Holy Family Ukrainian Catholic Church Українська Католицька Церква Пресвятої Родини Слава Ісусу Христу! - Glory to Jesus Christ! Слава На Віки! - Glory For Ever! Our Mission is to be responsible, trustworthy and faithful stewards of God s gifts by living out the Gospel of Jesus Christ through the catechism and spirituality of the Ukrainian Catholic Church. Cheese-Fare Forgiveness Sunday 3 Березня March 3, 2019 1001 Grant Avenue, Winnipeg MB R3M 1Y3, ph 204-453-4653, fax 204-452-2332 holyfamilychurch.wordpress.com Parish Office Hours, Tue - Fri : 9:30 to 4 pm Pastor - Fr John Mostivsky: 204-453-4653 jmostivsky@shaw.ca Office Manager - Joe Kulyk: 204-453-4653 holyfamilyparishoffice@gmail.com Liturgical Sunday Schedule: Weekdays 9:00 am (English) Tue - Thu 7:30 am 11:00 am (Ukrainian) Fri 7:00 pm Sacrament of Reconciliation (Confession) Sundays before Liturgy & by appointment Sacrament of Baptism & Chrismation by appointment with the Pastor Sacrament of Holy Matrimony (Marriage) by appointment with the Pastor - 9 months in advance Funerals - by appointment with the Pastor Parish Auditorium - 204-452-2332 Parish Pastoral Council Jim, Antonick, Chairperson - 204-489-8482 K of C - Zenon Scraba, GK - 204-453-2949 UCWLC - Pat Antonick, President - 204-489-8482 Club 55+ Stella Hyska, President - 204-489-6425 Catechism - Martin Pasieczka, 204-453-4965 Queen of Peace Prayer Group Leonard Terrick 204-269-4696 Pastoral Care - Linda Marak 204-895-8478 Forgiveness is a central theme of CheeseFare Sunday which is also known as the Sunday of Forgiveness. Turn to God, so that God will forgive your sins! Lent begins Monday, March 4th Pancake Breakfast & Silent Auction after the 9 am Liturgy
Просимо молитися за хворих парафіян - Please pray for their health: We pray in hope that God s healing power may touch those who are sick: If you would like a hospital visit or home visit please call the Pastoral Care Linda Marak 204-895-8478 9:00 AM DIVINE LITURGY Mar 3 Mar 10 Rosary Marianne Derkach Leonard Terrick Greeters Allan and Patsy Armstrong Jean Uchach Carol Nowasad Epistle Vicki Adams Richard Pidsadny Ushers Rick Duchnycz Dean Robinson Roman Christiuk Nelson Caruk Eucharist Martin Pasieczka Richard Pidsadny Sacristan Zenon Scraba Zenon Romaniuk 11:00 AM DIVINE LITURGY Mar 3 Mar 10 Greeters Ushers Wally Komonko Lawrence Luba Wally Komonko Lawrence Luba Epistle Eucharist Myron Musick Myron Musick Sacristan Peter Tkach Peter Tkach Vigil Lamps Mar 3-9 SUNDAY COLLECTION НЕДІЛЬНА ТАЦА February 24, 2019 54 Envelopes - $1,657.10 Loose Cash - $10 Visitors - $30 Candle Offering - $62.25 Church Maintenance - $58 Coffee & Donuts - $29.90 Vigil Lamps - $35 Perogy Supper/Sales - $3,439 Donation - $4.65 Please Note: The above income does not show expenses. Дякуємо за вашу щедрість! Thank you for your generosity! Happy Birthday! З Днем Народження - March 4th Fr John Mostivsky МНОГАЯ ЛІТА! Icon of Mary Icon of Jesus God's blessing and health for Bill Kutchma by Coffee guys Health and blessing for Deputy Grand Knight Bill Kutchma by Holy Family K of C Council #8499 Page 2
Служби Божі / Divine Liturgies Day Date Time Intention God's blessing and health for Leonard Sawchuk by family За інтенції всіх Парафіян intentions of all our parishioners Sun Mar 3 9:00 am 11:00 am Tue Mar 5 7:30 am Health of Gerry Holt by Fay Holt Wed Mar 6 7:30 am Health of John Kozakevich by Fay Holt Thu Mar 7 9:30 am 10:00 am Rosary / Confession Elizabeth Weselowski by Deborah Hernandez Fri Mar 8 6:30 pm 7:00 pm Rosary / Confession God's blessing and health for the Myk family Sun Mar 10 9:00 am 11:00 am Elizabeth Weselowski by family Great & Holy Lent 2019 Lenten Suppers Fridays: 5:30-6:45 March 8, 15, 22, April 5 Way of the Cross Fridays: 7:00 pm March 8, 22, April 5 Presanctified Liturgy Holy Week April 14-20 PASCHA - Easter SUNDAY, April 21 Fridays: 7:00 pm March 15, 29, April 12, Sorokousty Saturdays: 10:00 am March 9, 16, 23, 30 April 6,13 Page 3
