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Великоднє Послання Блаженнішого Святослава
Високопреосвященним і Преосвященним Владикам, всесвітлішим, всечеснішим та преподобним отцям, преподобним ченцям і черницям, дорогим у Христі мирянам Української Греко-Католицької Церкви Христос воскрес! «Воскресіння день − просвітімося люди! Пасха Господня, Пасха, від смерті бо до життя І від землі до небес Христос Бог нас перевів, − Перемоги пісню співаємо!» Воскресна Утреня, Канон Пасхи Сьогодні, у день…
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Pastoral Message from the Ukrainian Catholic and the Ukrainian Orthodox Hierarchs of United States of America and Canada
25th Anniversary of Chornobyl Tragedy Twenty-five years ago, in the early morning hours of Saturday, April 26, 1986, the residents of Prypiat, a large town and administrative centre located on the river of the same name, one of the many tributaries along the upper reaches of the mighty Dnipro north of the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv,…
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Paschal Letter of the Bishops of the Ukrainian Catholic Church in Canada – Easter 2011
“Shine, shine, O new Jerusalem! For the glory of the Lord has shone upon you”. Reverend Fathers, Venerable Sisters, Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ – Faithful of the Ukrainian Catholic Church in Canada, Christ is Risen! Indeed He is risen! Dear Brothers and Sisters, With a warm and sincere heart we greet you all…
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Synod of Bishops of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church elected Most Rev. Sviatoslav Shevchuk
(Lviv, Ukraine, 25 March 2011) Most Reverend Sviatoslav Shevchuk has been elected Major Archbishop [Patriarch] at an Electoral Synod of Bishops of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church in Lviv/Bruhovitchi 21-24 March 2011, in accord with the Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches and the Particular Law of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church (UGCC). His…
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Cardinal Husar Resigns as Head of the Ukrainian Catholic Church
New Westminster, 10 February 2011 – Today His Holiness Benedict XVI announced that he has accepted the resignation of His Beatitude Lubomyr Cardinal Husar, father and head of the Ukrainian (Greek) Catholic Church and major archbishop of Kyiv-Halych in accordance with 126 § 2 of the Code of Canons of the Oriental Churches. (Canon 126…
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Ukrainian Seminaries Full, Turning Away Candidates
SAMBIR, Ukraine, FEB. 4, 2011 (Zenit.org).- Ukrainian seminaries are having to turn away up to half of the young men seeking to become priests due to a lack of space. Coadjutor Bishop Jaroslav Pryriz of the Eparchy of Sambir-Drohobych reported to Aid to the Church in Need that in some places, there are three candidates…
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Pre-feast of Theophany
Make ready, O Zabulon, and prepare yourself, O Nephtali; O River Jordan, stop and receive with joy the Master coming to be baptized. O Adam, rejoice with the first mother, Eve, and do not hide yourselves as before in Paradise. For, having seen you unclothed, Christ has appeared to clothe you with the first robe;…
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Letter of the Canadian UGCC Bishops for Nativity of our Lord 2010
To the Very Reverend Clergy, Monastics and Religious Sisters, Seminarians and Laity of the Ukrainian Catholic Church in Canada: Our Saviour, the rising Sun, more brilliant than any other sun, has visited us today from on high. We once were in darkness and the shadow of error, but now we have found the truth; for…
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Letter of the Holy Father to the Seminarians at the Conclusion of the Year of the Priest
Dear Seminarians, When in December 1944 I was drafted for military service, the company commander asked each of us what we planned to do in the future. I answered that I wanted to become a Catholic priest. The lieutenant replied: “Then you ought to look for something else. In the new Germany priests are no…