The Church That Stalin Couldn’t Kill - WHO ARE GREEK CATHOLICS AND WHY WERE THEY HUNTED?

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  • @rogerkropuenske2866
    @rogerkropuenske2866 2 месяца назад +13

    Beautiful Church!! Thank you for that great tour!!!🙏💛💙🇺🇲

  • @ThatLvivGirl
    @ThatLvivGirl 2 месяца назад +14

    This is my church! Thanks for the video! I see you worked a lot on it!!

  • @JohnAmbs-di7mp
    @JohnAmbs-di7mp 2 месяца назад +6

    Long-time Latin Mass Catholic. Love my Eastern Catholic brothers and sisters. Have attended Ukrainian Catholic Divine Liturgy many times--so beautiful. Grew up alongside Eastern Orthodox, and-in my region-they were generally very anti-Catholic. Many Orthodox jurisdictions not in communion with one another.

  • @brianmarjerrison8940
    @brianmarjerrison8940 2 месяца назад +13

    Loving your channel keep safe

  • @paulozorzo9996
    @paulozorzo9996 2 месяца назад +1

    Awesome from a Ukrainian Greek Catholic from Brazil, the Ukrainian Catholics have two eparchies here in my country.

  • @jaimefdzavila4303
    @jaimefdzavila4303 2 месяца назад +11

    Beautiful video
    Thank you

  • @mariobernabe9750
    @mariobernabe9750 2 месяца назад +19

    Glory to Ukraine

  • @trevmacc
    @trevmacc 2 месяца назад +10

    Thank you for sharing another interesting video. The place and church are beautiful, and I love the outfit. Stay strong and safe.🙏🤗💙💛

  • @DominikGentener
    @DominikGentener 2 месяца назад +5

    Thank you, Eugenia. You really produce great content.

  • @allanmichaeldesouza7400
    @allanmichaeldesouza7400 2 месяца назад +6

    How wonderful Eugenia, I'm so pleased with your excellent video. God bless you. Take care and stay safe and happy and keep smiling. With love and best wishes to you and your family and loved ones. Allan x. Slava Ukraini ✌️🇺🇦🫶🇪🇺 OTAN 🕊️

  • @axelborg7744
    @axelborg7744 2 месяца назад +8

    Great video on the Uniate Ukrainian Church. Thank you.

  • @San-rx9kh
    @San-rx9kh 2 месяца назад +2

    Thank you , I needed this

  • @petergaffney4915
    @petergaffney4915 2 месяца назад +7

    Thank you from St. Vladimir Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church in Scranton Pennsylvania under Fr. Myron Myronyuk.

    • @volusian95
      @volusian95 2 месяца назад +2

      Hey, I go to Cyril and Methodius in Berwick

    • @danfsteeple
      @danfsteeple 2 месяца назад

      Uniates

    • @petergaffney4915
      @petergaffney4915 2 месяца назад +5

      @@danfsteeple Yes! Thank God! Not the insulting term that people mean it to be but the Unity that Jesus Christ stated at the Last Supper. Slava Isusu Christu! Slava Na Viky!

  • @Tony_Lewis
    @Tony_Lewis 2 месяца назад +6

    Lord, Have Mercy On Us All !!!!!

    • @Leonard-td5rn
      @Leonard-td5rn 2 месяца назад

      My grandfather told me that religion is like a nail the more you pound on it the deeper it goes in

  • @dansmith4077
    @dansmith4077 2 месяца назад +1

    Great video thank you Eugenia

  • @volusian95
    @volusian95 2 месяца назад +3

    I'm a non-Ukrainian who has been attending the UGCC since 2017 and it's been lovely. The church has such an amazing story, especially in the 20th century, and it's rarely ever talked about even among Catholics

  • @jadehaze7939
    @jadehaze7939 2 месяца назад +3

    Cool to see how their Icons look halfway in between Orthodox and Catholic :O
    Greetings from Mexican Protestant. God Bless your perseverance.

  • @johncromwell2529
    @johncromwell2529 2 месяца назад +2

    🙏👏👍🇺🇦💪🤞

  • @peterhenryzepeda3484
    @peterhenryzepeda3484 2 месяца назад +2

    My great grand parents were Greek Ukrainian Catholic. I’m a Latin

  • @peacefulamerican4994
    @peacefulamerican4994 2 месяца назад +2

    This explains a lot.

