SAINT BASIL THE GREAT СВ. ВАСИЛІЯ ВЕЛИКОГО Ukrainian Catholic Parish Парафія УГКЦ 202 HARCOURT STREET, WINNIPEG, MB R3J 3H3 Parish Office: 204-837-4180 Parish Hall: 204-889-9057 Parish Office Email Address: parish@saintbasilwpg.ca Rev. Fr. Ihor Shved о. Ігор Швед Phones: Cell: 431-996-2343 Home; 204-889-2083 Email Address Stbasilpriest@gmail.com Welcome to the LENTEN MISSION, with Rev. John Sianchuk C.Ss.R March 16-17 (Friday-Saturday) Fri., 10 a.m. - Parastas followed by the 1-st talk (after it coffee and discussion); Fri., 6:30 p.m. Confession, 7 p.m. Liturgy of the Presenctified Gifts followed by the 2-nd talk; Sat., 7 p.m. Moleben to Blessed Vasyl Velychkovsky, veneration of his relics, prayers for healing, anointing with the holy oil followed by the 3 talk (coffee and discussion after). SUNDAY LITURGY 10:00 a.m. (Rosary at 9:30 am) OFFICE HOURS (MON-WED-FRI) 10:00 am 1:00 pm CONFESSIONS Before Divine Liturgies BAPTISIMS By appointment FUNERALS By arrangement MARRIAGES By appointment at least six months in advance WEBSITE: www.saintbasilwpg.ca PARISH OFFICE EMAIL ADDRESS: parish@saintbasilwpg.ca BULLETIN SUBMISSIONS: bulletin@saintbasilwpg.ca Father Sianchuk was born in Manitoba. In 1974 he was ordained to the priesthood. He studied philosophy and theology in Canada and Italy and graduated with a Licentiate in Eastern Theology (O.E.S.L) from Oriental Institute, Gregorian University, Rome in 1981. He is a present director of the Bishop Velychkovsky Matyr s Shrine, at St. Joseph s Ukrainian Catholic Church. Thank you On behalf of the Parish council I would like to thank all the parishioners for attending the annual meeting and participated in providing a feedback. Who doesn t have the annual report may pick it up at the back of the church. Thank you to parish council 2017 for their great job. Thank you to the executive and committee members for accepting their positions for 2018. Let us serve together for the glory of God and goodness of our parish. Fr. Ihor 1
Parish Executive : President Rose Olynyk Vice President Andy Labay Treasurer Harry Fediuk Financial Secretary Gerry Skochyles Parish council Secretary John Bazarkewich Committee Chair Persons : Building and Maintenance Orest Kulchyski Social Ron Trakalo Tatca Linda Labay Hall Rental Leona Solomon Carolling Leona Solomon Internal Auditors Alan Prychitko, Martin Nechwediuk, Marilyn Slobogian Liturgical /Pastoral -------Fr. Ihor Shved, Sister Ruth, John Solomon, Dorothy Labay DIVINE LITURGY REQUESTS Time Feast or Intention, requested by 11 th Mar. Sunday 10:00 AM All parishioners 12 th Mar. Monday 10:00 AM 6:45 PM + Rose Swidinsky offered by UCWLC + Maria offered by family (Ukrainian) 13 th Mar. Tuesday 10:00 AM + Ken Wasyliw offered by UCWLC 14 th Mar. Wed. 5:30 PM 6:30 PM Liturgy of Presanctified Gifts followed by Stations of the Cross and UCWLC meeting 15 th Mar. Thursday 10:00 AM + Ken Wasyliw offered by family 16 th Mar. Friday 10:00 AM 6:30 PM 7:00 PM Parastas (Sorokousty) and I-st talk Confession (3 priests will be present) Liturgy of Presanctified Gifts and II-nd talk 17 th Mar. Saturday 9:15 AM + Rose Swidinsky offered by Vicki Bugera 18 th Mar. Sunday 10:00 AM 12.00 AM All parishioners Divine Liturgy in Ukrainian NOTE: All the 10:00 am Divine 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 Note of thanks Sometimes it is difficult to express our feelings. That was my experience last Sunday. I was overwhelmed by the many thank you s and phone calls I received for working in the office. It was challenging at times but you work it out through thick and thin and it is all good. I appreciate and embrace the people that showed me respect. In return I am extending my many thanks to you (you know who you are) that gave me that support. I enjoyed working at the church office. God bless you all. Sylvia Martyniuk 2
