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nEw STAr 11
September, 2012
alcolm X College, on Chicago's Near West Side, involves students in a community development group established in 1988, to aid young people
develop a better understanding of their
surrounding community. It helps in
areas of job preparation, life skills
training, maintaining and developing
the community and guides students to
realize solutions necessary to improve
quality of life.
Photo: Kweli Kwaza
one of the challenges was to enrich
[L-R] Desmond Boyd, Darian Brown, Markeith Wherry,
their knowledge of the community by
Steven Wherry, Phyllis Zaparaniuk at Malcolm X College.
taking part in a scavenger hunt.
they were put into teams and sent into various parts who was one of four students sent to ukrainian Village
of many ethnic communities. they were armed with a along with her advisor, Kweli Kwaza, wasted no time
notebook of questions such as, how to say hello in in coming to St. Nicholas Cathedral office to find
ukrainian, or Chinese or German in other neighbor- answers.
one of their requests was to be able to see the interior
hoods; what streets border the community; how the
area was established; or what holds the community of the Cathedral. upon opening the doors, they stood in
together. they had to approach people on the streets of awe of its magnificence..
New Star contributor, Phyllis Muryn Zapraniuk, who
the various areas to get their answers. Darian Brown
Clearly stated, too, is rationale for our own baptismreflected in the Gospel message Go, make disciples of all nations (MT 28-19). That is emphasized
by realizing that as an Eastern Christian, I am to... do
just that.
Helping us to be ambassadors of the Heavenly
Kingdom, the structured classroom activities are geared
to make us aware of what it is our Faith entails. As an
adjunct tool, there has been developed an interactive
activity for each studenttracing the steps personally
taken to put this commission into practice. A generic
lesson plan suggests how at every grade level, ageappropriate activities can be integrated into the curriculum, not just for knowledge of the faith, but for some
practical application. Additional versions of the poster
are provided as a way of tracking the progress made in
the student's real life attempt to show the Gospel to others by their words and actions outside the classroom.
The new evangelization is not a task that requires
external missionary activity, but an exercise in everyday Christian living. The end product is caught up in
rethinking a familiar axiom: Keep the Faith. By
being faithful to the calling as a Christian, our motto
can be: Dont keep the Faithspread it!
Iwanna did not work outside the home until her boys
were grown, even though that meant that the family was
never very well-off in material terms. She dedicated herself to her children completely.
Iwanna was an avid embroiderer, leaving a legacy of
dozens of amazing Ukrainian embroideries. She was an
excellent cook, renowned for her recipes and tortes. Her
home was always like a little museum of Ukrainian culture, and an unabashedly Christian environment, with
crosses and icons in every room.
She lived on her own until the very end, not wishing to
be a burden to her children, giving herself over to Gods
will on a daily basis. Iwanna was incredibly adaptable,
moving with her husband first to Miami Beach, then
Toronto, and finally Arizona, where her husband died in
Tempe, November 4, 2004. Iwanna eventually moved to
Tucson, where her pastor was her son, Mitered Protopresbyter Andriy.
She reposed in the Lord, May 23, 2012. The parastas
was served at St. Michaels in Tucson, and the funeral
was celebrated at St. John the Baptist Ukrainian Catholic
Parish in Newark, New Jersey. She was buried next to
her husband, Nicholas, at Gate of Heaven Catholic Cemetery in Hanover, New Jersey.
May her memory be eternal!
Athanasius Holub
12 nEw STAr
September, 2012
Divine Liturgy at the Church of St. Nicholas of the
Holy Protection Convent in Kyiv. During the service,
the synod of bishops ordained Archimandrite ePHRAIM
(Yarink) as Bishop of Berdyansk.
AMEriCAn FunD To rESTorE MoSAiCS oF ToP 7 MoST viSgolDEn DoME CAThEDrAl oF ST. MiChAEl: iTED ChurChES
on August 8, a meeting between
oF lviv nAMED:
the leadership of the National Reserve Sophia of Kyiv and representatives of the American
Ambassadors Fund for Cultural
Preservation was held regarding
the use of a grant allocated to the
ukrainian side to implement a
project of preservation of a collection of authentic mosaics of
the 12th century of the Golden
Dome Cathedral of St. Michael
kept in the stocks of St Sophia of
Kyiv.
