Senator Richard Blumenthal to report on trip to Ukraine

This Sunday, July 10th, at 11:00 AM Senator Richard Blumenthal will report on his trip to Ukraine. This Wednesday and Thursday he traveled with Senator Lindsey Graham and met with President Zelenskyy and other government officials to discuss the war in Ukraine. We expect wide press coverage of this event. All are invited to participate.

The meeting will happen following the 10am Divine Liturgy in the church hall.

В неділю 10 липня o год 11:00 рано у залі при церкві Св Михаіла 569 George St, New Haven, виступить Сенатор Р. Блюментал зі звітом про зустріч у Києві з През. Зеленським і військовими чиновниками. Запрошуємо всіх до участи.

Divine Liturgy for the coming week

Glory to Jesus Christ!

Sunday, 7/03, 4th Sunday after Pentecost —Feast of Mother of Perpetual Help
10:00 a.m. For the people of the parish

Epistle: Romans 6:18-23
Gospel: Matthew 8:5-13, Tone 3

Monday, 7/04, Andrew, Archbishop of Crete
9:00 a.m. +Anna Lupsac (36th Anniv., Pan.)

Tuesday, 7/05, Our Venerable Father Athanasius of Athos
9:00 a.m. +Maria Godenciuc (18th Anniv.,Pan.)

Wednesday, 7/06, Our Venerable Father Sisoes the Great
9:00 a.m. No particular intention for the Divine Liturgy

Thursday, 7/07, Our Venerable FathersThomas and Acacius
9:00 a.m. No particular intention for the Divine Liturgy

Friday, 7/08, Our Great Martyr Procopius
9:00 a.m. No particular intention for the Divine Liturgy

Saturday, 7/09, Holy Hieromartyr Pancratius
9:00 a.m. +Francis Dmyterko (10th Anniv.) requested by the Family

Sunday, 7/10, 5th Sunday after Pentecost
10:00 a.m. For the people of the parish

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

Parish announcements

Christ is among us!

This week vigil light is offered by Mykola Yukah for God’s blessing and health of Robert Loricco.

From July 3 until September 11 we will celebrate only one (1) Divine Liturgy at 10:00 a.m. in BOTH the Ukrainian and English languages.

Our New Haven Ridna Shkola is doing a Fundraiser called, KIDS HELPING UKRAINE. The stickers are $1.00 per sticker and if you can contribute more it will be appreciated. All donations will go to provide medical supplies and care for those wounded in this terrible war started by Russia. If you any questions contact Halia Lodynsky or Volodymyr Dumalskyy.

There will be pyrohy (varenyky) for sale in the church hall as long as supplies last.

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.

The 68th ANNUAL HOLY DORMITION PILGRIMAGE will be held on August 13-14 at the motherhouse of the Sisters Servants of Mary Immaculate in Sloatsburg, NY. This year’s theme is “Our Loving Mother, Under Your Patronage, Welcome Your Children, We beseech You!”. The Sisters invite all our parishioners to attend! For information call: 845-753-2840 or www.ssmi-us.org

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.

Ukrainian American Veterans Post 33 in New Haven, CT is seeking your support for the war effort in Ukraine. We are collecting medical equipment and supplies for the Lviv Regional Hospital for soldiers and war veterans in Vynnykiy (Lviv Region) to be used for the treatment of soldiers and civilians injured during war in Ukraine. We also need funds to purchase boxes packaging materials, cover transportation expenses, etc. We are working with UUARC (United Ukrainian American Relief Committee based in Philadelphia-UUARC.org) to transport all donated items to Warsaw for transport by truck to the hospital in Vinniki. All donated items can be dropped off at St. Michael`s Ukrainian Catholic Church hall at 569 George St., New Haven, CT. The collection center will be open on Tuesdays from 5:00 to 7:00 PM, Saturdays from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. and Sundays from 12:00 to 1:00 p.m.

Checks are to be made out to: UAV POST 33. In the memo section write in: Ukrainian soldiers welfare fund. Checks can be mailed to: Ukrainian American Veterans Post 33, Post Office Box 972, Orange, CT 06477. If you have any questions about this project, please call (203) 530-8232 or send e-mail to carlrharvey79@gmail.com

Summertime Divine Liturgy

Glory to Jesus Christ!

Tomorrow, July 3, and for the rest of the summer, we will have only one (1) Divine Liturgy in English and Ukrainian at 10:00 a.m.

Let us come together to pray and to worship the Holy Trinity: Father, Son and Holy Spirit. The Third Commandment still informs and forms our spiritual life and relationship with God.

