Msgr. Peter I. Vaccari, Adriana Bara and Anna Dombrovska visit a child care program organized by Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv for children orphaned or separated from their families by war and internally displaced children with special needs. (photo: Adriana Bara)
Msgr. Peter I. Vaccari, CNEWA president, Adriana Bara, national director in Canada, and Anna Dombrovska, program officer, visited agency-sponsored programs in Lviv on a pastoral visit to Ukraine from 3-7 June. Upon arriving in Rzeszow, Poland, the team traveled to Lviv and made their way to Ukrainian Catholic University, where they were housed for the duration of their visit and sheltered during air raid alarms.
Hear more about their first day of project visits in Dr. Bara’s audio report below.
Sunday, 4 June
The first day of program visits began with a tour of Ukrainian Catholic University (UCU), followed by a visit to a UCU-run child care center for children who were orphaned or separated from their families by war and displaced children with special needs. Msgr. Vaccari concelebrated a Divine Liturgy for Pentecost at Lviv Theological Seminary of the Holy Spirit, celebrated by Bishop Volodymyr Hrutsa, C.Ss.R., auxiliary bishop of Lviv. The team also met with Ms. Stawnychy, the president of Caritas Ukraine, later that day.
Listen to the audio report:
Msgr. Peter I. Vaccari, Adriana Bara and Anna Dombrovska visit a child care program organized by Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv for children orphaned or separated from their families by war and internally displaced children with special needs. (photo: Adriana Bara)Msgr. Peter I. Vaccari, Adriana Bara and Anna Dombrovska visit a child care program organized by Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv for children orphaned or separated from their families by war and internally displaced children with special needs. (photo: Adriana Bara)Divine Liturgy for Pentecost at Lviv Theological Seminary of the Holy Spirit, celebrated by Bishop Volodymyr Hrutsa, C.Ss.R. (photo: Adriana Bara)Divine Liturgy for Pentecost at Lviv Theological Seminary of the Holy Spirit, celebrated by Bishop Volodymyr Hrutsa, C.Ss.R. (photo: Adriana Bara)Divine Liturgy for Pentecost at Lviv Theological Seminary of the Holy Spirit, celebrated by Bishop Volodymyr Hrutsa, C.Ss.R. (photo: Adriana Bara)Divine Liturgy for Pentecost at Lviv Theological Seminary of the Holy Spirit, celebrated by Bishop Volodymyr Hrutsa, C.Ss.R. (photo: Adriana Bara)Divine Liturgy for Pentecost at Lviv Theological Seminary of the Holy Spirit, celebrated by Bishop Volodymyr Hrutsa, C.Ss.R. (photo: Adriana Bara)Divine Liturgy for Pentecost at Lviv Theological Seminary of the Holy Spirit, celebrated by Bishop Volodymyr Hrutsa, C.Ss.R. (photo: Khrystyna Kutniv)Agape prepared by seminarians after the Divine Liturgy for Pentecost at Lviv Theological Seminary of the Holy Spirit (photo: Adriana Bara)
