No.

March 2015

Agape Monthly
St. Joseph Ukrainian
Greek-Catholic Church
pastor

Fr. Mykola buryadnyk

associate pastor

Fr. Volodymyr Kushnir

editor in chief

Fr. Myron Panchuk

Contents
page 3, . 3

Facing a Triple Crisis - Bishop Borys Gudziak

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page 4, . 4,

Julian Hayda

The Ladder of Divine Ascent - Fr. Stephen Freeman

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staff writer

. 6, page 6

editor

Volodymyr Beglov

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The Lay Elders - Serhiy Shumylo in Ukrainian
. 14, page 14

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Stations of the Cross? - Eugene Iwankiw in Ukrainian


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Lenten Pastoral of Patriarch Sviatoslav
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Bishop Borys Gudziak

Facing a Triple Crisis

Ukraine is facing a tri ple crisis: an economic chasm,
the political challenge of reforming entirely the elite, the
administration, the political culture at a time of the third
critical factor war is really an incredible challenge, said Bishop Borys Gudziak.

For society, for the population one very important thing

is to try and remember well
its successful methodology, the
methodology of a year ago, when
great solidarity was expressed and
the people of Ukraine really began
believing that they can affect
change. It becomes very difficult
when we dont believe, if we
loose spirit and its not surprising
with all of these crises if people of
Ukraine are getting tired, are getting a bit anxious about the future.
When will this end? How can it
end? So I think the moral question
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and the question of moral is very

important for Ukraine today, the
bishop told Hromadske Internationals Nataliya Gumenyuk.
Ukrainian lawmakers and ordinary citizens alike need to start
thinking about how to reconcile
the war-torn country, Bishop
Gudziak said. While reconciliation
might seem an impossible task
right now, it is not.
Bishop Gudziak spoke about
reconciliation between French and
Germans after World War II, as
well as the Ukrainians and the
Poles as examples of how enemies
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can mend relations. Both reconciliations once seemed impossible, but

occurred in the bishops lifetime.
The same type of reconciliation is
possible in Ukraine, the bishop
said.
As part of the reconcilation
process, Russia and Ukraine will
also have to mend their relationship.
The first step to make is to
realise that Donbas will not move
to Texas, Russia will not split off
with Antarctica and become a separate continent from Ukraine. We
are, so to speak, condemned to
seek reconciliation. It will require
soul-searching, it will require an
examination of conscious . I
know for a fact that Russians will
have to face up to the question of
this aggression, and why they supported their leader in this aggression, otherwise the reconciliation
will be impossible. We need to
look and find those people who
can speak the truth, who can recognise the truth and find ways of
communicating it to others, the
bishop said.
Bishop Guzdiak said it was
frustrating to see how slowly reforms were taking place in Ukraine
and mentioned that one year after
the shootings on Maidan, it was
saddening to think that the shooters had not been brought to justice,
or even identified.
Gumenyuk asked the bishop
about the international communitys role in the conflict in Ukraine.
Bishop Gudziak said the West is
slowly realizing the crisis in
Ukraine and war on the countrys
eastern border is a thread to European security as well Ukrainian
sovereignty.
March 2015

Ladder
of
Divine
Ascent

here is something
about charts, methods, tables and the
like that always make
me react in a negative
manner. There is a form of
rationalism that, for me,
simply screams, This is the
work of man. A Linaeus
can invent a table for classifying nature and Im
sure that biologists find it
very helpful. But there is
something irrational at the
same time about nature in
which everything resists
classification.
Fr. Stephen FREEMAN

