Helping Ukraine

The current request from Fr. Roman as of 6-18-2024 is for money that will enable him to purchase urgently needed medications and surgical masks for medical staff at 2 hospitals in the Lviv region and medical facilities near the battlefields at the frontlines in Eastern Ukraine.

The specific items that we can provide are disposable undergarments for adults and pampers for Children, white sheets, pillowcases and disposable pads to put between the sheets and mattress on hospital beds, medical grade gloves (all sizes), crutches, wheelchairs, electric wheelchairs and walkers.

We are also sending over winter clothing for adults and children.

The Collection Center at St. Michael Ukrainian Catholic Church at 569 George St., New Haven, CT will be open to receive donations on Tuesdays (4-7PM) and Sundays (11:30-12PM).

Ss. Cosmas and Damian

On July 1, we celebrate the memory of two holy men that are included in a special category of sanctity in the Byzantine Church: Unmercenary Healers, Ss. Cosmas and Damian. There were man who did a special service for the Christian faithful: they served the physical needs of those afflicted by illnesses, and cared for them without recompense. They were images of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Physician of Souls and Bodies. Indeed, they were more than simply doctors who healed bodies, but they were wonder-workers who brought spiritual healing through the grace of God, fulfilling the Lord’s command, “Freely you have received; freely you are to give. (Matthew 10:8)” They were holistic healers of the whole human person.

We sing today: “You first showed yourselves to be good doctors by cleansing all our sicknesses by faith, then you took up the spiritual battle, and divinely drove away the spiritual illnesses of corruption.” (Sticheron at Psalm 140, Tone 1).

Unmercenary healers always come in pairs. This is a sign of both our oneness in Christ and our need for mutual support. For one to live as a true hermit in solitude was rare, and it still needed the permission and support of a spiritual father. Two men struggling the ascetical life together for mutual support was very common in monastic life. Of course, there was then also the community life of men and women living in community in the search for the presence of God. Cosmas and Damian lived in Rome in the third century.

Other unmercenary healers were: “Antipas, Charalampius and Blaise, the most honored bishop martyrs; Spyridon and Modestus, the all-splendid luminaries of the Church; the three pairs of divinely wise saints Cosmas and Damian, who shared the same names and the same ways; Cyrus and the glorious John; the divine Panteleimon and Hermolaus; Diomedes and Sampson; together with Mocius, Photius and Anicetas, Artemius, Thalalaeus and Tryphon.

Meditation by Archpriest David Petras

Divine Liturgy for the coming week

Glory to Jesus Christ!

Sunday, 6/30, 6th Sunday after Pentecost —Moleben to Jesus Christ and Myrovann
10:15 a.m. Lytija and Blessing of Bread
10:30 a.m. For the people of the parish

Epistle: Romans 12:6-14
Gospel: Matthew 9:1-8, Tone 5

Monday, 7/1, The Holy Unmercenaries Cosmas and Damian
8:00 a.m. No particular intention for the Divine Liturgy

Tuesday, 7/2, Deposition of the Robes of the Holy Theotokos
9:00 a.m. No particular intention for the Divine Liturgy

Wednesday, 7/3, Holy Martyr Hyacinth
9:00 a.m. No particular intention for the Divine Liturgy

Thursday, 7/4, Our Venerable Father Andrew
8:00 a.m. No particular intention for the Divine Liturgy

Friday, 7/5, Our Venerable Father Athanasius
9:00 a.m. No particular intention for the Divine Liturgy

Saturday, 7/6, Our Venerable Father Sisoes the Great
8:00 a.m. No particular intention for the Divine Liturgy

Sunday, 7/7, 7th Sunday after Pentecost
10:00 a.m. For the people of the parish

Epistle: Romans 15:1-7
Gospel: Mathew 9:27-35, Tone 6

Parish announcements

Christ is among us!

This week vigil light is offered by Father Iura and Iuliana Godenciuc in memory of Anna Lupsac and Maria Gherman.

During vacation time from July 7th until September (Labor Day) we will celebrate only one (1) Divine Liturgy at 10:00 in the English and Ukrainian languages.

New parishioners are always welcomed in our parish. If someone wants to register with our parish please contact Father Iura Godenciuc at (203) 865-0388 or our financial secretary Natalia Chermak.

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.

PARISH COFFEE HOUR: Dear parishioners and guests, after each Divine Liturgy, a social hour with coffee and hard rolls and assorted snacks are available in the church hall. Please feel free to join us.

