Podcasts about sheptytsky

In this episode, Landon Coleman interviews Fr. Alexander Laschuk JCD, PhD. Fr. Alex is the new interim executive director of MASI and he shares his vision for the Institute, the future of the UGCC, and ecumenical work with True Light. Fr. Alex challenges us to get back into our parishes post-COVID-19, pray for the Church and live out the Gospel!

In this episode, Landon and Lara Coleman are joined by Fr. Deacon Daniel Galadza, who was assistant professor at the Chair of Liturgical Studies and Sacramental Theology of the Catholic Theology Faculty in the University of Vienna from 2013 to 2018, and continues his work as international research partner at the Austrian Academy of Sciences and a member of the Patriarchal Liturgical Commission in Kyiv. He shares elements of his research which focuses on the historical development of liturgy, and his hopes to restore our liturgical practices to allow their full catechetical and transformative potential.

In this episode, we hear from Fr Matthew Francis, OCA pastor of Holy Apostles Mission Station in Chilliwack BC and member of the Canadian Bible Society enthusiastically shares his love of Holy Scripture - the very Word of God, who is revealed to us in Jesus Christ. Like the Ethiopian eunuch and the disciples of Emmaus before us, he encourages us to thirst for this knowledge of God brought to us by Scripture and for which we need the Church to guide us.

Co-hosts Lara and Landon Coleman interview Dr. Adam DeVille, associate professor and chairman of the Department of Theology-Philosophy, University of Saint Francis (and graduate of the Sheptytsky Institute) on the topic of Married priesthood. Drawing from his soon-to-be-released book, Dr. DeVille highlights the rich tradition of the Eastern Churches on this issue and offers precious insight that could inform the intense debate that our sister Latin Church is currently engaged in.  Both marriage and celibacy are vocations that embrace sacrificial love and ought to mirror themselves on Christ's paschal sacrifice. Both celibate and married priesthood are precious gifts to the Church, and ought to be lived in community.

Landon Coleman is joined by his new co-host and wife Lara, who interviews wives of three priests whose ministry spreads across much of the country. Pany Olenka Galadza, Annette Hrywna and Kim Bombak are at various stages of their lives and vocations. They offer a beautiful testimony of the countless ways in which their respective gifts are transformed into a service for the whole Church -- in an often discreet but tremendously edifying way.

Landon Coleman is joined by Fr Richard Soo, SJ - missionary pastor of an Eastern Catholic parish in Richmond BC.  Fr Richard Soo's Byzantine Parish is an wonderful example of the UGCC living up to its missionary calling, concretely echoing the words of Patriarch Sviatoslav: "(ours) is a Church that comes from the Ukrainian people, but it is a Church that is for the entire human race!" On this episode, learn about Fr Richard and his parish, as well as the ripples of his missionary activity all the way to Hong Kong, Singapore, Thailand ... 

In this second episode of this new season, Landon Coleman is joined by Rev. Alexander Wroblicky from the Archeparchy of Pittsburg. In this episode we are challenged to explore evangelization -- the Great Commission -- and while doing so, to go back to basics. Do we Catholics not often behave like a people with a Religion in search of Faith? Might we not frequently go through motions with our heart and soul far from the words of Scripture and Liturgy? What do you plan to do with "the pearl of Great Price"?

The Sheptytsky Institute launches a second season of True Light with its new host, Landon Coleman. Following the liturgical calendar, this episode delves into the feast of the Protection of the Mother of God -- a feast dear to those of Slavic tradition. Is this just another feast of the Theotokos? Grab your own chocolate and brandy, have a listen, and judge for yourself!

