Head of the UGCC called to vote and to choose
“We want to bring attention to the fact that being able to vote without being forced and entirely free is a large privilege. But at the same time, in an independent state, the freedom to vote is also the holy duty of a citizen,” such an opinion was heard from His Beatitude Lubomyr, the head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, at the today's press conference The press conference took place on the occasion of the publication of the address of the Synod of Bishops of the Kyiv-Halych Major Archbishopric to the faithful of UGCC and to the people of good will on the occasion of the second round of presidential elections of Ukraine.
Bishops of the UGCC have called the faithful to take part in the second round of the presidential elections and to pray for God’s blessing
The Synod of Bishops of the Kyiv-Halych Major Archbishopric of the UGCC has issued an address to the faithful of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church and to the people of good will regarding the second round of the presidential elections of Ukraine. In this document the bishops point out the responsibility of every Ukrainian to express their opinion in the presidential elections and the necessity to pray to the Lord. “Our nation has to understand that the possibility to choose freely, without external compulsion, a leader of the state is a great privilege for us. At the same time this freedom obliges us to perform a holy civic duty,” reads the address which is published on the official web page of the UGCC at this reference: www.ugcc.org.ua/1057.html.
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The Synod’s message
for the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the legalization of the UGCC,
the 65th anniversary of the death of Metropolitan Andrey (Sheptytskyj),
and the 25th anniversary of the death of Patriarch Joseph (Slipyj)
Dearly Beloved in Christ!
This year, which approaches its end, we celebrated the 20th anniversary of the legalization of the UGCC after decades of totalitarian prohibition and persecution. Also in the year 2009, two other anniversary dates were marked: the 65th anniversary of the death of the servant of God Metropolitan Andrey (Sheptytskyj) and the 25th anniversary of death of the Confessor of faith Patriarch Joseph (Slipyj). Together we ask God to accept our prayers and to rest their souls “with the souls of the righteous” and jointly remember the glorious times of our past which as if formed by the force of their spirit and satiated by the sacrifice of their work. We turn special attention to these two great spiritual figures, not wishing to forget two other church leaders – His Beatitude Major Archbishop Myroslav-Ivan (Liubachivs’kyj) and Archbishop Volodymyr (Sternyuk), whom God’s Providence put to serve the Church in the tragic, yet heroic, 20th century.
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