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23 March 2022 10:09
- From the Head of the UGCC: With the intercession of Kyiv’s Oranta Mother of God, we pray for Ukraine’s victory We especially feel that the Blessed Virgin Mary is standing today in prayer over Kyiv and her surrounding hills, and that we are simply joining her in this prayer. As long as Kyiv’s Oranta [image of the Mother of God] stands, as long as the Immovable Wall between us and God remains in the middle of his city, -- as it is written in the apse of St. Sophia Cathedral, --...
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22 March 2022 21:07
- From the Head of the UGCC: I see victory of Ukraine in the eyes of priests and volunteers “As I spoke with our military chaplains, I truly felt the pain in their eyes and hearts for the fallen soldiers and wounded civilians,” His Beatitude Sviatoslav, the Father and Head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, remarked in his daily wartime address on the 27th day of the Russian war against Ukraine....
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22 March 2022 20:57
- Head of the UGCC: The Eucharist gives us the life force that we need, to be victorious over death. “During the Divine Liturgy today, pray for the intention of peace and tranquility in Ukraine, for the intention of Ukraine’s victory and the end of this war! Pray for the victory of peace over war!” Such was the appeal of the Father and Head of the Ukrainian Greco-Catholic Church, His Beatitude Sviatoslav, in his daily wartime address on the 25th day of the...
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21 March 2022 14:04
- From the Head of the UGCC: Pure genocide is happening in Mariupol We are especially sympathizing with the city of Mariupol, where the real genocide is taking place. People are dying not only from weapons, but also from the hatred of the enemy. Hundreds of people are dying of hunger in and around the city. His Beatitude Sviatoslav, the Father and Head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church said this in his daily address on the...
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21 March 2022 14:03
- Let us ask the Lord to open the sky over Ukraine for God’s mercy, - His Beatitude Sviatoslav on the second week of Lent “Today every Ukrainian must ask for God's mercy. During the war, we live in danger of death. We do not know what will happen to us in the next moment, what deadly face of war we will encounter, even as we leave this church. That is why it is so important, following the traditional teaching of the Church, that we live in God's grace, be reconciled with God, have no...
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20 March 2022 18:20
- The Head of the UGCC to bereaved families of war victims: We want to share your deep pain and loss. We want to stand shoulder to shoulder with our suffering people, our people in pain. This is one of the forms of ministry that the Church wants to offer its people, assuring them that we have been, and continue to be, with you. Such was the message of the Father and Head of the UGCC, His Beatitude Sviatoslav, in his address to families who have lost loved ones...
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20 March 2022 12:18
- Welcome the refugees, turn anger into courage, comments the Head of the UGCC on the face of fasting during the war “Welcome the refugees as they are and share with them everything that the Lord has blessed you with. If you can’t eat something yourself, give it to someone who needs it. It will become your true fasting,” His Beatitude Sviatoslav, the Father and Head of the UGCC, commented on the air during the radio program, “The Open Church,” dedicated to Christians’...
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20 March 2022 12:13
- Head of the UGCC to appeals to the world community: The war in Ukraine is not a computer game – it is the real pain of human beings Today, I appeal to international institutions, to the collective values of our world community: Together we can and must stop the war in Ukraine. Don’t be deaf to the groans, screams, and cries of thousands of people in Ukraine!”
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19 March 2022 20:58
- In Lviv, a Final Farewell to a Defender of Ukraine who was baptized by His Beatitude Sviatoslav On Thursday, March 17, the funeral service of Ivan Skrypnyk, a serviceman baptized in 2005 by His Beatitude Sviatoslav, then Vice-Rector of the Lviv Theological Seminary, took place in Lviv. Major Ivan Skrypnyk was killed on Sunday, March 13, as a result of a Russian rocket attack on the Yavoriv Test Site in the Lviv region. The funeral service, led by Bishop...
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19 March 2022 11:50
- From the Head of the UGCC: We thank the Lord for the heroic service of our physicians to their people “I am appealing to the World Health Organization, to various international institutions, and to organizations such as Doctors Without Borders: speak out in defense of life in Ukraine!”
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We can imagine what the prayer of the prisoners in the Russian torture centers in the Ukrainian Kharkiv region was like – Head of the UGCC on the 206th day of the war
A vast cemetery, a mass burial, was found near the city of Izyum, in which more than 400 innocently killed and tortured people have already been...
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