August 20-26, 2023

Fastiv, 20-26.08.23

Praised be Jesus Christ!

Celebrating Independence Day, we realize the value and weight of this holiday. On this day, we strongly feel the unity in prayer for Ukraine. In particular, when we sang the national anthem together, many had tears in their eyes. Each of us has many acquaintances who are currently on the front lines defending our land in these days and hours.

Along with many people who give their time and energy for Victory, we have in mind all our friends, in particular foreigners who spend their vacations or days off from work with us. This week, three of our cars went to Odessa and all the volunteers who drove and accompanied them were from the Republic of Poland, without exception.

Volunteers are now returning from Kherson, where they delivered food. We also visited our friends from charitable foundation “Christian”, with whom we have been cooperating for over a year, but for the first time I personally managed to visit them and bring them humanitarian help. On the other hand, we received even more from the beautiful family of Olena Nechepa, who has three wonderful daughters and two sons – they generously gifted us with their kindness. Our long-standing dream came true and we were given three goats of the Zaanen breed. Now our children have the opportunity to drink delicious and healing goat milk. Good always returns, it is not as loud as evil, but there is always more light than darkness.

We would like to thank Oleksandr Vasylovich Zhukatovskyi, the Chairman of the Board of the Mironiv Cereal and Compound Feed Joint Stock Company, for the humanitarian aid of 2,000 liters of fragrant oil and 1,000 kg of oatmeal for civilians affected by Russian military aggression.

Thanks to the Dolindo Volunteer Center for their partnership and assistance. This week, we provided 2,004 basic food kits, in particular for Kharkiv Oblast, Donetsk Oblast, Kherson Oblast and forcibly displaced people in Odesa, totaling 16,400 kg of humanitarian aid.

We thank our tireless volunteers for their service and endurance. Let us not lose hope that we will overcome everything together.

With prayers

Fr. Mykhailo Romaniv OP