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“You are called to love, to forgive, to be salt and light in a very special way,” His Eminence Archbishop Daniel said in his homily directed at Subdeacon Valentine Olynyk, who in the presence of his wife Olia, children and brothers in the Holy Priesthood awaited the moment of sacred ordination to the Holy Deaconate of the graduate of St. Sophia Ukrainian Orthodox Theological Seminary of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the USA.