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- In Rome there is the meeting of coordinators of implementing of the strategy " Live parish - a meeting place with the living Christ " 30 November 2013 15:48 As part of the Implementation Strategy of UGCC until 2020 "Living the parish - a meeting place of the living Christ " in Rome, Patriarch Centre at 3, Piazza Madonnadei Monti a regular meeting of the diocesan coordinators who came from America and Europe is held under the leadership of His Beatitude...
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- Bishop Brian (Baida): "The Church has become the mother of many of our faithful who have left their homes in search of their daily bread ..." 29 November 2013 15:34 Not long ago Bishop Saskatunskyy Brayen (Bayda) from Canada was on a working visit to Madrid. Actually, the presence of the high priest a very interesting fact was noted: Bishop Brian was the first hierarchy of the UGCC, which was awarded the high honor to worship in Spanish arhykatedri and even...
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- “Through his blood, Saint Josaphat sealed the unity of the Kyiv Church with the successors of the Apostle Peter…” UGCC Head in Rome 28 November 2013 01:00 Fifty years ago today in Saint Peter’s Basilica, the historical Second Vatican Council, headed by the now Blessed Pope John XXIII. It was then that the Church Fathers in a moving way were addressed “from beyond the Iron Curtain” by the Ukrainian Greek-Cathokic Church, which was then known as...
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- Message from Cardinal Leonardo Sandri at the end of the Divine Liturgy in Saint Peter’s Basilica on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the placing of the relics of Saint Josaphat 28 November 2013 00:57 At the end of the Divine Liturgy, led by His Beatitude Sviatoslav (Shevchuk), UGCC Head, on Monday, November 25, 2013, in Saint Peter’s Basilica on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the placing of the relics of Saint Josaphat in this Basilica, Cardinal Leonardo Sandri, the Prefect of the...
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- In Rome His Beatitude Sviatoslav have consecrated the riza of Zhyrovytska icon of the Virgin 27 November 2013 15:42 November 24th, at the eve of a great holiday of Martyr Josaphat ( Kuntsevych ), in the Church of the Holy Martyrs Sergius and Bacchus in Rome, Father and Head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, Patriarch Sviatoslav ( Shevchuk) consecrated the precious riza of Zhyrovytska miraculous icon of the...
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- UGCC Head expressed his solidarity with those participating in the EuroMaidans and urged not to allow the shedding of even one drop of blood 27 November 2013 14:24 I want to express my solidarity with youth, with our citizens, who really are not indifferent about the fate of their country and are actively manifesting their position as citizens. This was stated today, November 24th by the Father and Head of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church, His Beatitude...
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- A Scholarly Conference on Holodomor [Great Famine] was held in Rome 25 November 2013 16:19 An International Conference, “Holodomor -- the 80th Anniversary of the Ukrainian Genocide,” organized by the Christian Association of Ukrainians in Italy in cooperation with Rome City Council, was held on November 21, 2013 at Carroccio Hall in Rome City Hall. The conference was opened by...
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- Heads of Eastern Catholic Churches met with the Roman Pope 25 November 2013 15:13 “In you, I see your Churches and wish, first of all, to assure you of my closeness and prayers for the flocks that the Lord Jesus entrusted to each one of you,” – with these words Pope Francis greeted the Patriarchs and Major Archbishops of Eastern Catholic Churches during a special audience focused on...
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- “The victims of Holodomor [Great Famine] were not only denied their right to life but also their right to memory,” UGCC Head 25 November 2013 15:05 His Beatitude Sviatoslav (Shevchuk) voiced this in an interview with published in the internet edition of Vatican Insider, a leading informational source for the life of the Catholic Church in the world.
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- “May the flame of the memorial candle in the hearts of our successors never be extinquished!” – His Beatitude Sviatoslav on Holodomor [Great Famine] Memorial Day 24 November 2013 21:57 Christian memory is not a memory of malice or grief, but rather it turns into a prayer. His Beatitude Sviatoslav drew attention to this in his sermon at the overfilled Basilica of Saint Sophia in Rome on Saturday, November 23, 2013, a day in Ukraine and throughout the world, on which victims of the...
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- Under the banner of his patron he carried the Word of God and preserved the spark of faith, hope and love 23 November 2013 09:57 Unfortunately in our journalist lives, it often happens that we remember individuals either when they are celebrating a jubilee or they are passing on to their eternal rest. Sort of in that order… I wanted to write about Father Holovatsky earlier, however for some reason everyday tasks always...
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- His Beatitude Sviatoslav (Shevchuk) visited Ukrainian students in Rome 23 November 2013 09:48 On November 19th, UGCC Head His Beatitude Sviatoslav (Shevchuk) prayed the Divine Liturgy together with students of the Ukrainian Institute of the Intercession of the Blessed Mother in Rome. Concelebrants were Rev. Louis Kasian, rector of the Institute, clergy and priest-students from...
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- “Today the voice of the emaciated millions of people invokes the conscience of contemporaries,” UGCC Head 23 November 2013 09:41 The voices of the million of women and men, children and elderly, calls from the Ukrainian lands to invoke the conscience of our contemporaries, begging for memory, appealing for justice, mercy and love.
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- In Lublin prayers and discussions were held on Ukrainian-Polish reconciliation 20 November 2013 13:54 On November 17th, at the Lublin UGCC Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Mother, a Pontifical Divine Liturgy of the Byzantine Rite was led by Bishop Venedykt (Aleksiychuk), Auxilliary Bishop of the Lviv Archeparchy, with Bishop Mieczyslaw Cislo, Auxiliary Bishop of Lublin as concelebrant. ...