Dear Father DIAKone,
Yes, and I understand there are certain Slavonic words that are simply kept on because no modern variant does the idea those words express comprehensive justice.
So "Suchej" or "Nasuchney" rather than "Schodennyj" for "daily."
It was Met. Andrei Sheptytsky who strongly protested the burning of Orthodox parishes in Volyn. The government simply withdrew insurance for the churches and then bands of hooligans would go out to set them on fire.
This kind of fanaticism against the Orthodox punctuates the history of western Ukraine.
Whenever the local foreign government "felt like it," they could go out and destroy Orthodox parishes at a whim - after all, they were "schismatic" bereft of grace and a "danger" to the Catholic faithful.
When Hetman Ivan Mazeppa (who is compared to Judas in the ROC liturgical commemoration of the Battle of Poltava (a commemoration that the Melkites actually included in one of their early English prayerbooks
) when Mazeppa studied at a Jesuit college, he had to endure a constant barrage of anti-Orthodox jokes and insults from the RC students - at one point, he even drew his sword in anger.
There is even a record of one Orthodox church, having been taken over by RC's, that was completely dismantled, stone by stone and taken to the nearby river to be physically "washed clean of schism" before being taken back to be reassembled . . .
Alex
