This year’s New York Encounter is centered on the theme “Where Everything Is Waiting for You,” focusing on “the reemerging human desire for authentic belonging amid global isolation, emphasizing how freedom, truth, forgiveness, and dignity foster certainty and openness in true community.” The event will continue through Feb. 15. The bishop reflected during his remarks that survival for him has been in keeping busy with the demands of his role, which extend far beyond pastoral care due to the humanitarian aid role the Church in Ukraine has assumed. The priest emphasized the need to be in community, especially during conflict, otherwise “you’re carrying all this burden by yourself, and you have nobody to help you, or to sustain you.”
Author: Madalaine Elhabbal
Published at: 2026-02-14 21:26:09
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