Всем миром к добру и объединению! Перевод субтитров интернет-акции / All Together for Good and Unity Online Campaign. Subtitle translation: Греко-католики о дружбе и объединении / Greek Catholics on Friendship and Unification

The system divides, and people unite!

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As part of the "All Together for Good and Unity" project

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"About Friendship and Unification". Father Ivan.

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Good afternoon! We are very happy
that you have agreed

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to answer our questions.
Please introduce yourself.

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My name is Ivan. I am a priest
of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church.

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For seven years
I have been performing

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my priestly service in
the city of Kirovograd.

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I am trying to do something.
First of all,

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through establishing our
community. Now together with others

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I make an effort
to develop our community,

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to make it bigger
and stronger

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and to get not only
elderly people involved in it

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but also the young.
It is good to see children here.

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And our second ongoing project
is the construction

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of our temple. Because now
we have only this small chapel

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with wooden walls, but it
is not for long.

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We hope that with God's will
of good people

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we soon move to our big
temple.

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Could you please tell us
how many young people,

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including family couples with
children, visit your church?

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It is very sad because

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they are few. They probably
can be counted on

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the fingers of two hands.
As for those young people

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who join our community
consciously and with whom

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we try to have
our youth meetings,

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in order to give them
our attention, unfortunately,

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there are not more than ten people.
- What do people pray for?

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- First of all, people ask
for health the most.

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Also, when people get into trouble or
when they have problems at work,

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they ask for a blessing, in
order to solve this or that problem

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at work. Or, for example,
when misfortune strikes a family,

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some tragedy, it
also makes them

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to come to the tample and
ask for a prayer.

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This happens very often.
Apart from health, people

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ask for some material possessions.
It is very sad

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that people do not realize
that there is

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some greater Good which we
should pray for and which we

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should pay attention to.
That is the very salvation of your being.

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They should think about
eternal life. I think of

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the following example:
if one day you visit the city of Lviv,

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come to the Great Garrison
Temple of St. Peter and Paul

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near Market Square and
Town Hall.

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It opened a couple of years ago.
The temple belongs to

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the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church,
but it is a military temple.

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What surprised me
when I came in,

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was a tomb on the right side
which has existed

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from the 17th century. There is
an epigraph there: "Remember that you will die".

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I remember one of our bishops
Hleb Lonchina and his interview.

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When our hierarchs were asked:
"What do you pray for,

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