Divine Liturgy for the coming week

Christ is born!

Sunday, 1/23, 35th Sunday after Pentecost
9:00 a.m. +Paul Paluha requested by Jaroslaw Paluha
10:30 a.m. For the people of the parish

Epistle: 2 Corinthians 6:16-7:1
Gospel: Matthew 15:21-28, Tone 2

Monday, 1/24, Our Venerable Xenia
9:00 a.m. No particular intention for the Divine Liturgy

Tuesday, 1/25, Our Venerable Gregory the Theologian
9:00 a.m. +Danylo Begej (27th Anniv., Pan.) requested by Irene Morgan

Wednesday, 1/26, Our Venerable Xenophon and Mary
9:00 a.m. No particular intention for the Divine Liturgy

Thursday, 1/27, Translation relics of John Chrysostom
9:00 a.m. No particular intention for the Divine Liturgy

Friday, 1/28, Our Venerable Ephrem the Syrian
9:00 a.m. No particular intention for the Divine Liturgy

Saturday, 1/29, Translation relics of Ignatius
9:00 a.m. No particular intention for the Divine Liturgy

Sunday, 1/30, Sunday of Zaccheus
9:00 a.m. Special Intention
10:30 a.m. For the people of the parish

Epistle: 1 Timothy 1: 15-17
Gospel: Luke 18:35-43, Tone 3

Parish announcements

Christ is among us!

This week vigil light is offered by the Sokhan Family in memory of Yaroslava Kalynec.

If you would like to have a Confession, Holy Communion or prayer of the sick at your house or nursing home, please call the rectory at 203-865-0388.

St. Michael’s Parish invites you to come to our traditional Ukrainian Christmas PROSFORA on Sunday, January 30, 2022 at noon. The cost is $25 per diner. Tickets may be purchased from January 23 to January 30. This event can be postponed or canceled if the CDC guidelines change.

SOROKOUSTY will be celebrated during Lent in All Souls’ Saturdays, February 19, March 12, 19, 26 and June 4. Please take a book found in the entrance of the church, fill it out, place it in envelope, and drop it in the collection basket. Let us remember all our loved ones who have gone to their heavenly reward. Eternal Memory!

A container is in our church vestibule for non-perishable food. This collection will be taken every week or twice per month. Father Iura will distribute the food to those in need. Thank you for your generosity.

Into the Light: Conversations with Sviatoslav Shevchuk

A word from our friend and fellow parishioner, John Burger

Friends, I have good news to share. Yesterday, I signed a contract with Our Sunday Visitor publishing. My book, Into the Light: Conversations with Sviatoslav Shevchuk, will be published in 2023. I am grateful to God for this development, and grateful to all who have helped bring this project to this point.

Into the Light is a book-length interview with His Beatitude Sviatoslav Shevchuk, head and father of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, the largest Eastern Catholic Church in communion with Rome. The first part of the book details His Beatitude’s dramatic story of growing up and studying for the priesthood in the underground Church, when Ukraine was part of the Soviet Union and the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church was illegal. The rest of the book delves into His Beatitude’s thoughts and analyses of issues facing the Church and the larger society today, including secularism, how the digital revolution is affecting young people, the challenges of ecumenism, the need for community and authentic witness, and the value of Catholic Social Teaching for society.

Let me just say that this is a book not just for Ukrainians, not just for Ukrainian Greek Catholics, and not just for Eastern Christians, though I trust those communities will be interested in reading it. I do believe that His Beatitude’s life story, witness, and teachings will have resonance for many people, especially those searching for wisdom in an increasingly fractured and confusing world.

Parish Prosfora on Sunday January 23

Earlier today at the Sunday Divine Liturgy Father Iura postponed the 2022 Prosfora. Stay tuned for further details.

St. Michael’s Parish invites you to come to our traditional Ukrainian Christmas PROSFORA on Sunday, January 23, 2022 at noon. The cost is $25 per diner. Tickets may be purchased from January 10 to January 20. 

