http://www.ugcc.org.ua/ English RSS Feed from www.ugcc.org.ua http://www.ugcc.org.ua/ugcc_rss.gif http://www.ugcc.org.ua/ 58 88 en 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. http://www.ugcc.org.ua/eng/press-releases/article;6908/ press@ugcc.org.ua (taras) 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. http://www.ugcc.org.ua/eng/press-releases/article;6907/ press@ugcc.org.ua (taras) From May 20 to 22, 2008, in Hungary, at the pilgrimage site of Mariapocs, a meeting of the Greek-Catholic Bishops of Europe will take place, reports the Diocese of Hajdudorog (Hungary). http://www.ugcc.org.ua/eng/news/article;6906/ press@ugcc.org.ua (taras) 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. http://www.ugcc.org.ua/eng/press-releases/article;6893/ press@ugcc.org.ua (taras) "... 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’. http://www.ugcc.org.ua/eng/press-releases/article;6879/ press@ugcc.org.ua (taras) 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. http://www.ugcc.org.ua/eng/press-releases/article;6877/ press@ugcc.org.ua (taras) On May 9-10 in Lviv the 5th Symposium of Catholic Universities of Central and Eastern Europe will be held. Rectors, vice-rectors and representatives of departments of international academic relations, and also representatives of the clergy will be received by the Ukrainian Catholic University, which is a member of the Association of Catholic Universities of Central and Eastern Europe. http://www.ugcc.org.ua/eng/news/article;6876/ press@ugcc.org.ua (taras) For the first time in the history of the Cannes Film Festival, Ukraine will be presented at a pavilion in Village International, where traditionally the largest market-cinema festival in the world is held. During the festival six Ukrainian films will be shown. http://www.ugcc.org.ua/eng/news/article;6872/ press@ugcc.org.ua (taras) On May 7, thanks to the joint efforts of seminarians, students, and teachers of the Ivano-Frankivs’k Theological Academy, and also youth and instructors of the Don Bosco Christian Youth Center, planting of greenery for the territory around the center and foundations of a future church was conducted. http://www.ugcc.org.ua/eng/news/article;6871/ press@ugcc.org.ua (taras) On May 6, 2008, on the occasion of the patronal feast-day of Saint George’s Cathedral, the Most Rev. Ihor Voznyak, Archbishop of Lviv, celebrated a pontifical Divine Liturgy. With Archbishop Ihor concelebrated fathers-protopresbyters of the Lviv Archeparchy, Fr. Sviatoslav Shevchuk, Ph. D., Fr. Borys Gudziak, Ph.D., and priests of the Curia of the Lviv Archeparchy. http://www.ugcc.org.ua/eng/news/article;6870/ press@ugcc.org.ua (taras) On May 31, 2008, the Ukrainian Catholic University extends an invitation to the charity folk-ball "Perelaz" (Turnstile). The purpose of the folk-ball is to collect funds to establish an educational scholarship named after Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky, which will support the best students of UCU. http://www.ugcc.org.ua/eng/news/article;6869/ press@ugcc.org.ua (taras) 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. http://www.ugcc.org.ua/eng/press-releases/article;6864/ press@ugcc.org.ua (news) From May 9 to 11, 2008, near the village of Polyany, Zhovkva District, Lviv Region, the camp of the Lviv center of Plast [Ukrainian scouts], “Spring Holiday,” will be held. With this method already for the 18th year in a row Lviv Plast members have opened the camp season and honored their patron, Saint George. http://www.ugcc.org.ua/eng/news/article;6863/ press@ugcc.org.ua (news) Recently the Svichado publishing house published the book of Bruno Ferrero, "Sounds of the harp," from the series "Short stories for the soul." http://www.ugcc.org.ua/eng/news/article;6862/ press@ugcc.org.ua (news) “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.’ http://www.ugcc.org.ua/eng/press-releases/article;6850/ press@ugcc.org.ua (taras) 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. http://www.ugcc.org.ua/eng/press-releases/article;6844/ press@ugcc.org.ua (taras) 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. http://www.ugcc.org.ua/eng/press-releases/article;6843/ press@ugcc.org.ua (taras) The Men’s Byzantine Choir from Utrecht (Holland) will come to Lviv. The Dutch guests will arrive for the solemn blessing of a new iconostasis for the Church of the Holy Spirit at Lviv Seminary (Khutorivka St., 35), which will be held on Sunday May 4 at 8:30. http://www.ugcc.org.ua/eng/news/article;6842/ press@ugcc.org.ua (taras) On May 1, 2008, in the Provincial House of the Sisters Servants of Mary Immaculate in Lviv, an important historical event, the transfer of the administration to the newly-appointed Provincial Administration of the Province of the Co-passion of the Mother of God in Ukraine, was held, into the complement of which entered... http://www.ugcc.org.ua/eng/news/article;6831/ press@ugcc.org.ua (news) On May 3-4, 2008, at the Lavra [Major Monastery] of the Holy Dormition in Univ on the occasion of the 110th anniversary of the renewal of Studite monastic life, solemn celebrations will take place. In addition to this jubilee, on these days Blessed Archimandrite Klymentiy (Sheptytsky) will be honored. An important event will be the granting of stauropegion status to the Lavra of the Holy Dormition in Univ. http://www.ugcc.org.ua/eng/press-releases/article;6830/ press@ugcc.org.ua (news)