Calendar of Events 2019 www.archeparchy.ca Mar 3 - Holy Eucharist UCWLC 73rd Daffodil Tea, Sunday March 3rd, 1-3 pm at the Parish Centre, 450 Monroe Avenue. Mar 29 - Holy Family Parish Perogy Supper 5-7 pm Apr 11 - Caritas Awards Dinner, RBC Convention Centre, Reception 6:00 pm, Dinner 7:00 pm. Tickets available at the Parish Office. May 10 - Holy Family Parish Perogy Supper 5-7 pm 40 Cans for Lent Food Drive Mar 3rd to Apr 7th. Donation of canned food will help feed the hungry at Welcome Home. Monetary donations also welcome Please make cheques payable to Knights of Columbus Council #8499 ~ Zenon Scraba Cabbage Rolls on Sale On March 10th after the 9:00 am Divine Liturgy, the UCWLC will be selling holubchi (cabbage rolls) at $10.00 a dozen. There is a limited amount so sale will be on a first come first served basis. The next perogy supper will be Friday, March 29th and the last until September will be on Friday, May 10th. - last chance to stock up for the summer. There will not be a perogy supper in April. Perogies for Sale Every Sunday after 9 am Divine Liturgy or call the parish office during the week $6.00 per dozen Last week a parcel of family photos and personal documents were found outside our church. They belong to the Holmstrom family. Olga Holmstrom was a member of Holy Family Parish in the late 70's. We tried to locate her and her family with no avail. If anyone has any knowledge of her whereabouts, please inform the parish office. VIGIL LAMPS - Vigil Lamp offerings are $5.00 each and are lit for your personal intention for the entire week. Page 4
Cheese Fare Sunday (Forgiveness Sunday) This Sunday is known by several names: Cheese-fare, Adam s Lament, and Forgiveness Sunday. Cheese-fare is derived from the past practice of fasting from all meat, egg and dairy products for 40 days. Today, we have two days (Monday, the 1st day of Lent and Good Friday) of a strict fast, which is abstinence from meat, eggs and dairy products and having ONE full meal on that day. This Sunday, the last of the preparatory Sundays before Great Lent, has two themes: it commemorates Adam s expulsion from Paradise, and it accentuates our need for forgiveness. Adam s Lament Focus is placed on the exile of Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden, an event that shows us how far we have fallen in sin and separated ourselves from God. At the onset of Great Lent and a period of intense fasting, this Sunday reminds us of our need for God s forgiveness and guides our hearts, minds, and spiritual efforts on returning to Him in repentance. Forgiveness Sunday The second theme, that of forgiveness, is emphasized in the Gospel reading for this Sunday (Matthew 6:14-21) and in the special ceremony of mutual forgiveness at the end of the Vespers on Sunday evening. Before we enter the Lenten fast, we are reminded that there can be no true fast, no genuine repentance, no reconciliation with God, unless we are at the same time reconciled with one another. We do not travel the road of Lent as isolated individuals but as members of a family. Our asceticism and fasting should not separate us from others, but should link us to them with ever-stronger bonds. The Sunday of Forgiveness also directs us to see that Great Lent is a journey of liberation from our enslavement to sin. The Gospel lesson sets the conditions for this liberation The first condition is fasting the refusal to accept the desires and urges of our fallen nature as normal; the effort to free ourselves from the dictatorship of the flesh and matter over the spirit. To be effective, however, our fast must not be hypocritical, a showing off. We must appear not unto men to fast but to our Father who is in secret. The second condition is forgiveness If you forgive men their trespasses, your Father in heaven will also forgive you. The triumph of sin, the main sign of its rule over the world, is division, opposition, separation, hatred. Therefore, the first break through this fortress of sin is forgiveness: the return to unity, solidarity, love. To forgive is to put between me and my enemy the forgiveness of God Himself. To forgive is to reject the hopeless dead-ends of human relations and to refer them to Christ. Forgiveness is truly a breakthrough of the Kingdom into this sinful and fallen world. Adapted from http://lent.goarch.org/forgiveness/learn/ Page 5
