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1 SAINT BASIL the GREAT PARISH 202 HARCOURT STREET, WINNIPEG, MB R3J 3H3 Parish Office: Parish Hall: Parish Priest: Rt. Rev Canon Walter Klimchuk The Dormition of the Mother of God a woman clothed with the sun. (Revelation 12:1) From Father Walter Imagine how close the relationship is between Mary and her Son. To prepare her for her role as Mother of God, God freed her from the stain of original sin at her conception and laid on her heart an unswerving desire to love Him and His people. Faithful to the end, Mary was even given a special participation in Jesus Resurrection when, at the close of her life, she was assumed body and soul into heaven. Her earthly life may have come to a close, but Mary continues to be the greatest example of the Christian life. Just as she took part in Jesus struggle with Satan, so she now shares in his triumph over the devil and death itself. Mary is the first Christian to experience what is destined for all Christians: the privilege of standing as - a new creation before the throne of God and sharing fully in his divine life. SUNDAY DIVINE LITURGY 10:00 a.m. (Rosary precedes each Liturgy by one half hour) WEEKDAY SERVICES (Tue-Fri) 8:30 a.m. Rosary followed by Liturgy CONFESSIONS Before Divine Liturgies BAPTISIMS By appointment FUNERALS By arrangement MARRIAGES By appointment at least three months in advance WEBSITE: PARISH OFFICE ADDRESS: parish@saintbasilwpg.ca BULLETIN SUBMISSIONS: bulletin@saintbasilwpg.ca Mary s place in heaven is a sign of hope to all of us who - await our share in the resurrection. We, too, will reign with Christ. We, too, will gaze upon the beauty of God and the majesty of our Savior. We, too, will be surrounded by the heavenly host in all their glory and majesty. We ll even outshine the angels because of our union with Christ! Today, as you aim for the goal that Mary has already attained, try your best to live the kind of life she lived. Washed clean in the.

2 waters of Baptism, you can reject sin and every temptation the devil throws at you. Filled with the same Spirit that overshadowed Mary, you can embrace the Holy Spirit and find the grace you need to live by faith. Encouraged by Mary's Assumption, you can keep your heart fixed on loving and serving Jesus as you await His glorious return. So let's all imitate Mary. Let's magnify the Lord and say yes to whatever he asks us to do. Lord Jesus, I pray for everyone who doesn t yet hope for the resurrection. May each person come to know that you want all of us to live with you forever. The Dormition/Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary We celebrate the Dormition of the Theotokos on August 15, the same calendar day as the Roman Catholic Feast of the Assumption of Mary. The Dormition and the Assumption are different names for the same event, Mary's departure from the earth - although the beliefs are not necessarily identical. The Assumption is the oldest feast day of Our Lady, but we don't know how it first came to be celebrated. Its origin is lost in those days when Jerusalem was restored as a sacred city, at the time of the Roman Emperor Constantine (c ). By then it had been a pagan city for two centuries, ever since Emperor Hadrian (76-138) had leveled it around the year 135 and rebuilt it as Aelia Capitolina in honor of Jupiter. For 200 years, every memory of Jesus was obliterated from the city, and the sites made holy by His life, death and Resurrection became pagan temples. After the building of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in 336, the sacred sites began to be restored and memories of the life of Our Lord began to be celebrated by the people of Jerusalem. One of the memories about His mother centered around the "Tomb of Mary," close to Mount Zion, where the early Christian community had lived. On the hill itself was the "Place of Dormition," the spot of Mary's "falling asleep," where she had died. The "Tomb of Mary" was where she was buried. At this time, the "Memory of Mary" was being celebrated. For a time, the "Memory of Mary" was marked only in Palestine, but then it was extended by the emperor to all the churches of the East.

