Oksana:
Christ is Risen! For the glory of the great God’s Mercy, I give testimony about the Lord’s help and grace in resolving difficult life troubles in my family’s life. In a miraculous way, the Lord helped my husband pass a very difficult exam. This exam was so difficult that only one out of five managed to pass it. And my husband, although not noted for exceptional intellectual abilities, successfully passed this trial. We asked Father Oleg to pray for this intention in private prayers, and also directly on the day of the exam we gave the priest a note with a request for the Divine Service. The Lord helped. Father, we thank you for your prayer!!!
I also want to testify about another miracle: right before the beginning of Great Lent, I wrote to Father Oleg and asked him to pray that the Lord would help me to observe this important period of Christian life in holiness, practicing restraint from food, idle talk, and other temptations. The Father said that he would pray. And to my great surprise, probably for the first time in my life, I observed this Lent in a way I had never been able to before, even though during this time we went through many difficulties and problems, including the funeral of a close person. But despite all these life challenges, the Lent passed in inner peace and tranquility. On Easter, my heart was filled with joy, harmony, comfort, and gratitude to the Lord God. And also – during Lent, I lost 9 kg. I sincerely thank the Lord and Father Oleg for his prayer. His prayer is incredibly powerful. May the Lord grant Father Oleg strong health, send His generous blessings, and protect him!!!
And I also want to give testimony to how Fr. Oleg's prayer helped once again. My uncle died before Easter, and during the last year of his life, he was sick with cancer. The doctors warned us that he would not live long. We were very worried, because my uncle had never gone to Holy Confession throughout his life. Although we repeatedly talked to him about it, all our conversations ended in an argument. But we did not give up and always, whenever we were in Ivano-Frankivsk at Father Oleg's for Holy Mass, we prayed for my uncle's conversion. However, everything seemed hopeless. Yet, God's power is infinite. My uncle died on Friday, and on Thursday before his death, he allowed a priest to be called, and being conscious and strong, he sincerely confessed, because on Friday it would have been too late. So, it is hard to believe, but all of this is God’s power and grace. Indeed, what is impossible in human understanding is always possible with God. We thank the Lord God and Father Oleg, who prayed for our uncle more than once.
2017-02-21 · translated from Ukrainian · original, no. 42