Written and narrated by Peter BejgerA quiet village set amidst rolling hills, forests, and ravines.A revered monastery.And four stories of salvation.A compelling article by Oksana Sikorska in the Ukrainian journal Zbruch outlines the remarkable role of the small western Ukraine village of Univ during the horrors of the Second World War and the Holocaust.These are stories of resilience and triumph in the face of daunting odds and incredible danger.In the 1930s Univ had a little over a thousand souls and a village school. And by the time of the German occupation in 1943, a little boy was peering out a window from the attic of the schoolhouse onto the world outside. To leave the attic was to invite disaster. Most of the local Jewish population had already been deported and/or killed. Public signs posted everywhere warned that anyone assisting Jews would be executed.This boy, Roald Hoffman, who was to become the Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, found shelter in the one room schoolhouse, which was also the home of the village schoolteacher Mykola Dyuk and his wife Maria.What is even more astounding is that Roald’s mother, two uncles, and an aunt were also in hiding at the same location. The group of five remained together there for eighteen months until the end of the German occupation. Mykola and Maria Dyuk were conferred the title of Righteous Among the Nations by Yad Vashem in Israel.The lonely boy Roald gazed upon the forbidden world outside as his mother lifted his spirits with fantastic stories of overseas adventures. And down the road from the schoolhouse a group of other boys he would never get to meet played freely outside.The boys were from the orphanage of the Holy Dormition Lavra, the mother monastery of the Studite Order of Monks of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church. Historic documents date the Lavra to the fourteenth century. It became a renowned religious publishing and printing center in the seventeenth century.The Studite monks were—and are—a working and praying order with doors open to everyone. They were self-supporting, lived simply on the verge of poverty, and ran orphanages and workshops where they trained young peasant boys in crafts. Their dynamic leader, the Archimandrite Clement, was the brother of the head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church Andrei Shteptytsky.Kurt Lewin, the son of a rabbi in Lviv, lived in hiding among the Studites in a number of locations for most the war thanks to the effort of the Sheptytsky brothers. He left a vivid account of their daily lives. He wrote, “At six o’clock the working day was over, with the monks changing into habits and assembling for the evensong. A simple meal in the refectory was followed by the Povecheria, a short night service, consisting of reading psalms…one that I always found especially moving. It beseeched the Lord to take care of travelers on sea or land, to heal the sick, to console the dying in their hour of agony, to protect the oppressed and imprisoned, the soldiers on the battlefield, all people suffering and in mourning, to protect everyone everywhere. The priest pronounced the pleading sentences of the litany and the community answered “Hospody podaj I pomyluj” (O Lord, grant it and have mercy on all). Then the monks approached the superior one by one to be blessed. Each monk approached him, kissed an extended hand and left in silence for the monastery and his cell.”Among the orphans cared for by the Studites at Univ were several Jewish boys. They included the former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Poland Adam Daniel Rotfeld, now professor of Warsaw University. There was also Dr. Leon Chameides, also a rabbi’s son, See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

It’s never too late to have a happy childhood.An astonishing new film called Shimon’s Returns proves the point in a sometimes provocative but always heart-warming manner.The documentary, directed by Slawomir Grunberg and Katka Reszke, tells the story of the now-retired Israeli history professor Shimon Redlich.In the film Shimon takes some of his Israeli cousins on a trip. A trip back into his childhood. A trip back to the villages, towns, and cities of western Ukraine and Poland. A Holocaust survivor, Shimon shows the hiding places and the people who saved not only his remarkable childhood, but also his life.“There is no question that my happy childhood years had a strong effect on my whole outlook,” says Shimon in the film’s narration. “These years make me strong and feel good until this very day.”Shimon was born into a middle-class family in Lviv before the war. And for the first ten years of his life he lived in the town of Berezhany, about ninety kilometers from Lviv.Most of Shimon’s family did not survive the war. His father’s remains are located somewhere in a mass grave, whose uncertain location in a grassy field Shimon visits in a heart-rending scene in the film.But Shimon survives the first period of great danger hidden in an attic in Berezhany’s ghetto. “I was able to see the church through a small hole,” he narrates. “I remember looking out into the marketplace very nearby. And I saw people walking but I was removed from them by light years. I was living in a completely different world.”A Polish father and his son, Stanislaw and Karol Cadogni, supplied at great risk packets of food to the attic. But when the danger became too great, it was time to move.Shimon was sent to “paradise,” which is what Rai, the name of a nearby village, means in Ukrainian. And there he found refuge with a Ukrainian peasant woman named Tanka Kontsevych and her two small children. The Nazis had taken away Tanka’s husband for slave labor in Germany.Tanka’s nine-year-old daughter Ania proved to be especially crucial to Shimon’s story. And in the film the now elderly Ania recounts the harrowing story. One day two German soldiers suddenly showed up. Ania’s mother was not around and the soldiers were about to stumble into Shimon’s hiding place. But Ania proved to be very bold and clever in the face of dire circumstances. In light of her bravery, Little Ania received recognition as a Righteous Gentile from Israel’s Yad Vashem, despite the usual rules reserving this recognition to those twelve years old or older.Shimon underlines that the rescue of Jews by Ukrainians is a very important issue. Shimon has been working for years to have Israel’s Yad Vashem recognize Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church Metropolitian Andrei Sheptytsky as a Righteous Gentile. One segment of the film features an interview with the frail and elderly nun Sister Chryzantia, one of the oldest surviving witnesses of how Sheptytsky saved nearly 150 Jews through a network of monasteries and churches.For the charismatic and fearless Shimon, daily life should embrace laughter and good cheer. He approaches total strangers on the streets of Ukraine and Poland for conversation and even impromptu dancing. And this approach provides several striking scenes, including one where he talks to a group of men wearing German SS uniforms. The encounter provides an unexpected insight into how the demons of history are viewed by not only survivors, but also by a contemporary generation.“I always try to find the oldest person who lives there,” recalls Shimon. “Someone who perhaps remembers something. From time to time, I like to stop people on the street and start a conversation. To me it’s not enough at all to check archival documents and read newspapers. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.