• January 3-10, 2026
    Christ is born! These days are especially cold and frosty. Yesterday we returned from Kherson. What we could share, especially for the oldest ones — for those who visit our social canteen — was to prepare warm things for them: blankets, socks, chocolate, flashlights. We prepared 500 such gifts and […]
  • December 27, 2025 – January 3, 2026
    Christ is born! This New Year brings a lot of hope, but it will also be a year full of strength, faith and love for those around us. We would like to thank all our friends who care about us. There are many difficult situations, including those related to the […]
  • November 29 – December 6, 2025
    Praised be Jesus Christ! Today, Fastiv in the Kyiv region was again heavily shelled. The enemy has been attacking our city for the second week in a row. In one of our centers, window curtains and frames were damaged by the blast wave, but, fortunately, no one died. Important communication […]
  • December 13-20, 2025
    Praised be Jesus Christ! In these cold days, many people need protection from the cold, especially in the regions where intense shelling continues. Yesterday morning, the enemy again attacked Kherson, in particular the center and the Shumen district, where our social kitchen operates. That is why we have begun preparations […]
  • December 7-13, 2025
    Praised be Jesus Christ! We would like to start this report with the information we receive daily from Kherson. The city is under heavy enemy shelling. There is no heat, no water, and no electricity. All of this is due to heavy enemy shelling. It hurts, because last week we […]
  • November 22-29, 2025
    Praised be Jesus Christ! First of all, I want to thank everyone who joined the collection for oak briquettes for our defenders in the Kherson direction. This week we were in Kherson and gave away everything we had. Everything went away in one day — the weather changed dramatically, it […]
  • November 15-22, 2025
    Praised be Jesus Christ! We spent this week next to the mothers of our fallen heroes who underwent rehabilitation in our shelter. This is always a special time — a time of closeness, support, and attentive listening. And at the same time, it is an encounter with great pain. Because […]
  • November 1-8, 2025
    Praised be Jesus Christ! On Monday, November 3, Fastiv welcomed us with exceptionally warm, sunny weather. It seemed that time stood still for a moment — to give space to joy, gratitude, and memories. Our children — pupils of the Gymnasium of Saint Martin de Porres and the youngest from […]
  • November 8-15, 2025
    Praised be Jesus Christ! On Monday, we celebrated the anniversary of the liberation of Kherson. For us, this date has a special, very personal meaning. From the first days of the full-scale war, we were friends with the people of Kherson and had one unbreakable promise: as soon as Kherson […]
  • October 25 – November 1, 2025
    Praised be Jesus Christ! Today, the Church honors all the saints — those who became a sign of God’s love with their lives. We ask for their intercession for our country, for a just peace, and especially for our defenders. This week, we delivered aid to the military in various […]
  • October 18-25, 2025
    Praised be Jesus Christ! The week in which we conduct rehabilitation for our mothers of fallen defenders is always exceptional. We touch on something very intimate — the wounds left by the war. A five-day course of assistance is aimed at giving the opportunity to sanctify these wounds with God’s […]
  • October 4-11, 2025
    Praised be Jesus Christ! This morning began with messages from Ms. Olena, the administrator of our canteen in Kherson, that today is very difficult because of the shelling. I will add a few photos to this report — because this is what hurts us the most. This is what, unfortunately, […]
  • September 20-27, 2025
    Praised be Jesus Christ! This week in Fastiv was special. Not just because we have conducted another course. And because we touched the very depth of human pain – and light. At the social center of the Holy Name of Jesus, on the street Kyivska, 57, within five days we […]
  • September 13-20, 2025
    Praised be Jesus Christ! This week we have provided humanitarian help for frontier cities and communities that are particularly in need today. In particular, Snihurivka in Kherson region, where people live in difficult conditions, often near water or in temporary homes through war. The cargoes were: fuel briquettes – at […]
  • September 6-13, 2025
