The following is a translation of a homily His Beatitude Patriarch Sviatoslav delivered on Wednesday, February 12th during the 10th anniversary celebration of the Three Holy Hierarchs seminary near Kyiv. His Beatitude's message struck a deeply anti-consumerist, distinctly communitarian, and perhaps harshly critical tone for our liberal world order. To an American ear, the Ukrainian politics of federalization ring true with the partisan ideal of state’s rights and republicanis

The following homily was delivered in Ukrainian by Fr. Serhiy Kovalchuk, Chancellor of Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Eparchy of Chicago and pastor of St. Nicholas Cathedral on Sunday, September 15, 2019. Fr. Serhiy was addressing an an annual ecumenical gathering organized by the Ukrainian Genocide Famine Foundation - USA in honor of the Holodomor: Stalin's man-made famine that left millions of Ukrainians dead from 1932-1933. Fr. Serhiy Kovalchuk at the 2019 Ukrainian Genocide Fa

The following is an excerpt from the homily delivered by His Beatitude Patriarch Sviatoslav at the Enthronement of Bishop Benedict as the Fifth Bishop of Chicago on the Feast of St. Peter and Paul, June 29th, 2018 "But at the same moment, at the same time, Apostle Paul was saying to us that [our Church] has a specific characteristic because it unites people not only of Ukrainian background or origins. We pray and celebrate the Divine Liturgy both in English and in Ukrainian.