‘Scary and terrible’: Calgarians welcome women fleeing war in Ukraine to Easter celebrations
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Calgarians gathered Sunday to celebrate Easter and remember those living through the ravages of war.
Baskets filled with artistically adorned paska, an eastern European Easter bread, were blessed on Sunday morning at Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary Ukrainian Catholic Church.
Normally a joyous celebration of hope and renewal, this year’s Easter mass was tempered by war in Ukraine.
“It’s not a celebration that we used to have every year. Right now it’s quite sad with all the people in Ukraine being killed every day. We have to do the best we can and we will be thinking about all the people back home,” said Tania Lubinet outside the church.
Her mother and brother live just outside of Lviv.
“As I spoke with him yesterday actually the siren was going, so it is very hard. They do the best they can. Their Easter is one week later. He said he’s not very happy. He’s very sad, but they will go to church and try to celebrate the best they can,” Lubinet said.
Yuliia Levitchuk was also attending the mass. She arrived in Calgary on April 5 with her mom and toddler.
Her husband remains back in Kharkiv. The bombarded city near the Russian border has been under relentless attacks.
“It was scary and terrible in Kharkiv,” Levitchuk said through a translator. “Our journey was long and hard. From west Ukraine we traveled to Bucharest. The train journey was very long and very slow to Budapest, where we filled out new documents,” Levitchuk said.
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