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The

most frustrating example

of this was my experience in geology
lab in college. I always did well with
the book and the lectures, rarely making
a mistake on exams in that area of the
course. But one day per week was given
over to lab work. In geology this consisted of boxes of rocks. Each of the
boxes were labeled. We experimented
and learned to use the various techniques for identifying qualities that
would allow us to say, This is feldspar, or This is quartzite, etc.
I would go every week and do
everything I was told. Indeed I strained
what brain I had to learn these classifying techniques. The exam would finally
came. And, surprise, the rocks we had
to identify were samples we had never
seen. We had seen other samples of
similar rocks, but not these particular
rocks.
My frustration was that I was
invariably learning what a rock was by
learning that particular rock. I invariably flunked the lab test. This is probably
only a revelation about the way my
brain is wired. But it left me suspicious
of classifications. I know they are real
but my brain just wont work that way.
This month, the Church celebrates St. John Climacus, the
author of the great spiritual classic known as the Ladder. It offers 30 steps in the spiritual life, with the notion
that we cannot go from one rung of the ladder to the
next without mastering what has gone before. It is orthodoxys 12 steps, only, of course, there are 30 of them.
The Ladder makes for good Lenten reading. Each
topic is worthy of everything that is written. I have even
gleaned insight into various things by reading it. But I
have always wondered if thats exactly how things work.
First this step, then that one.
It may be a general description, but I suspect that
grace works in a less predictable fashion. As far as I can
tell I am still on the first rung. I know some things and
even have experience of other rungs, mastery of none.
My own ladder is to pray for grace for whatever
rung lies before me. The sin that threatens me at any
given moment. I suppose its a spontaneous ladder.
What is truly amazing about St. John, was that he
knew the spiritual life so well, and was in such a state of
soul, that he could write authoritatively about so many
vices and virtues. Perhaps his prayers will hold the ladder steady so that lesser souls such as mine may climb
with care the ladder God has set before us.
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A man of insight told me this: "

I was
once sitting at an assembly,"he said.
The demon of vainglory and the demon
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of pride came to sit on either side of me.
One poked me with the finger of vainglory and encouraged me to talk publicly about some vision or labor of mine in
the desert. I shook him off with the
words, 'Let those who wish me harm be
driven back and let them be
ashamed' (Ps. 39:15). Then the demon
on my left at once said in my ear, 'Well
done! Well done! You have become
great by conquering my shameless
mother.' Turning to him I answered
appropriately, making use of the rest of
the verse, 'Defeat and shame on all who
say, "
Well done! Well done!""
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it, I asked him, that vainglory is the
mother of pride?"His answer was this,
Praise exalts and puffs me up, and
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Most Reverend Metropolitans, Archbishops and Bishops,

Very Reverend and Reverend Fathers, Venerable Religious and Monastics,
Beloved Brothers and Sisters, in Ukraine and throughout the world
Glory to Jesus Christ!
Lent - a special period of the liturgical year, a spiritual awakening and cleaning. The Lord encourages
us to attention and reflect on personal life, our relationship to God and neighbor; invites us to test how
well we experience the historical circumstances in which we have to pass this year path of Lent.
Our relationship to God is our faith. Living in complete trust in God and witness His active presence in
our lives through prayer, we find in him a source of hope - become strong His power and His love gives
us new life. To live with faith in God - means continually updated. In particular, during the Lenten journey we must endure "spiritual reform-renewal" - turning to God.
This conversion we traditionally call repentance, directing all thoughts, desires and aspirations to God,
the restoration of the ability to fight evil, strengthening resistance lies. True repentance is not only deep
inner nature and is not just our personal relationship with God. Just as sin spreads around us death and
destruction, conversion to our Creator has the ability to beneficially affect our society. That is why the
post - period conversion, penance and prayer - we call time revival, renewal and healing believer, and
through it the whole society - the power and action of the Holy Spirit.
Fighting evil, falsehood and sin is a matter not only of individuals. As people able to resist aggression
attacker only united, together, just personal spiritual revival of Christian life is impossible without upgrading its relations with neighbors. No real fasting and prayer without charity, as you can not love God
without noticing pain neighbor. On this occasion, the Lord tells us, "That's Fast, dating, break the
shackles of injustice, to undo the yoke solved at liberty to release the oppressed, to break every yoke,
his bread with the hungry to share, enter the house of the poor, the homeless, seeing naked, wear it on
your brother not hide "(Isa. 58: 6-7). Like St. Augustine teaches, noting that the first step in the Lenten
journey be a step towards the neighbor: "Love your neighbor and then look inside himself where this
nascent love of God and see how you would be possible" (Treatise on the Gospel of John 17, 7-9).
By calling us to repentance conscience - the voice of God in our souls, our true "I", which will meet
with the light of God's truth. Right experienced Lent strengthens this voice allows us to better hear it,
not silence it without losing the brightness of God's truth in our hearts and not gone astray.
However, not only a few people can zamulyuvaty his conscience and indulge in self-deception. History
and reality show us that this state of flow goals of society. Therefore, every person, society also needs
renovation, conversion and look at themselves in the light of Truth.
Christian love is manifested in social terms as social justice. Conversely, social injustice is both evil and
falsehood and sin. That's why the first step in a national repentance should be a revival of justice for
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those who are weakest, the most vulnerable and most in need. "Blessed is he that considereth the poor
and needy - in hard times God will save it" (Ps. 41: 2).
The court shall cease to be valid if not looking for the truth, and the judge - when acting against God's
truth and His law.
One of the indicators of social conscience in the state is the judiciary, as evidence of the moral health of
the state is a fair trial, which is the basis for a viable law of God. This Court is meeting point between
God's truth and personal and social life of the citizen. It ceases to be valid if not looking for the truth,
and the judge - when acting against God's truth and His law. Lord instructs judges words of Scripture:
"Look what you're doing, because you are doing is not for the court, as to the Lord, and he shall be with
you when you judge. Suppose, therefore, will you fear the Lord: proceed with caution because the Lord
our God, there lies no storonnychosty or pidkupstva "(2 Chron. 19, 5-7). Earthly judges must not forget
that before God and they defendants because he calls himself Lord Judge and Final Judgment - "highest
authority" - leaves himself, for his "judgment is righteous" (cf. Jn. 5, 30).
We all know that the unjust court can be an instrument of violence and reprisals against human, means
of repression and neglect the dignity of the whole nation. Each wrong and injustice impressive, but
wrong and injustice which people undergo where it should protect against injustice strikes and hurts
much stronger and denies hope. In our country most people feel helpless just before the judiciary, as is
the need for judicial reform in us or not acute.
And fast, and reforms need to self, work on yourself, which can even be painful. This year, the preparation of the Passover of the Lord will be marked scourge of war and economic hardship. Let our endurance in the struggle for freedom and a better future of their people updated through voluntary self-denial
for renewal of private and public life, personal sacrifice for the victory of love over hatred.
We Christians know that the result of this reform, renewal depends not only on us, and on our first accord with God by keeping two prerequisites real fast - prayer and almsgiving. Prayer opens us to God,
He invites us to act, and charity, to others and the overcoming of injustice in the world, is voluntary
mortification of our evil inclinations for pilgrimage to the resurrection.
Let renewed strength of the Christian faith, hope and love gives us certainty in the inevitability of the
victory of God's justice over injustice - the victory over every enemy, internal and external, that rebels
against God and the dignity of man, created in His image and likeness. "Nevertheless, brethren, rejoice,
strive for excellence, get excited, be of one mind, live peacefully, and the God of love and peace shall be
with you" (II Cor. 13, 11).

