The UGCC parish in Greece celebrated its 10th anniversary

Recently the parish of the UGCC in Athens (Greece) celebrated its 10th anniversary. The participants of the celebration were the Most Rev. Dionisiy (Lyakhovych), Curial Bishop, and the Most Rev. Yulian (Voronovskyj), Eparch of Sambir and Drohobych.

During their stay in Greece, on Saturday May 10, Bishops Dionisiy and Yulian were able to meet with the Exarch for Greek Catholics of Byzantine tradition, Bishop Anarghyros (Printesis). The guests from Ukraine thanked him for the support and development of the Ukrainian parish. A meeting with the successor of Bishop Anarghyros, Bishop-elect Prof. Dimitrios Salachas (the episcopal ordination will take place on May 24) also was held. Father Dimitrios was grateful that Ukrainian immigrants support the Greek Catholic Church and promised subsequent help for development of the parish of the UGCC. In addition to this the Bishops from Ukraine had a meeting in the Ukrainian embassy in Greece and with the Apostolic Nuncio in Greece, Archbishop Patrick Coveney...

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Address
of His Beatitude Lubomyr,
Major Archbishop of Kyiv and Halych,
to the faithful of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church
and all people of good will
on the occasion of the Day of the Sick

Today – on the Sunday of the Paralytic – our Church, proposing that the faithful listen to the Gospel reading about the meeting of Jesus Christ and the paralytic near the font of Bethesda, wants to give special attention to the sick, and also to those who take care of them.

Each of us once in life was sick. We know many people who for a long period of time suffer from an illness which is often accompanied with great pain. It generates the inevitable question: "Why does a human being suffer?" None of us has the final answer to this. Some say that it is punishment for personal guilt; others say for the sins of the parents; another considers illness, as well as any other suffering, a test by which the Lord God educates us in holiness. In all those views there is something truthful, but we do not know the final answer...

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Youth of the UGCC are encouraged to meet with Jesus "On the road to Emmaus"
14.05, [13:55]
On May 13, 2008, on the official website of the UGCC the message to youth "On the road to Emmaus" was posted. It was prepared by the Synodal Commission on Youth Matters of the UGCC. This document was written by Bishops David (Motiuk), Eparch of Edmonton, and Yaroslav (Pryriz), Auxiliary Bishop of the Sambir and Drohobych Eparchy. >>>

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The Head of the UGCC on the 1020th anniversary of the Baptism of Kyivan Rus’
09.05, [15:08]
"... We, realizing the content and particular value of the act of more than a millennium of antiquity [the Baptism of Kyivan Rus’- editor’s note] should celebrate it annually, and not only with external pomp but also with our daily life. It should not be assumed that it was dirtied with political considerations or calculations. We have to retain it at least on the spiritual and religious level at which the baptism took place 1020 years ago and try from year to year on the basis of what happened to our nation in the days of Prince Saint Volodymyr to make the annual celebration more and more sacred, as befits his real heirs not only in the bodily sense but foremost in the spiritual sense." These words were written by the Head of the UGCC in an address on the occasion of the 1020th anniversary of the Baptism of Kyivan Rus’. >>>

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About the Thirty-ninth Session of the Synod of Bishops of the Kyiv and Halych Major Archbishopric of the UGCC
07.05, [09:11]
On May 1-2, 2008 in Lviv-Briukhovychi, the Thirty-ninth Session of the Synod of Bishops of the Kyiv and Halych Major Archbishopric of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church took place. After the introductory procedures, the status of implementing the decisions of the last session of the Metropolitan Synod was assessed. >>>

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Head of the UGCC dreams that the words “Lviv-er” and “honest” become synonyms
06.05, [14:53]
“Every human being in this world has some dream. I also want the word ‘Lviv-er’ not only to be a description of an inhabitant of Lviv but also a synonym of the word ‘honesty.’ And it does not matter in which corner of the world a ‘Lviv-er’ would appear; it should be possible to say about him: ‘This is honest person.’ >>>

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Pastoral work for emigrants requires special pastoral program
05.05, [12:46]
This was the conclusion of Bishop Hlib (Lonchyna), Apostolic Visitator for Ukrainian Greek-Catholics in Italy, Spain and Ireland, after his stay during Passion Week and Easter in Spain. "The lack of catechetical programs is sharply felt for the faithful, and not only children and youth,” Bishop Hlib told the Information Department. >>>

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A new bishop of the UGCC was appointed in Canada
04.05, [12:56]
On May 2, 2008, at 13.00 in the Vatican it was reported that His Holiness Benedict XVI has blessed the decision of the Synod of Bishops of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church about the appointment of priest-monk Bryan Joseph Bayda, CSSR, pastor of the Church of the Mother of God of Perpetual Help in Yorkton (Canada), as Eparch of Saskatoon. >>>

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In memory of victims of the Holocaust
03.05, [12:53]
May 1, 2008, is the day in memory of victims of the Holocaust. Six million Jews, children, women, and men, perished only because they were Jewish. “The twentieth century, in addition to everything else, left after itself cases of mass extermination of one nation by another. They were done on the European continent and they were done on other lands. >>>

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Our great memories from the Papal visit to Ukraine

27.06.2001 Lviv International Airport. Farewell Ceremony
"Goodbye, Ukraine! ...
   I ask Almighty God to bless you, the people of Ukraine, and to heal all your wounds. May his great love fill your hearts and guide you in the Third Christian Millennium towards a new future . In the name of the Father, and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit! " >>>

Pope's words (www.papalvisit.org.ua)
Some photos of the Holy Father in Ukraine