Our aged care residents, their families, staff and members of the board were honoured that SBS World News visited and filmed the ceremony at the Kalyna Care Chapel. During the interview the reporter spoke with Bishop Mykola Bychok, our board member Roman Chamula and Professor Marco Pavlyshyn with 102-year-old mother Alexandra. It was a special event.

We are grateful for SBS’s support and pleased to share with others how Kalyna Care brings the cultures and traditions of Europe to life every day.

Click here to read the news story.

Residents of Kalyna Care and their family members attended mass held in our hall at 5pm on Christmas Eve, 2016. The Residents enjoyed a traditional Ukrainian feast.

On the evening of January 6, the night before Epiphany, children watch for the emergence of the first star in the eastern sky, and the family dinner commences. In recognition of the country’s agricultural past, a sheaf of wheat, called a didukh, is brought into the home, and the family’s traditional twelve-dish Christmas dinner commences.

After dinner, it is common for families to follow their meal up with Ukrainian carols, either in their homes, or as a part of groups that travel through the community, singing and collecting donations.

We hope that all our residents and families enjoyed this special day.

We wish to say a special thank you to the Sisters of St. Basil for providing our residents with Kolach and Kutia.

Anna Bryndzia and Ksenia Popowycz presented His Beatitude with a bouquet of roses and volumes of Kalyna Care’s ‘Your Story Book’.

His Beatitude then had a tour of our home, followed by the signing of the icon, which now hangs in our Chapel.

We wish to say a special thank you to the Sisters of St Basil for providing the Holy bread.