9:43 PM Patriarch Sviatoslav Names Four Goals for His Church | |
At a press-conference in the town of Kolomyia of Ivano-Frankivsk Region held on occasion of the consecration of the main Cathedral of Kolomyia-Chernivtsi Eparchy of UGCC, its Head, Patriarch Sviatoslav named several priority lines considered by him as the Primate of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church. The first question stressed by the patriarch was the question of the presence of the Church in the social conscience: "The Church was removed from the social conscience for many years in Ukraine. Only for the last 20 years we have been gradually coming back to that awareness. We are building churches, of course, but also we are coming back to the civil society as such.” The second goal of the Primate is to return to social ministry. According to the patriarch, the state was the absolute monopolist in the area of social care in the soviet times but one can judge about the level of that ministry from the condition of state orphanages. "The Church always ran social ministries and we intend to enter that area step by step and come out of the churches. Some people would really like to reduce the Churches to ritual service and to reduce priests to ministers of religion, but it is not so,” said Patriarch Sviatoslav. "We would like to have Catholic schools, kindergartens, we would like to ensure support of our Catholic University which is making its first steps of being established as a very powerful intellectual institution. The Church is now renewing its ministry as a teacher step by step,” said Patriarch Sviatoslav. "There is also the forth goal: I would like all these goals to be realized in each parish,” summed up the patriarch. | |
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