Klara Gudzyk

* Women, not men, discovered that Jesus’ grave was empty and that only the shroud was left By Klara Gudzyk, The Day The Eastern Orthodox, Old Believers, and Greek Catholic adherents in Ukraine celebrate All Penitents’ Day on the third Sunday after Easter, which is May 3 this year....

By Klara Gudzyk, The Day Important issues were discussed, including the possibility of uniting the Orthodox churches and the role of the press in promoting the spirituality of Ukrainian society. One of the actions was a round table organized by the Spiritual Unity Foundation and the other...

80 years ago, Vasily Rozanov, a prominent Russian philosopher, composed his swan song, a short essay called “The Apocalypse of Our Time,” committing to paper what would be branded as “heretic and barbarian” views on the historic role of Christianity, mainly its impact on Russia. Perhaps no one...

What many well-wishers and critics did not believe until the last minute ended up happening: Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople came to ancient Kyiv. He arrived on a Ukraine International Airlines flight and was met according to the protocol established for the visit of the late Pope John...

THE 900TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE BAPTISM OF RUS’ IN 1888 In 1888 tsarist Russia celebrated — for the first time on such a scale — the 900th anniversary of the baptism of Kyivan Rus’ and honored the memory of Prince St. Volodymyr. Oddly enough, until that year The Day to honor the Rus’ enlightener — the...

Last week a despicable incident, taken straight from the “finer” pages of the history of the Soviet era, took place in Kharkiv. A group of so-called communists smashed the plaque commemorating Josyf Cardinal Slipyj, which was hung on a building at 5 Malynovsky Street. Slipyj was the patriarch of...

Last Thursday the launch of a new collection of poems by the well-known Ukrainian writer and poetess Natalia Dziubenko-Mace took place at the House of Writers. Her new book, The Day of the Cold Sun , is dedicated to her late husband James Mace, the prominent Holodomor scholar, who died a few years...

At his residence in Kyiv Filaret, the Patriarch of Kyiv and All Rus’- Ukraine, met the delegation of the Constantinople-based Ecumenical Patriarchate, among whose members were Metropolitan Emmanuel of France; Secretary-General of the Ecumenical Patriarchate’s Synod, Archimandrite Elpidophoros, and...

Eight years ago a considerable proportion of the world’s population celebrated the 2,000th anniversary of Christ’s birth. During these last two millennia Christianity has changed in many respects, particularly the image of Jesus Christ. For a long time the early Christians, who were mostly subjects...

President Viktor Yushchenko of Ukraine met with Alexei II, the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia, in the Danilov Monastery in Moscow. The head of the Ukrainian state was accompanied by Ukraine’s Ambassador to Russia Oleh Diomin, the deputy head of Presidential Secretariat Oleksandr Chaly, and...