Teodozija Myroslava Mostepaniuk is a sister of the Order of St. Basil the Great (Province of St. Michael the Archangel, Croatia). She completed a master's degree in Ukrainian and English language at Kyiv National University in Ukraine and a master's degree in religious pedagogy and catechetics at Catholic Faculty of Theology at Zagreb University in Croatia.
After final vows in 2018, she worked in parish ministry in Eastern Catholic parishes in Prniavor (Bosnia) and Kyiv (Ukraine). Currently, she is doing her licentiate studies in church history and teaching religious education in secondary school in Osijek, Croatia.
In May I had a wonderful opportunity to spend a month with the Basilian Sisters of the Province of the Immaculate Heart of Mary in Romania — a blessing and an enrichment, culturally and spiritually.
While the war in Ukraine is still going on, it is important to stay alive, not to succumb to the temptation of an easy and false peace. To remain human, we need to be open to the pain of others and our own.
I am based in Croatia now, but all my thoughts and prayers are focused on my native Ukraine, where my family lives, as well as a third of the sisters of the Order of St. Basil the Great to which I belong.
In the 1980s, Basilian Sisters from Croatia made visits to Ukraine, establishing connections with the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church. While watched by KGB officers at every turn, the sisters brought God's blessing.
