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Ukrainian Weekly і w– PUBLISHED BY THE UKRAINIAN NATIONAL ASSOCIATION INC., A FRATERNAL, NON-PROFIT ASSOCIATION : voi. LXXXVIII No. 51 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, DECEMBER 20, i98i 25 cents

ХРИСТОС РОЖДАЄТЬСЯ - CHRIST IS BORN

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Jacques Hnizdovsky's depiction of the traditional Ukrainian Christmas Eve dinner. Patriarch,hierarchs issue Christmas message Soviets sentence four for ROME - in their Christmas ing that Jesus Christ came primarily pastoral letter released here, Patriarch not to the chosen few of society, not posting Solidarity Day leaflets Josyf and the hierarchs of the "Po– to the powerful, but to the down- misna" Ukrainian Catholic Church trodden, the persecuted, the for– NEW YORK - Four persons were " Mr. Naboka - of writing and urged Ukrainians throughout the gotten. "For each person, the Nati– sentenced by the municipal court disseminating "slanderous" poetry and world to come to the aid of the vity of Christ brings a special bless– in Kiev, Ukraine, to three years each in articles; persecuted Church and their suffer– ing: for sinners it brings salvation; for Soviet prison camps for posting leaflets ' Ms. Lokhvytska and Ms. Cher– ing brothers and sisters in Ukraine. the suffering it brings hope; for the urging their countrymen to mark the niavska - co-authoring an article titled The pastoral also focused on the dying it brings eternal life," the Day of Solidarity with Ukrainian "Charter"; importance of a Christian outlook on hierarchs wrote. Political Prisoners which falls on Ja– " Ms. Lokhvytska — writing articles life and stressed that this outlook is The pastoral letter went on to note nuary 12 each year. titled "The future of our society" and essential to family, parish, commu– that through His birth, the Savior News of the trial which took place on "Choose freedom," keeping a diary nity and professional life. entered the history of mankind, and June 25-29 has just reached the West, titled "Notes of a radio listener," orally The hierarchs devoted much atten– made it a history of salvation, a reported the press service of the Ukrai– praising the activity of the Solidarity tion to the family as "the basic and history of God's Kingdom. He proved nian Supreme Liberation Council (a– trade union, and holding a negative most important unit in society, the that the Lord loves all mankind, is broad). opinion of the presence of Soviet troops state and the Church." concerned about the whole person, The four defendants - Serhiy Na– in Afghanistan; The pastoral letter begins by .:^t– (Continued on page 3) boka, a journalist born in 1955; Leonid " Mr. Naboka and Mr. Miliavsky for Miliavsky, a translator born in 1951; disseminating literature; Larysa Lokhvytska, a mathematician (Continued on page 3) born in 1954; and inna Cherniavska, an "Let us love one another... endocrinologist born in 1954 — were Christmas pastoral letter of the earth that we might dwell in heaven. charged with "slander of the Soviet Ukrainian Catholic hierarchy in the He who was rich became poor for our state" (Article 187 of the Criminal 1NS1DE: United States. sakes. Great is the love of Your heart Code of the .Ukrainian SSR). Ш Remarks by the U.S. delegation for us, Jesus, glory to You!" They were accused of posting leaflets chairman at the Madrid Conference very Reverend Fathers, venerable The Nativity of our Lord is a feast carrying the simple message "Country- - page 5. Religious and beloved Faithful, May of God's love, it is out of love that men! January 12 - Day of the Ukrai– В Commentary by Andriy Maday the peace and blessings of the Lord God becomes man; it is out of love nian Political Prisoner. Observe it." on The Weekly's architecture series be upon you! that the "Eternal God is born that all They were also accused of preparing a - page 6. people might be saved," out of love "Manifesto" about the USSR's internal Ш Sen. Paul Yuzyk on the expan– Christ is born! He endured hunger, cold and great policies, a document titled "Perspec– sion of the Russian Orthodox Church in our liturgy for the Feast of inconvenience, in the stable of Beth– tives on filling the spiritual vacuum of among Ukrainians in North America Christ, the Lover of humankind, we lehem we have one of the most Soviet society" and also of writing and to 1918 - page 7. powerful sermons about God's eter– turn to Christ our Savior with the attempting to disseminate a leaflet Ш Sounds and views by Roman nal love for humankind. This love is words: "Let us fall down before about the boycott of the Moscow Sawycky — page 8. carved not on tablets of stone, but in Christ laid in a manger! He became Olympics. Ш Christmas Panorama by Helen the heart of the Divine Child, in the in addition the foursome, which was Perozak Smindak - page 9. small that we might mature. He was Old Testament the Lord appeared on arrested on January 11, the day the Day Ш ihor N. Stelmach's Ukrainian bound in swaddling clothes that we Mt. Sinai amidst thunder and light– of Solidarity leaflets were posted, were pro hockey update returns - page might be freed of death's chains. He ning and so the lsraelites were awed bv lay in a manger that we might dwell individually charged with the following 10. in a heavenly mansion. He dwelt on (C on,.r. jed o:i page 16) 2 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY. DECEMBER 20,1981 No. 51 Amnesty international appeals Szczecin workers appeal to world NEW YORK - A strike committee freedom, despite the draconian orders at the Polish Baltic port of Szczecin of martial law, despite the attempt to for Shumuk, Nikitin fetter us with fear, hundreds of thou– informer. When he refused, Mr. Shu– issued an international appeal on De– ELL1COTT C1TY, Md. - Amnesty cember 14, one day after the imposition sands of Polish workers and patriots international has recently issued calls muk was rearrested in 1957 and sen– of martial law in Poland, calling for went on strike, voicing the following lor "urgent action" in defense of impri– tenced to 10 years in a labor camp for demands: that the declaration of a state soned Ukrainian Helsinki monitor "anti-Soviet agitation and propaganda." worldwide support for the Solidarity free trade union. of war be revoked; that all those arrested Danylo Shumuk and Aleksei Nikitin, a be freed; that all democratic and union mining engineer and labor leader who The appeal was issued at a time when Released in 1967, he spent the next thousands of Solidarity leaders are rights won by the nation in August be has spent nearly a decade in Soviet five years writing his memoirs. Four years reported to be in official custody and all restored. psychiatric institutions, reported the later, they were confiscated by the KGB lines -of communication, both within "We appeal to you; support us in our Smoloskyp information Service. and in July 1972, he was convicted of struggle with mass protests. Support us Mr. Shumuk, who will be 67 on "anti-Soviet agitation and propaganda" Poland and to the outside world, have been cut. with moral aid. Do not stand idly by December 28, has spent nearly 34 years and sentenced to another 10-year term while democracy in the heart of Europe in prisons under different governments. to be followed by five years' internal The text of the brief appeal follows. "To all nations and people of good is in danger of being stifled at birth. Be in 1933 he was arrested by the Polish exile. with us in these difficult moments. administration in western Ukraine for Mr. Shumuk, who is reportedly ill will who value the cause of democracy, freedom and workers' rights: Solidarity with Solidarity. Poland has being a Communist. He was amnestied with ulcers, joined the Ukrainian Hel– not yet perished." in 1939 after the Soviets gained control sinki Group in the summer of 1979. "At the risk of their lives and personal of western Ukraine, but was arrested Much less is known about Aleksei again in the spring of 1941. Nikitin. A mining engineer who led a New strikes reported in Ukraine in a penal colony when the Germans workers' protest in Ukraine 10 years invaded the Soviet Union in the summer ago, Mr. Nikitin has reportedly suffered by Dr. Roman Solchanyk According to the document, instructors of 1941, Mr. Shumuk was automati– serious eyesight impairment as a result of raion party committees who were cally transferred to the front, where he of heavy drug doses administered by A document that has recently become charged with explaining the Central was captured by German forces. He Soviet psychiatrists since he was de– available in the West through samvydav Committee letter at these meetings spent 18 months in a German POW tained in January after talking to channels reports that workers at the argued that "difficulties" could be camp before escaping. Western newsmen about working con– Kiev Motorcycle Plant conducted a overcome if panic could be averted. in 1943, Mr. Shumuk repudiated ditions in Soviet mines. one– to two-day strike at the end of The instructors are also said to have communism and joined the Ukrainian Mr. Nikitin has been associated with August to protest cuts in piece-work stated that authorities intended to partisans, in December 1944 he was the dissident Free Trade Union Asso– rates and bonuses. According to the stage show trials of clerks found to be arrested by the NKvD and sentenced to ciation, which was formed in 1977 by document, the workers refused to talk selling food above established norms death, later commuted to 20 years in a viadimir Klebanov, also a mining with an official delegation sent to and that "criminal sanctions, including labor camp. engineer from Ukraine. Subsequently, negotiate with them until such a time as imprisonment," would be applied to in August 19S6 he was amnestied and Mr. Klebanov was sentenced to a they would be shown a formal order persons hoarding food in their homes. allowed to return home, but was imme– psychiatric hospital and a labor-camp fully restoring the previously existing The document goes on to say that a diately pressured by the KGB to turn term. wage rates. Once this had been done, system of internal food distribution is says the document, the workers re- planned for major industrial enter- turned to their jobs. The Kiev Motor- prises. Soviet Ukrainian held by Afghans cycle Plant is part of the Ail-Union The well-known Arsenal plant in NEW YORK - E.M. Okhrymiuk, a friend, Mr. Okhrymiuk condemns the Cycle industry Production Association Kiev, for example, already has its own and is one of the largest plants of its kind 67-year-old Ukrainian who is a Soviet Soviet presence in Afghanistan and asks 1 food store. Finally, the document consultant to the Afghan Ministry of Mr. Tikhonov to intervene on his in the Soviet Union. reports oh the possibility that rationing Mines and industries in Kabul, was behalf. . Earlier this year samvydav sources of certain products based on a card reportedly captured by Afghan insur– The text of the letter follows, reported three separate strikes in Kiev system may be introduced. gents on September 12. The freedom Dear Nikolai Alexandrovich: at the end of March and in early April. it should be pointed out that in recent fighters, members of the Hezmi-lslami A great misfortune has fallen upon me. Two of these strikes were said to have months there have been several reports party, are hoping to exchange the high- І was taken in Kabul by the Hezmi-lslami been held at the Experimental Design of disturbances in Ukraine prompted by ranking official for SO insurgents being partisans under the leadership of Maw– Plant of the All-Union Scientific Re- food and consumer shortages.5 One held by the Soviet occupation forces, lawi Yunosh Khalis, and 1 am being search institute of Livestock-Breeding such "mass disturbance" is said to have reported the Suchanist press service. held for the exchange of their Muja– Machine Building, with each lasting one occurred in ivano-Frankivske at the Mr. Okhrymiuk, a member of the hedin partisans. І traveled for seven days and a half days. The third strike was beginning of 1981 and another in the Communist Party who held a high through numerous villages and saw how said to have taken place at a factory city of Prypiat in the Kiev oblast at the the population is armed and fights for producing reinforced concrete ele– end of March. position in the Soviet Embassy in 2 Kabul, has been in the Afghan capital its rights to be free people against B.K. ments. Another samvydav source for five years. The recipient of six (Babrak Karmal). І have seen" neither referred to two strikes in Kiev in May 1. AS 4496. military and 12 civilian awards, Mr. Chinese nor Americans, nor others. and June that were said to have been 2. RL 267^81, "Samvydav Report on This is puzzling me. Nikolai Alexandro– prompted by management's decision to Strikes in Kiev," July 6. Okhrymiuk is married and has two 3 daughters. vich, my life is in your hands. І implore lower workers' wage rates. 3. RL 389781, "Labor і Problems in you, please save me. it is necessary to Ukraine," September 29. While in the custody of the insur– The same document that describes 4. See AP August 31; The New gents, he has been provided with medi– convince Babrak Karmal, who is aganist the strike at the Kiev Motorcycle Plant the exchange, saying that "war is war, York Times, September 2; The Sun, Sep– cal assistance and food, and has the also discusses measures taken by the tember 2, The Washington Post, September right to correspondence. and there are many Russians." І pro- authorities to lighten the impact of food 3; and Financial Times, September 3. These in an October 1 letter to Nikolai pose that during discussions with him shortages, it refers specifically to the sources state that the letter was dated Tikhonov, chairman of the Council of that Bulgarian, Czech and other diplo– letter of the Central Committee of the August 13. Ministers of the USSR and a personal mats be present...Please, save me. Communist Party of the Soviet Union 5. On these reports, see Roman Sol– concerning the food situation, chanyk, "Poland's impact inside the USSR," which is reported to have been read at Soviet Analyst, vol. 10, No. 18, September Byelorussian may face new charges closed party meetings this summer.4 9, p. 5, and RL 389^81. ORANGE, Calif. - Mikhail Kuka– and Gen. Petro Grigorenko over his baka, a Byelorussian dissident and bed. Christian activist who was due to be At his most recent trial in June 1979, released in October after serving a a transcript of which was made by three-year term for "anti-Soviet slan– viktor Nekipelov, the Soviet author der," is reported to be facing fresh now serving a prison term for his Ukrainian WeeHY charges, reported Keston News. dissident activities, Mr. Kukabaka was FOUNDED 1933 The nature of the new charges against accused of "slandering the Soviet state the 45-year-old dissident is not known. and its social order." The prosecutor in 1970, Mr. Kukabaka was also contended that-Mr. Kukabaka's Ukrainian weekly newspaper published by the Ukrainian National Association inc., a fraternal nonprofit association, at 30 Montgomery St., Jersey City NJ 07302 sentenced to seven years in a psychiatric articles which have reached the West - : hospital for disseminating the text of "Detente and Human Rights are indivi– '- -–-– (The Ukrainian Weekly - USPS 570-870) the Universal Declaration of Human sible"and "Stolen Fatherland"—"have The Weekly and Svoboda: Rights. .He spent six years in the Sy– both been used by foreign anti-Soviet UNA: chovka special psychiatric hospital propaganda." (201) 434-0237, 434-0807 (201) 451-2200 where he was diagnosed as suffering (212)227-4125. (212) 227-5^50 from a "mania for reconstructing so– Mr. Kukabaka's "Open Letter to Yearly subscription fate: S8, UNA members - S5. ciety." Health Minister Petrovsky," which in 1976, he was transferred, to an outlined the abuse of dissidents by the Postmaster, send address changes to ordinary psychiatric hospital where he Soviet psychiatric establishment, was THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY Editor: Roma Socban Hadzewycz P 0 Box 346 Assistant editor: George Bohdan Zarycky was labelled abnormal for, among other also cited by the prosecutor as an Jersey City. NJ 07303 things, keeping pictures of .exiled Soviet example, of the defendant's"slander physicist and activist Andrei Sakharov against the state. No. 51 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, DECEMBER 20, i98i з Soviets sentence WCFU publishes rights booklets (Continued from page 1) TORONTO - The Human Rights the world and his statement renouncing Commission of the World Congress of his Soviet citizenship. Free Ukrainians (WCFU) has released The booklet on the Ukrainian Hel– two publications related to the human- sinki Group, which was formed on rights movement in Ukraine — "A November 9, 1976, contains dossiers on Family Torn Apart," a booklet on the the 31 members of the group still in the persecution of the Sichko family, and Soviet Union. (Three were expelled "Persecution of the Ukrainian Helsinki from the USSR and one, Mykhailo Group," an update marking the fifth Melnyk, committed suicide.) Of the anniversary of that group's existence. group, only three - Stefania Shaba– Compiled by Dr. Nina Strokata, the tura, the Rev. vasyl Romaniuk and 43-page booklet on the Sichkos — Petro Rozumny — have been released Petro, his wife Stefania and their from labor camps or exile. children vasyl, volodymyr and Oksana — chronicles the family's struggle against KGB intrigue and repression. Fifty-five-year-old Petro Sichko joined the Ukrainian Helsinki Group in 1977 and was sentenced in 1979 to three years in a strict-regimen camp for "anti- Soviet slander." The same day, his Serhiy Naboka eldest son, 25-year-old vasyl, was also test poor-quality food and beating of sentenced to three years' strict-regimen prisoners. The inmates set several camp camp on the same charge. Leonid Miliavsky buildings on fire and killed one guard. On January 9, volodymyr, 21, was a Ms. Cherniavska for listening to The army was called in to halt the revolt sentenced to three years' imprisonment Radio Liberty broadcasts. and the inmates were punished. for refusing to serve in the Soviet Army. At their trial, Mr. Naboka requested Mr. Naboka is in a camp in the village that the proceedings be conducted in the of Raikovtsi, Khmelnytska oblast; According to the booklet, 17-year- Ukrainian language. His request was Ms. Lokhvytska is in a camp in Khar– old Oksana has been denied a higher rejected. kiv; Ms. Cherniavska is in Odessa. education because of her family's activi– ties, and she is reportedly working on a The defendants pleaded not guilty Mr. Naboka's wife Natalia Parkho– collective farm. and continued to defend their positions menko has been expelled from the throughout the course of the trial. university and the Komsomol, and she in addition to brief biographical sketches, the booklet also contains the They refused to appeal the verdict. has been warned by authorities. Autho– texts of Mrs. Sichko's numerous appeals Mr. Miliavsky is confined in a camp rities have also warned Mr. Miliavsky's on behalf of her husband and sons, as wife lryna as well as several witnesses Cover of the WCFU's new publication, well as