CATECHISM about The Holy Mystery of Repentance 449 The Holy Mystery of Repentance (or Confession) is a marvellous manifestation of God s love and mercy towards us sinners. This is because the Lord does not reject us and does not turn away from us when we, having been washed of our sins in Baptism and endowed with divine grace, sin again through malice or weakness. Indeed, the Lord awaits our repentance. He forgives us if we repent and confess our sins (see Lk 15:12-32). (Read more on page 5) Saint Basil s Travelling Icon of the Blessed Mother of Pochaiv She will reside in the home of the following Parishioners March 11 th - 18 th Marge Hadubiak MNOHAYA LITA - GOD S BLESSINGS FOR MANY MORE YEARS OF LOVE & HAPPINESS HAPPY ANNIVERSARY To anyone that is not registered with the Parish God s Blessings for your Happiest Birthday HAPPY BIRTHDAY:- March 11 rd - Katherine Dunsford March 12 th - Tony Stastook March 16 th - Allan Rebenchuk SANCTUARY LIGHT Sanctuary Light burns eternally to indicate the presence of the Holy Eucharist in the tabernacle. This WEEK INTENTION OFFERED March 11 th 18 th +Ken Wasyliw by the family USHERS & GREETERS Mar 18 th - Harry & Nellie Fediuk Mar 25 th - Harry Fediuk, Eugene Tokaryk EPISTLE READERS Mar.11 th Gerry Skochyles Mar. 18 th - Megan Morant Mar 25 th Ed Yaskiw KNIGHTS OF COLOMBUS The next perogy supper is planned for Friday March 23 @ 4:00 a bit early as Good Friday is on the last Friday of March. All from our parish and their friends are invited to come and enjoy a supper and an opportunity to visit. We have coffee house planned for March 18. Submitted by Grand Knight Andrew Labay Tatsa counters: Parishioners willing to help count/process the Sunday envelopes, please contact Linda Labay 204-832-6905. Tacza counters for March are Andy & Linda Labay and Phyllis Fedorchuk DONATIONS God bless you for supporting your parish Sunday collection 3
SPRING TEA NOTICE Our annual Spring Tea will be held SUNDAY MARCH 25TH 1:00PM TO 3:00PM If you are able, please bring 3 bakings to the hall on Saturday March 24th between 10:00am and 3:00pm. 2 bakings for the bake sale; 1 baking for the tea tables We will be needing extra help at the following dates and time:- MONDAY MARCH 12th - 10:00am - Cooking Rice (Jean Derhak) TUESDAY March 13th - 10:00am - Making holopchi, bake & pack (Jean Baydock) FRIDAY & SATURDAY MARCH 23 & 24Th SETTING TABLES, PRICING BAKE SALE BAKINGS, PREPARING FILLINGS FOR SANDWICHES, MAKING SANDWICHES, CUTTING UP BAKINGS FOR TABLES. ETC. DECORATING. Any help by everyone will be greatly appreciated by the ladies. THANK YOU & GOD BLESS ALL U.C.W.L.C. On the Fourth Sunday of Holy Lent our Church commemorates our Righteous Father John Climacus. He is called Climacus due to his authorship of the great spiritual work The Ladder of Divine Ascent. His commemoration is designated by the Church on one of the Sundays of Lent as his life and writings affirm him as a supreme bearer and proponent of Christian asceticism. The ascetic example of this great Saint of the Church inspires us in our Lenten journey. Saint John of the Ladder reminds us that going to heaven is not as easy as getting into an elevator and pressing a button. On the contrary, it is a long and hazardous climb which is impossible to scale fully unless we beseech God for assistance. May God grant us all fullness of faith, peace and joy on our climb to heaven. Knights of Columbus St. Josaphat Council # 4138 Hosting Easter Charity Meat Bingo Sunday March 18, 2018 Royal Canadian Legion Branch 141 618 Selkirk Ave.1:30 pm. to 5:30 pm Assorted Meat Prizes Grocery Hampers Auction Prizes 20 Games of Chip Bingo Come Enjoy an Afternoon Of Traditional Chip Bingo Tickets are $7.00 each at the Door Ticket Price includes 3 Lap Cards. Extra Cards $1.00 Each Church Cleaning Church Custodians for March are Allan & Wanda Prychitko. Please feel free to volunteer a few hours a week for one month of this 2018 year to enhance our church interior. Choose the month which will be convenient for you and your family. Book early to avoid disappointment. I hope I don t have to wait too long for your call. Sonia Wawryk Church Cleaning Chair 204-831-0904 4
