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Paschal Letter of His Beatitude Sviatoslav
Christ is Risen! The day of resurrection – let us rejoice, O peoples! Pascha of the Lord, Pascha, for Christ God brought us from death to life and from earth to heaven – as we sing the victorious song! (Paschal Canon, Resurrection Matins) Today, on the day of the glorious feast of the Resurrection of…
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Pastoral Letter of His Beatitude Sviatoslav to the Youth
“…therefore, like children, we also carry signs of victory and cry out to You the conqueror of death: Hosanna in the highest! Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord!” (Tropar of Palm Sunday) Dear Beloved Youth in Christ! On the Feast of the triumphant entry of our Lord to the capital…
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Послання Блаженнішого Святослава, Верховного Архиєпископа Києво-Галицького, до Молоді
«Тим-то і ми, як отроки, знамена перемоги носячи, Тобі, переможцеві смерті, воскликуємо: Осанна в вишніх, благословен, хто йде в ім’я Господнє!» Тропар Квітної неділі Улюблена у Христі українська молоде! У святковий день тріумфального входу Господнього до стольного града Єрусалима звертаюся до вас зі своїм першим, після сходження на престол Отця і Глави Української Греко-Католицької Церкви,…
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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…