Delivered in Kyiv
at the Patriarchal Cathedral of the Resurrection,
the Feast of the Three Hierarchs: Basil the Great, Gregory the Theologian, John Chrysostom,
February 12, 2015 Anno Domini
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March 2015

Bishop Hryhory Komar

To preach during Lenten Mission
At St. Joseph Church
Biography

The Lenten Mission will begin on Sunday,

March 22nd, during each of the Divine Liturgies. It will then continue through Wednesday,
March 25th at 6:30pm . It will be delivered in
English and Ukrainian.

ishop Hryhory (Komar) was

born on June 19 1976 in the village of Letnya of the Drohobych
region of the Lviv Oblast.

Upon completion of his high

school studies at the Lishnyan
School, he began his priestly formation at the Lviv Seminary of the
Holy Spirit in 1994 and was ordained to the priesthood by Bishop
Julian (Voronovsky) on April 22,
2001 as a celibate priest.
Father Hryhory Komar continued his studies at the Pontifical Oriental Institute in Rome and received
a licentiate in Eastern Theology in
June 2003. Upon his return he was
appointed the pro-rector and economos of the Drohobych Seminary.
Father Hryhory was assigned as
an associate pastor to the Parish of
Christ the Lover of Mankind in the
town of Stebnyk from 2004-2006,
and in December of 2006 to the ParNo. 5

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ish of the Dormition of the Mother

of God in Drohoych.
In 2010 he was appointed as
censor of the Sambir-Drohobych
Eparchy and as a consulter in the
Theology Department of the Patriarchal Curia by His Beatitude Sviatoslav.
On March 5 2012, Bishop Jaroslav (Pryriz) appointed Father Hryhory as proto-syncellus of the Sambir-Drohobych Eparchy.
His Holiness Pope Francis approved the election of Father Hryhory Komar as auxiliary bishop of
the Sambir-Drohobych Eparchy by
the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Synod
of Bishops on June 25, 2014 and
bestowed upon him the title of the
See of Aksee.
Bishop Hryhory is fluent in the
Ukrainian, Italian, English, Polish,
and Russian languages.
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Manna Cards
For the
great fast

MANNA FAQ
Why should buy one of
these cards?

