«... Difficult to solve, which sense we are experiencing, listening to Dudaryk: pure aesthetic pleasure or pride about the beautiful and talented and hardworking young Ukrainian children and their conductor Mykola Katsal - artist of who would be proud any country on the world stage …»
"Svoboda", Yaropolk Lasovskyy, 13 July 1990, USA.
Father Raphael Turkonyak visiting "Dudaryk"
25.12.2014
December 25, 2014 there was a significant life event - Father Raphael Turkonyak Archimandrite of Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, Doctor of Divinity and Doctor of liturgy, Bible translator, Studite monk statute, Shevchenko Prize winner for the translation of Ostrog Bible in the modern Ukrainian language (2007), Honorary Professor and Head of the Department of Theology of the National University "Ostrog Academy" came to visit us. On Christmas Day (by Gregorian calendar) choir "Dudaryk" was honored not only to greet f. Raphael, but also got an extraordinary gift from him - a priceless copy of "Ostrog Bible". During an extremely interesting meeting the choir members could talk with f. Raphael and got answers to their questions. At the end of our meeting, Nicholas Lukych invited all the present to St. Lazarus church, where we sang for f. Raphael few carols, many years, and presented him with our book "Garden of Songs".
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