    Praised be Jesus Christ! This week we received humanitarian cargo from our friends and partners. We sincerely thank everyone who joined this cause! Special thanks to the French company CONSERVES STEPHAN (representative — Frédéric Le Bougeant) and the COLLECTIF STADE LAMBALLAIS UKRAINE association. Thank you to Ms. Olga and Ms. […]
  • August 30 – September 6, 2025
    Praised be Jesus Christ! This week we visited the front-line Kherson and sincerely thank everyone who supports us there – our employees, volunteers and friends! The situation in the city is very difficult and dangerous. Getting from Mykolaiv to Kherson is difficult due to enemy drones. People in the villages […]
  • August 16-23, 2025
    Praised be Jesus Christ! I am writing this report in Kherson, on the eve of Independence Day. I traveled a lot around the city yesterday. The most striking thing was the large number of our flags and coats of arms. In almost three years of visiting Kherson, I have not […]
  •  August 9-16, 2025
    Praised be Jesus Christ! We would like to share a short report for this week Thank you to everyone who supports us — thanks to you, we can do good together. This week we sent aid: to a children’s camp in Makariv (children of fallen soldiers and children of servicemen […]
  • July 26 – August 2, 2025
    Praised be Jesus Christ! We look with sadness at what is happening in the East, in particular in Rodynske, near Pokrovsk. The enemy is already on the outskirts of the town. This is a special place for us, because we have traveled there several times and delivered humanitarian aid. Later, […]
  • July 13-20, 2025
    Praised be Jesus Christ! This week, as is traditional, we are going on a pilgrimage, praying for our country, for our defenders, for all who help us, support us and who are close to us. We turn to the Blessed Virgin Mary of Berdychiv with a request for protection and […]
  • July 5-12, 2025
    Praised be Jesus Christ! We would like to share with you the report for the week. We held a rehabilitation camp for children from the Kherson region — a time of strengthening, restoration, and minutes and days of sincere joy of childhood, which war tries to take away, especially from […]
  •  June, 14-21, 2025
    Praised be Jesus Christ! This week we started a new page in the activities of our social center. We were preparing for this event, worried, tried to make everything go as well as possible. In our Center we began to provide rehabilitation services to the mothers of our fallen soldiers […]
  •  June, 7-14, 2025
    Praised be Jesus Christ! Yesterday we returned from the frontline Kherson region. A few words about the situation and our trip. The most important task was to visit a small modular town in a safer part, intended for people who lost their homes. In particular, residents of villages such as […]
  • May, 31 – June, 7, 2025
    Praised be Jesus Christ! It was an absolutely exceptional week — as always, as every first week of June for many years in a row. We organize holidays for the children of our city — and not only. In the early years, we traveled a lot to other areas: we […]
  • May, 24-31, 2025
    Christ is risen! A few days ago I received sad news that a humanitarian aid point in the village of Rodynske, not far from Pokrovsk, was destroyed. The point itself burned to the ground, but also the houses around it were completely destroyed to the foundation, there are dead and […]
  • May, 17-24, 2025
    Christ is risen! This week was very intense for all of us. There was a trip to Kherson, and all our projects in Kherson continue to work, although the situation in the city is not improving, and one might even say, is getting worse, as the red zone is expanding […]
  • May, 10-17, 2025
    Christ is risen! Yesterday we returned from Donbas. Today is the funeral of our parishioner and defender Mr. Oleksandr Kalinichenko. And this is something that hurts in a special way. This reality and everyday life is so difficult, that it is hard to agree and accept. In particular, in Donbas […]
  • May, 3-10, 2025
    Christ is risen! We have had a week that was quite intense, in particular because we made seed kits for areas that need support, especially during the war. Areas in such regions as Kherson, Kharkiv, Donetsk, as well as Chernihiv and Kyiv regions are areas that suffered as a result […]
  • April 26, May – 3, 2025
    Christ is risen! The social kitchen, which for many in Kherson became a special sign of hope, remains a place where people come in difficult circumstances of war and its associated difficulties. When we started this project, everything was different. People remembered the occupation well – and how difficult it […]
  • April 19-26, 2025
