“I just watch on TV all the horrible things that are happening,” she said. “I feel very unable to do anything, so I think praying is my only way that I can help the people in Ukraine and maybe change some things that are happening in the world.”
Her family, she revealed, is originally from Ukraine. Her parents came to the U.S. as immigrants fleeing the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany. Now, she said, she sees the past repeating itself.
“Just watching these immigrants, it sort of hits me at home because that’s what my parents did,” she urged.
Luba was born in Detroit right after World War II. But while she was born here, she says that now, her heart is Ukraine.
She currently has family in western Ukraine, near Lviv. For now, she hears, they are still doing fine.
Her husband, Joe, added that “it’s very unfortunate what’s going on there and very sad people want to invoke their will on a country that just wants to be free.”
The 74 year old told CNA that he came to the shrine “first to support my wife.”
“I’m not Ukrainian,” he said, “but we’ve had a very close family since we were married almost 50 years ago and Ukrainian culture has become my culture.”
He also came, he said, to support the courageous people of Ukraine.
Luba highlighted that the consecration was not only for Ukraine, but also for Russia: “I think that that’s also important to stress, that hopefully there will be conversion there.”
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Katie Yoder is a correspondent in CNA’s Washington, D.C. bureau. She covers pro-life issues, the U.S. Catholic bishops, public policy, and Congress. She previously worked for Townhall.com, National Review, and the Media Research Center.
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