God is calling us to a new and deeper spiritual awareness. We encourage you to stay united in the communion of the Holy Spirit! Pray! Stay vigilant! Sing, smile, and laugh! Exercise and read! Pay attention to your health and help people who are under risk in your family as well as in your neighborhood! Communicate and support each other in spirit and deed!

The blessing of the Lord be upon you!

+Borys Gudziak
Archbishop of Philadelphia for Ukrainians
Metropolitan of Ukrainian Catholics in the United States

+Paul Chomnycky, OSBM
Eparch of Stamford

+Вenedict Aleksiychuk
Eparch of St. Nicholas in Chicago

+Bohdan J. Danylo
Eparch of St. Josaphat in Parma

+Andriy Rabiy
Auxiliary Bishop of Philadelphia

Adult Faith Formation

O Christ-God, in heaven You are carried upon a throne, but You were also carried by a donkey while living on earth.  You have received the praise of the angels and the songs of the children who cried out to You:

“Blessed are You who comes to restore Adam.”

“For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life.” (John 3:16)

Throughout the history of man, God has spoken to us in many different ways. At first, He spoke through His appointed prophets, priests and kings, and His glory was declared by the star-studded heavens above and His brilliant handiwork beneath. Each blossom speaks of His artistry; every bird gives testimony of His care, and every step we take and each breath we draw proclaims His gracious, sustaining power.

Throughout the passage of time, man has keenly desired to approach the unapproachable God. Man has explored ways to seek Him out, to know Him, to communicate with Him, to understand Him – but sin has erected an eternal, unbridgeable gulf between man and his Maker.

Following man’s fall, God set in motion His preordained plan to redeem the fallen race of man, and at the appointed time He broke into earth’s revolving history, to reveal Himself to His fallen creation in a new and special way. This was His appointed time to implement His perfect plan of redemption. Jesus came to carry out the plan which God had purposed before the foundation of the world.

God in His grace and mercy sent His Son into the world, that through faith in Him, the world may be saved – redeemed from sin and from Satan’s clutches. God determined that the eternal Son would set aside His glory and be born into the world, which He Himself created. God resolved that He would be born as the perfect, sinless Son of Man, and become the one and only acceptable sacrificial offering for our sin.

He came in the Person of Jesus, the babe of Bethlehem, such that whosoever believes in Him would not perish, but have everlasting life.

Jesus is the full and final revelation that God has given to man. His free-will, sacrificial offering on the cross is the climax of God’s plan to redeem His fallen race. Christ is the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End of God’s will and word – His mind and His thoughts.

Let us earnestly seek to know Him more and offer our lives as a living sacrifice that is holy unto God and cry out to Him for salvation with one, united voice: “Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord – Hosanna in the Highest.”

(from knowingjesus)

A brief message from the Ukrainian Catholic Bishops of the United States:

God is calling us to a new and deeper spiritual awareness. We encourage you to stay united in the communion of the Holy Spirit! Pray! Stay vigilant! Sing, smile, and laugh! Exercise and read! Pay attention to your health and help people who are under risk in your family as well as in your neighborhood! Communicate and support each other in spirit and deed! The blessing of the Lord be upon you!