To those who live in the USA: if you have not already filled out a survey for this study, please consider doing so by taking it online (available in Ukrainian and English) via the link below. Also, please share the link — especially with anyone you know who may no longer identifies or attends with the UGCC. Fathers: please…
July 30, 2019 OUT-2019-322ENG Message from the Most Reverend Benedict (Aleksiychuk), Bishop of St. Nicholas Eparchy, to the faithful, on the establishment of the Mission Institute. As good stewards of the manifold grace of God, each of you should use whatever gift he has received to serve one another.1 Pet. 4:10 Слава Ісусу Христу! Glory…
July 23,2019 OUT-2019-326 Glory to Jesus Christ! Dear Very Rev. Fathers, Rev. Fathers, Administrators, and Deacons, I am writing to you on behalf of our new Metropolitan Archbishop Borys Gudziak of the Archeparchy of Philadelphia, brother Bishops Bohdan Danylo of Parma and Paul Chomnycky of Stamford. In preparation for the upcoming Ukrainian Catholic Church Sobor…
July 8, 2019 OUT-2019-278ENG “After this, the Lord appointed seventy-two others and sent them two by two ahead of Him to every town and place He was about to visit. And He told them, “The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few. Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers…
Today is the Feast of Saints Peter and Paul. Perhaps it’s fitting that I get to sing at my last Divine Liturgy in this particular Church structure on this feast day. Fitting because Peter is The Rock, the Rock of Faith. And Paul, he is The Voice of Truth, the one who ventured forth into…
METROPOLITAN ARCHEPARCHY OF PHILADELPHIA Ukrainian Catholic 810 N. Franklin Street Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19123-2097 Phone (215) 627-0143 Fax (215) 627-0377 ukrmet@ukrcap.org No. 53/2018 O Office of the Metropolitan January, 2018 PASTORAL OF THE UKRAINIAN CATHOLIC HIERARCHY OF THE U.S.A. “CALL TO PRAYER IN OUR FAMILIES” TO OUR CLERGY, HIEROMONKS AND BROTHERS,…
An expansion is planned for Immaculate Conception Ukrainian Byzantine Catholic Church on Benton Street in Palatine. Bob Susnjara Parishioner growth is behind a planned expansion of a Palatine church. Immaculate Conception Ukrainian Byzantine Catholic Church, at 755 S. Benton St. just north of Illinois Avenue, received permission nearly five years ago for construction of a…
While the Department of External Church relations of the Moscow Patriarchate spins the meeting between Francis and Patriarch Kirill, the Pope expresses support for His Beatitude Sviatoslav. As expected, the Department of External Church relations of the Moscow Patriarchate has started the process of spinning the February 12, 2016 Havana Joint Declaration of Pope Francis and…
Five details from historical meeting suggest that while the Russian Patriarch may have thought he was first violin, the Jesuit Pope was conducting the orchestra. Pope Benedict XVI was, and is, known for playing the piano. Russian Orthodox Metropolitan Hilarion Alfeyev, the chief architect of Friday’s Cuban summit between his boss Patriarch Kirill and Pope…