​The MISSION SOCIETY is pleased to present our 2026 Easter Card. It is a beautiful Anastasis (Resurrection) icon with the risen Christ raising the dead.  It was made by the hand of iconographer Britta Prinzivalli whose beautiful art graces many of our cards. The list of names you provide us when purchasing cards or donating will be prayed for by + Bishop Teodor Matsapula at Holy Cross Cathedral in Uzhhorod, Ukraine on Easter Sunday.

We want to thank you for your generosity at Christmas. Our Christmas card campaign went very well! For the first time ever, we made cards available in all 19 parishes of the Phoenix Eparchy. If you purchased cards or donated 100% of your money was sent to Ukraine in January. We are a small group of volunteers, and all mailing costs are paid by a donor. Another donor donated the cost of the Christmas cards which the printer has been giving to us at cost. This means 0% overhead. Our main fundraisers are selling Easter and Christmas cards. If you are new to us and picked up Christmas cards from the display in your parish, please look for our Easter card display. Like Christmas, each packet of 5 cards sells for $15 and a remittance envelope is provided in each packet.

Donations are always welcome! Please mail your payment and prayer lists to us in the envelope provided by PALM SUNDAY, 3/29. You are welcome to E-MAIL us at admin@missionboronyavo.org if there are questions! We never share the names of our donors.

We have posted a video to our WEBSITE Home | Mission Society of + Bishop Teodor praying for our intentions on Christmas Day.

 

Click on his picture and hear the beautiful hymn as he prays.

​“Your help for our eparchy, for the sisters, and especially for the orphaned children is a great sign of Christian love and solidarity. Please know that this goodness truly bears fruit and gives hope where it is so greatly needed. Please be assured of my prayers for the Mission Society and its donors. May the Lord reward your generosity a hundredfold.

With gratitude and pastoral blessing,

+ Bishop Teodor”

 

Below the Bishop is another short video with all 18 children and 2 nuns at the Korolevo orphanage! 

Below that is a stream of beautiful pictures.

 

​ “God bless you and your generous donors for remembering us. We recently celebrated Christmas beautifully. We decorated the whole house and had a wonderful celebration. The children sang carols, and we had the kind of winter weather we haven't seen in nearly 10 years - with heavy snow and frost. I won’t hide from you the reality of the war and its anxieties. School is online as bombing continues. The electricity goes out frequently. There’s no heat. We endure so that this all finally ends. We understand that someone suffers even more. With gratitude and prayers, Sister Josaphata”

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​      Since the war began, the income from Easter and Christmas card sales goes to Ukraine Relief. It is used to help over 400,000 displaced persons from Eastern Ukraine who have taken refuge in the Transcarpathian Oblast of Ukraine, which is next to Slovakia. The eparchy helps refugees with many needs: rent for housing, clothing, school supplies for children, psychological support, food parcels and expenses for firewood for heating. Thanks to your generosity and help from our local radio station KKOB, we have collected $241,548 so far to help with refugee projects since the war began in February 2022.

In addition, with donations for Liturgy intentions, orphanage and “greatest needs”, the total so far is $384,395. That is simply amazing given that we are just a handful of volunteers.

God bless you and thank you for helping our work!

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Sincerely yours in Christ,

Very Rev. Christopher Zugger, Chaplain

Mrs. Rafael Plut, Mission Society Coordinator

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P.S.  Please check out the works of Catholic iconographer Britta Prinzivalli at https://www.brittworks.com.