  • @giacomomencarini8799
    @giacomomencarini8799 2 месяца назад +1

    Привіт Евгения, дякую за ваше відео, як завжди. Коли у мене є частина, я їжджу в Українську службу у Флоренції (Греко-Католика Українська Церква). Мені дуже подобається слухати службу Українською мовою, це просто супер гарно !!! Я дуже радий, що ця церква пережила!!

    • @EugeniaFromUkraine
      @EugeniaFromUkraine  2 месяца назад

      вау))) це круто) рада що ви близькі і дотичні до украінськоі культури

  • @oromani1842
    @oromani1842 2 месяца назад

    My church in Chicago (st Joseph the Betrothed) has a shrine to the Hoshiv icon outside. Lovely to see the original!

  • @sigurdurbjornsson9065
    @sigurdurbjornsson9065 2 месяца назад +5

    Slava Ukraini

  • @drd4059
    @drd4059 2 месяца назад +10

    Approximately 75% of the Ukrainian diaspora in Canada are "Greek" Catholics. We use the labels "Ukrainian Catholic" and "Catholic Byzantine Rite" more often than "Greek".

    • @EugeniaFromUkraine
      @EugeniaFromUkraine  2 месяца назад +2

      We are maiming ours here like греко католики)

    • @drd4059
      @drd4059 2 месяца назад +1

      Perhaps you meant "naming". "Maiming" means to injure. I suggest you fix the typo. I will delete this comment after your edit.

    • @danfsteeple
      @danfsteeple 2 месяца назад

      UNIATES!

  • @orangemanbad
    @orangemanbad День назад

    Ukrainian Catholics are amazing

  • @rgb6834
    @rgb6834 2 месяца назад +2

    I'm not religious but I am proud of my country that was very religious could accommodate Darwin Karl Marx and Elizabeth 2 my beautiful queen who remained a Christian to her dying day

  • @JohnKellerTech
    @JohnKellerTech 2 месяца назад

    You are a most interesting and beautiful person inside and out

  • @ireneo484
    @ireneo484 2 месяца назад

    I learned about Josyf Slipyj in Ukrainian school (on Saturdays!) as a child. what a great video. I'm always struck how ruzzians rejected Western ways, and now in the US they do not call themselves "ruzzian" but "eastern european". it's laughable. Fantastic video, the images are striking and your costume is super cute!!

    • @EugeniaFromUkraine
      @EugeniaFromUkraine  2 месяца назад +1

      I'm delighted that you liked the costume too)))) Your support means a lot to me. Slava Ukraini! 🇺🇦💙

  • @jaydev7026
    @jaydev7026 2 месяца назад

    I love both catholic and orthodox churches. I hope both sides can learn to love each other again

  • @joetaadaa7074
    @joetaadaa7074 2 месяца назад +1

    This is one of the topics I have had an interest in. Specifically, the Church and how the Parishioners kept alive their beliefs under Soviet rule.
    I cannot fathom the strength they had and fears they had to overcome.
    It all sounds like a movie plot, surviving and practicing your Christianity. Faith carries you thru so much, a totalitarian dictatorship can't compete with Jesus.
    Lessons to be learned, eh?
    Thank you Jane, i hope you have been well...considering.

    • @EugeniaFromUkraine
      @EugeniaFromUkraine  2 месяца назад

      Hey Joe)) glad you could catch up on RUclips)) I am more less fine))

  • @AJ-Lohinska
    @AJ-Lohinska 2 месяца назад

    Thank you so much, Eugenia, this is incredibly interesting and well presented. Nature definitely *is* alive. I think that was a leaf falling behind you, I have that happen to me too on rural walks in the woods, and I always have to look to see if it is a mouse or someone tiny)) Did you know that when leaves fall from trees at this time of year, they don't just simply "fall" without reason?
    The tree has what they call "Scissor Cells", that gradually grow around the base of the leaf to intentionally cut off its supply of nutrition until it has none, so it disconnects from the tree.
    Scientists have footage and still images of this which is quite a remarkable thing to see!
    I love, love, love nature, it is definitely a God-given gift! It saved my Dad's sanity in battles in WW2. He told me so, nature is one of your best friends, as is God.
    I was baptised Roman Catholic, and in our Faith we have a well-used term, "All Faiths and none". Which is akin to what you said at the end here, Eugenia. Good Christians accept what others wish to believe in, and that is also what good people who are not of any religion also believe in. Live and let live.
    Our own Ukrainian family there always were Greek Catholic.
    As for russia's oppressions for other Faiths in Ukraine being done so horrendously, and the current situation with it warring on Ukraine, when russians have to stand before God and explain why they killed innocent people, woe betide them!
    May God also be with you, Eugenia.

