Auguri di Buon Natale dell`Arcivescovo di Leopoli Mieczysław Mokrzycki.
It`s been a year since Russia launched a full scale invasion in Ukraine. We experienced a lot of suffering, a lot of sadness. The lives of young people who have sacrificed their lives on the altar of their homeland, defending the freedom of their country, have been taken. Many people suffer constantly. Many people have lost their homes, lost their loved ones. They went into the unknown. They are in a wonder. Many people were injured there. Many people mutilated, missing an arm, leg or other body parts. But there are also people of goodwill who rushed to help. Among them are the Knights of Columbus, our conferences in Poland, our Brothers, Knights in America, in the United States, who help each day through prayer, but also through humanitarian aid.
The President of the Mission, Father Petro Zharkovskii told the Metropolitan about the work of the Mission during the war and presented further plans. In turn, the bishop thanked the ministers for their work and blessed those present.
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Archbishop Paul Richard Gallagher, the Vatican’s Secretary for Relations with States, visits the western Ukrainian city of Lviv and blesses the people of Ukraine on behalf of Pope Francis.
On the April 9, the representatives of the international catholic charitable organization Kirche in Not that since December 2011 has the status of the Papal Foundation, have come to Lviv with the working visit.
Sisters from the Congregation of the Sisters of St. Joseph have been serving in Stryi for many years. The kindergarten named after St. Zygmunt Gorazdowski they patronize is quite popular, to sign up their kids for it, parents are literally waiting in a line. Over the years of their work in this field, the sisters have earned the trust and respect of the local citizens.
On March 26, doctors in Lviv received the humanitarian aid cargo from their Polish colleagues. Together with the Knights of Columbus, the Association of Polish Surgeons sent 5 tonnes of medical equipment necessary for cardiac surgeries to the Ukrainian doctors from Lviv Regional Clinical Hospital.
The Anti-crisis Headquarters of the Archdiocese of Lviv, headed by the auxiliary bishop Edward Kawa together with the Knights of Columbus Order, Caritas-Spes mission of the Archdiocese of Lviv and Foundation “Give Hope” actively continue to provide humanitarian aid to the people affected by the warfare -- both refugees and those who were unable to leave the territories under the active warfare.
he initiation of the Benedictine presence in Ukraine
The spiritual path of sons and daughters of St. Benedict continues in Ukraine but only in the abbey of nuns in Zhytomyr. There are no Benedictine monks, and until recently there was nothing to indicate that there would be, especially during this time of pandemic when no one thinks of beginning a new monastic foundation. But unexpectedly, an all-changing sign appeared.