Christ is risen!
Blessed Holy Pentecost!
Fell Asleep in the Lord — Jerry Luciw and Christoforo Schiano. Please remember them in your prayers. Eternal Memory!
This week the vigil light is offered to God’s glory by Chris Komondy in memory of all deceased members of the Komondy family.
The rectory office will be closed from Monday, June 10 until June 13. Fr. Iura Godenciuc will be away for clergy days.
On June 23rd there will be only one (1) Divine Liturgy at 10:30 a.m. in English and Ukrainian.
Helping the poor – a work of charity: The Director of the St. Vincent DePaul Homeless Shelter in Waterbury wrote to us requesting assistance in collecting bath soap, tooth brushes, tooth paste, deodorant, Q-tips, men’s underwear, for the ministry to the homeless. We will have this collection for the poor through TODAY, Pentecost (June 9). These items can be put in the basket at the entrance of the church in the marked box. Paul Zalonski (of our parish) will drive the donations to the Homeless Shelter in Waterbury.
The next Sestrechi meeting will be held TODAY, Sunday, June 9 after the 9:00 a.m. Divine Liturgy. The meeting will be held in the Church Hall Classroom 1.
The Panachyda service at the gravesites will take place TODAY, June 9 at 12:30 p.m. at St. Lawrence Cemetery. For Panachyda service at other cemeteries please call the rectory 203-865-0388.
We will be making pyrohy on Saturday, June 15. We need your help because will be more orders before vacation (July and August). Please come and help also on Friday, June 14 to peel potatoes and Saturday to make pyrohy. See Walter Ushchak –Manager of the Pyrohy Project.
We have for sale frozen borscht for $5.00; cabbage and sausage (kapusta and kovbasa) for $10.00 and pyrohy (varenyky) in 2 dozen packages for $14.00. You can buy pyrohy after each Divine Liturgy or during the week if you call the rectory.
STAMFORD CHARITIES APPEAL
REMINDER: Please don’t forget to donate for Charities Appeal. The forms are designed for each family of our parish. Attached to the form is an envelope into which you can place your contribution. The form along with your contribution, we ask you enclose in the envelope and place it in the collection basket during church services. Please make check payable to the Byzantine Rite Eparchy of Stamford. DO NOT MAIL THIS FORM TO THE CHANCERY OFFICE. We sincerely ask all parishioners to make generous contributions.
The newly formed Facilities Maintenance Team of St. Michael’s schedules of work sessions for the entire year so that plans can be developed for doing all the projects and arrangements made for the purchase of required supplies and equipment. The usual time frame for the work sessions will run from 6:30 to about 9:30 p.m. All parishioners are invited to be a part of the team. Call Fr. Iura with your contact information.
Awakenings —Adult Faith Formation: “Let my soul glory in the Lord; the lowly will hear me and be glad” (Psalms 34: 3).
Humankind – in the Image and Likeness of God: In accordance with God’s eternal plan, the divinization of human beings is possible. It is possible because of the incarnation of God’s Son, through which we receive the gift of becoming partakers in the nature of God (see 2 Pt 1:4) as gods by grace, and attain to eternal life, “We have not been made gods from the beginning, but at first merely human beings, then finally gods; for God has adopted this course out of his pure benevolence, that no one may impute to him invidiousness or grudgingness [i.e. envy or reluctance].” It is precisely because God has loved us that he desires for us to become like him: “Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect” (Mt 5:48; see 1 Pt 1:16). (Christ Our Pascha, 127)