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Fr. Archimandrite Roman Pietka MIC send a letter of resignation to Cardinal Glemp, Primate of Poland and "ordinary for ECs not having an ordinary of their own rite":

http://www.kostomloty-parafia-unicka.siedlce.opoka.org.pl/kronika2007_1.htm

Fr. Roman expressed the opinion that the best solution for Kostomloty parish would be to accept the jurisdiction of the local UGCC hierarch (Metropolitan John of Przemysl and Warsaw) while retaining Synodal rite.
Some parishioners wrote a letter wishing the same.
Metropolitan John gave his written consent to take Kostomloty under his omophorion.

What's the result? Fr. Roman has received a letter from the local Latin ordinary (i.e. HG Zbigniew Kiernikowski, Bishop of Siedlce), assuming that the bishop of Siedlce has been appointed Rome's delegate to govern the parish of Kostomloty.

Very sad story indeed. One may seriously doubt about the ability of the Latin bishop in question to guide the Eastern parish properly. And the main question remains: WHY? Why under the Latin bishop, if there is a Byzantine one? Why against wishes of those directly involved?

The Orthodox, who conduct in recent times a true attack against neo-uniate parish of Kostomloty (they established a parish there, with a church built on money collected throughout all their Metropolia), will be very happy: this decision gives them a new argument, at least for propaganda purposes.

For these able to read in Polish - another sad story from there:

http://www.slowopodlasia.pl/?b=art&ID=11729

See also:


http://svetomir.blox.pl/2007/02/Biskup-dal-biskup-wzial.html

and

http://svetomir.blox.pl/2007/02/Co-ma-organista-do-cerkiewki.html

It's a lovely parish, which I've visited several times. And it has frequently been the object of aggression (sorry, but � don't know what else to call it) from the Polish Orthodox Church.

In the present case, my advice would be to launch a direct appeal to the Pope to remove the parish from Latin jurisdiction and restore it to the Greek-Catholic jurisdiction. Making a bit of noise would do no harm either - just keeping the parish alive in the nineteen-sixties was accomplished by making quite a lot of noise in Rome about the "questio Kostomlotensis".

Prayer from those of us who are aware of the situation will do no harm either.

Incidentally, Metropolitan John is not minded to interfere with the ritual tradition of the parish.

Christ is Risen!

Fr. Serge

Bless, Father Archimandrite Sergius!

Christ is Risen! Truly He is Risen!

What is the attitude of the Polish RC Hierarchy toward the issue of the glorification of Met. Andrew Sheptytsky nowadays?

Are they putting up an "effective fuss?"

Alex

Well, I haven't noticed any active preparations for the glorification lately; have you?

Fr. Serge

Bless, Father Archimandrite,

And the reason for that is . . .?

Alex

Russian orthodox church i roman catholic church /not everyone of theirs members , but a lot of them /are not so friendly for greek-catholics in Poland , expexccially this year , when greek catholics from Poland are prepareted to celebrate sad 60 unniversary of operation Vistula

Ви ставили до мене питення; я ставлю питання до Вас: с ким поляки добре живуть? о. Сергій

I ran across this web site - http://szlakikon.pl/ang.htm

under the two links where it says "description of the track", it shows former Orthodox or Greek Catholic that are either now Roman Catholic or put to some other use.

http://lemko.org/lih/churchir/chirmain.html

here is wonderfull page where are described our ruthenian churches in Southern -eatern part of modern Poland
God bless

Bless, Father Serge!

Your Ukrainian is impeccable, as always (and you are right!! :))

You're just so loveable (as you've always been!!).

Does knowledge of Gaelic help with the learning of the Slavic languages or something?

Please accept my deep spiritual bow!

Alex

Эй Алекс (Alex), Как - мой русский язык? Я эта польза? Да, я обманывал! Heheh. Я использовал свободный перевод в Интернете. Таким образом я могу только напечатать что - нибудь, что я хочу сказать на английском языке, и это автоматически переведет на любой язык, который я хочу. Слишком плохо есть не украинский, только русский язык. Мир, SPDundas Глухой Византийский.

For the benifit of those of us who are not conversant in the language you folks are writing in (Ukrainian?) could you include an English translation?

actually that lingo was Russo-Computerese.

Fr. Serge

By God's grace, situation there is better than it seemed to be in 2007. Fr. Nikoniuk, a bi-ritual pastor from the Siedlce diocese, is himself from the parish of Pratulin, with Uniate family tradition. Of course, his personal stance is rather in favour of Paleo-Unia than the Neo-Unia and he has developed cooperation with the UGCC. He welcomes us very warmly and always says that "we are one Church (Cerkiew, i.e. Eastern Church)". A few Siedlce priests with similar Uniate genealogy are cooperating with Fr. Nikoniuk. He for example made an initiative to honour Pratulin martyrs by a pilgrimade, and I have personally taken part to one.

So both contacts with the UGCC and Siedlce clergy have been made better under Fr. Nikoniuk.




Let us pray both for the small community of Kostomloty and the former pastor, Fr. Archimandrite Roman Piętka MIC, as he is suffering from cancer.

Could some one explain to me what Paleo-Unia is? And Neo-Unia?

Bit confused.