by user | Mar 5, 2011 | For Soul and Body
11 March 2011, 08:56 Sixty-five years ago, the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church (UGCC) was banned. On March 8-9, 1946, at the Lviv synod, also known as the pseudo-synod, it was decided that the Greek Catholics would be transferred to the Russian Orthodox Church. Those...
by user | Jan 15, 2011 | Kidz Korner
Each of these saints have their own feast day. St. Basil the Great, January 1; St. Gregory the Theologian, January 25; and St. John Chrysostom, January 27. This combined feast day, January 30, was instituted in the eleventh century during the reign of Emperor Alexius...
by user | Nov 17, 2010 | Bulletin
KIEV, Ukraine, NOV. 15, 2010 (Zenit.org).- The Church in Ukraine was supposed to disappear. Communists tried to liquidate it in 1946, but believers took the faith underground, maintaining it as a catacomb Church for more than 40 years. Lubomyr Husar, a future leader...
by user | Nov 17, 2010 | For Soul and Body
The Feast of St. Josaphat at the Vatican BY GREGORY DIPIPPO Friday, November 12th, was the feast of St. Josaphat, martyred in the year 1623 for his ardent championship of union with Rome among theByzantine- rite Christians of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. A...
by user | Nov 14, 2010 | Bulletin
Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky, the religious leader who headed the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church for nearly half a century, hasbeen misunderstood through history. Now, on the 66th anniversary of his Nov. 1, 1944, death at the age of 79, new details are emerging...
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