UGCC Head in 188th Week of the War: Every Day We Live Is Paid for with Someone’s Blood
The Primate noted that today we are particularly concerned about those who are again being evacuated from frontline cities, towns, and villages. Dnipropetrovsk region has announced a forced evacuation from 18 settlements. This was stated by His Beatitude Sviatoslav, Father and Head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, in his 188th traditional video address in the 188th week since Russia’s full-scale invasion, which destroyed the peace and tranquility of ordinary Ukrainians.
Photo: Ground forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine
The Head of the Church expressed his deep gratitude to our defenders: “We are aware that every day we live, every week, is paid for with someone’s blood.”
His Beatitude Sviatoslav shared good news from the wounded Dnipropetrovsk region: “Our Donetsk Exarchate has suffered the most in this war: more than half of our parishes and churches located in the occupied territory have been virtually destroyed. Religious life of our Church is forbidden there. But on free land, life goes on. Our Church is comforted by God’s blessing and unprecedented development. And today we consecrated the newly built Church of the Transfiguration of the Lord in the city of Kamyanske, formerly Dniprodzerzhynsk, in the Dnipropetrovsk region.”
According to him, people from across the former Soviet Union have gathered in this city of metallurgists, and the community and parish of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, which was established more than 30 years ago, is successfully developing and flourishing.
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The founders of this community were repressed Greek Catholics who, after serving their sentences in Siberian concentration camps, were unable to return to their homes in western Ukraine.
“And today, as the culmination of more than 30 years of development, we consecrated the newly built church. We felt that this is a celebration of hope in the context of the Jubilee Year of Hope,” emphasized the spiritual leader.
His Beatitude Sviatoslav thanked everyone who helped in the construction of this church: “The activity of our missionary parish center is remarkable: here, God’s people serve the Lord and save human lives.”
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