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Editorial THE HOLY FAMILY Christmas, unlike any other holiday, has a strange drawing power. At this time, we all have a desire to be in the close circle of our families. We reminisce about Christmases past and expect to experience something special every Christmas. These recollections and expectations are as if the Christmas star were calling us to sit down at the dinner table with those closest to us. One of the things drawing us home is the picture of the Holy Family. The little infant with Mary and Joseph bending over him: this love for the baby Jesus give the poor stable warmth and magic. It has made the star shine brightly over the stable, drawing shepherds, wise men, and all living creatures to warm their hearts with the love radiating from the Holy Family. These days wew are surrounded by many splendors brought us by technology. Sometimes, our goals are not clear to us, often leading us .... nowhere. These bright prospects often darken the bright Christmas star, which leads us to true happiness, which is born out of love, for love. The sea of lights on the streets, the piles of brightly wrapped presents often draw our attention away from the star and the stable with the Holy Family. In the same way, the world often draws the young person’s attention away from the family, the source of happiness and love without which man’s life becomes empty and meaningless. In these grim days, constantly bringing us news of terrors, violence, cruelty to others, it is difficult for a young person to find his place in the world. Thus emphasis is constantly being placed on the family as a social unit, giving indivi duals the strength they need. The World Congress of Free Ukrainians has proclaimed this a decade of the Ukrainian family, naming the Sichko family the family of the year. The Education Committee of the UNWLA XIX Convention has dedicated its reports to the family. But can research and reports help those who care following paths of egoism and egocentrism? Respect for the family is developed and preserved by love, respect, knowing how to give. A warm family atmosphere ties one to the family; the luxurious homes with artificial lighting will not warm up the heart and soul. Man is born with the spark of love in his heart, a spark which must be bred into a flame in the warmth of the family. Love warmed the baby Jesus in the stable. Love beamed as a star in the sky. U.L. Translated by M. Jarymowycz LIDIA WOWK AND HER ART Today Lidia Wowk’s life is filled with color, vibrancy, and joy. It, however, was not always so. Mrs. Wowk, together with her husband, D. Harry Wowk, now a retired Huntingdon College math professor, and her daughters Nadia (Mrs. John Cameron) and Olia (Olia Gault of Washington, D. C.) once lived in Poltava, Ukraine. Mrs. Wowk, a full-time teacher, had little time for handicrafts. Nonetheless, she somehow managed to find time for some needlework, which she enjoyed tremendously. The Wowks, too have been making colorful Easter Eggs each year for over 30 years now. These peaceful days in Poltava, unforti nately, turned into grim war years. And the three years Lidia Wowk and her family had spent in a Czechoslovakian displaced person’s camp were gloomy indeed. These days Lidia Wowk’s world is a bright one. She still enjoys doing needlework, she loves to cook and work with flowers, and now most recently, just about 12 years ago, she began to paint. Now Lidia will spend as much as four hours daily putting her emotions, her joy together with an extra measure of sensitivity, in colors on large canvases. Lidia Wowk’s paintings have won awards in shows, are presently on display in private collections, and in 1976 were chosen to represent the Ukraine in a Bicentennial exhibit at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis. Now, two years after her first one-man art exhibit in Goodwyn Hall Gallery of Auburn University at Montgomery, Lidia Wowk is painting as brilliantly as ever, still expressing her own special emotions in her own special way. M. Jarymowycz (from the Montomery Advertiser Journal. Feb. 5, 1978) Видання C оюзу Українок A мерики - перевидано в електронному форматі в 2012 році . A рхів C У A - Ню Йорк , Н . Й . C Ш A.
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