Head of the UGCC: If we forget about the genocide, it may happen again

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[Athanasiy]

I was there too at the memorial. By the way the first time was there and visited the museum of Holodomor.
Thanks be to God that the Churches in the world today can pray for the victims of the Holodomor. For a long time the powers of hell tried to hide this tragedy from the world.
And the voice of Metropolitan AndriySheptytsky in his famous letter titled “Ukraine in its death convulsions”. was a great heroism of the time.
I remember from the testimonies of the witnesses, even at the decade of collapse of communism,the powers of hell tried to confront and ooppose the truth about the manmade famine.
Natalia Dziubenko-Mace, the wife of legendary-scholar James Mace, in her article ‘’ The Day of the Cold Sun’’, writes that the subject even put some people in mortal danger.
The authors Volodymyr Maniek and Lidia Kovalenko suddenly died: Volodymyr in a car crash and Lidia from a heart attack. Death also claimed the life of Oleksa Musienko, who was the first to call the 1933 manmade famine ‘‘Holodomor’’ on the pages of Literaturna Ukraina. We can interpret in different ways of course thоse incidents, but we know how skillfully that misanthrope system struggled with its enemies.
And thanks be to God that through many titanic efforts today people are praying for the victims of famine. I saw the representatives from several churches attended the commemorative meeting.
I admire UGCC for for its phenomenon in Ukrainian Ecclesiology.
The Church denounced dualism in society. UGCC sees Ukraine as a whole and even the enemies can not accuse the Church and can not blame the Church in some extremes.
It may seems that in Galicia region in Ukraine there are some radical elements among the laity, but even they do not have anything to do with facsism , and with how Russian Media interpreted the situation in Ukraine.
Also impressive was the president’s speech at the memorial meeting.
But to be honest my head does not fit the rhetorics of the President’s expressions like :
‘’ we shall revenge ‘’. Well, I can understand- ‘‘we shall remember’’ , I can understand ‘‘we shall not forget’’, but I can not grasp ‘’ we shall revenge ‘’, its still sounds in my mind like some thing that defies understanding.
I do not want to demonize the Russians, they themselves for centuries had been the victims of mass URRRRRRAAAAAAAAAAAA - propaganda.
I resent mass propaganda and how ordinary people had been succumbed by this propaganda.
Yes, one has to be spiritual and not soft-soulish.
Lord-Peacemaker is also the Lord-Sabaoth , and here the pacifist philosophizing are inappropriate.
Maybe I’m a ''not a realist ''and ‘’ too soft ''to understand our bitter reality, but I ask myself;
Who usually wins in wars? Russian or Ukrainian commoners? The sons of Russian or Ukrainian peasants? or may be the miserable wifes and mothers of wounded Russian or Ukrainian soldiers?
It is not a cowardice is not a weakness, it may be not realistic pacifist reflections,but honestly -
Is it not possible for the citizens of the world in 21st century to negotiate the things peacefully?
And why in the world’s systems in which we live - hundreds of millions of people allow themselves to be the victims of propaganda? and for some strange twist the Russian citizens even the perpetrators of Ukrainian Holodomor??

 

[badnewsbarrett]

As far as I know, the Catholic Church has yet to make a saint of any Eastern Catholic. Could someone please confirm that more definitively?

Assuming that is the case, I think it would be beneficial on a number of levels to move some Ukrainian Catholics through the process, not sainting them overnight of course, but if a Ukrainian Catholic from this particular time frame was beatified within the next several years and set on his/her way to close examination for sainthood- that would be a really good thing to see.

 

[hazcompat]

Saint Seraphim of Sarov?

Peace

 

[Vico]

As far as I know, the Catholic Church has yet to make a saint of any Eastern Catholic. Could someone please confirm that more definitively?

Assuming that is the case, I think it would be beneficial on a number of levels to move some Ukrainian Catholics through the process, not sainting them overnight of course, but if a Ukrainian Catholic from this particular time frame was beatified within the next several years and set on his/her way to close examination for sainthood- that would be a really good thing to see.

