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.”
JAMAICA PLAIN While observing the feast of the Annunciation, but with an eye toward the coming Easter, leaders and representatives of the Roman Catholic, Ukrainian Catholic, and Ukrainian Orthodox communities united to lead a prayer service for peace in Ukraine.
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.