According to the Ministry of Culture of ukraine, the
amount of the grant allocated by the American Ambassadors Fund for Cultural Preservation to implement the
project totals $45,850 (uS). the grant expires on June
30, 2013.
BICYCLE PILGRIMAGE TO KREKHIV MONASTERY OF ST. NICHOLAS: Another bicycle pilgrimage to the
Krekhiv Basilian Monastery of St. Nicholas took place on the 28th of July 2012. Approximately 25 participants
made the pilgrimage; they were joined by and received assistance from women of the parish community MyrrhBearing Women. This was reported by Mykhailo Biletskyi.
The pilgrims departed from Yaniv cemetery, in Lviv, in the direction of Briukhovychi; having passed through
Birky, they reached the pilgrimage place in Krekhiv, where, after a short rest, they visited the healing spring and
the cave monastery. Afterwards, the pilgrims prayed together in a wooden church of the Protection, located on
the territory of the house of prayer. Following the divine service, the novice-brother Taras Kushpit conducted a
guided tour for the participants of the bicycle pilgrimage.
The pilgrimage stay in the Krekhiv Monastery finished with a delicious dinner, shared pictures, as well as, with
gratitude to the Basilian Fathers and Brothers
nEw STAr 13
September, 2012
Why?/Why:
My spouse and i have a friendly wager
on the timing of the question of the
terms ukrainian Catholic greek
Catholic or ukrainian greek Catholic. one of us thinks it was a plant
to draw attention to other articles in the
same paper. (They dealt with racism,
xenophobia, concern over tolerance of
reconciliation between Poles and
ukrainians, and even the presence of
foreigners at the Euro games). The
other does not feel this way. who is
right?
one of you will be disappointed. the
question was submitted weeks before the
articles on racism, xenophobia and euro
game pep talks appeared in the news
sources used in assembling that particular
edition of the New Star.
It seemed appropriate to ease the tension expressed in that letter using historic
references. It was mere coincidence the
question/answer shared pages in the newspaper with the topics you cited, which hint
at those fears. until you pointed out the
possibility of a planned campaign, the
thought that of a connection never arose.
use of terminology should not obstruct
the work of the Church. emphasis on
politically-inspired details are not condusive to understanding Christs statement
My Kingdom is not of this world. Nor
are we to forget St Pauls insistance that
there is neither Jew or Greek, slave or
freeman. and by this be motivated to
seek first the Kingdom of God.
Hopefully your friendly wager was
set up in such a way that it was a win/win
situation for the two of you.
Your why?/why: in the July, 2012 New
Star did nothing to clearly explain what
our Eastern rite religion is and what it
By Fr Denny Molitvy
now what?
only say that He always will be with us in some indeterminate future; rather, we are forced to admit that He
is always present to us, even in the current mess of our
lives. Wishing our lives away denies the truth which
the Church has us proclaim with our own lips; this is
not a good thing, is it? Gulp again!
So Christ brings the glory of God to every moment
of our lives, even those moments which seem decidedly unglorious. opening His arms as long ago on the
Cross, He constantly invites those besought by the
agony of defeat and so many other afflictions to the
vision of the Kingdom once shared with and promised
to the Good thief crucified with Him.
I recently heard a Protestant deal with the question,
Why dont you show the Crucified Christ, but instead
only the empty Cross? His answer: the cross stands
empty waiting for you! Applying this to the present
context, my decidedly un-Protestant ears interpret this
to mean that the Cross has a way of stripping away all
our distractions, reducing our life to the essential
now, which is the only time and place where we
time-bound creatures can encounter the saving God.
Beneath all the noise and trouble of our daily now,
God is always there, waiting to surprise us with a foretaste of His
glory, inviting us to experience the
salvation of the eternal now
which He opens to us. If we do not
recognize His glory and power
here and nowthat is, in the crosses of daily lifewill heavenly
harps prove a distraction as well?
Fr Jim Karepin, OP
14 nEw STAr
Henri Nouwens
Profound Teachings
one Mind
Life as PtSD
y father served in the uS Army in Italy during WWII. In retrospect all these years later
and with the enhanced hindsight of modern
scientific and medical advances, it is blatantly obvious
that many of his problems and faults and unfortunate
habits and behaviors were caused by the horrors of
hand-to-hand combat warfare. Im afraid that the vast
majority of veterans who experienced the vicissitudes
of war suffer, often with silence and with profound
feelings of personal guilt, from their memories and
moral conflicts, and that their entire lives are affected,
and not for the better.