For a Vatican resource look here: vatican.va/news_services/liturgy/saints
/index_saints_en.html

Also look here for martyrs and others: newsaints.faithweb.com/index.htm

There are listings for:

• Armenian
• Chaldean
• Maronite
• Syro-Malankara

Under countries, for example, there are these in Ukraine:

1. •  Ludwika Morawska (1906)

   •  Eremiya      Lomnits’kyi (1916)      *Ukrainian Rite*

   •  Kirilo Selets'kyi      (1918)      *Ukrainian Rite*

   •  Yosafata Mykhailyna Hordshevs’ka (1919)          *Ukrainian Rite*

   •  Józef Bilczewski (1923)

   •  Isidor      Dol’nyts’kyi (1924)      *Ukrainian Rite*

   •  Vasyliia Hlibovyts’ka (1929)          *Ukrainian Rite*

   •  Varvara Shapka (1942)          *Ukrainian Rite*

   •  Ludwik Wrodarczyk (1973)

   •  Mykolai Charnets’kyi and 25 companions (1935-73)          *Ukrainian Rite*

   •  Justyn Spyrłak and      7 companions (1941)

   •  Andrei Sheptyts’kyi (Roman Oleksander) (1944)          *Ukrainian Rite*

   •  Teodor Romzha (1947)          *Ruthenian Rite*

   •  Aleksander Khira (1983)          *Ruthenian Rite*

   •  Petro Mekelyta and      47 Martyrs of Ukraine (1915-82)  *Ukrainian and Ruthenian Rites*

   •  Roman      Bakhtalovs’kyi (1985)  *Ukrainian Rite*

   and Slovak Republic:
   

   1. •  Alojz Maria Chmel (1939)

      •  Anna Kolesárová (1944)

      •  Zdenka Schelingová (1955)

      •  Metod Dominik Trčka (1959)

      •  Pavlo Peter Gojdič (1960)          *Ruthenian Rite*

      •  Michal Buzalka (1961)

      •  Titus Zeman (1969)

      •  Jan Vojtaššák (1965)

      •  Vasyl’ Hopko (1976)          *Ruthenian Rite*

 

[Athanasiy]

The terminology of the worlds dictionaries is enriched by two Ukrainian terms - ‘‘Euromaidan’’
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euromaidan
and ‘‘Holodomor’’
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor
The fact that these dates are nearly the same, ( the memories of ‘‘Holodomor’’ goes directly to the next day after the anniversary of ‘‘Euromaidan’’) this leads me to propose that Ukrainians need more days for remembrance of the victims of Holodomor.
Why do I think so?
Holodomor is too sacred to be overshadowed by some other events.
I suggest more days of Holodomor rememberance!
Why not assign the additional dates?
Holodomor has chronology of events , (December…Spring) the same as the Savior’s road to suffering has its chronology of events.
What if to add the additional dates of memories of Holodomor?

 

[Athanasiy]

To prevent the genocides from being repeated ever again, Ukraine needs to protect the democratic path of euro-integration.
We protest against Stalinism(Neo-Stalinism)which was a system designed to manipulate the crowd, and create a mechanized,atomized,one-dimensional society.
Europe its a social economy , justice, laws, respect to human units, value of human unit, and freedom of speach. ( in authoritarian states the press prints only liies.)
Even in the post-genocidal period during the 1990-th there were the times when elders were going around by searching for a cardboards,or empty beer bottles that they could exchange for a crust of bread the way . even now there are examples when urban pensioners do.
That is why for the progress and prosperity only one road- the European integration!
Way to be precise, I apparently made a mistake about the speech of the Head of the country.
He did not say ‘‘we shall revenge’’ , he said-’’ we shall not forgive ‘’.
I just want to correct myself.
And here is the eloquent speech (in Ukrianian)
youtube.com/watch?v=ZpFco1g5YTI