April 22, 2016
Community Chronicle

Parish blesses new icons for Stations of the Cross

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BOSTON – Seen on April 10 at the Christ the King Ukrainian Catholic Church in Boston, after the blessing of the newly installed Stations of the Cross icons (from left) are: Motria Holowinsky (donor); the Very Rev. Archpriest Yaroslav Nalysnyk, pastor; Dr. Andrew Holowinsky (donor); Tania Vitvitsky, member, Greater Boston Friends of UCU. The Stations of the Cross icons were blessed just in time for Easter according to the Julian calendar. Contemporary yet at the same time traditionally Ukrainian, the icons were commissioned by the Christ the King Church. Nadiya Karwacka of the Icon Painting School at the Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv painted the icons utilizing the ancient egg tempera technique (dry pigments, egg yolk mixed with water and vinegar) on wooden plaques covered with many layers of gesso. Parishioners were delighted with this thoughtful and generous gift of the Holowinsky family from Rhode Island. Tania Vitvitsky

Vsevolod Petriv

BOSTON – Seen on April 10 at the Christ the King Ukrainian Catholic Church in Boston, after the blessing of the newly installed Stations of the Cross icons (from left) are: Motria Holowinsky (donor); the Very Rev. Archpriest Yaroslav Nalysnyk, pastor; Dr. Andrew Holowinsky (donor); Tania Vitvitsky, member, Greater Boston Friends of UCU. The Stations of the Cross icons were blessed just in time for Easter according to the Julian calendar. Contemporary yet at the same time traditionally Ukrainian, the icons were commissioned by the Christ the King Church. Nadiya Karwacka of the Icon Painting School at the Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv painted the icons utilizing the ancient egg tempera technique (dry pigments, egg yolk mixed with water and vinegar) on wooden plaques covered with many layers of gesso. Parishioners were delighted with this thoughtful and generous gift of the Holowinsky family from Rhode Island.