For Christmas Eve Holy Supper on December 24, 2015, the Sisters at the Generalate welcomed invited guest Reverend David Nazar, S.J., who was recently appointed Rector of the Pontifical Oriental Institute in Rome.
The Annual Pilgrimage of Ukrainians in Italy and Spain took place on December 26, 2015 to St. Peter’s Basilica, Vatican City, where all entered through the Holy Doors of the Jubilee Year of Mercy. A Hierarchal Divine Liturgy was celebrated by Most Reverend Dionisio Lachovicz and con-celebrated by Most Reverend Ireynej Bilyk and many other clergy.
Clergy, student-seminarians, and Sisters-staff at the Pontifical Collegio Ucraino of St. Giosafat on the Gianicolo visited the Sisters at the Generalate on December 27, 2015 with joyful carolling and good wishes for the Christmas season and the coming New Year.
“Moreover, everyone who has given up home, brothers or sisters,
father or mother, wife or children or property for my sake will receive
many times as much and inherit everlasting life.”
Mt. 19:29
“VOCATION is the mystery of God’s loving initiative setting forth our personal response to his plan for our lives. In faith, we respond with the gift of ourselves, witnessing by our lives to his presence among us”
(The Kenotic Way. Constitution, 24)
On October 2, 2016 in the Chruch of Blessed Priest-Martyr Pavlo Gojdych in Sidlusku, Prešov the Sisters of the Order of St. Basil marked a special occasion, which occurred in the presence of the Metropolitan Archbishop of Prešov, Most Reverend Ján Babjak, SJ.
During the days of November 30 to December 2, 2016 the Sisters of the Order of St. Basil the Great in the Saints Cyril and Methodius Vice-Province in Sečovce, Slovakia held their Vice-Provincial Chapter.
October 1, 2016, the Feast of the Patronage of the Mother of God (following the Gregorian calendar) was a momentous day for the Basilian Sisters of the St. Basil and St. Macrina Vice-Province, for all Sisters in the Order of St. Basil, and for the entire Greek Catholic Church in Croatia.
Longing to continue serving God and His people in the community of the Sisters of the Order of St. Basil the Great in The Most Holy Trinity Province (Ukraine), on July 28, 2016, Sr. Havryila Sorochynska renewed her temporary vows for another year.
The 50th anniversary of the settlement of the Basilian Sisters in Australia (28.03.1967) provides an opportunity to examine the Sisters' work during their time in Christ's vineyard in Australia.