It Is Not the Walls That Make a Monastery

On 23 July, our Church commemorates St Anthony of the Caves, the founder of Rus’ monasticism, the founder of the Kyiv-Pechersk Monastery, and the man who first revealed the true image of monastic life in Kyivan Rus’. As a young man from Liubech, Anthony found no peace amid the distractions of worldly life. He therefore […]

The Faith of the Centurion of Capernaum

In the Gospel account of the healing of the Roman centurion’s servant, the Church presents us with one of the most remarkable examples of faith. Standing before the Lord is neither a scribe, nor a Pharisee, nor even one of the sons of Israel, but a Gentile—a Roman officer. Yet it is of him that […]

The Head of UOC Presided over Sunday Services at Lavra

On the 3rd Sunday after Pentecost and the feast day of the Great Martyr Theodore Stratelates, the conciliar services at the Lavra church dedicated to Venerable Agapit of the Caves were presided over by the Sacred Archimandrite of the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra, His Beatitude Metropolitan Onuphry of Kyiv and All Ukraine. During the Divine Liturgy, the […]

Flowers at the Lavra in summer

Emergency Repairs Following Enemy Attack on Dormition Cathedral

Source: Головне управління ДСНС України у м.Києві (kyiv.dsns.gov.ua)

On the recent attack on the Holy Dormition Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra

TO His Beatitude Metropolitan Onufriy Metropolitan of Kyiv and All Ukraine Your Beatitude, dear brother and concelebrant in the Lord’s Mysteries, Christ is in our midst! It is with profound sorrow that I learned of the recent attack on the Holy Dormition Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra and the danger and suffering inflicted upon this sacred monastery, which […]

Dormition Cathedral of the Lavra Damaged in Enemy Attack

On the night of 15 June 2026, during a massive Russian attack on Kyiv, the Dormition Cathedral of the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra was struck. According to Kyiv Mayor V. Klitschko, a fire broke out on the roof of the Great Church. Photographs of the damaged shrine have been published online. The present-day Dormition Cathedral was gradually […]

The Saints of God: Flowers in the Beautiful Garden of the Heavenly King

The image of God’s saints is wonderfully multifaceted. At times, their way of life, characters, and spiritual struggles seem completely different from one another, just as the times and countries in which they lived were different. Yet the holy Apostle Paul draws a profound comparison, likening the saints to the stars in the heavens. The […]

Lavra in Spring

The Head of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church led Sunday services at the Lavra

  On the Sunday preceding the great feast of the Descent of the Holy Spirit upon the Apostles, the Orthodox Church especially honours the memory of the Holy Fathers of the First Ecumenical Council, at which the Arian heresy — denying the Eternal Begetting of God the Son from God the Father and Their consubstantiality […]