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| Cardinal Husar at the Ukrainian Cathedral in London |
[Orientale Lumen] May 31, 2017, at 18:30 after a serious illness His Beatitude Lubomyr (Husar), Archbishop Emeritus of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church Church died at the age of 85.
January 26, 2001 - February 10, 2011 he served as a Major Archbishop of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church.
Born in Lviv, Ukraine, on February 26, 1933, Lubomyr Husar fled from Ukraine with his parents in 1944, ahead of the advancing Soviet army. He spent the early post-World War II years among Ukrainian refugees in a displaced persons camp near Salzburg, Austria. In 1949, he emigrated with his family to the United States of America.
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AMDG
May he rest in peace. But if I'm not mistaken, and I don't think I am, he was very liberal in his thinking. He also was a member of an Order which apparently (because it is no longer listed in Annuario Pontificio....and never had more than 20 members listed anyway), no longer exists...the Studite Monks(a Ukranian Order).
ReplyDeleteDamian Malliapalli
The Studite Monastic Order is very much alive in Ukraine. They have numerous foundations and several of their monks are Bishops of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church. You are terribly mistaken in saying they no longer exist. The recently appointed Eparch (Bishop) of the St. Nicholas Eparchy in Chicago is a Studite. Patriarch Emeritus Lubomyr rather than "liberal" was extremely pastoral.
DeleteMitred Archpriest W. Bilinsky (retired Ukrainian Greek Catholic Priest)
Slava Isusu Christu!
DeleteWhich eparchy are you in Father? May we have "one voice and one heart" in praying for His Beatitude Lubomyr Cardinal Husar.
Vichnaya yemu pamyat!
In Christ the King,
Margaret
P.S. I'm in the Archeparchy of Philadelphia.
I'm so sorry people know so little about him after all. I would hardly call him liberal. He was merciful. There is a big difference. The Studites - who do indeed exist - are a great Order (and also could be hardly liberal; they are known for, among other things, a strict adherence to the Eastern tradition, and it is often said they looked to the Benedictines as their Western counterpart). There are about 90 Studite monks in eight monasteries worldwide today.
ReplyDeleteBack to Cardinal Husar (who was a favorite of Pope John Paul II's) - he was great man. Eternal Memory!
RIP.
ReplyDeleteSorry if I was wrong, but I remember him listed among the "progressive"/liberal Cardinals shortly after Benedict XVI resigned. If I wrong...I apologize.
ReplyDeleteAs for the Studites, that's great if they still exist, but the ones listed in the Annuario Pontifico are gone, which usually means they are extinct or suppressed (declined to the point of not being viable). Glad to hear there are at least 90.
Damian Malliapalli
You're not wrong. I'm not sure precisely why, but he was always a favorite papabile of the odious John Allen, not a good sign.
DeletePatriarch Lubomyr was a favorite of John Paul lol & many journalists because of his simplicity of life style and his obvious sanctity.
DeleteSimplicity of lifestyle isn't always a good thing. Look at Francis. His emphasison simplicity etc. in his papal office and rejection of the beauty of the liturgy and the Church because to him it is not simple and poor is really obnoxious, embarrassing, and laughable.
DeleteBeing simple doesn't make one saintly. Look at Francis.....or the new Jesuit Superior General. One may be a heretic, the later definitely is.
Damian Malliapalli
You should post a story about the 109 year old Canadian Nun who recently died.
ReplyDeleteThe Russian invasion of Ukraine is targeting the Greek Catholic Church. The KGB infested Russian Orthodox Church is the religion of choice for Vlad. Sadly, religion is just a department in the Communist government of Russia. PF does not appear to mind. He may wake up one day in Rome and find Vladimir standing at the foot of his bed waiting to tell him that he is being deposed in the name of the Russian Patriarch.
ReplyDeleteGod bless Cardinal Husar
ReplyDeleteRest in peace good and faithful servant
A Latin Rite admirer
The USA involving itself in Ukraine is similar to Russia/China involving itself in Mexico or Canada.
DeleteThe Ukrainian greek Catholic hierarchy has been notorious for its support of Bandera and his terrorist UPA gangs that in 1943-45 went from village to village murdering hundreds of thousands of "Roman Rite" innocent Polish Catholic civilians, including women and children, all in the name of ethnic cleansing; to make sure Eastern Polish regions such as Ternopol and Galicia is Ukrainian. These Ukrainian terrorists who are even today at the forefront of "liberating" Donesk and other Western Russian lands and enslaving the people there are political heirs of these Nazi-sympathizing murderers of hundreds of thousands of Polish people. Ukrainians have a lot to be sorry about. God have mercy on their souls.:
ReplyDeleteAnd the Orthodox hierarchy is notorious for oppressing Ukrainian Catholics and collaborating with the KGB.
DeleteMy mother & her family immigrated from the village of Dobra which is near the Ukrainian/Polish border. I visited the village in 2014 and celebrated a memorial service at two mounded common graves. They contain the remains of Ukrainian Greek Catholics (many
Deleteof them my relatives) who were slaughtered by the Poles in 1945 and 1946. Ages of the interred dead on the two recently erected memorial stones listed names and ages from 6 months to individuals in their eighties. "Let the one who is without sin cast the first stone". It appears one blogger has already cast many stones!
Slava Isusu Christu!
DeleteDear Father,
My paternal grandparents came from outside of Lubachov, a mostly Ukrainian village on the Polish side of the Ukrainian/Polish border.
