kill children after their birth, but have gone further along last years of progress; there are so many unborn children today. We all grieve over innocent victims in Donbas, however for these two years of war murders of the unborn children have brought victims in ten times more. Hence, for us it is so much important to reveal truth during Christmas over again, truth about life, truth about family and its mission in a modern world”, asked to be thoughtful the leader of Greek-Catholics.

Speaking about a danger for the family institution, the Head of the Church mentioned that “today we are observing very interesting and dangerous phenomenon – in a global dimension a new ideology tries to destroy the family institution”.

“Catholic bishops of Eastern and Western rites say about it in their statement, indicating on a new danger of a new enslavement of Ukrainian people. This danger is called gender ideology. This is one more way to kill a life. Today this ideology is trying to expose a family as a construction which can be mounted and unmounted.

Pope Benedict XVI said this ideology is very similar to previous ones that were destroying states, nations, and today trying to destroy the basement of a human being; because the family institution is much older than nation or state institutions.

We also see this danger in Ukraine. Our lawmakers start adopting this type of terminology in Ukrainian Labour law”, - pointed he.

“So let us pray together in this holiday for Ukrainian family, for fathers and mothers, who follow their parental vocation faithfully and give Church and nation new children. Thus, they give us all a future”, - asked His Beatitude Sviatoslav.

The UGGG Department of Information

 

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