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Українська Католицька Парафія Покров Пресвятої Богородиці Protection of the Blessed Virgin Mary Ukrainian Catholic Parish E-Mail: [email protected] Phone: 604.879.5830 550 West 14 Avenue Fax: 604.874.2727 Vancouver, BC V5Z 1P6 Website: www.stmarysbc.com The No. 1 priority for ... the church is evangelization: “Preaching the Gospel of Jesus Christ in today's world.” 3 листопада, 2019 Volume 64 No. 44 November 3, 2019 р1 Служби Божі/Divine Liturgies Неділя/Sunday: 8:30 am in English 21-ша НЕДІЛЯ ПІСЛЯ П’ЯТИДЕСЯТНИЦІ. 10:30 am (sung) in Ukrainian Мученики Акепсим, Йосиф і Айтал У Свята/Holy Day of Obligation 10:30 am and 7:00 pm Щодня/Daily Scheduled 7:30 am in Chapel Сповідь/Confessions: 15 minutes before/at the beginning of the Divine Liturgy - or by appointment during the week Baptism by appointment Anointing of the Sick/Hospital Visits/ Eucharist for the sick - any time Marriages - the arrangements with the priest have to be made months before the marriage Funerals - by arrangement оо. Василіяни/Basilian Fathers serving the Parish: Father Serafym Grygoruk, OSBM, Administrator: Email: [email protected] 21st SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST. Father Joseph Pidskalny, OSBM- local Superior Martyrs Acepsimas, Josep and Aithalis Most Rev. Severian Yakymyshyn, OSBM Bishop-Emeritus Galatians 2:16-20; Luke 8:5-15 The Protection of the Blessed Virgin Парафія Покрови Пресвятої Mary Parish welcomes all guests, friends, Богородиці вітає всіх гостей, приятелів and Parishioners participating in this та парафіян, які беруть участь у цій Divine Liturgy. Службі Божі. НИНІ: Неділя, 3 листопада: Кава і солодке після Служби Божої о год 8:30 і 10:30 ранo. Нині о 10:00 год. – Третій Час (Молитва) П’ятниця, 8 листопада, о 10:30 ран. – Служба Божа (Собор архистратига Михаїла і всіх Безтілесних сил) Hymns at 10:30 Divine Liturgy: Opening: page 234: “V strasi i pokori” Communion: page 320: “Raduisia, Sertse” Closing: page 270: “Nache povnyi holos dzvonu” Неділя, 10 листопада: День пам’яті. 10:30 ранку: Поминальна Служба Божа і Панахида відслужаться за тих, хто втратив своє життя на службі своїй країні. The Holy Father’s Prayer Intention for November Dialogue and Reconciliation in the Near East. That a spirit of dialogue, encounter, and reconciliation emerge in the Near East, where diverse religious communities share their lives together. >>> November 9, 2019, - Vechornytsi /Вечорниці. At Holy Eucharist Cathedral Hall, at 501-4th Avenue, New Westminster. Doors open at 6:00 PM; Cash Bar; the program starts at 6:30 PM. Traditional Ukrainian Dinner and Entertainment. (Tickets: adults - $35, students 13-21 – $20, children 6-12 - $15 and under 6 – free.) Please purchase the tickets before October 28, 2019. For tickets and more information call Maria Loutsik 604-916-6381 or Iryna Mazur 604-525-3410 Parish Maintenance Fund Donations for our Maintenance Fund for 2019: $10,189.00. Maintenance and repairs to our church and parish complex are ongoing. Please continue to help our parish build up its Maintenance Fund to offset these costs. All donations are tax-deductible. “Convenience Envelopes” can be found in the front entrance of the church and Parish Maintenance Fund envelopes are included in your envelope packet. We are very grateful for your generosity. Thank You! >> The Nominating Committee is looking for candidates from among Parishioners for AGM elections to the Parish Council positions. Sunday Donations: October 27, 2019: $895.00 Ukrainian Classes for Adults Ukrainian classes for adults held Mondays from 6:30 - 8:30 PM. All levels welcome. No experience necessary. For more details: ukrainianclasses.com or contact Susan at [email protected] or phone: 604.733.3756. TODAY: Sunday, November 3: Coffee and sweets available following the 8:30 and 10:30 Divine Liturgies. -Today at 10:00 AM – Third Hour (Prayer) >>>Come to Following Christ. Live the life of a disciple of Christ. The DVD Series for 7 Sundays after 10:30 AM Divine Liturgy; today, it is the Fellowship Room under the church. Friday, November 8: 10:30 AM – Divine Liturgy. (The Synaxis of the Archangel Michael and the Hosts of incorporeal Powers. Sunday, November 10: 10:30 AM: In honour of Remembrance Day a Memorial Divine Liturgy and Panachyda will be celebrated in memory of all those who lost their lives in the service of their country. Eternal Memory! We extend sincerest condolences to Bonnie Marchenko and Family on the recent passing of her sister Stella Weizer of Toronto. Вічная Пам’ять! >>> Bishop-Emeritus Severian Yakymyshyn was taken to the hospital two weeks ago. He is feeling better now and is expected to come home this week. Reports for Parish AGM Our Parish Annual General Meeting is scheduled for Sunday, December 1, 2019. Committee