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- From His Beatitude Sviatoslav at the consecration service of the church in Obukhiv: This church is a ray of hope for the revival of Ukraine after the war 24 June 2022 22:54 Today, when the enemy on our land is destroying everything, damaging, waging a war of “scorched earth” – we are building! It takes a lot of faith to build temples during war. We need to have a look into the future that breaks through the clouds that have gathered over us. This was emphasized by His...
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- From the Head of the UGCC on Day 119: Lord, be our joy, especially when in our humanity, we want to cry 23 June 2022 16:38 While visiting Sumy, Kharkiv and Poltava, -- parts of Ukraine that were under occupation, I saw victims of Russian torture and bombing, some of whom spoke about their suffering. These people carried an incomprehensible joy in their hearts that cannot be explained by human means. The Father and...
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- From the Head of the UGCC on the 118th day of the war: Ukraine, as in the days of Kyivan Rus, shields Europe from the invasion that brings death 23 June 2022 16:35 We are sometimes like leaky bags into which the Lord pours out His grace, and we lose it. But when a person receives the gifts of the Holy Spirit, when she cooperates with divine grace, then she grows and matures. His Beatitude Sviatoslav, the Father and Head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church said...
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- His Beatitude Sviatoslav met with relatives of captured National Guard soldiers who were guarding the Chernobyl nuclear plant 21 June 2022 22:28 On Tuesday, June 21, in Kyiv, His Beatitude Sviatoslav, the Father and Head of the UGCC, met with relatives of Ukrainian National Guard servicemen who were captured and later abducted by Russian soldiers at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant on the first day of the full-scale invasion....
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- From the Head of the UGCC on the 117th day of the war: The fear of God is not to fear God, but to stand in awe of His beauty 21 June 2022 22:15 The fear of God arises when a person sees a reality that fascinates her and at the sight of what she holds her breath. His Beatitude Sviatoslav, the Father and Head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church said this in his daily address on the 117th day of Russia's bloody war against Ukraine....
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- O God, breathe with Ukraine so that Ukraine and her youth may live, - from His Beatitude Sviatoslav on 116th day of the war 20 June 2022 23:05 The gift of piety from the Holy Spirit is not piety as a set of certain religious rituals and practices by which a person seems to want to isolate herself from danger or force God to do her own will. This is the inner feeling of the original source of the existence of all creation, the feeling of God as the...
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- We ask the Holy Spirit for the gift of knowledge to feel the archangel Michael who is fighting evil alongside the Ukrainians, - from the Head of the UGCC on 115th day of the war 19 June 2022 22:25 Ukraine has been standing and fighting the Russian aggressor for 115 days. Heavy fighting in the east and south of the country, occupied cities and villages, tens of thousands of civilian lives, total destruction is the price that the Ukrainian people pay for their freedom and dignity, for their...
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- From the Head of the UGCC on the Sunday of All Saints: Woe to the man who already considers himself a saint 19 June 2022 20:08 To be holy means to share all that we have, and to be ready to serve one another in the name of God's love without seeking compensation, honor, or other rewards, only the eternal reward that the Lord prepares for all of us. His Beatitude Sviatoslav, the Father and Head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic...
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