Dear Friends,

It seems that Patriarch Lubomyr has proclamaimed a new Holy Day for the Ukrainian Church. The following was posted on the UGCC website. I point out to you the third paragraph.

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UGCC / News / Remains Of Blessed Charnetskyi Transferred To Church

www.ugcc.org.ua


Priests of the Redemptorist order and thousands of Leopolitans ceremonially transferred the mortal remains of Blessed Nicholas Charnetskyi from the Lychakivskyi Cemetery to the Church of St. Josaphat, both in Lviv, on 4 July 2002.

On 5 July, Cardinal Lubomyr Husar, head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church (UGCC), celebrated a Liturgy in the church in honor of Blessed Nicholas. The relics will remain in the Church of St. Josaphat until 11 July, when they will be ritually sealed into a side altar of the church. They will lie there until a church is built in honor of Blessed Nicholas.

The fourth of July will become a holy day for the UGCC, commemorating the transfer of the relics of Blessed Nicholas.

Nicholas Charnetskyi was a bishop of the UGCC in the first half of the twentieth century. Arrested by the KGB in 1945, he was sentenced to 6 years in a Siberian hard labor camp. Weakened by his time in prison, he died in Lviv in 1959. His remains were transferred in the 1960s to Lychakivskyi Cemetery. On 27 June 2001, he was beatified by Pope John Paul II in Lviv.

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Have a Blessed Day!!!

John
Pilgrim and Odd Duck

Is this a holy day just in Ukraine or for all Ukrainian Catholics around the world? Don

Since this translation of relics was proclaimed by the Patriarch speaking in accord with the Synod, it would apply to the entire church sui juris, or worldwide for the Ukrainian Catholic Church. Of course anyyone else who wants to can venerate Blessed Mykola as well.

I am going to check with the Redemptorists and see if a Moleben and propers have specifically been composed to Blessed Mykola.

Dear Friends,

The Transfer of Relics of a Saint automatically creates a second Feast Day in honour of that Saint, as we know.

There is the translation of the Relics of St Nicholas of Myra in Lycia to Bari which is commemorated on May 9/22 along with many others.

Patriarch Lubomyr is to be applauded for deepening the cult of the Eastern Catholic New Martyrs.

I hope our Ruthenian brothers and sisters adopt this holy-day too!

Alex