volodymyr's final courtroom in the village of Stara Zburyivka, who appeared at the trial, Andriy and "Persecution of the Ukrainian. Helsinki statement, his appeal to students around Kherson oblast. it was in this camp that Tetiana Horban, and Serhiy Kaly– Group." in September inmates revolted to pro– chenko: parishes, our communities, the voca– Patriarch, hierarchs... tions, the Christian life of families, Dissident flies flag of free Ukraine (Continued from page 1) and morally strong and nationally MOSCOW - A Ukrainian dissident 28 at the party office in Dnipropetrov– and "enlightens all expressions of conscious youth depends on all of us. flew the outlawed blue-and-yellow flag ske. human life: personal, familial, com– First of all, we must deepen our own of free Ukraine and an anti-government The poster and the banned Ukrainian munity, national-political and eccle– and our relatives' and children's poster from a Communist Party office flag were on display overnight at the siastical." Christian outlook. We must pass this in Dnipropetrovske, Ukraine, accord– party office, the sources said. They were "Without a doubt, our Church and Christian world view on through our ing to unofficial Soviet sources, report– removed at 9 a.m. the following morn– our Ukrainian nation are also under words and deeds... Let the evangelical ed United Press international. ing, and a massive police investigation the special care and love of God," principles of love of God and neigh– of the incident was started. said the hierarchs, "although we may bor guide us in our family, commu– not always understand the strange nity, professional and parochial "We are in solidarity with all those Reports reaching Moscow said the 1 who are against you," said the poster, KGB assigned squads of agents from paths of Divine Providence. Never– lives. Then we will have no rifts, which reportedly was put up November Kiev to Dnipropetrovske. theless, as children of this Church quarrels, arrogance or lack of prin– and this nation, we have a sacred ciples. Then there will be love, unity duty to help our persecuted Church and strength. Then Christ will be in Ukraine and our dear brothers and among us." National Hockey League: sisters who suffer because of their ' "The basic and most important love for our homeland." unit of society, the state and the Excerpts of the pastoral letter Church is the family. When the human rights violator follow. family is healthy, then the entire NEW YORK - The National what it viewed as outright blackmail " "As true Christians and members human society flourishes... We U– Hockey League (NHL) is operating and an affront to this government's of the holy, universal Church, we krainians especially, who live all over under an agreement with the Czech human-rights policies, the U.S. go– wish to live in harmony and peace the world and are threatened with ice Hockey Federation which stipu– vernment refused, and the tour was with all nations, but this harmony assimilation — religious and national lates that the league would deny cancelled. and peace must be based on truth, — in today's ideological chaos, should focus our attention on our employment to– any Czech player Calling the NHL's deal with the fairness and equality. Historic wrongs families... Parents, priests and educa– who chooses to defect to the West, Czechs a "human-rights embarrass– to which our Church has been sub– tors are duty-bound to teach that the according to a recent editorial in the ment," the Journal wrote that "ap– jected by its oppressors, must be corrected, and the legal rights of our essense of marriage and family is self- Wall Street Journal. parently, the NHL was more con– Church and nation musi be recog– sacrifice, devotion, responsibility... cerned about official Czech good will Under the arrangement, the Czechs nized and respected. The peace that is it would be very good if societies of in arranging international hockey are providing four of their players to brought to us from heaven by the married couples would be formed in the NHL through "legal" channels in events like the Canada Cup, incident- newborn Christ is a peace of the free our parishes in order to consider the return for an NHL commitment not ally a major moneymaker, than in children of God who freed them– important matters of married life, to sign any players leaving Czecho– maintaining international standards selves from the yoke of the devil and education of children and to esta– slovakia "illegally" for 18 months of human rights." his servants — it is not a peace of blish bonds and love for one's parish, after their defection. slaves who silently endure this ty– Church and community." The Journal editorial found small ranny which chokes them. By thus barring Czech players who consolation in NHL Executive Di– As a final note, the pastoral letter defect from playing in hockey's rector Brian O'Neill's rather lame "We, your pastors, under the mentioned that in 1982 Patriarch biggest and most lucrative league, the explanation that the agreement was leadership of the head and father of Josyf will celebrate his 90th birthday. NHL has become a partner in dis– reached to "make the movement of our Church, Patriarch Josyf, are "The best gift that we can give to him couraging such defections by closing players more orderly." trying to do all that is possible to is unity and understanding of his off a potential avenue of employment. regain freedom of religion for our great ideas" the hierarchs wrote, "in "Cynics may say that it's silly to brothers and sisters in Ukraine and this jubilee year we will ask the The Journal reported that the think that professional sportsmen to ensure that our Pomisna Ukrai– Almighty to give the patriarch Soviets made a similar demand last should be paragons of national nian Catholic Church in the free strength, to allow him to see the day year when they threatened to cancel a virtue," the editorial concluded, world has the opportunity to grow, when our Church and nation will be tour of the Moscow State Symphony "Still, it's extremely depressing that in this deed we obviously need help freed, and to celebrate this occasion unless U.S. officials agreed to return they should fall so far short of the — the help of our priests, our monas– jointly and in freedom from the Kiev– any defecting musicians. Rejecting basic standards of human decency." tic communities and the laity." Halych seat of 1,000 year-old Chris– " "...The further growth of our tian Ukraine." 4 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, DECEMBER 20, i98i No. 51 East European groups seek UCC holds annual conference EDMONTON - About 100 dele- it was decided to hold a demonstra– meeting with attorney general gates from all parts of Canada took part tion in Ottawa sometime in January in the annual conference of the Ukrai– 1982 to mark the 10th anniversary of the Following is the text of a letter to rather succinctly described by Solzhe– nian Canadian Committee (UCC) held 1972 wave of mass arrests in Ukraine. U.S. Attorney General William French nitsyn in his "Gulag Archipelago." here at the MacDonald Hotel on No– Antin Yaremovich, executive direc– Smith concerning the prosecution of With this in mind, we would like to vember 28-29, reported Progress, a tor of the UCC, stressed the importance "Nazi war criminals" by the Justice ask you to consent to a meeting with us Winnipeg-based Ukrainian Catholic of creating new UCC branches so that Department's Office of Special invest i– in the near future, to discuss the follow– weekly. the organization could have broader gations. The letter, dated November 23, ing issues: This year, special commemorative regional representation. He noted that was signed by representatives of the 1. Department of Justice definition of ceremonies marked the 90th anniver– the national presidium would assist the Lithuanian American Community in war criminals and Nazi collaborators sary of Ukrainian settlement in Canada. provincial councils in this endeavor. the U.S.A.. Ukrainian Anti-Defama– The conference was opened by UCC On Sunday, over 300 delegates and tion League, Coordinating Committee According to the Displaced Persons President John Nowosad, and most of guests attended the UCC banquet. of Hungarian Organizations in North Act of 1948, there are two classifications the opening day was devoted to reports America, Bulgarian National Front in for non-qualification of citizenship by representatives from UCC member the U.S.A. American Latvian Associa– Heading the list of speakers was which appear to form the basis for the organizations. The UCC is an umbrella tion in the U.S.A., Czechoslovak Na– Saskatchewan Attorney General Roy current actions: organization for 29 Ukrainian Cana– tional Council of America and the Romanow. in his address, he said that a. "To have assisted the enemy in dian organizations. Estonian American National Council. he was pleased that multicultural rights persecuting civil populations of coun– One of the main topics was education, are enshrined in the new Canadian tries, members of the United Nations." and among those addressing the issue Constitution. He acknowledged that The pursuit of "Nazi war criminals" b. "To have voluntarily assisted the were Prof. Bohdan Krawchenko, Sofia the new section affirming Canada's in the United States by U.S. attorneys enemy forces since the outbreak of the Kachor and Ksenia Turko. multiculturalism is disappointing but it and the Office of Special investigations second world war in their operations Several hours were also devoted to is a "beginning statement" and a good (OS1) in your department has recently against the United Nations." discussion on the topic of new Ukrai– start, reported Progress. developed trends which have become of in the first category, the definition we nian refugees from Poland currently in concern to all the former nationals of seek has to do primarily with the term of Austria, West Germany and italy. Also present were Peter Sawaryn, East European countries who are now "persecution." For example, in a Reporting on the situation were Boh– chancellor of the University of Alberta, U.S. citizens, in this context, it may be recent case in Philadelphia, a former dan Mykytiuk, president of the board of who praised Mr. Romanow's efforts worthwhile to quote from the opinions Ukrainian policeman, Osidach, was directors of the Canadian Ukrainian during the constitution battle, and Dr. of Justices Blackmun (concurring) and found guilty of "persecution" because immigrant Aid Society, and Ms. 1. Albert Hohol, former minister of ad– Stevens (dissenting) in the case of he was uniformed and armed when Kushpeta, executive head of the Ukrai– vanced education and former Alberta Fedorenko v: United States: manning his daily post on the street. nian Canadian social service. labor minister, who paid tribute to the Another term needing clarification is in his report, Andrij Bandera, chair- work of the Ukrainian pioneers in Justice Blackmun: "voluntary assistance to enemy forces." man of the UCC human rights commit– building Canada. Would this include the soldiers of the tee, noted that there has been a marked Conference proceedings were covered "if naturalization can be revoked Baltic Legions and other East European decline in interest regarding Ukrainian by the local media, including the Ed– years or decades after it is conferred on military units who fought the Soviets? dissidents in light of other global monton Journal, and CBC radio and the mere suspicion that certain undis– Does it include policemen, hospital developments. television. closed facts might have warranted nurses, railroad workers, farmers, etc.? exclusion, 1 fear that the valued rights of As can be seen, this category can easily citizenship are in danger of erosion," embrace practically every person who and in another part: "By concluding was under German occupation at that Ukrainian professors elect Wynar that an impaired investigation may time. justify the loss of these freedoms, the KENT, Ohio - Dr. Lubomyr Wynar of the UAAUP-sponsored publication Court of Appeals threatens to leave the Related to this question is the feeling of Kent State University was elected on "Genocide in Ukraine in the 20th naturalized citizen with nothing more that the prosecution, in seeking "war president of the Ukrainian American Century." than citizenship in attenuated, if not criminals" and "Nazi collaborators," is Association of University Professors The publication, і he said, will be suspended, animation." placing emphasis only among the people (UAAUP) at the organization's confe– approximately 650 pages long and its of East European origin. What are the rence held here at Kent State Univer– cost is to be about 536,000. The book Justice Stevens: reasons for excluding German, italian, sity on Saturday, November 14. will cover physical destruction of Ukrai– French, etc. immigrants? is the war Also elected were: ihor Kamenetsky, nians; mass deportations and resettle– criminals and collaborators category "The gruesome facts recited in this (Central Michigan), first vice president; ment; forcible assimilation; imprison– limited only to "Nazis" or are other acts record create what Justice Holmes Peter Woroby (Regina), second vice ment of leading Ukrainian political, and individuals also included, such as described as a sort of 'hydraulic pres– president; Yaroslav Bilinsky (Dela– cultural and church activists; destruc– crimes committed by Soviets, for sure' that tends to distort our judgment. ware), third vice president; Osyp Marty– tion of churches, and educational example? is any recognition given to the Perhaps my refusal to acquiesce in the niuk (Kent State), secretary-treasurer; and cultural institutions; the fact that local authorities in the coun– conclusion reached by highly respected Assya Humesky (Michigan, Ann Ar– artifical famine; and the like. Work on tries involved also had the right to pass colleagues is attributable in part to an bor), Z. Lew Melnyk (Cincinnati), the book should be completed within judgment under existing laws and overreaction to that pressure. Even Natalia Pazuniak (Pennsylvania), two years. conditions on those Soviet function– after recognizing and discounting that Joanna Ratych-Mirtschuk (Rutgers, aries and collaborators who had mur– At the conference, the Ukrainian factor, however, 1 remain firmly con– New Brunswick), Yar Slavutych (Al– dered and deported their citizens? professors also expressed their position vinced that the court has committed berta), T. Ciuciura (St. Mary, Halifax) on the community conflict regarding the profoundest sort of error by ven– and Dmytro Shtohryn (Hlinois), mem– the Ukrainian Congress Committee of turing into the unknown to find a basis 2. Collaboration with the KGB in bers of board. America. The UAAUP said that it for affirming the judgment of the Court obtaining evidence against U.S. citizens The auditing committee consists of: would not take part in political quarrels of Appeals. That human suffering will be Michael Pap (John Carroll, Cleveland), of the Ukrainian community, but that it a consequence of today's venture is Much of the evidence against the chairman; Marta Bohachevsky-Cho– would urge both parties involved to certainly predictable; that any suffering accused appears to come from Soviet miak (Manhattanville) and John Teluk work toward settlement of the conflict. will be allayed or avoided is at best sources which is provided or manu– (New Haven), members. Until the conflict is resolved, the doubtful." factured by no one else but the KGB. Among the conference highlights UAAUP said it would maintain a Regardless of the expedience and con– These quotations are used here be– was the report of Prof. Shtohryn, editor neutral stance. cause they accurately reflect our feelings venience in using this material in U.S. that the citizenship of people who courts to achieve the desired end, what fought against Soviet communism and consideration has been given to the fact managed to escape and find a new home that a dangerous precedent is esta– SUSK plans Eastern conference blished, which may affect the future in the United States is indeed being put OTTAWA - Cybernetics '81, the The product will deal with the various U.S.-Soviet litigations in other matters? into suspended animation. The "hy– Eastern conference of SUSK, will be is the Department of Justice aware of traditions and experiences associated draulic pressures" Justice Stevens refers held in Ottawa December 28 through with Ukrainian Christmas; it will be to. ace too evident, and the resulting the campaign that has been carried out for years by the KGB against emigre January 1, 1982. broadcast on Ukrainian Christmas Eve human suffering, be it financial, emo– Sponsored by the Ukrainian Cana– in a number of Canadian cities. tional or physical, by those unjustly groups in the United States and else– where, which includes defamation, infil– dian Students' Union (SUSK) and the The last full day of the conference will accused, is too depressing to allow us to Ukrainian Canadian Students' Federa– be entirely devoted to SUSK business stand on the sidelines any longer. tration and assassination? if so, what credence can then be given to such evi– tion of Ottawa, it is intended to intro– and club development. Along with the We do not believe that it is the desire dence? duce students to a variety of communi– above-mentioned activities, conference of President Reagan or his administra– cations media, including radio, televi– participants will have an opportunity to tion to be identified by history in equal 3. validity of eyewitness testimony sion and the printed media. attend a number of planned social terms with those of his predecessors The implications for Ukrainian co'm– activities — including a New Year's Eve who committed U.S. citizens of Japa– We realize that with the passing of munity access to broadcast and produc– "zabava" which will feature the Samo– nese origin to the concentration camps time, people's memories fade and it is tion facilities will be examined, along tsvit Ensemble of Montreal. or carried out the still-classified opera– possible to make incorrect identifica– with presentations by people involved The registration fee of S30 includes tion "Keelhaul," where an estimated 2 tion of individuals and events that in the industry. registration kit, coffee breaks, confe– million refugees were forcibly deported occurred decades ago. We feel, how– Conference participants will also rence meals, sessions, social activities into Soviet hands after the second world ever„ that there have been instances have an opportunity to research and and the New Yeart Eve dance. war. The fate of these unfortunates is (Cdnttnoed onpage 15) produce a one-hour radio production. (Continued on page 14) No. 51 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, DECEMBER 20.1981 5 U.S. delegate replies to Soviet criticisms at Madrid Review Conference Max Kampelman, the chairman of place in Western Europe. Alcoholism in human rights, not by judging the rights employees who had signed an oath not the U.S. delegation to the Madrid the Soviet Union has apparently reach– of the individual, particularly those who to strike were discharged, it seems Conference, which is reviewing com– ed epidemic proportions, judging by are in disfavor within the society — the