Earlier today at the Sunday Divine Liturgy Father Iura postponed the 2022 Prosfora. Stay tuned for further details.
St. Michael’s Parish invites you to come to our traditional Ukrainian Christmas PROSFORA on Sunday, January 23, 2022 at noon. The cost is $25 per diner. Tickets may be purchased from January 10 to January 20.
This event can be postponed or canceled if the CDC guidelines change.
Christ is born!
Sunday, 1/16, 34th Sunday after Pentecost
9:00 a.m. +Kyle Paluha requested by Jaroslaw Paluha
10:30 a.m. For the people of the parish
Epistle: 1 Timothy 1:15-17
Gospel: Luke 18:35-43, Tone 1
Monday, 1/17, Our Venerable Anthony the Great
10:00 a.m. Funeral Divine Liturgy for Osyp Danko
Tuesday, 1/18, Our Holy Father Athanasius and Cyril
9:00 a.m. Health for Oksana, Kalyna, John, Halyna Nadia, Lesia, Nazar, Zlata, Ustym, Bohdan
Wednesday, 1/19, Our Venerable Father Macarius
9:00 a.m. God’s blessings for Adam, Anna, Valentina, Nadia, Ivan, Anastasia, Nadia, Olha, Mychajlo and Maria requested by the Kostiuk family
Thursday, 1/20, Our Venerable Father Euthemius
9:00 a.m. No particular intention for the Divine Liturgy
Friday, 1/21, Our Venerable Father Maximus
9:00 a.m. No particular intention for the Divine Liturgy
Saturday, 1/22, Holy Apostle Timothy
9:00 a.m. +Teodozij, Mychajlo, Stepan, Sviatoslav, Hanna, Maria, Zenovij, Nastia, Petro, Ruslan, Maria
Sunday, 1/23, 35th Sunday after Pentecost
9:00 a.m. +Kyle Paluha requested by Jaroslaw Paluha
10:30 a.m. For the people of the parish
Epistle: 2 Corinthians 6: 16-7:1
Gospel: Matthew 15:21-28, Tone 2
Christ is among us!
This week vigil light is offered by Dumalskyy Family in memory of Hanna Dumalska.
Osyp Danko fell asleep in the Lord. Please remember him in your prayers. Eternal Memory!
We would like to thank our parishioners who have supported our efforts this past year. Through our recent sale of kolaci and kutia we were able to send $250 to the UNWLA emergency fund Oxygen for Life for hospitalized Covid patients in Ukraine. With all my sisters Soiuzanky we wish all of you God’s blessings and a happy and healthy new year.
UNWLA Branch #108 New Haven
If you would like to have a Confession, Holy Communion or prayer of the sick at your house or nursing home, please call the rectory at 203-865-0388.
St. Michael’s Parish invites you to come to our traditional Ukrainian Christmas PROSFORA on Sunday, January 23, 2022 at noon. The cost is $25 per diner. Tickets may be purchased from January 10 to January 20. This event can be postponed or canceled if the CDC guidelines change.
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.
SOROKOUSTY will be celebrated during Great Lent in All Souls’ Saturdays, February 19, March 12, 19, 26. In the Easter season on June 4. Please take a book found in the entrance of the church, fill it out, place it in envelope, and drop it in the collection basket. Let us remember all our loved ones who have gone to their heavenly reward. Eternal Memory!
PLEASE TAKE NOTE: the numerical assigned donation envelope boxes are in the back of the church for you to pick up as well as the 2022 calendars
UKRAINIAN SCHOOL REOPENS: The Ukrainian School of New Haven is pleased to inform you that The New School Year 2021-2022 has begun. Registration is pen to all children. If you have any questions for students of Elementary School please contact Halia Lodynsky at 203-494-6278. For students Middle School call Volodymyr Dumalskyy at 203-988-2923. A nursery school program for children 2-5 years old is currently ongoing. Instruction will be primarily in Ukrainian language with accommodations for English. Connecticut Covid guidelines will be followed. For further information please call Nataliia Dankevych 203- 901-7168.
Happy New Year, Blessings for 2022!
Today the Church honors the 8th day of the Nativity, the circumcision of the Lord. The ritual also includes the naming of the child –Jesus. It is also a day on which we consider our own incorporation into the Church through Baptism. In both cases, today is a day celebrate our being made anew in Christ.
For the Christian, baptism has replaced circumcision as the entrance into the life of the church. Colossians 2:11-12 witnesses to this: “In him you were also circumcised with a circumcision not administered by hand, by stripping off the carnal body, with the circumcision of Christ. You were buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through faith in the power of God, who raised him from the dead.” One of the reasons for this, though not the only one, is that now Gentiles were entering the Church.
St. Paul says, “There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free person, there is not male and female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus. (Galatians 3:28) Even in the Scripture, it was decided that Gentiles did not need to be circumcised. Circumcision was a limited entrance, it could only be for males. However, both circumcision and baptism did require a change of heart, a true repentance, a turning to the Lord. The prophet Jeremiah preached, “Be circumcised for the Lord, remove the foreskins of your hearts” (4:4).
This was echoed in the New Testament by St. Paul, “One is not a Jew outwardly. True circumcision is not outward, in the flesh. Rather, one is a Jew inwardly, and circumcision is of the heart, in the spirit, not the letter; his praise is not from human beings but from God” (Romans 2:28-29).
