Divine Liturgy for the coming week

Christ is risen!

Sunday, 5/28, Sunday of Pentecost
9:00 Special Intention
10:30 a.m. For the people of the parish —Moleben to the Mother of God

Epistle: Acts 2:1-11
Gospel: John 7:37-52; 8:12, Tone 7

Monday, 5/29, Feast of the Holy Trinity
9:00 a.m. Special Intention

Tuesday, 5/30, Our Venerable Father Isaac of Dalmatia
9:00 a.m. No particular intention scheduled for today’s Liturgy

Wednesday, 5/31, Holy Apostle Hermes and Martyr Hermeas
9:00 a.m. No particular intention scheduled for today’s Liturgy

Thursday, 6/01, Holy Martyr Justin the Philosopher
9:00 a.m. No particular intention scheduled for today’s Liturgy

Friday, 6/02, Holy Nicephorus
9:00 a.m. No particular intention scheduled for today’s Liturgy

Saturday, 6/03, Holy Martyr Lucilian and Companions
9:00 a.m. No particular intention scheduled for today’s Liturgy

Sunday, 6/04, Sunday of All Saints
9:00 a.m. Special Intention
10:30 a.m. For the people of the parish —Moleben to Jesus Christ

Epistle: Heb. 11:32-12-2a
Gospel: MT 10:32-33, 37-38 and 19:27-30, Tone 8

Parish announcements

Christ is among us!

This week vigil light is offered by Christopher Komondy in memory of Walter Heinrich.

VACATION: From May 10 until June 7, Fr. Iura Godenciuc will be on vacation. In case of emergency you can call Fr. Paul Luniw (860) 583-7588, Fr. Hryhorij Lozinsky (201) 985-5015, Fr. Stepan Yanovski (203) 468-0367 or Fr. Ivan Mazuryk (203) 367-5054.

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.

We will be making pyrohy (varenyky) on June 17. We need your help and Friday, June 16 to peel potatoes and Saturday, June 17, to make pyrohy. Please come and help. Please contact Walter Ushchak with any questions or concerns.

KOLIBRI – TANTSI//UKRAINIAN FOLK DANCING for older children, 6 and up, Stephanie Tomaszewsky is the dance instructor and is in partnership with Artistic Director Orlando Pagan. Classes are held every Friday from 6:00 p.m. Any questions will be answered that night. On Sunday, June 4, after the 10:30 a.m. Divine Liturgy, our Ukrainian School of Dance, KOLIBRI, will have their first dance performance around 12:30 p.m. This will be the final class/performance for the season. Classes will resume in mid-September following a summer break. All are invited to see the performance. If you have any questions regarding registration or the dance program please contact Halia Lodynsky 203-494-6278.

RIDNA SHKOLA/UKRAINIAN SCHOOL will have its end of the school year ceremony on Saturday, June 3rd. The Divine Liturgy will start at 10 a.m.  Afterwards in the church hall report cards will be given out and there will be a reception. Classes will resume late September. To our teachers and families, Thank you and enjoy your summer!

The Knights of Columbus local Parish Council is looking for a few good men to join. They are the only active men’s group at the Parish and as you can see from last week’s Mother’s Day luncheon which they funded and hosted, (as an example) they are a vibrant fun group of like-minded Catholic gentlemen who have the best interests of the Parish at heart. Please feel free to contact Father Iura, Hank Lindgren, Myron Melnyk, Carl Harvey, Paul Zalonski or Andy Bamber with any questions that you may have. The Knights of Columbus is the largest men’s Catholic organization in the world and it has great insurance and investment opportunities that are tailor made for the individual member, These special programs are only available to members.

Pentecost 2023

“Christ our God, praised be thee. Whom thou hast made the fishers of all ways and sent down the Holy Spirit. You captured the world through her. Lover of humanity, glory be to thee” (Pentecost troparion).

Divine Liturgy is at 9:00 a.m. (in English) and 10:30 a.m. (in Ukrainian).

Let us pray these words: “Thou sendest forth thy spirit, they are created: and thou renewest the face of the earth” (Psalm 104:30).

Ascension of the Lord

Hope you have a blessed day!

When you had fulfilled the plan of salvation for us and united the earthly with the heavenly, you were taken up in glory, O Christ our God. Never parting from us but remaining constantly, you proclaim to those who love you: I am with you and no one can be against you. [Kontakion]

Educate yourself:

Scripture: Luke 24:36-53

Reflection on the Leave-taking of Pascha to the Sunday of All Saints

Divine Liturgy for the coming week

Christ is risen!

Sunday, 5/07, Sunday of the Samaritan Woman
10:00 a.m. Moleben to the Mother of God
10:30 a.m. For the people of the parish

Epistle: Acts 11:19-26; 29-30
Gospel: John 4:5-42

Monday, 5/08, Holy Apostle and Evangelist John
9:00 a.m. +Maria Sowa (Pan.) requested by Bohdan Sowa

Tuesday, 5/09, Translation of the Relics of Nicholas of Myra to Bari (Italy)
9:00 a.m. No scheduled intention for the Divine Liturgy

Wednesday, 5/10, Holy Apostle Simon the Zealot
9:00 a.m. No scheduled intention for the Divine Liturgy

Thursday, 5/11, Holy Apostles Cyril and Methodius, Teachers of the Slavs and Equal to the Apostles
9:00 a.m. No scheduled intention for the Divine Liturgy

Friday, 5/12, Holy Epiphanus and Germanus
9:00 a.m. No scheduled intention for the Divine Liturgy

Saturday, 5/13, Holy Martyr Glyceria
9:00 a.m. No scheduled intention for the Divine Liturgy

Sunday, 5/14, Sunday of the Man Born Blind
10:00 a.m. Moleben to the Mother of God
10:30 a.m. For the people of the parish

Epistle: Acts 16:16-34
Gospel: John 9:1-38

Parish announcements

Christ is risen!

