I doubt you will read this but just in case. I am sending this e-mail in the hopes that ancient and religious historical symbols can be taken off the so-called Hate Violations list since my account was just suspended for a Christian Celtic Cross, I am not religious per say but I am spiritual, Freedom of Speech and Expression should include different forms of symbolism of religious and historical nature.
Yours truly,
Our Heritage! Our Homeland!
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Canadian Nationalist Front Flyers and Stickers can still be printed and used !
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Alex and Anna Gadaiev arrived in Canada on the last plane to leave Ukraine for Canada almost eleven months ago. Their family has started a new life in Southern Manitoba, and Alex and his daughter Maiia shared their thoughts on their first Canadian Orthodox Christmas experience.
Alex explained there were some adjustments they needed to make.
"We just had Christmas and New Year. It was our first experience in this country, and it was something special and something different. First of all, the dates were moved. We usually used to celebrate it a little bit later, like on January 6th, but this time, we celebrated it, as all Catholics do, in December before New Year's Eve."
The family attends the Parish of All Saints of the Ukrainian People at St John's Catholic Church in Morden. The Gadaiev children were part of the Christmas program, and Alex shared what it was like to experience this sacred time in Canada.
"It was nice, but we still remember where we're from, and that's why we joined the Ukrainian community to organize that performance named Vertep, which represents the Christmas event as it was. It was nice event our kids were involved in that, and I believe that they did well. We will keep all our traditions."
Maiia expressed mixed feelings about her first Christmas in Canada.
"We had turkey. It was my first turkey in my life, with potatoes and salad. It's fun, and you have people who you can talk to, they're like family, but your real family, you miss them sometimes. It was a little lonely, because usually we have Christmas with our grandmas and all our families."
She really enjoyed being part of the program at the church.
"It was fun. It's not like a play where everyone will know what you're going to say. If you forgot what you should say, you can say something else, and no one will know about it, and like we put on different costumes and it's so fun."
Alex said being away from home at Christmas is not the most pleasant feeling, but considering what is happening back in Ukraine, he is grateful for the safe and welcoming community here in Manitoba.
The Archbishop of Quebec, who was among the more than 120 cardinals present at Benedict XVI's Requiem Mass on Thursday morning, did so in an interview with Vatican News’ Jean-Charles Putzolu, following the celebration in St. Peter's Square.
Funeral Mass of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI
The Cardinal said he went twice to pay his respects to the Pope Emeritus while he was lying in state in St. Peter’s Basilica earlier this week.
"I watched the faithful pass by with a respect, a silence that you almost never hear in the Basilica, when there are tourists," he said.
While present at the General Audience where Pope Francis praised Benedict XVI as a "master of the catechists," Cardinal Lacroix shared his delight in seeing “the gratitude for this man who was not exuberant, who did not have the charisma of his predecessor or his successor, the charisma of the crowds, but who had the charisma of authenticity, of truth, of love and of his link with the Lord which was visible in his being.”
