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Deacon New blog post: Remembering the holodomor, the Ukrainian famine http://tinyurl.com/7pacbv.
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New blog post: Remembering the holodomor, the Ukrainian famine http://tinyurl.com/7pacbv
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New blog post: December 30 – St. Athanasius from On the Incarnation of the Word http://tinyurl.com/9j3w6r
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New blog post: December 29 – St. Clement of Alexandria from the Exhortation to the Heathen http://tinyurl.com/9rzan9
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From the Houston Chronicle: Working to shine a light on a dark period for Ukrainians: Efforts under way to mark man-made famine that left up to 7 million dead
Many Americans have never heard of the holodomor —” the estimated 7 million people who starved to death in the Ukraine when Joseph Stalin turned farms into collectives in the early 1930s.
Even while the famine was ravaging parts of the Ukraine, few in the West knew of it. Journalists such as Walter Duranty of the New York Times, who won a Pulitzer Prize for his coverage of the Soviet Union in 1932, reported there was no evidence of starvation or an artificially created famine, which was the position of the Soviet government.
In Russia, the holodomor, viewed as genocide by many Ukrainians, gets scant or no mention today in some high school history books.
Local Ukrainian-Americans, along with others of Ukrainian heritage worldwide, are rankled that so few know of the mass deaths. During this year, the 75th anniversary of the holodomor, they are holding vigils and working to raise awareness of what happened in the Ukraine in 1932 and 1933.“The Ukrainian farmers grew the food, but they were not allowed to eat it,” said Larisa Scates, chairwoman of the famine committee at the Ukrainian-American Cultural Club of Houston. “The Soviet government never acknowledged that it was happening. They hid it. The deaths need to be commemorated. Lessons need to be learned, or we’re bound to repeat the past.”
A vigil was held outside City Hall last month to mark the holodomor, which means “death by hunger.” Ukrainian-Americans persuaded the Houston Public Library to put up displays on the tragedy at one of its downtown buildings. One of the displays includes copies of paintings by Houston artist Lydia Bodnar-Balahutrak that were inspired by the deaths…
For more on the holodomor see: The man-made famine of 1933 in Soviet Ukraine: What happened and why by Dr. James E. Mace.
And He who is of David, and yet before him, the Word of God, despising the lyre and harp, which are but lifeless instruments, and having tuned by the Holy Spirit the universe, and especially man, —” who, composed of body and soul, is a universe in miniature, —” makes melody to God on this instrument of many tones; and to this instrument —” I mean man —” he sings accordant: “For you are my harp, and pipe, and temple.” —” a harp for harmony —” a pipe by reason of the Spirit —” a temple by reason of the word; so that the first may sound, the second breathe, the third contain the Lord. And David the king, the harper whom we mentioned a little above, who exhorted to the truth and dissuaded from idols, was so far from celebrating demons in song, that in reality they were driven away by his music. Thus, when Saul was plagued with a demon, he cured him by merely playing. A beautiful breathing instrument of music the Lord made man, after His own image. And He Himself also, surely, who is the supramundane Wisdom, the celestial Word, is the all-harmonious, melodious, holy instrument of God. What, then, does this instrument —” the Word of God, the Lord, the New Song —” desire? To open the eyes of the blind, and unstop the ears of the deaf, and to lead the lame or the erring to righteousness, to exhibit God to the foolish, to put a stop to corruption, to conquer death, to reconcile disobedient children to their father. The instrument of God loves mankind. The Lord pities, instructs, exhorts, admonishes, saves, shields, and of His bounty promises us the kingdom of heaven as a reward for learning; and the only advantage He reaps is, that we are saved. For wickedness feeds on men’s destruction; but truth, like the bee, harming nothing, delights only in the salvation of men. — Chapter 1.