2) The Rite of Confession 456. Confession is made before a priest, who is a witness of the sinner s repentance and a mediator of God s forgiveness: Know, O child, that Christ himself, our Saviour, who knows all the hidden secrets of people s hearts, is invisibly present, accepting your confession. Therefore do not conceal from me, whether from shame or from fear, anything of your sins... Beware that, having come for healing, you do not leave unhealed.345at the same time, the priest helps penitents to know the state of their soul, confirms their faith in God s forgiveness, offers spiritual counsel, designates an appropriate spiritual remedy (in Greek, epitimia, i.e., penance), and gives the absolution. As regards the contents of a penitent s confession, the priest is obliged to maintain the strictest secrecy, even after the penitent s death. 457. Preparation for Confession requires a prayerful examination of one s conscience. This consists of aligning our life with the divine command-ments, the Church s precepts, and the Gospel Beatitudes. Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky teaches: A good Confession requires, perhaps, a lengthier preparation. Before holy Confession we should beseech God in prayer for the gift of repentance, the gift of heartfelt tears. Maybe there is even a need to fast, since you know what Jesus Christ said: This kind can come out only through prayer and fasting [see Mk 9:29]. There are sins that cannot be expelled from the soul without fasting, without prayer. An important condition of Confession is sincere repentance, the desire to change one s life. This means having contrition, or sorrow for sins, and a resolution to make amends. Sincere repentance is first of all realizing that one is a sinner in need of God s forgiveness, and seeing that one s sins have caused a turning away from God and rejection of his love. An important requisite of Confession is also reconciliation with one s neighbour: When you are offering your gift at the altar, if you remember that your brother or sister has something against you, leave your gift there before the altar and go; first be reconciled to your brother or sister, and then come and offer your gift (Mt 5:23-24) 459. If a person has no desire to repent, and refuses to amend the damage caused by sin, he or she thereby becomes incapable of receiving forgive-ness of sins, even if they have come to Confession. In order to help such a person understand their lack of repentance and motivate them to true conversion, the priest can refuse him or her absolution. Anyone intentionally concealing grave sins in Confession remains unhealed and commits a sin of sacrilege. If a person in such a state approaches Holy Communion, he or she offends the Lord and commits a grave sin. 460. In the Holy Mystery of Repentance, God grants the Christian growth in the grace of Baptism and the virtues. The closer we come to God, we see our own weaknesses and sinfulness more clearly and thus feel the need for more frequent Confession. According to the spiritual Fathers, if a person confesses rarely, he or she gradually loses the capacity to distinguish between good and evil, which has negative consequences for his or her whole life. 5
461. Frequent Confession makes a person spiritually sound, capable of resisting temptation; and it increases their vigour in the spiritual struggle. Appropriate occasions for Confession are the [four] fasts of the liturgical year, during which, according to Church custom, the whole family approaches the Holy Mystery of Confession http://catechism.royaldoors.net/catechism/ The Ukrainian Catholic Redemptorist's are hosting a High School (Ages 13-18) Good Friday retreat this year! The retreat is being held at St. Joseph's Ukrainian Catholic Church. It is from 3pm-12am on Good Friday, March 30. The theme is Awake O Sleeper, a look into how we often can fall asleep in our faith and what we can do to revive ourselves again. There will be 3 sessions all on different aspects of Jesus' Good Friday journey and how they can apply deeply with our seemingly simple mundane lives. There will also be time for meditation, personal growth, group activities, music, and a Good Friday supper. The group will also attend Jerusalem Matins at St. Joseph's at 7pm. Rides home will also be offered to those who are in need of one. 6