As a life-ling pacifist (I was a registered recognized
conscientious objector in the early Vietnam war era).
this fact alone is a powerful argument against war.
Why risk the emotional and mental health of the youth
of our nation; tomorrows leaders, fathers and mothers
transformed into profoundly disturbed persons?
Nicodemos of the Holy Mountain translated an earlier Western european treatise on Spiritual Warfare.
there is another famous orthodox text written, as I
recall, by a nun/abbess, called The Arena. And of
course there is the (Latin-influenced) Imitation of
Christ by St thomas Kempis. these books point out
that we are all challenged to be warriors, battling the
forces of the evil one to subvert our lives, and pollute
our souls. Did you ever wonder why the great archangels
are always depicted in armor and bearing arms? Why we
September, 2012
two selves: the true self and the fake self. In the true his death. He believed that the power of love transcendself he portrayed that part of an individual that is ed all things, even the power of death itself. In one of
defined by God, namely humans as beloved daughters his books, Befriending Death, he believed it was possiand sons of a merciful and loving Creator. By fake ble for human beings to befriend their death. As chilself he referred to qualities that had a temporal origin dren of a loving God, he saw humankind in possession
and were frequently dark in nature. He was guided by of a freedom and power over death that comes only
St. Pauls writings which state that a true self seeks a from Jesus Christ.
Nouwen knew that he would remain Gods beloved
life according to the Spirit while a false self seeks a
son throughout all eternity. His belief
life according to the flesh.
in the life and death of Jesus was conNouwen maintains that such polarities exist within all humans and he
firmed by his reading of St. Paul,
Death, where is your victory? Death,
engaged himself in an ongoing effort
where is your sting? (Cor. 15:55).
to accentuate the true self. He did
this by acknowledging his weaknessHenri Nouwen and Spiritual Poes and faults but not discarding them.
larities: A Life in Tension, is the last
He integrated his whole self of polarin a trilogy of books Wil Hernandez
wrote on Henri Nouwen. the first
ities into deep prayer, solitude, and
service to humankind as a means to
two are: Henri Nouwen: A Spirituality
eliminate any resulting tensions by
of Imperfection (2006) and Henri
loving self. this enabled his true self
Nouwen and Soul Care: A Ministry of
to flourish into an intimate and strong
Integration (2008).
relationship with God.
Henri Nouwen (1932-1996)
Nouwen not only contemplated his
Sister Jonathan Wachko, OSBM
earthly life, but sought to understand
The Challenges of
Discipleship
Office of Faith Formation
and my wife says Im domineering and stubborn
when it comes to complex issues. I have a drink and
watch tV to unwind after work.
But what are you involved with in doing something for your neighbor? Im really too busy keeping up with things around home and at the office. I
dont have time to get involved with extra things.
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H A P P Y
ber of uSCCB and the eastern Catholic Churches, participated in the Audits, and has been found in compliance with the Charter during the last years on-site
Audit. this year, the Audit will be take place during the
first two weeks of September.
If you have any questions regarding Child Protection, please contact Serge Michaluk, eparchial
Coordinator, at 773-276-9500 or sergemichaluk@
gmail.com
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According to Bishop Blaire, the "terrible human costs" of a broken economy include workers being exploited or
mistreated, stagnant or falling wages,
and stress on families. As a result,
"many employees struggle for just
wages, a safe workplace, and a voice in
the economy, but they cannot purchase
the goods they make, stay in the hotels
they clean, or eat the food they harvest,
prepare, or serve."
"An economy that allows this
exploitation and abuse demands our
attention and action," wrote Bishop
Blaire. He noted that the bishops work
to provide hope and help to exploited
workers through programs such as the
uSCCB Migration and Refugee
Services and the Catholic Campaign
for Human Development, but said that
"everyone and every institution" in
societybusinesses, government, unions and private institutionsshould
collaborate to support workers and create an economy "that serves the person
rather than the other way around."
"this Labor Day, millions of working people and their families have
urgent and compelling needs," Bishop
Blaire concluded. "I ask you to join me
in a special prayer for them and all
workers, especially those without a job
struggling to live in dignity. May God
guide our nation in creating a more just
economy that truly honors the dignity
of work and the rights of workers."
Y E A R !
