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Catechism of the Ukrainian Catholic Church: Christ – Our Pascha

Catechism

Catechism of the Ukrainian Catholic Church: Christ – Our Pascha

  • Synod of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church
  • 2016 AD

Faith in the risen Christ structures the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church’s catechesis, which follows the Nicene Creed and the Anaphora of Saint Basil the Great. Revelation reaches its fullness in Jesus Christ and is transmitted through Scripture and Tradition within the Church. The catechism presents the Trinity, creation, the Fall, the covenants, Christ’s incarnation and Paschal Mystery, Pentecost, the Church as one, holy, catholic, and apostolic communion, and humanity’s calling to divinization. It also locates the Ukrainian Church within the Kyivan tradition, the Union of Brest, communion with Rome, and the witness of Ukrainian martyrs and confessors. Liturgical life occupies a central place: the Divine Liturgy, the annual and weekly cycles, icons, chant, the domestic church, and the seven Holy Mysteries—especially Baptism, Chrismation, Eucharist, Repentance, Anointing, Marriage, and Holy Orders. Prayer includes the Our Father, Psalms, the Jesus Prayer, fasting, almsgiving, and contemplative vigilance. Christian moral life requires freedom, conscience, repentance, virtue, and cooperation with grace, expressed in faithful marriage, openness to children, care for the vulnerable, and respect for human dignity. The Church’s social vision addresses family, work, property, democracy, peace, war, globalization, and ecological responsibility, presenting stewardship of creation and solidarity with the poor as consequences of Christ’s Resurrection and the hope of creation’s final transfiguration.

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