Today we commemorate the holy and just Job, the Long-Suffering, a man of admirable patience in the land of Uz, who was “simple and upright, fearing God and avoiding evil.” (Job 1:1)
If you are suffering and need a friend in Heaven, the sainted Job is your understanding man of faith, hope, trust and patience. God hears and answers all our prayers. And the sometimes we must accept that sometimes the answer is “no.”
Many blessed years to our Patriarch Sviatoslav who turns 52 today.
Here is the daily message of His Beatitude Sviatoslav for May 5, 2022.
In Ukrainian with English subtitles.
Here is the daily message of His Beatitude Sviatoslav for May 4, 2022.
In Ukrainian with English subtitles.
We now have a vehicle available to transport all of our boxes to Dnipro in NJ this coming Saturday, May 7th.
Mykola Blyzniuk will be bringing his truck to the church hall Friday evening , May 6, so we can load it up and make it ready to deliver to the Dnipro warehouse on Saturday morning.
From there, it is going by plane to Ukraine.
Three aspects of help needed:
1.) We are in need of some strong people to join us at the church hall 3pm on Friday to begin moving all of the boxes to the staging area and then, when the truck arrives, piling them up on pallets in the truck and wrapping them for the trip.
2.) We need some people to check off the numbers of the packages that are loaded into the truck so that we can confirm that everything that is on the master inventory list is accounted for before the truck leaves the church.
3.) We need help out with loading the 559 boxes and 167 pieces of equipment on the truck when it arrives that will be sent to Ukraine next week.
RSVP.
Peace for Ukraine
Here is the daily message of His Beatitude Sviatoslav for May 3, 2022.
In Ukrainian with English subtitles.
The Madison Country School 4th grade had a bake sale last week and raised $450 for St. Michael’s Ukraine Relief Project.
Abundant thanks to the 4th grade for their excellent and generous work for our brothers and sisters in Ukraine!
#StandWithUrkaine
Here is the daily message of His Beatitude Sviatoslav for May 2, 2022.
In Ukrainian with English subtitles.
The Ukrainian Patriarch Sviatoslav mentioned in his video message for May 1st the life of Blessed priest-martyr Emilian Kovch. Who is this man referenced?
Blessed Emilian Kovch (1884-1944) was the son of a priest, a married Eastern Catholic priest, and father of six who was persecuted by the Nazi ideologues.
Father Emilian served as a military chaplain (1919-1921). At the time he said, “I know that the soldier on the front line feels better when he sees the doctor and the priest also there . . . You know, lads, that I am consecrated, and a bullet doesn’t take a consecrated man easily.”
As Sviatoslav quotes Blessed Emilian, let these words become our own: “Here I see God, Who is one and the same for all.”
Emilian was centered: he focused himself on the Lord of Life, the God who saves, gives mercy, redeems us from death. The patriarch notes that “He [Blessed Emilian] was able to keep a pure heart, even in the depths of the hell of a Nazi concentration camp. May purity of heart be our strength in these military circumstances so that it might be our guarantee of victory over evil.”
Beatified on 27 June 2001 by St Pope John Paul II at Ukraine. The feast day for Blessed Emilian Kovch is March 25.
Read more of Blessed Emilian here.
Let’s take up Patriarch Sviatoslav’s exhortation to keep centered on God. Focus yourself on the purity of heart. Our strength is being of singular in our attention, our purity of heart.
Pray for Blessed Emilian’s intercession.
Blessed Emilian, pray for us.
#StandWithUrkaine
