Most Rev. David Motiuk

Jul

05

2021

The Bond of Our Peoples

Featured Articles, UGCC

Dear Ukrainian Catholic Faithful, Слава Ісусу Христу! Glory be to Jesus Christ! Many of us were saddened earlier this week when we learned that the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary Ukrainian Catholic Parish, Calgary, had been vandalized by individuals acting on their own – not once but twice, alongside many other Roman Catholic parishes throughout Calgary. While the Ukrainian Catholic Church in Canada never ran Residential Schools, we can relate to the pain and suffering that our Indigenous brothers and sisters are enduring in the recent recovery of the graves of hundreds of children found in several cemeteries in…

Tidings of Great Joy (Luke 2: 10)

FaithChristmas, Nativity of our Lord, Pastoral Letters

We are celebrating the Feast of the Birth, the Nativity of Our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ, one of the greatest and most loved feasts of all Christianity. Yet, many people say they have a vague feeling of emptiness at Christmas. Even though they are doing things that they have looked forward to all year long and are surrounded by family and friends, they still have the feeling that something is missing. But for most people, the real problem with Christmas isn’t that they are spiritually bankrupt or that Christmas is devoid of meaning. It’s simply that they haven’t taken…

Discover the Beauty of the Liturgical Year!

Christian Life, Liturgy

We're used to marking our lives by the events during the year that give shape to our existence and of those around us. A birthday. An anniversary. A graduation. A death. Each of these celebrations helps us mark significant moments in time. We record many of these meaningful moments in pictures, videos, greeting cards, letters and the such. And from time to time, we reminisce about the people and happenings recorded for posterity, bringing a smile to our faces when our memories fill our hearts with gladness, or bringing a tear to the eye when we recall the loss of…