The MISSION SOCIETY is pleased to present our NEW 2025 Easter card with the icon of Jesus the Good Shepherd. This NEW icon was made by iconographer Britta Prinzivalli brittworks.com at the request of our Catechesis of the Good Shepherd group, a national program which we use for our preschoolers and kindergarten children. The group provided input on the colors used and the original icon is now displayed in their classroom! The Pysanky eggs inside the card were made by children of our parish at Our Lady of Perpetual Help church here in Albuquerque. Our church is currently offering pysanky workshops open to the public and for all skill levels. It has been a wonderful way to meet new people and learn how to make Ukrainian Easter Eggs using a traditional wax resist method.

 

As has been the case since 2022, 100% of your card purchases & donations go to “UKRAINE RELIEF”. The eparchy (diocese) of Mukachevo will use it to help over 400,000 refugees from eastern Ukraine who have fled into the Transcarpathian Oblast with housing; clothing; school supplies for children; psychological support for refugee children & adults; and expenses for heating.

 

Each packet (ticket) of 5 cards sells for $15 and you can purchase multiple packets of cards.  Please submit your order no later than midnight on Thursday, April 10th to receive them on time!  The list of names you provide us when purchasing the cards will be prayed for by Bishop Teodor Matsapula at Holy Cross Cathedral in Uzhhorod, Ukraine on Easter Sunday. Our website www.missionboronyavo.org has pictures of our meeting with Bishop Teodor when he came to Anaheim from Mukachevo, Ukraine for the enthronement of fellow Ukrainian Bishop Artur Bubnevych at the end of January! Bishop Bubnevych came here from Ukraine 13 years ago and was our MISSION SOCIETY contact while in Ukraine.

 

Please encourage family, friends, and other parishioners to order our cards. Thanks to your generosity and help from our local radio station KKOB, we have collected almost $195,000 so far to help with these relief projects since the war began in February, 2022. As always, expenses are kept to a minimum, as there are no salaries paid to anyone, the printer charges us a special low price, and much of the mailing expenses are covered by a donor.

 

Unfortunately, at this writing, the war continues, with an estimated one million casualties of dead and wounded. The emotional trauma is horrific; the amount of damage to villages and towns is enormous. We ask for your continued prayers for the triumph of the Immaculate Heart of Mary and are grateful for your support. God bless you and thank you for helping our work!​

 

Sincerely yours in Christ,

Rev. Christopher Zugger, Chaplain