According to Dimitri, Metropolitan of Lviv and Sokal PCU, these peace bells will be rung daily at 6 p.m. until the end of the war
“The Church is looking for any way to stop the war in our Ukraine. We are, of course, mobilizing around prayer, especially now that Lent has begun. But we want the people of the world and the authorities of all countries to hear the voice of heaven. Because the bells are the voice of heaven: they call to the temple for prayer, announce an important event and sound the alarm. We believe that these bells, initiated today by the Lviv City Council and Mayor Andriy Sadovy himself, are peace bells that will be heard from Lviv to Kyiv. And I think that there will be a call from Kyiv around the world from our capital to stop this terrible bloody war and the enemy who attacked us treacherously. Although in fact our war has been going on for 8 years, and now it has spread to all parts of Ukraine. We believe that fasting, prayer and bells will stop the enemy.
These bells will ring until the end of the war, until the last day to announce our victory. At 18.00 in Lviv, they will sound for exactly 3 minutes, “said Dimitri, Metropolitan of Lviv and Sokal PCU.
It will be recalled that the day before, Lviv Mayor Andriy Sadovy called on the whole world to ring the bells in support of Ukraine every day at 18:00 Kyiv time. The mayor’s address was published on his social network page.
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