The archpriest of the UOC MP criticized the filming in the Lavra with the participation of Klopotenko — Ukraine

Klymenko called filming in the Lavra refectory “another epic fail.”

Archpriest of the UOC MP Oleksandr Klymenko criticized the filming in the refectory of the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra of a project about food with the participation of chef and restaurateur Yevhen Klopotenko.

The cleric wrote about this in his Telegram channel.

Klymenko called filming in the refectory of the Lavra “another epic fail” and explained his criticism.

“The monastery meal, like every meal of a church-going Christian, is accompanied by prayers before and after. But the monks in the monastery eat in silence, listening to the Holy Scriptures, the lives or teachings of the holy fathers of the Church, etc. Television shows are not conducted or recorded here (with the normal functioning of the monastery) and they don't hold “prayer breakfasts”. They pray here,” Archpriest Moskovskii said in a statement patriarchy

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