THE DIVINE Liturgy is celebrated every Sunday at 10 a.m. in the Cathedral of the Holy Family on Duke Street, in London. It’s always pretty full, but rarely as thronged as it was last weekend (the Second Sunday before Lent, in Eastern time). Several dignitaries and clergy – including Fr Dominic Robinson SJ from Farm Street, Mayfair’s other Catholic church – joined the congregation of Ukrainian Greek Catholics, gathering for the first time since the Russian invasion of their country.
Ukraine is a religious country: more than 80 per cent of its population profess a faith, and the cathedral is a fulcrum for the diaspora in the UK. There were long queues on the pavement outside well before the service began, almost everyone placing a donation into a tub at the door.
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