History and Archival Collections

The Ukrainian Catholic Religious Education Centre: A Short History

Vicky Adams helped establish programme delivery for the first two years of the Centre’s inception, but over the years continued to promulgate the Centre’s activities whenever called upon. She also chaired annual meetings, held to summarize the previous year’s activities for the community at large and, for the sake of financial accountability, to report to the various funding bodies.
Veronica Dudych and Lydia Firman, followed for a short period by Teresa Hryndzio, were employed as office support to Sr. Hilary. Using their expertise, at the request of Sr. Carmela they began to computerize the catechetical programmes and materials produced by her, thus greatly enhancing and enriching the Centre’s archives, which will serve the ministry of catechesis in the future. Elsie Yarish, who is still active at the UCREC, joined the staff in 1991, volunteering three days a week as librarian and as assistant to Sr. Hilary in the office.

In addition to numerous teaching and programming duties, the UCREC staff participated in conferences on the regional and national levels. Sr. Carmela represented the Ukrainian Catholic Church on the Adult Religious Education Advisory Committee for the Canadian Conference of Bishops; Sr. Patricia sat on the executive committee of the Western Religious Education Conference. The Centre has also been an institutional member of the Eastern Catholic Diocesan Directors.

 

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