In the Ternopil region celebrating the centenary of the Basilian monk Buchachchyny
The Senior Basilian monk about. Shymchiyu Dorothea, who lives in Buchach Monastery of the Holy Cross on September Ternopilschyni16 celebrated 100 years. Liver is well deserved priest and monk. Born September 16, 1915 in the village of Old Petlykivtsi near Boochacha. In 1928 he entered the Missionary Institute in Buchach Basilian Fathers, who had the original gymnasium status. After graduating from this institution in 1932, August 25, he entered the novitiate of the Basilian Fathers in Krekhivsky monastery. After taking the first vows and end of the average level of high school education in the novitiate was transferred to a higher gymnasium ditchen - sholyastykat in monastery Lavra, and the third year in a monastery he studied rhetoric in Dobromil. Then on Aug. 8, 1937, together with the late Bishop Innocent Lototsky There is perpetual vows in 1937. After two years of study delivers a final examination and translated theological studies at the abbey. First day of training, 1 September 1939, the Second World War broke out. Studios ceased. Then about. Dorothy and other students theologians and professors went to Europe. Arriving in Przemysl, the local Metropolitan Prechyn received all - teachers and students - and even provided training autonomous status. This lasted 2.5 years, until the seminary rector did not get Theological Facultyat Charles University of Prague and offered to move him in the studio, for all its students took the Germans to the front. And there during training, 14 May 1942, received iyereyski ordained Bishop Bartholomew Dudash. After nearly six months of this father studied at university, until the Germans were taken for forced labor in mines recorderso in Moravia. And in May 1943 went to Galicia. At the same Green Holidays on. Dorothy came to Stanislav, the monastery at Mayzlyah where iumenom was about. Gregory Balahurak. He moved to Buchach assistance monastery and in the presence of parents and families served prymitsiynu Mass. After 6 years zealously served in Krystynopilskomu monastyri St. George. When the Soviet government liquidated the monastery, Father through Slovakia and the Czech Republic goes to Paris and it is permitted to move to Brazil. 15 years was a missionary in this vast country, took care of novitiate, visited numerous places of settlements of our people, and then was sent to the area Apostoles Argentina, where he niis 20 years old, was abbot, founded and led the novitiate, even two years had a mission to Paraguay. In the mid-1980s was called to the Basilian Curia in Rome and there was appointed spiritual director of the Pontifical St. WIMP. Jehoshaphat where he worked for 8 years. A mizhchasi attended conferences of many spiritual centers in West and Centertional Europe. Only in 1992, after almost 50 years of separation, he returned to his native land, Ukraine. Five years asceticism taught at the seminary in Ivano-Frankivsk eparchy of the UGCC, and last years living in the monastery of the Holy Cross. "Who at least once faced about. Dorothy knows that a man of prayer and zealous allegiance to God TSerkve and Chynovi. And despite its venerable age, it is the daily Divine Liturgy and administers a blessing. His life and personal example is the evidence for us to be zealous Christians, monks or priests. - Says the hero of the day in the office brothers Basil Theodore Dutchak - Let the Lord strengthen Dorothea Father in spirit and adds strengthFather often repeats: "complete his miserable life." This was reported in the Ternopil Regional State AdministrationSource: http://artlife.rv.ua/