3 At the Council of Chalcedon in 451, when bishops from throughout the Mediterranean world gathered in Constantinople, Emperor Marcian asked the Patriarch of Jerusalem to bring the relics of Mary to Constantinople to be enshrined in the capitol. The patriarch explained to the emperor that there were no relics of Mary in Jerusalem that "Mary had died in the presence of the apostles; but her tomb, when opened later... was found empty and so the apostles concluded that the body was taken up into heaven." Although it is not mentioned in scripture, the Assumption of Mary has been a solidly held belief of our faith since apostolic times. It has been celebrated liturgically since the 6th century AD. In the seventh century, it began to be celebrated in Rome under the title of the "Falling Asleep" ("Dormitio") of the Mother of God. Soon the name was changed to the "Assumption of Mary," since there was more to the feast than her dying. It also proclaimed that she had been taken up, body and soul, into heaven. That belief was ancient, dating back to the apostles themselves. What was clear from the beginning was that there were no relics of Mary to be venerated, and that an empty tomb stood on the edge of Jerusalem near the site of her death. That location also soon became a place of pilgrimage. (Today, the Benedictine Abbey of the Dormition of Mary stands on the spot.) In the eighth century, St. John Damascene was known for giving sermons at the holy places in Jerusalem. At the Tomb of Mary, he expressed the belief of the Church on the meaning of the feast: "Although the body was duly buried, it did not remain in the state of death, neither was it dissolved by decay.... You were transferred to your heavenly home, O Lady, Queen and Mother of God in truth." Belief in the Assumption of Mary rests on tradition and on solid theological grounds. Theologians over the centuries have all agreed that it was only fitting that the Blessed Virgin Mary joined her divine Son in both body and soul in her Assumption into Heaven! After all, she was born uniquely without Original Sin and lived full of grace (Luke 1:28), sharing in Christ s victory over Satan, sin and death as His Blessed Mother. Thus Our Lord would not subject her body to the corruption and decay that would occur in a tomb over time! The Assumption of Mary was declared a dogma (a divinely revealed truth) of the Catholic Church by Pope Pius XII in 1950 when he proclaimed, in a document entitled Munificentissimus Deus, The Immaculate Mother of God, the ever-virgin Mary, having completed the course of her earthly life, was assumed body and soul into heaven. With that, an ancient belief became Catholic doctrine and the Assumption was declared a truth revealed by God.

4 Pope Pius XII alludes to the fact of her death at least five times, but left open the question of whether or not Mary actually underwent death in connection with her departure The Orthodox Church specifically holds one of two Roman Catholic alternative beliefs, teaching that Mary died a natural death, like any human being; that her soul was received by Christ upon death; and that her body was resurrected on the third day after her repose, at which time she was taken up, bodily only, into heaven when the apostles, miraculously transported from the ends of the earth, found her tomb to be empty. While some Roman Catholics agree with the Orthodox that this happened after Mary's death, others hold that she did not experience death and she was "assumed" into heaven in bodily form, just as her son Jesus ascended. Both views agree that she was taken up into heaven bodily. On 25 June 1997 during a General Audience Pope John Paul II affirmed that Mary did indeed experience natural death prior to her assumption into Heaven, stating: It is true that in Revelation death is presented as a punishment for sin. However, the fact that the Church proclaims Mary free from original sin by a unique divine privilege does not lead to the conclusion that she also received physical immortality. The Mother is not superior to the Son who underwent death, giving it a new meaning and changing it into a means of salvation. Involved in Christ s redemptive work and associated in his saving sacrifice, Mary was able to share in his suffering and death for the sake of humanity s Redemption. What Severus of Antioch says about Christ also applies to her: Without a preliminary death, how could the Resurrection have taken place? (Antijulianistica, Beirut 