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The visit of Cardinal Leonardo Sandri to Ukraine has finished
17-07-2008
16.07, [09:08] // Press-releases // UGCC News
"Ukraine has a great future. It is a country rich in natural resources, but your greatest riches are people, the faithful of your Church. The meetings which I had with seminarians, monks and nuns, youth, priests, bishops, and laypeople enable me to confirm that the members of your Church are full of life, and a spirit of openness and enthusiasm is characteristic of them." So Cardinal Leonardo Sandri, Prefect of the Congregation for the Oriental Churches, said during a briefing for the mass-media at the completion of his visit to Ukraine.
July 15 was the last day of the visit of Cardinal Sandri. On that day he visited the construction site where the future Patriarchal Center of the UGCC in Kyiv is being built. Here the already completed work was presented to him and information about future plans was given. "I see that your Church is growing, as this wonderful cathedral is growing here on the left bank of the Dnipro. You are taking important steps which will serve you in the future," Cardinal Sandri said consequently, summing up what he had seen.
Then a briefing for journalists took place, and right after this in the suburban residence of the Head of the UGCC a farewell lunch was held. In memory of the visit to Ukraine, His Beatitude Lubomyr gave the guest a panagia [pectoral icon of Mary], a sign of hierarchical dignity in the Eastern Church.
The visit of Cardinal Sandri to Ukraine began on July 10. During his six-day stay in our country, in Lviv he met with seminarians of five seminaries of the UGCC in Ukraine and students and teachers of the Ukrainian Catholic University. In addition, he celebrated Liturgy in the Lviv Cathedral Church of the Roman Catholic Church in Ukraine. At the Holy Dormition Lavra [Major Monastery] of Univ (Lviv Region), the Prefect of the Congregation for the Oriental Churches met with members of monastic congregations and orders of the UGCC. In Zarvanytsya (Ternopil' Region) he took part in the all-Ukrainian pilgrimage to the miraculous icon of the Most Holy Mother of God. There Cardinal Sandri met with youth and priests. In Kyiv he met with the state authorities, visited Metropolitan Volodymyr (Sabodan), Head of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, and met with the intelligentsia.
"This journey strengthened me in the faith," Cardinal Leonardo Sandri said at the completion of his stay in Ukraine.