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

From May 10, until June 7, Fr. Iura Godenciuc will be on vacation. In case of emergency you can call Fr. Paul Luniw 860-583-7588 or Fr. Hryhorij (Gregory) Lozinsky 201-985-5015 or Fr. Stepan Yanovski 203-468-0367 or Fr. Ivan Mazuryk 203-367-5054.

DEAR PARISHIONERS, 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.

STAMFORD CHARITIES APPEAL : 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.

MOTHERS DAY LUNCHEON: Will take place on Sunday, May 14. There will be one (1) Divine Liturgy at 10:30 a.m. The luncheon is sponsored by the Knights of Columbus Parish Council as a tribute to the Mothers in the Parish without whom we would not be here. All are welcome.

TODAY, Sunday, May 7th the national president of Ukrainian National Women’s League of America, Natalie Pawlenko, will be visiting the New Haven branch #108. We invite all women of Ukrainian descent to come and meet with her after the Divine Liturgy in the church hall. The UNWLA goals of Advocate, Educate, Cultivate, and Care will be discussed along with the new program for war widows in Ukraine. You do not have to be a member to attend. A light luncheon will be provided.

Sestretsi will be having Corporate Holy Communion on May 21, 2023 at 9:00 am Divine Liturgy and a short meeting to follow in the classroom.

WE will be making pyrohy (varenyky) on May 13, We need your help and Friday May 12 to peel potatoes and Saturday, May 13, to make pyrohy. Please come and help.

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First Communion celebrated

The following children, will making their First Holy Communion in our church today:

EVA FARYNA
MATEI KENNARD
ANNA YUZIUK
MARKIIAN PAVLYSHYN

Today our prayer are for the first Holy Communicants who will approach the altar, solemnly receive the sacrament of the Eucharist for the first time.

This is a memorable day in the child life and how often they will recall it as the years pass!

Children, often receive into your hearts Jesus in the Holy Eucharist. Remember His promise that He will be with us to Comfort and guide us in our daily lives. He is your best friend
and will never let you down.

God bless and protect our First Holy Communicants, their teacher Halya Lodynsky, their parents, grand-parents, and God-parents, who raised them up in the love of Christ. Parents,
keep bringing them to church every Sunday. It is the sacred duty of parents to provide not just the material well-being of their children but also for the spiritual well-being, upon which depends their eternal life.

The Divine Liturgy is at 10:30 a.m. The Moleban to the Mother of God precedes the Liturgy at 10:00 a.m.

Natalie Pawlenko of Ukrainian National Women’s League of America visits

TODAY, Sunday, May 7th, the national president of Ukrainian National Women’s League of America, Natalie Pawlenko, will be visiting the New Haven branch #108. We invite all women of Ukrainian descent to come and meet with her after the Divine Liturgy in the church hall. The UNWLA goals of Advocate, Educate, Cultivate, and Care will be discussed along with the new program for war widows in Ukraine. You do not have to be a member to attend. A light luncheon will be provided.

Sviatoslav celebrates birthday

Happy 53rd Birthday Your Beatitude, Patriarch Sviatoslav. May God grant you many more blessed years!

Многая і Благая Літа Блаженніший Святослаaв!

Mid-Pentecost

Mid-Pentecost, however, is more than a mathematical indicator of a passage of time. It is really the revelation and manifestation of the reality that Pascha and Pentecost are truly on feast, “God with us.” Our Lord promised his apostle in the Last Discourse, “I tell you the truth, it is better for you that I go. For if I do not go, the Advocate will not come to you. But if I go, I will send him to you … when he comes, the Spirit of truth, he will guide you to all truth. He will not speak on his own, but he will speak what he hears, and will declare to you the things that are coming” (John 16:7.13).

And again, our Lord promised, “Behold, I am with you always, until the end of the age” (Matthew 28:20). And again, our Lord taught, “And behold, I am sending the promise of my Father upon you; but stay in the city until you are clothed with power from on high” (Luke 24:39).

Mid-Pentecost is the celebration of a new reality, that the Lord has not left us orphans, that God is now closer to us than ever before. It is a eucharistic feast of the presence of God. All of this is God’s wisdom, and so the icon is of our Lord teaching in the Temple as a young boy, revealing the wisdom of God to the elders. We sing in joy today: “The midpoint of the feast has arrived; the days which begin with the Resurrection of the Savior and are fulfilled in the divine Feast of Pentecost.

Truly it unites both feasts and draws from their double brightness, giving honor to the ascension of the Lord, which prefigures our glory.”

Meditation by Archpriest David Petras