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 “Today there is a tendency in the world of attempts by private collectors to take ownership of spiritual and cultural treasures of its people,” stated UGCC Head in Lviv
UGCC Head His Beatitude Sviatoslav (Shevchuk) participated on May 17, 2013 in the opening of the permanent exhibit, Yov Kondzelevych: A Prominent Monument of Ukrainian Baroque – The Bohorodchan Iconostasis (1698-1705), in A. Sheptytsky Lviv National Museum. Present at the opening was also Bishop Ihor (Vozniak), Archbishop and Metropolitan of Lviv UGCC.
Greek-Catholic Head ‘Our church is a thorn in the side for those who do not seek true unity’
“Reconciliation between our churches will help the Russian and Ukrainian people understand one another. As often happens between neighbors, we have many mutual historical problems, but we cannot build a future without Christian communication. The process of reconciliation will also help overcome Ukrainophobia in Russia and stop the Russification of Ukraine,” Patriarch Sviatoslav Shevchuk, head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church (UGCC), said in an interview with KAI (Catholic Information Agency).
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Pastoral Letter of His Beatitude Sviatoslav
to the clergy, religious and all the faithful
of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church
“The Vibrant Parish – a place to encounter the living Christ”
Dearly Beloved in Christ!
Introduction
Our Lord Jesus Christ before his ascension into heaven instructed his disciples, saying: “Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age” (Mat 28:18-29). This commission of Christ to proclaim the Good News was given not only to the first disciples, the apostles, it is directed to the Church in all times, even to the end of the ages. The Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church, in fulfilling this commission of our Divine Savior, speaking through the Bishops of its Holy Synod five years ago, defined “Holiness of a united people of God” as the goal of her ministry. Holiness is God’s gift, and the vocation of every Christian. “For this is the will of God, your sanctification,” St. Paul reminds us in the letter to the Thessalonians (1 Th 4:2)...
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Homily оf His Beatitude Sviatoslav, at the 50th International Eucharistic Congress in Dublin, Ireland
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