Stand with Ukraine Events-Week of Mar 13-21, 2022

Sunday, March 13, 2022-3:30pm -Concert Fundraiser-Polish American Foundation-Trinity on Main Theatre 69 Main St., New Britain CT

Sunday, March 13, 2022-4pm -Candlelight Vigil, Town of West Hartford CT

Wednesday, March 16, 2022-7pm -Candlelight Vigil, Town of South Windsor CT

Sunday, March 20, 2022-7pm -Concert Fundraiser-St Thomas More Chapel 268 Park St., New Haven CT

Monday, March 21, 2022-7pm -Concert Fundraiser-Charter Oak Community Center-Temple Beth Israel 701 Farmington Ave., West Hartford CT

Thank you for your support of Ukraine.

Killed in Maripol

2,187 civilian inhabitants of the Ukrainian city of Mariupol were killed by the Russian troops.

The city is still under siege. The Russians don’t let the humanitarian aid in and the people out.

Fr. Andriy Zelinskyy
13 March 2022

Eternal memory.

NB: Fr. Andriy is a graduate of St. Basil Seminary, Stamford, CT

New Haven Priest Driving refugees to Krakow

This article may be of interest to you. The author is the English language editor of Aleteia, and also a Dominican friar, Father Patrick who is traveling with Dominican Father Jonathan from New Haven, Connecticut. Father Jonathan works for the Knights of Columbus and is the religious superior of the New Haven Dominican friar. Father Jonathan has been a guest at our parish.

The article: “Driving refugees to Krakow: Fr. Patrick Briscoe reports from Poland.”

Photo courtesy of Fr. Patrick Briscoe

Ukrainian Relief Project UPDATE for March 14, 2022

Ukrainian Relief Project –UPDATE for March 14, 2022

Ways to give this week:

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

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

Humanitarian items to collect are found on Amazon:
https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/2DC0A0NXSAR5N?type=wishlist

You have may have the items sent to the Church:

St. Michael the Archangel Church
569 George Street
New Haven, CT 06511-5301

Medical Supplies to collect:

First Aid Kits
Trauma Kits
Tylenol
Aspirin
activated carbon
burn dressings
bandages
saline solution
PPE —gloves, masks, eye protection
wheel chair
men’s underwear and white tube socks

Financial Help

For Humanitarian Help

Send:
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

Send:
Mr. Carl R. Harvey
Ukrainian American Veterans Post 33
841 Alling Road
Orange, CT 06477-1352

Checks payable to: Ukrainian American Veterans Post 33
In the memo: Ukrainian Soldier Welfare Fund

A summary of our charitable work

Here is a summary of our charitable work for the Ukrainian Relief Project New Haven.

It is important to keep a Christian perspective according to the mind of Jesus: “Truly, I say to you, as you did it not to one of the least of these, you did it not to me” (Matthew 25: 45). Indeed, our work for our Ukrainian brothers and sisters can only make sense from the point of view service: feeding the hungry, clothing the naked, giving drink to the thirsty, providing medications to the sick, binding and cleaning the wounds of the attacked, and welcoming the stranger.

You may be aware that the Hebrew Torah instructs 36 times to care for the stranger — far more than it commands to observe the Sabbath or any other law.

Likewise, there may be awareness the Islam teaches: “Your Lord is sure to give you so much that you will be well satisfied. Did He not find you an orphan and shelter you? Did He not find you lost and guide you? Did He not find you in need and make you self-sufficient? So do not be harsh with the orphan and do not chide the one who asks for help; talk about the blessings of your Lord” (Q.93:6-11).

Ultimately, our work of charity for Ukrainian is based on the dignity of responding to the human need. Our humanity is moved to serve and to have concern for the other person. Thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Starting in the First day of March, we have accomplished the following:

  • shipped 1,166 cartons with an approximate weight of 22,700 pounds
  • boxed up and ready to go approximate 750 more cartons packed with an approximate weight of 18,500 pounds
  • approximate 4,500 pounds of assorted materials in process to be packed into approximate 150 cartons in process partially filled

Thus far, our parishioners and friends have sent to Ukraine 45,700 pounds –2,066 pieces

The critical items (medical supplies) went by air in pods at a cost of $ 2.30 per pound and the balance was containerized and went by sea.

We are receiving more donations of materials on a daily basis.

We are continuing our collection efforts and need medical supplies, new clothes, winter coats etc and financial donations to pay for the shipping.

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Third Week of the Great Fast

During this week, at Vespers, we read the story of the flood and the salvation of the righteous man Noah and his family. At first, this might seem to be the dark side of God, and on Friday, we heard: “When the Lord saw how great the wickedness of human beings was on earth, and how every desire that their heart conceived was always nothing but evil, the Lord regretted making human beings on the earth, and his heart was grieved. So the Lord said: I will wipe out from the earth the human beings I have created, and not only the human beings, but also the animals and the crawling things and the birds of the air, for I regret that I made them.”

The story of the flood may have some historical basis, as a great flood in the Mediterranean basin in pre-history, but the story is iconic. (Noah could not have brought all the animal species on the ark.) The story tells us that the “wages of sin is death” (Romans 6:23). Christian faith has seen a positive image in the flood: it is the waters of baptism, which wipes out all sin (pride and rebellion against the divine plan) from the earth. It is these waters which carry us to salvation.

On the third Friday, then, we hear: “Then Noah built an altar to the Lord, and choosing from every clean animal and every clean bird, he offered burnt offerings on the altar. When the Lord smelled the sweet odor, the Lord said to himself: Never again will I curse the ground because of human beings, since the desires of the human heart are evil from youth; nor will I ever again strike down every living being, as I have done,” and on Tuesday of the fourth week, the day before Mid-lent, “This is the sign of the covenant that I am making between me and you and every living creature with you for all ages to come: I set my bow in the clouds to serve as a sign of the covenant between me and the earth.”

The Great Fast is the coming of the Redeemer.

Meditation by Archpriest David Petras