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September, 2012
he Episcopal ordination of
UCUs Rector Father Borys Gudziak was held on August 26 in St.
Georges Cathedral in Lviv. The Hierarchical Liturgy was celebrated by Patri-
PHOTO: zaxid.net
Newly-ordained
Bishop
Borys
then thanked all
those present and
those who contributed to the formation of his vocation: noting it is
important to remember that the
Lord gives us one
Fr Borys goes ahead of the
exampleto come
co-consecrating hierarchs into the cathedral.
down. God who
His Beatitude, Sviatoslav ordained Fr created the cosmos, comes closer to all of
Borys Gudziak, titular bishop of Carcabia, us, is nearby, is part of our life, our death,
to be the Apostolic Eparch in France, Be- and loves each of us.
nelux and Switzerland, and observed:
Besides the co-consecrating hierarchs,
The ordination is happening at an inter- participation in the consecration and solesting timewhen we celebrate the 20th emn liturgy included the Papal Nuncio in
anniversary of the return to St. Georges Ukraine, Thomas Edward Gullickson;
Cathedral the mortal remains of the ser- bishops of the UGCC from Ukraine and
vant of God Patriarch JOSEPH (Slipyj) abroad, bishops of the Roman Catholic
for us today an example of a real bishop, Church; diplomats and ambassadors; repthe one among his people of God who resentatives of donors and UCU foundareveals to us the one good Teacher.
tions; lecturers and students, and represenPatriarch Sviatoslav thanked Bishop tatives of different Christian denominaBorys for his tireless, troublesome work in tions.
Ukraine.
website of UCU
On Anniversary of Independence:
Build Ukrainian World
--Patriarch Sviatoslav
In his address on the 21st anniversary of the independence of Ukraine, Patriach Sviatoslav calls on the faithful
to assume responsibility for the gift of independence of
the Ukrainian nation, to work diligently and pray zealously for Ukraine.
We must now adopt the high ideals of state-creation
which drove the heroes of the struggle for state independence and freedom of the church and people. As we
celebrate the day, let us feel that the Lord, our Creator
and Liberator, is with us, reads the address published
by the Information Department of the UGCC.
The Primate stressed that the church always was with
its people: She was its mother and teacher, adviser and
protector. Often, only the voice of her hierarchs, Metropolitan Andrey, Patriarch Joseph was raised to defend
hundreds of thousands of people who were killed,
deported, imprisoned and tortured.
The church taught to love Ukraine truly in the vortex of hatred and to avoid any evil. The church remains
with its people today, noted the patriarch.
He called on all the faithful of the church and all people of good will to love their Motherland and develop
the Ukrainian world both in their own state and outside
it.
New Exhibit at
Kyiv in Miniature Park:
The Patriarchal Center of UGCC
On the 18th of August, His Beatitude Sviatoslav
gave his blessing to a new exhibit of the Kyiv in
Miniature Park, a thumbnail image of the Patriarchal
Center of the UGCC, which includes the Patriarchal
Cathedral of the Resurrection of Christ and the administrative building. The process of sanctification
was attended by Bishop BOHDAN (Dziurakh), General
Secretary of the UGCC Synod of Bishops, clergy,
donors, as well as representatives of the administration of the park.
"This is a symbolic event. Today we gave our
blessing to the maquette; however, we hope that in a
year we will sanctify our Patriarchal Cathedral. Next
year we will celebrate the 1025th Anniversary of the
Baptism of Rus-Ukraine. The meeting of our Synod
will take place in Kiev. We want to live to see the
day, when with the help of God and with the support
of our donors in 2013, we will sanctify our Cathedral.
So, let this blessing be a harbinger of a great sanctification, said the UGCC Primate in his address.
Patriarch Sviatoslav expressed his gratitude to the
Tokach family, on whose initiative and at whose excontinued on page 19
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Church, that uGCC shares pastoral, social and ecumenical common interests. therefore, believes His Beatitude
Sviatoslav, if uoC-MP carries on a dialogue directly
with uGCCwithout outside interferencethen this
dialogue could be both positive and constructive
We are pained by the division of the one Kyivan
Church, born through Volodymyrs Baptism, not only
between Catholics and orthodox, but also among the
orthodox themselvescontinues the uGCC Primate.
there cannot be a step forward towards unity if it is not
nurtured by all those who are the inheritors of
Volodymyrs Baptism and the one Kyivan Church.
