Please don’t forget to fast, pray for peace on Ash Wednesday, Ukrainian Catholic priest pleads

A Ukrainian Catholic priest who is the dean of theology at the Catholic University of America is urging the faithful to take seriously Pope Francis’ call to pray and fast for peace in Ukraine on Ash Wednesday, the start of the Lenten season.
“People need to join in, to really offer their prayers, because there’s a lot of need,” Father Mark Morozowich told CNA in an interview on Tuesday, March 1.
“I really believe that uniting together through prayer witnesses a strength that I think people thought might have disappeared from even our country,” he added.
A priest for the Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of St. Josaphat in Parma, Ohio, the Pennsylvania native is Dean of the School of Theology and Religious Studies at the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C.
He told CNA that the crisis in Ukraine is “overwhelming” to contemplate, and he expressed grave concerns for the fate of church leaders caught in the war zone, citing worrisome reports that Russia has compiled “lists” of Ukrainian bishops it sees as potential threats.
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