1931, 194f.). To share in Christ s Resurrection, Mary had first to share in his death. The New Testament provides no information on the circumstances of Mary s death. This silence leads one to suppose that it happened naturally, with no detail particularly worthy of mention. If this were not the case, how could the information about it have remained hidden from her contemporaries and not have been passed down to us in some way? As to the cause of Mary s death, the opinions that wish to exclude her from death by natural causes seem groundless. It is more important to look for the Blessed Virgin s spiritual attitude at the moment of her departure from this world. In this regard, St Francis de Sales maintains that Mary s death was due to a transport of love. He speaks of a dying in love, from love and through love, going so far as to say that the Mother of God died of love for her Son Jesus (Treatise on the Love of God, bk. 7, ch. XIII-XIV). Whatever from the physical point of view was the organic, biological cause of the end of her bodily life, it can be said that for Mary the passage from this life to the next was the full development of grace in glory, so that no death can ever be so fittingly described as a dormition as hers." We speak of Mary's Assumption, not her Ascension. Christ ascended, but the Blessed Virgin Mary was assumed into heaven. In other words, unlike her Son Jesus, Mary didn't "go up on her own power" to heaven, so to speak, but was taken up by the power of God. The

5 Assumption of Mary, then, is something God did for her, like her Immaculate Conception and Virginal Motherhood, not something she did herself. It is a result of Christ's redemptive power applied to the Blessed Mother. The dogma of the Assumption means that the Virgin Mary now experiences in heaven that union of glorified body and soul which her Son enjoys. She is no disembodied spirit, but a complete human person, body and soul, matter and spirit, reigning with Christ. Mary's Assumption takes nothing from Christ himself, but rather demonstrates his power the power of his Resurrection at work in raising Mary, the first to believe in Christ, to the glorified life of heaven. It is, as the Catechism of the Catholic Church says, "a singular participation in her Son's Resurrection" (no. 966), not a salvific event which stands on its own. As St. John Damascene put it referring to Mary in the 8th century, Thy pure and spotless body was not left in the earth, but the abode of the Queen, of God s true Mother, was fixed in the heavenly kingdom alone. John Henry Cardinal Newman expressed similar thoughts on the Assumption of Mary in the 19th century when he said It was becoming, that she [Mary] should be taken up into heaven and not lie in the grave till Christ s second coming, who had passed a life of sanctity and of miracle such as hers. He added, If her body was not taken into heaven, where is it? Why are not pilgrimages made to it? Why are not relics producible of her, as of the saints in general? Plainly because that sacred body is in heaven, not on earth. St. Anthony of Padua, St. Thomas Aquinas, and St. Alphonsus Liguori, all Doctors of the Church, are most prominent among those who have quoted Psalm 132:8 (131:8 in some older Bibles) over the centuries in support of the Assumption. It states Arise, O Lord, into thy resting place: thou and the ark, which thou hast sanctified. While the Psalmist referred originally to the Ark of the Covenant, theologians and preachers, as Pope Pius XII noted in his proclamation on the Assumption of Mary, have looked upon the Ark of the Covenant, built of incorruptible wood and placed in the Lord's temple, as a type of the most pure body of the Virgin Mary, preserved and exempt from all the corruption of the tomb and raised up to such glory in heaven. Undoubtedly we can ask why Mary was assumed body and soul into heaven. The immediate and obvious answer is that this was a "favor" Jesus granted his mother. If we could take our mother s body and soul to heaven, wouldn't we do it? The idea of the "Perfect Son's love for the Perfect Mother" certainly casts some light on the Assumption. But Jesus' relationship to Mary, though as human as our relationships with our mothers, entails more than mere personal love and devotion. If the Assumption were only about that, then Jesus needn't have bothered to reveal it to us. That he did so implies it has something more to teach us something more about Himself and about us.

