202 HARCOURT STREET, WINNIPEG, MB R3J 3H3. Dear parishioners,

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1 SUNDAY NOV.25th 2018 SAINT BASIL the GREAT SUNDAY LITURGY 10:00 a.m. (Rosary at 9:30 am) СВ. ВАСИЛІЯ ВЕЛИКОГО Ukrainian Catholic Parish Office Hours (Tues. & Thurs.) Парафія УГКЦ 11:00 am 2:00 pm 202 HARCOURT STREET, WINNIPEG, MB R3J 3H3 Parish Office: Parish Hall: Rev. Fr. Ihor Shved о. Ігор Швед Cell: Address Dear parishioners, We already started Philip s Fast before Christmas. There are different ways use this time for our spiritual growth. The most important is prayer. We are continuing to have our monthly prayer vigil the last Tuesday of the month. On Tuesday, Novemeber 27, 2018, we will again pray for our parish from 10:00am-5:00pm. Thank-you to those who have been faithfully coming to pray. This month, during the fast before Christmas, we expect new prayer warriors join us. Please read the first part of the letter, written by Bishop Benedict (from Chicago), that I have included on pages 67 in this bulletin. It was written for the clergy and faithful of his eparchy about Prayer in Our Parishes and in Our Families. I found it very powerful; I hope it will encourage us to pray more. We need to realize the true power of prayer in our daily lives. Next part of the letter will be published next Sunday. Please sign up for the prayer vigil at the back of the church. Come whenever you can! Even for a short time! God Bless you with peace, joy, and love as we prepare for the feast of the Nativity of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Fr. Ihor 1 CONFESSIONS Before Divine Liturgies BAPTISIMS By appointment FUNERALS By arrangement MARRIAGES: By appointment at least six months in advance WEBSITE: PARISH OFFICE ADDRESS: parish@saintbasilwpg.ca BULLETIN SUBMISSIONS: bulletin@saintbasilwpg.ca We warmly welcome all of our visitors! It s good to have you with us!

2 Time Schedule Feast or Intention, requested by 25 November, Sunday 10:00 AM Divine Liturgy for all parishioners 26 November, Mon. 10:00 AM For the soul of Annie Wartzaba offered by Leon Wartzaba 27 November, Tues. 10:00 AM 7:00 PM For the soul of Peter Rehaluk offered by Sylvia Bohonos Lectio Divina 28 November, Wed. 10:00 AM open 29 November, Thurs. 10:00AM for God's blessing of Sonia Wawryk by prayer partner 30 November, Fri AM For the souls of Anna and John Labay offered by Nick Labay 01 December, Sat. The Funeral services for Fr. Edward D. Evanko 02 December, Sunday 10:00 AM Divine Liturgy for all parishioners, NOTE: All the Liturgies scheduled on the calendar are all open for your intention requests. If you would like to request please contact the office and book your preferred date. These names will be published in the bulletin the following week. PLEASE REMEMBER IN YOUR PRAYERS Dear new parishioners! Welcome to our parish! If you need donation envelopes please come to the office after divine liturgy, and you will given a set with a donation number, and you can use it at tax time. God bless you. 2

3 EPISTLE READERS: God s Blessings for your Happiest Birthday Nov. 25th Catechism Student Dec. 2nd Linda Labay Dec. 9 Noelle Richardson Matthew Baydock Harry Fediuk Sonia Wawryk Robert Hotel Marilyn Slobogian Church Custodians November Martin & Leona Nedweduik Evelyn & Morley Luhowy МНОГАЯ ЛІТА! December John & Edna Bazarkewich GOD S BLESSINGS FOR MANY MORE YEARS OF LOVE & HAPPINESS HAPPY ANNIVERSARY Dear Parishioners, your assistance is welcomed. Please call to pick your month to Robert & Natalia Hotel clean the church.. Thank you. Steve & Gwen Dankewich Sonia Wawryk - Church Cleaning Chair МНОГАЯ ЛІТА Tatsa counters SANCTUARY LIGHT burns eternally to indicate the presence of the Holy Eucharist in the tabernacle. November are Pearl & Gus Groen & Gwen Dankewich DONATIONS God bless you for supporting your parish. Sunday collection for November 18, was $ Nov 25 to Dec. 1 For God s blessings for Robert & Natalia Hotel offered by the Hotel Children Condolonces to the Syliva Bohonos The Sanctuary light has been reserved until January 14, 2019, contact the office for future dates. and family on the passing of her uncle Peter Rehaluk of Dauphin on November 18, Funeral service was held on Nov. 24 at St. Peter & Paul U.C. church in Ethelbert. USHERS & GREETERS Вічная пам ять! Nov. 25 Nellie and Harry Feduik Dec. 2 Iris Sawchuk and Nick Labay Dec. 9 Linda Gardner and Nick Labay 3

