Basilian Sisters welcome candidates from Ukraine

FOX CHASE MANOR, Pa. - In late September, after months of preparation and anticipation, the Sisters of St. Basil the Great welcomed six young women from Ukraine as candidates and received one new postulant to their order.

The six candidates, who studied at the Catechectical Institute in Ivano-Frankivsk, will spend one year with the sisters to discern their call to religious life. While in America, they will intensely study and learn the English language and assist in the Ukrainian Heritage School.

Arriving at the Basilian Motherhouse in September were Natalia Tarashchenska, Dobromyl; Tatiana Bober, Turka; Alexandra Pryimych, Vysoke; Mariana Pankiv, Ivano-Frankivsk; Olexandra Hnypiuk, Deliatyn; and Luba Beley, Serdne.

In addition, the sisters have received a new postulant, Barbara Joan Terefenko. She comes from Clifton Knolls, N.Y., where she was a parishioner at Ss. Peter and Paul Ukrainian Catholic Church, Cohoes, N.Y.

In November 1996, the Sisters of St. Basil the Great launched the Ukraine Outreach Project to help raise funds to bring young women from Ukraine to the Basilian Motherhouse so that they could experience and learn about America, its culture and language, and discern their place within the Ukrainian Catholic Church.

For more information on the Ukraine Outreach Project contact: Sister Dorothy Ann Busowski, OSBM, Provincial of Sisters of St. Basil the Great, 710 Fox Chase Road, Fox Chase Manor, PA 19046; (215) 379-0628.

Copyright © The Ukrainian Weekly, November 23, 1997, No. 47, Vol. LXV

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