“How does the music of Ukraine’s victory sound?” — His Beatitude Sviatoslav and Father Paolo Asolan
“In my imagination, music is always about harmony. When you see destroyed cities and villages and people crying, it is difficult to witness harmony,” said His Beatitude Sviatoslav, Father and Head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church. On May 31 in Lviv, at the presentation of his conversational book in Ukrainian with Fr. Paolo Asolan, the co-authors shared their thoughts on what melodies the music of the long-awaited Ukrainian victory sounds like to them.
When asked what precisely the melody of victory sounds like to His Beatitude Sviatoslav, he replied: “I listen very carefully and, God willing, I will hear it. But I remember how my mother was painfully sensitive to any falsehood. Those with such a good ear can enjoy harmony and suffer greatly from falsehood. I still suffer from falsehood on many levels. But I hope that the harmony from the Holy Spirit will expose itself.”
Father Paolo Asolan, a professor at the Pontifical Lateran University in Rome, also shared his thoughts with the audience and said that Ukraine today is perhaps a tiny nation through which the Lord saves the whole world. The music of victory will also be the music of nostalgia: “Every time the Lord saves someone or a nation, He does it through one person or a small group of people: Israel over all the nations, the 12 apostles over all the other disciples, Jesus alone, but all the nations and all the inhabitants at all times. Perhaps at this moment, Ukraine is a small nation.”
On May 31, the Ivan Franko National University of Lviv launched a presentation of the Ukrainian translation of the conversational book of His Beatitude Sviatoslav with Fr. Paolo Asolan “Tell Me the Truth. Dialogues on the Meaning of Life.”
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