4 St. Basil s Parish Mission In preparation for Christmas Thank you to the parishenors who attended and participated in the Holy Mission Led by Archbishop Emeritus of Philadelphia Stefan Soroka. Thank you for your offereings for the mission. UCWLC News: Glory be to Jesus Christ! The Memorial Angels for Christmas are available for sale downstairs. There is a box at the back of the church for food donations for Welcome Home Mission. Your donations are greatly appreciated and will be taken to the mission in December. Welcome Home ministers to families in the north end of the city who may have very little give to their children. Please note the following change for the winter months. We will continue to have the UCWLC meeting on the second Wednesday of the month but have changed the TIME ONLY of our meetings to 12 noon. Father Ihor will have Divine Liturgy at 11:00 am and our meeting will follow at noon. In Christ, Gwen Dankewich Thank you to everyone that came out to help make 599 dozen perogies last month. Your help is much appreciated. Our next Perogy Bee is Wed,Nov. 28th, 8:30am. If you are able, please come out to help. We need a lot of help to make 800 dozen perogies to fill our orders and for the Knights of Columbus Perogy Supper. Chalice After liturgy today November 25 th, please come down to hear Chris Brezden give a presentation on Chalice. It is a Canadian Catholic sponsorship organization bringing hope and help to over 500,000 children and elderly in 56 sponsor sites in 15 developing countries around the world. Learn about the needs of the children in Ukrainie who are waiting for sponsorship. Today you will receive the Chalice Christmas Gift Catalogue which has many wonderful gifts to give to those who live in extreme poverty.they will be waiting for the gifts of HOPE given through the gift catalogue. 100% of the money raised goes directly to people in need. Thank you for your support. In giving you will receive and be blessed! 4

5 His Grace Metropolitan Lawrence Huculak has requested that the clergy and all the faithful of the Archeparchy of Winnipeg be informed that Rev. Father Edward D. Evanko has reposed in the Lord. Вічна йому пам'ять! On behalf of all the faithful of the Archeparchy of Winnipeg, His Grace extends condolences to Fr Evanko s family, colleagues, friends and, especially his former parishioners that he served over the years following his ordination to the priesthood by the late Metropolitan Michael Bzdel in The Funeral services for Fr. Edward are scheduled as follows: Friday, Nov. 30 th 7:00 pm Priestly Parastas at BVM UCC, 965 Boyd Ave, - followed by a lunch and Memorials Saturday, Dec. 1 st 10:00 AM - Funeral Hierarchial Divine Liturgy - Lunch and memorials - Interment at All Saints Cemetery Вічная пам ять! Spiritual reflection from Bishop Benedict Aleksiychuk Each one of us always searches for security in one s life: wants to have an education, work, dwelling place, persons whom he/she trusts, and many more things. We want to feel secure about our future which is why we do this or other things. Concluding from all of this we see how frequently, even though we call ourselves Christians, we look for this security in people or in circumstances. Sometimes we are totally incapable of believing God and we don t teach ourselves to be confident in God. Nothing is certain: people as well as circumstances change, political and economic situations do likewise. No bank, no political system is dependable including all people: today they are our friends, and tomorrow they betray. Thus we can find nothing reliable on earth, only the Lord is constant and unchangeable. This for us is a good indication that we should not rely on anything and in any kind of circumstances learn to look to God for certainty, to trust Him. Always to realize more and more that our very faith in the Savior this is the only thing which can give us security in life. 5

6 Prayer in Our Parishes and in Our Families To Our Clergy, Hieromonks and Brothers, Religious Sisters, Seminarians and Beloved Faithful In the last few years in our Church we often mention the Vibrant Parish strategy. In my opinion, one sign of a vibrant parish lies in its ability to give life and give birth to new, living, vibrant parishioners. A dead or dying parish is unable to give birth to new parishioners, or it will give birth to parishioners who are spiritually dead. In my view, a living parish exists when there are two dimensions present in it vertical and horizontal. The vertical dimension is reflected in our relationship with God, especially in prayer, both personal and communal. The horizontal dimension is that which we underline by the term sobornist (соборність) (catholicity, conciliarity, togetherness) and this entails firstly, communal prayer, but also communal work and the diversity of activities in the parish. I want now to turn your attention first of all to the vertical dimension, which I regard as the most essential. If we are sincere with ourselves, we will admit that we cannot fully appreciate the importance and value of prayer for us. In our Church, I have never heard that a priest has ever received an ecclesiastical award because of the exemplary liturgical services he celebrates in his parish, or because of the high level of his own spiritual and personal prayer life. In speaking about our prayer life, we have to admit that we all have difficulty. Very often we imagine an image of God that is incorrect and generates a fear of Him within us; a fear that the Lord will make demands of us or take something we possess away from us. Often, we don t want to pray because prayer is an encounter with God, like a mirror in which we are afraid to see ourselves in the reality of our true state. In a similar way, a sick person is often afraid to visit his doctor because he is afraid of the diagnosis he may make. In the Ukrainian language, there is a saying that what the eyes don t see will not pain the heart. From our experience, it is possible to analyze and measure everything that touches our physical life. It is the same with prayer, inasmuch as we can measure how much time we dedicate to praying. We have 24 hours in our day, and seven days in our week, totalling 168 hours. The average parishioner in our church spends around 1.5 hours in church on Sunday. Hopefully, he also spends at least 5 7 minutes in prayer morning and evening another 1.5 hours. Together this makes 3 hours of prayer in a week. However, is this truly the case? If so, this paints a sad picture of our prayer life.. 6