6 "My spirit rejoices in God my Savior," Mary said in the Magnificat (Luke 1:47). Fundamentalists quote this passage against Mary's Immaculate Conception, arguing that since she needed a savior, she couldn't have been free of sin. But it was precisely because God was her savior that Mary was free of sin. God saved her from sin in advance, through the saving action of Jesus Christ to come. The Immaculate Conception, then, was a preemptive strike against sin, the full spiritual benefits of Christ's sacrifice on Calvary having been communicated to Mary in anticipation of the Incarnation. And the Assumption was God's way of finishing the job he started at Mary's Immaculate Conception, redeeming her body from the effects of sin as well. All the feast days of Mary mark the great mysteries of her life and her part in the work of redemption. The central mystery of her life and person is her divine motherhood, celebrated at Christmas. The Immaculate Conception (Dec. 8) marks the preparation for that motherhood, so that she had the fullness of grace from the first moment of her existence, completely untouched by sin. Her whole being throbbed with divine life from the very beginning, readying her for the exalted role of mother of the Savior. The Assumption completes God's work in her since it was not fitting that the flesh that had given life to God himself should ever undergo corruption. The Assumption is God's crowning of His work as Mary ends her earthly life and enters eternity. The feast turns our eyes in that direction, where we will follow when our earthly life is over. That is what the dogma of the Assumption of Mary into Heaven means for us on a more down-to-earth level. The feast days of the Church are not just the commemoration of historical events; they do not look only to the past. They look to the present and to the future and give us an insight into our own relationship with God. The Assumption looks to eternity and gives us hope that we, too, will follow Our Lady when our life is ended. The prayer for the feast reads: "All-powerful and ever-living God: You raised the sinless Virgin Mary, mother of your Son, body and soul, to the glory of heaven. May we see heaven as our final goal and come to share her glory." The Assumption means joy, beauty, reward, bounty, the masterpiece of creation. For Jesus, it means that His human love is able to be given totally; for Our Lady, that she can humanly and totally respond to Him. (In heaven there is adoration for our Lord not just by spirits angels and the saints but by a real human being with a body). Mary has the reward so richly deserved by her total love. We re glad for Jesus s sake, for Mary s, for the angels and saints who rejoice in their good. And we re glad for our sake, too: what she has we will have one day she is our Mother. We should understand Mary in light of the mystery of the Church. Vatican II's Constitution on the Church, Lumen gentium, tells us that Mary is a symbol or icon of the Church, of all

7 Christians. She is not only the first Christian and most preeminent member of the Church, she is also a model of the Church, a paradigm for what God wills to accomplish in and through the Church. Consequently, by reflecting on the graces God gave the Blessed Virgin, we understand more about his gifts to us. The Assumption of Mary points to a profound gift to all believers the resurrection of the body. It gives us great hope that, as we strive to live in our Lord's grace and to do His will, with Mary s assistance, we might share in His resurrection someday! The Catechism of the Catholic Church mentions how Mary anticipates the resurrection of all members of Christ s body (CCC974). She intercedes continually with her Son on our behalf for our salvation. (That s why it never hurts to call on her, and thank her, for her help and her graces in prayers such as the Rosary!) "But wait," someone might object, "isn't Christ our model, rather than Mary?" Yes, Christ is our model, but in a different way. Christ is a divine person, God the Son, who worked through human nature to redeem us. He effected the perfection and elevation of human nature by grace. Through Christ, we become children of God and are empowered to follow his example of humble submission to the Father. But Mary is a human person, fully redeemed by Christ, and one who followed Christ's humble submission perfectly. She represents the perfection and elevation of the human person by grace. And the human person, as the Catechism of the Catholic Church reminds us, consists of body as well as soul, of matter and of spirit (nos ). A fully redeemed human person, then, would be redeemed in body as well as soul, as was the Blessed Virgin Mary. Jesus redeemed His mother first through her Immaculate Conception (when she was uniquely conceived without Original Sin). Thus it was natural that she was assumed into heaven. Yet our Lord died for our redemption as well, despite our sinfulness! After we pass away, at the Last Judgment, may Christ find us worthy to share Eternal Life with Him like Mary, in both body (glorified like His!) and soul, so that, as he told His apostles once, my joy might be in you and your joy might be complete (John 15:11). In this way the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin reminds us of who and what we are as human beings. There is a kind of puritanism, to use the word in its pejorative sense, which suggests that only the soul is important; the body is at best a hindrance and at worst, evil. The Assumption of Mary reminds us that we are more than souls: whatever the weaknesses of our bodies after the Fall of humanity, the body, as such, remains good and is part of our ultimate destiny. When the fullness of redemption comes, then, it will include our bodies, not simply our souls. These glorified bodies will be spiritualized, yes properly subordinated to the spiritual order but they will still be real bodies. The Christian hope is not so much the immortality of the soul, which many pagans affirm, but the Resurrection of the Body. The Assumption of Mary reminds us that our bodies too will be redeemed.

