"Here I can see God - God who is the same for all of us"

   During 14-17 April 2011 there was a pilgrimage of faithful of the Ivano-Frankivsk Diocese of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church to "Majdanek (Poland), places of the martyrdom of Blessed Omelyan Kovch. The pilgrimage took place as a preparation for the World Youth Day in Madrid under the patronage of the Synod of the Ukraine Greek Catholic Church and the Polish episcopate.
   The group of pilgrims from the Ivano-Frankivsk Diocese of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church consisted of 75 people led the head of the Youth Commission, Father Vitaly Demyanets.
    Opening of the official events dedicated to commemorate the blessed Omelyan Kovch and hundreds of thousands of murdered Jews, Ukrainian, Belarusian, Russian and other, often nameless sons and daughters of different nations, began April 15, 2011 at Memorial in the State Museum “ Majdanek” which is located four miles from the center of Lublin.
    On the Polish side the participants of these events were: the vice-governor of Lublin Henryka Stroynovska, the Consul of Ukraine in Khelm Stanislav Adamyak, the representative Marshall of Lublin province, Marek Sikora, a representative of the President of Lublin Hzhyslav Nyedbala, the director of the memorial museum Tomasz Kranz, the administrator of Lublin archdiocese His Eminence Mieczyslaw (Cisło).
    Ukrainian representatives were: former Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine, the Chairman of the Committee to commemorate the blessed Hieromartyr Omelyan Kovch Ivan Vasyunyk,l General Consul of Ukraine in Lublin Oleg Gorbenko,the head of the Lviv regional council Pan'kevich Oleg, deputy head of the Ivano-Frankivsk Regional State Administration Roman Ivanitsky . Ukrainian clergy was represented by Grace Bishop Joseph (Milian) and Bishop T. (Senkiv), and numerous priests of Lviv, Ivano-Frankivsk, Ternopil, Sokal-Zhovkva, Striy and Kolomyya dioceses, seminarians and faithful who came with them.
    Remembering the victims of Nazism began a moment of silence, followed later by representatives of the Church and the government at various levels, which pointed to the indestructibility of the human spirit, rooted in God in the face of cruelty and violence and the victory of humanity and sacrificial love over hatred and death, an example which clearly illustrated by his live "the pastor of Majdanek" -o.Omelyan Kovch, who repeatedly testified: "I can see God - God who is the same for all of us, regardless of our religious differences”. After this there was a memorial service for victims of Majdanek.
    In the evening in the territory of the concentration camp there was the Cross procession that vividly demonstrated the unity of Ukrainian and Polish peoples in their quest to follow that ideal, which showed the world the pastor-martyr and to prevent the emergence in the modern history of mankind "factories of death" which were the creatures of man-hatred and god-fighting totalitarian regimes.
   Besides Majdanek the pilgrims from Ivano-Frankivsk diocese had the opportunity to be to Lublin, Wadowice (the city, the birthplace of Pope John Paul II), Czestochowa, Calvariya Zebzhydovska and to Krakiw.

   Dymytrij Kyryk, a member of pilgrimage
   www.ifds.org.ua

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