The Conscience of the Nation
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The Conscience of the Nation
“This is My commandment, that you love one another just as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this, that one lay down his life for his friends.”
John 15:12-13.
Jesus Christ be praised!
The book which you are holding in your hands by the will of God is not just a book—it is a new Ukrainian Martirology—a list of those who, by their life and their heroic death, proved their limitless love for their friends, which likened them to our Lord Jesus Christ himself.
Turning the pages of this book, searching the faces of our new heroes, we are as it were passing through the place where they accomplished their unfadeable feat—right in the heart of the capital of our country, the independent unified Ukraine, which was gained by them as well as by millions of both well known and anonymous heroes—their predecessors.
Let's dwell on these holy pages and pray over each of the dead heroes, who gave their greatest asset—their life—for us, for our better future, for their kinsfolk and friends, their kids and grandchildren and for their Motherland itself.
All of them are the children of our Mother Ukraine and they consciously and conscientiously did their filial duty before her. They are the voice of our conscience and the guardians of our social behaviour Who can now, before their holy faces, steal, give bribes or receive bribes? Who will stay idle if again, God forbid, oppression, injustice and abuse of our country, abuse of honour and dignity of any one of us occurs in our home?
The Celestial Hundred is our pain and our pride, it's our tears and an acute feeling of gratitude for all they did for us. But all these feelings will only remain feelings if we do not daily, till the end of our lives, as long as our hearts beat, grow the fruit which are worthy of the galant feat of the heroes of the Maidan. So help us God and all the saints of the Ukrainian people to act like that!
+ Sviatoslav Father and Head
of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church
- Writer
