Christ is among us!
TONIGHT, Friday, March 23, we will gather for the Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts at 7:00 p.m.
This time of prayer unique in the Byzantine Church and it fittingly prepares us for Pascha.
On Sunday, March 25th, the annual Easter Egg Hunt for children will happen at 12Noon.
Finally, Father Al Forlano will be preaching this coming Sunday and hearing confessions, preparing us for the Great Week and the Easter Mysteries.
Christ is among us!
AFTER DIVINE LITURGY: Dear parishioners and guests, after each Divine Liturgy, coffee and hard rolls are available in the church hall.
VIGIL LIGHT: This week vigil light is offered to God’s glory by Vasyl and Nadia Ivantsiv in memory of +Anna, Volodymyr, Tymofij.
PYROHY PROJECT: We will be making PYROHY on Saturday, March 24th 2018. Be sure to call your order in… (https://stmichaelukrainian.org/pierogies/) We need your help to peel potatoes on Friday March 23rd and Saturday, March 24th to make Pierogies (Varenyky). Please come and help. See Walter Ushchak for more information.
SCHEDULE FOR GREAT WEEK AND PASCHA
Holy Thursday, March 29: 7:00 p.m. Matins — Proclamation of the Passion Gospels
Good Friday, March 30: 4:00 p.m. Vespers and Veneration of the Holy Shroud —Plashchanytsya
Holy Saturday, March 31: 4:00 p.m. and 5:00 p.m. Blessing of Easter Foods; 6:00 p.m. Prayer at the Tomb and Paschal Matins
Pascha, April 1: 10:30 a.m. Divine Liturgy in English and Ukrainian.
PARISH MISSION: Mission in our parish will be on Sunday, March 18th and March 25th. Father Albert Forlano will be giving Mission in our parish. Father Albert is going to be in confessional half an hour before AND during both Divine Liturgies. For confession in Ukrainian language Father Stepan Yanovski will be in confessional each Sunday during Lent.
EASTER EGG HUNT: 15th Annual Easter Egg Hunt sponsored by Ukrainian National Association Branch 414-New Haven, will be held on Sunday, March 25th at 12:00 noon on St. Michael’s Ukrainian Catholic Church grounds, 569 George Street, New Haven CT. Free –Open to young members of the UNA Ridna Shkola students and New Haven Area Ukrainian youth. For more information contact: Gloria Horbaty 203-269-5909. Participants: Please bring basket for collecting eggs.
SVIACHENE: The traditional Easter parish “SVIACHENE” will be held on April 15, 2018. On that day we will have only ONE Divine Liturgy at 10:30 a.m. We will be running a raffle. If you would like to donate any items to be raffled please give it to Anya Hanson. We ask you to donate cakes for desert. Tickets are available through Luba Dubno. Tickets: adults – $20, youth between 12 to 16 – $10, under 12 and altar boys and Ridna Shkola students free.
The Ukrainian National Association will host a free presentation by Dr. Petrusia Kotlar on “Wellness and Nutrition as a Means to Healthy Longevity” on Sunday, March 18, 2018, at noon, at Holy Protection of Blessed Virgin Mary Ukrainian Catholic Church Hall, 255 Barnum Ave., Bridgeport. It will also include healthy snack tasting.
For information, contact Gloria Horbaty at 203-269-5909.
Christ is among us!
AFTER DIVINE LITURGY: Dear parishioners and guests, after each Divine Liturgy, coffee and hard rolls are available in the church hall.
VIGIL LIGHT: This week vigil light is offered to God’s glory by Vasyl and Nadia Ivantsivimo for +Anna, Volodymyr Tymofij.
ASLEEP IN THE LORD: +Allan Yursha. Please remember him in your prayers. ETERNAL MEMORY!
