Stand with Ukraine-Calendar of Events this week

Friday, March 25, 7pm -Candlelight Vigil-Durham Town Green Rt 17 Durham CT

Saturday, March 26, 10am -St Patrick Day Parade-gather at Parker Avenue/East Main St through West Main St/Bradley Ave, Meriden CT

Saturday, March 26, 1pm-5pm -Eastern European Buffet Polish American Veterans Club 51 Central Ave, New London CT

Saturday, March 26, 4pm -Brookfield CT Town Hall

Sunday, April 3, 11am-1pm -Holy Trinity Roman Catholic Church 53 Capitol Ave, Hartford CT (Lithuanian American Community)

Thursday, April 7, 7pm -Candlelight Vigil-Durham Town Green Rt 17, Durham CT

War on Ukraine: Why Catholic Media Must Cover Conflict

“God is working through all of this,” said Archbishop Gudziak. Images “are reinforcing for all the realization of the God-given dignity of all human beings, the need for peace and justice, and the rule of law. Be not afraid to protect the innocent.”

Michael J.L. La Civita of CNEWA writes an informative article.

Catholic Near East Welfare Association is a papal agency for humanitarian and pastoral support for the Middle East, Northeast Africa, India and Eastern Europe. It is a worthy and reliable organization that is a good steward of people’s generosity.

Ways to Give to the Humanitarian Relief Project New Haven

Dear Friends,

Some of you have asked about the ways to give. Here’s the financial ways and then there’s the volunteering ways. Come Saturday to help. More info to follow.

We ask for your support first and foremost in prayer, asking Our Lord to keep us on the right track. Rather than seeing this as fundraising, we believe God has always provided the sustenance needed to continue this humanitarian mission. Both the Ukrainian American Veterans and Knights of Columbus are non-profit, tax exempt organizations. Donations are tax-deductable. Should the Holy Spirit move you to offer assistance in feeding our sheep (literally), you can donate online (https://givesendgo.com/G2ZXR) or we can accept checks made payable to the following organizations (see below).

God bless you for your generosity.

Financial Help

For Humanitarian Help
To give online: https://givesendgo.com/G2ZXR

To mail your donation:
KofC Council 16253
St. Michael the Archangel Church
569 George Street
New Haven, CT 06511-5301
Checks payable to: KofC Council 16253
In the memo: St. Michael’s Ukrainian Humanitarian Relief Fund

For Medical Supplies

To mail your donation:
Mr. Carl R. Harvey
Ukrainian American Veterans Post 33
PO Box 972
Orange, CT 06477
Checks payable to: Ukrainian American Veterans Post 33
In the memo: Ukrainian Soldier Welfare Fund

To purchase items online and have sent to the Church:
Humanitarian items to collect are found on Amazon:
https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/2DC0A0NXSAR5N

You have may have the items sent to the Church:
St. Michael the Archangel Church
569 George Street
New Haven, CT 06511-5301

“Give something, however small, to the one in need. For it is not small to one who has nothing. Neither is it small to God, if we have given what we could.” (St. Gregory Nazianzen)

Ukrainian Relief Project New Haven–Update 21 March 2022

The church hall will be open for these times this week to receive donations:

Tuesdays: 5-7 p.m.
Saturdays: 10am-2 p.m.
Sundays: Noon -1:30 p.m.

Ways to give this week:

This list of medical supplies was identified as needed by medical professionals in Ukraine.

THANK YOU for your generosity!

Tourniquets (CAT 5th, 6th, & 7th gen.)
Bandages (Israeli type)
Hemostatic combat gauze
Decompression needles
Occlusive tape
Burn bandages
Sterile bandages 10×14
Dressings
Non-woven adhesive tape
Transparent tegaderm
Sterile wipes
IV systems (for blood transfusion)
Laryngeal masks with combitubes (4, 5, & 6)
IntraBone disposable access systems
Rubber hemostatic medical plaits
Flexible splint (SAM)
Elastic bandages
Soft gauze
Hemostatic swabs and patches
Crystalloids and colloids compositions
PPE- gloves, masks, & eye protection glasses
NPA or OPA face masks
Tactical bags
PillPacks
Tracheostomy kits

