Recently, Ukraine is visited by the Dad Alain Arnauld, the latest socius on Master of your own Acquisition. He found all of us on 2nd date time immemorial of your war, this time to visit Fastiv, Kyiv, and you will Khmelnytskyi. I very worth meetings having Dad Alain. He spent long interviewing brothers and you will volunteers in the House out of Saint Martin, and Dominican tertiaries for the Fastiv and you will Kyiv.
Last week Father Misha entered Father Ruslan – the fresh new rector of one’s diocesan seminary within the Kyiv – and you can several volunteers throughout the domestic out-of Saint Martin; it went along to eastern Ukraine to 
send humanitarian assist. Immediately following a primary stop at our priory for the Kharkiv, today served by Dad Andrew, they went south to help you Balakliia and you can loads of communities around Izium. These types of cities got recently been liberated on Russian army’s field. It told me this type of places seem like a wounded, outdone person. You can pick grand exhaustion: burnt and you may destroyed structures, bruised woods, our planet plowed by the tanks, and you may, poor of all, individuals with real and you can religious wounds, tears, and you may problems. Most demonstrably, the needs is enormous. The new population of those areas which were not as much as industry for nearly half a year come in hopeless you would like, specifically out of anything that can protect them in the upcoming cold and you may cold temperatures. “We need to begin making pads and you will comforters to ensure that we possess one thing to give them next time,” extra Dad Misha. To date i been able to send more than eight numerous eating, procedures, and you will timber-driven heaters and you will gas canisters that the villagers can use to cook food.
Today everyone knew again this awful war is not over, and it also keeps getting life, health, and you may vow from scores of Ukrainians. In Kyiv and you may Fastiv, we are thought which have fear of new risk regarding Northern, brand new you can attack from the Russian and you will Belarussian armies. Can get what they do feel completed as quickly as possible.
Yet not, I share the scene of your own tremendous almost all Ukrainains when I state I’m convinced of one’s strength and you may capabilities of the military which had been bravely safeguarding its nation to possess so many months
I ask you to answer very fervently for proceeded prayer for Ukraine and you can for us. Don’t end delivering their assistance of any form.
It has been 2 hundred days since the beginning of one’s combat. Even though the Ukrainian army’s current military achievement therefore the training away from Russian field on the territories of one’s Kharkiv Oblast and you can the latest south of the nation introduced united states contentment, vow, and you will assumption, we all have been conscious that the street so you can complete victory remains a lot of time. Today, towards Feast of your Exaltation of your Holy Get across, because of the effort of the Council of the Western european Episcopal Group meetings, we’re celebrating in the Ukraine the day from Prayer for Tranquility. It is famous beneath the slogan: “Kneeling through to the Eucharist whining having serenity.” I am extremely thankful so you can Archbishop Gintarasa for this suggestion. The guy visited Ukraine into the July, and since he is Lithuanian, I understand the guy knows well really how godless and you may terrible this new ideology away from “Russian serenity” is.
It is still very necessary
Prayer is a really crucial variety of let to have Ukraine. I’m convinced that prayer is really what welcome us to survive this new hardest go out at the beginning of the battle hence it continuously will bring strength towards Dominicans and you may set volunteers each day offering members of need. I’ve heard regarding people that they experience, including now, God’s take care of him or her. Dad Svorad told me that folks of Chortkiv accept it are the intercession out of Mary, who is far recalled contained in this area, one prevented anybody of losing their existence inside July skyrocket assault. The room of one’s urban area in which the rockets arrived was greatly broken, however the little shrine recently founded around honoring the new Coverage out-of Mary (Pokrova) has lasted. So it shrine was privileged early in Sep, each other by Catholic and you will Orthodox bishops. One can realize these types of signs in a variety of ways, however for we worn out by the combat, he could be a verification from some thing expressed from the a good poem authored at the beginning of the newest Russian aggression: “Goodness hasn’t remaining Ukraine. / The guy remains here among us. / Where our metropolitan areas are in ruins. / The spot where the flicker off vow is going.”