Metropolitan Luka of Zaporozhye and Melitopol called for organizing groups of 48 people, including the clergy of the UOC, clergy and parishioners, for round-the-clock prayer reading, writes the website of the Zaporozhye diocese.
“Our country has suffered a terrible fate that none of us could even imagine. All of us are overcome by fear for life because of the war that is sweeping across our Ukrainian land, but we, Orthodox, know that prayer is not only a consolation in sorrows, but also an effective weapon given to us by the Lord.<…>
I ask all of you, dear brothers and sisters, to contact the rector of your parish so that he coordinates with the dean of his Church district the time for reading the akathist and, privately, at the approved time, offer up your prayers so that the All-Merciful Lord will protect our land,” the appeal says. .