It’s not time to start "whining" so to speak, it's time for us to pull ourselves up. As spiritual people this is what we are supposed to show, hope: that God will provide, that everything is in His hands, and we believe in it.
Bishop Andriy Rabiy of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church
This is from an interview by The Pillar which is quite good, including some Ukranian history.
I feel as if I am watching a rerun of past aggression like Hitler and the Sudetenland. We thought we were so modern and past all that, but here we are again. In many ways it's just like reading the books of Chronicles and Kings in the Old Testament.
As back then, the average person has little power. However, we can pray and that is taking action even if it might not feel like it. We pray for the victims, we pray for the aggressors to have changed hearts even if that eventuality seems unlikely. But as Paul pointed out we are fools for Christ's sake. So we pray for the unlikely, the miraculous.
We do not lose hope for a glimmer of conscience on the part of those who hold in their hands the fortunes of the world. And we continue to pray and fast – as we shall do this coming Ash Wednesday – for peace in Ukraine and in the entire world
Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the Holy See Secretary of State
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