UOC water blessing banned in Kyiv hospital
UOC water blessing at a Kyiv hospital in 2016. Photo: t.me/kozakTv1
In the Kyiv city children's hospital № 2, the UOC was allowed to hold the traditional water blessing prayer service on January 19. This is reported by the Telegram channel kozakTv1 with reference to Archpriest Eugene Maslov, who traditionally had a prayer service at the hospital.
"During the last 15 years on Epiphany, your humble servant has performed a water blessing service in the hospital and then walked around the entire hospital. I tried to visit every ward to sprinkle holy water on all the visitors and patients. It was a real celebration for doctors and patients!
Father Eugene said that this year the hospital management changed, and they prohibited celebrating the Epiphany prayer, although most of the doctors and patients, according to Archpriest Eugene, were waiting for it.
As reported, in Kyiv, the chief physician of city hospital No 3, Eduard Krasiuk, evicted the UOC congregation from the hospital's premises of St Xenia’s Church in order to create an OCU structure in the medical facility.
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