    Christ is risen! We are writing this report after the funeral of the Holy Father, grateful for His fatherhood and example of mercy. It is especially significant for us, because a few days ago we celebrated the second anniversary of our social kitchen in Kherson, which was supported by the […]
  • April 13-20, 2025
    Christ is risen! These days, when we expect and experience the transition of our Lord from death to life, are a special time of spiritual closeness. A time when we experience abandonment, but at the same time the hope is so close: life wins over death, we pass with Christ […]
  • April 5-12, 2025
    Praised be Jesus Christ! We have had a busy week, a week in which we were on a humanitarian mission in front-line Kherson. We visited our social kitchen, bakery and laundry. We were also able to deliver aid to our military, our defenders, in particular to the border guards. Each […]
  • March 30, – April, 5 2025
    Praised be Jesus Christ! This is an exceptional week for us. After many years of renovation and arrangement, we launched our Social Center of the Holy Name of Jesus. The first round of rehabilitation for our volunteers from Kherson, who live in the combat zone, took place. It was important […]
  • March 22-29, 2025
    Praised be Jesus Christ! Dear Friends! This week we were on a humanitarian mission in Kherson. For us, each such trip is not just a duty, but an opportunity to be close to those who live every day in a reality that is difficult to imagine if you are not […]
  • March 15-22, 2025
    Fastiv, 15.03-22.03.2025 Praised be Jesus Christ! I write this report from Kharkiv. And this, as always, is a good opportunity to thank our Orionist sisters, at whom we stop when we head to the Donbass. Because from Kharkiv, it’s closer to those who live near the war. In recent days, […]
  • March 8-15, 2025
    Fastiv, 8.-15.3.2025 Praised be Jesus Christ! This week I would like to write about what our immediate prospects will be, about what we will do in the near future. A few words about our icon painting workshop, which is currently accepting its first participants. This icon painting workshop will be […]
  • March 1-8, 2025
    Fastiv, 1.-8.3.2025 Praised be Jesus Christ! I am writing this weekly report from Kherson, where we are currently experiencing the Lenten retreat with our parishioners. The Holy Mass has just ended, and explosions could be heard throughout the Service. However, people, full of hope and trust in God, gather, pray, […]
  • February 15 – March 1, 2025
    Fastiv, 22.02-1.03.2025 Praised be Jesus Christ! A brief report on our week of activities. Among all those with whom we communicate today, many of our acquaintances are full of anxiety due to the events that occurred yesterday *overseas*. At the same time, we receive many words of support and solidarity […]
  • February 15-22, 2025
    Fastiv, 15.02–22.02.2025 Praised be Jesus Christ! The third year of the “Great War” is coming to an end, and our struggle has been going on for the eleventh year. I am writing these words to you from the Kharkiv region from our dear sisters, with whom we are staying on […]
  • February 8-15, 2025
    Fastiv, 8.02-15.02 Praised be Jesus Christ! It seems that winter has remembered us, we already had hope that it would leave by spring, the last few years the winters were quite mild and not frosty, these last weeks and probably the next ones will be quite cold. I have been […]
  • February 1-8, 2025
    Fastiv, 1-8.02.2025 Praised be Jesus Christ! During this difficult time of war, it is valuable to have Friends you can count on, who support you and will be there for you. For many years we have been cooperating with Mr. Oleg Ovechko, director of the International Charity Foundation for the […]
  • February 8-15, 2025
    Fastiv,8.02-15.02.2025 Praised be Jesus Christ! It seems that winter has remembered us, we already had hope that it would leave by spring, the last few years the winters were quite mild and not frosty, these last weeks and probably the next ones will be quite cold. I have been visiting […]
  • January 25- February 1, 2025
    Fastiv, 25.01.-01.02.25 Praised be Jesus Christ! Today we returned from our humanitarian mission to Donbas. At the request of the Pokrovsk military administration, we brought humanitarian aid, which is now needed not only in Pokrovsk. It is already quite difficult to enter the city, most of the residents have moved […]
  • January 18-25, 2025
    Fastiv,18.-25.01.25 Praised be Jesus Christ! Always in the most difficult moments, God sends us the brightest and kindest people, when we lack hope or when we lose perspective, there are those who show us something much more. It is not about whether it is more difficult or easier, it is […]
