Archbishop William Lori, Archbishop of Baltimore and the Chaplain met with Knights of Columbus, Church leaders and displaced families in Poland and Ukraine October 1-4. During the visit, he helped distribute aid to refugees from the war in Ukraine and witnessed ongoing humanitarian efforts aided by the Order’s Ukraine Solidarity Fund — including initiatives of the Greek- and Latin-rite Churches in Ukraine and an orphanage run by the Archdiocese of Częstochowa, Poland.
Divine Liturgy for the coming week
Glory to Jesus Christ
Sunday, 10/09, 18th Sunday after Pentecost
9:00 a.m. +Joseph L. Levitzky (12th Anniv.,) requested by Joseph M. Levitzky
10:30 a.m. For people of the parish
Epistle: 2 Corinthians 9:6-11
Gospel: Luke 7:11-16, Tone 1
Monday, 10/10, Holy Martrs Eulampius and Eulampia
9:00 a.m. No particular intention for the Divine Liturgy
Tuesday, 10/11, Holy Apostle deacon Philip
9:00 a.m. No particular intention for the Divine Liturgy
Wednesday, 10/12, Holy Martyr Probus, Venerable Cosmas
9:00 a.m. No particular intention for the Divine Liturgy
Thursday, 10/13, Holy Martyr Carpus, Papylas
9:00 a.m. No particular intention for the Divine Liturgy
Friday, 10/14, Venerable Mother Paraskevia and the Martyr Nazarius
9:00 a.m. No particular intention for the Divine Liturgy
Saturday, 10/15, Our Venerable Father Euthymius
9:00 a.m. No particular intention for the Divine Liturgy
Sunday, 10/16, 19th Sunday after Pentecost
9:00 a.m. +Hryhorij Dubno requested by Luba Dubno
10:30 a.m. For people of the parish
Epistle: 2 Corinthians 11:31-12:9
Gospel: Luke 8:5-15, Tone 2
Parish announcements
Christ is among us!
This week vigil light is offered to God by Vasyl Ivantsiv in memory of Sofron.
From October 10 to October 14 the rectory office will be closed. Father Iura will be away for Clergy Days.
If you would like to have Confession, Holy Communion and prayer of the sick at your house or nursing home, please call the rectory at 203-865-0388.
We will be making pyrohy (pierogi, varenyky) for regular orders on October 15. We need your help on Friday to peel potatoes and Saturday to make pierogis. Please come and help.
FOOD DONATIONS for those in need: A container is in our church vestibule for non-perishable food. This collection will be taken twice per month. Father Iura will distribute the food to the Little Sisters of the Poor who have offered to help in the Ukrainian crisis. Thank you for your generosity and your support.
PYROHY available for sale. There will be pyrohy (pieroigi-varenyky) for sale in the church hall as long as supplies last. $16.00 FOR 2 dozen.
Eparchy of Stamford’s CHARITIES APPEAL: Please don’t forget to make a donation to the Eparchy’s Charity Appeal. Please make check payable to the Byzantine Rite Eparchy of Stamford. DO NOT MAIL THIS FORM OR CHECK TO THE CHANCERY OFFICE BUT TURN IT IN AT THE PARISH. We sincerely ask all parishioners to make a generous contribution.
St. Michael’s Day will be celebrated on November 6th. On this day we will have only one (1) bi-lingual Divine Liturgy at 10:30 a.m. After the Divine Liturgy, we will have a dinner and short cultural program. All parishioners are cordially invited to this celebration. Tickets are available through Miss Luba Dubno and Svitlana Nakonecha. Tickets are $30.00 for adults, $10.00 for youth between 14and 18. Free for students Ridna Shkola, altar boys and for children under 12 . We will be running a raffle. If you would like to donate any items to be raffled, please bring them to our church hall on Sundays before our Feast Day. Also we ask donations for dessert. We will not sell tickets at the door.
Divine Liturgy for the coming week
Glory to Jesus Christ
Sunday, 10/02, 17th Sunday after Pentecost
9:00 a.m. +Barbara Levitzky (58th Anniv.,) requested by Joseph M. Levitzky
10:30 a.m. For the people of the parish
Epistle: 2 Corinthians 6:16-7:1
Gospel: Luke 6:31-36, Tone 8
Monday, 10/03, Holy Priest Martyr Dionysius
9:00 a.m. No particular intention for the Divine Liturgy
Tuesday, 10/04, Hierotheus and Holy Father Francis of Assisi
9:00 a.m. No particular intention for the Divine Liturgy
Wednesday, 10/05, Holy Martyr Charitina
9:00 a.m. No particular intention for the Divine Liturgy
Thursday, 10/06, Holy Apostle Thomas
9:00 a.m. No particular intention for the Divine Liturgy
Friday, 10/07, Holy Martyrs Sergius and Bacchus
9:00 a.m. No particular intention for the Divine Liturgy
Saturday, 10/08, Our Venerable Mother Pelagia
9:00+ Catherine Levitzky(Pan.) requested by Joseph M. Levitzky
Sunday, 10/09, 18th Sunday after Pentecost
9:00 a.m. +Joseph L. Levitzky (12th Anniv.,) requested by Joseph M. Levitzky
10:30 a.m. For the people of the parish
Epistle: 2 Corinthians 9:6-11
Gospel: Luke 7:11-16, Tone 1
Parish announcements
Christ is among us!
