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Seminary Year 2025-2026
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Pray and Fast for Syria!
With the recent calls to prayer and fasting for Syria by Pope Francis and Patriarch Sviatoslav, the Holy Spirit Seminary community will make September 7 a day of fast and prayer to join with the universal church. We invite all our friends and benefactors to join with us! Here is a news article from the…
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25th Anniversary of Priesthood
Our Spiritual Director, Very Rev. Andrij Onuferko, celebrates his 25th anniversary of ordination to the Holy Priesthood. Fr. Andrij was ordained on July 1, 1988, by Metropolitan Volodymyr (Sterniuk). Some notes on Fr. Andrij: He was Founding Director of Radio Resurrection, based in Belgium, Vice-Rector of the Patriarchal Curia in Lviv, and lecturer in Old…
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Congratulations to One of Our Own!
We just found out today that seminarian Cyril Kennedy has been awarded the Governor General’s Silver Academic Award at Saint Paul University for 2013. We offer glory to God and congratulations to Cyril for this outstanding achievement! Interestingly, this award was given in 2010 to Fr. Alexander Laschuk who was ordained a priest in 2012…
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Change in Funeral Arrangements
There has been a change in the funeral arrangements for Basil Onuferko. As per the funeral home website, they are now: Thursday, June 13, 2013 at 7:00 p.m. Panakhyda McEvoy-Shields Funeral Home and Chapel 1411 Hunt Club Rd. Ottawa Friday, June 14, 2013 at 7:00 p.m. Parastas St John the Baptist Ukrainian Catholic Shrine 952…
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Basil (Vasyl) Volodymyr Onuferko
Basil (Vasyl) Onuferko, 26, of Ottawa, ON, Canada died tragically in a mid-air collision just north of Phoenix, AZ on Friday May 31, 2013. Basil is the son of Very Rev. Andrew and Maria (Stecyszyn) Onuferko, brother of Thomas (27) and Anna (23), grandson of Luba Onuferko and Zenovia Stecyszyn. Basil was born in Chicago,…
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To Your Servant, Vasyl, Grant Eternal Rest, O Lord
God of spirits and of all flesh, You trampled death, You made the devil powerless, and You gave life to Your world. Now, O Lord, to the soul of Your servant, Vasyl, who has fallen asleep, grant rest in a place of light, a place of verdure, and a place of tranquility, from which pain,…
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Patriarchal Commission for Priestly Formation
Truskavets, Ukraine May 15-17, 2013: The Ukrainian Greek Catholic Patriarchal Commission for priestly formation under the leadership of Most Rev. Ken Nowakowski, Bishop of New Westminster for Ukrainian Catholics in British Columbia and Yukon are holding their annual meeting in Truskavets, Ukraine. The members of the commission comprise of rectors of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic…
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To the Beloved Mothers of Priests
Letter of His Beatitude Sviatoslav to the Beloved Mothers of Priests serving in the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church throughout the world Dearly Beloved Mothers, Christ is Risen! During my life as a layman, priest and bishop, I’ve come to realize that perhaps the most solemn and awe-inspiring moment that can be experienced by a faithful member of our…
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ПАСТИРСЬКЕ ПОСЛАННЯ Блаженнішого Святослава на Великий піст 2013 року
Вих. ВА 13/163 ПАСТИРСЬКЕ ПОСЛАННЯ Блаженнішого Святослава до вірних Української Греко-Католицької Церкви на Великий піст 2013 року Добре, коли багатство без гріха; убозтво ж погане лиш у мові безбожника (Сир. 13, 24). Дорогі в Христі! У час Великого посту кожен християнин задумується, як гідно прожити цей період, дарований нам Церквою для того, щоб перемінити, поглибити…