  • January 11-18, 2025
    Fastiv,11.01 – 18.01.2025 Praised be Jesus Christ! This week, our social dining room in Fastiv started working. This is also a miracle for us, because we have wanted to open a “stationary dining room” for many years. Since 2008, we have been feeding people, but it was for takeout. Now […]
  • January 4-11, 2025
    Christ is born! In these Christmas days, which are still ongoing, meetings are exceptional, visiting others, cards, greetings, gifts… For us this week, the meeting with the families of the deceased Fastiv residents was exceptional, so many wounds that need the touch of the newborn Christ. Children, wives, mothers and […]
  • December 28, 2024 – January 4, 2025
    Fastiv, 28.12-4.01.2025 Christ is born! We so want this year to be better than the previous years of the war, we ask God for peace and victory. Today we said goodbye to Lyubov Vasylivna, held a service and funeral ceremonies. Mrs. Lyubov left Pokrovsk in the Donetsk region in February […]
  • December 21-28, 2024
    Fastiv, 21.12-28.12.2024 Christ is born! Such an incredible week is behind us! We celebrated Christmas, and we also consecrated our social dining room and the premises of the first social laundry for the needy in Fastiv. We thank the papal alms distributor Cardinal Konrad Krajewski, who visited us and spoke […]
  • December 14-21, 2024
    Fastiv, 14.12-21.12.2024 Praised be Jesus Christ! Somehow, in these pre-holiday days, there is always a lot of trouble, which is purely related to the holiday and is certainly part of the celebration itself, but so much sadness that deprives us of peace, in particular after yesterday’s attack in Kyiv, Kryvyi […]
  • December 7-14, 2024
    Fastiv, 7.12-14.12.2024 Praised be Jesus Christ! Yesterday we returned from Pokrovsk where we are helping the administration, which in this very difficult time serves the civilian population. About the situation in Pokrovsk, in the Donetsk region, there are about 10,000 people left. Unfortunately, the enemy has advanced and is now […]
  • November 30 – December 7, 2024
    Fastiv, 30.11-7.12.2024 Praised be Jesus Christ! Yesterday we celebrated St. Nicholas the Wonder-worker. This is always an exceptional holiday, full of miracles and joy. When we were preparing for the celebration and we received requests from different parts of Ukraine, we were worried about how to cope. But the Holy […]
  • November 16-23, 2024
    Fastiv, 16.11.-23.11.24 Praised be Jesus Christ! This week was exceptional from Monday to Friday, we, together with our volunteers, underwent a certified training, Recover for Life. The training program is aimed at training specialists who will help those who have suffered as a result of war and other emergencies. The […]
  • November 11-16, 2024
    Fastiv, 11.11.-16.11.24 Praised be Jesus Christ! This week we all felt a significant cooling down, and snow has already fallen in the Kharkiv region. We made a trip to the Donetsk region. In particular, to Pokrovsk, where, at the request of the military administration, we brought humanitarian aid, which the […]
  • November 2-9, 2024
    Fastiv, 2.11.-9.11.24 Praised be Jesus Christ! This week was special because we celebrated the memory of our patron Saint Martin de Porres. A chapel was consecrated, but also special was the celebration for our youngest on Monday. I was moved by the Service of God and what the children are […]
  • October 26 – November 2, 2024
    Fastiv, 26.10.-2.11.24 Praised be Jesus Christ! Yesterday we celebrated the feast of All Saints – it is always a special occasion to thank all our patrons. Each of us has experienced exceptional care many times. There are many believers in our team, and everyone has their favorite saints and patrons. […]
  • October 19-26, 2024
    Fastiv, 19.10-26.10.2024 Praised be Jesus Christ! We spent the second half of the week in Kherson near the front, together with local volunteers, we packed more than 2,200 food kits of first necessity, which are intended for residents of the city and surrounding villages, which suffer the most from enemy […]
  • October 12-19, 2024
    Fastiv, 12.10-19.10.2024 Praised be Jesus Christ! Last Sunday, a charity fair was held in Warsaw to raise funds for those affected by the flood in Poland. The special emphasis was on the icons painted on the stones representing Noah, Aries and Doves. All this is very symbolic, because Noah is […]
  • October 5-12, 2024
    Fastiv, 5.10. – 12.10.2024 Praised be Jesus Christ! We returned from Kherson late yesterday evening, this humanitarian mission was not long, but it was very necessary, maybe I will tell you a little later. In recent days, the shelling of the city has intensified, there is destruction of infrastructure facilities, […]
