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A Memorable Weekend
t. Nicholas Eparchy commemorated the
fiftieth annivesary of its establishment
with a weekend of activities that spanned
the spectrum of its purpose as Church: to teach
us to be disciples of Christ; to lead us in prayer;
to enrich our lives with principles to bring us to
salvation, and fulfill the purpose for which we
are made in the image and likeness of God.
There was a catechetical session; liturgical
expressions of faith that included a procession
between parishes which made the world stop
and see; and a social, cultural gathering to be a
foretaste of the heavenly banquet.
With just a few photographs some highlights
show the culmination of the year-and-a-halflong process that brought the focus of every
parish in the eparchy to a single thought--our
need for Heavenly Protection as expressed in
the Pilgrim Jubilee Icon, which journeyed to
every parish and mission.

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Along the top are the heraldry of Bishops JAROSLAW (Gabro),
INNOCENT (Lotocky, OSBM) and MICHAEL (Wiwchar, CSsR)

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Christ is readied--it is the
standard we are to follow in
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October, 2011

World Youth Day 2011

n August 14, 2011, eleven
American pilgrims set out to
Madrid, Spain to join thousands of other young people in celebrating their faith. Youth and chaperones from St Josaphat Eparchy were
joined by Sr. Ann Laszok, OSBM,
Eparchy of St. Josaphat and Fr.
James Karepin, OP, Chancellor of
the Eparchy of St. Nicholas.
The trip got off to a bumpy start
with a cancellation due to storms in
Newark, New Jersey and then turbulence on the delayed rescheduled
flight. Excitement in exploring a
whole new city, learning the subway
system, and meeting other Ukrainian
Catholic young people from Canada,
the United States and Ukraine characterized the whole week. Daily catechesis led by our Canadian counterparts in English was thought-pro-

voking. Bishop Bryans homilies

were enlightening and inclusive at
the Liturgies as well at the catechesis.
Challenges in just maneuvering
through the massive crowds for various events, meals and travel from
place to place were faced with
patience and good humor. Disappointments in not being able to visit
the vocation site, the Prado or the
Mozarabic Liturgy (an ancient
Spanish rite prior to the Roman rite)
because of humongous lines were
turned into opportunities to happen
upon Mother Theresas exhibit, the
Cathedral of St Isadore (patron saint
of Madrid), and the Church of Santa
Cruz and the red carpet walk. After
six and a half hours waiting in the
heat for Pope Benecict, he passed by
in his Popemobile. Celebrating Lit-

urgy after a seven-mile walk and an

overnight vigil that was initially
blessed by a lightning storm passing
through was unforgettable.
We were aided by the helpfulness
of the locals who gave us good
directions, in sharing water in time
of need; in keeping everyone safe in
the sea of humanity and the love and
care we had for each other. We experienced Christ in others as well as
each other. Divine Liturgy with Fr.
Karepin at the hotel helped us reflect
on each others gifts. Respect, love
and mutual concern dominated the
weeks pilgrimage.
An invitation to a dinner of
borscht and pyrohy by a Ukrainian
family working in Spain capped the
week with a feast.
ABOVE: A local parish was the site of
the Divine Liturgy--complete with a
portable icon screen.
BELOW: travel-weary pilgrims find a
shady spot for a short rest.

replica of Shroud of turin at

St Nicholas Cathedral
n the occasion of the 50th cifixion and death of Jesus.
The face of the Crucified Man is one
anniversary of St. Nicholas
Eparchy, the Cathedral Parish of we have become familiar with since the
St. Nicholas will exhibit the ninth early centuries because the face of Jesus
authentic copy of the Shroud of Turin that we know today originates from the
sanctioned by the Vatican from October 1 Shroud of Turin. There is no physical
description of Jesus in the Gospels. The
to November 21, 2011.
The 14 by 3.5 linen reproduction of face on the Shroud matches images of
Jesus from the 5th
the original Shroud
century.
has been an unofficial
Metropolitan Archsymbol of devotion.
bishop STEFAN (SoThe authentication of
the Shroud has been
roka) of the Archclouded in controvereparchy of Philadelsy for centuries.
phia obtained the
However, plant and
copy from Patriarch
pollen residue found
LUBOMYR (Husar) and
on the cloth has been
granted permission to
dated to the time of
display it for public
An early icon of Christ from Egypt
Jesus and the vicinveneration. It began
superimposed on the face on the
ity of Jerusalem.
its exhibit on the
Shroud produces a striking
The
bloodstains
Feast of the Protecsimilarity of feaures.
that penetrate the
tion of the Mother of
cloth are consistent with blood from God (October 1), and will remain to the
wound injuries. The sepia image which Feast of the Presentation of the Mother of
penetrates two microfibers of the thread God in the Temple (November 21) at St.
is a negative imprint. When the image is Nicholas Cathedral. There will be no
photographed, it reveals the body of a admission fee.
crucified man--a 3-D image. There is no
On October 1, Bishop RICHARD (Semevidence of paint, stain, pigment, scorch- inack) celebrated vespers in Ukrainian
ing or chemical residue to explain the and English.
presence of the image. Attempts to dupliFor additional information or to schedcate the Shroud have failed. All the mark- ule a church tour, email: office@stniings on the Shroud: the marks left from cholaschicago.org or call 773-276-4537.
the scourging of the body, the crowns of Viewing of the Shroud continues Thursthorns, nails in the feet and wrists, pierc- day from 5 to 9 PM and Saturday and
ing in the side, the unbroken legs; these Sunday from 2 to 6 PM. Tours by
are accurate Scriptural details of the cru- appointment.

Patriarchal Council
Held in Brazil
n the Brazilian city of Prudentopolis, on August 31-September 4, the
Fifth session of the Patriarchal
Council of the Ukrainian Greek
Catholic Church was held. According to
church law, a council is an assembly of
all the bishops, representatives of the
clergy, monks, nuns and laymen of the
church and is held every five years.
The previous Patriarchal Council was
dedicated to the youth in
the church of the third
millennium. This year,
the theme of the session
was consecrated life and
its motto a passage from
the Gospel of Matthew:
You are the light of the
world, you are the salt of
the earth. (Mt. 5, 13-14).
According to Patriarch
SVIATOSLAV (Shevchuk),
the goal of this session
was to ponder on the
present monastic life of
UGCC and on what it should be like and
what the church today expects of religious persons.
According to http://risu.org.ua/radiovaticana.org\n _blankradiovaticana.org,
representatives of all the eparchies and
exarchates of the UGCC headed by their
local hierarchs, superiors, delegates
from monastic communities, orders and
associations of laymen together with the
faithful of Prudentopolis on August 31
met with Patriarch Sviatoslav.

The session of the council began with

a prayer in the Church of St. Josaphat
and officially opened in the Monastery of
Sisters Servants of Mary Immaculate.
Bishop BOHDAN (Dziurakh), Secretary
of the Synod of Bishops of the UGCC,
read out the Decree on the opening of the
session. Patriarch SVIATOSLAV (Shevchuk) addressed the participants stressing that the council is a good opportuni-

ty to exchange experience and concentrate on the vocation to religious life as

well as to thank all those fathers, monks
and nuns who relentlessly worked for
the development of the UGCC in Brazil
during the last century.
Bishop VOLODYMYR (Kovbych), the
Eparch of Curitiba called the council an
excellent opportunity to get to know the
Brazilian land and its dynamic Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church.