ironic to have this incident raised by the pliance with the Helsinki Accords, reports from the Soviet Ministry of dissidents - but by judging the lives of representative of a society which de– made the following remarks during the internal Affairs. The use of narcotics is the masses of people. clares all strikes to be illegal, strikes by conference plenary session on Novem– increasing. This concept should be examined any workers in any industry. ber 13. І don't raise these facts for any reason more carefully. The chief criticism This leads me to the question of trade other than to remind our Soviet dele- against the West, produced to demon– unions for working men and women. At our last plenary session a week gate and others that to associate crime strate the superiority of the Soviet Western society is characterized by a ago, the delegate from the Soviet Union solely with the West is to distort. Crime ideology, is the large number of people free labor movement. Working men and continued our exchange of views about is a common problem, shared by all of unemployed in the West. women in my country can choose freely human rights. І want to express my us– to' be represented or not by a trade appreciation to him for his willingness Let me speak about my own country. But in addition to allegations about union, in Western societies the free to engage in such an exchange. The most recent figures announced a crime, there was the implied suggestion few days ago for the month of October trade unions are influential, strong and He stated that a fundamental "right that crimes, where the victims are black showed that our unemployment rate effective representatives of their mem- to life" permeated his society. He citizens of the United States; somehow was 8 percent, our highest in six years. be rs. questioned the good faith of Western reflect widespread prejudice and discri– This represents a total of 8.S million і remind this group, however, that in human-rights declarations by noting a mination in my country. We do, unfor– men and women who do not now have May 1979, the international Labor number of specific shortcomings in our tunatcly, have prejudiced people in my regular employment, a figure which is Organization concluded that there were practices. country, just as other societies have. Let much too high. no free trade unions in the Soviet Union Our performance in the West does, me note, however, that by far the over- Our unemployment rate has been a and that the provisions of the labor code on occasion, fall short of our professed whelming number of crimes committed fluctuating one. in recent years it has of the Soviet Union violated Article No. commitments. My country is characte– in the United States are intra-racial, not been down to 5 percent and as high as 9 87 of the 1LO convention concerning rized, sometimes to excess, Mr. Chair- inter-racial. percent. When it climbs, our govern– the rights of workers to establish man, by an openness that makes it The Soviet delegate and his associates ment, no matter which administration is organizations of their own free choos– virtually impossible to hide our imper– keep referring to the tragic events in in office, makes strenuous efforts to put ing. fections. We make no effort to hide Atlanta. He is obviously unfamiliar people back to work, in the meantime, them here. We do not sweep our pro– Efforts by Soviet citizens to form with the facts. No responsible leader in those who are unemployed receive blems under the rug. Nothing is banned independent trade unions have resulted Atlanta or elsewhere, white or black, public benefits designed to minimize the from discussion in our media; our in their imprisonment or commitment gives any credence to the notion that economic impact of joblessness. We problems are fully and candidly dis– to psychiatric hospitals. When the these have been racially motivated care for those who are temporarily cussed. And none of this criticism is in Association of Free Trade Unions was murders. There is no such evidence. afflicted; and every Western society has any way inhibited by our government. formed in 1977, eight of its a series of welfare programs designed to Nowhere in the United States Criminal founders were sent to psychiatric wards The mayor of Atlanta, to whom the express that care with compassion. by the Soviet authorities. When the Code is there to be found a crime called police in that city are responsible, has "defamation of the United States." The Soviet Union has traditionally Free interprofessional Association of been a prominent black leader, Mr. asserted that there is no unemployment Workers (SMOT) was organized in We believe that through free and Maynard Jackson, in an election a few in its society, indeed, since all employ– 1978, a number of their leaders, too, open discussion we are better able to days ago, he was succeeded as mayor of ment in that country is controlled by the were imprisoned or forcibly detained in face our problems and solve them. Atlanta by Andrew Young, an interna– state, it is not unusual in that society to psychiatric hospitals, it is not persua– in that same vein, 1 assure all here tionally distinguished black leader, who penalize those who are in disfavor with sive for these courageous men and that we do not object to any relevant joined with Mrs. Martin Luther King the state by denying them employment. woman to be called "outcasts." it is criticisms of the U.S. by other partici– Jr., in announcing that the tragedy had The irony of all this is that once they are more telling to note the condemnation pating states. We would like those drawn the black and white communities without work, they are guilty of the of Soviet labor practices by the inter- criticisms to be accurate, but when they of Atlanta together. crime of "parasitism." national Labor Organization. are not, we will correct the record. We І state without fear of contradiction We do not know what parasitism Mr. Chairman, 1 conclude with the do not look at such criticism as an that my country has undergone highly means. What we do know is that when following observations. None of us, interference in our internal affairs. significant changes in our race relations. an individual does not have the right to East or West, is free from internal social Evaluating whether we live up to our This has been one of the most successful refrain from working, then his labor is and economic problems. We are all commitments is not, in our judgment, and creative processes of social change forced labor. What we do know is that victims, as well as beneficiaries, of interfering with our internal affairs. to have taken place anywhere in this or in May 1980, the international Labor modern-day life with its stresses. All in our country, there are a number of any era. To be sure, the process is far Organization found that the parasitism governments represented at this confe– private groups and individuals who from complete. But Americans, black law in the Soviet Union constituted rence share the burden of coping with monitor our activities and encourage and white, are proud of what has been forced labor and condemned it as a these strains. While our efforts may not our compliance with the Final Act. We accomplished. violation of the vital international always be met with immediate success, also have an independent group created We have not as a society eliminated convention on the subject. we must, nonetheless, constantly strive by statute, the United States Commis– prejudice from the hearts of all of our it is disturbing, furthermore, to hear to improve the quality of life for our sion on Security and Cooperation in citizens, but that prejudice, when it the boast that there is no unemploy– citizens. Europe, which published an in-depth, exists, is contrary to the whole thrust of ment, when we know that forced labor " A government may not always be often critical, study of our implementa– our national direction. Our laws and is an essential part of that society's able to manage its economy to prevent tion record. We have copies of these regulations, conscientiously enforced, economic structure, in that connection, unemployment; but a government does reports here in Madrid with us and are designed to eliminate the discrimi– І refer to Document No. 85 issued by the have the power to end the bondage of would be pleased to make them avail- natory acts that stem from prejudice. Moscow Helsinki Group on April 21, forced labor. able to any delegation. This is to be clearly distinguished from 1979, dealing with "the right to work." " A government cannot, with the government support and encourage– The Helsinki process will be greatly A portion of its conclusion reads: passage of laws alone, entirely eradicate ment of hate, bigotry and discrimina– enhanced when the Soviet Union feels its social problems; but a government tion. A government cannot fully elimi– "if the Western concept of unemploy– able to distribute to us, at a future can refrain from so misusing the healing nate prejudice within its people; but it ment — formulated through many follow-up meeting, reports by private sciences, for example, as to make them certainly can choose not to dignify that years of practical experience in the individuals and both private and public labor movement — were to be applied an instrument of political repression. organizations in their society, setting prejudice to the level of official en- courage ment. to the USSR, the myth of the country of о A government cannot eliminate forth details of Soviet compliance, no unemployment would be dispelled." racism and prejudice in a generation; critical when appropriate. The Soviet delegate referred to the but it certainly can choose not to elevate Let me now comment on the specific existence of anti-Semitism in the United There is reason to believe that there that prejudice so as to become an Soviet criticisms in the hope they will States. While sporadic and isolated are now more than 1.7 million people instrument of government policy. produce the dialogue necessary for anti-Semitic incidents do regrettably incarcerated in the vast Soviet system of We in the United States and our understanding. occur, never in the history of our forced-labor camps; another 1 million colleagues in the West live in democra– The Soviet delegate has highlighted country have our Jewish citizens enjoy– people in government-imposed correc– tic societies. We have periodically crime in the United States. He referred ed greater equality, more rights, and as tional tasks while living at home; and scheduled competitive free elections to riots in Miami, the murder of 28 much dignity and appreciation as more than 1.4 million Soviet citizens, on which allow for frequent changes in children in Atlanta and safety in our today. probation from labor-camp sentences, leadership. The right of all citizens to streets. We have crime in the United But the Soviet delegation is fully are engaged in compulsory labor, at low participate freely in the political process States. We are not free from the stresses familiar with our deep concern about wage rates, frequently in distant and is a cherished ingredient of democracy. of 20th century life. But neither is the anti-Semitism in the Soviet Union. This often dangerous construction, mining Other societies may reject that sy– Soviet Union. Soviet leaders pronounce is not the occasion to develop that and industrial projects. stem. We will not interfere with that that crime in their society is an increas– theme further, but it is illustrative of the The Soviet delegate also referred on reality, but we will express ourselves ing problem, it is estimated authorita– distinction that must be made between Friday to a recent strike in the United when those societies act in a manner tively that more than 4 million Soviet individual acts, on the one hand, and States by a union of air traffic control– contrary to the commitments of the citizens are today undergoing some actions that have government acquies– lers. І do not understand why this issue Helsinki Final Act. form of penal correction. Soviet pu– cence or stimulation. Where the govern– was raised by him. in my country a law blications frequently complain about To act as if these differences do not ment participates, serious questions of was passed a number of years ago, after exist, or are unimportant, is to build on the growing crimes of hooliganism, Final Act implementation are raised. energetic discussion and debate, which theft, assault, rape and murder. The sand and not be true to ourselves. But During last Friday's Soviet interven– made strikes by federal employees we do have the obligation to try to murder rate in the Soviet Union is close tion, it was suggested to us that one illegal. When the air controller strike to ours and is much higher than any must judge a country's commitment to took place, the law was enforced; those (Continued on pt ft 12) 6 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, DECEMBER 20, i98i No. 51

Before the ouster of Stanislaw K,ania as Polish Communist Party boss back in October, Gen. Jaruzelski was getting a lot of favorable press in the Soviet Union, particularly when he warned that the Polish Army and police would be used to put down any threat to public order by "counterrevolutionaries" and Solidarity "extremists." Mr. Kania, on the other hand, was in the Ukrainian WeeHУ Kremlin's doghouse, with the Soviet press failing to identify him as party secretary, when it mentioned him at all. So, when Gen. Jaruzelski was named first secretary of the Polish Communist Party, thus becoming the first military man to hold such a post in Season of hope Eastern Europe, the Soviets could barely hide their glee, and the stage was set for atlefinite, reactionary swing away from democratization. The writing was on the wall. Moreover, a resolution adopted by the Polish Communist Party on the same day called upon the government to invoke "its necessary constitutional prerogatives to guarantee peace in the country" - a thinly veiled reference to The Christmas season is traditionally a time of selflessness, it is a time of martial law. in addition, other party resolutions called for a renegotiation of giving, not only in the material sense of giving gifts, but in the spiritual sense the Gdansk agreements, a resumption of the six-day work week and a as well. Lest we have forgotten during the year, Christmas reminds us that, as "temporary" suspension of the right to strike. Clearly, these measures were Christians, we should rejoice in expressing love for our families, friends and meant to provoke Solidarity, which could never accept such an erosion of its our fellow men, for it was on Christmas Day that God expressed His love for hard-fought rights, in another ominous development, riot police were used to us by selflessly sending His only begotten Son to save the souls of mankind. oust striking cadets who had staged a sit-in in the Warsaw fire academy. So, too, Christmas is a time of great hope which, in a religious sense, Clearly, the Jaruzelski regime was playing hard ball and its actions gave illuminates the struggle over temporality, and the soul's attestation of Solidarity little room to negotiate. Sensing that the government was stiffening eternity, in a secular sense, hope lies at the heart of endeavor, courage, its resolve to undermine the Gdansk agreements, and was willing to use force nobility and the will to triumph over adversity. to back up its words, Solidarity had little choice but to call for a national During this joyous holy day, as we join family and friends in celebrating the strike and a national referendum on continued Communist Party rule. Savior's birth, let us not forget those relatives and fellow Ukrainians still Shortly thereafter, the government struck. living^ in their native land under the yoke of a repressive regime. They are Granted, Gen. Jaruzelski was under extreme pressure from the Soviets to unable to openly celebrate this day in the true Ukrainian religious tradition. quash the social renewal movement and Solidarity, in turn, the Soviet Union On this Christmas Day - with our hopes reinforced by the coming of the and the other Comecon states were being squeezed by Western banks, which Christ-Child — let us take time to pray for the survival and serenity of the threatened to take action that would compel an already hard-pressed East entire Ukrainian nation, both in Ukraine and the diaspora.' European economic community to absorb Poland's estimated S16 billion Let us pray that perhaps one day our ultimate hope will be realized - the debt to Western financial institutions, S1.2 billion of which were owed to 60 hope that our brothers and sisters in Ukraine will be able to celebrate this American banks. Clearly, then, Western banks had a stake in seeing economic joyous feast of Christ's birth without fear of reprisals and to greet each other order established in Poland, and they were not about to offer any more credits in freedom: "Khrystos Rozhdayetsia — Slavite Yoho." to a strike-torn, economically unstable system. To them, it would be money down the drain. Poland: the wftip comes down viewed in this context, an eventual crackdown was virtually inevitable. The Soviets, not wishing to further strain relations with the West and perhaps in one fell swoop, the Polish government, led by strongman Gen. Wojciech heighten tensions among their own allies such as Hungary and Czechoslo– Jaruzelski, has transformed the promise and hope of the so-called Gdansk vakia (who already felt the slings of fraternal assistance) have thus far avoided summer of 1980 into this year's winter of national shame and discontent. By direct interven'ti.on in Poland. They're letting comrade Jaruzelski do their abruptly declaring martial law on December 13, the Military Council for dirty work, it is intervention by proxy. But if the situation should shift,'and" National Salvation has thus far managed to outflank Solidarity by arresting popular resistance to martial lawsprrng up in Poland, the Soviets might have virtually all of the union's national commission members, routing strikers in little choice but to march across the frontier to squelch the nettlesome Polish many factories, mills and coal mines, and imposing a total communications experiment once and for all. blackout. Already there have been official reports of violence. A crackdown Predictably, Western response to the Polish crisis has been cautious. Even of such virulence and scope will doubtlessly result in the spilling of more though President Ronald Reagan said on December 17 that it would be Polish blood, and put an iron-clad damper on Poland's democratization "naive" to think that the Polish government's move'was not stage-managed process. ,-;– :i. " '. . -' ! jarft! ' . '" ;;; -'- by Moscow, it seeriis that the West is bending over backwards to maintain the ' Although the government's move caught observers in and ouj of Poland by distinction that events in Poland are of Polish doing, in our view, the U.S. surprise, a careful analysis of the situation in Poland over the last lew months government, along with the Western allies, should"clearly warn the Soviets to reveals'sevefal'factors Which portended Gen. Jaruzelski's actions. stop meddling now. Waiting with bated breath simply is hot enough.