This event can be postponed or canceled if the CDC guidelines change.

Divine Liturgy for the coming week

Christ is born!

Sunday, 1/16, 34th Sunday after Pentecost
9:00 a.m. +Kyle Paluha requested by Jaroslaw Paluha
10:30 a.m. For the people of the parish

Epistle: 1 Timothy 1:15-17
Gospel: Luke 18:35-43, Tone 1

Monday, 1/17, Our Venerable Anthony the Great
10:00 a.m. Funeral Divine Liturgy for Osyp Danko

Tuesday, 1/18, Our Holy Father Athanasius and Cyril
9:00 a.m. Health for Oksana, Kalyna, John, Halyna Nadia, Lesia, Nazar, Zlata, Ustym, Bohdan

Wednesday, 1/19, Our Venerable Father Macarius
9:00 a.m. God’s blessings for Adam, Anna, Valentina, Nadia, Ivan, Anastasia, Nadia, Olha, Mychajlo and Maria requested by the Kostiuk family

Thursday, 1/20, Our Venerable Father Euthemius
9:00 a.m. No particular intention for the Divine Liturgy

Friday, 1/21, Our Venerable Father Maximus
9:00 a.m. No particular intention for the Divine Liturgy

Saturday, 1/22, Holy Apostle Timothy
9:00 a.m. +Teodozij, Mychajlo, Stepan, Sviatoslav, Hanna, Maria, Zenovij, Nastia, Petro, Ruslan, Maria

Sunday, 1/23, 35th Sunday after Pentecost
9:00 a.m. +Kyle Paluha requested by Jaroslaw Paluha
10:30 a.m. For the people of the parish

Epistle: 2 Corinthians 6: 16-7:1
Gospel: Matthew 15:21-28, Tone 2

Parish announcements

Christ is among us!

This week vigil light is offered by Dumalskyy Family in memory of Hanna Dumalska.

Osyp Danko fell asleep in the Lord. Please remember him in your prayers. Eternal Memory!

We would like to thank our parishioners who have supported our efforts this past year. Through our recent sale of kolaci and kutia we were able to send $250 to the UNWLA emergency fund Oxygen for Life for hospitalized Covid patients in Ukraine. With all my sisters Soiuzanky we wish all of you God’s blessings and a happy and healthy new year.
UNWLA Branch #108 New Haven

If you would like to have a Confession, Holy Communion or prayer of the sick at your house or nursing home, please call the rectory at 203-865-0388.

St. Michael’s Parish invites you to come to our traditional Ukrainian Christmas PROSFORA on Sunday, January 23, 2022 at noon. The cost is $25 per diner. Tickets may be purchased from January 10 to January 20. This event can be postponed or canceled if the CDC guidelines change.

A container is in our church vestibule for non-perishable food. This collection will be taken every week or twice per month. Father Iura will distribute the food to those in need. Thank you for your generosity.

SOROKOUSTY will be celebrated during Great Lent in All Souls’ Saturdays, February 19, March 12, 19, 26. In the Easter season on June 4. Please take a book found in the entrance of the church, fill it out, place it in envelope, and drop it in the collection basket. Let us remember all our loved ones who have gone to their heavenly reward. Eternal Memory!

PLEASE TAKE NOTE: the numerical assigned donation envelope boxes are in the back of the church for you to pick up as well as the 2022 calendars

UKRAINIAN SCHOOL REOPENS: The Ukrainian School of New Haven is pleased to inform you that The New School Year 2021-2022 has begun. Registration is pen to all children. If you have any questions for students of Elementary School please contact Halia Lodynsky at 203-494-6278. For students Middle School call Volodymyr Dumalskyy at 203-988-2923. A nursery school program for children 2-5 years old is currently ongoing. Instruction will be primarily in Ukrainian language with accommodations for English. Connecticut Covid guidelines will be followed. For further information please call Nataliia Dankevych 203- 901-7168.

The 8th Day of Christmas

Happy New Year, Blessings for 2022!