7 According to this measure, we give only 2% of our time to God, while we devote 98% of our time to our earthly life and cares, which sooner or later we will have to leave behind at any rate. The average Protestant Christian, by example, spends 4 hours a week in church, not counting private prayer at home. Yet, for us, if the Sunday Divine Liturgy stretches a little beyond an hour, we complain that it is too long! An observant Jew spends a half hour in prayer in the morning and another half hour in the evening in addition to six hours in the synagogue on the Sabbath. We know also that the majority of Muslims pray 5 7 times daily from ten to 30 minutes. Just think all of this comprises from one to three and a half hours daily. How often and how long do we pray on a daily basis? In fact, Muslims adopted the practice of praying 7 times a day from Christians. Today in our Church, the practice of praying 7 times during the course of a day remains only in monasteries. Are we faithfully investing our time? Certainly, if our prayer life was our personal business, we wouldn t be so lax. No thinking person would invest his money in an unprofitable venture, yet we invest almost all our life and our time in something that has no prospects for the future. We realize this, yet we still persist in investing our unique life in something that is completely unprofitable. Yet, sadly, statistics show us that in reality, it is our earthly life that captures our interest and attention and not God or abiding with Him. From this, we can clearly understand that we are not very interested in living our lives with God. What will eternity be like then, where we will spend 24 hours a day, seven days a week with God, forever? Therefore, in order that we learn to love God more, it is imperative that we learn to love less that which is of the earth, to spend less time tied to earthly things, and more time to things that are eternal. What must we do? We must find time for God, and that is time for prayer, both personal and communal. God is a living God, and when we encounter God and prayer is an encounter with God it follows that our parishes, our monasteries, our eparchies, will be alive as well. Dear friends, when we pray everything in us becomes revived. Catechism will be revived, missionary outreach will take place, our parishes will be alive with social and charitable service. Again, I emphasize, we will have vibrant parishes and a vibrant eparchy only when we maintain a constant relationship with the Fountain of Life. The Lord is alive and therefore only He can enliven us. Forgive me for stating categorically that without personal prayer and communal prayer in our parishes, we can achieve nothing good. Even the best thought out plans, decisions and strategies will not produce the desired fruit. They will be dead. It is worthwhile here to recall the words of His Beatitude Lubomyr Husar, which he often repeated: Work as if everything depended on you, and pray as if everything depended on God. BENEDICT Bishop of Saint Nicholas Eparchy October 10, MIDDfmnUbotGG_VSGWjz7e2DepMYA3gWhCGKWlzABm9g8 7

8 KNIGHTS of COLUMBUS Thank you to all the Brother Knights who assisted with the pancake breakfast, thank you to all the parishioners and guests who attended, and help make the event the success that it was. Perogy making this Wednesday November 28th, as there are a lot of Christmas orders, we require the help of the whole parish, contrary to some misconceptions, this is a parish event not the Knights, the brother Knights who assist do so as parishioners, the perogy supper is a Knights event, who split the profits with the UCWLC. This weeks perogy schedule is as follows, potato peeling Monday 26th, 2:00pm, Tuesday 8:00am potato boiling and mixing with cheese, Wednesday 9:00am help is urgently required for, potato ball making, perogy pinching, packaging, boiling, dough making, dough sheeting, dough strippers and pickers, runners etc. as is clearly shown there is something for everyone to do, as a parishioner PLEASE DO YOUR SHARE. Perogy Supper Friday 4 to 7pm Submitted by John Bazarkewich Saint Basil Council Grand Knight From: The Social Committee Thank You Project 2018 Annual Fundraiser Dinner & Draw Thank You to all who supported the event held on November 03, Whether it was through the volunteering of your time to help in any way or through the purchase of dinner & draw or just draw ticket(s) your support is very much appreciated. The fundraiser was a great success with 300, available, tickets sold and resulted in a profit of $7, God s Blessings to All. 8 Five years ago at that time, Ukrainians began gathering at the Maidan, making a civilizational choice to determine the course of their own future. Let s celebrate the courage of the Ukrainian people in their fight for dignity and freedom, and remember those who have sacrificed so much for it.