  • September 28 – October 5, 2024
    Fastiv, 28.09.-05.10.24 Praised be Jesus Christ! We survived a week, thanks for this be to God, the Armed Forces of Ukraine, and all our friends and volunteers for their support and assistance. This week we were in the Donetsk region in the shelters of Konstantynivka and Druzhkivka. As you know, […]
  • September 21-28, 2024
    Fastiv, 21.09.-28.09.24 Praised be Jesus Christ! The Lord always increases good and good is always more than evil. Maybe it is not as loud, but looking around, we notice so many good things. This week we received help from our Dominican sisters from Żovkva, a help that immediately goes further. […]
  • September 14-21, 2024
    Fastiv, 14.09-21.09.24 Praised be Jesus Christ! All these days we live in the shadow of the tragedy that happened to our Brothers in Poland, where there are so many of our Friends, but we also remember the Czech Republic, Austria, and Romania. More than 750 localities were affected in Poland, […]
  • September 7-14, 2024
    Fastiv, 7.09-14.09.2024 Praised be Jesus Christ! Our service has its own specific history and it is closely connected with our Parish of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross in Fastiv – this is the place of our strength and special guidance from God. Today is our Temple Feast of the […]
  • August 31- September 7, 2024
    Fastiv, 31.08-7.09.2024 Praised be Jesus Christ! On September 1, on Sunday, we started a new school year at our school – it is always a challenge and the beginning of something new. Thank you Charytatywni Freta, thanks to your generous support, we distributed 700 school kits for children in Kharkiv, […]
  • August 24-31, 2024
    Fastiv,24.08.-31.08.2024 Praised be Jesus Christ! Today is the last day of summer. After the large-scale shelling, we are looking at autumn with fear, but despite everything, the school year starts tomorrow and many parents and children want to believe that it will be good. Together with our Friends, Charytatywni Freta, […]
  • August 17-24, 2024
    Fastiv, 17.08-24.08. 2024 Praised be Jesus Christ! Today we celebrate the 33 years of independence of our country. It is symbolic for us that at this time we must defend ourselves, so in our words there is more prayer and thinking. I want to wish exceptional cohesiveness, to wish oneness […]
  • August 10-17, 2024
    Fastiv, 10.08-17.08.2024 Praised be Jesus Christ! Today we remember Saint Hyacinth, who is the patron saint of Kyiv, we pray and ask for his intercession. For the second week, together with the partners of the Good Brother Charitable Foundation, we are accompanying 43 children from the city of Myrnograd, Pokrovsk […]
  • August 3-11, 2024
    Fastiv, 3.08.-11.08.2024 Praised be Jesus Christ! This week we have accepted the evacuation of 43 children from Myrnohrad, Donetsk region. It is already 2nd evacuation during the summer this year. The city is 13 kilometers from the frontline and evacuation is essential to save life. This project will be ran […]
  •  July 27- August 3, 2024
    Praised be Jesus Christ! This week, with a humanitarian mission, we visited the city of Kherson, where we run a social kitchen, a bakery, and last month we opened a social laundry. In the month of July, 11,805 dinners were distributed and 6,000 loaves of bread were baked for the […]
  •  July 20-27, 2024
    Fastiv, 20.07-27.07.2024 Praised be Jesus Christ! Our weekly reports are always an opportunity to thank everyone in our ministry. So many people standing nearby pray and support us by their donations. This week, we have sent 100 fire extinguishers that have already been taken to the Antonivka village, Kherson region. […]
  •  July 13-20, 2024
    Fastiv, 13.07-20.07.2024 Praised be Jesus Christ! This week is exceptional because it is especially connected with the pilgrimage that we experience on the way to the All-Ukrainian Sanctuary in Berdychiv. These days are valuable because they are very necessary for spiritual renewal, but also for carrying everyone in our hearts, […]
  •  July 6-13, 2024
    Fastiv, 6.07-13.07.2024 Praised be Jesus Christ! We have had a busy week, which we spent almost whole in Kherson with our volunteer. The most important of it was helping the residents of the village Antonivka, for whom our social kitchen delivers lunches and bread every day, given the fact that […]
  • June 29 – July 6, 2024
    Fastiv, 29.06.-06.07.2024 Praised be Jesus Christ! This week, we were with a humanitarian mission in Donetsk region – it was an emergency departure related to a large number of elderly people who had to leave their homes in the vicinity of Toretsk and nearby villages. People were evacuated urgently, whatever […]
