--- title: This Orthodox Easter, Ukrainians Are Wrestling With Trauma description: While some are looking to the holiday for healing, others are too traumatized to feel festive. canonical: https://time.com/6169929/ukraine-orthodox-easter/ author: Sanya Mansoor article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2022-04-23T13:15:13.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:54:19.344Z article:section: World og:title: This Orthodox Easter, Ukrainians Wrestle With Trauma og:description: This year, Easter is bringing up complicated feelings for many Ukrainians in the U.S. and in Ukraine og:url: https://time.com/6169929/ukraine-orthodox-easter/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt077bd7b6f2809ff9/698a313222fb851732e2d624/ukraine-easter-01.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: ukraine-easter-01 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: This Orthodox Easter, Ukrainians Wrestle With Trauma twitter:description: This year, Easter is bringing up complicated feelings for many Ukrainians in the U.S. and in Ukraine twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt077bd7b6f2809ff9/698a313222fb851732e2d624/ukraine-easter-01.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # ‘It’s Not Going to Be the Same.’ Ukrainians Wrestle With Trauma This Orthodox Easter > Sponsored content. 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Local citizens attend a worship on Sunday before Easter at the Orthodox Church of Ukraine in Lviv, western Ukraine on April 17, 2022.Hiroto Sekiguchi—The Yomiuri Shimbun/AP  by [Sanya Mansoor](https://time.com/author/sanya-mansoor/)  ## Sanya Mansoor Apr 23, 2022 1:15 PM UTC Vita Olevych, a Ukrainian American in Chicago, is in no mood to celebrate Easter on Sunday. “We don’t feel like we’re in the right headspace to celebrate anything,” Olevych says. “It’s been such a [traumatizing](https://time.com/6163551/mauripol-theater-attack-survivor/) and [difficult couple of weeks](https://time.com/6160811/ukraine-evacuating-kyiv-essay/).” Normally, Olevych, 25, and her husband look forward to attending church for Easter service and preparing for the festival by cleaning their home and making Easter baskets. But this year their minds are focused fully on the Russian invasion of Ukraine, two family members who have sought refuge in their home, and their remaining family members in Chernivtsi**.** “Our days are consumed by checking the news and calling our family to make sure they’re OK,” Olevych says. Easter is one of the most important holidays for Ukrainians around the world, many of whom are Orthodox Christians and typically celebrate Easter a week after Catholics and Protestants do. There are several dozen Ukrainian parishes for the religious branch across the U.S. Like other Christians, Orthodox Christians have 40 days of Lent, followed by Holy Week, which leads up to Easter—but members of the Ukrainian Orthodox church also take part in traditions unique to their culture. Most Ukrainian churches will use pussy willows instead of palms on Palm Sunday because it’s a reminder of what grows in Ukraine. And Ukrainians display uniquely designed Easter eggs known as [_pysanky_](https://time.com/6166140/pysanka-ukraine-easter-egg-history/)_._ This year, however, Easter is bringing up complicated feelings for many Ukrainians in the U.S**.** and in Ukraine. While some are looking to religion and the upcoming holiday for meaning, healing, and community, many say they are finding it difficult to feel the joy typically associated with Easter given the [trauma](https://time.com/6167254/ukraine-photographers-document-war/) caused by [Russia’s invasion of Ukraine](https://time.com/6168330/rape-war-crime-russia-ukraine/). Olevych is exhausted. She spent the last month traveling and working to bring her cousin’s 26-year-old wife, Anastasiia Antoniak, and 5-year-old son, Bohdan, from Ukraine to her home in Chicago to escape the war. On March 4, Olevych flew to Romania, where her cousin had brought Antoniak and Bohdan, and where she twice failed to procure U.S. tourist visas for them. By March 30, she was accompanying them on a flight to Mexico, where they asked for humanitarian parole while driving across the U.S.-Mexico border. Antoniak’s husband, aunt, uncle, parents, and siblings still remain in Ukraine. For some Ukrainian Americans, religion has provided a greater source of comfort. There’s a special spiritual significance for Easter this year, says Olena Lymar, who lives in Chicago and is on the parish board of St. Volodymyr Ukrainian Orthodox Cathedral. “We hope that the resurrection comes after the suffering and death of Christ, and it’s the same idea, that we hope for Ukraine to be resurrected as well,” says Lymar, 25\. “We hope that after this terrible time, Ukraine will find light and peace—and that the Ukrainian people will be able to rebuild their country.”  A woman prays at mass at St. George’s Church on February 27, 2022 in New York City. Alexi Rosenfeld—Getty Images Adrian Mazhur, a deacon with the Holy Trinity Cathedral in Manhattan, has also noticed more Ukrainians coming in for church service since the war began. He believes it’s likely because of the lack of control that people are feeling. “When we look at our congregation, and look into their eyes, you can see the pain and sorrow that there’s not much they can do,” Mazhar says. “That’s the thing that kills us the most, because there’s so much that we can send, so much money that we can give, but at the end of the day, all they need is safety.” Mazhar is pressing on with community efforts regardless, focusing on gathering food, clothes, and toiletries to send to Ukrainian orphanages and refugee camps. Mazhar, who also works at a children’s hospital in New York, says the church school also decorated _pysanky._The church later sold the eggs to raise a few thousand dollars to provide aid to Ukraine. But even he finds it difficult to feel festive at this time. “In the back of our minds, it’s not going to be the same, because I cannot be happy and joyful when my family, my brothers and sisters, are dying and I’m wondering: when is the next bomb going to land?” For Father Vasyl Dovgan, of the St. Nicholas Ukrainian Orthodox Church in Troy, N.Y., celebrating Easter this year means working directly with a colleague in Ukraine to help ensure soldiers on the frontline are equipped with what they need; Dovgan’s church has been sending money to a church in Lviv led by Father Mikola Kavchak to be used for gasoline to help with the delivery of essential supplies. Kavchak has spent the last few weeks personally delivering food and clothes to hotspots across the country. Kavchak told TIME in a phone interview, translated by Dovgan, that many parents of soldiers have been coming to the church, praying for their kids. Kavchak added that his church is planning to have Easter service on Sunday as they usually would. However, instead of holding the service in the middle of the night, they will hold it in the morning because the Ukrainian government says it is unsafe for people to be outside at that time. Kavchak and other priests have been partaking in a Ukrainian tradition to bless a basket full of eggs, bread and meat. This weekend, they will travel to hotspots with the baskets to deliver them to soldiers as part of an effort to boost morale. As Easter approaches, Antoniak is still getting settled in her Chicago home; she recently signed her son up for school in the city’s Ukrainian village neighborhood. But the stress of the last few weeks have taken a toll. During a typical year, both she and Olevych said they would certainly attend Easter service at the church. 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