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  • The Trust-Filled Burden of Preaching with Fr. Andriy Chirovsky

    https://www.ryanohara.org/podcast/044 There is a weightiness to preaching that differs from every other kind of speaking. The message isn’t our own. The impact isn’t up to us.…
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  • Why Do We Fast? Thinking with St John Climacus

    Justin Shaun Coyle, Ph.D. “Oh, no,” my 10 year old recently grumbled upon seeing Forgiveness Vespers on the parish calendar: “it’s almost here again.” By “it” he meant the Great…
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  • Why do we pray and do not receive? Should I persevere in asking? Bishop Venedykt Aleksiychuk explains

    Children who ask for something from their parents do not always get it either. I have been convinced more than once in my life: that if God did not give something, it turned out…
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  • The Foundation of the World: Eucharist as “Source” of the Christian Life

    Justin Shaun Coyle, Ph.D. Let me begin with a confession: I’ve never quite understood what Lumen Gentium means when it teaches that the Eucharist is “the source and summit of the…
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  • Win or Lose: The Bad News

    No matter how the conflict in Ukraine turns out, Ukrainians will never be the same again. It is not just trained soldiers fighting in this war. Fighters include any male between…
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  • Why Bother with A Liturgical Calendar?

    Justin Shaun Coyle, Ph.D. In 1928, the economist John Maynard Keynes predicted that the future’s technological advances would yield more leisure time. His prediction seems…
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  • The Feast of the Patronage of the Most Holy Mother of God (Pokrova)

    "We sing your praises, O Most Holy Virgin, Mother of Christ our God, and we glorify your all-glorious patronage." (Hymn of Praise from the Sixteenth Century)
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  • Sunday of All Saints

    "We extol you, Apostles, Martyrs, Prophets and all Saints, and we honor your holy memory, as you pray for us to Christ our God." (Hymn of Praise of the Sunday of All Saints) The…
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  • Can We Question God?

    Among the liturgical texts for Holy Week is a surprising number of questions. “What will you give me?” Judas asks the Sanhedrin. “If you could not even watch with me one hour,”…
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  • The division of the Church of Christ into different denominations is a sign of man's sin against the Holy Spirit" Head of the UGCC in the catechesis

    All divisions, schisms are a wound on the Body of Christ. The Church is united not because of the ability of people to unite, but because of one God - Father, Son, and the Holy…
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  • Pope at Easter Vigil: Christ alive today, always helps begin anew

    Celebrating the 9th Easter of his pontificate, Pope Francis delivered a homily at the Easter Vigil Mass, reflecting on what it means to go to Galilee, where the Risen Lord would…
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  • The Glorious Feast of the Resurrection

    "Christ is risen from the dead, by death He conquered death, and to those in the graves He granted life." (Troparion of the Resurrection) Of all the great feasts in the…
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  • Easter Confession and Holy Communion

    "O Son of God, accept me today as a partaker of Your mystical Supper... (Prayer before Holy Communion) We prepare ourselves for the glorious feast of Christ's Resurrection with…
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  • The Holy Shroud (Plaschanytsia)

    "Noble Joseph took down Your most pure body from the tree, wrapped it in a clean shroud, covered it with spices and laid it in a new tomb. " (Troparion of Holy or Great Friday)…
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  • The Feast of the Annunciation of the Most Holy Mother of God

    "With the voice of the Archangel we cryout to you, O Most Pure One: 'Rejoice,O full of grace, the Lord is with you.’”(Hymn of Praise of the Feast) “Today is the beginning of our…
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  • WHICH FOODS ARE ALLOWED AND WHICH ARE NOT DURING THE FAST

    Penitential fasting practices, repentance and abstinence that aim to expiate the sins committed and to achieve a greater level of perfection for personal sanctity are the oldest…
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  • His Beatitude Sviatoslav: Christ is our future

    The word "apocalypse" is used incorrectly today. We as Christians do not believe in numbers, but we do believe in God and His presence among us. We have good news in the context…
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  • The Head of the UGCC on Christmas Day: Sing carols even by phone so that the joy of Christmas is not silenced

    “On this holiday, let me come to each of you, to your heart, to your home with the ancient carol Boh Predvichnyj: God eternal is born tonight. He came down from above To save us…
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  • Homily by Patriarch Sviatoslav for the 23rd Sunday after Pentecost

    At that time Jesus sailed to the territory of the Gerasenes, which is opposite Galilee. When he came ashore a man from the town who was possessed by demons met him. For a long…
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  • The Head of the UGCC: Faith in God is one of the types of Christian immunity against depression

    When a person feels unloved, forgotten, abandoned, even more, helpless and weak in the face of challenges, troubles, difficulties encountered in his life, he may be prone to…
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  • “To celebrate a holy day means to give it to God and neighbor,” the Head of the UGCC about Sunday

    To celebrate a holy day means to give it to God and neighbor. Six days a week a man reserves for himself, because he “eats the fruit of the labor of his hands.” The seventh day…
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  • Homily by Father Nikanor Loyik (Matthew 6:22-33)

    June 28, 2020 The Lord said, "The lamp of the body is the eye. If your eye is sound, your whole body will be filled with light; but if your eye is bad, your whole body will be in…
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