Category: Culture

Happy Thanksgiving & Liturgy

The Divine Liturgy will be served tomorrow, Thanksgiving Day at 9:00 a.m. in English and Ukrainian. The Liturgy is a terrific way to have an attitude of gratitude. Join us at the Liturgy!

Happy Thanksgiving from our parish family to you.
Glory to God for all things!

National Symphony of Ukraine in CT

The National Symphony of Ukraine will be touring the USA. Volodymyr Sirenko is the conductor and performing at UCONN’s Jorgensen Center for the Performing Arts on Friday, November 22 at 7 p.m.

The NSU was founded in 1949.

Pre-concert lecture ( included in the ticket price) by Dr Glenn Stanley at 6:15 p.m.

University of Connecticut, 2132 Hillside Road, Unit 3104, Storrs.

The program includes:

~American Rhapsody, composed by UCONN 2019 Grammy Award-winner Kenneth Fuchs
~Brahms Double Concerto with Sophie Shao, cello and I as soloists
~Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 6

Ticket prices $15.00 – $45.00
Tickets may be purchased online.

Holodomor Memorial Service 2019

Today, at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in NYC held the Holodomor Memorial Service.

As Deacon Thomas Stadnik said, “The Service was held to commemorate the 86th anniversary of the Genocide of Ukrainian People by artificially imposed Famine during 1932 and 1933 at the command of the merciless Satanic sociopath and mass murderer Josef Stalin. After imposing a collective farming program, Soviet authorities confiscated all food and beverages and all livestock from vast stretches of Ukraine, leaving people literally to starve to death, while the facts of these events were covered up and denied by Stalin and his henchmen. Whole extended families died out in this horrid genocidal famine. Today we pray for all who died, especially those who have no one left alive to pray for them, and for those few who did survive and live with the terrible memory of that experience.

For those who have not heard of the Holodomor before, it is recommended that you see the recently released movie “Mr Jones”, about the Irish journalist Gareth Jones who visited Ukraine at that time and documented this horror.

The bishops of the Ukrainian Catholic and Orthodox communities presided.

Picture by Jennifer Stadnik

Coffee social

UNWLA #108 invites all women to a coffee social on Sunday, October 27, 2019 after each Divine Liturgy at St. Michael’s Ukrainian church hall to meet current members and others who may be interested in continuing the vital work of the local, regional, and national Ukrainian women’s organization. 

Established in 1925, the Ukrainian National Women’s League of America (UNWLA) is the longest-running and largest Ukrainian women’s organization in the US. Our mission: uniting women of Ukrainian descent and affiliation in service, friendship and dedication in order to promote and develop educational and cultural efforts and humanitarian assistance to Ukrainians worldwide.

Союз Українок Америки (СУА ) відділ 108-й запрошує всіх жінок поспілкуватися за кавою, в неділю 27 жовтня 2019, після кожної Служби Божої, в залі,  при церкві св.Михаїла в Нью Гейвен і зустрітися з членками організації та іншими жінками, які зацікавлені у продовженні важливої праці, яку веде українська жіноча організація на місцевому, регіональному та державному рівні.

Заснована у 1925 році, Союз Українок Америки, найдовготриваліша і найбільша українська жіноча організація у Сполучених Штатах. Нашим завданням є об’єднання жінок українського походження та приалежності, до служіння, дружби і відданості з метою сприяння та розвитку освіти і культури, а також гуманітарної допомоги українцям по цілому світі.

Holodomor Remembrance 2019

The 2019 Holodomor Remembrance in New York City will take place on Saturday, November 16

The bus trip is on “First Come, First Serve.”  Dyakuyu.

May Christ our true God, risen from the dead, place the souls of His departed servants, the victims of the Holodomor genocide, in the abode of the Saints, grant them rest in the bosom of Abraham, and number them among the righteous, through the prayers of His most pure Mother, of the holy, glorious, and praiseworthy Apostles, of our venerable and God‐bearing Fathers, and of all the Saints; may He have mercy on us and save us, for He is good and loves mankind.

Bus Itinerary Pickup

9:00 a.m. Corpus Christi School Parking Lot-581 Silas Deane Hwy, Wethersfield
9:30 a.m. Ikea Parking Lot (rear)-Brewery Street, New Haven
10:00 a.m. Senior Center Parking Lot, Exit 32, Stratford
12:00 noon Drop- off at St. Patrick Cathedral, Fifth Avenue
2:00 p.m. Holodomor Memorial Service at St. Patrick Cathedral
4:00 p.m. Pickup to return to Stratford/New Haven/Hartford

Cost

Adults: $40.00 per person
Students: $20.00 per person

To reserve seats today, please contact:

Myron Kolinsky: 860-563-4072
Ihor and Natalia Rudko: 860-537-4051
Ivan Kebalo: 860-299-6727
Halia Lodynsky: 203-494-6278
Christina Kowinko: 203-380-2892