Dozens of blue-and-yellow flags fluttered in a cold wind outside the Parkman Bandstand. Some brandished signs. “Return our kidnapped children,” read one. “Crimea is Ukraine,” read another. A third: “I miss home.”
Archbishop Borys Gudziak, the highest-ranking Ukrainian Catholic prelate in the United States, Cardinal Sean P. O'Malley, and representatives of the Greek Orthodox Metropolis of Boston participated in a Lenten service for Ukraine at Christ the King Ukrainian Catholic Parish in Jamaica Plain.
JAMAICA PLAIN Cardinal Seán P. O'Malley and the head of the Ukrainian Catholic Church in the U.S., Metropolitan Archbishop Borys Gudziak of Philadelphia, will preside at a Lenten prayer service of hope and solidarity for the people of Ukraine on March 25.
BOSTON Father Yaroslav Nalysnyk, the pastor of Christ the King Ukrainian Catholic Church in Jamaica Plain, recalled feeling disbelief and numbness when Russia's invasion of Ukraine began on Feb. 24, 2022.