8 Our Lady's Assumption wasn't a "singular privilege" of Mary in precisely the same way as the Immaculate Conception, for the Assumption was an anticipation of the hope of all men the Resurrection of the Body. It was a symbol of the general resurrection of believers of what the Church as the Mystical Body of Christ and Bride of Christ will experience at the end of history. There's another lesson, though, we might draw from Mary's Assumption, one relevant to present debates about gender and the Church. The Assumption reminds us that gender isn't an ephemeral, superficial part of who we are. It is integral. Even after experiencing the fullness of redemption, the Blessed Virgin remains female Virgin and Mother, in fact. Although in the resurrection there is no "marrying, nor being given in marriage" (Matt. 22:30), our sexual identities as men and women persist. There is "neither... male nor female" when it comes to accessing the life of grace (Gal. 3:28), but this doesn't obliterate the distinction between men and women altogether, nor does it imply they must have identical roles in the Church. Christ remains the Bridegroom of the Church; Mary remains Mother of the Church. Their personal identities remain gender-specific. A final point on the Blessed Virgin's Assumption and us involves the Queenship of Mary. This notion is really a corollary to the doctrine of the Assumption. Like Christ, Mary too was raised bodily to reign in God's kingdom. Her Son is "King of Kings and Lord of Lords," so she is "Mother of the Lord" (cf. Luke 1:43) the "Queen Mother" as it were sharing now in Christ's reign. Again, in this she is both a model of the Church and its precursor. As Paul says of all Christians, "If we have died with him, we shall also live with him; if we persevere, we shall also reign with him" (2 Tim. 3:11, 12). Through her glorious Assumption, Blessed Virgin Mary has begun to reign with Christ as all Christians shall at the Resurrection of the Dead. The Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, then, is neither irrelevant, nor irreverent. It is relevant because of what it says about who we are as human beings beings of body and spiritual soul and who are called to be sons and daughters of God who will share in the fullness of divine life with Christ in heaven, a life of body and soul. And it is reverent because it exemplifies Christ's power in thoroughly redeeming his Mother, a redemption in which we hope to share one day. Until then, as Lumen gentium reminds us, "the Mother of Jesus in the glory which she possesses in body and soul in heaven is the image and beginning of the Church as it is to be perfected in the world to come. Likewise she shines forth on earth... a sign of certain hope and comfort to the pilgrim People of God" (no. 68). If anyone wishes to receive the Sacrament of Confession or Holy Communion at home or in the hospital or nursing home please contact the parish office at

9 FOOD FOR THOUGHT DO YOU FEED YOUR BODY ONLY ONCE A WEEK? DO YOU FEED YOUR SOUL (EUCHARIST) ONLY ONCE A WEEK? THE EUCHARIST IS AVAILABLE TO YOU TUESDAY TO FRIDAY AS WELL. JOIN US! PLEASE REMEMBER THOSE WHO NEED OUR PRAYERS Oh God our Father we pray You restore to physical health, those who are weakened with illness. Give peace of mind to those troubled with worry and comfort those discouraged with problems. Help them find their inner strength, a faith and trust in you and a love for one another to guide them through any health challenges or troubles they may face. Amen. Please pray for the health of Harvey Lysack. Please pray for the health of Linda Goral. Please pray for the health of Lou Gollets. Please pray for the health of Marie Dohan. Please pray for the health of Walter Latocki. Please pray for the health of Adeline Shymanski. Please pray for the health of Steven Marchenski. Please pray for health & healing for Joyce Hojlo. Please pray for the health and total recovery of Bill Morant. Please pray for the health of Annie H. Kruk. THE TRAVELING ICON OF THE MOTHER OF POCHAIV You can arrange to have the icon in your home by using the sign-up sheet at the back of the church. Just write your name on the week in the calendar that corresponds to your choice of time period. The icon will be in the home of Jean Derhak from August DEEPEST SYMPATHY Sincere condolences to Allan, Florence, Ryan & Michelle in the loss of their dear Mother and Baba, Anne Rebenchuk, on Monday August 10 th. Sincere condolences to Stella Swereda on the loss of her sister Pearl. Sincere condolences to Mary Turko on the passing of her cousin Sharon Labine on August 4 th. EVERLASTING MEMORY. VICHNAYA PAMYAT.