  • June 23 – 30, 2024
    Fastiv, 23.06-30.06.2024 Praised be Jesus Christ! Such hot days as we have outside the window today encourage us to look for coolness and we are always happy with a sip of fresh water. Yesterday we returned from Kherson, in the South the temperature reached +37. Despite this, together with volunteers […]
  • June 15-20, 2024
    Fastiv, 15-20.06.2024 Praised be Jesus Christ! The first weeks of summer holidays… For children under normal conditions, it means a lot of joy, carelessness, but during the war, holidays also have a sad shade. In our shelter, this week we received 40 children who were evacuated from the city of […]
  • June 8-15, 2024
    Fastiv, 8.06-15.06.2024 Praised be Jesus Christ! We thank God and the AFU for the past week. With the Humanitarian Mission, we visited Donetsk Region, in particular Kostyantynivka, which is very close to the front line ( 6 km of bird’s flight from Chasiv Yar). The city is heavily shelled at […]
  • June 1-8, 2024
    Fastiv, 1.06.-8.06.2024 Praised be Jesus Christ! We ended last week with the Children’s Protection Day in Borodyanka, and this week started with the Children’s Protection Day in Fastiv. We thank our Defenders that there were no sirens and air raids on this day. Unfortunately, we could not accept all the […]
  •  May 25 – June 1, 2024
    Fastiv, 25.05 – 1.06.24 Praised be Jesus Christ! Today, June 1, is the Children’s Protection Day. It has always been an important day for us, we have organized a big celebration near our Center, but now more than ever, we understand what it means to protect children. So there is […]
  •  May 18-25, 2024
    Fastiv, 18.05-25.05.2024 Praised be Jesus Christ! We are always accompanied by some statistics, this week – it was the 30th humanitarian mission to the Kherson region. We somehow became “specially related” with the administrator of the social kitchen and bakery Ms. Olena, volunteers, employees of the Kherson military administration, ordinary […]
  •  May 11-18, 2024
    Fastiv, 11.05.-18.05.2024 Christ is risen! These days, we visited Donetsk region with humanitarian aid – Konstantynivka and Druzhkivka – these are the front-line cities, located 20 km from the front line near Chasiv Yar. People continue to live in their homes despite the shelling and try to live a life […]
  •  May 4 – 11, 2024
    Fastiv, 4.05.-11.05.2024 Christ is risen! We have had a good and intense week. We visited villages in the Kherson region, in particular Inhulets, where we handed over to the headman Ihor Lapin beds and the necessary things to improve logistics in the village. These villages are constantly suffering from enemy […]
  • April 26 – May 3, 2024
    Fastiv, 26.04-3.05.2024 Christ is risen! Since the beginning of the Great War, on the eve of the Easter holidays, we greet the families of our defenders who died. It is somewhat symbolic that this year on Good Friday, according to the Eastern calendar, the mothers and wives of the Heroes […]
  • April 20-27, 2024
    Fastiv,20.04-27.04.24 Christ is risen! This week, we celebrated the first anniversary of the social cuisine in Kherson. It was a difficult time, given the frequent shelling, lack of water supply and electricity. In spite of all these difficulties, we have seen this help with a pleasure and supports this difficult […]
  • April 14-20, 2024
    Fastiv, 14.04.-20.04.2024 Christ is risen! More than a year ago, we often visited the Veliky Burluk settlement in the Kupyansk district of the Kharkiv region, where a geriatric department for the elderly and people with limited mobility was organized on the basis of the hospital. We helped to equip this […]
  • April 7-13, 2024
    Fastiv, 07.04.-13.04.2024 Christ is risen! I’ll start with a story. Between Mykolaiv and Kherson there is the completely destroyed village of Posad – Pokrovsky, until March 14, 2022, 2,400 people lived in the village. Now residents are slowly returning to the village, after demining. During the occupation, this area was […]
  • March 30, – April 6, 2024
    Fastiv, 30.03.-06.04.2024 Christ is risen! These Easter days for all of us are full of new hope, which is marked by the victory of Christ over death. Despite the shelling and various difficulties, we believe with all our hearts that where there is love and kindness, there is the Lord. […]
  • March 23 – 30, 2024
    Fastiv, 23.03- 30.03.24 Christ is risen! Early in the morning, still in the grave of Jesus, the women we call “Myrrhbearers”, did not want to stay in the shadow of death in loneliness, they wanted to be near the one whom they loved. As a reward for their love, there […]