Report of His Beatitude Sviatoslav during the Synod of Bishops:

The priority of the Church is to preach the Word of God
and provide our faithful with qualitative pastoral care
he Synod of Bishops of the
Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church
met on September 5, 2011 in
Curitiba, Brazil. On the first days working session, Bishop VOLODYMYR (Kovbych), Eparch of Curitiba, presided at a
Divine Liturgy. In his homily, Bishop

Volodymyr emphasized the role of religious people in the UGCC from historical and theological point of view.
At the beginning of the first working
session, His Beatitude Sviatoslav, greeted the guests who arrived for the Synod
upon the invitation of His Beatitude:

Cardinal Raymundo Damasceno Assis,

President of the Brazilian Bishops Conference; Most Rev. Jose Vitti, Archbishop of Curitiba Diocese; Archbishop John
Bosco de Suza, President of the National
Bishops Conference of southern region
of Brazil; Most Rev. JEREMIA (Ferenz),

Archbishop of the Ukrainian Autocephalous Church of Latin America; Most

Rev. Rafael Benarski, Auxiliary Bishop
of Curitiba Diocese; Ms. Viktoria
Syrotiuk; Head Ukrainian-Brazilian
Central Representative. Greetings in a
continued on page 15

October, 2011

12 NEW STAR

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GALICIA PRESENTED IN LVIV On September 17, brought Notre Dame closer to its $3.2 million goal. The

DISCRIMINATION AGAINST SOME RELIGIOUS

GROUPS SHOWN IN STATE DEPARTMENT OF
USA REPORT: A special report of the State
Department of the USA on international religious freedom stresses that Ukraine shows a positive tendency but
with some problems. The report, published by the web
site of the State Department, says with reference to the Ukrainian association of Religious Freedom that
the fact that President Viktor
Yanukovych shows favor
only to one religious group
causes deterioration of the
relations between the different
denominations. In addition, evidence was found that local councils
promote one particular religious group more than others. For instance, according to the report, representatives of the Kyivan Patriarchate complain that UOC
(Moscow Patriarchate) puts pressure on the authorities
of Kyiv to ban UOC-Kyivan Patriarchate from conducting memorial services in cemeteries.
Discrimination against some religious groups is
shown also by refusals to register them in various
regions of Ukraine, says the report.
For example, representatives of the Muslim community have problems with registration of new centers in
the Crimea and representatives of the Greek Catholics
state that the authorities of Kyiv refuse to allocate land
to them for construction of churches whereas UOC-MP
faces the same problem in Lviv and Ivano-Frankivsk
regions.
According to the report, the Crimean Tatars also point
to discrimination on the part of officials who are ethnic
Russians as regards employment in the local administrations. In addition, Russian groups propagate hostility
to the Tatars among other residents of the Crimea. So
reported Korrespondent.

MARONITE BISHOPS ELECTED: The Holy Father

gave his assent to the canonical election carried out by
the Synod of Bishops of the Maronite Church of Msgr.
Hanna Alwan M.L., prelate auditor of the Tribunal of
the Roman Rota, and of Fr. Camille Zaidan, "protosyncellus" (vicar general) of the archieparchy of Antelias
of the Maronites, Lebanon, as curial bishops.

MAN WHO BURGLED CHURCHES IN WESTERN

UKRAINE SENTENCED TO SEVEN YEARS IN
PRISON: A 39-year-old resident of the Poltava Oblast
stole ancient church books, icons, cash from safes and
money boxes from churches in the villages of the
Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast from April, 2009 to May, 2010.
The thief stole nearly thirty antique Gospels and other
church items of considerable historic, cultural and artistic value. Some of them are 350-400 years old.
It was established that the thief carefully planned his
crimes and studied the specificities of the churches in
advance. He traveled by bicycle. Villagers did not pay
attention to a stranger on a bike. He spent nights in the
woods or beside rivers. He also travelled by train.
It was established that he sold most of the shrines to
private collectors via the Internet.
After the completion of the pre-trial investigation, the
leadership of the Department of the Ministry of Internal
Affairs of Ukraine in the Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast decided to return to the church communities 13 church books
which were found. The rest of them are missing.
Probably, they are now part of private collections.
The Kalush City District Court of the IvanoFrankivsk Oblast sentenced the man to 7 years of
imprisonment according to Part 3 and 4 of Article 185
of the Criminal Code of Ukraine, "http://risu.org.ua
/Ostro.org" \n _blank Ostro.org reported.

2011, as part of the International Book Fair, a book

Nationalism and Religion: The Greek Catholic Church
and the Ukrainian Nationalist Movement in Galicia
(1920-1930s) was presented.
The conference was attended by the authors of the
book, Oleksandr Zaitsev (Candidate of Historic
Sciences, assistant professor at the Ukrainian Catholic
University (UCU) in Lviv), Oleh Behen (Candidate of
Historic Sciences, teacher at Ukrainian Catholic
University), Vasyl Stefaniv (historian, teacher at
Ukrainian Catholic University, worker of the Centre of
the Liberation Movement Studies) as well as ViceRector of UCU, Candidate of Historic Sciences, Oleh
Turij and Candidate of Historic Sciences, Head of the
Academic Council of the Centre of the Liberation
Movement Studies, Volodymyr Viatrovych. The presentation is organized by the Ukrainian Catholic University
and Center of Liberation Movement Studies.
The main theme of the book is the interaction
between nationalism and religion in Galicia during the
period between the two wars in the context of the relations of UGCC with the Ukrainian nationalist movement. The plot of the book is built round the complicated relations between the church as the carrier of the
Ukrainian individualism and the integral nationalism in
the context of combination of the nationalistic and universalistic trends within the Church itself.
The authors of the book paid special attention to the
conflict between the traditional religiosity and the issue
of sacralization of the nation, which is a kind of a stimulus to the creation of a political religion in the nationalist movement. In addition, the authors considered the
attempts to create the Catholic-nationalist synthesis in
the concept of Christian nationalism.

funds will contribute to library collections, graduate fellowships, professorships and educational programs.

PATRIARCH FILARET NAMES CONDITIONS ON

WHICH HE WILL LEAVE POST: Patriarch Filaret of
the Ukrainian Orthodox Church-Kyivan Patriarchate, in
an interview to Ligabiznesinform noted that he is ready
to leave his post under two conditions: that the
Ukrainian Church is united and its autocephaly is recognized by other Churches.
According to Ukrainska Pravda, the leader of the
UOC-KP explained his position by the fact that if there
is no unification, attempts may be made to destroy the
Kyivan Patriarchate.
I do not want to give up the Church to destruction.
And I will not leave the post until I can see that there is
one Orthodox Church, recognized by everyone, in
Ukraine. Then my mission will be fulfilled. Before it is
fulfilled, I have no right to
leave, he added.
He reminded that he did
not proclaim himself Patriarch but the Council of the
Church elected him and he
must fulfill its will.
Bishop Filaret was elected
Patriarch of Kyiv and All
Rus'-Ukraine in October,
1995. He has consistently
been promoting the establishment of the local Orthodox Church of Kyivan
Patriarchate in Ukraine since then. In 1997, the hierarchical council of the Russian Orthodox Church excommunicated and anathemized Patriarch Filaret.

NEW CHAIR ENDOWED IN BYZANTINE THEO- PILGRIMAGE OF FAITHFUL IN THE ARGENTINE:

LOGY: As part of University efforts to expand its On August 26-28, 2011, Patriarch SVIATOSLAV (Shevrenowned Medieval Institute, Notre Dame established
an endowed chair in Byzantine Theology this fall.
The position will focus on the theology of the
Medieval Greek-speaking Church and is named in
honor of Archbishop DEMETRIOS (Trakatellis), primate
of the Greek Orthodox Church of America.
The new professorship will include teaching and
research on the Eastern Roman Empire, the release stated. University President Fr. John Jenkins said the professor selected to fill the position will continue to develop the Medieval Institute and its strengths.
The new chair in Byzantine Theology will complement the mission of our Medieval Institute and, more
broadly, the Universitys acknowledged strengths in
patristic and western medieval theology, Jenkins said.
We are pleased to honor Archbishop Demetrios with
the naming of this chair, as we are extremely thankful
for his integral role in strengthening relations between
Roman Catholics and Orthodox Christians
around the world.
The chair holder will be a
member of both the Department
of Theology and the Medieval
Institute, the release stated.
The Department of Theology
includes more than 50 full-time
faculty members. Demetrios said
he was humbled and deeply grateful to be the chairs namesake.
The Universitys decision [to put the chair in my
name] constitutes a great honor for me, Demetrios
said. I pray that this gracious gesture by your prominent university will serve as another meaningful step in
promoting understanding, respect and enrichment,
thereby enabling our churches to more fully respond to
Gods call for Christian unity.
The creation of the chair contributes to the goals of
the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)
Challenge Grant issued to Notre Dame in 2007, according to the release. The NEH grant totaled $800,000, and
was contingent upon the University raising additional
funds to develop its Byzantine studies program.
Grants from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and

chuk) made his second pastoral visit to the Argentine,

namely, the capital of Misiones Province, Posadas.
On the first day in the Church of St. Volodymyr, the
hierarch celebrated a liturgy, after which the new
Catechism of UGCC Christ is our Pascha was presented. The new Catechism was presented by Patriarch
Sviatoslav and the Head of the Patriarchal Catechetical
Committee, Bishop PETER (Stasiuk).
His Beatitude celebrated a liturgy in one of the most
important pilgrimage centers dedicated to the Holy
Virgin in Argentina, the Basilica of the Holy Virgin of
the town of Itati (Corrientes Province). Numerous
believers from all over the country come to the annual
Ukrainian pilgrimage.
Before the beginning of the hierarchical liturgy, the
anthems of Argentine and Ukraine were played and a
ballet group of the Ukrainian parish of St. Peter and
Paul of the town of Alem (Province Misiones) held a
performance. Patriarch Sviatoslav introduced to the
Ukrainian faithful the newly-appointed Apostolic
Administrator, Bishop DANIEL (Kozlinskyi).
The Ukrainian pilgrimage to Itati was instituted by
Bishop Emeritus MYKHAIL (Mykytsei) in 1973 and is
held annually on August 28. So reported the site
http://risu. org.ua/ugcc.org.ua \n _blank
Information Department of UGCC.

