Please help with your donations! An update from Sister

An update from Sister

Dear Don,

Everything is fine.I just wanted to write a few lines to let you know how we are today, after last night’s massive attack on Ukraine’s energy system. During the night, Russia launched more than four hundred drones and dozens of missiles against different regions of the country, and one of the main targets was the city of Burshtyn, which is very close to here, where one of the most important thermal power plants in all of western Ukraine is located. Since early morning, multiple explosions were heard there, and part of the energy infrastructure was damaged. The target was not residential areas, but the energy system itself: substations, transmission lines, and the facilities that allow electricity to reach the cities.

Here in Ivano-Frankivsk, we were not the direct target, but because the entire national electrical grid is interconnected, when such an important node as Burshtyn is attacked, the consequences are felt throughout the region. The grid has been partially affected, and for this reason the mayor asked us, as a precaution, to store water, because if there are prolonged power outages, the pumps that distribute it may stop working, especially in taller buildings.

For now, the situation is more or less under control, but emergency outages have been implemented throughout the country, and it is likely that we will have scheduled cuts, and sometimes unexpected ones, during the day and in the coming days, while engineers work to stabilize the system. It is something one becomes accustomed to, in a certain way. One learns small gestures of prudence: filling containers with water, keeping phones charged, cooking something simple that does not depend on electricity. They are small things, but they help preserve calm and interior peace.

This is not a dramatic situation for us personally, thanks be to God, although it certainly is for other regions of Ukraine that have been more directly struck and where conditions are severe, with entire cities without heating, water, or electricity. Here, for the moment, we live rather in a quiet fragility, with a deeper awareness of the precariousness of things and of life itself, and of the fact that the only thing that truly matters is reaching Heaven—while at the same time, with a deeper gratitude for each ordinary day.

I simply wanted you to know this, and also to tell you that it is truly incredible how much all the help you have been giving us has helped us, in particular, to live through this difficult situation in a much more bearable and peaceful way. This is very concrete, very real help, which translates directly into rest, into warmth, into light when night falls and everything grows dark, and into a peace that is not only material, but also interior.

Thank you, as always, for your closeness and your prayers. Your presence changes everything, more than words can express.

Thank you again,

sister Cristiana

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