Let Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytskyi and all the martyrs and confessors of our Church pray for the victory of the Ukrainian people, — from the Head of the UGCC on the 251 st day of the war
Please pray for the glorification of the righteous Metropolitan Andrei Sheptytskyi and the successful completion of his beatification process. If you have received any favors through the prayers of Metropolitan Andrey, inform your priest, bishop, or church authorities about it. It will accelerate his glorification on the thrones of the Universal Church. The Father and Head of the UGCC, His Beatitude Sviatoslav, asked for this in his daily military address on the 251 st day of the great, terrible war Russia brought to the long-suffering Ukrainian land.
His Beatitude Sviatoslav continued his reflections on the meaning of the family, its values , and their embodiment in life. For this, first of all, we must testify to our faith and embody the principles in which we believe. As Pope Francis says today, it is essential to bear witness to the Gospel of the family with one’s personal life.
“First of all, I want to thank everyone who embodies family values in the life of their family and friends. I also thank those of our families who unite in pro-family movements because it is imperative to create a community of like-minded people who profess the same faith and live by the same life principles and values,” said the Patriarch, expressing his gratitude.
Therefore, His Beatitude Sviatoslav noted that on November 1, the UGCC celebrates the memory of the blessed hieromartyr Theodore Romzha, bishop of Mukachevo. “Today, we unite with our brothers and sisters in Ukrainian Transcarpathia, feeling that we are one Church, Christ’s community, which had a shared history of persecution in the Soviet Union,” he emphasized.
Separately, the Patriarch emphasized that on that day, we also remember the passing away to the eternity of the great teacher, leader of the Church, and people of Ukraine, righteous Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytskyi.
In the end, the Father and Head of the UGCC called on the entire Ukrainian people and all the faithful of our Church to pray and reminded us that at 8 p.m. Kyiv time, we daily pray for Ukraine, for our long-suffering people, for victory in the war.
The Synod of Bishops determined a specific intention for this prayer for Ukraine daily.
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