


“It seems to me that this faith is truly capable of moving mountains.” “At the fourth mystery came the great silence: the Russian artillery stopped firing,” Blazejewski told ACI Prensa. On one occasion, the faithful and the parochial vicar went down to the basement of the church to say the rosary in the middle of the bombardments. They eat together, they pray together, during bombardments they attend Mass together in the basement of the church.” “They live together, as in the early days of the Church. “It’s in these times when heroes and saints are born,” he said.Īsked how Christians are living out their faith under the continuous bombardments, he said that, for example, the parochial vicar in Kharkiv has housed more than a dozen people who lost their homes. Regarding the consecration of Russia and Ukraine to the Immaculate Heart of the Virgin Mary that Pope Francis carried out on March 25 last year, the Ukrainian priest said that this event “was not by chance.” He also noted that in Ukraine “there is hardly a person who doubts victory” and that he is convinced that “an even more splendid victory is taking place in the hearts of so many people: Christ is winning there.” Speaking from Rome, Blazejewski said that “Christ not only walked the streets of Ukrainian cities carrying the cross, he was also buried there, in Bucha, Mariupol, and Izium, along with old women, children, and soldiers.” And it’s then that the role of the Holy See will be truly crucial and historic, it will be able to become an effective moderator, saving the death and destruction to come,” he said. “I think that when Russia is close to defeat, a consensus can be reached to negotiate and withdraw.
