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1 Парафія Святого Василія Великого St. Basil the Great Ukrainian Catholic Parish th Street, Edmonton, Alberta, T6H 3B9 Phone Fax Website: OFFICE HOURS: Monday to Friday: 9 to Noon & 1 to 4:30 Volume 53 December 23, 2018 No. 51 Sunday before Christmas St. Paul s Letter to the Hebrews 11:9-10, 17-23, Matthew 2:13 23 CHURCH SERVICES SATURDAY: Div. Liturgy: 7am (Eng./Ukr.) SATURDAY: Vespers at 6 pm SATURDAY: Div. Liturgy: 7pm (Eng./Ukr.) SUNDAY: Matins at 8 am (Eng.) Divine Liturgy: 9 am (Ukr. sung) Community Rosary: 10:35 am Divine Liturgy: 11 am (Eng. sung) Divine Liturgy: 7 pm (Eng./Ukr.) HOLY DAYS OF OBLIGATION: Divine Liturgy: 7 am (Eng./Ukr.) Matins - 7:45 am Divine Liturgy: 10 am (Eng./Ukr.) Divine Liturgy: 7 pm ( Eng./Ukr.) MINOR FEAST DAY: Divine Liturgies: 7 am, 10 am, 7 pm Matins - 7:45 am, * If this is on a Friday, the 9 am Div. Lit. is omitted in the chapel FRIDAY: Divine Liturgy: 7 am; Matins - 7:45 am, Divine Liturgy: 9 am (Eng.) CONFESSIONS: 10 minutes before Divine Liturgies on Saturdays and Sundays; or by appointment at other times. MARRIAGES: By appointment at least 8 months in advance. Also, Membership in the Parish is mandatory. BAPTISMS & FUNERALS: By arrangement. Basilian Fathers serving the Parish: Fr. Josaphat (Jo) Tyrkalo, OSBM, Superior & Pastor Fr. Mark Zazula, OSBM, Vicar & Assistant Fr. Thomas Kobak, OSBM, 2nd Assistant Bro. Dmytro Borovets, OSBM Basilian Fathers Director & Students: Fr. Iryney Valyavka, OSBM; Director of Studies Bro. Peter Pitchko, OSBM - Student Youville Nursing Home: Fr. Boniface Malowany, OSBM Fr. Myron Chimy, OSBM Sisters Servants of Mary Immaculate: Sr. Anne Pidskalny, SSMI, Superior Sr. Zoe Bernatsky, SSMI, Sr. Veronica SSMI, Sr. Petronella SSMI Phone: St. Basil s Cultural Centre: Chef Joe Phone: stbasilsculturalcentre@shaw.ca Celo Vesnivka Phone: Camp St. Basil: campstbasil@shaw.ca

2 Church Services and Meetings this week Sunday, December 23: Sunday before the Nativity of our Lord, Jesus Christ (Christmas) Lighting of the Pylypiwka Candle before the 9 am & 11 am Divine Liurgies 8 am Matins 9 am - Divine Liturgy, Ukrainian sung 10:35 am - Communal Rosary 11 am - Divine Liturgy, English sung 11 am - Bozhi Dity 7 pm - Divine Liturgy Monday, December 24: 7 am - Divine Liturgy, 7:45 am Matins Evening: CHRISTMAS EVE 8 pm Divine Liturgy 10 pm Compline and Divine Liturgy Tuesday, December 25: CHRISTMAS DAY OFFICE IS CLOSED 10 am Divine Liturgy Wednesday, December 26: Synaxis of BVM (Holy Family) OFFICE IS CLOSED 7 am - Divine Liturgy, 7:45 am Matins 10 am Divine Liturgy 7 am - Divine Liturgy Thursday, December 27: Feast of St. Stephen OFFICE IS CLOSED 7 am - Divine Liturgy, 7:45 am Matins 10 am Divine Liturgy 7 am - Divine Liturgy Friday, December 28: 7 am - Divine Liturgy 7:45 am - Matins 9 am - Divine Liturgy in Chapel. NO Adoration in Chapel Saturday, December 29: 7 am - Divine Liturgy 6 pm - Vespers 7 pm - Divine Liturgy OFFICE IS CLOSED Sunday, December 30: Sunday after the Nativity (Christmas) 8 am Matins 9 am - Divine Liturgy, Ukrainian sung 10:35 am - Communal Rosary 11 am - Divine Liturgy, English sung 11 am - Bozhi Dity 7 pm - Divine Liturgy

