The Kyivan Church, which is the church we are in, has a tradition of reader's services. Reader's services are services that can be done without clergy. All services in the life of the church, including the Sunday communion service, can be done as reader's services. We developed these services because the Kyivan Church, unlike the imperial churches, has had the experience being colonized by other empires, sometimes even being forced underground. In this time of COVID-19, it mi

On June 6th, 2019, I had the opportunity to present on a youth panel during a conference at the Catholic University of America. All of us were supposed to consider the future of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church in America. I spoke on behalf of the St. Mary of Egypt Social Justice Fellowship, at the invitation of Fr. Mark Morozowich, dean of theology at CUA, and Metropolitan Archbishop Borys Gudziak, who had been enthroned as the Archeparch of Philadelphia and the United St