In Sloatsburg, NY, Head of UGCC led Assumption pilgrimage and spoke about Ukraine
Assumption pilgrimage in Sloatsburg, NY, on Mount Mary, the location supervised by Sisters Servants of the Immaculate Virgin Mary was held on August 12.
Head of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church Patriarch Sviatoslav, who is currently on a visit to the United States, arrived for the pilgrimage dedicated to the celebration of the 1,030th anniversary of the Baptism of Kyivan Rus-Ukraine. Cardinal Timothy Dolan also took part in the pilgrimage. It was reported by the Department of Information of the UGCC.
“For 64 years now, in this holy place, we lift our prayers and ask for patronage of the Blessed Virgin Mary. After all, our predecessors, emigrants, prayed for the freedom of their Church and people, as well as they brought their patience, difficulties, experiences, gain strength and strengthened hope for God's help.
As in the Ukrainian miraculous Zarvanytsia, the leaders of our Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, which was always with our people, came here to the seat of the Mother of God. August 11th marks 50 years since on this site many thousands of pilgrims prayed with the great patriarch, the head and father of the Church persecuted in Ukraine, His Beatitude Iosyp Slipyy, and later his successors, His Beatitude Myroslav Lubachivsky and His Beatitude Lubomyr Husar. And today we are privileged to congratulate the Head and Father of our Church - His Beatitude Svyatoslav,” appealed to the guests and pilgrims Sister Sofia Lebedovich, General Superior of the Congregation of Sisters Servants of the Immaculate Virgin Mary.
His Beatitude Sviatoslav said in his sermon that the true treasure for a human being is faith in God, for it is “an eternal treasure, a real wealth that nothing can destroy.”
“Now the Ukrainian people are bursting with blood and defending the independence of their State, it shows the world that there are certain values for which it is worthwhile to give up their lives – this is faith in God and freedom,” said the head of the UGCC.
The pastoral visit of the Head of the UGCC to the Stamford Diocese ended on Sunday, August 12, by the pilgrimage to Marian pilgrimage place in Sloatsburg, New York.
