On Sunday May 8 His Beatitude Sviatoslav will be celebrating a thanksgiving Liturgy for the beatification of John Paul II in St. George’s Cathedral in Lviv.

On Sunday May 8 at 11.00 am in St. George’s Cathedral in Lviv, the Head of the UGCC, His Beatitude Sviatoslav, will be celebrating a thanksgiving Liturgy for the beatification of John Paul II.   The UGCC Head invites all the Bishops of Kyiv-Halych Archbishopric, clergy and laity of the UGCC to join him in the prayer. Moreover, the Primate of the UGCC asked all Bishops and superiors of monastic communities to spread out this message among clergy and faithful asking them to join in Divine Liturgies and thanksgiving prayers this Sunday “to express our joint gratitude to the Lord for the gift of the beatification of John Paul II”.   “For us - Bishops, priests, religious and faithful of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church - this event is very significative. Since 10 years ago our Church had an opportunity to greet this holy man on the Ukrainian soil – in Kyiv and Lviv” – notes His Beatitude Sviatoslav.    “The Divine Liturgy on 8 May will be a very good opportunity for us to thank God also for this visit and to ask for the intercession of blessed John Paul II for our Church and nation. May through his intercession come true his wishes and words, expressed by him in June days in 2001 – for the glory of God and the good of our people” – addresses His Beatitude Sviatoslav Bishops, priests, religious and laity of the UGCC.     Blessed John Paul II was staying in Ukraine with an official visit 23-27 June 2001. On the occasion of the beatification and 10^th anniversary of the Papal visit to Ukraine there was restored the website (http://www.papalvisit.org.ua/) dedicated to this event. On the website you can find materials of the papal visit to Kyiv and Lviv, texts of the sermons and speeches delivered by John Paul II, His Beatitude Lubomyr, state representatives and Heads of the Ukrainian Churches and religious organizations.  

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