Peace!

Saints Cosmas and Damian

Saints Cosmas and Damian were twins born to Christian parents in Arabia, in the third century. They lived in the region around the border between modern day Turkey and Syria. …[The brothers] were physicians who were renowned for their skill as well as their refusal to charge for their services. Before beside manner was a “thing”, they had a loving and respectful way, and for this reason, they were called by the Church “unmercenary physicians” (Anargyroi in Greek).

Their charity and Christian witness won many converts to the faith and earned them a place of prominence in the Christian communities of Asia Minor. Therefore, when the Diocletian persecutions began in the latter half of the third century they were of some of the first to be sought out for execution.

In 287, they were captured and ordered to deny their faith in Christ. They refused and underwent a series of tortures, including Crucifixion, from which, miraculously, they remained unscathed. The torturers, weary of what they realized was the impossible task of forcing apostasy from their mouths, finally beheaded them both. (DA, edited)

Saints Cosmas and Damian, help us to live our faith and be people of virtue, pray for us.
Saints Cosmas and Damian, pray for our medical professionals.

Stand with Ukraine-Calendar of Events, June 29 to July 31

Ukrainian flags are available at the Ukrainian Gift Shop-Cooperative, 961 Wethersfield Ave, Hartford, CT Summer Hours: Saturdays 11am-1pm 860-296-6955

Wednesday, June 29, 2022-9pm, Baba Babee Skazala Documentary on CPTV-Channel 24 WEDH

Saturday, July 2, 2022-Concert-3:00pm, Bandura at Bobriwka Fritz Rd, Colebrook CT

Saturday, July 16, 2022-Concert-6:30pm, Support Ukraine Festival-Soyuzivka Foordmore Rd, Kerhonkson NY

Saturday, July 23, 2022-5:00pm, St Basil Seminary Auditorium-Concert-National Artist of Ukraine Oksana Bilozir & Accomplished Artist of Ukraine-Kristina V, 195 Glenbrook Rd, Stamford, CT

Sunday, July 24, 2022-4pm-Concert, Victor Markiw-Ukrainian American Pianist-Church of Christ Congregational 1075 Main St Newington CT

Sunday, July 31, 2022-12 noon, Blue & Yellow Art Show, 87 Church St, East Hartford, CT

Now through Sunday, July 31, 2022, Susan Cancian Ukrainian Sunflower Paintings Exhibit & Sale-Ignite Fitness, 137 South Main St, West Hartford, CT

A message from Father Roman Manulak

The 36 boxes of medical supplies have been delivered to the Ukrainian Main Military Medical Center in Kyiv, Ukraine today, June 28.

Father Roman sent … the attached picture through Viber. This is the facility that our UAV Team visited back in August, 2018.

St Samson the hospitable

Today we are given as a model of holiness and witness to the Gospel of Jesus Christ the venerable father, Samson, called the hospitable, priest and physician. Samson is numbered among a few who are ordained priests and physicians, so we ought to make it a point to ask for his intercession as we all face medical concerns personally or with family and friends.

The Church teaches us the place St Samson has among the great Cloud of Witnesses in the Troparion for the Divine Liturgy. We have a clear expectation for our own Christian life in seeing St Samson extolled:

“Patience reaped you your reward, O holy father, for you persevered in constant prayer and devotion. In your great love for the poor and the afflicted, you attended to their needs of body and soul. So now we entreat you in our need, O holy father, Samson, beg Christ, our God, so save our souls.”

Samson is known for his patience, perseverance in troubled times, constant prayer and devotion, care for the poor and weakened of body and soul. Here we see what Christ wants for us and how He (the Lord) wants us to reflect to the world. These virtues of life will lead us to our union with Christ in heaven.

We are convinced that St Samson is given to us today as we face the tragedy of the war in Ukraine. We need his intercession before the Lord.

His biographers speak of St. Samson this way:

Samson was born to a patrician family in Rome in the sixth century, when the city had fallen on hard times. He was a physician, and inspired by his faith in the healing Christ, he devoted all his time, wealth, and skill to others. He turned his estate into a clinic to treat the poor. After he trained a staff to care for the large numbers coming to seek both medical and spiritual attention, Samson left, as a virtual beggar, to make a pilgrimage to Constantinople. His reputation soon followed him, and once again he was busy fighting disease and despair. He was so respected that he was summoned to treat the emperor Justinian. In gratitude for both his medical and spiritual counsel, Justinian endowed him with funds to establish a medical clinic much larger than the one he had left in Rome. Samson worked until his death on this day in 598. (NS)