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Pastoral letter to priests of the Ivano-Frankivsk region
Post date: 2010-02-15Autor: Synod UO GCC
The mass media have informed the Ukrainian public about a gay-pride in Ivano-Frankivsk which is going to take place on Good Friday.This prepared blasphemous action on Good Friday is to deal a deep blow to Christianity on our territory and open the Ukrainian nation for unclean spirits and a curse. Its aim is the decay of society and invasion of Ukraine by the spirit of antichrist.The organizers of this event are well aware that the greatest moral power standing against them in the western Ukraine is the UGCC. However, both they and You know that Head of the UGCC, ex-Card. Husar, will not be in protest against this event and will not want the priests of the UGCC to protest against it either.In this situation every one of You must make a choice – either Christ or Husar! The priest who will not stand actively in defence of God’s laws in this Holy Lenten period and will allow owing to his passivity the door to be opened to a moral epidemic, the one has denied the faith, renounced Christ and become an apostate.
A lawsuit in the matter of registration
Post date: 2010-02-09Autor: Synod UO GCC
Since the State Committee of Ukraine on Matters of Nationalities and Religions refused to accept our petition for registration of the UOGCC, we had to appeal to court with our demand for legal registration. The court in Lvov came to the conclusion that the State Committee of Ukraine on Matters of Nationalities and Religions has to deal with the petition for registration of the statute of the UOGCC and give the reply: either it will grant the registration or not. Here we can see a bias on the part of the State Committee of Ukraine on Matters of Nationalities and Religions, since they were not even willing to accept our petition. Thus they wanted to avoid a concrete reply, which in this case would be unlawful on their part.
Letter to the Prime Minister of Ukraine
Post date: 2010-02-04Autor: Synod UO GCC
Dear Mrs Tymoshenko, the major reason why You are lenient towards injustice on the part of the State Committee of Ukraine on Matters of Nationalities and Religions is the fact that ex-Card. Husar promises You support in the presidential elections! It is generally known that almost all Greek-Catholic priests oblige people by order of ex-Card. Husar to go to the polls and vote for You, saying that who will not, it will be a sin! This is violation of freedom of conscience and of democracy, which puts You in a very negative light.
Letter to the Prime Minister of Ukraine
Post date: 2010-01-25Autor: Synod UO GCC
we have by this time written You three letters (5 Oct, 28 Oct and 23 Dec 2009), wherein we informed You about religious discrimination on the part of the State Committee of Ukraine on Matters of Nationalities and Religions and applied to You for registration of the Ukrainian orthodox Greek-Catholic Church (UOGCC). This is our fourth letter. It is now more than 165 days since we started a manifestation with a placard in front of the Regional Council in Lvov with a petition for legal registration.
Christmas pastoral letter by the Bishops’ Synod of the UOGCC 2010
Post date: 2010-01-07Autor: Synod UO GCC
Dear faithful brothers and sisters!On this Blessed Night we unite in spirit with all of you who await with a living faith the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ from heaven.Take courage this day all of you who with the Holy Family are persecuted and defamed for the sake of this Truth, for the sake of the holy name of Jesus, because to you is given the kingdom of God. Although this kingdom is born in poverty and human weakness, in its midst there is almighty God who reigns for ever.May the grace of the Child Jesus, through the Virgin Mary who gave birth to Him, descend upon you all, upon your families and your houses and abide with you for ever.
Letter to the Prime Minister of Ukraine
Post date: 2009-12-23Autor: Synod UO GCC
Dear Mrs Tymoshenko, on 5th and 28th October 2009 we wrote You open letters, wherein we informed You of an internal crisis in the UGCC which resulted in the establishment of the Ukrainian orthodox Greek-Catholic Church (UOGCC).On 25th-27th November 2009 we demonstrated against violation of the laws of Ukraine and against religious discrimination in front of the Parliament and Cabinet of Ministers (CM) of Ukraine. That time we transmitted to You already the third letter with a request for cessation of religious discrimination and for registration of a new religious organization UOGCC. We have not received a reply to any of these letters up to this day!You are a candidate for President of Ukraine. President, however, must first of all be a guarantor of civil rights and of observation of the state laws. Therefore prove that You are worthy of the presidential office. Stop violation of the laws of Ukraine and religious discrimination. Do all in Your power for the sake of lawful registration of the UOGCC. Otherwise You overtly prove Your direct participation in religious discrimination and in violation of the Ukrainian laws. Such person, however, cannot be President!
