Greek Catholic Metropolitan addressed the faithful on how to keep calm in times of alarm

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According to the bishop, we must stay fit, go to bed on time, support each other, not waste time on worries, fears, terrible fantasies, but act.

Bishop Borys Gudziak, the Metropolitan of Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church in Philadelphia, appealed to the faithful not to panic but to unite and come to help if possible.

«A new stage of our pilgrimage begins – from fear to dignity. God the Lord gives dignity to everyone – Divine dignity, the dignity of his Spirit, the invitation to live with him, to share and give life. We are now facing a great danger of destruction, erasure of our dignity, of our statehood, of all that is dear to us. At this point, it is important not to give the enemy of the human race more power than he has in the world. It is necessary to push away the bald devil and look into the eyes of our saviour,» – Borys Gudziak says.

According to the bishop, we must stay fit, go to bed on time, support each other, not waste time on worries, fears, terrible fantasies, and act.

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«Every day, we need to help someone – the relatives of our soldiers, someone to inform, someone to comfort. We begin each day and end in prayer. Because God has truth, justice, and our strength,» – he added.

We will remind that on 21 February, Vladimir Putin signed the decree on recognition of the independence of the occupied territories in Donbas. Foreign leaders have condemned Putin’s decision, saying it means the end of the Minsk process. Ukraine has called on Western partners to prevent Russia from starting World War III.

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Greek Catholicism, the majority religion of Lviv, Ukraine, is a Christian confession which acknowledges Catholic doctrine and is in communion with the Pope, but maintains Eastern rites and rituals, including married priests. It emerged in 1596, when a part of the Orthodox Church recognised the supremacy of the Pope. Later, the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church (UGCC) became mostly localised in the Western Ukraine, becoming one of the markers of the national identity for the region’s population during Austrian, Polish and Soviet rule. 

Currently, Kyiv is the center of Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, under the jurisdiction of His Beatitude Sviatoslav Shevchuk, major archbishop of Kyiv-Galicia, and it is present in many regions of the country, though Galicia, where Lviv is, still remains its bulwark. It also has a strong presence among the Ukrainian diaspora, especially in parts of Canada, the United States, and Australia. 

Translated by Vitalii Holich

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