Members of Sisters of the Order of St. Basil the Great living and ministering in Jenkintown were featured in a story by the National Catholic Reporter for their efforts in supporting Ukrainian soldiers, especially those who have been severely wounded.
The sisters in the “Ukrainian American enclave” have been visiting soldiers residing in greater Glenside, distributing food to recent Ukrainian arrivals, and sending needed humanitarian supplies to the war front.
“We can’t disregard it,” Sister Joann Sosler, the provincial superior in Jenkintown, said about the war. “It’s part of our lives. It’s united us as an order and as a concerned community — with concern for the people of Ukraine and of our sisters in ministry at unsafe locations [in Ukraine].”…