This week vigil light is offered to God by the Kolesnik and Buciak families for a Special Intention
From October 10 to October 14 the rectory office will be closed. Father Iura will be away for Clergy Days.
If you would like to have Confession, Holy Communion and prayer of the sick at your house or nursing home, please call the rectory at 203-865-0388.
We will be making pyrohy (pierogi, varenyky) for regular orders on October 15. We need your help on Friday to peel potatoes and Saturday to make pierogis. Please come and help.
FOOD DONATIONS for those in need: A container is in our church vestibule for non-perishable food. This collection will be taken twice per month. Father Iura will distribute the food to the Little Sisters of the Poor who have offered to help in the Ukrainian crisis. Thank you for your generosity and your support.
PYROHY available for sale. There will be pyrohy (pieroigi-varenyky) for sale in the church hall as long as supplies last. $16.00 FOR 2 dozen.
Eparchy of Stamford’s CHARITIES APPEAL: Please don’t forget to make a donation to the Eparchy’s Charity Appeal. Please make check payable to the Byzantine Rite Eparchy of Stamford. DO NOT MAIL THIS FORM OR CHECK TO THE CHANCERY OFFICE BUT TURN IT IN AT THE PARISH. We sincerely ask all parishioners to make a generous contribution.
St. Michael’s Day will be celebrated on November 6th. On this day we will have only one (1) bi-lingual Divine Liturgy at 10:30 a.m. After the Divine Liturgy, we will have a dinner and short cultural program. All parishioners are cordially invited to this celebration. Tickets are available through Miss Luba Dubno and Svitlana Nakonecha. Tickets are $30.00 for adults, $10.00 for youth between 14and 18. Free for students Ridna Shkola, altar boys and for children under 12 . We will be running a raffle. If you would like to donate any items to be raffled, please bring them to our church hall on Sundays before our Feast Day. Also we ask donations for dessert. We will not sell tickets at the door.
Protection of our most holy Lady
Today, October 1, is the feast day of the Protection of our most holy Lady and the Theotokos and Ever-Virgin Mary: The Pokrova.
The Feast of the Protection commemorates the appearance of the most holy Theotokos in the Church of Blachernae in Constantinople in the tenth century, as recorded in the life of Saint Andrew the Fool for Christ’s sake. While the multitudes of the faithful were gathered in Church, Our venerable Epiphanius, the friend of Saint Andrew, through the Saint’s prayers, beheld the Virgin Mary above the faithful and spreading out her veil over them, signifying her unceasing protection of all Christians. Because of this we keep a yearly feast of gratitude, imploring our Lady never to cease sheltering us in her mighty prayers.
During our Divine Services we have become accustomed to seeing clergy, choir, and parishioners in attendance, but we have completely forgotten that others are invisibly present: God’s holy Angels, His holy Saints, the Most-holy Virgin, and our Lord Himself, are there as well. Our venerable fathers Andrew together Epiphanius, and many other righteous ones could see this. We do not see, because it is “the pure in heart (who) see.” It is only the pure in heart that are capable of beholding what mystically transpires within the Church; only they behold those who stand alongside us in Church. I suppose that we could not bear the actual sight of the spiritual world as it really is. The more one grows spiritually, the more one can see and understand. For our part, we occasionally hear “Now the Hosts of Heaven invisibly worship with us.” The Feast of the Protection of the Mother of God-Pokrova reminds us that Heaven reaches all the way to the earth.
In times of national misfortune, as in times of individual trials and sorrows, the faithful rush to God’s temples, rush to the Protection of the Mother of God, and ask of the Queen of Heaven her defense and assistance: “Remember us in thy supplications, O Virgin Lady and Theotokos, that we not perish because of the multitude of our sins. Protect us from all evil and grievous perils, for in thee do we put our trust, and honoring the feast of thy protection, we magnify thee.”
