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SERMONETTE: Strength and comfort in tragedy
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SERMONETTE: Strength and comfort in tragedy

  • These last days and weeks, we have watched with careful attention the events unfolding in Ukraine, somewhat in disbelief that this can happen. We are heartbroken for the people and the suffering they are enduring. In our hearts, we wonder, how can this stop and how can justice and peace be restored? Something needs to happen, someone must step in, somehow, someone must do something. It is with a certain amount of helplessness that we watch ordinary citizens of Ukraine, interrupted in their everyday lives, suddenly need to seek shelter or take up arms to fend for their lives.

The Ukrainian people have been through a lot, the Second World War, the era of communism, the nuclear disaster of Chernobyl. It seems like the…