by Manna-Jo

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they? An easy way to contribute more money to St Joseph the
Betrothed without spending any
extra money on your part. The
money you have budgeted or set
aside for purchases is used to buy
Manna cash cards, and the vendor
makes a donation to St. Joseph.
You still have the same amount of
money to do your shopping!
Where are you going this
week and what are you spending
money on?
We all buy gas
(Exxon, Shell, Sams Club, Marathon), we all buy groceries (Whole

Foods or Marianos? Jewel or

Meijer? Caputo or Walmart?), we
all eat out at some point. Because
its Lent, we may be eating more
salads (Chipotle, Subway, Chilis)
or more fish (Red Lobster, Burger
King, Outback, Arbys). Panera
now offers a broth-based soup.
Coffee anyone? We have Starbucks and Dunkin Donuts cards.
Lets see how easy it is to incorporate Manna cash cards into
your life. Mary and Joe want to
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give more to St.
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Joseph, but there
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money left at the
end of the month.
So they look at their
budget and decide to buy gas, grocery and some entertainment Manna cash cards on a weekly basis.
Friday night, Joe goes to the gas
station and because he is not using
cash anymore, he doesnt have to
go inside to prepay. He simply
slides the Manna cash card into
the slot on the pump and waits for
the pump to register the amount of
available credit on his Manna
cash card. After he pumps
the gas, he picks up Mary
and the kids and they go to
dinner, using a Manna cash
card. After dinner, they see a
movie using a Manna cash
card, and stop at the store for
the milk and bread needed
for breakfast using a Manna
cash card. They have not
altered their routine, they
have altered their payment
method. Before, St. Joseph
did not get any extra money. With
the Manna cash cards, Mary and
Joe still do the same things at the
same price, but the vendors have
given St. Joseph a donation.
Pick up a list of Manna cash
cards available in the vestibule or
the church office, or email us at
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and we will send you a list. Over
200 vendors participate in Manna
cash cards, find your favorites
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St Joseph the Betrothed

receives a donation when a
Manna card is purchased.
You are supporting
your church.

I bought a $50 Manna card what if I only spend $24, What

happens to the card?

The card comes with a preset limit already active on

the card. A $50 card carries
$50 in value, so if
you only use $24, the
balance of $26 remains on
the card for future use.

I used the whole value of the

card. Can I reload the same
card?

St Joseph the Betrothed

receives a donation when a
Manna card is purchased. If
you reload a used card. St
Joseph does not get a donation.

I don't shop near St Joseph's

Manna card are good at any

location for that particular
store, even in other states.

This card says it is a gift

card. I don't have any "gift"
occasions coming up.

Manna cards are not Just for

gifts! They are a great way
to budget - use them for all
your own personal shopping
needs.
March 2015

This Week
CANDLES FOR March 2015
Memorial Candles
* For the Nebesna Sotnya and all
fallen
soldiers
of
Ukraine
(Kurylyuk,
Sabetskii,
Bodnar
Families)
*Available

Perpetual Oil Lamp

*Available

Lady of Hoshiw Shrine

* Available
* Available

Mother of God Shrine

* In loving memory of Anna, William, Walter, Andrew, Stanley,
Maria, and Joseph Zubrycky (L.
Zubrycky)
* Available

Iconostas Icon Vigil

Christ the Teacher
* Available
* Available

Mother of God
* Health for the Cozur and Sauciuc
Families
* Available

St. Joseph the Betrothed

* Available

St. Nicholas the Wonderworker

* Available
* Available

SUNDAY, MAR 8TH 3RD SUNDAY OF GREAT LENT (G)

8:00 AM Health and blessings for Lilya Vilchyk (L Swytnyk); +Doug

Goeters (Eleanor Goeters)
9:30 AM - In thanksgiving (Larissa Yatskiv); +Tania (Zenia); +Walter
Bilanycz (Family)
11:30 AM For the sick and shut ins of the parish; +Erica, +Margaret,
+Unsoon, +Marion (Dr. Podlusky)

MONDAY, MAR 9TH 40 MARTYRS OF SEBASTE (G) FINDINGS OF THE HEAD OF JOHN THE BAPTIST(J)
6:30 PM LENTEN SERVICE

TUESDAY MAR 10TH - MARTYRS CODRATUS & OTHERS (G)

PARTRIARCH TARASIUS (J)

6:30 PM LENTEN SERVICE

WEDNESDAY, MAR 11TH MID LENT (G) BISHOP PORPHYRIUS (J)

