GSR Today - Call it a prompting by the Holy Spirit. When I asked to go along on a trip to Ukraine, that leap into the unknown took me on a long path of meeting Catholics who are helping victims of this terrible war.
Since Russia launched its full-scale invasion in February, members of the order have been caring for refugees, educating students, raising funds, visiting wounded soldiers and sending aid to the front lines.
When refugees from heavily attacked eastern Ukraine arrived in the sisters' city en masse in the first few months of the war, the Basilians scrambled to offer them food, clothes and shelter at the monastery.