In his comments, he also mentioned that when His
Beatitude Lubomyr announced the return of the uGCC
Seat to Kyiv from Lviv, his pastoral letter on that occasion to uGCC faithful, united Gods People in the
Country on the Kyiv Hills, voiced his vision of the
establishment of one churchmoving from confessional exclusivity towards confessional collaboration.
I admit that I share His Beatitudes vision of the
unity of the Kyivan Church. therefore I attempt to treat
the accumulated wounds and to build one cathedral for
a peoplejust as it was in the beginning, when in 988
there was one Kyivan Churchthe daughter of the
union of the Constantinople Church with Rome, stated the uGCC leader in his interview for the Italian
publication Il Regno.
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US Catholics Back
Bishops' Stance on
Religious Liberty
Poll Shows Sharp Increase in Approval
of Church Leadership
WASHINGtoN, D.C., (Zenit.org).- A poll conducted
by the Pew Research Center's Forum on Religion and
Public Life showed that Catholics who are aware of
the u.S. bishops concern on religious liberty agree
with them.
the poll also showed that protests organized against
the legislation have not drawn more interest among
Catholics than the general public.
they study showed that almost two-thirds, or 64%,
of Catholics have heard little of the bishops' concerns
regarding government policies, including the obama
administrations mandate that requires employers to
provide coverage for contraception, abortifacient and
sterilization services. the poll did show that roughly
22% of Catholics have heard a lot about the bishops'
protests over the policy and only a third of Catholic
churchgoers have said that their parish priest has spoken on the issue at Mass
"By a 56% to 36% margin, Catholics who are aware
of the bishops protests about what they believe are
infringements of religious liberty say they agree with
the bishops concerns. Among all Americans who are
aware of the protests, there is less support for the bishops position: 41% agree with the bishops concerns,
while 47% disagree," the poll stated.
the study was conducted among 2,973 adults, 619
of whom were Catholics, from June 28-July 9. the
Pew Research Center also reported that most
Catholics, roughly 70%, expressed satisfaction with
the u.S. bishops' leadership in general.
the percentage numbers show a sharp increase
compared to the last study in 2002, during the height
of the child abuse scandal. A large majority are satisfied with the leadership of their local bishop, priests
and nuns. the study showed that 74% of those polled
showed satisfaction with the leadership of Pope
Benedict XVI.
ummer ordinarily provides many enriching spiritual events for the small Ukrainian Catholic contemplative community of the Nuns of St. Basil
the Great, who spend their days in prayerful silence,
solitude and seclusion within their Monastery of the
Sacred Heart in Middletown, New York. Summer,
2012, has been no exception.
In July, Bishop PAUL (Chomnycky, OSBM,) Eparch
of Stamford, visited the Nuns to celebrate with them his
patronal feast of Sts. Peter and Paul. His Grace served
the Divine Liturgy in the Monastery
Chapel. During his homily in which he
spoke of the similarities and differences
of St. Peter and St. Paul, Bishop Paul
highlighted how both were touched by
the hand of God, gave up their former
strongly-held opinions and boldly proclaimed the kingdom of God.
He encouraged the Nuns to imitate
the two saints both in openness to
Gods transforming grace, and in boldness to proclaim the kingdom of God at this time when
the message so needs to be heard. After the Divine
Liturgy, Bishop Paul enjoyed a relaxing brunch with
Nuns of St. Basil the Great; Monastery of the Sacred Heart; 209 Keasel Road; Middletown, NY 10940;
Telephone and fax (845) 343-1308; www.basiliannuns.org
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pense this thumbnail image was created and established.
Thanks to you, our residents and visitors to the capital,
who will stroll around this miniature Kyiv, will have
the presence of the UGCC, as an integral part of the
architecture of the city, its history as well as modern
days, in their minds, said the Patriarch Sviatoslav to the
donors.
On this occasion, the leader of the UGCC called all the
faithful people as well as people of good will, to help
with their gifts to complete the construction of the Patriarchal Center.
Park "Kyiv in Miniature" opened its doors to visitors
on June 23, 2006. The area of the miniature city equals
1.8 hectares, the diverse collection of buildings in 1:33
scale. The park recreates modern Kyiv with its most famous architectural landmarks.
Production of all the maquettes took almost four years.
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