Behold, the eye of the Lord is
on those who fear him, on those
who hope in his steadfast love,
that he may deliver
their soul from death,
and keep them alive in
famine. ~ Psalm
32:18,19
“Without the
Eucharist, the Church would not exist. The holy Eucharist is the central point of our
life. I remember once a priest I met. He never talked at great
length about the sufferings, persecutions and tortures, but he mentioned that
even in prison, all the priests would celebrate the liturgy. We were amazed; how
could this be possible?
Where did you get a Chalice and a Paten? He took off his
glasses and said: 'This is what we used; one lens served as the chalice with a
drop of wine and on the other a piece of bread was placed, which served as the
paten.' This is how they celebrated the liturgy in the prison or around the
premises of the concentration camps.”
Major-Archbishop
Swiatoslav Schevchuk
Primate of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic
Church
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