3 Prayer intention for December: In the Service of the Transmission of Faith: That people, who are involved in the service and transmission of faith, may find, in their dialogue with culture, a language suited to the conditions of the present time. Ushers for December 23-9 am Divine Liturgy: Al Koper, Dennis Leonard, Marshall Maik, Ray Prysko, Walter Yakimets, Ushers for December am Divine Liturgy: Al Ambrock, Murray Pitchko, Dennis Pawlowski, Jerry Pasternak, Hank Gongos. Remember the sick, the lonely, and the elderly in your prayers, and try to visit them: Tillie Chichak, John Chichak; Fr. Myron Chimy, OSBM; Gordon (Bud) Conway; Fr. Justin Ewaschyshyn, OSBM (Mundare); Ed Ewaskiw; Dora Faryna; Alexandra Kasowski; Janice Klatchuk; Joyce Krasilchuk; Bill Lapchuk; Katherine Lewicki; Fr. Boniface Malowany, OSBM; Nick Malowany; Darryl Metz; Irene Michalyshen; Natalia (3 yrs old); Tom Nahirniak; Alex and Lucy Nay; Joyce Palamar; Helen Pasemko; Zena Pshyk; Robert Tabaka; Virginia Tkachuk; Mabel Wynnyk; Nestor Zacharko; Louise Zurawell; the Canadian Peace Keepers; those confined to their hospital beds or their homes. Please contact the Parish Office to submit or resubmit a name. A new list will begin in January. Prospective Altar Boys 7 yrs and older are invited to assist by the altar. Come least 15 minutes before the Liturgy to vest. Girls 7 yrs and older are invited to participate with the Children of Mary and Sodality. This group sing hymns during the 11 am Divine Liturgy on first Sunday of the month. First Solemn Holy Communion classes have begun following the 11 am Divine Liturgy in the Cultural Centre. If you deem your child ready to receive the instructions for Solemn Communion then please see register your child. Remaining class dates will be as follows: Jan. 13, Jan. 27, Feb. 3, Feb. 24, Mar. 10, Mar. 17, First Confession April 6, First Solemn Communion April Sunday Offering Envelopes - are in the church vestibule. If your information has changed or your box of envelopes is not in church, please contact the office.

4 URGENT: The Parish Council is looking for two volunteers to form a committee of three to be the Safer Environments Lead Committee for the parish. A human resources background might be helpful. Please call either Parish Council chairperson Gerald Draganiuk at or Pastor, Fr. Jo at SAVE THE DATE - UCWLC RETREAT February 2 BOZHI DITY we accept children from as young as playschool age to grade 2. We need additional teachers such as students in the faculty of Education, parents wanting to contribute to our church community, or high school students willing to assist our teachers. Contact Linda Johnson for information and to offer your assistance: at lindajohnson@ualberta.net or text All adult volunteers will be trained and offered curriculum support. Adult volunteers will also be required to have a police background check processed. Wednesday, January 2, 2019 For Altar Boys from All Parishes! Hosted by St. Josaphat Cathedral, th Street N.W. Edmonton THE PARTY PLAN 9:30 am Arrival & Welcome 10:00 am Divine Liturgy with Bishop David & Clergy 11:30 AM Film Presentation 12:00 PM Catechesis 12:30 PM Chinese Food Dinner 1:30 PM Icebreakers & Games 3:10 PM The Victoria 4:30 PM Gifts & Prizes, Photo 5:00 PM The End! To let us know you are coming. Contact Vlodko at or klvlodko@gmail.com Budova Charitable Society fundraiser: We sell Sobeys/ Safeway grocery gift cards in denominations of $100, $50 and $25. We also have Co-op gift cards. Purchase your cards, from: Leo Derkach, Dennis Pawlowski, Betty Zacharko, Sharon Sheptak, Mike Melnyk, Jimmie Yeremiy or Gerald Draganiuk.

