Tag: Ukraine
Ukraine: Custodial Spiritual Retreat
On September 14-19, 2024, the friars of the Provincial Custody of the Holy Cross in Ukraine conducted a spiritual retreat at the Friary of...
Ukraine: OFS National Elective Chapter
The national fraternity of the Secular Franciscan Order (OFS) in Ukraine was supposed to celebrate its National Elective Chapter in 2022, but due to...
Ukraine: Lviv Honors the Patron Saint of Things That Are Lost
In keeping with tradition, on June 13, 2024, the feast of St. Anthony of Padua, hundreds, if not thousands of devotees of the saint...
Ukraine: Extraordinary Custodial Chapter
On March 11-13, 2024, the Provincial Custody of the Holy Cross in Ukraine conducted an Extraordinary Custodial Chapter. The event took place at the...
Conventual Franciscan Mission Presences around the World – XXXII
Provincial Custody of the Holy Cross in Ukraine
Mother Province: Province of St. Anthony and Bl. James of Strepar in Poland (Cracow)
After World War II,...
Romania: Fresh Humanitarian Aid for Ukraine
On November 11-12, 2023, four friars from the Province of St. Joseph, Spouse of the B.V.M. in Romania took part in a new humanitarian...
Ukraine: Dovhenke – The Smell of War
A Visit to a Village Liberated from Russian Occupation
On August 2-4, 2023, the Custos of the Provincial Custody of the Holy Cross in Ukraine,...
Ukraine: Residents of Mats’kivtsi Surviving the War under the Protection of...
Mats’kivtsi is a village in the Khmelnytskyi region of Ukraine. In 2010, the Conventual Franciscans built the Church of the Nativity of the Blessed...
Therapy through Art, Spiritual Direction and Material Help from the Conventual...
“The ongoing war in Ukraine is causing a lot of suffering. We have started some art therapy classes at the friary in Boryspil,” said...
Ukraine: Pilgrimage on Foot from Lviv to Bilshivtsi
During July 5-8, 2023, a pilgrimage for peace and reconciliation was conducted on foot from Lviv to the Marian Shrine of Our Lady of...