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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 ...

On February 15 th the Church celebrates the feast of the Presentation of the Lord which occurs forty days after the birth of Jesus and is also known as Candlemas day, since the blessing and procession of candles is included ...

Our Eparchy will be blessed with three visits from Ukrainian Catholic bishops in 2018. All of them are coming on pastoral visits. Bishop Bryan Bayda, the Eparch of Ukrainian Catholics in Saskatoon in Canada, will be the first to arrive. ...

The priests of our Eparchy have reported that church attendance this Christmas was better than they had seen in a number of years. For that we thank God. This year Christmas fell on a Sunday. In Victoria, Saturday’s heat wave ...

PASTORAL LETTER OF HIS BEATITUDE SVIATOSLAV TO THE CLERGY, RELIGIOUS AND ALL THE FAITHFUL OF THE UKRAINIAN GREEK-CATHOLIC CHURCH “The Vibrant Parish – a place to encounter the living Christ” Dearly Beloved in Christ! Introduction Our Lord Jesus Christ before ...

Epistle of the Synod of Bishops of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church in 2017 to Clergy, Monastics, and Laity “Lord, teach us to pray” (Luke 11: 1) Very Reverend and Reverend fathers! Venerable brothers and sisters in monasticism! Dear brothers and sisters in ...

The Bishop, priests and sisters of our Eparchy attended four youth camps in Australia this year. CYM held camps in Sydney, Victoria at Buxton, and in Perth. Plast held a camp just outside of Geelong. The biggest camp was the ...

The singing of Ukrainian Christmas carols is a very ancient practice. It is a defining moment of our Ukrainian culture. Our parish in Geelong can take credit that in Australia, about 10 years ago, they united a number of choirs ...

Christmas message of Fr. Brian Kelty, administrator of the st. Peter and Paul Parish in North Melbourne. Christ is born! Glorify Him! The feast of the Nativity of our Lord Jesus Christ is one of our church’s major feasts. As ...

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 ...

St Nicholas Day -19th Dec (6th Dec). The absence of the “hard facts” of history is not necessarily an obstacle to the popularity of saints, as the devotion to St. Nicholas shows. Both the Eastern and Western Churches honour him, ...