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Seminary Year 2024-2025
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Ukrainian Seminaries Full, Turning Away Candidates
SAMBIR, Ukraine, FEB. 4, 2011 (Zenit.org).- Ukrainian seminaries are having to turn away up to half of the young men seeking to become priests due to a lack of space. Coadjutor Bishop Jaroslav Pryriz of the Eparchy of Sambir-Drohobych reported to Aid to the Church in Need that in some places, there are three candidates…
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Pre-feast of Theophany
Make ready, O Zabulon, and prepare yourself, O Nephtali; O River Jordan, stop and receive with joy the Master coming to be baptized. O Adam, rejoice with the first mother, Eve, and do not hide yourselves as before in Paradise. For, having seen you unclothed, Christ has appeared to clothe you with the first robe;…
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Letter of the Canadian UGCC Bishops for Nativity of our Lord 2010
To the Very Reverend Clergy, Monastics and Religious Sisters, Seminarians and Laity of the Ukrainian Catholic Church in Canada: Our Saviour, the rising Sun, more brilliant than any other sun, has visited us today from on high. We once were in darkness and the shadow of error, but now we have found the truth; for…
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Letter of the Holy Father to the Seminarians at the Conclusion of the Year of the Priest
Dear Seminarians, When in December 1944 I was drafted for military service, the company commander asked each of us what we planned to do in the future. I answered that I wanted to become a Catholic priest. The lieutenant replied: “Then you ought to look for something else. In the new Germany priests are no…
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Subdeacon Alex Laschuk Awarded High Honour
We are very proud to announce that one of our seminarians, Subdeacon Alex Laschuk, has been awarded a very high honour from Saint Paul University. The Governor General’s Academic Silver Medal is awarded to the undergraduate student who achieves the highest academic standing upon graduation from a bachelor degree program. Alex achieved this last year.…