  • @StuartistStudio1964
    @StuartistStudio1964 2 месяца назад

    Glory to Jesus Christ! I'm an American, and a member of the UGCC. I formally made the canonical transfer from the Latin Catholic Church to the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church in 2017. I'm sick today, so I am unable to attend our Diaconal Typica Service today. (Our priest has Air National Guard duty, so our Deacon is leading a Typica Service.) Hopefully, I will be well enough next week for Divine Liturgy.
    Our parish meets for Divine Liturgy on most Sundays of the month (except when Father has Guard duty, like today, when there's a Typica there instead) at a Latin Catholic high school chapel, because we don't yet have a temple of our own. The funny thing is, no one in our parish is actually Ukrainian. We all, for various reasons, simply fell in love with the Eastern Lung of the Catholic Church, and started attending St. Andrew's, and many of us got permission to make the canonical transfer.
    I love the Divine Liturgy, and am very happy to be learning more and more of the Byzantine Rite's many and various traditions. God bless you, and grant you many blessed years!

    • @EugeniaFromUkraine
      @EugeniaFromUkraine  2 месяца назад +1

      I'm sorry to hear you're not feeling well today, but I hope you have already recovered and attending church))) Jesus Christ is a King

    • @StuartistStudio1964
      @StuartistStudio1964 2 месяца назад

      @EugeniaFromUkraine Thank you! I'm feeling much better now! Glory to Jesus Christ!

  • @chickenbiscuit4525
    @chickenbiscuit4525 2 месяца назад

    Prayer after prayer.
    Prey after predators.

  • @petebrady4388
    @petebrady4388 2 месяца назад +5

    Pryvit Eugenia, another interesting video from you Eugenia, i am glad that you find peace and strength in your faith. In these troubled times we all need to have faith and belief in something. Please carry on with these type of videos.
    Love the Harry Potter vibe 😊
    🇺🇦💙💛🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

  • @mainer97
    @mainer97 2 месяца назад

    god bless you. romans 10.13.

  • @tonymaries1652
    @tonymaries1652 2 месяца назад

    Thank you for a very informative video which clearly explains a church which is a bit of a mystery to the English speaking west because of the various titles it has had - Uniate and Greek Catholic. Confusingly there is also a Melkite Greek Catholic Church, also in communion with Rome, which originated in Syria, and a Romanian Greek Catholic Church. I did look to see whether there were Greek Catholic churches in the UK and as I expected, there are a few, in the parts of the country where there is a long-established Ukrainian diaspora which originally came to the UK after the Second World War.

    • @PKowalski2009
      @PKowalski2009 2 месяца назад +1

      You can find a similar church, also “Greek,” in Romania. Well, the popes agreed to such unions on the very simple condition of recognizing the pope's leadership -- so the churches came with their traditions and liturgy.
      I am writing from Poland. Here, in the areas where the Ruthenians lived (many identify themselves as Ukrainians, but not everyone wants to, so I'll write them that way) they referred to both Churches -- Uniate and Orthodox. Sometimes it was decided by liking or antipathy to a particular priest.
      Of course, the film talks about something else -- that this Uniate identity, helped Ukrainians maintain their identity.

  • @mariobernabe9750
    @mariobernabe9750 2 месяца назад +2

    Hello

  • @maakstemdik007
    @maakstemdik007 2 месяца назад +3

    you are a cute little minion with your big minion glasses 🤓

  • @PKowalski2009
    @PKowalski2009 2 месяца назад

    I would add that this is what the authorities of -- here the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth wanted, but a similar solution was later pushed through by the Austrian authorities. It was all about their own and the Eastern Church siding with the authorities. Paradoxically, these churches, in Ukraine or Romania, became a source of national renewal and identification over time.

  • @stephaneaderca7948
    @stephaneaderca7948 2 месяца назад

    Excellent and informative video. But just for the record, the agreement that brought part of Orthodoxy in union with Rome while retaining the Orthodox liturgy is the Union of Brest, not the Union of Brest Litovsk. The treaty of Brest Litovsk saw the Bolsheviks give up vast territories in Ukraine and Poland in return for a separate peace with Germany in 1918. No connection to the Union of Brest three centuries earlier, though both famous agreements were signed in the city of Brest (now in Belarus, and called Brest Litovsk in 1918).

    • @EugeniaFromUkraine
      @EugeniaFromUkraine  2 месяца назад

      Thank you for your keen observation and for providing such a detailed explanation. You are absolutely right-the Union of Brest and the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk are two distinct events with no direct connection, despite both being signed in the city of Brest. The Union of Brest was indeed the agreement that brought part of the Orthodox Church into communion with Rome while retaining their liturgical practices, whereas the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk involved territorial concessions in 1918.

