“Serhiy Dumenko called the words of Christ a "saying."
“Just as Paul was called to become an apostle by the Head of the Church Himself, so too we received the Tomos and the proclamation of our dignity as an autocephalous Local Church from the first among the Primates of the Orthodox Church – from the Ecumenical Patriarch, who alone is vested by the conciliar canons with such a right
“They accuse us, the Orthodox Church of Ukraine, of not being from them and not having received recognition according to the rules invented by them
“zealous followers of the Russian Patriarchate act in the same way as the opponents of the Apostle Paul did
“Let somewhere far away, for some, we are not a Local Church just as Paul, for some, was not an apostle as he says, for Ukraine we are the Local Church
“Instead of strict demands toward the followers of Russian Pharisaism in Ukraine, we show humility, calling them to brotherly dialogue, to understanding and unity, rather than passing judgment on them in accordance with the canons
“he declared his organization's right to judge the Ukrainian Orthodox Church
“followers of Russian Pharisaism
“through the efforts of Zelensky and the OCU, the Lavra is breaking free from the shackles of the Russian World and returning to its roots
“our glorious Ukrainian hetman has returned to our Ukrainian Lavra
“the “Russian empire of evil” had long imposed “slavish submission to the conqueror” at the Lavra through institutions dependent on it, “above all ecclesiastical ones.”
“for centuries enemies had tried to eradicate the authentic tradition of the Caves, replacing it with counterfeits of the ‘Russian world.’