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Explanation of our activity
Post date: 2008-06-12Autor:
The Church is built on the apostles and prophets (cf. Eph 2:20). If the hierarchy (bishops) exclude the prophetical office from the life of the Church by liquidating so-called undesirable people, the consequence will be self-destruction of the Church and then God’s punishment or “Babylonian captivity”.
Pastoral letter – Easter 27th April 2008
Post date: 2008-04-27Autor:
Today the Eastern Church both in Ukraine and in Russia celebrates the glorious Resurrection of Christ. This year we also commemorate the jubilee of the baptism of Rus-Ukraine by St. Vladimir in Kiev.Through baptism we were immersed in Christ’s death and received new life (cf. Rom 6:3-4). We are to renew this God’s life in us through the celebration of Sunday – the Day of Resurrection. The spiritual resurrection will come only after every Christian opens himself to Christ’s Spirit!
Letter to the Holy Father
Post date: 2008-04-07Autor:
Your Holiness, the contemplative religious sisters of the Monastery of St. Elijah the Prophet take the liberty to write to You as those who honour You as the Vicar of Christ on earth, yearn along with You for the renewal of the Church of Christ and are witnesses to the current events in Ukraine. By openly standing on the side of Christ in this time as well as by openly standing against the current heresies (historic-critical theology and respect for other religions), the Pidhirtsi bishops have already decided their fate – to them to live is Christ, and to die is gain. To condemn them means to take a side with heresy and ipso facto to exclude oneself from the Church. Should the Church condemn them, she would thus decide her own fate.
Private audience with the Holy Father
Post date: 2008-04-01Autor:
Your Eminence, certainly You can understand that in such a serious matter, which has an impact not only on our UGCC but also on the whole Church, we must uncompromisingly demand a private audience with the Holy Father. You understand that we cannot react to any decrees from the papal dicasteries, even if they were signed by the Holy Father.
Letter to Card. Tarcisio Bertone
Post date: 2008-03-27Autor:
Card. L. Husar issued a hasty declaration by which he excommunicates us, four bishops.By this act Card. L. Husara) boycotted the competence of the Holy Father;b) boycotted the canon law (can. 1060 §1 CCEO).This concrete case has revealed the true spirit of Card. L. Husar and of the whole system which he represents.Your Eminence, please, inform the Holy Father of this situation and You Yourself order Card. L. Husar to wait obediently for the settlement of the situation by the Holy Father!
Bishops faithful to the Holy Father and to the UHKC consecrated in the time of illegality
Post date: 2008-03-14Autor:
Promulgation to faithful of UGCC
Post date: 2008-03-03Autor:
Our programme is the same as was with the Apostle Paul – to preach Christ in season and out of season, to be a witness to Him for fallen-away Christians as well as for neopagans, to be ready for chains and even death for Christ’s sake.
Promulgation of four episcopal consecrations
Post date: 2008-03-03Autor:
Venerable fathers of the Bishops’ Synod of UGCC, we thereby announce to You that according to the prescribed liturgical observances we were duly consecrated Greek-Catholic bishops of the UGCC (Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church).
Application for the monastery in Pidhirtsi
Post date: 2008-03-03Autor:
We announce to You that we proposed to the Holy Father that the monastery in Pidhirtsi be exempted from the Province OSBM and established as an autonomous monastery of pontifical right.
Letter to the Holy Father - announcement about episcopal consecration
Post date: 2008-03-03Autor:
When asking about the sense of the law stated in the canon code which prohibits consecration of a bishop without the consent of the Vatican – the answer is: To prevent consecration of a heretic, schismatic, apostate, homosexual... However, if observance of this law leads in practice to the exact opposite, which means that right such men are consecrated, while men who are moral, orthodox and faithful to the Holy Father are not consecrated, the prohibition stated in the canon law has lost its sense and turned harmful to the Church.