In Every Effort of Liturgical Renewal
The inscriptions on the top and bottom borders – in their original Ukrainian
and their English translation - are the most famous quotation from Patriarch
Josyf Slipy’s 1976 encyclical letter Towards Unification in Christ
. The motto surrounding the three-bar cross on either side is the original
Latin quotation of Pope St. Pius X, “Nothing more, nothing less; nothing
different.” After almost a century, these words remain as a powerful summary
of the ideal relationship between Eastern Catholics and their Eastern Orthodox
Sister Churches. This concept is the principal theme of the January 1996
document quoted in the central panel of this illustration.
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Let us Recapture the Spirit of St. Cyril and St. Methodius
These are the words of Metropolitan Philip Saliba, Primate of the Antiochian
Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America (1966- ) in which he calls for
a renewal of the evangelical outreach of the Orthodox Church. He cites as role
models the chief apostles, St. Peter and St. Paul, as well as the Apostles to
the Slavs, St. Cyril and St. Methodius; St. Ninus, Enlightener of the
Armenians; and St. Herman of Alaska, Enlightener of the Aleuts. The border
design of this text is uniquely appropriate to its directive. It is based on
the title page design of the first printed edition of the Greek Philokalia,
printed in Venice in 1782. This volume, translated into Slavonic by Blessed
Pasius Velychkovsky (1722–1794) and printed by the Moscow Synodal printshop in
1793, inspired the great monastic revival of 19th century Slavonic
monasticism by redirecting the attention of Orthodox Christians to the true
sources of Holy Orthodoxy.
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Orthodox in Faith, Catholic in Love
These words of the Holy Father, Pope John Paul II, were originally addressed
to the faithful assembled in the Ukrainian Catholic Cathedral of Buenos Aires,
Argentina, on 10 April 1987 to explain the original identity of the Kyivan
Church. The border of this text includes the most common symbol of Catholic
Christianity, the papal tiara, against a background featuring a three-bar
cross, the pre-eminent symbol of the Holy Orthodox faith. Two other symbols
are also visible, a large book - either a Latin Bible or a missal - and the
omophorion of an Eastern Rite Bishop. By symbolizing the lost sheep that is
found and carried on the Good Shepherd's shoulders, it signifies the bishop's
pastoral role as the icon of Christ.
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As Byzantine Ukrainian Catholics
The miniatures at the top and bottom of this presentation are the Coat of Arms
of Pope John Paul II, and Winnipeg’s Ukrainian Catholic Cathedral of Sts.
Vladimir and Olga. The text, a summary of the prophetic mission of the
Ukrainian Catholic Church, is part of the homily delivered by Pope John Paul
II in this cathedral on 16 September 1984. In a presentation in July 1989
Metropolitan Maxim Hermaniuk, Archbishop of Winnipeg and Metropolitan of
Canada, referred to this quote, stating that the “reconciliation of the
Christian East with the Christian West was a strict obligation to all
Ukrainian lay people.
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The Synodikon of the Seventh Ecumenical Council
Among the most highly distinctive features of Eastern Christianity is the
prominence give to icons in the liturgical services, and the daily life of
believers. However, there was a time when those who opposed the use of icons
demanded that the Church rid itself of all such “art” and that all icons be
destroyed. After generations of this opposition, in 787, a council dealing
with this issue was held in the city of Nicea, Asia Minor, under the Empress
Irene. Here the doctrines specifically relating to the role of icons were
formulated. Three hundred and sixty-seven bishops declared that not only do
icons preserve the doctrinal teachings of the Church, they are also an
exceptionally dynamic means of expressing the Divine through liturgical art
and beauty. Their statement is known as the Synodikon of the Seventh
Ecumenical Council.
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The Tree of the Cross
Eastern Christians are familiar with the fact that the Fall of the human race
took place in a garden – the Garden of Eden. According to the passage from the
20th chapter of John’s Gospel; “Now in the place where he was crucified there
was a garden” the salvation of humanity was accomplished in a Garden – the
Garden of Calvary. The parallels go even farther. The condemnation of the
human race took place when Adam and Eve ate the fruit of the Tree of the
Knowledge of Good and Evil. Christ won the salvation of the world on the Tree
of the Cross. In Eastern iconography, the Tree of the Cross is represented by
a cross growing from a base of ornamental foliage.
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Gallery One - A Witness to The Elect
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Gallery Two - When the Wall Opens Again - Past Tragedy - Future Glory
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Gallery Three - The Saviour and The Gospels: Christ, The Mother of God, and
The Cross
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Gallery Four - Fathers
and Saints of the Universal Church
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Gallery Five - Saints and Historians of the Church of Ancient Rus'
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Gallery Six - Metropolitans, Confessors and Patriarchs of the Ukrainian and
Russian Church
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Gallery Seven - Popes and Patriarchs
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Gallery Eight - Churches
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Gallery Nine - Texts
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Gallery Ten - Free Designs
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Gallery Eleven - About Us