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- 23 May 2013
  10:06
- UGCC will lead an All-Church Pilgrimage to strengthen the virtue of sobriety among Ukrainian people On May 26th the Second All-Church Pilgrimage to Univ Uspenska Lavra, to strengthen the virtue of sobriety among Ukrainian people, On the Road towards Healing, will take place. In this manner the UGCC Commission on Pastoral Health Care under whose aegis functions the movement For a Sober Life, attempts to gather all who are concerned and committed to...
- 23 May 2013
  09:59
- Members of UCGG Permanent Synod of Bishops prayed for the repose of the soul of Bishop Mykola (Simkaylo) UGCC bishops, who are presently in Kazakhstan for a meeting of the Permanent Synod, prayed together for the repose of the soul of the recently departed Bishop Mykola (Simkaylo), Kolomyia-Chernivtsi Eparch. The requiem service was headed by UGCC Head His Beatitude Sviatoslav (Shevchuk).
- 23 May 2013
  01:14
- The Eparchy of Parma to hold an all-eparchial pilgrimage on the occasion of the Year of Faith and the 1025th anniversary of the Baptism of Rus-Ukraine On Sunday, 14 July 2013, on the eve of the feast of holy equal to the apostles Great Prince Volodymyr (new calendar), the Eparchy of Parma will be holding an all-eparchial pilgrimage to the Shrine of the Holy Cross at the Holy Trinity Ukrainian Catholic Parish in Youngstown, Ohio, USA. The pilgrimage will take place on the occasion of the Year of Faith and the...
- 22 May 2013
  09:09
- Together with the Holy Father, UGCC churches will pray the Hour of Adoration of the Eucharist On the occasion of the Year of Faith on June 2, 2013, in all churches of UGCC Kyiv-Halych Major Archbishopric there will be an Hour of Prayer with Vespers, uniting all to the prayer of the Holy Father and praying for the Holy Father. (begining at 6 PM). Such a resolution was passed by the Synodal Fathers at the Sixtieth Session of UGCC Kyiv-Halych Archbishopric...
- 22 May 2013
  09:06
- Some 400 people participated in the pilgrimage to the Vyshhorod Blessed Mother The annual two-day pilgrimage to the UGCC Church of the Vyshhorod Mother of God of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church (Kyiv region) took place on May 18-19, 2013 and included some 400 people, stated Rev. Taras Valakh, the church administrator.
- 22 May 2013
  09:03
- For the second time, Caritas Ukraine Soccer Team has won a leading place in a soccer tournament On May 20, 2013, in Kyiv at the Bannikov Stadium, the second UNICEF CUP youth soccer tournament was held. The level of the tournament expanded quite a bit from last year; this year in the final match for the trophy there were young men and women participating from Mykolayiv, Kherson, Kharkiv, Transcarpathia, and for the second time the teams from Brody,...
- 21 May 2013
  08:58
- All UGCC churches will remember in prayer the victims of the Volyn tragedy “To remember appropriately the victims of the tragic events of the Ukrainian-Polish confrontation in Volyn in 1943 and in order to preclude in the future a similar barbarity that is contradictory to being a Christian, on Sunday, July 14, 2013, within the framework of the All-Ukrainian Pilgrimage to Zarvanytsia and in all the UGCC churches of Kyiov-Halych...
- 21 May 2013
  08:54
- “In the world there are attempts being made to raze the value of the family and to distort the truth about it…” UGCC Head “Remembering that there is no Christian life, there is no strong Christian family without prayers, I call upon the whole Church to unite in a sincere prayer to the Almighty for God’s blessings and care for Ukrainian families and relatives. Therefore I urge the pastors that on Sunday, 19 or 26 May, to read my appeal and follow the Divine Liturgy with a reading...
- 21 May 2013
  08:20
- UGCC Bishops in Kazakhstan prayed for the victims of Stalinist political repressions During May 20-29th, members of UGCC Permanent Synod of Bishops are visiting Kazakhstan. Their goal is to familiarize themselves with the current life of UGCC faithful and to hold work meetings of the Synod.
- 21 May 2013
  08:59
- The 55th Jubilee International Army Pilgrimage to Lourdes started from the garrison Church of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul in Lviv A Celebratory Divine Liturgy, held on May 18, 2013 in the garrison Church of Saints Peter and Paul began the 55th Annual Pilgrimage to Lourdes. The Liturgy was led by Bishop Mykhailo (Koltun), head of Patriarchal Curia Department of Pastoral Care for Armed Forces, together with Roman-Catholic Bishop Stanislaw Shyrokoradiuk. ...
- 21 May 2013
  08:57
- Sixtieth Session of UGCC Kyiv-Halych Major Archbishopric Synod of Bishops The 60th session of UGCC Kyiv-Halych Major Archbishopric Synod of Bishops took place on May 15-16, 2013 in the Marian Spiritual Center – Zarvanytsia. All Greek-Catholic bishops placed in Ukraine attended.
- 21 May 2013
  08:55
- Bishop Joseph (Milyan) presented the textbook Missiology to seminarians The textbook Missiology authored by Rev. Myron Bendyk, rector of Drohobych Spiritual Seminary, doctor of theology, is the first attempt at a systematic interpretation of the realization of the missionary mandate of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church. This was stated by Joseph (Milyan), head of the Pastoral –Missionary Department (PMD), Auxiliary...
- 19 May 2013
  05:59
- “Today there is a tendency in the world of attempts by private collectors to take ownership of spiritual and cultural treasures of its people,” stated UGCC Head in Lviv UGCC Head His Beatitude Sviatoslav (Shevchuk) participated on May 17, 2013 in the opening of the permanent exhibit, Yov Kondzelevych: A Prominent Monument of Ukrainian Baroque – The Bohorodchan Iconostasis (1698-1705), in A. Sheptytsky Lviv National Museum. Present at the opening was also Bishop Ihor (Vozniak), Archbishop and Metropolitan of Lviv...
- 19 May 2013
  05:55
- His Beatitude Lubomyr: “Ukrainians and Poles should ask themselves: do we have to go on fighting each other?” His Beatitude Lubomyr (Husar), UGCC Archbishop-Emeritus, in an interview with the Polish Catholic Information Agency (KAI) stated that Ukrainians and Poles should decide whether they want forgiveness, or whether they will limit themselves to mutual blaming? If we adapt the second alternative with all of its variants, then, contends the former UGCC...
- 19 May 2013
  05:52
- His Beatitude Lubomyr (Husar): “The Patriarchal Cathedral in Kyiv has become a symbol of our unity” The transition of the Metropolitan seat of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church to Kyiv in 2005 and the construction of the Patriarchal Cathedral of the Resurrection of Christ on the banks of the Dnipro River have become a symbol of “our internal unity,” believes Archbishop-Emeritus His Beatitude Lubomyr (Husar) . In the interview with the Polish...

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We can imagine what the prayer of the prisoners in the Russian torture centers in the Ukrainian Kharkiv region was like – Head of the UGCC on the 206th day of the war 17 September

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