  • @MrJijack
    @MrJijack 2 месяца назад

    Who is she mentioning in 8:36?

  • @rubemartur8239
    @rubemartur8239 2 месяца назад

    God is within the diversity of the rites. Once one Pope tried to anatemize other rites, but because of one saint, influencied by the Holy Spirit, begged the Pope to not do it. It was God's will.
    God wanted the church to maintain the Katholika meaning from the greek, that is universal. Being for every people seems that you can spread the Gospel, tradition and teachings, but every local culture will have some diverse vestments and attires, even little changes around the rites, but without compromising its essence. And of course, Jesus and Theotokos being represented in every race colour and cultural clothes... and their own rites.
    May one day the Catholic church, no matter the region/nationality reunite again, with a proper conversation. The Vatican doesnt even oblige eastern communities to add "filioque".
    But one thing is certain: IF some claim isnt Ex Cathedra (very specific moments of infaliability), and there are claims that would damage older popes teachings, we should stay with the traditional, never go modern or woke. Pray for the daily conversion of the clergy and for their holiness, they need, like us.

    • @EugeniaFromUkraine
      @EugeniaFromUkraine  2 месяца назад

      Thank you for sharing such a profound and inspiring message. May we all continue to strive for unity, understanding, and holiness in our journey of faith. Slava Ukraini))))

  • @InterFinumRerum
    @InterFinumRerum 2 месяца назад

    Я Баптист Христианин, потому что Библия ясно учит что спасение получается только через веру в Иисуса Христа, и не от дел.

  • @frederickanderson1860
    @frederickanderson1860 2 месяца назад

    He that is born of god has overcome the world. Jesus said l have overcome the world.

  • @stephanottawa7890
    @stephanottawa7890 2 месяца назад +5

    It was probably originally Orthodox. There were no such thing as Ukrainian Greek Catholics until the forced union at the end of the 16th century. That means that for 600 years or more all Christians were Orthodox.

    • @okj9060
      @okj9060 2 месяца назад +3

      Many Greek Catholics actually weren’t forced into communion. Your generalization only applies to some groups. It’s also worth noting that many Greek Catholics, notably the Romanian Greek Catholics, were forced by the Eastern Orthodox into communion. The Catholic Church helped Greek Catholics join through evangelization also.

    • @stephanottawa7890
      @stephanottawa7890 2 месяца назад

      @@okj9060 I do not think that the Orthodox Christian were even consulted. You cannot prove otherwise. What happened was that the elite barons and archbishops decided and then they were all Polonized such as in the case of the Sheptyphsky family. They are not to blame because it was impossible to maintain their power without Polonization. As for evangelization, which means the proclamation of the Gospel, I do not think that Jesuits forcing Orthodox to convert to another religion is evangelization. The RC church is a bit like the mafia. When it is beneficial for it, it will act. Otherwise they really could care less about Eastern Europe because there is not much money there.

    • @stephanottawa7890
      @stephanottawa7890 2 месяца назад

      @@okj9060 Yes, the nobles who benefited from the union were not forced. They were then Polonized. Did not Sheptysky have to learn Ukrainian when he was appointed archbishop of Lviv. Until that point he spoke only Polish and some Ukrainian with the servants. I am not sure what you mean by evangelization. I think that it means preaching the Gospel. We did not need Rome to get the Gospel. We already had it - in fact, the Orthodox Church wrote it.

    • @okj9060
      @okj9060 2 месяца назад +2

      @@stephanottawa7890 my points on your comments
      1. It is definitely true that some Eastern Orthodox joined the Catholic Church for political reasons and conflicts and pressure from the Catholic Church
      2. Its also true that the Eastern Orthodox Church pressured eastern Catholics back into orthodox communion. The Eastern Orthodox aren’t necessarily more innocent in this case.
      3. Many Eastern Orthodox groups have freely joined the Catholic Church. Not all of them were forced. The Catholic Church sought Eastern Orthodox out.
      4. When I said “evangelize” I meant missionary work. The Roman Catholics did missionary work to the eastern churches and that’s what helped them be in communion (ex: maronites, Uniates).
      Getting people into communion with the church is a form of evangelization. Evangelization now refers to more than just telling about the gospel, but trying to save people from hell. Saving eastern sects from their heresy and schism is definitely helping save them from the path to hell. In this way, how the Roman Catholics approached eastern split offs in the cases of missionary work, what they did could be considered evangelization

    • @EugeniaFromUkraine
      @EugeniaFromUkraine  2 месяца назад

      You’re correct. The history of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church is indeed rooted in the Orthodox tradition. Before the Union of Brest in 1596, which brought several Orthodox dioceses into communion with the Pope of Rome, Christianity in what is now Ukraine was predominantly Orthodox. This union marked the formation of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, blending Orthodox traditions with Roman Catholic theology and practices.

