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Dec

18

2018

Ukrainian Catholic Church in Canada Gathers on Abuse Issue

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Bishops from across Canada and/or their representatives and others experts gathered at the Chancery of the Archeparchy of Winnipeg to discuss and deal with the tragic issue that has rocked the Catholic world - the abuse of minors by clergy. The Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops has issued a new document on the question, entitled, "Protecting Minors from Sexual Abuse: A Call to the Catholic Faithful in Canada for Healing, Reconciliation and Transformation". All eparchies, dioceses and religious/monastic communities now want to be certain that their policies that regard abuse with the goal of ensuring a safe environment are updated…

Nov

07

2018

By Fr. Michael Winn

Resolutions of the 2018 Synod of the Ukrainian Catholic Bishops

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For the glory of the Holy, Consubstantial, Life-giving and Indivisible Trinity, Father, Son and Holy Spirit, and for the good of the People of God entrusted to us. Amen. BY THE GRACE OF GOD AND IN FULL COMMUNION WITH THE APOSTOLIC SEE OF ROME, SVIATOSLAV Major-Archbishop of Kyiv-Halych of the Ukrainian Greco-Catholic Church. To the Most Reverend and Reverend Bishops, the honourable Clergy, the venerable Monks and Nuns, and the Laity of the particular Ukrainian Greco-Catholic Church I PROMULGATE AND PUBLISH The Resolutions of the Synod of Bishops of the Ukrainian Greco-Catholic Church Lviv-Briukhovychi, 2-11 September 2018 4. Accept the 2017-2018 report…

Oct

30

2018

By Brent Kostyniuk

Minor Orders

Both Lungs, News

by Brent Kostyniuk Each time we participate in the Divine Liturgy, we pray the Nicene Creed, the profession of our Faith, our faith in the Triune God, our faith in the Church and our faith in the next world. Among the articles we profess are the marks or signs of the Church—one, holy, catholic, and apostolic. By apostolic, we mean there is a direct succession from the Apostles to the clergy who serve. Of those clerics, we are most familiar with the major orders: deacon, priest, and bishop. Along with these, however, are the lesser known minor orders. According to…

Jul

23

2018

By Fr. Michael Winn

Cathedral ‘built on perogies’ embraces its heritage

Faith, News

By Agnieszka Krawczynski NEW WESTMINSTER—A small Byzantine community in New Westminster is embracing its culture after decades of masking itself as just another Roman Catholic church. “Our Byzantine rite was not appreciated as much, so we were trying to look more like Roman Catholics – ‘Let’s just have two little icons, maybe one big icon, and that would be it. A crucifix, and we’ll be like our Roman Catholic brothers’ – without treasuring what we are meant to be and what we can be, if only we try,” said Father Mikhailo Ozorovych. “Now, there is a great revival of Eastern…

Jul

04

2018

By Respected Author

The Pope Thanks the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church for Its Witness to Unity

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His Beatitude Sviatoslav has told the Pope that the road travelled by the UGCC was a path of martyrdom, a “testimony of the unity that Christ’s Church enjoyed in the First Millennium, at the time of the Baptism of Saint Volodymyr, and a particular witness of martyrs and confessors for Church unity, - in the 20th century.” “Our Church’s path of martyrdom consists in a recognition of the particular mission of the Successors of the Apostle Peter as visible servants of the unity of Christ’s Church,” the Head of the UGCC declared in his conversation with the Holy Father. His Beatitude…

Jan

28

2018

By Respected Author

In Thanksgiving for Years of Service

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by Alex Pankiw On Saturday, December 30, 2017, Ukrainian Catholic Youth and Young Adults of the Archeparchy of Winnipeg came together to extend a bittersweet farewell to Tamara Lisowski, the Youth Director for the Archeparchy of Winnipeg. Tamara served the Archeparchy of Winnipeg’s Youth and Young Adults for 17 years, touching many lives throughout the tenure of her ministry. With a résumé of accomplishments too vast to acknowledge within the scope of this article, Tamara’s dedication to her ministry bore numerous retreats, annual Christmas carolling excursions, and service initiatives for the less fortunate in Winnipeg to name just a few.…

Dec

12

2017

By His Beatitude Sviatoslav

2017 Nativity Greeting from Patriarch Sviatoslav

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CHRISTMAS PASTORAL LETTER OF HIS BEATITUDE SVIATOSLAV Most Reverend Archbishops and Metropolitans, God-loving Bishops, Very Reverend Clergy, Venerable Monastics, Dearly Beloved Brothers and Sisters, in Ukraine and throughout the world For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sake he became poor, so that you by his poverty might become rich. 2 Cor. 8:9 Christ is born! Glorify Him! Beloved in Christ! Today once again we share the unspeakable joy of the Holy Nativity, which fills the heart of each believer. The Son of God became one of us, having…

Dec

04

2017

By Brent Kostyniuk

Holodomor

Both Lungs, News

by Brent Kostyniuk During 1932 and 1933, an estimated seven to ten million people starved to death in Soviet controlled Ukraine because of a man-made famine, the Holodomor—death by starvation—even though the country was producing bumper crops of grain. Recently, 340 elementary children at St. Theresa of Calcutta Catholic School in Edmonton gathered for a Memorial Divine Liturgy to honour victims of the Holodomor. The Liturgy was celebrated by Edmonton Eparchial Bishop David Motiuk along with Edmonton Catholic Schools Chaplain, Fr. Julian Bilyj. Bishop David's Words In speaking to the children, Bishop David explained this little known atrocity. “Imagine living…

Aug

11

2017

By Fr. Michael Winn

Catholic Climate Movements in Ukraine and the World

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archeparchy.ca There is a global effort by Catholics inspired by “Laudato Si” - Pope Francis’ encyclical on safeguarding the environment - to become personally active in doing something about climate change and renewing the environment. Some have hailed the 2015 encyclical as unique and even bold as far as Papal documents go. Others observe that the Holy Father simply states what the Catholic attitude toward God’s gift of nature and the earth’s resources has always been (should have been) since creation. If you haven’t given the encyclical a good reading over, you can find it on many sites of the…

Jun

23

2017

By Fr. Michael Winn

June 23, 2017 – Matthew 10:32-36; 11:1

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Matthew 10:32-36; 11:1 Glory be to Jesus Christ! Last summer, while on vacation I met a seminarian at a local parish where I concelebrated Sunday Eucharist. This young man was a couple years into his philosophy studies and was spending the summer at this parish, getting some hands on experience before heading back to seminary in the late fall. This young man did not grow up going to Church or even in a family that valued faith, but by the grace of God, he found the faith, deepened it, and began exploring this call to the priesthood. Unfortunately, his family…