SCHEDULE FOR GREAT WEEK AND PASCHA
Holy Thursday, March 29: 7:00 p.m. Matins — Proclamation of the Passion Gospels
Good Friday, March 30: 4:00 p.m. Vespers and Veneration of the Holy Shroud —Plashchanytsya
Holy Saturday, March 31: 4:00 p.m. and 5:00 p.m. Blessing of Easter Foods; 6:00 p.m. Prayer at the Tomb and Paschal Matins
Pascha, April 1: 10:30 a.m. Divine Liturgy in English and Ukrainian.
PARISH MISSION: Mission in our parish will be on Sunday, March 18th and March 25th. Father Albert Forlano will be giving Mission in our parish. Father Albert is going to be in confessional half an hour before AND during both Divine Liturgies. For confession in Ukrainian language Father Stepan Yanovski will be in confessional each Sunday during Lent.
EASTER EGG HUNT: 15th Annual Easter Egg Hunt sponsored by Ukrainian National Association Branch 414-New Haven, will be held on Sunday, March 25th at 12:00 noon on St. Michael’s Ukrainian Catholic Church grounds, 569 George Street, New Haven CT. Free –Open to young members of the UNA Ridna Shkola students and New Haven Area Ukrainian youth. For more information contact: Gloria Horbaty 203-269-5909. Participants: Please bring basket for collecting eggs.
SVIACHENE: The traditional Easter parish “SVIACHENE” will be held on April 15, 2018. On that day we will have only ONE Divine Liturgy at 10:30 a.m. We will be running a raffle. If you would like to donate any items to be raffled please give it to Anya Hanson. We ask you to donate cakes for desert. Tickets are available through Luba Dubno. Tickets: adults – $20, youth between 12 to 16 – $10, under 12 and altar boys and Ridna Shkola students free.
The Liturgy of Presanctified Gifts will be served at 7:00 p.m. on Friday, March 9.
As a reminder, Father Iura will offer the panachyda for Allan Yursha at Wallingford Funeral Home at 6:00 p.m. These are the traditional prayers conducted on the eve of a funeral.
Allan Yursha, 82, of Wallingford, died peacefully at home March 4, 2018. He was the beloved husband of Mary Ann (Herceg) Yursha.
He was born in McAdoo, PA, July 23, 1935, a son of the late William and Mary (Suhena) Yursha and was a U.S. Air Force Korean War Veteran. He worked as a design draftsman at Pratt & Whitney Aircraft until his retirement in 1992 and then worked at the Wallingford Public Library until 2001. He was an active member of St. Michael the Archangel Ukrainian Catholic Church in New Haven where he served as Past Treasurer and as Past President of St. Michael’s Holy Name Society. He was awarded the Papal recognition in 2005.
In addition to his wife Mary Ann, he is survived by his three daughters, and sons-in-law, Ann E. and Paul Lehr, Mary L. Johnston and Hans Hanson, and Juliann M. and Neil Bukowski; his three grandchildren, Jessica M. Sanchez (David), Neil “Rob” Bukowski (Mariah Franco), and Alexis S. Bukowski; his great granddaughter, Delanney Luz Sanchez; Bernandine Elko; his sister-in-law, Betty Jane Yursha; and many nieces and nephews. He was predeceased by his siblings, Vladimir Yursha, Eugene Yursha, and Dorothy Yursha. Allan loved his family very much and his family always came first.
His family will receive relatives and friends in The Wallingford Funeral Home, 809 N. Main Street Ext., Wallingford, on Friday, March 9, from 4 to 7 p.m. The Panahyda service of prayer will be at 6:00 p.m. at the Funeral Home.
A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated on Saturday at 10 a.m. directly at St. Michael the Archangel Ukrainian Catholic Church, 569 George St., New Haven. Interment will be private in the State Veterans’ Cemetery in Middletown. In lieu of flowers, gifts in his memory may be sent to Masonicare Hospice, 33 N. Plains Industrial Rd., Wallingford, CT 06492.
Christ is among us!
VIGIL LIGHT: This week vigil light is offered by Halya Lodynsky for God’s blessing and health for Stefan Yurchak.
