“Take it! Accept your infirmity and follow Me! Bring to Me your pain, your infirmity, your sickness, your toil, your fight against yourself and against your infirmities!”
(Patriarch Daniel of Romania on ‘taking our Cross’ with Christ)

Ukraine's Orthodox Church of Moscow Patriarchy's church followers take part in a procession of the cross marking the Day of the Baptism of Kievan Rus in Kiev on July 27, 2016. On July 27 Ukraine's Orthodox Church of Moscow Patriarchy's clerics led a procession marking the Day of the Baptism of Kievan Rus, cultural ancestors of the people of Belarus, Ukraine, and Russia, though supporters of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Kiev Patriarchy believe that the cross procession is organized by pro-Russian powers to destabilize the political situation in the country. / AFP PHOTO / SERGEI SUPINSKY

Ukraine’s Orthodox Church of Moscow Patriarchy’s church followers take part in a procession of the cross marking the Day of the Baptism of Kievan Rus in Kiev on July 27, 2016.
On July 27 Ukraine’s Orthodox Church of Moscow Patriarchy’s clerics led a procession marking the Day of the Baptism of Kievan Rus, cultural ancestors of the people of Belarus, Ukraine, and Russia, though supporters of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Kiev Patriarchy believe that the cross procession is organized by pro-Russian powers to destabilize the political situation in the country. / AFP PHOTO / SERGEI SUPINSKY