ODESA AUTHORITIES BAN PROCESSION OF

ROMAN CATHOLIC COMMUNITY: The sixth
Diocesan Youth Day was held in Odesa from August 19
to 21. Youth from the Odesa-Simferopol diocese of the
Roman Catholic Church, and also Khmelnytsky, Kyiv,
Zhytomyr Oblasts attended this event.
In previous years on the last day of the meeting young
people made a Cross Procession from the Church of St.
Peter to the Assumption Cathedral. But this year for first
time authorities of Odesa did not issue a permission and
did not take measures to redirect traffic.
As Bishop Bronislaw Bernatsky said, he sees in the
actions of the Odesa city government a tendency to
restrict the rights of the Catholic community in Odesa.
This year the Odesa authorities also banned the procession during Corpus Christi holiday.

NEW STAR 13

October, 2011

Why?/Why:

By Fr Denny Molitvy

ust about ten years ago, Fr Deacon Michael

Huskey, then-editor of New Star, asked if I would
consider supplying a question-and-answer column on a regular basis. I agreedand several starter
questions were usedquestions that I had been asked
over the years. Now, under the third editor, Why?/
Why: by Fr Denny Molitvy is still found in New Star.
Every so often one parish bulletin or anothermostly
from places outside the St Nicholas Eparchyhas
copied an article or two, in complete compliance with
the policy of New Star to grant permission to anyone
who wishes to copy it, as long as acknowledgment is
made of the source.

I was appalled that a Catholic priest would write,

and New Star would publish, the progressive article
The Old Man Who Rejuvenated the Church (July,
2011) at least without a disclaimer. Pope John XXIII
ushered in an era which was the beginning of the
destruction of the Catholic Faith as we have known
it for some 2000 years. In the 1860s Vatican I defined
the Immaculate Conception. Vatican II (a travesty to
even call it that) should be called the immaculate
destruction and novelties of all form began to
appear everywhere. The new book Pope John Paul
II, Doubts about a Beatification is equally applicable
to Pope John XXIII.
The truth be known, this letter was not addressed to Fr
Denny, but to the editor, whose immediate response was
to hand it off, saying: Maybe Fr Denny can handle this,
clearly stating New Star stands behind the article by Fr
George D Gallaro. This newspaper, as a teaching tool,
aims to instruct by correcting erroneous statements and
views.
It is obvious the writer sees things differently than what
the Church intends. Aside from some factual errors: the
Immaculate Conception was proclaimed in 1854, predating Vatican Is sessions of 1868-70; the Church at the
time of convoking Vatican II was not the same as it had
been for 2000 yearsor even half that time; the book referenced is written by a priest who belongs to a group of
which Pope Benedict XVI says does not have canonical
position in the Church (whose) ministers cannot legitimately exercise any ministry in the Church. Additionally, the letter contains points of opinion that give evidence of inaccurate understanding of what the purpose
and outcome of Vatican II are.
For example, the writer's mention of novelties of all
form is not a result of any document, decree, statement
or decision of the Second Vatican Council, but of misinterpretations employed by some in implementing the official instructions of the Council. Reading the actual documents should clear that up.
Overall, Vatican II may be seen as a boon to the Eastern
Catholic Churches. The Decree on the Catholic Eastern

One point of interest remains: is there, among our

readers, anyone who has used information in this column as part of a report, school assignment, discussion
group? If so, please share this experience (unless you
received a C- for it) just to help us determine the worth
of the work. Have you had a question answered? How
was that experience?
Also, if you have a questiondon't be shy to send it
in. You must sign your name, and give parish affiliation.
This information is never made known to anyonebut
is a way of verification should something in the question need clarification before it is published.
Thank you,
Fr Denny Molitvy
Churches, the shortest of all conciliar decrees, puts each
of the more than twenty Catholic Eastern Churches on the
same level of dignity as each other and as the one
Western Church. It exhorts the Eastern Churches (not
rites) to be faithful to venerable traditionswhich predate most of those found in the West. It admonishes
Eastern Catholics to take pains to restore any traditions
that may have been lost or unappreciated due to circumstances of time or person.
Maybe the wording is too generic to be clearly interpreted. The fact is that the Eastern Catholic Churches
for centuries made to appear and feel inferior to the
numerically superior Roman Riteoften picked up latinized interpretations and expressions that became these
circumstances of time and persons thereby losing their
true identity as Eastern Christians with a special outlook on life. This had not gone on for 2,000 years but
relatively recently, perhaps for five hundred years, due to
the overwhelming influence of the Western European
trappings that had overrun the Roman Rite, with its
notion of equating unity (which is internal) with uniformity (which is external).
In asking us to become closer to ourselvesthe counterpoint is impliedthe Western Church would have to
become more like itself as it was in the early days of the
Apostolic Age, the time of the undivided Church
through the time of the old Pentarchy. [Jerusalem,
Antioch, Alexandria, Rome, Constantinopleed.] It has
had to shed some of those acquired feelings of superiority so associated with colonization of lands and imposition
of views upon conquered people worldwide. Eastern
Churches retained much more of the Apostolic Age psyche, finding ways to incorporate regional threads of cultural differences woven into the fabric of the faith that
comforts us.
We were guided by Vatican II to realize we are not a
subject rite of the Roman Church but a real Church.
Full. Entire. Complete: a Body of Christ with valid teachings, practices, government, art, music, architecture, traditions, understandings that even differ from those of the
Roman Rite, yet in complete harmony with the tenets of
the Niceo-Constantinopolitan Creed, a product of Eastern

random reflections of a Pensive Pilgrim

have, it seems, become a world-traveler. As you
read this, I will have just finished up a week in
Paris, where Dominican doings take me to a priory
founded in the 13th century. This, however, is the second workout for my passport: you see, I was in Madrid
for the recent World Youth Day. So many thoughts, so
little space! Heres a sampling:
Europeans are much more conscious of the environment than we, and they are less wasteful with scarce
resources: needless to say, it is quite a shock to find
oneself in a dark bathroom after the timed light has
gone out! Stewardship takes many forms.
Byzantine Divine Liturgy in a hotel room is quite a
challenge, yet it is nonetheless very inspiring when
committed young people contribute heartfelt intentions
at the appropriate point in the fervent ektenia.
Young people seek acceptance of their peers, and
thus tend to act as a group: all are expected to follow

the leader lest they be looked at askance. (Do adults

exhibit this behavior as well?)
Our young pilgrims were encouraged to find Christ
not only in the explicitly religious events, but also in
the mundane tasks which filled their day, seeking Him
where He seeks to be found rather than where we think
He ought to be. One particular incident speaks volumes. Our pilgrims gave out icons of Christ the teacher
as souvenirs to other pilgrims they met. One day as we
waited in a huge line to get into a restaurant, someone
gave one of these icons of Christ to a Mexican pilgrim,
who asked Quien es eso?Whos that? Do we
likewise have trouble recognizing the Christ Who
comes to us in unfamiliar guises?
Imagine the challenge for this shy introvert overwhelmed by 2 million of his closest intimates! (Jesus
got away from the crowds to pray alone; such divine
wisdom!) Most of the pilgrims, I suspect, were there to

Christianity, by the way.

