The Church That Stalin Couldn’t Kill: Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church Thrives Seventy Years after Forced Reunification

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ChurchSoldier said:
Inspiring story. Thanks for letting us know about it.
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Gee i was just told that persecution and martyrdom of christians didnt happen under the communists. Im so confused:rolleyes:

I was baptized and raised ukrainian greek catholic. I am now roman. But i still hold deep affection for the byzantine rite.
There is now a surplus of priests in ukraine. They are being sent to the us. My childhood parish has one. Him his wife and child all very nice. (allowed to be married in this rite)Very orthodox too. Anyone who says you cant be married and a good priest is wrong.
 
Tbrightson said:
Gee i was just told that persecution and martyrdom of christians didnt happen under the communists. Im so confused:rolleyes:

I was baptized and raised ukrainian greek catholic. I am now roman. But i still hold deep affection for the byzantine rite.
There is now a surplus of priests in ukraine. They are being sent to the us. My childhood parish has one. Him his wife and child all very nice. (allowed to be married in this rite)Very orthodox too. Anyone who says you cant be married and a good priest is wrong.
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I don’t think it wise to change the discipline of celibate priests in the Latin church because we simply aren’t used to it and we don’t have the right kind of infrastructure it would be something that I think we would have to do over a period of time that being said, I agree with you there are very good married priests.
 
I believe if I recall correctly that it was the largest underground religious body on Earth at one point
 
I do not agree with supporters of the Russkiy Myr that the UGCC loses parishioners in the modern dynamics of secularization, on the contrary - I certainly do not want to offend the refugees, who moved to Galychyna en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lviv_Oblast#Nomenclature by thousands from godless Pro-Russian regions of Ukraine.(of course the war is scary and war is absolute evil but I’m now trying to explain something else)
If Lvivans are threatened by vortexes of godlessness in the future, it only could happen because of the invasion of Homo-Sovietkus or pseudo-intellectuals, who are already trying to infiltrate into ‘‘Lvivians’’.
I am not from Lviv, I am from another region of Ukraine, and also not very sympathetic to the Lviv areal of identity, but we want it or not - Lviv people en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lviv_Oblast
kept a good Christian culture, traditions and customs.
The fact that in Galichyna on Sundays the Churches are filled with young people(сontrary to the false arguments of the haters of Ukrainians) the fact that in Galichyna the spirituality is not separated from the state-building bases and is not separated from public life, it’s all due to the phenomenon of the Greek Catholic Church.
The piety of Galichyans its a huge work of clergymen of several generations,therefore despite the hospitality of people it is probably possible to understand the Lviv people who are worried about the preservation of the identity of mentality of their spiritual garden, of their regional spiritual heritage. Lviv Oblast as a region of Ukraine has something to be proud of in the good spiritual sense of the word.
 
A leader in the underground Ukranian Catholic Church wrote a book of his experiences under the communist regime that I bought and which I much like: “Josyp Terelya, Witness to Apparitions and Persecution in the USSR” (by Josyp Terelya). It is a book about the persecution and survival of these Catholics. The author was repeatedly put in prison for his faith. The edition I have has a picture on the cover of the author, standing with Pope John Paul II. I recommend this book as one way of finding about what happened to the Ukranian Catholic Church under the communists in the Soviet Union.
 
mdgspencer said:
A leader in the underground Ukranian Catholic Church wrote a book of his experiences under the communist regime that I bought and which I much like: “Josyp Terelya, Witness to Apparitions and Persecution in the USSR” (by Josyp Terelya). It is a book about the persecution and survival of these Catholics. The author was repeatedly put in prison for his faith. The edition I have has a picture on the cover of the author, standing with Pope John Paul II. I recommend this book as one way of finding about what happened to the Ukranian Catholic Church under the communists in the Soviet Union.
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I have read that book 👍
 
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