We are collecting humanitarian aid packages for Ukraine. Items should be delivered this week to St Michael’s Ukrainian Catholic Church in New Haven by Monday, March 7, 2022 or Ukrainian National Home of Hartford by Monday, March 7, 2022–see addresses below (Or as soon as you can-there will be another shipment arranged later.)

NOTE WELL: This humanitarian collection is different from what is being collected for the soldiers. THAT list is found here. We need wheelchairs for the wounded soldiers.

Items needed are listed below. We also will need money for shipping this week’s items. Any amount you can donate for shipping also will be greatly appreciated.

Thank you from the Ukrainian American Community of St Michael Ukrainian Catholic Church and the Ukrainian National Home of Hartford.

Monday, March 7, 2022 (Drop off-4:00pm-7:00pm)

St. Michael the Archangel Ukrainian Catholic Church – Church Hall
569 George St
New Haven, CT 06511

Ukrainian National Home of Hartford
961 Wethersfield Avenue
Hartford CT 06114

MEEST IS ACCEPTING HUMANITARIAN AID PACKAGES FOR UKRAINE

Any individual or organization can bring in packages with humanitarian aid to any Meest office or agent.. All packages will be delivered into Lviv and dispersed to relevant Ukrainian relief organizations.

• Maximum weight of each package is 30kg

• Everything will be going by air

• Estimated delivery time is 5-10 days from the date of shipment

• We need 100% description of goods in each package

• We will need an estimated value for each package

• We are offering a heavily discounted rate of $2.30 per lb to cover our costs

Priority Items for humanitarian relief 🇺🇦📦:

• Non-perishable food – BIG DEMAND

• Clothes and footwear for men/women/children

• Thermal underwear

• Hygiene products (women’s products, diapers, etc.)

• Blankets

• Bedding

• Table wear (disposable)

• First aid and first aid kits

• Tents, mattresses, sleeping bags

• Standalone lamps

• Candles

• Containers for liquids (canisters for water, fuel, lubricants with capacity of 10-20 liters)

Christ is among us!

This week vigil light is offered by Family in memory of Frances Dmyterko.

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.

We have FROZEN PYROHY for sale in the church hall $10.00 for two dozen.

The parish Knights of Columbus Council will be meeting in the Holy Name Room on Monday, March 7 at 7:00 p.m.

SOROKOUSTY will be celebrated during Lent in All Souls’ Saturdays, March 12, 19, 26 and 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!

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.

The Ukrainian School of New Haven is pleased to inform you that The New School Year 2022 has begun. 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.

Christ is among us!

This week vigil light is offered by Family in memory of all members of Waselik family.

The Great Fast/Lent begins Sunday evening with Forgiveness Vespers, or Monday when we begin with prayer and fasting.

Our Church, the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church traditionally prescribes abstention from meat and dairy products for the entire duration of the Great Fast and Holy Week and this rule is still kept in monasteries. The following are the minimal Lenten regulations today, but the lay faithful are encouraged to live according to this historic rule of abstention as much as they can physically and spiritually. Hence, you are invited to follow the tradition as you are physically able given your age and health and work situation.

First Day of the Great Fast (Clean Monday) – Abstention from meat and dairy and foods that contain these ingredients is obligatory. Fasting is obligatory.

First Week of the Great Fast – Abstention from meat and foods that contain these ingredients is obligatory. Abstention from dairy and foods that contain these ingredients is encouraged.

Wednesdays and Fridays of the Great Fast – Abstention from meat and foods that contain these ingredients is obligatory. Abstention from dairy and foods that contain these ingredients is encouraged. Abstention from meat and dairy and foods that contain these ingredients is encouraged on Mondays during Lent as well.

Fasting regulations of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church —Definitions

Abstinence means that we do not eat a certain type of food or any other foods that have that as an ingredient.

Fasting means that we eat fewer food items. A general rule is that for a day of fast, we eat no more than one full meal and two smaller meals (snacks) that put together do not equal a full meal.

Meat is to be understood as including not only the flesh, but also those parts of warm-blooded animals that cannot be rendered, i.e., melted down, e.g., the liver, etc. Meat gravy or soup made from meat is included in this prohibition.

Hartford, CT -Ukrainian National Home of Hartford, 961 Wethersfield Avenue, Hartford, CT -1:00pm

New Haven, CT -St Michael Ukrainian Catholic church hall, 569 George Street, New Haven, CT -11:30am

New Haven, CT -Yale Ukrainian Student Club-Sterling Memorial Library High Street, New Haven, CT -2:00pm

Christ is among us!

This week vigil light is offered by Chris Komondy in memory of Henri Heinrich.

SOROKOUSTY will be celebrated during Lent in All Soul’s Saturdays, February 19, March 12, 19, 26 and 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!

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.

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.

Christ is in our midst!

This week vigil light is offered by Mary Ann Mikosky in memory of Eugenia Kozak Harvey.

There will be frozen PYROHY for sale in the church hall for as long as supplies last.

SOROKOUSTY will be celebrated during Lent in All Souls’ Saturdays, February 19, March 12, 19, 26 and 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!

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.

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.

The Ukrainian School of New Haven

If you have any questions:
Elementary School: Halia Lodynsky at 203-494-6278
Middle School: Volodymyr Dumalskyy at 203-988-2923
Nataliia Dankevych (203) 901-7168.

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.