6:30 PM Health for Orest; +Bohdan, +Natalka

THURSDAY, MAR 12TH MARTYR CONFESSOR THEOPHANE (G) CONFESSOR PROCOPIUS (J)
6:30 PM LENTEN SERVICE

FRIDAY, MAR 13TH RELICS OF NICEPHORUS (G)

CONFESSOR BASIL (J)

6:30 AM Health for Orest; +Bohdan, +Natalka

SATURDAY, MAR 14TH ALL SOULS SATURDAY

9:00 AM Health for Orest; +Ivan, +Maria, +Myron, +Tetyana, +Emilia,
+Omeleon, +Kateryna, +Marian, +Mychailo, +Natalka, +Bohdan and for
all souls in need of prayer

SUNDAY, MAR 15TH 4TH SUNDAY OF GREAT LENT (G)

3RD SUNDAY OF GREAT LENT (J)

8:00 AM For the sick and shut ins of the parish; Health and blessings
for Lilya Vilchyk (L Swytnyk)
9:30 AM - In thanksgiving (Larissa Yatskiv); Health for Orest; +Walter
Bilanycz (Family)
11:30 AM Health for Olga Kykta; +Erica, +Margaret, +Unsoon,
+Marion (Dr. Podlusky)

Protection of the mother of God

Thank you for Last Sundays Collections:

* Inloving memory of Lubomira

Rudakewych (M&V Prichtchevski)
* Available

Sunday Collections $3,378.00

Capital Improvement $1,370.00
Utilities $22.00

Keep in your prayers:

Lucille Maryniw - Olga Kykta Stephie Worobec - Helen Melinyshyn -John Melinyshyn
Anne Pyshny - Ksenia Danylynshyn - John Masley John Zaobidny - Swiatoslaw Stadnyk - Sean Patterson Josephine Bereza-Reed Meersman
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2ND SUNDAY OF GREAT LENT (J)

Renovation $ 5.00
Other $45.00
Total $4,820.00
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Musical Lenten Mission with Julian Kytasty

A tapestry of chants and dumas, retelling ancient lenten meditations of the kobzari and lirnyky. Accompanied by his old-world style Bandura, Julian Kytasty's
music flows from lamenting Christ's passion to themes
of death and life, penance and forgiveness. Most recently, Julian Kytasty recorded the soundtrack to the
Academy-Award nominate film "The Guide." The
performance will take place inside of the darkened St.
Joseph Church, lit by candles, saints painted on its
walls, at 7pm on Saturday, March 21st.

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Charitable Tax Statement

To request an end of the year charitable tax statement, please call the office at 773-625-4806 or you
can stop in during office hours. Thank you!

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Sorokousty

This is a Lenten service, during which memorial prayers are read for all who have fallen asleep in the Lord.
If you would like our priests to pray for your deceased
loved ones, please submit the names on the envelopes
which can be found at the entrance of the church.
Sorokousty will be served every Saturday after the
9:00 am Divine Liturgy beginning on Saturday, 28th
of February. Remember, praying for deceased relatives and friends is an obligation of every Christian.

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Collection for Orphans

Announcing a collection of things for the development

of the musculoskeletal system. For orphans, ages 6 to
17. Chervonograd school-orphanage, Lviv region UA.
Collecting: fabric, beads, buttons, thread; art projects
(such as mosaics, jewelry, crafts) Also school supplies, personal care items (new) March 15 at 1 pm,
special family packing event will be held at
the church of St. Joseph The Betrothed. Where you
could leave your items. Thank you!
www.ukrainianwomeninbusines.com 773-837-6262

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SPIRIT OF ST. JOSEPH

Meeting on Tuesday, March 17 - 11:30 AM in our Church Hall. All are invited for a special lunch and fun afternoon. Members are reminded to bring items (gently used - no clothing) that you no longer need and someone else
can use. These will be used for our White Elephant Raffle at our next meeting - in April..
All are invited for a special lunch and fun afternoon. $6.00-Members; $10.00 guests. RSVP by March 12. Barb
Gawaluck 773-625-4487, Olga Kozak 773-625-8185.
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Lenten Schedule
- Sundays:
8:00am . /Divine Liturgy
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9:30am . /Divine Liturgy

/Ukrainian

11:30am . /Divine Liturgy

/Childrens

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Divine Liturgy, Sorokousty
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Wednesdays and Fridays:

6:30am ...
Presanctified Liturgy
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Sundays and Feast Days during
Divine Liturgies.

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