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Jun

2024

New Particular Law for the UGCC

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This article was updated on June 25, 2024. In 2018 the UGCC promulgated the newest version of the Particular Law. You can find the official Ukrainian alongside an unofficial translation of the document here:UGCC Particular Law 2021 (PDF) (Word) (archeparchy.ca) The newest version of ecclesial laws for Ukrainian Catholic faithful was officially promulgated on 4 April 2018 and will take effect on 7 April 2018. This was accomplished by the publishing of both the Decree of Promulgation and the text of the updated version of Particular Law on the Church's official website for this purpose. The full text is presently…

Jan

2017

By Fr. Michael Bombak

Luke 21:12-19- The Trial of Life

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Christ is Born! Our Lord made many promises to us during His ministry, and one of the more inconvenient ones was that life would be a trial. If we truly were to follow Him, we would be called out on it, and not by "the man", "them", "the bad guys", but by our friends and family- those who are closest to us. Jesus is telling His fellow Jewish disciples that they would be delivered to synagogues to be persecuted by those who were praying right next to them on a regular basis! Jesus Himself, after all, was betrayed by one…