Bishop Peter’s Articles

Christ is Risen. Indeed He is Risen. My soul is consumed with longing for your law at all times. (Ps. 119:20) Dear Sisters and Brothers in Christ, In the 119th Psalm, we are reminded that God’s Law is a liberating ...

The key to a relationship with God is to be united to the original divine relationship – the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. In other words it is a relationship with the Holy Trinity. In the old catechisms, ...

Allow me to introduce to you an outstanding Ukrainian Catholic layman and friend. On April 2, 2017 Eugene Cherwick returned to his maker in Winnipeg Manitoba, Canada. He left behind his wife Lillian, and a large family of children, and ...

Ukrainian Catholics look at life and God in a different manner to others. We experience church from another perspective as well. While we may all be Christians, or even Catholics, our approach to God and the church is unique. Perhaps ...

Christ is born! Glorify him. All of us love to give and receive gifts. Gift giving is a tradition we have inherited from the first gift which was the gift God gave to us when he sent his Son to ...

Fr. Aleksander Men was a Russian Orthodox priest, a biblical scholar and a very prolific writer, –  writes Bisop Peter in Church and Life. He was born in Moscow to a Jewish family. He was, however, baptised six months later ...

From the perspective of church history, the “catechism” has a past which is fairly well known. The beginnings of the style of book which we call the catechism had its beginning in the 16th century with Martin Luther’s 1529 Small ...

When I was a child, I had the blessing of being able to hear my grandparents praying every night before bedtime, – writes Bisop Peter in Church and Life. The both of them, together, not noticing whether I was listening ...

The Bishop of Sts Peter and Paul of Melbourne His Grace Most Reverend Peter Stasiuk has issued a Pastoral Letter, directed to the priests, deacons, monastics, religious and the faithful of the Eparchy of Saints Peter and Paul on the subject ...

Just in case you are feeling restless, excitable and cannot pay attention to your work about midday, I have an explanation to you. It’s the “noonday demon”. You probably may not have heard about this particular demon, but he exits. ...

Is your God a father, magician, friend, judge, public man, saviour, minister of justice? Someone who is irrelevant or does not exist? We all have an opinion about God but we may not think about it too often. However our ...