Response to the pamphlet of the UGCC
Post date: 2009-11-18Autor: Synod UO GCC
By way of introduction it must be said to the team of authors as well as to those who engaged them that they take credit to a certain extent for the revival of the Church and of the spiritual life. How? Because on a dark background which they created the divine truth may be even more visible and the heresy may be revealed. We just have to state that we have nothing in common with these heretics, and therefore even the citations of St. Cyprian and St. Augustine do not apply to us but to the apostatical and heretical hierarchy of the UGCC. It is admirable how excellent psychological and theological acrobatics the authors of the pamphlet perform in order to shift the explicit Husar’s heresies into the category of virtues and true faith. That’s really an achievement.
Response to a mendacious statement of the Information Department of the UGCC
Post date: 2009-11-09Autor: Synod UO GCC
The authors of the lampoon purposefully conceal or distort the elementary fact that ex-Card. Husar, along with the bishops of the UGCC who are in unity with him, has been excluded from the Church owing to his public proclamation of heresies. Their official statements are invalid before God as well as before Christ’s Church! Because we defend Christ’s Mystical Body – the Church – against heresies, the heretics sit in judgement over us. Their judgements are, of course, lawless and invalid.
Pastoral letter concerning Petition for protection of family
Post date: 2009-11-04Autor: Synod UO GCC
Dear priests of the UGCC, we are turning to You with confidence. Permit, or perhaps support or initiate – either publicly or at least privately – signing of the petition for protection of family by as many believers in Your parish as possible against the propagation of homosexuality which by means of laws is already being harshly pushed through in the EU. Make this step of faith while there is still time. Tomorrow it might be late. This Your step of faith is desired by the One who died and rose again from the dead – by Jesus Christ Himself.
Response to a lampoon under the title - A warning to the faithful of the UGCC
Post date: 2009-11-04Autor: Synod UO GCC
These days a lampoon under the title: “Awarning to the faithful of the UGCC” has been published at the instigation of the apostatical Synod of the UGCC. What is the aim of this lampoon? Defamation, liquidation of the truth and of the true way to salvation. What means are used there? Suggestive lies, half-truths, manipulation.
An open letter against discrimination of conscience and belief
Post date: 2009-10-28Autor: Synod UO GCC
In Ukraine there is Moscow Orthodox Church, Kievan Orthodox Church and Autocephalous Orthodox Church. According to the laws of Ukraine, nothing hinders registration of the UOGCC besides the UGCC. However, this is not desirable for the UGCC leadership so it dishonestly influences state authorities towards violation of the laws of Ukraine and thus towards religious discrimination.After numerous efforts at registration the State Committee on Matters of Nationalities and Religions definitively rejected whatever further communication with us. This committee is subordinated directly to You. Therefore full responsibility for this crime of violation of the laws of Ukraine in the matters of freedom of conscience falls upon You!Prove that You have nothing in common with this crime. Please, do Your best and see to it that in accordance with the Ukrainian laws the UOGCC is registered before the election! You will thus manifest that You have at heart a true spiritual revival and spirtual resurrection of Ukraine.
Antichristian spirit of the journal Meta
Post date: 2009-10-14Autor: Synod UO GCC
If we were to express the mean and insidious activity of the apostate Vilchynskyi and of the apostatical structure which he serves, we would not manage to do it so aptly as he did it himself. For it is not in us but in him and in the apostatical structure that the spirit of Antichrist and Jezebel works. The spirit of Jezebel liquidates true prophets and does not permit the way of conversion of the nation to God.
Reply to Orest Vilchynskyi – apostatized priest of the Lvov eparchy
Post date: 2009-10-12Autor: Synod UO GCC
Dear Orest, after having read Your letter we were shocked – how could You sink to such depths? You acted like Judas, the traitor of Jesus Christ. We are afraid lest You should end up the same as he did. As for Your “expert theology”, it testifies to the fact that instead of love for the truth You have opened up to demagogical manipulation and to the deepest form of lie. Realize whom You serve: God or the devil – the spirit of lie? The fruit of Your activity is the answer.The devil is a liar and a murderer (cf. Jn 8:44) and You and the whole heretical system serve him. You are killing innocent and defenceless souls.How would You stand in this moment before the judgement seat of God?