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-:-ify. ^tJ.--ii ; „U^'– ^2Sa -:-"' fitfc On The Weekly's ' -Ші -ш, шг ^ШЬ ' і W і ^-?Ґ?ї”ШГ ^ш - Й: щ architecture sener ," 1 ''іщЯ ИиИ : І'Г.””Л Ш'шШ by Andriy Maday Wm i' ' І r ^m.Tt - -л Lately, when the discussion comes ; .„ ШЬ - ' f'.m?Z'–..' around to church art and architecture, ' ^?ft one has been hearing more and more ' ШЬІ. Ш ї^:е :зЗД'ШІ talk about what "was"and what "is." A і lili'ld ч ^Мщщ' 9 ^км- ш good dose of time is also devoted to І. v1" ,. ' Д ШтЯ f. итч -ящ- -” ' Д "what might have been if." ,. . ;,. ^. ..^,,,.;„.„,. -.„..,,.^„, That which is sJ!ffigP : -” -. ШШшМ The year is 1981, we are (or should ^v Sk . ,^ґ^Г -w І be) living in the "now." The many ” Д-3' vv. .-1' problems facing us are very real. More йШ and more people state that the products Ж of the labors of our artists^ architects Ki Wij '",–, 1 leave a bit to be desired. All these ""^ л ЩЯКНЯНІ "problems" have been presented and to Andriy Maday in front of a triptych he created for St. Joseph's Ukrainian Catholic Church in Chicago. a degree discussed in the articles in the lives, be we lawyers, doctors, accoun– ment of the community-parish unit, the days of yore —" these men of prayer, architecture series and do not need tants, priests, homemakers, factory more "energy" this group can pass on to repeating here. these men of love, these men of peace. workers, etc. its members - in this case theartist^ar– The churches and icons of their time did As a result of reading the various Since the topic of the series was "The chitect. not materialize by themselves. They articles, looking around at the church state of contemporary Ukrainian church What was and why were built and painted by men and buildings and listening to the various art and architecture," let us focus on the women who devoted their whole lives to talk, one cannot help but ask the role of the artistv architect's spiritual One constantly hears: "But our prayer, fasting and self-purification. question: "Where does God fit in?" state in his or her work. church buildings and icons were so Their time was spent completely and The above is a perplexing question. Our church art and architecture beautiful, so peaceful, so God-filled in totally on the road of light, in the And so it was for me. Until, one day, a reflects our spiritual level. A beautiful 'days of yore.'" And we sigh and lament struggle for greater enlightenment,and ,ruth was realized. Everything we church building reflects the spiritual 1 that the Lord was so good to us then, this is reflected in all that they did. Their jmans do reflects our spiritual state as state of its architect. A beautiful icon and look at us and our churches now! work grew as a result of their own ;;idividuals and as a community. This reflects the state of its painter, his Ah, yes, but how quickly we forget growth. holds true for v facet of our daily beauty. The higher the level of enlighten– about all the "podvyzhnyky" of "the (Continued on page 16) No. 51 THE UKRA1NJAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1981 7 The Russian Orthodox Church among Ukrainians in North America by Sen. Paul Yuzyk

Address delivered by Canadian Sen. and his ordination by a Greek Catholic the bulk of new converts was anthro–^. petition until the rise of the autocephal– Paul Yuzyk on November 14 at a bishop, claiming the bishop was not a pologically and culturally of non- ous Orthodox Churches. seminar on "The Ukrainians of North Catholic, laid the foundation for the Russian stock, but rather of Ukrainian Having the honor of being the America: A Historical Commemora– conversion to Orthodoxy of some origin, as is evidenced by the fact that "mother church" of Russian Ortho- tion," sponsored by the UNA, the 200,000 Uniates and for the establish– the Soviet Union incorporated the lands doxy, St. Mary's Church of Minneapo– Center of immigration Studies at the ment of some 200 Orthodox parishes of the forefathers of these people into lis for a number of years became the University of Minnesota and the Twin among them.1 Soviet Ukraine. heart of the missionary enterprise. Cities branch of the UCCA. Sen. Yuzyk, Father Toth became an aggressive When the Russian Bishop Nicholas Bishop Nicholas's visit in 1894 brought holds Ph. D. and LL.D. degress and is a organizer, and with his burning energy, reported to the Holy Synod about the about the establishment of a parish former professor of history at the tireless activity and ability to influence missionary work among the "Carpat no- school, teaching "Little Russian," University of Ottawa. and stir his former co-religionists was Russian" Uniates, such high govern– Russian and religion, an,example which responsible for 50 parishes of Uniates ment officials as Count Wit't'e and was followed in other parishes. A choir joining the Russian Church2 before his others expressed surprise upon learning was organized by an expert from Rus– Reconversion of Uniates - an impetus death in 1909. The name of the Church of the existence, outside the borders of sian Ukraine, Prof. Paul Zaychenko. to Russian Orthodoxy in America itself, Russian Orthodox Greek Catho– Russia, of "Russians" in Galicia, Car– in 1897 the diocese authorities had a lic Church, was adapted to appeal to pathian "Russia" and Bukovina.' As a Missionary School established by the Until the arrival in America in the the Uniates. matter of fact, the bishop invented the Minneapolis church, and students from 1880s and subsequent decades of Central The protests raised by the Roman name of "Carpathian Russia" as he all over the country and Canada were European Slavs, known as Galicians, Catholic bishops in the United States wanted to show his fellow countrymen enrolled in it to receive religious train– Bukovinians, Ruthenians, Rusnaks, against married Greek Catholic priests that under the unfriendly Austrian rule ing. it was financedb y the Holy Synod. Carpatho-(Uhro) Russians and Rus– serving Sla,vic parishes were so strong there were 5 million Russians who were Many future priests such as Peter sians,there were comparatively few Rus– that on April 12, 1894, the Sacred subjugated by Austria not only in their Kohanik, Basil Basalyga and others sians on this continent and hence a Congregation for the Propagation of politico-national, but also in their received their training there.,, religious (through forced "union" with limited sphere for Russian religious ac–, the Faith of the Eastern Church in 9 When a fire of undetermined origin: tivities. Rome issued a decree forbidding married the papacy) lives. Under the influence destroyed the pioneer church in. 1904, a priests to serve in America.3 As only 3 of the Russian Church, the people were beautiful new structure based on Rus– After the discovery of Alaska in 1741 percent, of the Ukrainian priests in taught to designate themselves as Rus– sian architecture was erected. Tsar by the Russian-commissioned Danish Galicia at the time were celibate,4 the sians, however, qualifying themselves as Nicholas 11 donated Si,029 toward its explorer Bering, Russian ad- restriction made it extremely difficult "Little Russians," when their brethren construction." venturers and merchants' became for the Greek Catholic Church to of other faiths stated their national in 1905 the missionary school was active along the Pacific coast of North provide priests for the growing Ukrai– origin as Ruthenian or Ukrainian. moved to Cleveland to make room for America as far south as Fort Ross, a nian population in North America. the Russian Orthodox Theological hundred miles south of San Francisco. Many reasons motivated the Uniates Seminary alongside St. Mary's Church. This regulation also aggravated the to gravitate towards the Russian Church, in 1793 a band of eight missionary problem of religious identification Many prominent clergy taught in the in the old country they were accustom– seminary which produced a considerable monks was sent by the Holy Synod to among the immigrants, making it easier ed to the Byzantine rite and to married Alaska, and the firstRussia n church was for other denominations to follow the number of priests. The seminary was clergy. Here Roman Catholicism rigidly transferred in 1912 to Tenafly, N.J., built on Kodiak island in 1794. Since lead of Father Toth and to fill the upheld celibacy and forbade Uniate there were few Russian settlers, the resulting institutional vacuum. The closer to the bulk of the churches. married priests who, until the coming of Minneapolis indeed played a prominent missionaries worked among the natives ruling also meant that the size of the Bishop Soter Ortynsky in 1907, fell (Aleuts, Koloshes and lndians). monastic orders in Galicia would have role in the expansion of the Church under the jurisdiction of local Latin before World War 1. in 1804 the fort and town of New to increase - as they soon did — to bishops. Archangel (now Sitka) was founded, meet the needs of organizing the church During the administration of Bishop in North America. But the coming of At first the Uniate parishes were Nicholas (1891-7), the Russian Church and in 1815 a Russian church, which required to be incorporated under Latin became the cathedral of the first Rus– old country celibate priests caused had increased its activities from the other problems, for the early Ukrainian bishops of non-Slavic origin, while the Pacific Coast to the Atlantic and had sian Orthodox diocese in the New Russian Church in the beginnings World, was built there. The success of immigrants were unaccustomed to commenced work in Canada, in addi– having monks serve them and conse– advocated parishes to be incorporated tion to the Minneapolis parish, Uniate the missions among the natives led to under the congregation which had full the arrival in 1840 of innocentius quently, for some time, viewed the parishes in the following cities joined monastic clergymen with suspicion. jurisdiction over its own property the fold of Orthodoxy: Chicago, Wilkes– veniaminov (later metropolitan of without outside interference. Moscow) as the first bishop of "Kam– On May 1, 1897, instructions of the Barre, Pa., Pittsburgh, New York, Many were attracted by the fact that Bridgeport, Conn., Osceola, Ark., chatka, the Kuriles and Aleutians." Sacred Congregation placed the Greek the Russian Church employed priests of With the sale of Alaska to the United Catholic priests under the jurisdiction Streator, ill., Ansonia, Conn., Scran- the same ethnic origin as the parishioners, ton, Pa., and Wostock, Alta. States in 1867, the title of the see was of the Roman Catholic bishops in who had rights "to hire and fire" various changed to "Aleutia and Alaska." North America and, thus, exacerbated priests. This greatly appealed to the in the case of the Wostock parish, the in 1869. a Russian Orthodox church tensions between the two camps. The settlers' newly acquired sense of indepen– stuggle between Orthodoxy and Catho– was built in San Francisco, and in 1872 resentment against "Latin domination" dence and freedom. licism in the parish went to the highest Bishop John transferred his cathedral was so great that the Galician priests court in Canada and finally landed in called a convention in May 1901 at Of no small importance were the the Privy Council in London, England, seat from Sitka to San Francisco. For economic considerations. The Russian the next two decades, however, the Shamokin, Pa„' where representatives (Саа6ма4оерврИ) of 1S Uniate Catholic congregations Church in America was subsidized by Russian Church made little progress in the Russian state through the Holy North. America. established ' The Society of Ruthenian 1. P.G. Kohanik, "The Most Useful Church Congregations in the United Synod by as much as 577,850 annually Knowledge for the Orthodox Russian- The Russian Orthodox Church be– in addition to constant contributions American People," p. 260 and, P.G. Koha– gan its remarkable expansion eastward States and Canada and elected a general council of six members — half from the Missionary Society of Rus– nik. The Mother Church of Christendom" to the more populated areas of the eia.10 The early pioneer settlers had little p. 116. United States and Canada from Min– clergy and half laity - with Father ivan Konstankevych as president.4 means to build and maintain churches 2. "Golden Jubilee Album of the St. neapolis in 1891 when the first Uniate and priests as the Greek Catholic Mary's Russian Orthodox Greek Catholic parish repudiated Greek Catholicism The frustrations felt by this patriotic Church was required to do. The Russian Church," p. 42. and joined the Russian Church. On that group of Ukrainian Greek Catholics Church Hot only provided a considerable 3. "Collectania G. Congregationia de memorable day, Father Alexis Toth, were finally aired publicly in an article share of funds for church buildings but Propaganda Fide Sea Secreta instructions who had recently arrived from Subcar– which appeared in Svoboda on Febru– paid the priests who were on its payroll, Resoritia Pro Apostolicus Miisionbui," pathian Ruthenia, then under Austria, ary 13, 1902. Titled "Let us frankly tell and, thus, greatly eased the burdens of 1907, Yol. 11, p. 303. had been forbidden jurisdiction in his ourselves the truth" and written by the the parishes and the parishioners. 4. Joseph Kean OSDM, "S.E. Msgr. parish by Roman Catholic Archbishop editor, Father ivan Ardan, the article Adelard Archeveaue de St. Bonifac et les Ukrainiens" in Report 1944-45. La Societe ireiand of St. Paul because of the fact bitterly denounced Roman Catholic The Holy Synod provided for as policies and ended with the cry "Away Canadienne d'Histoire de l"Eglise Catholi– that the priest, then a widower, had many priests and bishops as were que, Ottawa, 1945, p. 102. been married. with Rome!" demanded, while the Uniate Church 5. A concise account of the situation in A delegation from St. Mary's parish Father Ardan then wrote to Bishop could supply only a relatively small the United States is given by Julian Bachyn– visited Bishop viadimir at the cathedral Hoban in Scranton, Pa., notifying him number of clergy. sky in "Ukrainska immigratsia v Ziedy– in San Francisco, and he immediately that he no longer recognized the Roman The missionary zeal of the missionary nenykh Derzhavakh Ameryky"fThe Ukrai– accepted this new parish into the bosom Catholic bishop's jurisdiction. This priests in denouncing papal authority nian immigration in the United States of action was approved by all the parishes and in appealing to ancient traditions America), Lviv, Galicia, 1914, pp. 256-309. of the Russian Orthodox Church. 7 Bishop viadimir then came to Minnea– in the newly formed society. Bishop and to the feelings of American inde– 6. ibid., p. 300. Hoban immediately retaliated by ex- pendence and freedom was responsible 7. ibid., p. 301. polis himself and on March 25 received 8. P.G. Kohanik, The Most Useful 361 of the former Uniates, the bulk of communicating Father Ardan and for many mass conversions. through court action deprived the Knowledge for the Orthodox Russian- whom originated from the Carpathian Furthermore, since the Russian American People," op. cit., p. 54. regions, into the Russian Orthodox renegade priest of his parish in Oly– Church was the first in the new field, 9. Loc. cit. Church. phant, Pa. other Orthodox denominations from 10. U.S. Department of Commerce: The refusal of a Roman Catholic This rather sudden rapid expansion. Europe, were prohibited from .doing Bureau of the Census, Religious Bodies, bishop to recognize the legitimacy ef the of the Russian Church becomes all the missionary work in America, a,principle 1926, p. 514. . . . ,. Л priesthood pf.a..married,.4ln.iate priest more remarkable, when it is realized that which for many years eliminated сдгпг. . U.,Gpkien Jubilee Album„op.,cjt., в-.25д. THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY-– SUNDAY, DECEMBER 20,1981 No. 51

