Requiem service at St. Patrick's Cathedral to recall Great Famine

NEW YORK - On Saturday, November 16, the Ukrainian community will gather at St. Patrick's Cathedral in midtown Manhattan for an ecumenical requiem service marking the 69th anniversary of the Ukrainian Famine-Genocide.

The celebrants of the religious ceremony will include Cardinal Lubomyr Husar of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church, accompanied by Bishop Basil Losten of the Stamford Eparchy, as well as Metropolitan Constantine and Archbishop Anthony of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church in the U.S. Responses to the requiem will be sung by the Dumka Choir of New York.

Following the religious service, Ukrainian and U.S. government officials will address the assembly. Invited participants include members of Congress; Gov. George Pataki of New York; Mayor Michael Bloomberg of New York; Ukraine's ambassador to the United States, Kostyantyn Gryshchenko; the permanent representative of Ukraine to the United Nations, Valeriy Kuchinsky; as well as the consul general of Ukraine in New York, Serhiy Pohoreltzev. The main speaker of the event will be Cardinal Husar.

The hourlong program at St. Patrick's Cathedral will be followed by a press conference and a formal meeting of the UCCA's executive and national boards. The press conference will officially announce the efforts of the Ukrainian community to erect and dedicate a monument to the victims of the Ukrainian Famine-Genocide in Washington. Congressional sponsors of the legislative bill, hierarchs of Ukrainian Churches, representatives from the Ukrainian government, leaders of Ukrainian American organizations, as well as the entire Ukrainian community are invited to participate in the press conference.

Congressional legislation (HR 5289) calls for the building of a monument-memorial to the victims of the Ukrainian Famine-Genocide by the year 2008 in commemoration of the 75th anniversary of the Great Famine.

Copyright © The Ukrainian Weekly, October 13, 2002, No. 41, Vol. LXX

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