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From Heart to Heart: A Letter to Candidates for Priestly Ministry in the Metropolia of the Ukrainian Catholic Church in the USA
Published by the UGCC Hierarchy of the Philadelphia Metropolia, September 21, 2019 Dear Friends! It is with deep appreciation and respect for you, your calling and your desire to do God’s will that we, the bishops of the Ukrainian Catholic Church in the United States of America, wish to share with you our thoughts concerning…
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UGCC Bishops of Canada – Relocation of Holy Spirit Seminary
Pastoral Letter of the Ukrainian Catholic Bishops of Canada Announcing THE RELOCATION OF HOLY SPIRIT UKRAINIAN CATHOLIC SEMINARY To the Very Reverend Clergy, Monastics and Religious Sisters, Seminarians and Laity of the Ukrainian Catholic Church in Canada: (The Lord said to Joshua) I command you: be firm and steadfast! Do not fear nor be dismayed,…
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Episcopal Ordination of Bishop Andriy Rabiy – Hierarchical Divine Liturgy at St. George’s Cathedral
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Patriarch Sviatoslav’s Letter to the Priests Great Thursday 2014
ПОСЛАННЯ БЛАЖЕННІШОГО СВЯТОСЛАВА до священнослужителів Української Греко-Католицької Церкви на Страсний четвер Всесвітліші, всечесні та преподобні отці − дорогі співбрати в Христовому священстві! Знову наближаємося до Великого четверга, коли, ідучи на хресну смерть і відкриваючи двері у воскресіння, наш Божественний Спаситель установив святе таїнство Священства. У зв’язку з цим прагну роздумати разом із вами над тим…
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Pastoral Letter of His Beatitude Sviatoslav and the Permanent Synod on the Occasion of the Great Fast 2014
Most Reverend Metropolitans and Bishops. Very Reverend Priests, Religious, Monastics! Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ! Our Church, our Faithful and our entire Ukrainian People enter into the Great Fast this year with feelings of pain, fear, suffering and trembling hope. We have experienced one of the longest and most terrible winters in the history…
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Appeal of the Ukrainian Catholic Hierarchy of Canada re the Crises in Ukraine
Prot H/5/2014 22 January 2014 To the Reverend Clergy, Consecrated Religious, Seminarians, Faithful and Friends of the Ukrainian Catholic Church in Canada! Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ, “For peace throughout the world, for the well-being of God’s holy churches and for the unity of all, let us pray to the Lord.” At the start of…
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Christmas Epistle of His Beatitude Sviatoslav
Christ is born! Hearing the voice of the angel which could be heard by the shepherds in the dark night, we are hurrying today to the poor stable in Bethlehem. Here in the hands of the Blessed Virgin Mary, we see the Son of God who came into our world as a human being. Together…
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Fr. Nestor Yakiwchuk Reposes in the Lord
One of our alumni, Fr. Nestor Yakiwchuk, has reposed in the Lord, today, in Winnipeg. Fr. Nestor had served for many decades in the Archeparchy of Winnipeg as a deacon and received the honour of Archdeacon while serving under Metropolitan Maxim. Later, under Metropolitan Michael, he became Econome for the Archeparchy. He was eventually sent…
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Christmas Pastoral Letter of UGCC Bishops of Canada 2013-2014
2013/2014 PASTORAL LETTER OF THE UKRAINIAN CATHOLIC BISHOPS OF CANADA ON THE OCCASION OF THE FEAST OF THE NATIVITY OF OUR LORD To the Reverend Clergy, Religious Women and Men, Monastics, Seminarians and Laity Christ is Born! Let us Glorify Him! Welcoming the Stranger in Our Midst! The birth of Jesus. Luke’s Gospel records the birth…