Circumcision was done of the eighth day, it was the beginning of a new creation, for God created the world in six days and rested on the seventh, the new creation begins on the eighth day. For the Christian, baptism, too, is the beginning of a new creation: “you should put away the old self of your former way of life, corrupted through deceitful desires, and be renewed in the spirit of your minds, and put on the new self, created in God’s way in righteousness and holiness of truth” (Ephesians 4:22-24). The Feast of the Circumcision, then, is in the middle of our passage from the Birth of the Lord to his Baptism in the Jordan. It is a time to renew our hearts, and begin to live in Christ.
Happy New Year’s!
On January 1, at 11:00 a.m. the Divine Liturgy will be served for the feast of the Circumcision of the Lord. Following the Liturgy we will gather in the church hall for a glass of champagne –as is our parish custom.
The Blessing of Homes following the feast of Holy Theophany is a sacred time for us. Father Iura is now scheduling this time-honored Ukrainian tradition. Blessings will begin on January 8 and will call in-advance to inform as to the time of his visit.
Christ is born! Glorify Him!
Sunday, 12/26, Sunday after Christmas
9:00 a.m. For the people of the parish
10:30 a.m. +Vera Walnysky requested by Christine Floramo
Epistle: Galatians 1:11-19 or Hebrews 2-11-18
Gospel: Matthew 2:13-23, Tone 6
Monday, 12/27, St. Stephen the Protomartyr
9:00 a.m. Special Intention
Tuesday, 12/28, 20,000 martyrs of Nicomedia
9:00 a.m. +Father Deacon Charles, Barbara, and Ivan Burger (15th anniv. Pan) requested by the Burger Family
Wednesday, 12/29, Holy Innocents martyrs
9:00 a.m. +Michael Docknevych (55th Anniv., Pan.) requested by Martin Docvknevych
Thursday, 12/30, Our Venerable Martryr Anysia
9:00 a.m. +Olga Pospolita requested by Donna Larry
Friday, 12/31, Our Venerable Melany
9:00 a.m. +Michael Lipcan (12th Anniv., Pan.) requested by Barbara and Patrick Bagley
Saturday, 1/01, Circumcision of our Lord, St. Basil —Anointing following the Liturgy
11:00 a.m. For the people of the parish
Sunday, 1/02, Sunday Before Theophany
9:00 a.m. All deceased members of Komondy family and relatives requested by Chris Komondy
10:30 a.m. For the people of the parish
Epistle: 2 Timothy 4:5-8
Gospel: Mark 1:1-8, Tone 7
Christ is born! Glorify Him!
This week vigil light is offered by Barbara and Patrick Bagley in memory of Michael Lipcan.
A note from the pastor
With the upcoming Holidays of New Year 2022 and Epiphany our best wishes to our Bishop His Excellency Paul Chomnycky, Parishioners, Trustees, book keeper, Choir Director and members of the church choir, Church Organizations and all Ukrainian and American organizations in our parish, all benefactors and members of our parish that every day donate their time, work and money for good of our Church.
May the new born our Lord Jesus Christ bless our parish.
Fr. Iura Godenciuc and family
If you would like to have a Confession, Holy Communion or prayer of the sick at your house or nursing home, please call the rectory at 203-865-0388.
The Blessing of Homes following the feast of Holy Theophany is a sacred time for us. Father Iura is now scheduling this time-honored Ukrainian tradition. Blessings will begin on January 8 and will call in-advance to inform as to the time of his visit.
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.
All donations and contribution must be received by December 26 to be recorded for 2021.
UKRAINIAN SCHOOL REOPENS: The Ukrainian School of New Haven is pleased to inform you that The New School Year 2021-2022 has begun. Registration is Open to all children. If you have any questions for students of Elementary School please contact Halia Lodynsky at 203-494-6278. For students Middle School call Volodymyr Dumalskyy at 203-988-2923. A nursery school program for children 2-5 years old is currently ongoing. Instruction will be primarily in Ukrainian language with accommodations for English. Connecticut Covid guidelines will be followed. For further information please call Nataliia Dankevych 203- 901-7168.
STAMFORD CHARITIES APPEAL REMINDER: Please don`t forget to donate for the Charities Appeal. Please make check payable to the Byzantine Rite Eparchy of Stamford. PLEASE DO NOT MAIL THIS FORM TO THE CHANCERY OFFICE. Please turn it in at the Parish. We sincerely ask all parishioners to make generous contributions.
As we are quickly approaching Christmas, I want to remind you of a beautiful talk in the library of God With Us Online by Fr. David Anderson called The Gift of God: Preparing for the Nativity of the Lord.
I invite you to take a little time in the bustle of the next few days to watch it and let the Church’s hymns for this holy season prepare your heart for Christ’s coming!
Friday, 12/24, Today is a day of abstinence in preparation for the feast of Christmas
9:00 a.m. No scheduled intention for the Divine Liturgy
Saturday, 12/25, The Nativity of Our Lord, God and Savior Jesus Christ
9:45 a.m. Great Compline (the “God with us” service)
10:30 a.m. For the people of the parish
—Anointing at the conclusion of the Divine Liturgy