genre exists), the composer wrote of the winding down of enchanted mechanical children's Christmas carols he used toys. from Pecheniha-Ouglitzky's collection of Ukrainian folk music. Actually, at The St. Nicholas song least three themes (out of the isolated five) are not Christmas carols at all, and Berezowsky's beautiful treatment of only one is really associated with this theme deserves additional space, children. initially heard, as we have seen, in measure 44, where the melody appears Prince volodymyr's theme in the woodwind instruments, this song gets a final and most festive interpreta– The overture's beginning introduces tion starting with measure 337 by the first majestic theme, delegated to trumpets supported by the entire sym– Ukrainian Noel cellos, bassoons and French horns, phony orchestra. This symphonic cli– max is so jubilant and grand that it in memory of my unforget'able aunt, Daria Sawka. conceived apparently by the composer himself. According to Berezowsky's caused one critic to remark that the "New every year, notes, this theme depicts the sumptuous orchestra "sparkled and blazed with gay New born and newly dear, court of the Kiev ruler, "Prince viadimir colors like a tree brilliant with lights." He comes with tidings and a song, of Medieval Rus',"and the ceremonious The ages long, the ages long." gathering of foreign emissaries at the Curiously enough, in measure 103 - Alice Meynell timeof.volodymyr's acceptance of Chris– starts apparently the only true 4 Christmas carol in Berezowsky's work, "Unto Us a Son is Given " tianity practically 1,000 years ago. namely "Oy u Poli, Poli, Try Tovaryshi" During December and especially Ukrainian folk melodies used (Oh in the Field There Are Three around Christmastime loudspeakers set Friends), in the Zenowij Lysko collec– up in large shopping centers or radio A second melody titled "Oy Syvaya ta tion "Ukrainian Folk Melodies" this stations treat us to carols of various і Zozulenka" (The Gray Cuckoo), carol is entered under the number 178. nations. And in this festive, collective identified as starting in the orchestral The item appears in the score in several sound we hear Ukrainian tunes. From score at measure 215 is actually a New variations. Thus the composer has where do these melodies hail? Year's carol ("shchedrivka") or Epi– partially, at least, saved face. To make a long story short, some phany carol traditionally sung one or Ukrainian Christmas and New Year's two weeks, respectively, after Christmas Critical and popular success carols made their way to American proper. The composer gave the carol school songbooks, sheet music pub– "Gray Cuckoo" a light and witty treat– in 1943, when Berezowsky's overture lishers and also records to be heard ment, repeating the ancient and short premiered', distinguished critic Olin nationwide at holiday time. Nicolai Berezowsky melody over and over. І n the symphonic Downes noted in The New York Times score this theme appears in several exact that the work "is done in a youthful "Shchedryk" is No. 1 as modern in spirit and in its driving quotations by the oboe and clarinet. spirit and musical style wholly appro– energy, but generally pleasing in melo– priate to the context. The freedom and The most famous Ukrainian item to dic content. He also had a gift for Theme number three, beginning in boldness of the counterpoint and bril– decorate American Christmas is "Shche– children's music, achieving a major measure 44 (brilliantly and imposingly liancy of scoring intrigue the ear." dryk" (originally for mixed chorus) by success with his opera "Babar the developed toward the end of the work) Mykola Leontovych. its celebrated Elephant." But we should get back to is about the only song readily associated Berezowsky's overture has been English version, "Carol of the Bells," his "Christmas Festival Overture" — a with children, in the Ukrainian original printed by Associated Music Publishers, was made-by Peter Wilhousky, conduc– light and witty fun-piece built entirely it is titled "O, Khto, Khto Mykolaya New York (Division of Schirmer inc.). tor, educator and one-time assistant of on Ukrainian holiday melodies. Liubyt." But this is not a carol; it is Also spinning on turntables master conductor Arturo Toscanini. simply a Ukrainian folk melody about throughout the world is a very thrilling There are no less than 60 recordings Berezowsky's own statement St. Nicholas sung by children more than recording by the Oslo Philharmonic of this masterpiece by Leontovych and two weeks before Christmas on the Orchestra conducted by Arthur Lipkin its American remake. No one has kept But the composer's conception of the feastday of this most popular of folk with much zest and gusto. This album, track of unrecorded performances of origin and identity of his material was saints in Ukraine, the original Santa hopefully still available (issued in 1966), "Carol of the Bells" but (considering not entirely clear, in numerous pub– Claus, in anticipation of gifts he might is on the label Composer's Recordings only high school and college glee clubs) lished program notes he wrote: "The bring. (St. George is probably the only CR1 SD-209. these probably go into the hundreds. most famous of all Russian Christmas other folk saint to rival St. Nicholas's And now from the loudspeakers of (For complete "Carol of the Bells"story carols are the 'koliadky,' almost all of popularity amont Ukrainians.) the holiday season, Berezowsky's "U– see this column in The Ukrainian which come from Ukraine. For this krainian Noel" overture continues to Weekly, December 19 and 26, 1976.) overture 1 have used some of the Therefore, Berezowsky should have radiate its own spirited contribution to 'koliadky' that children sing as they go settled in his notes on a wider sampling Christmas. Another work resounds from house to house on Christmas Eve, of "Ukrainian holiday tunes of the singing and dancing." winter cycle" rather than his limited Another example of famous holiday and, as we have seen, inaccurate labeling music on Ukrainian themes is a concert Composer's mistake of "children's carols." However, the Acknowledgement work for symphony orchestra titled youthful spirit still dominates his work "Christmas Festival Overture," Op. 30, Although Berezowsky actually sub- through the St. Nicholas theme pro– 1 would like to thank conductor and No. 2 by Nicolai Berezowsky (1900-53). titled his Overture "Ukrainian Noel" minently mounted in at least two educator George Oransky of Philadel– sections. The children's atmosphere is Because of the Ukrainian material used, and provided notes on themes used phia for his generous assistance in the composer himself subtitled his work also apparent in the work's finale which identifying the Ukrainian melodies in (with the assistance of noted Ukrai– impresses the listener as a gradual "Ukrainian Noel." nian composer; conductor Paul Pe– Berezowsky's work. The overture was originally commis– sioned by noted conductor Howard Barlow, who premiered it on December 23, 1943, with the New York Philhar– monic Society. Піснь до Св. О. Николая. The composer

Nicolai Berezowsky, American of Russian descent, as a child had sung in Повільно, т. the imperial Court Capella of St. Petersburg, composed for much of the EC^:zng: :j–J—І rf—-zlzzS chorus's history of Ukrainian singers, in 1ш 1917 he was graduated from this en– 0 хто, хто, Ниo^–- ко- ла-g^ESgzffj semble with high honors. in America, Berezowsky served as ^: guest conductor of most major orches– ІЩЕ tras. One of his achievements with the baton was the abridged version of Mussorgsky's masterpiece opera "Boris Godunov," recorded for the victor Й?ЕЕЕ label, in 1944, Berezowsky received an Paul Pechiniha-Ouglitzky "І r award from the American Academy of cheniha-Ouglitzky, whom Berezowsky Arts and Letters in recognition of "his credits in his notes), much of his distinguished position in American information remains inaccurate and music." confusing. Aside from the matter of Berezowsky's music can be described "Russian Christmas carols" (no such Beginning of the St. Nicholas song. No. 51 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, DECEMBER 20,1981 9

Panorama of Ukrainian culture in the Big Apple by Helen Perozak Smindak

Christmastime is here — trees shim– kylym collection early next year, the adays — a traditional Ukrainian Christ- engagement at Biff's Place with a one- mering for the Yuletide season, shops museum is expanding into new fields. mas play with 17th century carols, as night stand at Freddy's supper club in bursting with enticing gift selections, Richard F. Shepard of The New York well as a repeat performance of Mykola mid-Manhattan. Mr. Alexander, whose Ukrainian dancers performing in Fifth Times mentioned the museum in the Lysenko's one-act opera "Nocturne." Ukrainian roots stem from his maternal Avenue's Holiday Festival, caroling Going Out Guide of November 11, The opera is being staged by Andriy grandmother, is kept busy as the lead and tree-trimming Downtown and recommending it as one of "Second Dobriansky, with musical direction by singer with a five-piece band which Uptown, a multitude of bazaars offer– Avenue's curiously diversified esta– Thomas Hrynkiw and choreography by appears in Long island clubs and ing hand-embroidered pillows and blishments." Roma Pryma-Bohachevsky. lounges. He also directs a guitar group blouses and a tempting array of home- Ukrainian music and the presenta– Also scheduled for today is a perfor– which sings and plays contemporary baked breads and pastries, young and tion of the Performers of the Year mance by the Ukrainian Dancers of music at the 10 a.m. mass at St. Anasta– old busy as elves at The Ukrainian Award to the Ukrainian Bandura En– Astoria, directed by Elaine Oprysko. sia's Roman Catholic Church in Dou– Museum fashioning ornaments for a semble of New York highlighted the The group will dance at 1 p.m.on a Fifth glaston, Queens. Ukrainian "yalynka" and, all around Christmas party given by the institute Avenue stage located between 54th and town, the sound of our joyous "Carol of on East Central Europe on December - 55th streets, vehicular traffic is banned From A io E the Bells." 18. The party was held in the Faculty from 34th to 57th streets between 11 Prof. Petro Andrusiw unveiled his Yesterday, St. Nicholas paid a visit to Lounge of Columbia University's a.m. and 3 p.m. and an array of free major new oil painting "introduction of the Plast Center and the School of School of international Affairs. entertainment is in store, along the Christianity to Rus'-Ukraine" with a Ukrainian Studies at the Ukrainian The Ukrainian institute of America holiday mall for the city's second festive showing of slides during a lecture at the Liberation Front home on Second has been the scene of several Christmas Sunday. Ukrainian institute of America on Avenue. At 4 p.m., the Christmas tree gatherings this month. The women's This year, there's a large number of November 14. Several years in the standing on the balcony of the ULF auxiliary of the Metropolitan New Christmas greeting cards that display making, the painting depicts the bap– home was lit, the signal for the beginning York branch of the Ukrainian Medical the work of Ukrainian artists. You can tism of the ruling dignitaries, volo– of carol singing by a host of New Association of North America held a choose from the UNA set of glossy color dymyr and Anna, and their subjects. Yorkers gathered on the street below. carol sing on December 12, while the cards with Christmas motifs by Edward Soviet emigre actress Evelina Beluc According to Maria Lozynsky, presi– members of Branch 72 of the Ukrainian Kozak and his sons Yuriy and Yarema, gave dramatic readings at the banquet dent of the Women's Association for the National Women's League of America The Ukrainian Museum's exclusive which capped a two-day academic Defense of Four Freedoms for Ukraine, met for their annual Christmas party on prints of works by Hutsaliuk, Perry– conference marking the 60th anniver– which planned the program, the tree- December 11. Yesterday, Ukrainian shyn, Cholodny and Czereszniowsky, sary of the Ukrainian Free University in lighting ceremony is in memory of the students from university clubs in the and Surma's stock of Yaroslava cards, Munich. Held at the Ukrainian Na– children of Ukrainian dissidents who metropolitan area converged on the now supplemented by a greeting card tional Home on December 4 and 5, the languish in Soviet prisons. institute for a tree-trimming planned by which shows a stained glass window conference was co-sponsored by the designed by Yaroslava Surmach Mills There's a brightly lit tree on the the Ukrainian Students' Association at Ukrainian Academy of Arts and New York University. for St. Demetrius Ukrainian Catholic Sciences, the Shevchenko Scientific second-floor balcony of the building at Church in Weston, Ont. 108 Second Ave., the headquarters of The first program in the institute's Society and the UFU's U.S. delegation the Ukrainian National Women's Lea– 1981-82 Ukrainian Composers Series, Paul Alexander, the young baritone headed by vasyl Lev. volodymyr Ya– gue of America and the league's New set for 3 p.m. today, will present who made his Soyuzivka debut last niw, the university's rector, was the York Regional Council. something rarely seen and heard now– summer, followed up a recent two-week main speaker at the banquet, and Dr. Jaroslaw Padoch, Shevchenko Society Members of the Ukrainian Sports president, was among those who pre– Club, at 122 Second Ave., enjoy an sented papers during the conference. indoor yalynka as they engage in table tennis and chess competition or remi– Nadia Bohachevsky, 13, a scholar- nisce about their soccer and volleyball ship student at New York's Manhattan games. President ivan Sierant says that School of Music, and Maria Mandzy– a Christmas party for members is Wolansky, who has pursued vocal planned for January 2 and the tradi– studies for several years in New York tional malanka will be held on January and Paris, were featured in the Novem– 16 at the Ukrainian National Home. ber 8 musicale sponsored by Branch 72 Maria Shust, director of The Ukrai– of the Ukrainian National Women's nian Museum, points with pride to the. League of America. Ms. Mandzy– tall pine tree which stands in the mu– Wolansky, who holds a B.A. in music seum's second-floor workroom at 203 from Hunter College, is a soloist with Second Ave. The tree is splendidly the Promin Ensemble of New York. trimmed with traditional hand-made Roma Pryma-Bohachevsky, who has ornaments — silver spiders, gilded and an exceedingly busy schedule teaching silvered walnuts, glittery pin cones, ballet, character and exercise classes in shiny bead mobiles, paper cradles, her New York studio and instructing exotic butterflies and fish, and clowns Ukrainian folk dance groups in Utica and pitchers fashioned from eggshells. and Hempstead, N.Y., recently wedged Chains of brightly colored ribbon links in a week of training for the dance and chains of fluffy paper pompons and school and younger members of Phila– glass beads spiral through the branches, delphia's "voloshky" dancers. and at the very tip of the tree there's a The poetry of New Yorker Bohdan fluffy-haired angel with an eggshell Boychuk took the spotlight on Novem– head and a flaring white paper skirt ber 7 at the Ukrainian institute of bordered with a Ukrainian embroidery Modern Art in Chicago, introduced by design. Bohdan Rubchak, Mr. Boychuk read selected poems, from early to later Ornaments like these were constnict– works, interpreting and analysing as he ed during workshops held at the mu– went along. A half-hour montae of seum on three recent weekends. Tania images, paintings, words and music was Oryshkewych and Olha Maruschak presented by Yuriy Myskiw as he read Kandel provided instructions for chil– Boychuk's poem "The Journey of a dren and adult participants and a troop Teacher." of Brownies. Also on display at the museum is an Kvitka Cisyk, whose "Kvitkal adaptation of a 17th century vertep, a cording of Ukrainian songs is large-size version of the traveling like hotcakes, got a great review і puppet theater that was carried from November 25 variety for her n^ town to town in Ukraine at Christmas- single "Circle of Two" (Posse time performing the drama of the Bernie Hoffer producer), released under Nativity. The two-story vertep was her professional name, Kasey Cisyk. constructed by Yuriy Kostiw in the Describing the record as a sentimental traditional Hutsul method - without theme from the upcoming Jules Dassin nails, and the ceramic figurines were movie of the same name, the variety fashioned by Slava Gerulak. reviewer said that the song has a "melodramatic tendency, swathed in With embroidery and woodcarving "The Nativity" by Yaroslava Surmach Mills, design for a 12-by-17-foot stained gauzy, orchestrated MOR" and that classes going full tilt and with prepara– glass window being installed in St. Demetrius Ukrainian Catholic Church in (Continued on page 15) tions under wav for the showing of a Weston, Ont. THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, DECEMBER 20, i98i No. 51 Ukrainian pro hockey update by ihor N. Stelmach