The Latins, too, are challenged by Vatican II to become closer to Apostolic roots. It requires rethinking the
attitude toward the co-equal Eastern Churches. The Roman Church, or any one of the Eastern Churches, is not
THE Catholic Church, but like all its counterparts, A
Catholic Church, urged by Pope John Paul II each to
breathe deeply with its lungs, supplying life-giving oxygen to all its component parts that comprise the Church.
Part of Apostolic patrimony that the Latins readily
accepted from the East through Vatican IIs proceedings
include the use of vernacular languages; a closer adherence to the collegial model of exercising authority; liturgical reform that freed the Church to inculturate people in
varied populations around the globe. This area seems to
have been the most difficult to accomplish, due to people's limited understanding of an oft-quoted axiom: the
Catholic Church never changes. As any other living
organism, changes aboundyet the underlying reality
remains intact.
Its theology is not up for mutation. Its external form is,
since the purpose of liturgy is to serve the people. The
past several hundred years of stagnation of ritual growth
had lulled generations into formal externalism.
So, Pope John XXIII was not a progressive ruiner of
ritualism, but a radical restorer as he went to the root of
Christianity. (Radix is root and the root of radical).
He really did rejuvenatebring the Church to a truer
understanding of what it was when it was juvenile
(young)full of the zeal of the Apostles who were given
the mandate to Go, teach all nations as they did, ever so
differently in Europe, Asia, Africa, and eventually to the
Americas and Australia.
Perhaps the writer of the letter will realize that the principle of ecumenical councils1 is collegiality taken from
the East, and they are regarded as divinely protected in
their decisions from error in faith and morals. Their
decrees enforced...to confirm and emphasize that the
decisions rested not upon human wisdom and speculation
but upon divine authority. Their claim to divine sanction
rests upon the promise of the presence and guidance of
the Holy Spirit.1 This contrasts with the then-prevalent
from the top down to the bottom manner of exercising
authority that tended to make of the Pope the ultimate
decider. The Eastern concept prefers to look upon Gods
people as equals by virtue of thier baptismeach with
responsibility for one another, as guided by someone who
leads, chosen worthy (axios) to act as first among them.
II Vatican actually re-oriented the Church, helping it to
see its Eastern beginnings.
Conciliar decisions are an expression of the mind of
the whole body of the people of God personified in the
collegial action of the assembled hierarchs.1 This sentiment surely rings true at this time, as our Patriarch and
bishops have just recently convened in Council (Sobor) in
Brazil. They went there to listen, learn, discern and
decide for the good of all.
(1 Cfr: The Seven Ecumenical Councils. Henry R
Percival, MA, DD; Wm B Eerdmans Publishing Company;
Grand Rapids, Michigan; 1974; pp xi-xv.)
see the pope, who seemed like a rock star: they clambered to see him, pushing and shoving to get closer. In
our Churches, we can encounter Christ, the Son of God,
Whoit seems to this poor theologian-is greater
than the pope; why, then, are our churches empty?
Given the anti-American feeling rampant this millennium, we were warned not to show off with flags
or chants of U-S-A!; meanwhile, we were surrounded by crowds waving a vast array of flags and boasting
of diverse homelands. Pardon me for wondering
whether the goal of their participation was spiritual or
nationalistic. (Hmmmm)
Ukrainian Catholics attended Divine Liturgy in a
modern Roman Catholic Church which was dutifully
transformed by a beautiful portable icon screen. This
brings home the fact that we as Churchnot unlike the
young visitors and the Ukrainian guest workers in
Spainare a pilgrim people whose true homeland is
with God no matter where we happen to find ourselves.
Bishop Bryan of Saskatoon preached not only in
continued on page 15

October, 2011

14 NEW STAR

Catechisms and Ukrainians

[continued from last issue]
ioceses or nations felt that it was necessary to
produce local catechisms. So many were produced that when Vatican I (1870) came around,
the Catholic bishops discussed having one universal
catechism modeled on that of Bellarmine.
The biggest influence on Ukrainian-American
Catholics began as early as 1829 when the bishops in
the United States assembled in the First Provincial
Council of Baltimore decreed A catechism shall be
written which is better adapted to the circumstances of this Province it shall give the
Christian Doctrine as explained in Cardinal
Bellamine's Catechism and when approved by
the Holy See it shall be for the common
Catholics.
An important contribution during this time
period even though not directly catechetical
was the work of Jacques Paul Migne (18001875). He took it upon himself to collect and
publish patristic texts. His published works
include 221 volumes of Latin Fathers and 162
Greek Fathers. For both Catholics and
Orthodox these works provided a valuable asset in an
effort to return to the fathers. Migne felt that it was
essential to study the fathers in order to discover his
own roots.
At the Third Plenary Council of Baltimore under the
leadership of James Cardinal Gibbons, Archbishop of

Family Is Trinity
eeing a masterpiece of art, hearing a beautiful
symphony, reading a powerful novel, all
moves one to reflect on the genius and unique
creativity of the Maker.
The universe reveals its divine creator. God has
revealed himself in New Testament times that he is
Triune and now we can see how all creation has
always been a reflection of the Triune God.
God the Fathers infinite love begets God the Son
throughout all eternity. Their reciprocating love is
personalized in the person of the Holy Spirit in all
eternity. Christ has revealed to us the inner divine
life of the Trinity. Our perception of all reality may
now be seen as reflecting the infinite triune rela-

Baltimore (and the first American to participate in the

election of a pope in 1903), the bishops decreed that
parishes should set up schools and that there should be
a uniform teaching of religion. The council decreed
also that a catechism be written and that the Catholic
schools use it.
Monsignor Januarius De Concilio, a professor at
Seton Halls Immaculate Conception Seminary and a
pastor in Jersey City, NJ, produced the first draft of the
catechism. The
plan was to get
comments from
the bishops, send
them to Bishop
John Lancaster
Spalding
of
Peoria, Illinois
and then present
the final copy for
approval at the
next
Plenary
Council. Bishop
Spalding was concerned that when he presented the
catechism to the bishops the discussion would be long
and drawn out. So on February 23, 1885, he wrote to
Archbishop Gibbons saying, I have received suggestions from all the archbishops concerning the catechism and have made such changes as seemed desir-

tionships which are signed by the Divine artist.

Trinity life may be seen as family. Our human
family relationships are a participation in the life of
God.
No longer can we view creation simply as good
and evil, life and death, light and darkness. The
imprint of the life-giving Trinity is on the smallest
subatomic particle as well as on the largest galaxy,
on the amoeba as well as on the most glorious heavenly hosts, on a grain of sand as on the saint - all
bear the imprint of Trinity life. We can never again
regress to former ways of looking at creation.
The Trinity is present to us in our family. Our
family relationships are a participation in the life of
the Trinity which gives new life and love continuously.

Stage by Stage into the Mystery

ime of God--Time of the Church. This title chosen
for the collection drawn from the liturgical writings of Joseph Ratzinger is a beautiful example of
the link one finds between liturgical theology and spiritual life in any Christian Church. The catechetical aspect
is highly stressed in the liturgies of the Christian East,
particularly by the Byzantine tradition. Liturgy is a
teacher in the faith of the faithful; it is full of elements
that instruct the faithful in the truth of faith. For this the
Byzantine liturgy, and all Christian liturgies at that,
belongs to the One Church which safeguards it as an
intangible patrimony.
This mystagogic and catechetical dimension is found
in the liturgical texts, the unfolding of celebrations, the
liturgical cycle, iconography and architecture. This mystagogic dimension collects it in the liturgical cycle that,
beginning with the feast of the Resurrection as its center,
offers a mystagogy on the mystery of God Trinity,
Christology and Soteriology. We do not look for systematization in this theological development of the liturgical
cycle but rather one deals here with a progressive
approach to contemplation of the mystery of God: the
mysterious love of God manifested through his Son in
the Holy Spirit in creation, redemption and the Church.
The Christian faithful receive this mystagogy through

