Teodozija Myroslava Mostepaniuk is a sister of the Order of St. Basil the Great (Province of St. Michael the Archangel, Croatia). She completed a master's degree in Ukrainian and English language at Kyiv National University in Ukraine and a master's degree in religious pedagogy and catechetics at Catholic Faculty of Theology at Zagreb University in Croatia.

After final vows in 2018, she worked in parish ministry in Eastern Catholic parishes in Prniavor (Bosnia) and Kyiv (Ukraine). Currently, she is doing her licentiate studies in church history and teaching religious education in secondary school in Osijek, Croatia.

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The Mother of God Oranta from the vault of St. Sophia Cathedral in Kyiv, Ukraine (Wikimedia Commons/A-bg78)

A prayer for peace, hope and the miracle of being Ukrainian

World
Feb 22, 2022

I am based in Croatia now, but all my thoughts and prayers are focused on my native Ukraine, where my family lives, as well as a third of the sisters of the Order of St. Basil the Great to which I belong.

A liturgy of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, held outside in the village Tserkivna, Ivano-Frankivsk region, Ukraine, 1989 (Courtesy of Basilian Sisters' museum, Osijek, Croatia)

Basilian Sisters were evangelists for communist-era underground Ukrainian Church

Sep 9, 2021

In the 1980s, Basilian Sisters from Croatia made visits to Ukraine, establishing connections with the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church. While watched by KGB officers at every turn, the sisters brought God's blessing.