SOROKOUSTY (All Souls): will be celebrated on every TODAY. The next All Soul’s Remembrance will March 11 and May 19. 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!
PYSANKA — Ukrainian Easter Egg Workshop will be held TODAY in the church hall from 1:00 to 3:30 p.m. It is open to youth and adults, but children must be accompanied by an adult. Bring your children and grandchildren to learn their beautiful heritage. Free to parish youth and Ridna Shkola students. Sponsored by UNWLA branch 108, the Heritage Center and the CT Ukrainian-American Historical Society.
PARISH MISSION: Mission in our parish will be on Sunday, March 18th and March 25th. Father Albert Forlano will be giving Mission in our parish. Father Albert is going to be in confessional half an hour before AND during both Divine Liturgies. For confession in Ukrainian language Father Stepan Yanovski will be in confessional each Sunday during Lent.
Father Bohdan Prach, Rector of the Ukrainian Catholic University, will be giving a Ukrainian-language presentation of his new book on April 20th in Stamford and on April 21st in New York. Father Prach will give a book presentation on The Clergy of the Peremyshl Eparchy and the Apostolic Administration of Lemkivshchyna.
Christ Our Pascha, the Catechism of the Ukrainian Catholic Church, is now available online in English, http://catechism.royaldoors.net
By the threefold discipline of fasting, prayer and almsgiving the Church keeps the Great Fast/Lent from Monday, February 12, after the Cheesefare Sunday to the day before Easter, Holy Saturday, March 31. The following regulations apply, in general to all Ukrainian Catholics of the Stamford Eparchy between ages 21 to 60: Abstinence from meat and dairy products on the first day of the Great Fast, February 12, and Good Friday, March 30. The following regulations apply, in general, to all Ukrainians Catholics of the Stamford Eparchy between ages 14 to 60: Abstinence from meat is to be observed on all Fridays of the Great Fast. Abstinence from meat is suggested and encouraged on all Wednesdays of the Great Fast. The following are exempt from abstinence: 1. The poor who live on alms; 2. The sick and the frail; 3. Convalescents who are returning to their strength; 4. Pregnant women, and women who are nursing their children; and 5. Persons who perform hard labor. 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, lungs, blood, etc. meat gravy or soup made from meat is included in this prohibition. Dairy products are to be understood as comprising products derived from mammals and birds, but not regarded as meat, e. g., cheese, lard, butter, milk, eggs, etc. Eucharistic Fast: A fast of one hour from food(prior to service begging time) should be kept by those receiving the Eucharist at the evening celebration of the Divine Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts, as well as, the Divine Liturgy of St John Chrysostom and St. Basil the Great.
Christ is among us!
1. VIGIL LIGHT: This week vigil light is offered by Halya Lodynsky for God’s blessing and health for Stefan Yurchak.
2. AFTER DIVINE LITURGY: Dear parishioners and guests, after each Divine Liturgy, coffee and hard rolls are available in the church hall.
3. SOROKOUSTY (All Souls): will be celebrated on every TODAY. The next All Soul’s Remembrance will March 4 and 11, May 19. 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!
4. The Annual Meeting of the Ukrainian National Association Br. 414 will be held on Sunday, February 25, 2018, at 12:00 noon in St. Michael’s Ukrainian Catholic Church Hall. All members are invited to attend in order to elect a delegate to attend the convention in May of 2018.
5. PYSANKA — Ukrainian Easter Egg Workshop will be held on Sunday, March 4, 2018 in the church hall from 1:00 to 3:30 p.m. It is open to youth and adults, but children must be accompanied by an adult. Bring your children and grandchildren to learn their beautiful heritage. Free to parish youth and Ridna Shkola students. Sponsored by UNWLA branch 108, the Heritage Center and the CT Ukrainian-American Historical Society.
6. Replica of the Shroud of Turin will be displayed in St. George Ukrainian Catholic Church in NYC until TODAY. Father Emilian Dorosh invites all faithful to take opportunity to venerate God by praying by the Shroud of Turin.
