About 9 percent of Ukrainians, approx. 3.6 million people, are Greek Catholics who belong to Churches of the Byzantine rite. The Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church was outlawed under Soviet rule, from 1946 to 1989, and the Ruthenian Catholic Church was suppressed in 1949. Read the Feb 24 CNA report about what they have faced.
https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/250474/things-to-know-about-the-catholic-church-in-ukraine
https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/250474/things-to-know-about-the-catholic-church-in-ukraine
Gas in my area is $5/gallon, one reason to constrain religious practices to one day a week. The distance is 60 miles round trip. I get about 42 miles per gallon. 42/60 = .7, and .7 times $5 = $3.50. That is the cost just to go to church, excluding my obligation to support the parish every week, as well as charities. A pittance? That is 52 weeks, plus Holy Days, and there is wear and tear on the car, too. As a boy in San Francisco, I could walk 10 blocks in either direction and be at Mass. The cost - wear and tear on shoes.
Now you know my political and economic views. I put if off for as long as I could. So be it. These views began forming toward the end of high school and persisted. Innately, I knew when something I heard was plainly wrong, causing me to stick to basics because they are tried and true.
In 1973, when I was at Loyola in LA, friends invited me to a Catholic charismatic group gathering. Though still fairly innocent at 21, I lasted 20 minutes. Something was off. I credit my Catholic faith and Jesuit education with being able to stay away from goddesses and gurus, religious profiteers on television and pop psychology frauds, and dissenters. I didn’t defeat the sexual revolution, but that lasted for a relatively short time.
I keep politics out of the lives of my students.
Linked is a video visit to a Byzantine Catholic church in the USA.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bOZ9ii87tE
Now you know my political and economic views. I put if off for as long as I could. So be it. These views began forming toward the end of high school and persisted. Innately, I knew when something I heard was plainly wrong, causing me to stick to basics because they are tried and true.
In 1973, when I was at Loyola in LA, friends invited me to a Catholic charismatic group gathering. Though still fairly innocent at 21, I lasted 20 minutes. Something was off. I credit my Catholic faith and Jesuit education with being able to stay away from goddesses and gurus, religious profiteers on television and pop psychology frauds, and dissenters. I didn’t defeat the sexual revolution, but that lasted for a relatively short time.
I keep politics out of the lives of my students.
Linked is a video visit to a Byzantine Catholic church in the USA.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bOZ9ii87tE
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