m^^^^m^ PK LXXXHI SECTION TWO No. 77 SVOBODA, THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY, SATURDAY, APRIL 24, me LfJEHTTB 25 CENTS H. 77 VOL. Lxxxm Christ is Risen! ^^s: Archpastoral Easter Message Catholic Hierarchs Set of the 'Day of Prayer' Tomorrow Council of Bishops of the Ukrainian PHILADELPHIA, PO.-TU Church in GaUcia and m Car- Autocephalous Orthodox Church hierarchy of the Ukrainian patho-Ukraine," said the letter, Respected and Beloved Bro- miracle gives strength to those Catholic Church in the U.S., in "pe, the Ukrainian Catholic thers and Sisters: incarcerated in Soviet prisons a special letter to the clergy hiearchs m the United States, "Christ has risen from the and concentration camps, to and faithful commemorating set Sunday, April 25, as a Day dead... even so in Christ shall all sing during Easter night: the 30th anniversary since the of Prayer for our martyrs, for be made alive" (1 Cor. 15:20,22) "today is salvation come into liquidation of the Church m those who were tortured to With these words, at the the world for Christ has Risen western Ukraine, set Sunday, death but not defeated because outset of Christianity, the as Almighty" and: "from death April 25, as a "Day of Prayer" they did not abandon their Holy Apostle affirmed a new hope unto life and from earth unto for all those who suffered in the Catholic Faith; for those who for mankind - enduring m a heaven Christ our Lord, our past and continue to suffer today are suffering in prisons new plane-in Christ. His Passover." We have much tes- today "for the Holy Catholic and concentration camps." r i assertion is encouraging to us timony of their Easter nights- Faith." The letter was signed by even today, but is more encour- news from beyond barbed The document dated April Archbishop-Metropolitan Am- aging to us even today, but is wires, letter, and conversations 11, 1976, notes that Sunday, brose Senyshyn, Bishop Joseph more encouraging for the ex- with those who have been April 25, is Easter Sunday Schmondiuk of the Stamford hausted who live in the long- fortunate enough to gam free- according to the Julian calen- Eparchy, Bishop Jaroslav Ga- suffering land of Ukraine. dom. dar. bro of the St. Nicholas Eparchy it was more than fifty years At this time, let us look into "in commemorating the 30th in Chicago, and Auxiliary ago that in this land they began ourselves and we will see how, anniversary of the martyrdom Bishop and vicar-General Basil to muffle the joyous Easter because we are comforted m of the Ukrainian Catholic H. Losten. bells. The bell-ringers- along the freedom and the prosperous with their Pastors, Archpas- hospitality of other countries, tors and millions of faithful - we are imperceptibly losing the perished in the hideous camps joy of the Resurrection and Kalynets Transferred of Moscow's north. Bells have along with this- Christian love. been destroyed in churches, . Therefore, during the most To Lviv Prison where the Resurrected One majestic moments of our Holy NEW YORK, N.Y.-Dissi- was once glorified, ant-reli- Day, when the bells of the dent sources in Ukraine report gious films are shown and churches of our homeland are that last February Ukrainian during Easter midnight the muffled, but the bells of the poet ihor Kalynets was trans- windows of Sancturies are not hearts of our great people ring ferred from his cell in the Perm sparkling with lights, if it were out-let us also try to be region concentration camp to a not for the witness, from the inspired with the strength of prison in Lviv, according to the past, of the Apostles, of the these hearts. press service of the Ukrainian actual miraculous Resurrection Today, the Church calls to us Supreme Liberation Council and the assurance that "in with these words of the Apos- (abroad). Christ shall all be made alive," tles: "we cannot but speak the The reason for Kalynets' hopelessmess would destroy things we have seen and heard" move is not known, but the the souls. )Acts 4:20), that is to say, that KGB is known to occasionally Profound perception of this (Continued on page 4) take political prisoners to Lviv, Kiev or other cities for inten- sive interrogations or harass- ment. in January 1975, ivan Svit- vatican Suspends Three lychny, vyacheslav Chornovfl, ihor Kalynets ivan Hel and Mykhaylo Osad- chy were taken to Lviv and She is serving her sentence Married Ukrainian Priests Kiev for questioning. They in a Mordovian camp. TORONTO, Ont.