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March 24, 2022Rosalie Yezbick was one of our parishioners who graciously shared a few words of her own at our recent prayer service for peace in Ukraine. Through word of mouth she was invited to share her prayer and converse via Zoom with a college class at Ukrainian Catholic University Thursday morning. Prayer is indeed powerful.
I had the profound honor of spending my morning with a Lit Crit class at Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv this morning. Female students joined from Ukraine, Poland, Turkey, Belgium, and Spain. Male students, who are not allowed to leave the country, joined as well.
Several male students were unavailable to join today as “volunteering” was needed in their areas. Volunteering. This is the word that must be used -- via recordable channels, anyway -- to describe their extraordinary bravery in the face of unfathomable odds. Volunteering.
We talked about literature and writing, poetry and prayer. But mostly we talked about love. I showed them pictures of the Ukrainian flags flying on so many of my neighbors’ front porches here in South City StL. I told them about my church’s recent prayer service for Peace in Ukraine. We cried together.
They told me thank you for the love, thank you for the inspiration, it means the world to us to see our flag flying there so far away, to know people in America care.
... So little is asked of us here in our comfortable lives in America. Even when we care, it’s hard to know how to put our love into action. If you’re reading this, I hope you’ll pause for a moment to ask yourself: What can I do to volunteer? How can I help?
