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First Catholic Media Monastery

28 November 2011, 09:28 | RCC in Ukraine


On 24 November, in Kyiv, the first media Catholic men’s Monastery was consecrated. Three priests of the Association of Missionaries of the Oblates of Mary Immaculate will live there. Their main objective will be to evangelize via mass media, particularly, to provide care for the Television of the Eternal word and Catholic Media Center.

According to the Catholic Media Center, the new monastery will have 22 Spanish Oblate martyrs as its patron saints. The ceremony of consecration of the martyrs killed for their faith at the time of the socialist and Communist persecutions in Spain in 1936 was administered by the General Councillor for Europe of the Association of Missionaries of the Oblates of Mary Immaculate, Fr. Ignacio Rois. The martyrs will be beatified in Madrid on 17 December.

Fr. Rishard Shmydkyi of Association of Missionaries of the Oblates of Mary Immaculate consecrated the rooms of the monastery. The events were also attended by the Apostolic Nuncio in Ukraine, Archbishop Thomas Edward Gullickson, Auxiliary Bishops of the Kyiv-Zhytomyr Diocese of the Roman Catholic Church, Stanislav Shyrokoradiuk and Vitalii Skomarovskyi and missionaries of the Association of Missionaries of the Oblates of Mary Immaculate from Ukraine, Belarus and Turkmenistan.

This should send "You-Know-Who's" blood pressure sky high!

It is only proper that the Roman Catholic Church is providing for the Poles and other ex-pats living in Russia and Ukraine. I don't believe that this can be construed as proselytization, as this is obviously directed at Roman Catholics. And, as we know, Rome has denied proselytizing in ROC territory.

Who's "You-Know-Who"?

Alexandr

I think somebody needs to create a greek catholic version of EWTN.
Preferably somewhere in the English speaking world.