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Pastoral visit of Bishop Hlib to Ireland
UGCC News
http://www.ugcc.org.ua/eng/press-releases/article;6301/
From January 17 to 22, 2008, the Most Rev. Bishop Hlib (Lonchyna), Apostolic Visitator for Ukrainian Greek-Catholics in Italy, Spain, and Ireland, was on a pastoral visit to Ireland. In this country the Greek-Catholic community of Blessed Mykolay Charnetskyj operates in the city of Dublin, where Archimandrite Serge (Kelleher) does pastoral work. More than 500 faithful consider themselves members of this community.
On Theophany Eve, Bishop Hlib together with Archimandrite Serge were guests for the Holy Supper at a Ukrainian family in Dublin. Some members of the parish community came there to greet the guests with Christmas and Theophany carols.
On the day of the feast, January 19, 2008, the Apostolic Visitator headed a festive Hierarchical Divine Liturgy at the Oratory of Saint Kevin. This is a small chapel of the Cathedral in Dublin where our faithful gather usually for prayer services. The Divine Liturgy was celebrated on the altar which was blessed by the bishop in June 2007. Together with the bishop, Archimandrite Serge and Fr. Krzysztof Choma, SJ, concelebrated. The chapel was totally filled with our faithful, who came to participate in the festive prayer service.
On the feast of the Theophany the community of Blessed Bishop and Martyr Mykolay gained one more member: the baptism of a new-born child was held. Since 1999 the parish has already had 146 baptisms. The service continued with the Great Blessing of Water near the ancient baptismal font, after which Bishop Hlib sprinkled the chapel and faithful with blessed water.
A particularity of the feast was the blessing of an icon of Blessed Karl, who was the king of Austria and apostolic prince of Hungary during the last years of World War I. The icon is the gift of an unknown benefactor from the United States of America.
Bishop Hlib headed services also during the next two days of his visit. During this pastoral visit the Apostolic Visitator for Ukrainian Greek-Catholics in Italy, Spain, and Ireland not only fortified the local community of faithful of the UGCC with his prayers and spiritual teaching but was also acquainted with the administrative life of the parish and checked the parish books.
On January 22, Bishop Hlib left Dublin for Rome to participate there in the visit � ad Limina Apostolorum� (to the tombs of the Apostles) of the bishops of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church.
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Just were is the Eastern Catholic Church in Ireland. I often travel to Ireland and would like to visit the next time I am in Dublin.
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Just were is the Eastern Catholic Church in Ireland. I often travel to Ireland and would like to visit the next time I am in Dublin. Many years, Neil
"One day all our ethnic traits ... will have disappeared. Time itself is seeing to this. And so we can not think of our communities as ethnic parishes, ... unless we wish to assure the death of our community."
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Do come and be welcome! Caution, though - at 4:00 Sunday afternoons, when our Divine Liturgy is regularly scheduled, one can only enter the building complex through the entrance of Saint Kevin's Oratory on Thomas Lane (one block west of Marlborough Street and one block east of O'Connell Street in the Dublin City Center). We usually unlock the place before 3:30. It's always wise to get in touch with me and confirm the service.
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I hope that a nice photo of the new icon of Blessed Karl will be posted online somewhere in the near future!
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I certainly hope to post a nice photograph of the Blessed Emperor Charles of Austria - the icon is presently hanging so that one who prays before it faces East.
Incidentally, one of the Blessed Emperor's sons, Archduke Charles, just died a month or so ago. Excerpts from the funeral (in Saint Stephen's Cathedral, Vienna) are on You-Tube. The mortal remains are interred in the Imperial Crypt.
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