STAMFORD CHARITIES APPEAL: Please don’t forget to donate for Charities Appeal.. 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 70th Annual Holy Dormition Pilgrimage will be held on August 9-11 at the motherhouse of the Sisters Servants of Mary Immaculate in Sloatsburg. This year’s theme is “My soul magnifies the Lord, and my spirit rejoices in God my Savior”. The Sisters invite all our parishioners to attend! For information call: 845-753-2840 or visit www.ssmi-us.org

FOOD DONATIONS: A container is in our church vestibule for non-perishable food. Please give generously new items within the expiration date. These items will be given out to the poor in our community. Thank you for your generosity and support.

The members of the New Haven CT Ukrainian American Humanitarian Aid Fund board of directors would like to express our deep gratitude to everyone who has been contributing so much to our program, both financially and through the donations of items that have been shipped to Ukraine. Our 12th shipment arrived in Ukraine on April 15th. The total estimated value of everything that has been sent over now exceeds $8 million. Fr. Roman Manulyak, who is our one and only contact person in Ukraine, has a large group of volunteers who distribute everything that we send over to many regions of Ukraine including the front lines in Eastern Ukraine. You can personally view the reports that Fr. Roman has been posting on the following Facebook pages: Facebook.com/carlrharvey, Heart of the Samaritan Fund or the New Haven CT Ukrainian American Humanitarian Aid Fund to see what we have accomplished in the past two years. The current request from Fr. Roman as of 6-18-2024 is for money that will enable him to purchase urgently needed medications and surgical masks for medical staff at 2 hospitals in the Lviv region and medical facilities near the battlefields at the frontlines in Eastern Ukraine. The specific items what we can provide are disposable undergarments for adults and pampers for Children, white sheets, pillowcases and disposable pads to put between the sheets and mattress on hospital beds, medical grade gloves(all sizes), crutches, wheelchairs, electric wheelchairs and walkers. We are also sending over winter clothing for adults and children. The Collection Center at St. Michael Ukrainian Catholic Church at 569 George St., New Haven, CT will be open to receive donations on Tuesdays (4-7PM) and Sundays (11:30-12PM). For additional information, contact Carl Harvey at cenbts64@gmail.com or 203-848-4860 or Myron Melnyk at mmelnyk@yaoo.com.

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The Holy and Pre-eminent Apostles Peter and Paul

This day has been consecrated for us by the martyrdom of the blessed apostles Peter and Paul. It is not some obscure martyrs we are talking about. Their sound has gone out into all the earth, and their words to the ends of the world. These martyrs had seen what they proclaimed, they pursued justice by confessing the truth, by dying for the truth.

The blessed Peter, the first of the Apostles, the ardent lover of Christ, who was found worthy to hear, And I say to you, that you are Peter. He himself, you see, had just said, You are the Christ, the Son of the living God. Christ said to him, And I say to you that you are Peter, and upon this rock I will build my Church. Upon this rock I will build the faith you have just confessed. Upon your words, You are the Christ, the Son of the living God, I will build my Church; because you are Peter. Peter comes from petra, meaning a rock. Peter, “Rocky,” from “rock”; not “rock” from “Rocky.” Peter comes from the word for a rock in exactly the same way as the name Christian comes from Christ.

Before his passion the Lord Jesus, as you know, chose those disciples of his whom he called apostles. Among these it was only Peter who almost everywhere was given the privilege of representing the whole Church. It was in the person of the whole Church, which he alone represented, that he was privileged to hear, To you will I give the keys of the kingdom of heaven. After all, it is not just one man that received these keys, but the Church in its unity. So this is the reason for Peter’s acknowledged pre-eminence, that he stood for the Church’s universality and unity, when he was told, To you I am entrusting, what has in fact been entrusted to all. To show you that it is the Church which has received the keys of the kingdom of heaven, listen to what the Lord says in another place to all his apostles: Receive the Holy Spirit; and immediately afterwards, Whose sins you forgive, they will be forgiven them; whose sins you retain, they will be retained.

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Commemoration of Bishop Nykolai Charnecky and Twenty-Seven New Blesseds

Today, June 27 we have the common commemoration of Bishop Nykolai (Nicholas) Charnecky and the Twenty-Seven Other New Blesseds of the Church of Rus`-Ukraine Beatified in 2001 by St. John Paul II, pope.

Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church:

Bishop Mykola Charnetskyi
Bishop Semeon Lukach
Bishop Ivan Sleziuk
Bishop Vasyl Velychkovsky
Bishop Hryhorii Khomyshyn
Bishop Josaphat Kotsylovsky
Bishop Mykyta Budka
Bishop Hryhorii Lakota
Father Mykola Konrad
Father Andrii Ischak
Father Severian Baranyk
Father Yakym Senkivskyi
Father Zenovii Kovalyk
Father Emilian Kovch
Father Vitalii Bairak
Father Roman Lysko
Archimandrite Klymentii Sheptytsky
Father Mykola Tsehelskyi
Father Ivan Ziatyk
Fahter Petro Verhun
Father Oleksii Zarytskyi
Sister Josaphata (Michaelina) Hordashevska
Sister Olympia Olha Bida
Sister Lavrentia Herasymiv
Sister Tarsykia Matskiv
Volodymyr Pryima

Ruthenian Greek-Catholic Church:
Bishop Theodore Romzha

Russian Greek-Catholic Church:
Exarch Leonid Feodorov

Divine Liturgy for the coming week

Glory to Jesus Christ!


Sunday, 6/23, 5th Sunday after Pentecost — Moleben to Jesus Christ
9:00 a.m. +Lajos Komondy requested by Chris Komondy
10:30 a.m. For the people of the parish
All Fathers of the Parish requested by the Sestretsi

Epistle: Romans 10:1-10
Gospel: Matthew 8:28-9:1, Tone 4

Monday, 6/24, Birth of St John the Baptist
9:00 a.m. Special Intention

Tuesday, 6/25, Our Venerable Martyr Febronia
8:00 a.m. No particular intention for the Divine Liturgy.

Wednesday, 6/26, David of Thessalonica
9:00 a.m. No particular intention for the Divine Liturgy

Thursday, 6/27, Blessed Nicholas Charnytsky, bishop
8:00 a.m. +Hildegard Komondy requested by Chris Komondy

Friday, 6/28, Translation of relics of Ss. Cyrus and John
8:00 a.m. God’s blessing and health for Irene Hladkyj requested by Luba Dubno

Saturday, 6/29, The Apostles Ss. Peter and Paul
9:00 a.m. For the people of the parish

Sunday, 6/30, 6th Sunday after Pentecost — Moleben to Jesus Christ
10:15 a.m. Lytija and Blessing of Bread
10:30 a.m. For the people of the parish

Epistle: Romans 12:6-14
Gospel: Mathew 9:1-8, Tone 5

Parish news

Christ is among us!

This week vigil light is offered by Fr. Iura and Iuliana Godenciuc in memory of Anna and Vasyl Lupsac.

During vacation time from July 7th until September 2nd (Labor Day) we will celebrate only one (1) Divine Liturgy from 10:00 a.m. in English and Ukrainian Languages.

We have for sale frozen pyrohy (varenyky). You can buy after Divine Liturgy in the church hall.

STAMFORD CHARITIES APPEAL: Please don’t forget to donate for Charities Appeal.. 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.

PARISH COFFEE HOUR: Dear parishioners and guests, after each Divine Liturgy, a social hour with coffee and hard rolls and assorted snacks are available in the church hall. Please feel free to join us.

The members of the New Haven CT Ukrainian American Humanitarian Aid Fund board of directors would like to express our deep gratitude to everyone who has been contributing so much to our program, both financially and through the donations of items that have been shipped to Ukraine. Our 12th shipment arrived in Ukraine on April 15th. The total estimated value of everything that has been sent over now exceeds $8 million. Fr. Roman Manulyak, who is our one and only contact person in Ukraine, has a large group of volunteers who distribute everything that we send over to many regions of Ukraine including the front lines in Eastern Ukraine. You can personally view the reports that Fr. Roman has been posting on the following Facebook pages: Facebook.com/carlrharvey, Heart of the Samaritan Fund or the New Haven CT Ukrainian American Humanitarian Aid Fund to see what we have accomplished in the past two years. The current request from Fr. Roman as of 6-18-2024 is for money that will enable him to purchase urgently needed medications and surgical masks for medical staff at 2 hospitals in the Lviv region and medical facilities near the battlefields at the frontlines in Eastern Ukraine. The specific items what we can provide are disposable undergarments for adults and pampers for Children, white sheets, pillowcases and disposable pads to put between the sheets and mattress on hospital beds, medical grade gloves(all sizes), crutches, wheelchairs, electric wheelchairs and walkers .We are also sending over winter clothing for adults and children. The Collection Center at St. Michael Ukrainian Catholic Church at 569 George St in New Haven, CT will be open to receive donations on Tuesdays (4-7PM) and Sundays (11:30-12PM). For additional information, contact Carl Harvey at cenbts64@gmail.com or 203-848-4860 or Myron Melnyk at mmelnyk@yaoo.com.

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