Standing with Ukraine events
-Now through October 15, 2022-“Women at War: 14 Ukrainian artists. Eastern Connecticut State University, Willimantic CT https://www.easternct.edu/art-gallery/index.html
-Varenyky Night-every Thursday night 5:30pm-8:00pm at the Sunflower Cafe-Ukrainian National Home of Hartford
-Friday, September 30, 2022-6pm-11pm-Oktoberfest at the Ukrainian National Home of Hartford 961 Wethersfield Ave http://www.ukrainiannationalhome.org
-Sunday, October 9, 2022-3pm-Dakha Brakha at the Jorgensen Auditorium-University of Connecticut Storrs CT
-Saturday, October 15, 2022-7pm-Vyshyvani Vechernytsi to support Ukraine-Krayany Association at the Ukrainian National Home of Hartford
-Sunday, October 30, 2022-2pm-Benefit Concert to aid Ukraine-Yevshan Ukrainian Vocal Ensemble-Church of St Thomas the Apostle 872 Farmington Ave West Hartford CT
-Wednesday, November 9, 2022-“Rising Fury” at the Ridgefield Playhouse
Thank you for your support of Ukraine.
40 days for life in Connecticut
40 Days for Life is a Pro-Life initiative with a vision to access God’s power through prayer, fasting, and peaceful vigil to end abortion. It is “an ecumenical, internationally-coordinated 40-day peaceful Pro–Life campaign to end abortion.”
The mission of the campaign is to bring together the body of Christ in a spirit of unity during a focused 40 day campaign of prayer, fasting, and peaceful activism, with the purpose of repentance, to seek God’s favor to turn hearts and minds from a culture of death to a culture of life, thus bringing an end to abortion. Join a 40 Days For Life campaign in CT:
On the sidewalk outside of
Planned Parenthood
1030 New Britain Avenue
West Hartford, Connecticut
The 2022 campaign was held from September 28 through November 6, 2022.
Please contact Coordinator Teresa Wells via Text at 203-745-7300 or email twells@prolifeministry.org.
Recalling the death of the Holy Apostle John
Today we recall the death of the Holy Apostle and Evangelist John, the Beloved Disciple. As a point of comparison, the Latin Catholic Church and other Western Christian ecclesial communities honor John’s death on December 27.
John was one of the “sons of thunder”. This thunder resounds throughout his gospel with an eloquence that sets it apart; It also accounts for his title Theologian, one who spoke the word of God.
The troparion mentions but one of the deeds that distinguish his relationship to Christ. His closeness to the master was matched only by Peter’s at whose side he appears for the major events in the gospel: the transfiguration, the vigil in Gethsemani, the resurrection.
John preached in Jerusalem and Samaria, and was banished to the isle of Patmos. Later, in old age, he returned to Ephesus where he made a home for the Theotokos. An ancient church marked the place until its destruction in World War I.
Tradition holds that John died —in his 90s—during the reign of Trajan, a full century after the birth of Christ. The exact dates of John’s birth and death are unknown.
Artistically, Saint John is represented by the eagle, a symbol of the lofty and beauty of the heights of his theological thought read in his gospel and other biblical writings. We also add to his name the appellation “Theologian” because he is known as the seer of the mysterious judgments of God. (NS edited)
Divine Liturgy for the coming week
Glory to Jesus Christ!
Sunday, 9/25. 16th Sunday after Pentecost
9:00 a.m. +Maria Sowa requested by Bohdan Sowa
10:30 a.m. For the people of the parish
Epistle: 2 Corinthians 6:1-10
Gospel: Luke 5:1-11, Tone 7
Monday, 9/26, Repose of Holy Apostle and Evangelist John
9:00 a.m. God’s blessing and health for Marybeth Gawron by Sestretsi
Tuesday, 9/27, Holy Martyr Callistratus
9:00 a.m. No particular intention for the Divine Liturgy
Wednesday, 9/28, Our Venerable Father Chariton
9:00 a.m. No particular intention for the Divine Liturgy
Thurs. 9/29, Our Venerable Father Cyriacus
10:00 a.m. +Stefan Jurczak (3rd Anniv., Pan.) requested by Halia Lodynsky
Friday, 9/30, Hieromartyr Gregory and Father Michael of Keiv
9:00 a.m. No particular intention for the Divine Liturgy
Saturday, 10/01, Protection of the Mother of God
9:00 a.m. God’s blessing and health for Joanna Oleschuk (birthday) by Sestretsi
Sunday, 10/02, 17th Sunday after Pentecost
9:00 a.m. +Barbara Levitzky (58 Anniv.,) requested by Joseph M. Levitzky
10:30 a.m. For the people of the parish
Epistle: 2 Corinthians 6:1-10
Gospel: Luke 5:1-11, Tone 7