To all fanatic sports buffs, hockey sion in terms of Ukrainians; no less than player who finally landed, after several LOS ANGELES: Dennis Owchar, D, hooligans and loyal Weekly readers, for 11 Uke, truly outstanding talents toil super performances, in the minors. assigned to New Haven,(AHL). the record - once and for all: МІКЕ within these confines. Bringing up the rear are the Red Wings BOSSY is UKRAINIAN!!! Last season's No. 1 surprise club, the of Detroit, having already begun their MINNESOTA: Mike Poiicn, c,assign– Yes he is. Granted, he probably does St. Louis Blues, figure as a potential annual aiiake-up towards respectability ed to Nashville (CHL); Polich refused not subscribe to Svoboda or even The runner-up with the team's top three by moving two of their three best young to report and retired from hockey; Mike Ukrainian Weekly, but, according to scorers being Bernie Federko, Wayne talents of some experience. Winger Antonovich, C, assigned to Nashville. our Canadian colleagues, his grand- Babych and Mike Zuke! Bernie is John Ogrodnkk inherits the distinction MONTREAL: Al Luciw, D, Dave father was the editor of a Ukrainian touted as the play-maker, Babych as the of being the top Red Wing offensive Orleski, LW, and Greg Paslawski, RW, newspaper in Canada and was active in rifle shot, while Zuke simply centers the threat, and his start this season justifies all assigned to Nova Scotia (AHL). the hetmanate movement. No. 2 line, kills penalties and anchors management's stubborn refusal to This islander is without a doubt (not the power play from the right point include him in any off-season bartering. NY. 1SLANDERS: Peter Steblyk, D, yet, Wayne Gretzky) the most prolific position. The never-to-be-discounted and Neil Hawryliw, LW, assigned to goal scorer and talent in hockey history. Chicago Black Hawks base much of Transactions lndianapolis (CHL); Steblyk reassigned That aside, let's re-focus on the their hopes for the season on center to Toledo (1HL); Hawryliw later re- exciting sport of hockey Ukrainian Tom Lysiak, the chief catalyst of an BOSTON: Larry Melnyk, D, and Mike called for one game and returned; Kelly style. Ukrainian Pro Hockey Update even-tempered offensive attack. The Krushelnyski, C, assigned to Erie Hrudey, GT, Mike Hordy, D, and Steve has returned, and it will be more two Canadian teams in the Norris, (AHL); Krushelnyski later recalled for Stoyanovich, C, assigned to lndianapo– informative and more frequent than Winnipeg and Toronto, also boast three one game and returned; Melnyk later lis. ever before. Ukrainians each. Unfortunately these recalled. This season promises to unfold in two clubs should pass each other going N.Y. RANGERS: Walt Tkaczuk, C, front of you on these very pages with in opposite directions. The Winnipeg BUFFALO: Chris Halyk, C, Mark retired due to injury and named assis– exclusive interviews, up-to-the-minute Jets are dedicated to building their Wichrowski, RW, assigned to Roches– tant coach.. statistics, latest roster changes, personal hockey foundation with top young ter (AHL). PHILADELPHIA: Dave Michayiuk, features, looks at the minor leagues, a talent, indeed, for the second consecu– CALGARY: Rick Yasko, D, acquired RW, returned to Regina (WHL), Taras Ukrainian Player of the Week and tive time the Jets selected first in the from Detroit as compensation for Zytynsky, D, to Montreal (QHL); Mike much more. annual amateur draft and, again, came earlier trade; Carl Morosak, LW, Busniuk, D, assigned to Maine (AHL) What more is there? How about top away with a brilliant Ukrainian as that signed as free agent and returned to and named player-assistant coach. weekly headlines from wire service top choice. Last year it was defenseman Brandon (WHL); vasko assigned to accounts of NHL action highlighting Dave Babych(yes, he's Wayne's brother), Oklahoma City (CHL); Peter Madach, QUEBEC: Clint Malarchuk, GT, signed achievements of our Ukrainian stars. and this year it is Dale Hawerchuk, a C, returned to Sweden for military duty; to pro contract and assigned to Frede– And a 1981-82 complete yearbook of all slick Gretzky-like centerman. Babych Rich Chernomaz, C, recalled from ricton (AHL).' Ukrainian hockey players pro and has gotten off to a great start this season victoria (WHL) and later returned. amateur. Oh, and in honor of the - this believed to be due to him feeling ST. LOU1S: Richard Zemlak, C, re- aforementioned No. 22 of the islanders, less pressure on his massive shoulders. CH1CAGO: Bob Janecyk, GT, Bart turned to Spokane (WHL); Ken Fe– a regular weekly mini-update of the on– Hawerchuk, - will, hes simply expected Yachimec, RW, assigned to New Bruns– derko, C, assigned to Salt Lake City ice exploits of one Mike Bossy. to be Rookie of the Year. These two wick (AHL); Perry Pelenskyi RW, (CHL); Wayne Babych, RW, placed on youngsters join winger Morris Luko– returned to Portland (WHL), Steve injury list with shoulder ailment and Preview of 1981-82 season wkk who has finally shut up those Ludzik, C, to Niagara Falls (OHL); later returned in mid-November. skeptical scouts by scoring 35 and 33 Miles Zaharko, D, recalled from New goals in his first two NHL seasons. As TORONTO Mike Kaszycki, C, and Proving they are not necessarily the Brunswick (AHL) and later returned. the Jets persist in improving, so the Gary Yaremchuk, C, assigned to New reactionary fatheads that the North Toronto Maple Leafs persist in self- COLORADO: Bill Oleschuk, GT, re- Brunswick (AHL). American hockey press makes them out destructing. This cast of characters assigned from Fort Worth to Dallas to be, the NHL's governors smartly and resembles a cuckoo's nest more than an (CHL); Steve Janaszak, GT, recalled WASHINGTON: signed Orest Kindra– correctly altered the make-up of their outfit of rinkrats . A tough situation for from Fort Worth (CHL) and later chuk, C, as free agent with compensa– regular season schedule. This year the a hard-working rookie to begin his returned. tion from Pittsburgh; Peter Sidorkie– league realigned its divisions and trade in, as in the case of defenseman wicz, GT, returned to Oshawa (OHL) playoff structures, and eliminated the Fred Bolmfatruck, a second-round DETR01T: Dennis Polonich, RW, and Bill Hrynsky, LW, to University of mundane balanced schedules of the past surprise stick. Rocky Sag–hHt returns Larry Lozinski, GT, assigned to Adi– Saskatchewan; Kindrachuk placed on two years. for his second full NHL season at wing, rondack (AHL). injury list with strained back. Now teams will play their inter- while another rookie,Gary Yaremchuk, EDMONTON: Walt Poddubny, C, division foes eight times yearly, except made the club in the early going much to W1NN1PEG: Dave Hoyda, LW, re- assigned to Wichita (CHL). leased. for the Norris Division where the norm the amazement of fellow countryman will be six. The result should be a more and coach Mike Nykoluk (former HARTFORD: Chuck Luksa, D, Joe МІКЕ SHOWS WHO'S BOSS (a intensified regular campaign and posi– Flyers assistant coach). Kowal, LW, released; John Mokosak, weekly update of Mike Bossyisms): tively enhanced rivalries of proximate D, returned to victoria (WHL); Paul scored 68 last year, third highest total in geographical areas. Finally a glimpse at the Smythe Shmyr, D, signed as free agent after a season; had 69 in 1978-79; going into Following is a brief peek at the roles Division, another conglomeration of release by Minnesota. (C iihuiaiif it) our Ukrainian hockey stars should also and not-quite rans. Any team come to play in the 1981 -82 season. (The which improved so remarkably last Ukrainian backgrounds of the players season, especially if Wayne Gretzky have been authenticated and thoroughly (he's Polish, folks) is a member, de- Ukrainian Scoring Leaders researched by this writer via clippings, serves to be rated highly. Taking almost (includes games of December 9) phone calls, contacts, etc.) regular turns as the left winger on islanders continue to rule over the Gretzky's lineJs the personal bodyguard Player Team Games Goals Assists Points Pen. Min. Patrick Division - led by Mike Bossy's and the most renowned Ukrainian Bossy N.Y.l. 27 26 23" 43 4 endless snipering — and are likely to pugilist in all of professional hockey, Maruk Wash. 27 22 19 41 54 emerge for the third consecutive time as Dave Semenko. Dave has shown defi– Smyl van. 29 10 24 34 39 Stanley Cup champs. Rangers to finish nite though inconsistent offensive Federko St.L. 29 11 22 33 20 in the middle here, with Ed "Boxcar" ability, and any continuing improve– Hawerchuk Winn. 27 16 15 31 19 Hoapodar lending muscle and continu– ment will without a doubt preserve his Lukowich Winn. 26 15 14 29 34 ing his development. Washington Capi– spot as an Oiler. At the outset of the Lysiak Chi. 27 9 19 28 33 tals still bring up the rear, despite crafty season, an unknown center named Walt Zuke St.L. 29 5 21 26 10 Poddubny earned a job with Edmonton, scoring and playmaking of perennial D. Babych Winn. 27 8 14 22 47 primarily in the role of a defensive super-scorer, littleDennls Maruk. Free- Ogrodnick Det. 27 13 7 20 10 specialist. Yancoiiver insists its im– agent acquisition center Orest Kindra– W. Babych St.L. 17 7 10 17 15 ehuk was counted on for big contribu– provement must be orchestrated by European players, when in reality it's Saganiuk Tor. 23 6 10 16 23 tions, but persistent back problems have Bonar L.A. 27 3 11 14 17 landed him on injury list. hard-nosed pluggers like Stan Smyl who obviously make the difference. Semenko Edm. 24 5 5 10 63 The Adams Division may prove to be Stan's a 30-goal-a-year scorer who Boimistruck Tor. 22 0 7 7 16 one with the most overall strength; all mucks in the comers, fights the other Shmyr Hart. 23 1 4 5 57 but Hartford (Paul Shmyras stabilizer team's heavy and gives 110 percent per Hospodar N.Y.R 23 1 3 4 64 of young defense) have a solid shot at 90 game. Christmastime in Los Angeles Melnyk Bost. 11 0 2 2 12 plus points. Boston is incorporating means the King's mismanagement must Yaremchuk Tor. 10 0 1 1 2 blueliner Larry MelnyEt into rebuilding be in the mood to give away a few more Kindrachuk Wash. 4 1 0 1 2 its defense position. top draft choices for a celebrated flop or Krushelnysk Bost. 1 0 0 0 0 Quantity without much quality cha– two. Besides Dionne, Taylor and Sim– Poddubny Edm. 2 0 0 0 0 racterizes the Norris Division where mer, there is a little center^ penalty Hawryliw N.Y.L 1 0 0 0 0 Minnesota, should, outclass the rest. killer, Dan Boner, a quietly efficient '. Janaszak. .Colo.. 2 IOO,MIN .'3 GA 7.80.AVG... This happens to be. the wealthiest divi– No. 51 THE UKRAJNIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, DECEMBER 20, i98i 11

Ukrainian pro hockey update PREVIEW OF EVENTS (Continued from pagt it) Professional this season, has 241 goals in only 307 Sunday, December 20 toba's public schools in September regular season games; .785 scoring NHL– National Hockey League (the 1979. The program's introduction average is NHL's highest ever; last year professional league) New York: Roman Serbyn, profes– was made possible by an amendment became only second player to score 50 AHL– American Hockey League sor at the University of Quebec in of Manitoba's Public School Act in goals in first 50 games; proceeded to (highest echelon of minor leagues) Montreal, will speak on "University July 1978. Currently in its third year, score 17 goals in 18 Stanley Cup play- CHL– Central Hockey League (se– students in the Ukrainian national the program has a total enrolment of off games and set playoff record for cond highest echelon) revival of the 1860s" at 2 p.m. at the 540 students in eight schools located points in one playoff year with 35; 1HL- international Hockey League Ukrainian Academy of Arts and in six different school divisions, as totalled record-breaking 85 goals for (third level) Sciences, 216 W. 100th St. well as one Ukrainian Catholic regular season plus playoffs; career ACL– Atlantic Coast League (bottom school. total, including playoff goals, is 276 in level of minors) New York: The Sisterhood of St. Tickets for the concert are avail- 358 games, a .771 average per game volodimir's Ukrainian Orthodox able through Manitoba Parents for through 1980-81; led NHL in game- Amateur Cathedral will hold a program on the Ukrainian Education at (204) 943- winning goals with 10 and power-play occasion of St. Nicholas feast day at 9131 and through representatives of goals with 28, tying league record; first OHL– Ontario Hockey League І p.m. The event will feature a St. divisional parents' committees. team NHL All-Star for first time; only QHL– Quebec Hockey League Nicholas program and slides of Ukrainian and second top scorer in WHL– Western Hockey League Ukraine. The place: the cathedral ONGOING entire '81 Canada Cup with 8G-3A- hall, 162 W. 82nd St. 11PTS.... Positions Winnipeg: St. volodymyr Museum Wednesday, January 9 of Winnipeg is presenting an exhibit UKRAINIAN UTTERINGS: in GT– goaltender of Ukrainian Church artifacts at the 1980-81, Wayne Babych (Blues) tied for D– defensemen Minneapolis: The Ukrainian Student Ukrainian Cultural and Educational league lead with five game-tying goals; LW– left wing Club at the University of Minnesota Centre, 184 Alexander Ave. E. De– Babych had longest goal-scoring streak, C– center will broadcast a Ukrainian Christ- cember 13 through January 10,1982. getting at least one goal in eight straight RW– right wing mas program on KUOM radio, 770 games and 11 goals in all that time; AM. Among the artifacts exhibited will Bernie Federko (St. Louis) had at least Statistical terms be there sets of bishops' hand-em– one assist in each of 10 straight games, Sunday, January 24 broidered vestments wom by Bishop getting 15 assists in the entire streak; GP– games played Mykyta Budka (1912-27), Archbis– Winnipeg's Dale Hawerchuk, a first G– goals Winnipeg: A concert featuring the hop Basil Ladyka (1929-56) and team All-Star and МУР in the Memorial A– assists Bishop vasyl velychkovsky (1972- Cup (amateur version of Stanley Cup), 540 children in Manitoba's English- PTS– points Ukrainian bilingual program, will 73); bishops' hand-held crosses and followed 1980-81 top selection and РІМ- penalties in minutes various wooden crosses dating back fellow Ukrainian teammate Dave take place at the Manitoba Centen– PP– power play goals nial Centre Concert Hall at 2:30 p.m. to 1803; various Church books some Babych as the NHL's first amateur draft SH– short-handed goals printed in the Pecherska Lavra, Kiev, choice; vancouver's Stan Smyl playing This concert will mark the 90th GW– game-winning goals anniversary of the settlement of the 1738; icons from the end of the 18th out option this season; Pittsburgh MlN– minutes century. surprisingly permitted captain Orest first Ukrainian pioneers in Canada GA– goals against and the 10th anniversary of Canada's Oseredok is opened Tuesday Kindrachuk to sign with Washington as S– shutouts free agent, betting his continuing back policy of multiculturalism. through Saturday 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. problems would curtail his playing time AVG– goals against average -The English-Ukrainian bilingual and Sunday 2-5 p.m: - thus far, Penguins winning that bet, л ; Note: M1N, GA, S and AYG refer to program was introduced into Mani– and Sunday 2 — 5 p.m. goafie's statistics^

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Bishop Tikhon, who later was destined Church. The Orthodox Catholic Mutual Catholic hierarchy in America, with a The Russian... to become the patriarch of Moscow and Society in 1905 increased its branches to bishop elected by the priests and dele- (Continued from page 7) all Russia. 89 brotherhoods and seven sisterhoods, gates of the parishes, directly respon– where the verdict went in favor of the The new bishop was well qualified to consisting of 3,263 members and sible to the pope rather than the Sacred Orthodox faction. work among the Uniates. Bora and possessing 515,025 in funds. A mona– Congregation for the Propagation of New churches, chapels and schools educated in Pskov, upon accepting his stery and orphanage of St. Tikhon in the Faith of the Eastern Church. Also began to be built. The Russian Ortho– monastic vows, Bishop Tikhon became South Canaan, Penn., was established pressed was the creation of a Greek Catholic patriarchate with jurisdiction dox Catholic Mutual Aid Society was inspector in 1892 and later rector of the at Springfield, Mass., and a Theological over bishops in Europe and abroad. founded to assist its members to meet Orthodox seminary in Lublin, the heart Seminary came into operation in Min– Finally, all the decrees of the Sacred funeral expenses and to aid those who of the province of Kholm which had neapolis. Two church papers began to Congregation pertaining to Greek suffered from the misfortunes of acci– been a stronghold of Greek Catholi– circulate among the faithful: Amery– kanskyi Pravoslavnyi viestnik (Ameri– Catholics in America were to be annull– derrts. Other charitable societies and a cism up to 1875, when it was forbidden by the Russian government. can Orthodox Messenger) in Russian ed." children's asylum began to make their and Sviet (Light) in the Ruthenian appearance. His successful work among the Uni– Not surprisingly^ the resolutions were (Ukrainian) language. Towards some of As the number of immigrants steadily ates and Roman Catholics won him the the subject of lively debate in Ukrainian these enterprises the Holy Synod allotted increased, the Church was confronted appointment as bishop of Lublin in newspapers and communities through- funds. with new opportunities and increased 1897 and vicar of the Kholm Eparchy. L out North Ainerica. Nor is it surprising From this position he was called to that the Russian Orthodox mission the number of priests, something that The Holy Synod readily responded to become head of the Russian Church of exploited the situation to full adyan– could not be done by the Uniate Church. the needs of the North American hiera– the North American continent. tage. in response to the crisis the pope The Holy Synod in St. Petersburg began rachy, for it had unbounded faith in sent an apostolic visitor to pacify the to pay increasing attention to the new Under Bishop Tikhon the Russian Bishop Tikhon. in 1900 the title of the situation, but his efforts proved fruit- field. Church made increasing gains among see was, changed to "Aleutia and North the Uniates, thanks to the influence of America" and an assistant bishop was less. The Russian Orthodox Church under Father Toth who became a mitred appointed for Alaska. At the same time The authors of the "Harrisburg Tikhon protopriest (archpriest). The 14 churches the Orthodox movement was put under resolutions" were prepared to take The unexpectedly amazing progress and 6,898 members (4,450 Hungarian the direction of the Orthodox Missio– further steps, if necessary. Anticipating of Russian Orthodoxy among the Ruthenians and 2,448 Galician Ruthe– nary Society of All-Russia, which