the life of the Church, and learn to live the paschal message by liturgical texts during the whole liturgical cycle.
In the Byzantine liturgical cycle we find various feasts,
and different degrees in the feasts, but all of them
emphasize some theological aspect. They are all a mystagogy for the faithful and theological feasts: Pascha
and Marys Dormition emphasize the resurrection
aspect, Christmas and Marys Annunciation explain the
Incarnation theandric (divine-human) aspect, and
Theophany and Pentecost are Trinitarian feasts.
We would like to underline some Christological
aspects of the Byzantine liturgical cycle. The institution
of feasts in the Byzantine calendar does not happen by
chance. It develops as a whole around the paschal mystery of Jesus Christ. The variety of feasts, Christological,
Marian, weekly, annual, originated and developed
around the mystery of Christ. The feasts temporal
dimension should be kept in mind here as they not only
commemorate an event but also actualize it. Christ has
saved us not only once but continues to save us: Let us
sing a hymn to the Lord who comes with glory to
Jerusalem in the power of his divinity, that he may put
Death to death. With reverence, let us prepare the
branches of the virtues as emblems of victory, and let us
cry Hosanna!(Monday of Sixth Week of Lent). Let

able. It was published on April 11, consisting of 72

pages and 421 questions. The title page reads:
Prepared and Enjoined by Order of the Third Plenary
Council of Baltimore. It reads such because it was not
approved by that council. Many found fault with the
Baltimore catechisms which then brought about the
production of manuals for the catechist with stories and
activities vital to its usage. So by 1900 there were 15
new catechisms with only slight variations approved by
local bishops in use in the United States. The only one
that was significantly different was that of Peter Yorke,
a priest of the Archdiocese of San Francisco and editor
of the diocesan paper. He developed a graded set of
handbooks called Text Books of Religion for the First
Five Grades (1898). These were the earliest graded
series of religion textbooks published in the United
States. The Baltimore Catechism was by no means
obsolete. It formed the basis of one program or another almost down to the present day.
It must be noted that what many people refer to as the
Baltimore Catechism is not this catechism but the
1940s revisions done by Rev. Francis J. Connell, CSsR,
STD.
This work was revised to reflect the liturgical tradition for Eastern Catholics in the United States by the
Exarchate of Pittsburgh in 1941 with its A Catechism of
Christian Doctrine for the Greek Catholic Rusin Youth
of America, Based on the Revised Edition of the
Baltimore Catechism No. 1.
Probably one of the biggest influences on Ukrainian
Greek Catholic Catechism was the Austrian annexacontinued on page 18

The
Challenges of
Discipleship

Office of Faith Formation

Hell expect its own destruction! For Life comes to raise

Lazarus, who cries aloud: Praise, bless and exalt the
Lord! (Thursday of Sixth Week of Lent). Come, let us
celebrate this mystery, let us go to find it with songs,
since the Creator comes to suffer on the cross (Holy
Monday). Yesterday, O Christ, I was buried with you;
today, with you, I am wide awake participating in your
Resurrection (Sunday of Pascha).
It is also important to stress the Christo-centric character of the feasts of the Mother of God. The titles given
to Mary are always in reference to Christ: She who conceived the Wisdom and the Word of God (...) she who
nourished with her milk the One who nourishes the universe (...) she who is the tabernacle of the true light (...)
she who is living book of Christ, sealed with the seal of
the Spirit (...) she who is the Mother of the Lamb and the
Beautiful Shepherd.
The feasts of the saints emphasize in turn the work of
Christ in his servants configuring themselves to his
model. The Byzantine liturgical year is divided into a
cycle of fixed feasts, with their own dates in the calendar, which often coincide with the same dates of other
Christian liturgies; a movable cycle, centered on the feast
of the Resurrection; and a weekly cycle, also called oktoichos, that is, of the eight Tones.
Fr George Dmitry Gallaro
continued next issue

NEW STAR 15

October, 2011

Address to Ukrainians on 20th

Anniversary of Independence
cordially greet you all, those in Ukraine
[and elsewhere] on the occasion of the 20th
anniversary of Ukraines independence and
join you in a thanksgiving prayer to the Almighty Lord
for the invaluable gift of freedom for the native land and
our state, wrote the Patriarch SVIATOSLAV (Shevchuk), in his address on
the the 20th anniversary of Ukraines independence.
According to the
hierarch, the celebration
of the national jubilee is not only a
reason for joy and gratitude but an excellent
opportunity to meditate on what kind of
state we want and need.
We will probably be right to say that
we want to live in a state where the social, economic,
political and other dimensions of life of the people are
based on integrity, justice and responsibility, noted the
hierarch.
His Beatitude stressed that integrity and justice are different aspects of the same essence. Social justice is

based on personal integrity, and honest citizens are a reliable support of the just authorities, said Patriarch
Sviatoslav.
The hierarch noted that our state will be just
only when the purpose of its government is
the service for the good of all its citizens
and each individual person.
Such a state respects
the dignity of the
person and ensures
necessary conditions
for
the
growth of each
member of the society as a free personality
created from the image of God.
It is about justice which is not
repressive or punitive in its
essence. It is justice which frees
and saves. It requires of us
respecting other persons regardless of
their origin, political or religious beliefs, wrote the head
of the UGCC. He noted that such justice calls us to
social nonacceptance of extremism, violence and disrespect for social peace.

His Beatitude Sviatoslav installed

apostolic exarch for Ukrainian Faithful
of Byzantine rite in Great Britain
is Beatitude Sviatoslav, paid a
pastoral visit to the UGCC faithful in Great Britain August 1-8,
2011. The pastoral visit began with a hiererchical Divine Liturgy in the Cathedral of
the Holy Family in Exile in London on
August 2 (the feast of St. Prophet Elijah)
on the occasion of the installation of the
fifth Apostolic Exarch for Ukrainian
Faithful of Byzantine Rite in Great
Britain, Bishop HLIB (Lonchyna).
The events were attended by
Archbishop Antonio Mennini, Apostolic
Nuncio to Great Britain, Bishop MYKHAIL
(Hrynchyshyn), Apostolic Exarch in
France, Benelux and Switzerland, Bishop
PETRO (Kryk), Apostolic Exarch in
Germany and Scandinavia, six Roman
Catholic Bishops, Archimandrite Serge
Keleher,a priest providing pastoral care
for Ukrainians in Ireland, Fr. John Solter,President of the Society of St. John Chrysostom, numerous clergy including
Orthodox priests, Fr. Bohdan Matviichuk
and Fr. Eugene Stasiuk and numerous

faithful of the Cathedral as well as representatives of public organizations.

During the following three days, His
Beatitude Sviatoslav visited Ukrainian
Greek Catholic parishes in Gloucester,
Bradford, Oldham, Rochdale, Manchester
and Nottingham as well as the Plast and
SUM (Association of Ukrainian Youth)
camps in Wales.
His Beatitude ended his visit with a
Divine Liturgy on August 7 in the cathedral in London, where he called on the
faithful to give generously even the smallest strengths to God so that the Lord may
multiply them as He once multiplied the
bread in the desert.
At the end of the Divine Liturgy, he
bledded a marble tablet commemorating
those who perished for the freedom of
Ukraine which was installed by members
of the Association of Former Ukrainian
Warriors in Great Britain.

Press Office of Apostolic Exarchate

Ukrainian Society 20 Years after

independence: Freer, More Selfish
Twenty years after independence,
Ukraine is a society torn apart by the
huge gap between the rich and the poor, a
byproduct of the greed and selfishness
fostered by the wild capitalism of the
1990s. There is, moreover, a sense that
criminality rules the country, polls and
sociologists said.
This lack of social cohesion fuels nostalgia for the mutual aid, state support and
more predictable future of Soviet times.
But just as in Soviet times, Ukrainians
top priorities remain the same: good
health, a strong family and happy children, just as surveys in 1991 show. These

are, after all, universal values.