  • March 16 – 23, 2024
    Fastiv, 16.03-23.03.2024 Praised be Jesus Christ! We begin the most important week of the year, we prepare for the Easter Holidays – this is an opportunity to do more good. This is the week when we adore the wounds of Christ and in these wounds we also see the wounds […]
  • March 9 – 16, 2024
    Fastiv, 9.03-16.03.2024 Praised be Jesus Christ! Miracles happen! In recent weeks, we have been collecting funds for our bakery in the city of Kherson, where bread and pastries are already being baked for the needy. We thank everyone who supported us – this collection is closed. We collected the necessary […]
  • March 3-9, 2024
    Fastiv, 3.03.-9.03.2024 Praised be Jesus Christ! The beginning of spring always means some new plans and hopes. It is also a time of recovery, because we are going through Great Lent. Somewhere from the fall of 2023, we were looking for a place that could serve as a bakery in […]
  • February 24,- March 2, 2024
    Fastiv, 24.02.-2.3.2024 Praised be Jesus Christ! Ordinary things make up our daily life – it’s all the things we love, what we’re used to, and this includes food in particular. So the story… In 2014, together with our parishioners, we went to cook borscht and burgers for our Defenders, somewhere […]
  • February 17-24, 2024
    Fastiv, 17.02-24.02.2024 Praised be Jesus Christ! Today is exactly two years since the Great War, and ten years of war in general. Sometimes it’s even hard to remember how we lived before… This is some other world and we believe that such a day will come when we will rejoice […]
  • February 10-17, 2024
    Fastiv, 10.02-17.02.2024 Praised be Jesus Christ! We have begun the period of Great Lent, a time of conversion and reconciliation with God, but also of meetings and connections between us. We read from the prophet Isaiah: “Surely he took up our pain and bore our suffering, yet we considered him […]
  • February 3-10, 2024
    Fastiv, 3.02-10.02 Praised be Jesus Christ! In the Gospel, Jesus Christ gives an order to the disciples to feed the hungry people: “You give them to eat.” The disciples have seven loaves and this is enough for the Lord to feed thousands. One way or another, this Gospel is repeated […]
  • January, 27 – February 3, 2024
    Fastiv, 27.01-3.02.2024 Praised be Jesus Christ! This week, volunteers and I visited Siversk in the Donetsk region. This is not the first humanitarian mission to this city. I have been to various places not far from where hostilities are taking place, but in this city, where the line of fire […]
  • January, 20-27, 2024
    Fastiv, 20.01-27.01.2024 Praised be Jesus Christ! I want to start this week’s report with something very positive. Such a good experience for our volunteers, parishioners and Friends was the icon painting course conducted by sister Daniela OP. I think that in this difficult time, when people are experiencing various traumas, […]
  • January, 13-20, 2024
    Fastiv, 13-20.01.24 Praised be Jesus Christ! In the first half of last year, the Makariv Music School, which was badly damaged by shelling, asked us for help: the school premises, musical instruments and the building itself were destroyed. The famous conductor, doctor of musical sciences, director of the Great Theater […]
  • January, 6-13, 2024
    Fastiv, 6.01- 13.01.24 Praised be Jesus Christ! This week, the days were frosty and like real winter. Such days, we especially worry about those who suffer from the cold and shelling. Yesterday I had to visit Antonivka, which is near Kherson, where we delivered coal 3 weeks ago. We offered […]
  • December, 31, 2023 – January, 6, 2024
    Fastiv, 31.12.2023-6.1.2024 Christ was born! The beginning of a new year always means plans and new challenges, various perspectives. I think that it is difficult for many of us to look ahead because of the situation in Ukraine, with massive shelling and night and morning alarms. Always in such moments, […]
  • December, 24-31, 2023
    Fastiv, 24.12-31.12.2023 Christ was born! This difficult year is coming to an end and we understand that the war may continue during the next year. In these Christmas holidays, on the one hand, there is hope, because Christ is coming into the world as the Prince of Peace, and on […]
  • December, 17-24, 2023
    Fastiv, 9.12-16.12.2023 Praised be Jesus Christ! Yesterday, together with volunteers and forcibly resettled families living in our shelter, employees and teachers of our Center of St. Martin, we shared Christmas wishes and thanks for the year spent together in these difficult conditions. So many beautiful words were said, which become […]