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On September 29, 210, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, head of the Moscow Patriarchate’s department for external church relations, was on a visit to Kiev. During his stay in the Ukrainian capital, he visited the Assumption Laura of the Caves in Kiev.

In the Kiev Theological Academy, the DECR chairman was warmly welcomed by the rector of the academy, Archbishop Anthony of Borispol, on behalf of the Supreme Authority of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church as well as professors and students and numerous participants and guests of the 10th Assumption Readings.

Metropolitan Hilarion presented a paper on the Feast and the Eucharist, in which he said in particular,

“All the life of a Christian should become a continued feast, an uninterrupted Pentecost, a jubilee year beginning at the moment of baptism and having no end. The life of a Christian on earth may become for a Christian an endless feast of communion with God through the Church and the Eucharist. The annual cycle of church feasts and the sacraments of the Church help a person to move gradually from time to eternity, to a gradual dismissal from things earthly and participation in things heavenly. But the real feast and the real sacrament will come only there where, beyond time, a person will meet God face to face. The true feast is the Lord Jesus Christ Himself who is contemplated in continued exaltation by the faithful in the Kingdom of God, and the sons of the Kingdom will no longer partake of the Body and Blood of Christ in the appearance of bread and wine but will more fully partake of Christ Himself as the Source of life and immortality”.

DECR Communication Service