  • @johncollorafi257
    @johncollorafi257 2 месяца назад

    Our Lady has appeared in Ukraine and wants prayers for Ukraine and the conversion of Russia.

  • @63utuber
    @63utuber 2 месяца назад

    OK, I looked it up. It was obvious that "salida de emergencia" was Spanish for "emergency exit", but in Ukrainian it's "аварійний вихід".

    • @EugeniaFromUkraine
      @EugeniaFromUkraine  2 месяца назад +1

      could you please advice more in details

    • @63utuber
      @63utuber 2 месяца назад

      At 0:36, the red letters are visible. Given the color and the placement on the window, the words must be emergency instructions, and I recognized "emergencia" as Spanish.

  • @drreaganeliedithphd6526
    @drreaganeliedithphd6526 2 месяца назад

    Миру ❤ Прівіт до тебе і Україна 🇺🇦

  • @estebancorral5151
    @estebancorral5151 2 месяца назад

    Even your name is Greek. Eugenia means nobility of birth. St. Clement was banished to the Ukraine under orders from Emperor Trajan. He was put to hard labor working the quarry.

  • @williamblansett5786
    @williamblansett5786 2 месяца назад

    I enjoyed and learned quite a bit.
    propagate means spread and promote
    propaganda is a particular viewpoint, often false information.
    I think you wanted to use propagate in your speech. Thank you. Slava BUH. Slava Ukraini.

    • @EugeniaFromUkraine
      @EugeniaFromUkraine  2 месяца назад

      Thank you for your thoughtful comment))) You're absolutely right about the difference between "propagate" and "propaganda"-thanks for pointing that out)))

  • @DawsonDave-YZF-R6
    @DawsonDave-YZF-R6 2 месяца назад

  • @PioestPius
    @PioestPius 2 месяца назад +1

    If you are Catholic then you should avoid Harry Potter like the Devil

    • @jakajakos
      @jakajakos 2 месяца назад

      That's your opinion and not the position of the Catholic Church. The Church has no official position on Harry Potter books or movies

  • @lukStSerb
    @lukStSerb 2 месяца назад

    6:08 it's not _"hatred to west"_ though, but vice-versa -- to sum it up I'll say just this: the templars where Catholic, not Orthodox. And before the EU and NATO it was the Catholic Church and still is.

  • @stephanottawa7890
    @stephanottawa7890 2 месяца назад +1

    Do not be silly. The Tatars are a people from Asia and speak a Mongolian language. The Russians and the Ukrainians are European and speak similar Slavic languages.

    • @EugeniaFromUkraine
      @EugeniaFromUkraine  2 месяца назад +2

      Muscovy, as a principality, was established in 1277 by the order of the Tatar-Mongol Khan Mengu-Timur and was an ordinary ulus of the Golden Horde.

    • @stephanottawa7890
      @stephanottawa7890 2 месяца назад

      @@EugeniaFromUkraine This does not prove the lie that you are trying to propagate. Kiev was sacked by the Mongols. Mongols probably raped many women. However this does not make Kiev a Mongolian city today. Moscovy was settled by many people coming from what is now Ukraine. In fact, millions of Ukrainians from the Soviet period live in Russia. Please, learn how history and settlement works and stop promoting hate. It is not Christian. I am assuming that you might be one.

    • @stephanottawa7890
      @stephanottawa7890 2 месяца назад

      @@EugeniaFromUkraine I will put up my response to this silly comment again. The Mongol hordes also pillaged Kiev and raped many women. Does that make Kiev a Mongol city? Actually, the Moscovy region was settled by people from today's Ukraine. Incidentally, there are millions of people of Ukrainian origin in Russia. Does that make them Mongolian? Stick to history and not nationalistic myths!

  • @janbezziemi4162
    @janbezziemi4162 2 месяца назад

    Unite, Greek - Catholic Ukrainian Church is the pillar of strength of Independent Ukraine. The same was in the past - with Eastern Galicia (being dominated by this church) being The Piemont of the Idea of "Samostijna Ukraine". Slava Ukraini!!!! Down to russian imperialism!!! Greetings from Poland!!!!