October 28 – November 4, 2023

Fastiv, 28.10-4.11.2023

Praised be Jesus Christ!

Yesterday we celebrated our patronal feast of Saint Martin de Porres. It is always an opportunity to give thanks for 18 years of our service. Many miracles we experience through the intercession of our patron saint. Many friends, volunteers, ministers and thousands of children and adults whom we could help, in one word, THANK YOU.

This week, our volunteers were in Donetsk region in the city of Konstantynivka, taking beds, blankets and pillows to the transit shelter where the number of people has increased due to the difficult situation and the need for evacuation. Our social kitchen in Kherson is working, we have distributed 63,639 dinners during these six months.

Thank you, father Lukash Bovio and father Leszek Krzyza, the director of the association “Help to the Church in the East” under the Episcopate of Poland for a generator and clothes for children, which were delivered to Fastiv this week. Thanks to the support of the Partners of the Office of the Prime Minister of the Republic of Poland, Rządowa Agencja Rezerw Strategicznych, we distributed 1,332 food kits – 11,100 kg of humanitarian aid.

We thank the farmer Mr. Valentyn Negrebetskyi for the apples for our children. This week we once again supported our Defenders from the International Legion, we do not stop in the fight. It has already gotten cold enough, we ask you to support us in collecting gas burners, generators, warm sleeping bags, if possible, cocoon type with a hood for winter, sleeping mats, thermal socks, thermal clothing and fabric for it, and chemical heaters. We will be grateful for any help and donation.

With prayers

Fr. Mykhailo Romaniv OP