Svitlana Matsiuk

Svitlana Matsiuk

Svitlana Matsiuk is from Ukraine, and taught English and German at the National Aviation University in Kyiv before joining the Missionary Congregation Servants of the Holy Spirit in 2007. She ministered in Germany, where she started the project "Wanderarbeiter," in which she accompanied the seasonal workers from Eastern Europe. She has also served in the Philippines and in Ukraine, and participated in the formator's course organized by the Salvatorian fathers in Trzebinia, Poland. Currently, she directs the European novitiate of her congregation in Rome. 

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Missionary Sisters Servants of the Holy Spirit novices Liudmyla, Mariia and Anna, with formation director Sr. Svitlana Matsiuk (third from the left) at their formation center in Rome. Two of the novices are from Ukraine and one is from Poland. (Courtesy of Svitlana Matsiuk)

An invitation to look once again at Jesus and follow him

The lack of vocations to religious life is a chance for us to trust God and let the Holy Spirit change everything in our structures and hearts that takes life and does not give it.