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Jesus Christ rose from the dead. This is the great mystery of Pascha. In today’s Gospel, Christ offers us a little Pascha in the healing of the two blind men and the infirm. Every illness is some kind of death. If somebody is blind or ill, it is an expression of death. It is a recognition of the human limits that everyone has, myself included.

Our Holy Father, Pope Francis, appointed me apostolic administrator “sede vacante” of the Eparchy of Parma for the Ruthenians June 17, 2017. The decree was published June 24, 2017 in Rome. I would like at this time to extend my warm greetings to all of you. I am sending these greetings from my homeland, which is also the homeland of the ancestors of many of the faithful of the Eparchy of Parma.