Unlike during the immediate aftermath
of the fall of the Soviet Union, however,
young people are increasingly looking to
themselves to achieve their goals not
the state or anybody else.
Most Ukrainians in the 1990s [still]
saw the state as responsible for their lives.
But now the number of people who
accept responsible for their own lives has
increased by 5-7 percent, said Yevhen
Holovaha, deputy head of the Institute of
Sociology.
Oksana Grytsenko

This justice sets for the authorities the task of ensuring actual realization of the citizens rights and freedoms
guaranteed by the Constitution of our state, particularly,
the right to education, pension and social maintenance
and the right to work and health service. The state should
guarantee another important right, the protection of the
honor and reputation of each citizen, establishment of
fair conditions for the development of private initiative
and economic activity on the basis of subsidiarity, fair
right of vote and public and political activity.
The leader of Greek Catholics also touched upon the
question of religious freedom. The state should ensure
for its citizens the realization of the undeniable right to
religious freedom and equal treatment by the authorities
of all the churches and religious organizations whose
activity is permitted in our state.
According to the hierarch, justice requires the right of
free and all-round development of the Ukrainian language and culture in our own state, renewal of the historic memory of the Ukrainian nation and counteracting
the modern manifestations of Ukraino-phobia. In addition, a just state should protect its citizens wherever
they are and care about a live connection with the
Ukrainians abroad.
He also stated that we should not only dream about
such state but also continually create it! Only under this
condition will we be able to duly keep and enjoy the gift
of independence without a danger of losing it, the
http://risu.org.ua/ugcc.org.ua\n _blank said.
Information Department of UGCC

continued from page 11

written form were also sent by
Archbishop Dimas Lara Barbos,
Secretary of the Latin American
Episcopal Conference (CELAM).
Each of the guests delivered a greeting, expressing the joy that the Synod is
held in Brazil and
wished the light of the
Holy Spirit to the
Synodal Fathers. His
Beatitude Sviatoslav, in
return, thanked the
guests for their presence
and benevolence and
expressed his wish that
the cooperation between
the UGCC and Brazilian
Dioceses would become
even
deeperreported
Bishop
BOHDAN (Dzyurakh), Secretary of the
Synod of Bishops of the UGCC.
The central moment of the first day of
the session was the program report of
the Primate of the UGCC in which he
presented an analysis of the current state
of the UGCC and outlined priorities for
the near future. According to His
Beatitude Sviatoslav, the priority of the
Church is to preach the Word of God
and provide our faithful with qualitative
pastoral care. Our structural reforms,
continued from page 13
Ukrainian, but also in Spanish and
English. In so doing, he reinforced an
idea dear to both +Lubomyr and
+Sviatoslavnamely, that we are a
worldwide Church. Moreover, the
Ukrainian Catholic Church is not our
Church, but rather Christs, and He has
only lent it to us. After all, He directed
His disciples to Go forth and baptize all
nationsnot just Ukrainians.
The next World Youth Day will take
place in Brazil in 2013. People kept saying to me, see you in Rio! Im too old;
any takers?
Fr Jim Karepin, op

development of new exarchates,

eparchies and even the Patriarchal Order
should be directed exactly towards that
purpose. He expressed his conviction
that the Churchs main strength to
achieve this goal is its clergy and religious people. He also shared his
thoughts as to ensuring appropriate
training of these co-workers in
the work of evangelization.
In the end, the UGCC
Primate paid attention to possible internal and external threats
which can make it more difficult for the Church to achieve
her goals and called the members of the Synod to cooperation in fulfilling Gods plan as
to our Church.
On the same day, the members of the Synod listened to the reports
on the activity of the Patriarchal Curia,
Commissions and Departments of the
patriarchal level and reports of the synodal committees. This year detailed
reports were made by the Laity
Committee, Youth Committee, Social
Justice and Charitable Activity Committee.
Secretariat of the Synod of Bishops
of the UGCC

Statue to Get Make-over

In the wake of criticism of the
recently-installed statue in Rome of
Pope John Paul II, the sculptor has
agreed to modify it.

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October, 2011

Russian Orthodox Church Asked

by Oldest Church Patriarchates to Observe
Canonical territory

atriarchs of the four oldest Churches of the world

and the Primate of the Cyprian Autocephalous
Church called the Russian Orthodox Church to
observe its canonical territory.
Due to the events which
have recently taken place in
the Orthodox Church, the
Council stressed the necessity that the Orthodox Churches should respect and strictly
observe the geographical borders of their jurisdictions as
defined by the holy canons
and Tomoses on the foundation of these Churches.
With these words the pentarchy hinted at non-recognition of a canonical status of the Ukrainian Orthodox
Church-Moscow patriarchate as an integral part of
the Moscow Patriarchate since the Constantinople
Patriarchate stated in the Tomos on the autocephaly of
the Orthodox Church in Poland issued in 1924 that it
never legally renounced its jurisdiction over the Kyivan
Metropolitanate. As for the whole Moscow Patri-

archate and its canonical borders, the Constantinople

Council observes the Tomos of 1589 according to
which the territory of the present-day Ukraine is not
part of the Moscow Patriarchate.
One should mention in
the context of the above
the commentary of the
Kyivan Patriarchate saying that the Pentarchy is
the way of the Constantinople Patriarchate to
show the Russian Orthodox Church who is the
boss. So reported http://
risu.org.ua/kyrios.org.ua\n _blankkyrios.org.ua.
Pentarchy (from Greek pente, five, and arche, rule) is
a system of the superiority in the Christian Church of
the five patriarchates (Rome, Constantinople, Alexandria, Antioch and Jerusalem) with the primacy of
Rome, which came into effect after the 4th Ecumenical
Council of Chalcedon (451) when the Jerusalem
Patriarchate was established.

Metropolitan Hilarion Urges Vatican to

resolve Dispute with Ukrainian Catholics
n an exclusive interview with http://www.reuters
.com/ Reuters, Russian Orthodox Metropolitan
Archbishop HILARION, urged the Vatican to show
"some signs" of readiness to resolve a decades-long
conflict between Orthodox and Catholics in Ukraine
that has been blocking a meeting of the two world religious leaders.
The biggest bone of contention concerns the fate of
many church properties that Soviet leader Joseph
Stalin ordered confiscated from Eastern Rite (sic)
Catholics, who worship in an Orthodox rite but owe
their allegiance to Rome.
Stalin gave the property to the Russian Orthodox
Church but after the fall of communism, the Eastern
Rite Catholics took back more than 500 churches,
mostly in Western Ukraine.
"Not very much was done or is being done in order to
solve this problem," said Hilarion, who is head of the
external relations department of the 165-million-member Russian Orthodox Church and one of the closest
aides to Patriarch Kirill.

Hilarion said the dispute remained the major problem

in Catholic-Orthodox relations and the main obstacle to
a meeting.
"As soon as we have this understanding, we will be
ready to begin preparations for such a meeting," he said.

Official Meeting Between Ukrainian Greek

Catholic and Orthodox Leaders Held in Kyiv
he head of the Ukrainian
Greek Catholic Church,
Patriarch Sviatoslav (Shevchuk), and the head of the Ukrainian
Orthodox Church-Moscow Patriarchate (UOC-MP), Metropolitan
VOLODYMYR (Sabodan), held an official meeting on August 23, 2011, at
the residence of Metropolitan
Volodymyr in the Kyiv Cave
Monastery, the http://risu.org.ua
/ugcc.org.ua" \n _blankInformation
Department of UGCC reported.
Patriarch Sviatoslav greeted Metropolitan Volodymyr on the occasion
of his 45th anniversary of ministry as
a bishop and the confering of the
name of the Hero of Ukraine on him
in July 2011. In addition, he thanked

the head of the UOC-MP for greeting

him on his enthronement and for the
presence of a representative of the
UOC-MP, Bishop ILARII, at the

enthronement ceremony.
Metropolitan Volodymyr stressed
the importance of good relations
between the two churches and the

development of constructive cooperation for the good of Ukraine.

The parties discussed issues of
practical cooperation between the
two denominations of the original
Kyiv Church of Volodymyrs baptism. The issues included, in particular, the area of mass media and education. The parties also stressed on
the importance of the church's social
ministry in the life of the society.
In conclusion, Patriarch Sviatoslav presented to Metropolitan
Volodymyr the first Ukrainian edition of the manuscript Gospel of
Anna Yaroslavna of the 11th century.
The leader of the UOC-MP presented
to the guests jubilee panagias and a
Ukrainian translation of the Gospel.

