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Feb
08
2015
By Fr. Roman Planchak
Everything You Wanted to Know About Lent but were Afraid to Ask:

Everything You Wanted to Know About Lent but were Afraid to Ask:

Christian Life, Featured Articles
EVERYTHING YOU WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT LENT BUT WERE AFRAID TO ASK: The Great Fast or Lent – there are three others on the Byzantine calendar: before Christmas, before the Dormition (August 15) and before Ss. Peter and Paul (June 29) – is the seven week period of preparation before the celebration of Pascha (Easter). It is like a retreat held by the whole Church: a time of spiritual renewal, a time of repentance. ISN'T LENT KIND OF MORBID AND NEGATIVE? Repentance is not “giving up”: it is a turning back to God whom we realize is the very source…
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Sep
17
2014
By Fr. Michael Winn
Prayer for our Patriarch

Prayer for our Patriarch

Featured Articles, News, Prayer
O Lord, we pray You: defend and save His Beatitude, Patriarch Sviatoslav. He is the Primate and Father of the great fellowship of our Church, and wherever he may be in fulfilment of his duties, he is praying for us, and is offering to You with holy fervour his prayers at the Altar. Wherefore, O Lord, turn Yourself toward us, unite our prayers with his and receive them into the bosom of Your infinite mercy. Whether he weeps or rejoices, at home or abroad, we desire to united with him. Hear his holy prayers on behalf of our long-suffering land…
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Sep
17
2014
By Respected Author
Feast of the Protection of the Most Holy Mother of God

Feast of the Protection of the Most Holy Mother of God

Faith, Featured Articles
“We sing your praises, O Most Holy Virgin, Mother of Christ our God, and we glorify your all-glorious patronage.” (Hymn of Praise from the Sixteenth Century) Among the Marian feasts listed in our Liturgical Year, the feast of the Patronage of the Most Holy Mother of God deserves special consideration. The cult of the Mother of God as the Protectress of our nation reaches like a golden thread from the times of the Kievan princes to the present day. The secret of honouring the Mother of God as a Protectress lies, perhaps, in the fact that we are dealing here…
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Sep
16
2014
By UGCC Synod of Bishops
Synodal letter to the faithful of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church and to all people of good will regardings the social and political situation in Ukraine of the eve of parlamentary elections

Synodal letter to the faithful of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church and to all people of good will regardings the social and political situation in Ukraine of the eve of parlamentary elections

Featured Articles, News, UGCC
For almost a year, our entire nation has been on a pilgrimage to authentic freedom. After having gone through a liberating experience with the revolution of dignity, we then endured a tragic armed conflict, the annexation of Crimea, and military incursion into Eastern Ukraine by a neighbouring country. We are living through a difficult economic crisis and are constantly facing challenges in the political sphere. How can we be certain that God is with us? Under Moses’ guidance, for 40 years the People of Israel made their pilgrimage, their passing over from slavery to freedom, from death to life, from…
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Sep
15
2014
By Brent Kostyniuk
Ecumenism in London, or What I Did This Summer

Ecumenism in London, or What I Did This Summer

Both Lungs, Faith, Featured Articles
by Brent Kostyniuk “So, what did you do for summer holidays?” This time of the year, as life begins to return to its normal routine, that question seems to be a popular one as people gather at the office water cooler or coffee machine. Unfortunately, as a freelance writer, discussions about summer holidays are generally limited to me talking to myself by the kitchen sink. However, I know you are interested, so I’m going to tell you what I did do this summer. I went to London, not as Dick Whittington’s famous cat to visit the Queen, but to spend…
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Aug
27
2014
By Fr. Roman Planchak
A Priest’s “BELIEVING WIFE”

A Priest’s “BELIEVING WIFE”

Featured Articles
St. Paul was under attack, not by Jews or Romans, but by some of those whom he had evangelized and who thought that they should be leaders in the community. Paul pointed to his own way of life in order to show them what leadership really is. St. Paul earned his own living while laboring as an apostle, living simply and without a family of his own. He compared his practice to that of the other apostles including Peter (Cephas) and the brothers of the Lord (James, Jude, etc.) “Do we have no right to eat and drink? Do we…
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Aug
17
2014
By Fr. Roman Planchak
Bowing before Your Image

Bowing before Your Image

Faith, Featured Articles
Many Americans are familiar with the image of Our Lady of Guadalupe, miraculously imprinted on the cape of a Nahuatl Aztec in sixteenth-century Mexico. Such an image is called “not made with hands,” meaning that its origin is spiritual or even divine. The Guadalupe cape is not the first image of this sort in Christian history. The most famous icon not made with hands is the image of Christ’s holy face known as the Mandylion (sometimes translated as “towel” or “napkin”): Its history is fascinating and not altogether clear. The Image of Edessa From at least the sixth to the…
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Aug
10
2014
By Fr. Roman Planchak
Honoring Her who Shows the Way

Honoring Her who Shows the Way

Featured Articles, Liturgy
Summer, in our world at least, is a time for sun and fun: cookouts, the beach, pool parties and the like. Yet in the midst of summer – in the week which has been compared to the highest seat of a Ferris wheel when it pauses in its turning –we are called to fast. The first two week of August are observed in the Byzantine Churches as the Fast of the Theotokos, in preparation for the Feast of her Dormition on August 15. In the early Church the Dormition Fast was generally observed in both East and West. Pope St.…
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