PRAYER FOR THE BEGINNING OF LENT O Lord Jesus Christ, my God, hope of all bounds of the earth and of those far away at sea, You have established these holy days of fasting by Your law and the prophets, as a way of my mortification and repentance. In the fullness of time, You manifested Yourself in the flesh on this earth, and by Your fast of forty days and nights, You sanctified the practice of fasting and commanded me to follow Your example. As a merciful and gracious God, enable me to begin these holy days of Great Fast with perfect repentance, with humility rather than hypocrisy, with diligent prayer, with hunger and thirst, with frequent prostrations, and with contrite heart. Enable me also to complete this time of the Great Fast, without fault and with a pure conscience, keeping my faith intact and achieving victory over sin. Send me an angel of peace to watch over my life to protect me from all snares of my enemies, and to assist me in the performance of good deeds. Strengthen me by Your power so that I may accomplish the ascetic works of the Great Fast. Then, with my passion bridled and my soul and body cleansed, I will be worthy to partake, without condemnation, of Your Most Pure Body and Your Most Precious and Lifegiving Blood. For you are the merciful and gracious lover of mankind Who has come to save all, and to You I render glory, together with Your Eternal Father, and Your All Holy, Good, and Life-Giving Spirit, now and ever, and forever... Employment Opportunity St Joseph Ukrainian Catholic Church Is seeking a full time Office Manager to provide bookkeeping and administration duties to the parish. The successful candidate must have excellent written and oral communication skills, knowledge and experience in administrative and clerical procedures, excellent computer skills and the ability to work with minimal supervison. To explore this opportunity please send your resume in confidence as soon as possible to: stjoeswinnipegjobs@gmail.com Bulletin Requests Any request or any information to be placed in the bulletin must be in the Parish Office by WEDNESDAY NOON Page 6
Pope Francis Appoints Most Rev. Borys Gudziak as new Metropolitan-Archbishop of the Ukrainian Archeparchy Philadelphia On Monday, February 18th, 2019, the Vatican Information Service announced that the Holy Father has appointed Most Rev. Borys Gudziak as Archbishop of Philadelphia for Ukrainians and Metropolitan for the Ukrainian Catholic Church in USA and thus concurring with the recommendation of the appointment offered by the Synod of Ukrainian Catholic Bishops, which met in September of 2018 in Lviv, Ukraine. The Archeparchy of Philadelphia was declared by Pope Francis as sede vacante following the resignation of Most Rev. Stefan Soroka on April 16, 2018. Most Rev. Andriy Rabiy was named by Pope Francis as the Apostolic Administrator of the Ukrainian Catholic Archeparchy of Philadelphia until the appointment of the new Metropolitan-Archbishop. At the present time Most Rev. Borys Gudziak serves as the eparch of St. Volodymyr the Great Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy, which includes France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxemburg and Switzerland. He is the founder and president of the Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv, Ukraine. In addition, Archbishop Borys is the head of Department of External Church Relations of the Ukrainian Catholic Church. Bishop Andriy Rabiy, Apostolic Administrator, Bishop John Bura, Auxiliary Bishop, clergy, monastic orders and faithful of the Archeparchy of Philadelphia wholeheartedly and joyfully welcome the news and invite everyone to the installation of Most Rev. Borys Gudziak as the seventh Metropolitan- Archbishop for the Ukrainian Catholic Archeparchy of Philadelphia, which will take place on Tuesday, June 4, 2019, at the Ukrainian Catholic Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Philadelphia, PA Source: The Way Page 7
Attention Bro. Knights: How are tickets sales? Deadline is March 24th. ~Zenon Scraba. G.K. Page 8