Catholics,
Orthodox Unite
around
St. timothy
TERMOLI, Italy, Zenit.org.- Paul's beloved
disciple was a source of unity for Catholics
and Russian Orthodox as representatives
from both Churches gathered around St.
Timothy's relics in Termoli, Italy.
The Orthodox delegation included
Archbishop ZOSIMO of Elista and Bishop
ARISTARH of Kemerovo.
The papal nuncio to Great Britain,
Archbishop Antonio Mennini, also attended
the event, recalling his long tenure as the
nuncio in Russia. The local bishop, Gianfranco De Luca, welcomed the group.
The delegations are developing a plan for
Bishop De Luca to take the saint's skull to
Russia for the Great Lent, while an
Orthodox bishop will lead the delegation
that will return the relic to Termoli.
Patriarch Kirill of Moscow will finalize the
plan.
Bishop De Luca gave the Orthodox bishops two small relics of St. Timothy, while
his Orthodox guests presented him with an
icon and a relic of St. Seraphim.
St. Timothy's relics were discovered in
1945 during restoration to the Basilica
Cathedral of Termoli.
For many years, the relics had been concealed to keep them safe, so much so that
awareness of the saint's resting place was
forgotten, even by local residents.
The small niche was discovered with a
marble tile, reading "Here rests Blessed
Timothy disciple of the Apostle Paul."
His skull had always been kept in a private chapel apart.
A 1977 book on the Diocese of Termoli
relates that Timothy's relics were taken to
the city by a count returning from the
Crusades. This information is not corroborated in historical texts, but what is known
is that the relics were hidden in 1239 about
three feet from the cathedral floor.
There are no documents that attest explicitly to the translation of the relics from the
East to the Adriatic city, but it has not been
disputed. In 1947, this account was upheld
by the Historical Commission of the Sacred
Congregation of Rites.

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October, 2011

Patriarchal Commission for Priestly

Formation Meets
Ivai, BRAZIL: The Patriarchal Commission for priestly formation held a meeting under the leadership of
Bishop KEN (Nowakowski), Eparch of New Westminster, Canada. The commission members includes rectors and formators of Ukrainian Catholic seminaries
and houses of priestly formation from Ukraine, Italy,
Germany, The United States, Canada and Brazil.
The Commission worked on drafting a document on

fostering vocations to the priesthood to be presented to

the Synod of Ukrainian Catholic Bishops at their annual meeting, this year to be held in Curitiba, Brazil.
Currently there are more than 600 men studying in
Ukrainian Catholic seminaries and houses of formation
throughout the world.
The Commission members were welcomed to Brazil
by Bishop VOLODYMYR (Kovbych), Eparch of Curitiba,

Brazil. Also joining the Commission meetings were

Bishop PAUL (Chomnycky), Eparch of Stamford, and
Bishop MYRON (Mazur), auxiliary bishop in Brazil. Mr.
Andrij Waskowycz, president of Caritas Ukraine presented a talk on the role of social service in ordained
ministry.
The Commission members held their meetings at the
Basilian Fathers novitiate in Ivai. During their stay in
Ivai the Commission members celebrated Divine
Liturgy at the local Ukrainian Catholic parish, and also
visited the Sisters Servants of Mary Immaculates novitiate also located in Ivia.

Greek Catholic Council Discusses Role of Consecrated Life

in Culture, Education and Life of Laity
epresentatives of the Ukrainian Greek
Catholic Church from thirty archeparchies, eparchies and church centers in
America, Europe, Asia and Australia participated in the 5th session of the Patriarchal Council
on consecrated life in UGCC in the Brazilian
city of Prudentopolis, in the former novitiate
chapel of Sisters Servants of Mary Immaculate.
According to the http://risu.org.ua/ugcc.org.
ua\n _ blankInformation Department of UGCC,
during the four days of the participants pondered on ways to create necessary conditions
for the development of vocations to consecrated life. Six reports and fifteen joint reports
were made.
The first day dealt with the traditional
monastic life, monasticism in the history and
tradition of UGCC, identity of consecrated persons in Ukraine. Special attention was paid to the
charisma of the founders of consecrated communities
in UGCC, Eastern branches of the Western orders and
associations of UGCC and communities of consecrated laymen in UGCC.
On September 2, the participants of the Council discussed what the Church expects from consecrated persons in the modern world. Joint reports dealt with
what laymen expect from the consecrated persons, the

Prior to the Synod of bishops the Patriarchal Council conducted a program

dedicated to the topic of monasticism and religius life. (Bishop Richard indicated in circle)
role of consecrated life in culture and education and tual education in the life of consecrated persons.
The speakers concentrated on the role of family,
ministry of consecrated people in schools. The practical experience of the missionary work was presented youth organizations and parish communities in fosterwith the use of the example of the activity of conse- ing vocations to consecrated life.
The Patriarchal Council on consecrated life of
crated persons in Brazil. Specificities of evangelization and catechization in Brazil and social ministry UGCC concluded on September 4 with a liturgy. After
that, the Greek Catholic bishops moved to the town of
will be considered.
The meetings of the third day were about education Curitiba where sessions of the Synod of Bishops were
of consecrated persons. The main reports were dedi- held until September 10.
cated to the role and place of the prayer and intellec-

Synod of Ukrainian Greek Catholic Bishops

Considers Use of Catechumenate
ccording to Bishop BOHDAN Dziurakh, the
catechumenate is a kind of a spiritual trip, a
way which the candidates for baptism in the
first centuries of the existence of the Church took in
order to become the living and full-value members of
the Church. The process lasted for two, three or even
more years. During that time, a person guided by an
experienced Christian or minister learned the basic
truths of the Christian faith.
Two years ago, according to the decision of the
Synod of Bishops of UGCC, a work team was set up to
study the possibility of the use of the practice of catechumenate in the present circumstances of church life.
According to the intention of the synodal fathers, the
experience of catechumenate should serve the Church
along two lines: during the training of the candidates

for receiving the holy Mysteries of Christian initiation

(Baptism, Chrimation and Eucharist) and establish
more firmly the faith of the baptized members of the
Church, who had no opportunity to be fully incorporated in the Church life and remained nominal
Christians due to the circumstances of the atheistic
regime.
This years Synod of Bishops of UGCC considered
the first results of work of the work team headed by
Sister Luiza Tsiupa of Sisters of Mary Immaculate and
accepted them as the basis for further steps. In particular, the work team is instructed to develop a number of
textbooks and manuals on the basis of which priests
and catechites will conduct the course of catechumenate for adults wishing to be baptized in UGCC. In
addition, they will elaborate liturgical rites necessary

for the use of the practice of the catechumenate and

administration of the Holy Sacraments according to the
program. The liturgical rites are to be prepared by the
Patriarchal Liturgical Committee.
The materials prepared by the work team will be useful also for introduction of parish courses of advanced
spiritual life for
those who were
baptized but never
had an opportunity
to undergo thorough catechization
and develop their
spiritual life. In
this way, we plan
to bridge the gap
between what the Copies of the catechism were on
Christians confess the table as Bishop Peter spoke.
with their mouth
and what they live in their everyday, family and professional lives, noted Bishop Bohdan.
According to http://risu.org.
ua/ugcc.org.ua \n _blank Information Department of UGCC, the
use of the practice of catechumenate
will become a component of the
wider Strategy of Development of
UGCC for the period until 2020
considered by the Synod of Bishops
of UGCC this year.

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October, 2011

Metropolitan Hilarion Alfeyev:

What You Call 'Alternative Orthodoxy' We Call Schism
The head of the Department of External Church
Relations of the Moscow Patriarchate, Metropolitan
ILARION (Alfeiev) of Volokolamsk, in an interview to
the Russian magazine Credo commented on the situation connected with the future inter-Orthodox Council
to be held with the participation of all the autocephalous Orthodox Churches of the world.
In answer to the question whether such churches as
the Kyivan Patriarchate, Greek Old Style, True
Orthodox Church will be invited to the All-Orthodox
(Ecumenical) Council, the metropolitan said: What
you call 'alternative Orthodoxy' we call a schism. There
were no precedents of invitations of representatives of
schismatic organizations to inter-Orthodox meetings so
far and I think there will be no such things in the
future.
According to the bishop, schismatics are imposters,
that is people who assume a dignity which is not theirs
according to the canonical order of the church. Just
imagine that a group of people appears today one of
whom proclaims himself President of Ukraine, another

one the Premier and call their structure the government

of government in exile. Would they be invited to international meetings? I think no. Exactly the same is with
representatives of schismatic structures and so-called
alternative churches, said the hierarch.
According to Religion in Ukraine, the vivid example
by which the bishop wanted to illustrate imposture is
applicable to the activity of Protopriest Dymytrii Sydor
(Ukrainian Orthodox Church-Moscow Patriarchate) of
the Transcarpathian city of Uzhhorod who is the leader
of the Sub-Carpathian Seim of Rusyns and who formed
his own government headed by Premier Petro
Hetsko. Neither Fr. Sydor nor Petro Hetsko consider
themselves imposters and represent their organization
at international conferences. For example, in autumn,
2010, Protopriest Dymytrii Sydor received from
Patriarch Kirill of Moscow a blessing and participated
in the European Russian Forum where he made a report
on facts of discrimination, ethnocide with clear manifestations of genocide of the Rusyn nation in Ukraine.
In the interview to Credo, Metropolitan Ilarion also

stated that during

his meetings with
the heads of the
Eastern Patriarchates, the situation
in Ukraine was
not discussed in
detail even though
it was touched upon at some meetings.
The metropolitan is certain that
the way of overcoming the schism
is through repentance and return to the Church communion. At the
same time the hierarch does not exclude the possibility
that the problems of the schism may be discussed also
at the inter-Orthodox level.