developments, the president of the Uniates in America moved the Holy nians) in 190012 leaped to 46 churches together with the Holy Synod supplied society began to correspond with the Synod to send an able bishop to this and 19,111 members (11,794 Galicians, extensive funds and priests. Holy Synod in St. Petersburg, if the continent in 1898 in the person of 6,430 Hungarian Ruthenians and 887 in 1902 a fine Russian cathedral was synod would recognize a separate 13 Russians) in 1906. built in New York, which was close to bishop for American Ukrainians (who The greatest advances, it is apparent, the new parishes which were springing would act independently of the Russian "if you don't already know about Kvltka, were made among the Galician Uniates, up in the Atlantic states, particularly in consistory of the Orthodox mission in you owe it lo yourself to get her record." among them several clergymen who the industrial and mining districts of the United States), elected by the clergy -Lew Shandow, AMER1CA could not tolerate the interference and Pennsylvania. When the new cathedral of a "Ukrainian Orthodox Church," the "Ms. Cisyk Ї voice is flawless, full of life and restrictions put on them by the Roman was completed in 1905, Bishop Tikhon dissident Greek Catholics would accept 17 expression. КУІТКА is definitely one of the best Catholic bishops. Bishop Tikhon's transferred his see from San Francisco Orthodoxy. albums out on the Ukranian music market." personal characteristics of sympathy, to New York. The synod, however, rejected this -Teresa Kopanycia. understanding and tact attributed to the challenging offer, fearing the conse– THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY The following year the Russian Holy phenomenal growth of the Church. Synod promoted him to the dignity of quence that such a move might have in in Canada in 1906 the five indepen– archbishop, for which he went to Ukraine, where a similar demand could dent and 19 affiliated parishes were Moscow for the consecration. The be made for a separate church indepen– reported to claim 6,748 parishioners (all archbishop was assisted in the adminis– (ConUnucd on page 13) Galicians and Bukovinians).14 This tration of the North American Eparchy j^mp– presented a new problem to Bishop by a suffragon bishop of Alaska and a 12. Julian Bachynsky, "Ukrainian immi– Tikhon, who made recommendations new bishop of Brooklyn. The hierarchy gration in the U.S.A." (Ukrayinska immi– to the Holy Synod to appoint a separate was fully geared to meet the ever- gratsia v Z.D.A.). Lviv, Galicia, 1914, p. 259. Kvitka Cisyk's stunning album of bishop for Canada, advice which was expanding needs in the United States Ukranian songs is available at rec– soon acted upon. The 23 parochial territories, but was not adequately 13. ibid., p. 279, and U.S. Department of Commerce, Religious Bodies, 1906, p. 259. ord stores and Ukranian gift shops brotherhoods with 1,542 members'5 in prepared to meet the changing condi– 14. 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He was succeeded by his colleague indians), and 10 churches in Canada.34 among the Galicians, Bukovinians and The Russian... Makary who, also being mentally The clergy for the whole eparchy con– Carpatho-Russians (Ruthenians). The deranged, proclaimed himself "arch- sisted of one archbishop, one bishop, short-lived Ukrainian state of 1917- (Continued from pafc 12) patriarch, arch-pope, arch-tsar, arcb– two archimandrites, two archpriests, 20 stirred nationalistic feeling, and dent of the established Russian Ortho– hetman and arch-prince", excommu– two hegumens, 15 monastic priests, 70 many of these people began to assert dox Church. All the negotiations were nicating both the pope and the Russian secular priests, two deacons and 40 themselves as Ukrainians. The flow of conducted in the strictest secrecy. Holy Synod." By that time, there were cantors (diaky). immigration had almost stopped and, As in the United States, the Uniates in very few members of the Church, for the Besides the reorganization of the arch- therefore, the maximum point had been Canada who were preponderantly Gali– bulk of the people followed the inde– diocese, Archbishop Platon has many reached. cian and Bukovinian Ruthenians (U– pendent Greek Church, or the Uniate other achievements to his credit. The The Uniate Church had grown stea– krainians since 1918), were irritated by Church and some joined the Russian Russian Theological Seminary in Min– dily stronger in both countries receiving the interference of the French Roman Orthodox Church under Tikhon. neapolis was enlarged and in 1912 their own bishops, because of the Catholic bishops who insisted on the transferred to Tenafly, N.J., and an or– confusion in the Russian Church, but, incorporation of Uniate parishes under The Russian Orthodox Church's peak phanage for Orthodox children was im– more important still, independent the Roman Catholic charter. The Latin proved. in 1908 he opened a Russian (autocephalous) Churches began to bishops' opposition to married clergy in 1907 Archbishop Tikhon was immigrant Home in New York which emerge, which drew away large numbers and their employment of Belgian and transferred to the archbishopric of came to the assistance of newly arrived of former adherents of Russian Ortho- French priests as missionaries caused Yaroslav, one of the oldest dioceses in settlers. The home was subsidized by the doxy. The Ukrainian Greek Orthodox great resentment. Russia, and his place as head of the Russian government to the extent of Church began in 1918 in Canada and Orthodox priests of the Russian Russian Church in North America was 57,500 annually. He promoted and the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox mission were therefore welcomed, but a taken by Archbishop Platon, whose expanded the work of the Russian Church in the United States was esta– sufficient number was not provided, for administration continued until 1914. Orthodox Catholic Mutual Aid Society, blished in 1920. Even the Carpatho– priests did not care to stay in a country He,too, was a man highly qualified for and encouraged parochial schools and Ruthenians set up an Orthodox Church of cold winters and live under primitive the important position. young people's societies. in the United States, which was opposed conditions of the pioneers who were just Archbishop Platon received his train– He tried to show fairness to various to the Russian Orthodox Church. The - settling the virgin lands of the Canadian ing at the Kiev Theological Seminary ethnic groups that composed the mem– greatest decline occurred in Canada West. and after serving as priest for a short 23 bership of his church. His work and where the 110 parishes existing in 19І6 period was promoted to superinten– Bishop Tikhon, in his tour of western attitude proved to be so popular, that in declined to 28 churches and 15 chapels dency and then to rectorship of the Canada in 1904, set up an administra– spite of strong Uniate activity, the in 1926." ti ve unit under the deaconship of Father Theological Academy of Kiev, in 1902 Russian Orthodox Church surged ahead viewing the three decades (1891- Yaroslav Sichinsky with the seat in he was consecrated bishop and was to reach its peak at the end of World 1918), it is apparent that the Russian Winnipeg. The next year an assistant appointed vicar of the Kievan Diocese, War 1. Orthodox Church displayed marvelous bishop was named for Canada in the the oldest in Russia. He won repute as vitality, having in some ways performed person of Alexander Nemilovsky, but member for the province of Kiev in the a useful function in helping the new he never bothered to come to that Second Duma of 1906, where his ora– When Archbishop Platon was trans– settlers adjust to the strange condi– country. Hence the whole Russian tory won him the sobriquet "the con- ferred to the archdiocese of Kyshyniv tions of their newly adopted land, Orthodox movement was very loosely science of the Duma." This wide experi– (capital of Bessarabia) in 1914, his particularly in the United States, where organized, but nevertheless the Church ence in human relations served him well successor Archbishop Evdokim took lay organizations were established. steadily ijrew. in North America. charge of an expanded and progressive eparchy. From 1909 to 1916 the number The lack of efficient administration in Upon his arrival, Archbishop Platon of churches and priests increased more it is also obvious that the Church, the Russian Church and the weak state was confronted with a reorganized and than threefold, in 1916 the hierarchy similar to the parent Church in the of the Uniate Church in Canada gave revitalized Greek Catholic Church. The consisted of one archbishop, two co– tsarist Russian empire, was a political the opportunity for the establishment of continual loss of Uniates to the Russian adjutor bishops, three bishops, three instrument, carrying out the policies of another type of Russian Orthodoxy. Church led the pope to appoint a archimandrites, five archpriests, 243 the Russian government, particularly in Stefan Ustvolsky, a former Russian separate bishop for the Greek Catholics priests, 43 hieromonks, three archdea– promoting the Russification of non- priest who had been excommunicated in the United States. Bishop Soter cons and two deacons.23 The 164 church Russian Slavs, in this respect it was by the Holy Synod in Russia, and then Ortynsky arrived in 1907 and organized buildings were valued at 52,137,713. The successful, as the preponderant majo– was consecrated bishop at Mount the bitter struggle with the Orthodox. 126 parochial schools contained 6,903 rity of its adherents were of non- Athos by the patriarch of Constanti– He stiffened the resistance of the Uniates children and the 135 young people's Russian origin and continued to remain nople came to America in 1902 where he to the approaches of the Russian clergy- societies claimed 8,284 members. so after the Bolshevik Revolution, when proclaimed himself Metropolitan Sera– men by providing for more priests, the parent Church in Russia was phim. better organization and a diocesan The Mutual Aid Society expanded to drastically weakened and lost its juris– Finding strong opposition in New organ. 217 brotherhoods and 17 sisterhoods dictioh and contacts in North America. York, he proceeded to Canada in 1903, Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky with 8,719 members and a fund of where as yet there was no Greek Catho– made a tour of Canada and some of the 5164,918. The Church reached a record lic or Orthodox bishop, in Winnipeg he leading centers in the United States in number of members, 99,681. Thereafter 18. Father R.Chomiak "An Outline of the set up the All-Russian Orthodox 1910 and assured his faithful of his statistics reveal a gradual decline to Activities of the Redemptorist Fathers" in Patriarch's Cathedral, popularly assistance and more priests. A separate 95,134 in 1926 and 89,510 in 1936, "The Commemorative Book of the Settle– known as the Seraphimite Church bishop, Nicetas Budka, was provided although the number of parishes in- ments of the Ukrainian People in Canada," and titled himself "Seraphim, bishop for Canada in 1911, and he was respon– creased to 194 and 218, respectively. p. 30. and metropolitan of the Orthodox for sible not to the Latin hierarchy but 19. Father P. Bozyk, "Ukrainian Church the whole of America." About 50 priests directly to the pope. Church property The gradual decline in the number of in Canada"(Tserkov Ukrayintsiv v Kanadi) were consecrated by him and sent out to was incorporated under a separate faithful in the Russian Orthodox pp. 23-55. The author was a former arch- priest in the Russian Orthodox Church. the scattered settlements of Slavs, charter free from Roman Catholic Church after 1918 can be attributed to many factors. The triumph of Bolshe– 20. Andrew J. Shipman, "Greek Ortho– mostly Ruthenian-Ukrainians. his domination. The Greek Catholic hierar– dox Church in America" in Catholic Ency– claimed that in 1905 the Seraphimite chies in both countries were streng– vism in Russia created confusion among clopedia (1909). Уоі. vi., pp. 772-773. Church comprised about 60,000 com– thened. These measures won back the Russians also in North America and cut 21. ibid. municants.18 confidence of large numbers of Uniates off the appropriations of the Russian 22. Religious Bodies, 1916, p. 259. and made conversions to Russian government. National consciousness 23. ibid. Seraphim and his priests denounced increasingly began to manifest itself the Russian Church under the Holy Orthodoxy much more difficult. 24. P.G. Kohanik, op. cit., p. 47. Synod. When it became evident that in order to improve the efficiency of Seraphim was subject to spells of the Orthodox hierarchy and to main- insanity, as shown by his construction tain the aggressive spirit of Orthodoxy, of a scrap-iron cathedral and his indis– Archbishop Platon instituted several TO THE WEEKLY CONTR1BUTORS: criminate "sprinkling" of priests, his important changes, in 1908 he divided movement rapidly.deteriorated. the United States and Canada into six We greatly appreciate the materials — feature artidet, news stories, press The wiser of his priests, led by Father great deaneries (blagochinnia): New clippings, letters to the editor, and the like — we receive from our readers. John Bodrug, took advantage of Sera– York, Pennsylvania,, Pittsburgh, the lrt order to facilitate preparation of The Ukrainian Weekly, we ask that the phim's absence, who went to Russia to western states, Alaska and Canada. guidelines listed below be followed. fall into the good graces of the Holy Each deanery consisted of 10 to 20 О News stories should be sent in not later than 10 days after the occurrence of a Synod in І904, made a secret agree– parishes, with an assisting bishop in given event. ment with the Presbyterian Church of charge, in 1909 an elaborate constitu– О information about upcoming events must be received by noon of the Monday Canada, which subsequently subsidized tion was adopted. This "Normalny before the date of The Weekly edition in which the information is to be published. 30 of Seraphim's priests. This body Ustav" comprised 64 paragraphs, defin– О All materials must be typed and double spaced. broke away from Seraphim and called ing the rights of the clergy, laity and the О Newspaper and magazine clippings must be accompanied by the name of itself the "independent Greek Church" parishes. Thus, local canon law was the publication and the date of the edition. which used the Slavic rite but ex- created for North America, subject to О Photographs submitted for publication must be black arid white (or color with pounded Protestantism. the Holy Synod. - good contrast). They will be returned only when so requested and accompanied Seraphim's return from Russia in Statistics for 1909 reveal that the by a stamped, addressed envelope. 1905 brought with it the excommunica–. 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Seraphim left Canada for Russia in in Alaska with 7,706 members (3,666 -Editor 1908. - - -. -– :-.-.-- - -: Eskimoes, 2,149 Aleutians, and 1,891 14 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, DECEMBER 20, i98i No. 51 UFA sponsors Ukrainian courses SCRANTON, Pa. - The Ukrainian nian language together with an intro– NOTICE Fraternal Association will sponsor duction into the history, literature, To Secretaries and Organizers Ukrainian language classes during the culture, customs and folklore of U– spring 1982 semester. kraine. For details, please call the Office Of the UNA Prof. Nicholas Martynuk will again of Continuing Education at Wilkes conduct language classes at the UFA College at (717) 824-4651. The 1981 Membership Campaign ends Decem– Center in Scranton, and he is currently Ukrainian folk dance classes will be ber 31, 1981 therefore we will accept applications of new accepting registration. 