5 The Budova Charitable Society sends a heartfelt thank-you to all the volunteers who so graciously gave their time in any way to provide a very much appreciated meal to the students and staff of St Bernadette s School. They were overwhelmed by the generosity of the Society in providing the meal and the mittens, toques, socks, and scarves that were also donated. The parishioners of St Basil were very generous with their donations to the mitten box. We were able to provide 3 other schools as well as the WIN House with some of the items. Thank you one and all and may God bless you abundantly. Synaxis of the Most Holy Mother of God After a great feast, the Eastern Church traditionally honours the memory of those persons who played a major role in the events commemorated by the feast. The Most Holy Mother of God occupies first place after Christ, in the events connected with the Nativity of our Lord. For this reason, in the first centuries, the faithful assembled on the day following the Nativity to express their gratitude to the Virgin Mary for having given us the Saviour and to honour her as the Mother of God. From this gathering of the faithful, the feast itself received the name Synaxis which is a Greek word for gathering. It is difficult to determine in which century the feast of the Synaxis of the Most Holy Mother of God became a universal practice of the Church. Some of the Fathers of the fourth century, such as St. Ambrose, St. Augustine, St. Epiphany of Cyprus and St. John Chrysostom, on the occasion of the feast of the Nativity of our Lord, praise in their sermons the Most Holy Mother of God. Perhaps at one time, the feast of the Synaxis and the commemoration of St. Stephen the Protomartyr were also celebrated on the same day, for it was not until the seventh century that the commemoration of St. Stephen was transferred to the third day following the feast of the Nativity. There is an allusion made to the celebration of the Synaxis of the Most Holy Mother of God on the day after the Nativity of our Lord in the 79th rule of the Sixth Ecumenical Council, which met at Constantinople in 691. During that time, in certain localities, a custom was introduced where on the second day after Christmas the faithful exchanged baked goods as though in honour of the travail that the Virgin Mary underwent in giving

6 birth to Jesus Christ. The Synod condemned and forbade this practice. The divine birth by the Virgin, says the Synod, which was without seed, we profess to have been painless, and this we preach to all the faithful. Hence, we wish to correct those who through ignorance are doing something improper. For there are some who, the day after the feast of the Nativity, prepare baked goods and exchange them among themselves and present them as gifts to one another in honour of the labour during the childbirth of the Virgin Mary. We decree that the faithful not do anything similar. This does not bring honour to the Virgin when they designate and represent her marvelous childbirth as an ordinary birth such as the kind we know; because in fact, she gave birth to the uncontainable Word in a manner that is beyond all understanding and expression. If therefore, from this moment on anyone should do this, let the cleric be deprived of his dignity, and the lay person be excommunicated. Even in Eastern Ukraine a similar custom prevailed. In the villages, on the day of the Synaxis, the women brought to church pyrohy (potato dumplings), thinking that in this manner they would honour the Most Holy Mother of God, as was generally the custom when someone gave birth to a child. The Kievan Metropolitan Michael Rahoza prohibited such a practice in UKRAINIAN CATHOLIC RADIO HOUR VECHIRNYA HODYNA on World FM 101.7: Every Sunday evening from 6 to 7 PM, or on the Internet at WorldFM.ca. We invite you, and interested organizations to sponsor a program or any portion of the program to celebrate a birthday; an anniversary, the memory of a loved one, or any other special event. Cost of one-half hour of the program is $ Please make cheque payable to: Basilian Fathers Radio Account - income tax receipts will be issued. Cultural Centre Events for the month of December Dec. 31 New Year s Eve Gala help is needed The Basilian Fathers Museum - closed from December 22, to January 6, Regular hours resume Mon, Jan. 7, 19.

7 NEW YEARS EVE GALA December Music provided by the Barefoot Big Band Doors open - 6 pm Deluxe Buffet 7 pm St. Basil s Cultural Centre Dance from 9 pm - 1 am. $ per person Tickets at St. Basil Cultural Centre office Tues to Fri 10 am to 4 pm Phone At other times leave a voice message Dinner Menu: Marinated & Grilled Beef Flank Steak; Maple glazed Salmon; Cherry Smoked Boneless Lamb Shoulder, Asiago, Green Onion & Thyme potato Croquettes; Penne with Bacon & Garlic Cream; Traditional Cabbage Rolls in Tomato Sause; Parmesan Roasted Asparagus &. Red Pepper; Mixed Bean Medley. SALADS: Tomato, Boccioni & Fresh Basil, Spring Greek Salad, Cherry Smoked Boneless Lamb Shoulder (Greek Style) Dessert: Assorted Pinocchio Ice Cream; Flambeed Bananas; Flambeed Cherries Jubilee; Chocolate Espresso Cake.

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