“The fruit of Victory ripens and we will taste it,” - the chaplain of the border detachment
Faith is the basis. In the war, it is fundamental, because it gives spiritual support.Clergyman Father Volodymyr Kurchin from the glorious Cossack town of Berestechko, in Volyn, has been resisting darkness for more than a year and helping soldiers to feel the mercy and power of God.
“Before the war, he built a temple of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church in the Cossack style, but with its beginning he could not afford to have a “Russian pip” serving and praying here. Therefore, I immediately decided that I could defend our Motherland not with weapons, but with prayer and the word of God,” says Father Vladimir.
On the 4th day of the war, priest Vladimir Kurchin was already near Irpin, helping our military with everything they needed. “Seeing how the boys fight hard and what they experience every day, I decided to be a chaplain and took on all the disturbing thoughts of the warriors. In fact, today there is a categorically lack of chaplains at the front, perhaps this pushed me even more to go to the army,” Vladimir notes.
“What I remember most about the war is the incredible faith in God, there is no such faith in civilian life as in guys under a barrage of bullets and artillery. This war has made atheists believers. Wherever we go, everyone, without exception, needs the most important thing - to be able to get answers to questions that they have long wanted to ask a priest, but for some certain reason or reason could not do it before, and on the front these issues have become acute,” says the chaplain.
I remember a rather sensitive episode in this sworn war, when they helped to take little children out of Irpen. Already almost mortars reached our cars, constant children's tears, screams, endless explosions, these memories become eerie. But our lives are filled with both good and horror and sadness. And if you stand in this difficult struggle against the dark force, you will live in harmony and prosperity.
Now Chaplain Volodymyr Kurchin is in the Kherson Border Detachment and helps the guys believe in the best.
“In spite of everything, I am sure that Ukraine will win. We have already won — the fall of the Russian evil empire is happening before our eyes. Our generation lives in a period of liberation struggles and will witness Victory. The Lord has not in vain made us strong - the fruit of victory ripens and we will taste it,” the chaplain is sure.
State Border Guard Service of Ukraine