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New releases Ukrainian institute of America. The Alexander, 16, and a partner, and keeps Panorama. outing began with an informal recep– up with her professional career by (Continued from page 9) "Cisyk's silky, emotional voice, some– tion at the institute at Fifth Avenue and singing at weddings and parties. "Koliada" album what akin to Melissa Manchester's, is 79th Street which was resumed during Canadian-born tenor Edward Evanko, just right for the number's torchy intermission in the Metropolitan Opera who makes New York his home base, by Kameniari punchline." Club, open that evening exclusively for and his bandura accompanist, Petro The late Sonia Delaunay, whose institute members and guests. Mr. Kosyk, made a guest appearance in work is included in the exhibition of Dobriansky, whose recent activities Windsor, Ont., at a concert celebrating DETROlT - A new Christmas included judging contestants at the Miss the 90th anniversary of Ukrainian album, "Koliada," by the Detroit-based choice Dada works at La Boetie gallery, running through January, is not the Soyuzivka weekend and at the Ukrai– settlement in Canada. The event'was Kameniari ensemble has recently been nian Press Ball in Philadelphia, gave a held in Geary Auditorium on Decem– released and includes a narrative greet– only Ukrainian-born or Ukrainian- educated artist represented by La recital at Chicago's Ukrainian institute ber 5. By invitation of Canada's Gover– ing written for the album by Bohdan of Modern Art on November 21. He has nor-Geheral, Edward Schreyer, Mr. Nyzhankivskyj-Babaj and a selection of Boetie. The gallery also shows work by viadimir Tatlin, Kasimir Malevich, been busy of late coordinating plans for Evanko will be featured with a group of Ukrainian Christmas carols and shche– the premiere presentation in the Ukrai– Canadian singers, actors and ballet drivky. Alexandra Exter (who studied at the Kiev Academy of Fine Arts and taught nian Composers Series in New York dancers in a CBC-Tv special "Christ- The album is the first recording for in Odessa from 1917 to 1924), Kiev- and teaching new scores to the choir of mas at Rideau Hall" at 9 p.m. on the Kameniari, which consists of Ro– born Louise Nevelson, widely recog– St. George's Ukrainian Catholic December 24. Mr. Evanko will sing man Skypakewych, musical director nized as one of America's leading Church. "Wunderbar," Cesar Franck's "Panis (violin, guitar, mandolin, bandura, contemporary sculptors, and Rhys Mykhailo Dobriansky of London, Angelicus" and, in Ukrainian, "Zadz– viola), Andrij Stasiw (piano, synthe– Caparn, who studied with Alexander England, a long-time editor of the vonyly Dzvony" (The Bells Rang Out). sizer, Arp Omni 11), Yurij Stasiw Archipenko. Ukrainian section of Radio Liberty, That same day he will be heard on the (guitar, piano, organ, synthesizer, Arp discussed Kievan Rus' and the contem– CBC-Radio Morningside show, hosted Omni 11), Myron Skorupa Jr. (bass, Exter, Tatlin and Malevich works are by Don Harron, singing Schubert's included in the Guggenheim Museum's porary problems of the Ukrainian guitar) and– Taras Skorupa (percussion, people at the Plast Center on November "Ave Maria". guitar, glockenspiel). current exhibit of selections from the George Costakis collection "Art of the 21. His address was sponsored by the According to a press release, the Avant-Garde in Russia," through Ja– Ukrainian Democratic Movement. instrumental album offers selections of The early stages of development of This Christmas l^lEty nuary 3. І should note here that my give a very special familiar carols and melodies integrated reference to the Kiev origin of El Kievan Rus' were traced in an address with contemporary instruments and Lissitzky (Lazar Markovich Lisitsky) in given on December 13 by Oleksander Ukrainian Christmas gift! unusual percussion effects. the November 29 Panorama column Dombrowsky, a member of the Ukrai– The albums are marketed by the was not correct. The reference should nian Academy of Arts and Sciences in Kameniari Ensemble, P.O. Box 184, have been applied to Malevich. the United States. The lecture, held at Detroit, Mich. 48212, and cost S7 the academy's headquarters on West Ukrainian for beginners, taught by each. 100th Street, was co-sponsored by the Zirka Derlycia on Thursday evenings at academy and the Ukrainian Historical New York University (Washington Society. Square campus), will continue during Lenten music the spring session. The November 24 issue of The News interviewer becomes interviewee: World, a Queens weekly, ran a profile of by seminarians itaor Dlaboha, an assistant editor of Halyna Dorsey, who was burn in U– "Knitting Times," was stopped at kraine, raised in Paris and is presently STAMFORD, Conn. - A album Grand Central Station a few weeks ago earning her Ph.D at CUNY while titled "Music of the Great Fast and by one of ABC-Tv's roving reporters teaching theater at Queens College. Passion Week" by the 34-member choir with the question, "Did you notice the Mrs. Dorsey, known professionally as SVIATO RIZDVA Halyna Harcourt, started her theatrical of St. Basil's College Seminary, an white paint on the 1RT No. 7 trains?" UKRAINIAN CHRISTMAS offering of congregationally sung tonal Replied Mr. Dlaboha, "Yes, 1 did, but І career at the age of 5 and appeared on music (Galician Chant) of liturgical think the money would be better spent Broadway in a George Abbott-Hal An original collection services used by the Ukrainian Catholic on improving the service." Prince production at 20. A resident of of Shchedriwky ft Koliady. New York since 1959, she runs the Tip Church during the Lenten season, has Bass-baritone Andriy Dobriansky, Top consignment store at 29-21 21st Complete with recently been released, reported The performing at the Metropolitan Opera Ave. in Astoria with the help of her son "A Ukrainian Christmas Story" Way, a Ukrainian Catholic weekly. in "Gianni Schicci," one of the three Joseph Roll directed the seminary one-act operas that make up Puccini's NOW AvAlLABLE at all Ukrainian gift choir and Comrie Watt recorded and "H Trittico" (The Triptych), made a . shops S record stores. edited the choir earlier this year. handsome picture as the notary Ser Share Look for it todayl The album may be purchased by Amantio during November's "Live Or call or write to: sending S6 plus postage and packaging from the Met" telecast. His December 5 YEVSHAN RECORDS to The College Book Store, І 95 Glen- performance was roundly cheered by 3207 Beaubien E. brook Road, Stamford, Conn. 06902. Ukrainian music lovers who filled an The Weekly Montreal, Qua., Canada H1Y 1H6 There is a discount with the purchase of entire block of seats at the Met for "A Tel.: 514-725-6954, 727-6847 10 or more albums. Night at the Opera" arranged by the Mail orders accepted. Send S8.98 (record with a friend or tape (s) includes postage) While it may have been solicitous East European... during Carter's regime to denounce the (Continued from page 4) previous presidents and their adminis– where such testimony has been clearly trations as "McCarthyite," we believe erroneous, such as in the case of United that such viewpoints are improper at the States v. Frank Walus, for example. present time. President Reagan has We feel that the entire procedure for expressed his views on communism and obtaining and presenting such evidence the Soviets very strongly. There may be needs to be re-examined. some value in being an anti-Communist after all. The political nature of the proceedings Aside from the ethical and political and the use of the news media questions raised, there is the concern as in the last year or two, rather exten– to the possible effect such a media sive use has been made of television and campaign has had on worsening the newspapers by the officials of your relations between the Jewish and other department in promoting the hunt for East European communities in the "war criminals." For example, the U.S.A. There have been demonstra– following statement was attributed by tions, threats and actual violence against The New York Times (February 6, those accused by the Justice Depart– 1980) to the director, of the OS1, Mr. ment. in the final analysis, this situa– НАЙНОВІШЕ^CONTEMPORARY Allan A. Ryan, Jr. - tion can only benefit the Soviets and, in LB "Back in the early 50s and mid-50s, fact, may be one of their aims. ВИДАННЯ Х^г ^TTNEW A UM when this work really should have been in summary, while we concur with done rather than in 1980, McCarthyism the prosecution of those who can be п^и-кд lJ'lAfoMfawA M UKRftlNlAN „ rNGL1SH .was at its height, 'anti-Communism' was proven under United States law to have І -""^""^ І і DYNflMif f ПРІГ.ШДІ at its height, and most of these people actually committed war crimes, there were anti-Communists. There was a are issues involved which we believe to tendency to measure their worth as be valid concerns not only to the U.S. citizens on the basis of their anti- citizens of East European origin, but to дрдс шиповик СПІВАЄ communism rather than on what they everyone concerned with the integrity of had done during the Holocaust." the American legal system. Therefore, CASSETTE TAPES NOW AvAlLABLE Similar statements by Mr. Ryan have we would appreciate an opportunity to appeared, elsewhere. .– . meet with you to discuss these issues. 16^^^^^THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, DECEMBER 20, i98i ^^ No. 51

continue to do so for all their days, for these men and women of whom we communityy parish unit united by true On The Weekly's... the road is endless and room for growth speak. But copying their work is neither prayer, asking for God's Love! (Continued from page 6) is limitless. the way nor the answer. That is superfi– For example, let us listen to what is So, they fasted and prayed. But most cial. We each have our own road of of all they surrendered to God, totally growth to follow, it will be shown to us, 1 . "The Kiev Caves Paterikon," tran– written in the Paterikon of the Kievo– slated by the Rev. Lev Puhalo and vasili Pecherska Lavra about an icon painter denouncing the self , the ego. Ex– just as it was shown to our ancestors. treme humility! They became one with The question is will we be pure enough Novakshonoff (Synaxis Press, Chilliwack, of pur past. Listen: "Our holy Father B.C. Alipy of the Caves was an imitator of the Lord! They became beacons of love, to see, or will we be too busy doing our own thing. 2 Fr. Lev Gillet, "in Thy Presence" (St. the Divine Evangelist Luke. This holy cradles of peace, indeed they were light viadimir's Seminary Press, Crestwood, man wondrously depicted the faces of and stillness in a world not different Much energy has been and is being N.Y.). saints on icons. At the same time his from the one that we know, one of spent (as was already mentioned in soul radiated many virtues and he was a turmoil and chaos. some of the articles in the series) in a Mr. Maday, 28, a native Philadel– wonder-working physician..the monk Their work reflects their enlighten– frantic attempt to search out our roots phian attended the Pennsylvania Aca– mastered iconography not for the sake ment totally. They were God-filled, and and to do justice to our past, to our demy of the Fine Arts on a full scholar- of gain but as a struggle of virtue and, their work is as beautiful as they were, it history, it has gotten us pretty much ship. He was a member of the Studite because of this, by God's grace he was was their prayer in the true sense of the nowhere. We stand in place, not know– monastic community. Mr. Maday stu– able to depict the images of the saints' word. ing whether to go forward, left or right, died traditional iconography with Hiero– virtues on their icons." ' There still are a few such people or perhaps in reverse, in all this confu– monk Juvenali in 1979-81. He spent two around today whose work is filled with sion one cannot help but ask the same Believing in God and "attending" summer semesters at St. Clement Uni– "high energy." This "high energy" has question as before: "Where does God fit church is not enough. These artists and versity in Rome, in 1977 he was guest nothing to do with "scream." Nor does in?" architects knew this. They also knew lecturer in graphics at Western Mary- it have anything to do with size or that they were not the creators of the Well, He has to fit in! Building for His land College in Westminster, and in "glitter." it is rather an "understate– beautiful temples of the Lord. God was glory is not enough. One must also build 1978 he spent two months in ment," from which love and peace the creator! They were only the medium in His image, for without it our work (in residence at Manor Junior College continually seep and envelope all. Their through which God worked. They were this case, the churches and icons) will be during which time he worked on an work radiates God because they them– aware of this. They knew that without empty, shallow and devoid of life and album of drawings which was published selves radiate Him! God they were nothing, that their work love. Without His image we will have as "Manor Journal." without Him was futile. They knew that What could be many "holy pictures" in our churches, Mr. Maday, recipient of 12 awards in order that they may be a true medium but will they be icons? including The Lewis Comfort Tiffany thev had to fine-tune themselves and There is much to be learned from in building a church we are building a Foundation Grant, has had 19 one-man house of prayer. Should it not be shows and over 66 group shows in the approached in a prayerful manner? United States and Canada. His work How do we begin? may be found in 18 permanent as well as Well, let's approach it as numerous private collections in the s a community. One idea comes to United States, Canada and Europe. HOLIDAY SEASON AT SOYUZIVKA І mind. Might not a priest and his congre– Mr. Maday has recently completed gation pray for and with the architect designs for three book covers for the Thursday, December 24, 1981 and^or artist working on their church, Paulist Press. This past summer he ask that God's holy wisdom be sent worked on paintings for St. Joseph's HOLY SUPPER down through these individuals, imagine Church in Chicago (architect: Zenon including the traditional 12 courses what energy could be generated by a Mazurkevich). of the Ukrainian Christmas meal. During and after Supper–Caroling s Before our profession of faith in "Let us love..." each liturgy, we hear the call of the Thursday, December 31, 1981 (Continued from page 1) priest: "Let us love one another!" the majesty of God's glory, in the With these words we, your bishops, NEW YEAR'S EvE a New Testament, God appears to us turn to you imploring you for the WITH THE SPECIAL PROGRAM as a helpless infant that we may not love of Christ: "Let us love one be afraid of Him. For what can be another." NEW YEAR'S ЕУЕ SUPPER more pleasing than a child? God says Heaven is the place of eternal love. by reservations only. to us, "Come to me, all of you." We are all called to heaven, for DANCE to the tunes of SOYUZivKA (Matt. 11:28) 1 am your Redeemer, Christ, our Savior, has prepared a ORCHESTRA your Brother. "1 came to console you place for us. (John 14:3) With cer– І and to save all of you." The mystery tainty, we shall all be lifted to the Wednesday, January 6, 1982 of Bethlehem echoes the words of kingdom of eternal love if we live on scripture to us, "And God so loved earth in peace and with love for our CHRISTMAS SUPPER the world." (John 3:16) neighbor. CHRISTMAS SPIRIT and CAROLS This mystery simultaneously Our Ukrainian poet beautifully e This is the ideal way to give the prompts us to love. "What 1 just did expresses the following: housewives a Christmas treat! was to give you an' example: as І "Be crystal if you are a stone, і have done, so you must do." (John Be a violet if you are a plant, 13:15) We are obliged to exemplify A nightingale if a bird, Christ's love toward our neighbors. And love if you are a person." "This is my commandment, that you Our Christmas wish for you this love one another as 1 have loved year is that the Divine Child may you." (John 15:12) Without love for strengthen this holy love in your our neighbor, a Christian cannot call hearts that you may dwell in this love himself a follower of Christ. Love is forever. the legitimate sign of a Christian, in And to our dear ones in captive former times, there were no pass- Ukraine we send our sincerest wishes ports, no printed identification that the Eternal God of love would papers; early Christians had the most put an end to the Communist 1 beautiful identification for them– tyranny of hatred and that our СОЮЗІВКА SOYUZIVKA selves — mutual love! The pagans, Різдвяне Меню Christmas Dinner looking at the ideal behavior of the people may glorify the newly born King of Peace and Love with a free 1. Prosphora first Christians, especially their love 1. Просфора heart and love. We submit this 2. Борщ з вушками 2. Borshch with dumplings of neighbor, said in astonishment, 3. Картопляники з грибовим сосом 3. Kartoplyanyky with mushroom sauce "Look how they love one another." intention to the Savior of the World 4. Варений короп в галяреті 4. Boiled carp in gelatin The Roman consul, Pliny the Youn– with our fervent prayers. 5. Голубці з грибами 5. Holubtsi with mushrooms The grace Of our Lord Jesus Christ, 6. Вареники з картоплею 6. varenyky with potatoes ger, in his letter to the Emperor 7. Вареники з капустою 7. varenyky with cabbage Trajan expressed the greatest praise the love of God the Father and the 8. Галушки зі сливами 8. Prune dumplings of the evangelical love of the Chris– unity of the Holy Spirit be with all of 9. Смажена риба з хріновим сосом 9. Filet of sole with horseradish sauce tians in the Asia Minor province. you! 10. Яблушний пиріг 10. Apple strudel Christ is born! 11. Компот з овочів 11. Fruit compote Christ, our Redeemer, clearly stated, 12. Кутя з медом і маком 12. Kutya (whole wheat with honey and "By this shall all men know that you Given this eighth day of December poppy-seeds) агечту disciples, by the love you have in the year of our Lord, nineteen Чай - Кава Coffe - Tea for one another." (Jn 13:35) And so hundred eighty-one. on this great feast of God's love let us Stephen search our souls to examine whether Archbishop-Metropolitan, Philadelphia g UKRAINIAN NA TIONAL ASSOCIA TION ESTA ТЕ we truly love our neighbor, is this Basil yjl Kerhonkson, N.Y. m Tel.: (914) 626-5641 Christian sign, our love, in our Bishop of Stamford families, our organizations, among our people? Does the Child of Beth– innocent ^ No Place Like Soyuzivka at Christmas Holidays ^ lehem see in us a true evangelical Bishop of Chicago love? Robert fes^^s^a^^w^ssi^s^Si^s^ai^Ki^s^s^^ Auxiliary Bishop, Philadelphia