OCU "priest" keeps silent on journalist's blasphemy about Communion
Dmitriev and Sokolova. Photo: Sokolova’s Instagram
The OCU chaplain Serhiy Dmitriev silently listened to the words of journalist Yanina Sokolova that communion is “crap from a spoon.” The broadcast of the conversation between Dmitriev and Sokolova was posted on the Channel 5 YouTube channel under the title "MOSCOW PRIESTS ‘WHITEWASH’ MURDERS: Padre Chaplain about the UOC-MP."
The interlocutors discussed the inadmissibility of corruption in the country. Yanina Sokolova stated that “when they give a bribe or resolve the issue within a week, then go to church and eat prosphora and drink wine there, eat some crap from a spoon from Onuphry’s hands, and then return home and decide that they are purified and can take and give a bribe next week, it doesn’t work like that.” Sokolova is convinced that "people should understand this."
The "priest" of the OCU silently listened to Sokolova's tirade and did not express any assessment of her words.
This video has caused a lot of publicity on the web. The KDAiS telegram channel commented on this conversation as follows: “The ‘standards’ of modern journalism on Channel 5… Yanina Sokolova spoke blasphemously about the Holy Body and Blood of Christ on the air. Lord, forgive her."
In turn, in his Telegram channel, Archpriest Olexandr Klimenko drew attention to Dmitriev’s silence: “It is sad, but the silence of the Padre (the chaplain from the OCU) is no longer surprising when a woman directly humiliates Holy Communion right in his presence. He didn't even blink an eye! No muscle twitched on his face! The OCU goes to great lengths to bask in the hands of power and win the support of the media. If you sometimes have to remain silent and bend in an appropriate pose – well, you can forget about dignity for the sake of religious monopoly in the country. These people are a disgrace to Christianity. Their silence is an outright betrayal of God. Full stop".
Earlier, in a conversation with Sokolova, Dmitriev said that the Church had been in crisis for 2,000 years.
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