The Roman Catholic Parish of St.Joseph

Lately the Roman-Catholics of Dnipropetrovsk have received an incredible gift from God. On the eve of Assumption of the Virgin Mary into Heaven after the Mass the believers found the door of the temple opened. From that moment they didn’t leave that place, praying and cleaning up there. It was special time for preparing for a great celebration on the 29th August – the consecration of the temple.
The celebration began in the morning, when the procession marched out from the chapel in Komsomolska st. to the temple in Karl Marx Av. Including the local parishioners there were a lot of guests among the processionaries, who came from different places of the Ukraine. Walking down the central avenue of Dnipropetrovsk, they sang the songs of joy and glorification. Even the ruins of the temple, its destroyed roof and burnt walls couldn’t injure their happiness. Inside of the holy place they could see the figure of Resurrected Christ stood on a huge heap of rubbish, that was left by the previos ”owner”.

Before the worship there was a press conference for journalists of local and regional TV channels and printed sources.

The Mass was headed by Bishop of the Kharkiv-Zaporizhia Diocese Marian Buchek. Together with him there were Bishop Emerity of Kharkiv-Zaporizhia Stanislaw Padewski, Auxiliary Bishop of Kyiv-Zhytomyr Stanislav Shyrokoradiuk and Auxiliary Bishop of Odessa-Simferopol Petro Herkulan Malchuk. Moreover letters of Archbishop of Lviv Mieczyslaw Mokrzycki and Bishop of Kamyanets-Podilski Leonid Dubrawski were read in public as they couldn’t have arrived at this day.

Among the guests there were the first prior of Dnipropetrovsk parish p.Marcin Jankiewicz, who came from Poland on this occasion, the next prior fr.Pawel Tokarz, Vice Provincial minister of the Vice Province of Ukraine and Russia of the Order of Friar Minor Capuchin Blazej Suska, plenty of priests, monks and nuns from different dioceses. Extraordinary and Authorized Ambassador of the Republic of Poland in the Ukraine Jacek Kluczkowski and Consul General the Republic of Poland in Kharkiv Grzegorz Soroczynski also arrived in Dnipropetrovsk to enter in joy of the Roman-Catholics of Dnipropetrovsk.
The actual prior of the parish in Dnipropetrovsk fr.Kazimir Guzik OFMCap appealed to those present with the words of gratitude to God and everyone who were praying for the returning of the holy place in Dnipropetrovsk. He turned attention to the figure of Resurrected Christ who was the sign of God’s victory in hopeless case. After his short speech Auxiliary Bishop of Kyiv-Zhytomyr Stanislav Shyrokoradiuk consecrated the temple, aspersing it and present people with holy water.

The theme of Marian Buchek’s sermon was society relations. He reminded that a man who cut ties with God also severed ties with another one, and as a result it led to injury, disrespect and indifference in society.

Before blessing and ending of the Mass Vice Provincial minister of the Vice Province of Ukraine and Russia of the Order of Friar Minor Capuchin Blazej Suska thanked God for fr.Kazimir, for his devotion and faith. Then Bishop Emerity of Kharkiv-Zaporizhia Stanislaw Padewski and the first prior of Dnipropetrovsk parish p.Marcin Jankiewicz made a short speech.

At the end of the celebration everybody could have an admission.

Photos from celebration

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