10 LITURGIES & INTENTIONS INTENTION OFFERED BY August 16 th 10:00 am Health of Paulette Elkon Father Walter Health & Complete Recovery for Bill Morant Brenda & Megan Morant Health & Complete Recovery for Bill Morant +Souls of Maria & Steve Kwasiuk +Soul of Walter Ruta Sam & Sylvia Szwaluk Fran & Walter Chobotar Mary Ruta August 17th NO MASS August 18 th 8;30 am Health & Blessings Cathy & Angela Anne Lamothe +Soul of Eugene Lamb Dorothy Labay August 19 th 8:30 am +Soul of Travis Praznik Father Walter +Soul of Fred Tkach Camille Legore August 20 th 8:30 am +Soul of Max Melnyk Adeline Shymanski +Soul of Michael Paly Oksana Paly & family August 21 st 8:30 am For a free united Christian Ukrainian empire Bill & Lesia Boyczuk +Soul of Dan Holowka Adeline Shymanski August 23 rd 10:00 am +Souls of Teenie & Harvey Gollets Lou & Mildred Gollets +Souls of Dora & Paul Chegus +Soul of Travis Praznik Lou & Mildred Gollets Ron Prychitko August 24 th NO MASS August 25 th 8:30 am +Soul of Fred Tkach Doreen Glenn & Bryce Shenchuk August 26 th 8:30 am Health of Paulette Elkon Father Walter +Soul of Paul Kowal Ollie & family August 27 th 8:30 am Health & Blessings Bill Bill & Lesia Boyczuk +Soul of Dan Holowka Sam Martyniuk August 28 th 8:30 am +Soul of Max Melnyk Rose Swidinsky August 30 th 10:00 am Health of Father Walter Noelle Richardson +Soul of Travis Praznik +Soul of Shirley Kolench Jane McCarvill Eugene Kolench & family August 31 st NO MASS

11 SANCTUARY LIGHT WEEK OF INTENTION OFFERED BY AUGUST 16 TH HEALTH OF MARIE WONSUL SOPHIA ANDRINIUK AUGUST 23 RD +SOULS OF PETER & ANASTASIA BAZARKEWICH JOHN & EDNA BAZARKEWICH AUGUST 30TH +SOULS OF MIKE PEARL & PETER SOLOMON JOHN & LEONA SOLOMON SEPTEMBER 6 TH +SOULS OF STEVE & STELLA HRUSKA JOHN & LEONA SOLOMON SEPTEMBER 13 TH +SOUL OF MICHAEL TANCHAK TONY & VICKY STASTOOK SEPTEMBER 20 TH +SOUL OF FRED SOLTYS ANNE SOLTYS & FAMILY SEPTEMBER 27 TH HEALTH OF ANGELA STOYANSKY CATHY STOYANSKY OCTOBER 4 TH +SOUL OF LARRY FEDORCHUK TONY & VICKY STASTOOK OCTOBER 11 TH +SOUL OF JOSEPHINE HAFICHUK TONY & VICKY STASTOOK OCTOBER 18 TH +SOULS OF JOHN & NELLIE ZAKUSKY TONY & VICKY STASTOOK OCTOBER 25 TH +SOUL OF ANNE SKOCHYLES GERRY SKOCHYLES NOVEMBER 1 ST HEALTH OF CATHY STOYANSKY ANGELA STOYANSKY NOVEMBER 8 TH +SOUL OF PAUL & SOPHIA STASTOOK TONY & VICKY STASTOOK NOVEMBER 15 TH +SOUL OF ALEX BUGERA VICKI BUGERA NOVEMBER 22 ND +SOULS OF ISIDORE & ANNE DEPTUCK JOHN & EDNA BAZARKEWICH NOVEMBER 29 TH +SOUL OF JOHN LABAY ANDY & LINDA LABAY DECEMBER 6 TH HEALTH OF FATHER WALTER JOYCE HOJLO DECEMBER 13 TH +SOUL OF DARLENE BUGERA VICKI BUGERA DECEMBER 20 TH +SOUL OF STANLEY STOYANSKY ANGELA & CATHY STOYANSKY DECEMBER 27 TH +SOUL OF DARLENE BUGERA VICKI BUGERA JANUARY 3 RD HEALTH OF ROSE JOHN & DOUGLAS WASYLIW ROSE WASYLIW A Sanctuary Light burns eternally to indicate the presence of Jesus in the Holy Eucharist in the Tabernacle. It is a marvelous thing that we can actually be in His presence! "O Lord, we cannot go to the pool of Siloe to which you sent the blind man. But we have the chalice of Your Precious Blood, filled with life and light. The purer we are, the more we receive." - St. Ephraem