Patriarchal Council of Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church Closed

The participants of the council passed a resolution in
the form of an address to the Synod of Bishops of the
UGCC and a letter to consecrated persons of the UGCC.
In his closing word, Patriarch Sviatoslav thanked those
who prepared the council and participated in it, and said
that 32 bishops, 24 eparchial priests, 28 lay people, 40
monastics and 50 visitors attended the council, which,
according to the head of the UGCC, is an indication of
the unity of the church which is rich in various gifts.
For the closing ceremony of the 5th session of the
Patriarchal Council of UGCC was held. His Beatitude
celebrated a liturgy attended by 32 bishops of UGCC,
numerous priests, monastics and a large number of the
faithful from Prudentopolis and its suburbs.

continued from page 14

tion. The Austrian Catholic bishops conference published a small catechism
based upon the catechism of Trent.
Father Franz Spirago in 1899 wrote in
Italian the Catholic Peoples Catechism,
for Roman Catholics which was translated into Ukrainian by Father Yaroslav
Lewitski in 1913-1914 and was widely
used in western Ukraine. As Ukrainians
emigrated to other countries they

New Star requested your impressions of the experience of the local visit
of the Jubilee Icon to your parish or in
your life.
So far one was received, a bit longer
than 250 words, but included here.
Perhaps you had similar, or other, feelings. Let us know--e-mail or snail
mail: NewStarNews@aol.com (or):
Opinion New Star; 2245 W Rice St;
Chicago, IL 60622. (50-250 words).

brought Spiragos catechism with them.

Both the Basilians and Redemptorists in
the USA and Canada published editions,
which were then used in South America
and Australia. The English versions were
usually called: the Catechism Explained:
an exhaustive exposition of the Christian
Religion, with a special reference to the
present state of society and the spirit of
the age. Spirago was noted for his work
on lives of the saints for children.
It is safe to say that this introduction to
the different catechism leaves out many
The invitation to tell my experience
with the visit of the Icon for the Jubilee
was my inspiration. Although I do not
belong to any parish, I am looking
into it. I stopped believing in church a
few years ago. But it has bothered me.
Visiting friends I see copies of your
paper, and read a bit once in a while.
One item made me think. It was
something said by Fr Denny Molitvy:
this is not your grandmother's Church.
It is your Church or something like
that.
Father was talking about customs I
remember from my grandmother's
Churchand my grandmother's house.
You could hardly tell the difference,
sometimes.
Fun customs I started to think were
out of place were behind most of everything she did. Often I thought how old
fashioned! But just the way that state-

other catechisms but the intention was to

present those that would have an impact
upon Byzantine Christians.
When the Ukrainian-Greek Catholic
Church gained into freedom to practice
the Church held its first sobor of bishops and laity in Lviv in 1996. In one of
the discussions on catechesis, it was suggested that the first step should be the
production of a catechetical directory.
This was approved and when the directory was issued in 2000 under the leadership of Bishop PETER (Stasiuk) of
ment hit me made me think. My grandmother was not foreign, born, born
about 1940 in America, just like her
grandmother, born about 1890 in Ohio.
My great-great-grandmother knew no
Englishmy grandmother said whenshe [herself] went to Church a lot was
in English, some was in what she said
was Slavonic, and she treasured the
things she was given in an understandable way. My grandmothers Church is
American. So should mine be.
A challenge seemed to be made: you
can tell your grandchildren the same
things. I am not a grandmother. I am not
even a mother, yet. I realized that my
family has been keeping traditions alive
that go back perhaps centuries. But they
go on even now wit more than a connection to a time gone bybut to now. They
can go on in times to come. Understood
or not, perhaps. I also saw in your paper

Australia and Sr. Luiza Czupa, SSMI of

the Lviv Catechetical Commission, it
stated that the Palamite theology of theosis was adopted as the official theology
of the Church.
The directory was an important step
because it led to the production of Christ
our Pascha, the catechism for Ukrainian
Catholics. Guidance was given and the
catechism was finally produced.
Rev. Jonathan K. Morse, PhD

things the new Patriarch is saying about

the Church not being for one nationality,
but for the whole of humankind. And the
old Patriarch is saying the same thing.
I saw the Icon when it came by. I
read the story about the original inspiration for the idea of Protection. I
decided that I would make the effort to
take the time and money necessary for
getting to the cathedral for when the
Patriarch comes.
I know I won't stand a chance to meet
him. But I want to hear from him how
I can find my way back to the Church
that housed my family for 120 years in
this country, and who knows how long
before that in Europe.
I want to be a part of this, it is a part
of me.
Sonja Sznyk
(city, state withheld by request)

NEW STAR 19

October, 2011

Chicago Police Officers noticed the car in front of them had no

license plate. A quick flip of a switch activated the blue lights on the
roof of the squad car.
The car sped up a bit, the driver jumped out and ran. The car continued on, over the curb, across the
sidewalk, into, over and throught the
chain link fence alongside St Michaels
Church, across the lawn, continuing on
over the fence on the front side of the
corner property. It crossed the street and
stopped with a thud upon striking a
parked car.
Within seconds police cars converged
and spread out in four directions, resulting in the ultimate capture of the fleeing
miscreant.
After an hour or so three squad cars,
two police SUVs and a pair of
unmarked vehicles left the scene, now
turned over to two officers who filled out a report on the stolen car,
the suspect and the damages.
Calls to the insurance company were placed--and to a several fence
companies for estimates.
Damages just under the deductible threshhold made a clear statement: the parish has to pay for the damages.
It looks as if a parish fundraiser is in order.

ictor and Vera ventured in their vintage

Volvo from Virginia to Vermont, vacationing with their children Vasyl and
Valerie, to visit relatives.
About two hours into the motor trip, Vera
demanded Victor to stop.
Turn around. Go Back she said. I think I
left the iron on.
Victor continued on, saying We've gone this
far, to turn back would waste a lot of time. You
only think you forgot to turn off the iron. I
know you by now.
Reluctantly Vera acquiesced and became
silent. For five minutes.
Again she became agitated and demanded
Victor return homejust to satisfy her mind.
Saying nothing more, Victor proceeded
along until there was a place to pull off the
road, out of the traffic lanes. The car came to a
stop. He got out and walked to the back. He
opened the trunk.
Vera wondered what he was up to, and
responded to his tapping on the window of the
passengers' side door. Slowly he raised his
hand, bringing into Vera's clear viewthe
iron.

A slight
glitch in the
system prevents the
promised
Reflections
by Another
Monk of the
Eastern
Church
from appearing.
We hope to
have it
resolved by
the time the
next issue is
ready.

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October, 2011

Five hundred people filled the

ballroom-turned banquet hall
for a concert by the
Bandurist Choir and dinner
on Saturday evening.

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Byzantine Bishop
JOHN (Kudrick) of
Parma, Malabar
Bishop Mar JACOB
(Angadiath) of
Chicago and Latin
Bishop R. Daniel
Conlon of Joliet

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Participants of the youth

conference pose with
His Beatitude,
Bishop Richard and
presenter, Fr James Bankston,
(on right).

His Beatitude Sviatoslav and Bishop Richard began the Akathist at SS

Volodomyr and Olha Parish. Midway in the prayer, the icon was taken in
procession to St Nicholas Cathedral for the conclusion of the Akathist.

ABOVE:
concelebrants at
the Holy Table.
RIGHT:
His Beatitude blesses the
congregation in the cathedral
with the triple and
double candles.

More photos next month.