7. Living the Great Fast (Lent): By the threefold discipline of fasting, prayer and almsgiving the Church keeps the Great Fast/Lent from Monday, February 12, after the Cheesefare Sunday to the day before Easter, Holy Saturday, March 31. The following regulations apply, in general to all Ukrainian Catholics of the Stamford Eparchy between ages 21 to 60: Abstinence from meat and dairy products on the first day of the Great Fast, February 12, and Good Friday, March 30. The following regulations apply, in general, to all Ukrainians Catholics of the Stamford Eparchy between ages 14 to 60: Abstinence from meat is to be observed on all Fridays of the Great Fast. Abstinence from meat is suggested and encouraged on all Wednesdays of the Great Fast. The following are exempt from abstinence: 1. The poor who live on alms; 2. The sick and the frail; 3. Convalescents who are returning to their strength; 4. Pregnant women, and women who are nursing their children; and 5. Persons who perform hard labor. 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, lungs, blood, etc. meat gravy or soup made from meat is included in this prohibition. Dairy products are to be understood as comprising products derived from mammals and birds, but not regarded as meat, e. g., cheese, lard, butter, milk, eggs, etc. Eucharistic Fast: A fast of one hour from food(prior to service begging time) should be kept by those receiving the Eucharist at the evening celebration of the Divine Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts, as well as, the Divine Liturgy of St John Chrysostom and St. Basil the Great.
Christ is among us!
1. VIGIL LIGHT: This week vigil light is offered to God’s glory by Alexis Hickerson in memory of +Robert Hickerson.
2. Reposed in the Lord: +Frances Harvey. Please remember her in your prayers. ETERNAL MEMORY!
3. Dear parishioners and guests, after each Divine Liturgy, coffee and hard rolls are available in the church hall.
4. The Annual Meeting of the Ukrainian National Association Branch 414 will be held on Sunday, February 25, 2018, at 12:00 noon in St. Michael the Archangel Ukrainian Catholic Church Hall.
All members are invited to attend in order to elect a delegate to attend the convention in May of 2018.
5. SOROKOUSTY: will be celebrated next Sunday, February 25 at 10:00 a.m. 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!
The next All Souls commemoration will be on March 4 and 11, and May 19.
6. Replica of the Shroud of Turin will be displayed in St. George Ukrainian Catholic Church, East 7th Street in NYC from February 17th to February 25th of this year. Father Emilian Dorosh invites all faithful to take opportunity to venerate God by praying by the Shroud of Turin.
7. By the threefold discipline of fasting, prayer and almsgiving the Church keeps the Great Fast/Lent from Monday, February 12, after the Cheesefare Sunday to the day before Easter, Holy Saturday, March 31. The following regulations apply, in general to all Ukrainian Catholics of the Stamford Eparchy between ages 21 to 60: Abstinence from meat and dairy products on the first day of the Great Fast, February 12, and Good Friday, March 30. The following regulations apply, in general, to all Ukrainians Catholics of the Stamford Eparchy between ages 14 to 60: Abstinence from meat is to be observed on all Fridays of the Great Fast. Abstinence from meat is suggested and encouraged on all Wednesdays of the Great Fast. The following are exempt from abstinence: 1. The poor who live on alms; 2. The sick and the frail; 3. Convalescents who are returning to their strength; 4. Pregnant women, and women who are nursing their children; and 5. Persons who perform hard labor. 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, lungs, blood, etc. meat gravy or soup made from meat is included in this prohibition. Dairy products are to be understood as comprising products derived from mammals and birds, but not regarded as meat, e. g., cheese, lard, butter, milk, eggs, etc. Eucharistic Fast: A fast of one hour from food(prior to service begging time) should be kept by those receiving the Eucharist at the evening celebration of the Divine Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts, as well as, the Divine Liturgy of St John Chrysostom and St. Basil the Great.