12 The Canon Luhovy Assembly Educational Foundation was established in 1982 to provide financial assistance to Ukrainian Catholic students who attend secondary and post-secondary institutions, or private Catholic secondary school. This assistance is also offered to seminarians and religious sisters. Through their Annual Fund Raising Dinners, the Canon Luhovy Assembly Educational Foundation raised funds to support this bursary program. More than $207,000 in scholarship/bursaries has been awarded since the Foundation s inception in More than 32 scholarship/bursaries have been awarded to seminarians and reverend sisters of the religious orders. Approximately 400 bursaries have been awarded during this time period. For more information, please call Len Mariash at or John Solomon at We would like to thank all the wonderful people of St. Basil Parish for their words of comfort, prayers, hugs and mass intentions in the tragic loss of our son Travis. May God Bless all of you. Janet and Rick Praznik THE HAPPIEST OF BIRTHDAYS TO: STEVE SEREMET who will celebrate on August 18th DENNIS MAKSYMETZ who will celebrate on August 20th MATT KWAITKOWSKI who will celebrate on August 24th MNOHAYA-MNOHAYA LITA! GOD GRANT YOU ALL MANY HAPPY YEARS! HAPPY ANNIVERSARY TO: RON & PHYLLIS MARCHENSKI August 19 (1967) BILL & BRENDA MORANT August 23 (1997) May your marriages be blessed with love, joy and companionship for all the years of your lives. Love is patient, love is kind, it does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. (Corinthians 13:4-8)

13 Farmer s Market Hosted by Knights of Columbus Canon Luhovy Assembly #0374 Locally Harvest Fresh Vegetables Sunday September 13/15 9:00 Am. To 3:00 Pm. LUBOV SSMI Foundation 1085 Main Street By the Pound or by the Bag Supplied by Neumann s Market Potatoes, Cabbage, Carrots, Onions, Tomatoes, Yams, Cukes, Squash s, Garlic, Dill, Pumpkins, Beets, Cauliflower, Parsnips, Corn, Turnips, Gourds, Zucchini, Apples, Melons, Pears, Honey Wild Rice Perogies Garlic Sausage Rings, Pickerel Fillets Homemade Jams Jellies Pickles Relishes All Proceeds Raised for the Holy Family Home Chapel Project ALL WELCOME TO PLACE AN ORDER, CONTACT JOHN SOLOMON AT VOTIVE LIGHT STAND DONATIONS Jean Derhak $ Noelle & George Richardson $ Baptism Donation $ Anonymous $ UCWLC $ Max Melnyk Memorial $ Phyllis Fedorchuk $ Dorothy Labay $25.00 Doreen Musick $ Walter Potrebka $ Harry & Nellie Fediuk $ Father Walter $ Anne Tanchak, children & grandchildren $ in memory of Michael Tanchak Walter Wolfe $ in memory of Arlene Wolfe Vicki Bugera $ COMMUNITY CALENDAR Save the Date: Convention 2015, Oct 2-3, 2015 at Holy Eucharist Parish. Youth and Young Adults are invited to attend the bi-annual convention to learn how to become a more welcoming Church. The Youth & Young Adult Session will take place on Saturday, Oct 3 from 1pm to 4pm, but all are encouraged to attend the whole convention.

