Cardinal

Lubomir Huzar

Supreme Archbishop

Lviv

Your Beatitude,

We would like to present to You two issues:

I.   The activity of the authorities of OSBM fathers

II.  The activity of the head of the Patriarchal Commission for Religious s. Dia Stasiuk, OSBM

Besides, we would like to present both to You and to all believers in Ukraine a book called “Four Words from Ukraine” giving it at Your disposal and to Your spiritual and theological orientation. The book shares an experience of contemplative prayer and at the same time in the spirit of a sound Church tradition (Fathers of the Church, apostles, and saints) it clarifies the first and greatest commandment and specifies it for our times. We were struggling for the trueness of faith as early as the Communist regime in 1981-1990 on the territory of former Czechoslovak Socialist Republic. This was a struggle against false pseudomysticism, New Age and liberal theology. It was then we came to understand that the biggest enemy of the Church is not Communism but various kinds of heresies and phariseism inside the Church (see essays: Neomodernism in the Church; Occultism within the Church,…). The adherents of this false spirituality set against us the STB (State Security Service) (KGB). In this fight for a purity of faith and sound spirituality we mainly drew from the orthodox theology of Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, the present-day Holy Father Benedict XVI.