Blog Post

May
30
2024
By Fr. Michael Winn
Holy Protection Shrine – for Life and Culture

Holy Protection Shrine – for Life and Culture

News
Some exciting news - a new initiative led by Fr. Jason Charron for a national pilgrimage destination in which the sacredness of life is celebrated. This will be a heavenly appeal-in-stone to the LORD and His Holy Mother's intercession for the protection of life in our culture. It will be a national shrine built in sacred Byzantine style as a prayerful convergence of Eastern and Western Christian traditions. We intend to build a 1000-year church of timeless beauty for generations to come as a holy site of pilgrimage and renewal for a culture of life. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqeVMR0ba50 Holy Protection Shrine website
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May
27
2024
By Fr. Michael Winn
Wondering what to eat this Apostles’ Fast?

Wondering what to eat this Apostles’ Fast?

Christian Life, Featured Articles
Turns out that as Pascha was rather early this year, we have a much longer Apostles' Fast than usual. It runs May 27 to June 28, a full 32 days - almost as long as the Great Fast! You may be wondering what to eat through this fasting period of the Church Year. Well, over at ByziMom they have you covered with new recipes appearing! They even have a book ready for purchase! Head on over to ByziMom for your lenten recipes! ByziMom Photo by Markus Winkler on Unsplash
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Mar
07
2024
By Brent Kostyniuk
The Byzantine Experience

The Byzantine Experience

Both Lungs, Featured Articles
by Brent Kostyniuk “Wow!” That was the reaction of a friend of mine when she first stepped into a Ukrainian Catholic church. Although a life-long Catholic, and, indeed, a religion teacher in our city’s Catholic school system, this was her first encounter with the Byzantine tradition. She had not yet heeded St. John Paul II’s admonition that the Church should breathe through Both Lungs – East and West. Moreover, he proclaimed it was the duty of Catholics of the West, that is Roman Catholics, to learn about their Eastern brethren. “It’s so big inside!” Her eyes were drawn upwards to…
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Dec
23
2023
By His Beatitude Sviatoslav
Regarding the Reception in the UGCC of “Fiducia supplicans”

Regarding the Reception in the UGCC of “Fiducia supplicans”

Featured Articles, UGCC
[OFFICIAL TRANSLATION] KyivProt. BA 23/326 ENGDecember 22, 2023, in the year of God COMMUNIQUEregarding the reception in the UGCC ofthe declaration of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith "FIDUCIA SUPPLICANS"on the pastoral significance of blessings In response to numerous requests from bishops, clergy, monastics, ecclesiastical movements and individual lay people of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church regarding the Declaration of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith Fiducia Supplicans (December 18, 2023) on the pastoral meaning of blessings, after consulting with relevant experts and competent institutions, I wish to inform you of the following: The Declaration aforementioned…
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Dec
08
2023
By Brent Kostyniuk

Domes on the Prairies

Both Lungs, Featured Articles
by Brent Kostyniuk If you drive along the Yellowhead Highway between Edmonton and Winnipeg, you will be passing through the Borsch Belt—a vast region of fertile prairie favoured by Ukrainian homesteaders in the last years of the19th century and the early decades of the 20th century—a lasting legacy of those pioneers are the churches they built, with their distinctive domes. I was introduced to domes as a young boy when, once a year, my father would take me to what he called his “home parish,” the church he had attended growing while up on the family farm. At that time,…
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Dec
08
2023
By Fr. Michael Winn
Christmas 2023 Pastoral Letter of the Ukrainian Catholic Bishops of Canada

Christmas 2023 Pastoral Letter of the Ukrainian Catholic Bishops of Canada

Featured Articles, UGCC,
To the Very Reverend Clergy, Monastics and Religious Sisters and Brothers, Seminarians and Laity of the Ukrainian Catholic Church in Canada Christ is Born!  Let us Glorify Him! “Glory to God in the highest heaven, and on earthpeace among those whom he favours!” (Luke 2:14) Dear Sisters and Brothers, As we celebrate the Feast of the Nativity of Our Lord, we do so with a sense of wonder in our hearts. The story of the birth of Jesus serves as a constant reminder of God’s love for us. To express God’s boundless love for us, God appears among us in…
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Nov
30
2023
By His Beatitude Sviatoslav
Nativity Pastoral Letter of His Beatitude Sviatoslav

Nativity Pastoral Letter of His Beatitude Sviatoslav

Featured Articles, UGCC
Вих. ВА 23/304 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 Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign.Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son,and shall call his name Immanuel. (Is. 7:14) Christ is born! Glorify Him! Beloved in Christ! In this time of war, we, the Ukrainian people need a sign, a sign of hope—that God is with us, that God's life-giving power is stronger than the deadly power of the enemy fighting against us. In the Holy Scriptures, the…
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Nov
30
2023
By Fr. Michael Winn
New Bishop for Saskatoon

New Bishop for Saskatoon

Featured Articles, News
The Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of Saskatoon is pleased to announce that following upon the proposal of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Synod of Bishops, Pope Francis has appointed Very Reverend Michael Smolinski, CSsR, until now Provincial Superior of the Redemptorists in Canada, as Bishop of the Eparchy of Saskatoon. This decision was announced from the Vatican on Thursday, November 30, 2023. Bishop-Elect Smolinski becomes the sixth Eparchial Bishop to minister to the Ukrainian Catholic Faithful in the Province of Saskatchewan. Born and raised in Saskatoon, Bishop-Elect Smolinski served in pastoral ministry in Saskatchewan, as well as in Manitoba. For many years…
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