14 Chapel Lawn is proud to partner with Palliative Manitoba for the following seminars (a light lunch will be provided at each seminar): Dealing with Regrets September 22 Noon -1:00 p.m. Coping During the Holidays December 8 Noon-1:00 p.m. RSVP to Chapel Lawn PANSY MB FALL SUPPER BUS TRIP St. Joseph s Ukrainian Catholic church Senior s Club, 250 Jefferson Ave., is organizing a Fall Supper bus trip Sunday September 13. Bus leaves from church parking lot at noon. Bus returns from Pansy MB by 3 pm. Bus trip cost: $20 per person. Pansy Fall Supper meal cost $ Payment: cash or cheque prior to departure date. Reserved seating guaranteed with payment made by September 1 st. Reserve your seat on a first come basis. Please contact Phyllis (204) EVERYONE IS WELCOME! Do Not Wait Till It Is Too Late! Holy Eucharist Parish will be hosting a Fish Fry on Friday, September 18 at our Parish Centre, 460 Munroe Avenue. Doors will open at 4 pm and a cash bar will be available. Dinner consisting of fresh pickerel, oven baked potatoes, vegetables, coleslaw, rolls w/butter and dessert will be served from 5:30 to 7:00 pm. Ticket prices are: Adults 415; children 7-12 years - $7; and children aged six and under are free. Tickets are available from Bernice Hrehirchuk at , Ernie Shume at or the Parish Office at th Annual Marian Eucharistic Conference 10 Different Speakers Discover the relevance of faith in today s world. Come and see why so many people today are joining the Catholic Church. August 28, 29 & 30. Fairmont Hotel 2 Lombard Place (Portage & Main). EUCHARISTIC MIRACLES OF THE WORLD PHOTOGRAPHIC EXHIBITION Historical events that have occurred in various countries throughout the centuries which demonstrate the reality of the Real Presence of Christ in The Eucharist. Friday, Aug. 28, 2015 Doors open 2:30. Conference begins 3PM with Divine Mercy Devotion followed by Holy Mass at 3:30. Sessions 6 PM 9 PM Sat. Aug. 29 Sessions: 9AM 8PM Sunday Anticipatory Mass 8:15pm. Confessions on Friday and Saturday. Sunday, Aug. 30 Sessions 10 AM 4:30 PM Registration Discount before Aug. 15 th $70per person; $135Married couple & $150 family See registration form for other prices. Cost goes up $5 if you wait to register at conference site. CREDIT CARD - PHONE:(204) or send info by loreto@mymts.net Cheque or credit card BY MAIL:House of Loreto, Box 1779, Beausejour, MB, R0E 0C0 add $3.00 S & H per order if you would like your name badges mailed to you otherwise you can pick-up the badge at the conference site.no pre-registration for day passes but available at door. Cost for Day only on Friday or Sunday is $45 however the cost for Saturday only is the same cost as for the entire weekend. Priests, Nuns & Seminarians FREE with registration. Sorry no refunds. See church bulletin board for poster.