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07 January 2018 21:58
- Head of UGCC about corruption: “Corruption emerges in a country when big business and authority coalesces” Convergence of money and power is the bitterest grief of Ukraine, as people feel themselves as kind of a supplement. Business and authority treats people as a resource only, labor power which doesn’t need to be paid fairly. Or, likewise, they consider people being their actual electors who will help them to gain power. ...
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06 January 2018 13:40
- The Head of the UGCC about the church scandal in Zaporizhzhia: "We not only should but also must pray for members of other Churches" We mustn't justify disrespect for a human being by any rules or confessional limitations. We must respect another person's pain because both human and Christian love urges us to do so.
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31 December 2017 23:13
- PRAYER IN THE LIFE OF THE CHURCH Epistle of the Synod of Bishops of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church in 2017 to Clergy, Monastics, and Laity “Lord, teach us to pray” (Luke 11: 1) Very Reverend and Reverend fathers! Venerable brothers and sisters in monasticism! Dear brothers and sisters in Christ!
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23 December 2017 20:50
- “There are no two celebrations of Christmas, but there are two dates of its observing,” Head of the UGCC about the date of celebrating Christmas In the regular interactive program “Open Church” on “Live TV” His Beatitude Sviatoslav, the Father and Head of the UGCC, shared his thoughts about the new law adopted by the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, which makes December 25, the Day of observing Christmas according to the Gregorian calendar, an official day off. ...
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21 December 2017 15:10
- The Head of the UGCC in Rivne: "Only love and abundance of good deeds are necessary in building free and independent Ukraine" The Father and Head of the UGCC His Beatitude Sviatoslav on the Feast of St Mykolaj consecrated the Pro-cathedral of St Mykolaj (Lutsk Exarchate) in Rivne. The arch hierarchical rite of blessing the church was led by His Beatitude Sviatoslav.
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16 December 2017 17:32
- “War will end when we stop pretend as if it doesn’t exist,” Head of UGCC A war cannot be won by a military leader, the President, or even by a military unit. A war can be won only by the whole nation. When all of us understand that our country is in a state of war, when we stop shifting responsibility onto someone else and stop avoiding this terrible reality by living as if it does not exist, only then we will win. ...
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13 December 2017 08:26
- UGCC established a new feast of Our Lady of Perpetual Help Regarding the cult spread among believers of Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church about Our Lady of Perpetual Help, the Synod of Bishops of UGCC held in Lviv (Briukhovychi), September 3-12, 2017 established a feast of Mother of Perpetual Help and concluded its celebration on the 1st Sunday of July.
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12 December 2017 17:40
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"A military chaplain ‒ is a sign of God's presence in inhuman conditions," His Beatitude Sviatoslav to UGCC military chaplains
On Monday, December 11, in Kyiv, with a Divine Liturgy at the Patriarchal Cathedral began the ХІth Convention of military chaplains. It's aim is to improve ministry to military personnel and their families at this uneasy time for our state.
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12 December 2017 11:58
- “We can discover our dignity and become our true selves by responding to a God’s calling, not a human’s one” Perhaps all of us in our spiritual lives feel sometimes bounded by own weaknesses and sins. Furthermore, we want to be better than we truly are. We are fighting against the evil, however at a certain point we feel that it gets over us. We cannot do more than we are capable of. Then we are tempted to think as if in the moment of fragility and evil slavery – God doesn’t...
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11 December 2017 13:16
- “Pessimists say that everything was bad, optimists – that good but the truth is in the middle,” the Head of UGCC summing up the year of 2017 I would be careful while evaluating events which took place in our country. Apparently, pessimists will say that everything was bad, optimists – good. Authorities will state that they worked brilliantly and the opposition - that absolutely terribly. But the truth is somewhere in the middle. It may be too early to make final conclusions. We will, probably,...
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06 December 2017 09:45
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The Head of UGCC, “We wish that the call ‘We forgive and ask for forgiveness’ became part of life for every Ukrainian and Polish!”
Often such a call remains only on the paper. So I make every effort that the Christian call, which built and can save united Europe, “We forgive and ask for forgiveness” ‒ became not only a nice quotation but also a part of contemporary culture, way of life, thinking and acting for each Ukrainian and for each Polish man!...
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04 December 2017 17:29
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The Head of the UGCC: "A man who thinks that he achieved anything by himself, is an unwise one"
In order to succeed, we must work together with God, Who is the source of every good, and the source of our life. This was said by the Father and Head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church His Beatitude Sviatoslav on the twenty sixth Sunday after the Descent of the Holy Spirit in the nunnery for the sisters of the Most Holy Family in Lviv during his homily to the...
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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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