Plus,
CELOX Z-fold gauze, standard 45” x 4 yards • Emergency (Israeli Battle Dressing) Compression Bandage • Pressure dressing • Rolled gauze, standard 4.5” x 4 yards • Nasopharyngeal airway • SAM universal Aluminum splint, 36” • Ambu bags • Bandage Strips, 1”x3” • Gauze pads, 4” x 4” (6x) • Abdominal pad (sometimes “ab pad”), 5” x9” (2x) • Burn Aid – water gel burn dressing 4×16 • Burn Aid – water gel burn dressing 4×4 • Chest seals (1 pair) • Coban roll, standard 2” x 5 yards • Cravat/triangular bandage, 45” x 45” x 63” • Cervical Collar • CPR Mask • Cravat Bandage (CamoVat) • Dynarex Medicut Sterile Disposable Scalpels #10 • EMT Shears • Eye Wash, 4oz. • IV Catheter 18 G – 20 G • IV Starter Kits • Medical Adhesive tape rolls (2 – 3″ inches) • Multi Trauma Dressings, 12”x30” • Pain Relievers – Ibuprofen or Acetaminophen, or both • Pair of Tweezers • Safety Pins • Stainless Steel Hemostats • Sutures needle size 6 • Tongue Depressors • Triple Antibiotic Ointment (full size) • Emergency blanket (2x)

HOSPITAL NEEDS • Aspirin / Bayer • Butterfly bandages, 0.5″ x 2.75″ (16x) • Caffeine pills • Central venous catheter kit • Diphenhydramine / Benadryl • Doxycycline and/or Bactrim antibiotics • Dressing materials, include dry or impregnated gauze, • Elastic wrap / ACE bandage, standard 4” x 5 yards • Gels, foams, hydrocolloids, alginates, hydrogels, and polysaccharide pastes, sutures • Gloves (examination and sterile) • Hydrocortisone cream (1%) • Irrigation syringe, 20cc with an 18 gauge tip • Laryngeal Tube • Loperamide / Imodium • Miconazole • Moleskin, 5” x 2” strip • Mouthpiece for giving CPR • Needle & thread stored in isopropyl alcohol (2x needle/thread, 1x small container) • Pepto-Bismol pills • Plastic cling wrap, 2” wide roll • Plastic films • Portable ventilators • Safety pins (3x, various sizes) • Saline eye drops • Silk medical tape roll, 1” wide • Tweezers • White petroleum jelly / Vaseline in small container

Sign of the Holy Cross

Often we make the Sign of the Cross without thinking of the meaning of this gesture. It is easy to forget; hopefully it is easy to get back to the center, too. In the days following the Sunday of the Veneration of the Holy Cross, perhaps we can stop to think and “feel” our making the Sign of the Cross with love and appreciation for what Jesus did (and does) for us. St. Cyril of Jerusalem calls the Sign of the Cross the seal.

Many thanks to Carrie Chuff for the wonderful illustration of how we make the Sign of the Cross!

Thanks to God With Us Online.

Sunday of the Holy Cross

Today in the Byzantine Catholic Church it is the Sunday of the Holy Cross. It is a day on which we recall that wood heals wood, the wood of the cross heals the wood that tree in paradise we were told not to eat from. Today we venerate the Holy Cross and it signals mid-Lent. As members of the Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem we are keenly aware that the cross is intimately connected with the Lord’s victory over death, and thus our salvation.

St John Chrysostom teaches us:

“Therefore, no one should be ashamed of the venerable symbols of our salvation: of the cross, which is the summit of our goods, for which we live and are what we are. Instead, let’s carry the cross of Christ like a trophy everywhere! All things, among us, reach their fulfillment by means of the cross. When we have to be reborn, the cross becomes present; when we feed on the mystical food; when we are consecrated ministers of the altar; when other mysteries are fulfilled, this symbol of victory is always present there.”

Homily on Matthew 54, 551B-552A.