My grandfather was a corporal in the Austro-Hungarian Imperial Army. He was a major's aide and could speak 11 different languages. He emigrated to the U.S. in 1906 and was 2 years in hiding from the Imperial Secret Service. After they gave up looking for him here in the U.S., he sent for my grandmother. In 1909, she arrived and 2 weeks later they got married. They were married 50 years and had 5 children, the youngest being my dad.
I don't know too much about my mom's family.
Vichnaya pamyat to the deceased of your family and mine.
In Christ the King,
Margaret
The Ukrainian Catholics are Catholics in name because they use their identity as Greek Catholics to show they are not Polish, because the Polish are Roman Catholic, whom they hate, and they can at the same time claim distinction from the Russians. They show their Greek Catholicism for the same reason the American blacks show they celebrate Kwanzza instead of Christmas. To show their separateness. Greek Catholicism is an Indult. The hierarchy is to s large extent fallen into de facto schism. They venerate Gregory Palamas, the Hesychastic heretic. The Roman Rite, in contrast, is an open Rite; far superior, since it reflects a universality the wau the Church should be universal. We see in Roman Catholic Churches people of all nations and colors. A true Brotherhood of Man with their True God. If one goes to a Ukrainian Catholic Church, you get looks of condesendence.. Why are you here.. This is our Church, not yours. You know that is what many of them think. Maybe they don't say it. But they say it by their attitudes.They want to stay isolated in the US too,keeping thrmselves as Greek Catholics, so their children don't go mongrelizing with a religious, Godfearing Pole, or Latin American, or African of the Holy Faith. Its all about segregation from the rest to stay "Ukrainian". You talk to most Ukrainian Catholics and its only history, art, culture that's important if it relates to the Ukraine. I know how these people are. My grandmother was murdered by them in her home March 14, 1944. I know all the details, because a young cousin of mine hid under the bed and lived to tell the story. They murdered a 58 year old woman in her house who was no threat to them. After, when they US allies were winning, and the Ukrainian terrorists lost their Nazi backing, many fled to Canada and US. And here we are today! Poor suffering Ukrainians!
ReplyDeleteConstantine,
DeleteExcuse me, but I'm Ukrainian Greek Catholic, my best friend is Polish. It really upsets me that you would lump all Ukrainian Greek Catholics as "Catholics in name".
"Greek Catholicism is an Indult." It is NOT an indult. In 1894, Pope Leo XIII wrote in Orientalem Dignitas: The Church is neither Latin nor Greek nor Slav but Catholic, and as such are all equal in the eyes of this Apostolic See."
I probably know more about the Latin Tradition than my own, because when my siblings and I were little, we barely had any Ukrainian or Byzantine Catholic catechetical materials. It wasn't until the 5th grade that we actually got Eastern Catholic catechism books. I still say my Latin act of contrition when I go to confession because that's what I know.
"The hierarchy is to s large extent fallen into de facto schism." (sic)
Kindly read Romans 13: 11b - 14: 4. It's the Epistle for Cheesefare Sunday aka Forgiveness Sunday (Quinquagesima - the Sunday before Ash/Pure Wednesday).
The only thing I agree with you on is re Gregory Palamas.
I understand that you'd have antipathy towards Ukrainians because of what happened to your family, but please don't blame all of us.
I forgive you for everything you erroneously posted. May the good Lord heal you.
Margaret
P.S. True trivia tidbit for you: The Emperor Constantine is venerated as a Saint in the Byzantine and Ukrainian Greek Catholic Churches, NOT in the Roman Catholic Church. C.f. Davies, Michael. Athanasius: Defender of the Faith by Angelus Press.
I noticed something on "Byzantine Rite Internet Forums" in 2013-2014.
DeleteIn general,but not including everyone,there was many insulting and derogatory comments toward Roman Rite Catholics.
Yes,there were charitable cool humble folk on these forums.
With that said,the level of animosity and insults from a good number of Byzantine's toward Roman Rite Catholics was shocking.
An Eastern Rite priest kindly related to me that Eastern Rite,Byzantine,and Eastern Orthodox laity and some clergy love to argue.He added if they don't have something to argue about,they will create something to argue over.
He finished with..
"Don't take it personal,the Great Schism has created a lot of tension."
Personally,my hope is ALL Catholic groups & rites can unite and stop the backbiting and shunning.(Diocesan Indult-Eastern Rite-Sedevacantists-both SSPX camps-SSPV-etc)
May he rest in peace. Wasn't he hostile to Latin Rite traditionalists?
ReplyDeleteYes indeed.
ReplyDeleteDamian Malliapalli
I suggest that those who criticize first get their information and facts straight. Please read the following, at the very least the foreword by Bishop Borys Gudziak: http://www.ecumenicalstudies.org.ua/sites/default/files/publication_docs/Husar_GB.pdf
ReplyDeleteIt is my humble opinion that hostile communications reflect the writer more than says anything about the subject.
Btw, St. Gregory Palamas has never been declared a heretic by the Western nor Eastern Catholic or Irthodox Churches. Palamite's defense of hesychasm has at times been misunderstood and misperceived. Hesychyst theology emphasizes humanity's transformation in holiness via a "mystical" or Sacramental (I.e Mysteries in the Byzantine tradition) union with Christ. Such union requires participation in the life of Christ and the Church.
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