Today the Church honors the 8th day of the Nativity, the circumcision of the Lord. The ritual also includes the naming of the child –Jesus. It is also a day on which we consider our own incorporation into the Church through Baptism. In both cases, today is a day celebrate our being made anew in Christ.

For the Christian, baptism has replaced circumcision as the entrance into the life of the church. Colossians 2:11-12 witnesses to this: “In him you were also circumcised with a circumcision not administered by hand, by stripping off the carnal body, with the circumcision of Christ. You were buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through faith in the power of God, who raised him from the dead.” One of the reasons for this, though not the only one, is that now Gentiles were entering the Church.

St. Paul says, “There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free person, there is not male and female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus. (Galatians 3:28) Even in the Scripture, it was decided that Gentiles did not need to be circumcised. Circumcision was a limited entrance, it could only be for males. However, both circumcision and baptism did require a change of heart, a true repentance, a turning to the Lord. The prophet Jeremiah preached, “Be circumcised for the Lord, remove the foreskins of your hearts” (4:4).

This was echoed in the New Testament by St. Paul, “One is not a Jew outwardly. True circumcision is not outward, in the flesh. Rather, one is a Jew inwardly, and circumcision is of the heart, in the spirit, not the letter; his praise is not from human beings but from God” (Romans 2:28-29).

Circumcision was done of the eighth day, it was the beginning of a new creation, for God created the world in six days and rested on the seventh, the new creation begins on the eighth day. For the Christian, baptism, too, is the beginning of a new creation: “you should put away the old self of your former way of life, corrupted through deceitful desires, and be renewed in the spirit of your minds, and put on the new self, created in God’s way in righteousness and holiness of truth” (Ephesians 4:22-24). The Feast of the Circumcision, then, is in the middle of our passage from the Birth of the Lord to his Baptism in the Jordan. It is a time to renew our hearts, and begin to live in Christ.

Meditation by Archpriest David Petras

Octave Day of Christmas

Happy New Year’s!

On January 1, at 11:00 a.m. the Divine Liturgy will be served for the feast of the Circumcision of the Lord. Following the Liturgy we will gather in the church hall for a glass of champagne –as is our parish custom.

The Blessing of Homes 2022

The Blessing of Homes following the feast of Holy Theophany is a sacred time for us. Father Iura is now scheduling this time-honored Ukrainian tradition. Blessings will begin on January 8 and will call in-advance to inform as to the time of his visit.

Divine Liturgy for the coming week

Christ is born! Glorify Him!

Sunday, 12/26, Sunday after Christmas
9:00 a.m. For the people of the parish
10:30 a.m. +Vera Walnysky requested by Christine Floramo

Epistle: Galatians 1:11-19 or Hebrews 2-11-18
Gospel: Matthew 2:13-23, Tone 6

Monday, 12/27, St. Stephen the Protomartyr
9:00 a.m. Special Intention

Tuesday, 12/28, 20,000 martyrs of Nicomedia
9:00 a.m. +Father Deacon Charles, Barbara, and Ivan Burger (15th anniv. Pan) requested by the Burger Family

Wednesday, 12/29, Holy Innocents martyrs
9:00 a.m. +Michael Docknevych (55th Anniv., Pan.) requested by Martin Docvknevych

Thursday, 12/30, Our Venerable Martryr Anysia
9:00 a.m. +Olga Pospolita requested by Donna Larry

Friday, 12/31, Our Venerable Melany
9:00 a.m. +Michael Lipcan (12th Anniv., Pan.) requested by Barbara and Patrick Bagley

Saturday, 1/01, Circumcision of our Lord, St. Basil —Anointing following the Liturgy
11:00 a.m. For the people of the parish

Sunday, 1/02, Sunday Before Theophany
9:00 a.m. All deceased members of Komondy family and relatives requested by Chris Komondy
10:30 a.m. For the people of the parish

Epistle: 2 Timothy 4:5-8
Gospel: Mark 1:1-8, Tone 7