-Three Soon afterward, reported the were returned to their camps in A writer by profession, Mrs. married Ukrainian Catholic RNS. Archbishop Guido Del early spring. Kalynets taught in schools and priests have been suspended Mestri, then apostolic pronun- Ukrainian dissident sources also lectured at the Lviv Poly- from their duties by the v"ati- cio to Canada, asked that the feel that the KGB hopes to technical institute. She wrote can because of their marital three priests not excercise extract recantations from Uk- many poems for youth and status, and one priest in the their ministry publicly because rainian political prisoners by children, but her works were Toronto Ukrainian Catholic the vatican did not approve the the harass merits. also banned after she became Eparchy said that faithful there ordination. Kalynets, 37, was arrested involved with the cultural re- are on the "verge of revolt" as a Last March, Bishop Borecky during the infamous dragnet of vival in Ukraine. result of the ruling, reported received a letter from Arch- January 1972 and sentenced to The couple's 14-year-old the Religious News Service. bishop Angelo Palmas, the nine years incarceration and daughter, Dzvinka, lives with The three priests. Revs. current pronuncio, confirming three years exile. her grandparents. First Ukrainian Elected to NCW Ukrainian Scholars Take Tares Lozynsky, John Girhiny the priests' suspension and in 1961, Kalynets graduated The press service also re- and Andrew Kormaniak, were requesting that he wait for the from the Lviv State University ports that Ukrainian poet vasyl NEW YORK, N.Y.-Mrs. Part in Linguistic Parley ordained last September by vatican's final decision. with a degree in philology and Stus was moved to Leningrad Carnille Huk-Smorodsky, a Uk- Auxiliary Bishop Michael Rus- Bishop Borecky reportedly worked at the Regional State early this year to undergo a rainian woman activist of the NEW YORK, N.Y.-Four Prof. Gromada and Miss Jane nak of the Toronto Eparchy indicated that he did not intend archives in Lviv. stomach surgery. younger generation, became Ukrainian scholars took an Kedron were in charge of a with the permission of Bishop to honor the suspensions, and His poetry was termed "out- His five-year sentence at the the first Ukrainian woman to be active part in the annual north- Polish book and newspaper is id ore Borecky and have been held several talks with Latin standing, bright, original," "but Perm concentration camp ter- elected to the executive board east conference on the teaching iContinuedonpaget) serving in the diocese. lContmued on page 4) Kalynets fell into digrace with minates in 1977, but it is of the National Council of of foreign languages held here the officials after being con- followed by three years of Women of the United States. March 25-27 at the New York nected with the intellectuals exile. She was chosen to the post of Hilton Hotel. The theme of the arrested in Ukraine in 1965-66. The press service also learn- secretary at the organization's session, attended by several His works were never again ed that living conditions of annual meeting held Wednes- thousand teachers and univer- Nowytski's 'Pysanka' Film Wins Award published in Ukraine. political prisoners are becoming day, April 14. sity professors, was "Language Kalynets' wife, iryna Staaiv, unbearable. Elected president was Mrs. and Culture: Heritage and MINNEAPOLIS, Minn.- was arrested at the same time Camp officials have increased Hope Skillman Senary. Other Horizons.'' Slavko Nowytaki, director-pro- her husband was. She received work quotas and have curtailed officers are: Joan Hogan, first On Friday, March 28, there ducer of "Pysanka: the Ukrain- six years in a general regime the number of letters sent to or vice-president, Nancy Barker, was a workshop dealing with ian Easter Egg" has won the labor camp and three years received from relatives and second vice-president, Betti Slavic Ethnicity Studies at the "Golden Eagle" award from the exile. friends. Salzman, third vice-president, Camffle Huk-Smorodsky American universities. Chair- Council on international Non- man and organizer of this panel theatrical Events (C1NE) in Ruth v"an Doren, fourth vice- was Prof. Myroslava Znayenko Washington, D.C. ' president, Daisy George, of Rutgers University in A jury of specialists made the Chlrovsky's Translations of Symonenko's treasurer. Newark. recommendation for the award The Ukrainian National Wo- Panel members were: Profs. to the board of directors of Works Published by Svoboda Press men's League of America has Peter Goy, City College of New C1NE. AS the national final enjoyed membership in NCW York: Olha della Cava, Center screening committee, they JERSEY CTTY, N.J.- The "writers of the sixties,'' Symo- since 1952 and its presidents for immigration Studies; La- select the motion pictures that works of vasyl Symonenko in nenko is called by the transla- have served as members of the riasa Onyshkevych, Rutgers will represent the United Ukrainian and translated into tor "the father of national national board. For its mem- University in New Brunswick; States in international competi- English by Andrew Chirovksy, re-awakening in Ukraine." bership of autonomous organi- Thaddeus Gromada, Jersey tion abroad.