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Apr
04
2023
By UGCC Bishops of Canada
Paschal Letter of the UGCC Bishops of Canada 2023

Paschal Letter of the UGCC Bishops of Canada 2023

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To the Reverend Fathers, Religious Sisters, Venerable Monastics,Brothers and Sisters in Christ! Were not our hearts burning inside...It is true. Our Lord is risen!(Luke 24:32, 34) Christ is Risen! Dearly Beloved in Christ! Following the ancient tradition, our Church invited us to more intense prayer, penance, and charity during the forty days of the Great Fast. This was not a forced imposition to make us sad or irritable. Rather, it was an invitation to transformation. It was a challenge to change our hearts, purify our souls and improve ourselves in order that we would be truly worthy to meet and…
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Mar
20
2023
By Brent Kostyniuk
Vichnaya Pamyat – Eternal Memory

Vichnaya Pamyat – Eternal Memory

Both Lungs, Christian Life, Featured Articles, Liturgy
by Brent Kostyniuk As adherents to Byzantine tradition, Ukrainian Catholics place great emphasis on commemorating relatives and friends who have passed from this life. We pray their memory will be eternal, both on this earth and in God’s love. We do this in a variety of ways beginning with the moment of a loved one’s death. Christ Our Pascha, the catechism of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, guides us in this manner. At death, a person leaves this world and stands before God. For a worthy encounter with the Lord, the deceased needs the prayerful support of the living, as…
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Dec
21
2022
By His Beatitude Sviatoslav
2022 Christmas Pastoral Letter of His Beatitude Sviatoslav

2022 Christmas Pastoral Letter of His Beatitude Sviatoslav

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Вих. ВА 22/298 ENG Most Reverend Archbishops and Metropolitans,God-loving Bishops, Very Reverend Clergy, Venerable Monastics,Dearly Beloved Brothers and Sisters,in Ukraine and throughout the world Fear not, for behold, I bring you good news of great joythat will be for all the people (Lk 2:10) Christ is born! Glorify Him! Beloved in Christ! I share a great joy with you, “For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, who is Christ the Lord” (Lk 2:11). For us who believe in the Lord Jesus, to celebrate Christmas is to open ourselves to a joy that lasts…
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Dec
18
2022
By Brent Kostyniuk
St. Nicholas

St. Nicholas

Both Lungs, Faith, Featured Articles
by Brent Kostyniuk Of all the saints commemorated in the Byzantine liturgical year, one of the most beloved surely has to be our Holy Father Nicholas the Wonderworker, Archbishop of Myra. Although not exclusively a Ukrainian saint, he has won a special place in the hearts of Ukrainians. In Canada alone, there some two dozen Ukrainian Catholic parishes dedicated to his memory. Come December, no Christmas concert is complete without a visit from St. Nicholas, dressed in his bishop’s vestments, arriving to bring presents for the children. In return, he is serenaded with O, Xto, Xto a carol telling of…
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Dec
05
2022
By Fr. Michael Winn
2022 Nativity Greetings from UGCC Bishops of Canada

2022 Nativity Greetings from UGCC Bishops of Canada

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To the Very Reverend Clergy, Monastics and Religious Sisters and Brothers, Seminarians and Laity of the Ukrainian Catholic Church in Canada December 6, 2022Feast of Saint Nicholas Christ is Born! Let us Glorify Him! Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ, The Legend of the Elderly GrandmotherA Ukrainian Folk Tale As we celebrate Christmas, the Feast of the Nativity of Our Lord, let us revisit the legend of the Elderly Grandmother. It was the night the dear Christ-Child came to Bethlehem. In a country far away from Him, an old, old grandmother or “baba” sat in her snug little house by…
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Nov
14
2022
By Brent Kostyniuk
Love

Love

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by Brent Kostyniuk It is said the most popular theme for songs is love. That is probably true. All You Need is Love, Crazy Little Thing Called Love, Bye Bye Love, and of course, Muskrat Love (go ahead, Google it!). The same goes for movies. What would Christmas be without watching Love Actually? Love is central to our lives. I love my wife, I love my children, and I especially love nachos and salsa. I also love my daughter’s cat, but only sometimes. So, it seems love is a universal theme. Yet, what does the theme of a pop song…
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Nov
14
2022
By Fr. Michael Winn
New Auxiliary Bishop for Winnipeg

New Auxiliary Bishop for Winnipeg

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Pope Francis has approved the decision of the Synod of Bishops of the Ukrainian Catholic Church to appoint Bishop Andriy Rabiy as Auxiliary Bishop for the Ukrainian Catholic Archeparchy of Winnipeg. Bishop Andriy Rabiy was born October 1, 1975 in Lviv, Ukraine and after initiating seminary studies in Ivano-Frankivsk transferred to the United States where he completed his seminary formation and was ordained to the priesthood on December 19, 2001 in Philadelphia by Metropolitan Stefan Soroka. In addition to various pastoral assignments in the United States, he completed a doctorate in Canon Law at the Catholic University of America in…
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Oct
21
2022
By UGCC Bishops of Canada
The War in Ukraine: A Call to Prayer, Fasting, and Action

The War in Ukraine: A Call to Prayer, Fasting, and Action

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October 17, 2022 Pastoral Letter to the Clergy, Religious and Faithful of the Ukrainian Catholic Church in Canada and to all Good People Dear Faithful, The war in Ukraine rages on with no end in site, claiming the lives of thousands of innocent children, men and women, with millions more on the move as refuges in search of safety, food, shelter, clothing and medicine, in addition to the destruction of countless homes, schools, hospitals and business. As winter approaches, hundreds of thousands of people will have no heat in their homes, with energy being used as a weapon of punishment.…
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Aug
12
2022
By Archeparchy of Winnipeg
Possible Miracle in Manitoba

Possible Miracle in Manitoba

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Archeparchy of Winnipeg Metropolitan Lawrence Huculak, as the local hierarch in Winnipeg, has officially accepted the request by the Postulator for the cause of the canonisation of Blessed Josaphata Hordashevska to investigate whether a miracle occurred within the Archeparchy through the intercession of the saintly nun. Blessed Josaphata, the cofounder of the Ukrainian Catholic Congregation of women of consecrated life, the Sisters Servants of Mary Immaculate, was beatified by Pope St. John Paul II in Ukraine in 2001. This declaration allows veneration of the good Sister and celebrate her extraordinary life in and for Christ. It also puts her only…
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Jul
28
2022
By His Beatitude Sviatoslav
Overcome Evil with Good! (Romans 12:21)

Overcome Evil with Good! (Romans 12:21)

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Pastoral Letter of the 2022 Synod of Bishopsof the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Churchto the Clergy, Monastics and Laity of the UGCCand to All People of Good Will Greater love has no one than this,that someone lay down his life for his friends (Jn. 15:13). Beloved in Christ! For the fifth month, a large-scale, brutal war has been taking place on Ukrainian soil. It came uninvited and perfidious already in 2014, and from February 24, the enemy took off all his previous masks and openly destroys Ukraine. The russian army kills the innocent and rapes the defenseless, kidnaps children and deports the…
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