Chairpersons, please submit your report for the Parish Annual General Meeting to the parish office by Friday, November 15. ------------------- Biographies of twenty five Volyn and Polissia. The ceremony of his Ukrainian-Catholic Servants of God ordination to the episcopacy took place (http://www.vatican.va/news_services/l on 2 February 1931, in Rome. During the iturgy/saints/ns_lit_doc_20010627_carne first Bolshevik occupation, Metropolitan ckyj_en.html) Andriy Sheptytsky appointed him as the The Servant of God Bishop Mykola Apostolic Exarch of Volyn and Pidlassia. Charnetsky was born on 14 December On 11 April 1945 he was arrested by the 1884 in the village of Semakivtsi, NKVD and sentenced to six years of Horodenka District. Upon his graduation forced labour in Siberia. On 2 April 1959 from the seminary, he was ordained to he died in Lviv. the priesthood on 2 October 1909. He The Servant of God Sr Laurentia obtained his doctorate in dogmatic Herasymiv was born on 31 September theology from Rome and became a 1911 in the village of Rudnyky, Lviv spiritual director and professor at the District. In 1931 she entered the Sisters seminary in Stanislaviv (now called of St Joseph, and in 1933 she made her Ivano-Frankivsk). In 1919, he entered the first vows. In 1951, she was arrested by noviciate of the Redemptorist Fathers in the agents of the NKVD (KGB) and sent Zboiska, near Lviv. In 1926, Pope Pius to Borislav. Thereafter, she was exiled to XI, upon the request of Metropolitan Tomsk, Siberia. She was in very poor Andriy, appointed Fr Mykola as the health and therefore on 30 June 1950, Apostolic Visitor to Greek Catholics in she was relocated to the village of Harsk, Tomsk, and made to share a room with exiled to the Tomsk region of Siberia. and attend to a paralysed man because Under conditions of heavy forced labour, nobody else would share a room with a Sr Olympia tried to perform her duties as tuberculosis-infected tenant. She superior and organized her sisters and continued to pray much and did much other sisters in other camps to come demanding manual labour. She patiently together and to pray and support each endured sub-human conditions. She other. Succumbing to a serious illness, finally died on 28 August 1952 in the she died on 28 January 1952. village of Kharsk in the Tomsk Region of The Servant of God Volodymyr Siberia. Pryjma was born on 17 July 1906 in the The Servant of God Sr Tarsykia village of Stradch, Yavoriv District. After Matskiv was born on 23 March 1919 in graduating from a school for cantors, the village of Khodoriv, Lviv District. On 3 which was under the care of Metropolitan May 1938 she entered the Sister Sheptytsky, he became the cantor and Servants of Mary Immaculate. After choir director in the village church of professing her first vows on 5 November Stradch. On 26 June 1941 agents of the 1940, she worked in her convent. Even NKVD mercilessly tortured and murdered prior to the Bolshevik arrival in Lviv, Sr him along with Fr Nicholas Conrad, in the Tarsykia made a private oath to her forest near their village as they were spiritual director, Fr Volodymyr Kovalyk returning from the home of a sick woman, O.S.B.M., that she would sacrifice her life who had requested the sacrament of for the conversion of Russia and for the reconciliation. good of the Catholic Church. The The Servant of God Bishop Nicetas Bolsheviks were determined to destroy Budka was born on 7 June 1877 in the the monastery. On the morning of 17 July village of Dobromirka, Zbarazh District. In 1944 at 8 a.m., a Russian soldier rang 1905, after graduating from theology in the convent door. When Sr Taryskia Vienna and Innsbruck, he was ordained answered the door she was shot without to the priesthood by Metropolitan Andriy warning and died. Sheptytsky. He was consecrated Bishop The Servant of God Sr Olympia Bida in Lviv on 14 October 1912. That same was born in 1903 in the village of Tsebliv, year he was appointed by the Holy See Lviv District. She entered the Sisters of St as the Apostolic Exarch in Canada. In Joseph and served In various towns and 1928, he became Vicar General of the villages as a teacher of catechism, Metropolitan Chapter of Lviv. director of novices, attendant to the aged On 11 April 1945 the Soviet government and infirm. She had a special charism for imprisoned him with a sentence of eight youth and personally attended to the years. He died a martyr on 1 October education of a number of young women. 1949 in a concentration camp in She was appointed superior of the Karaganda, Kazakhstan. convent in the town of Kheriv, and did her The Servant of God Bishop Hryhory best to see to the spiritual and social Lakota was born on 31 January 1883 in needs of the people in spite of the the village of Holodivka, in Lemko Communist pressure surrounding their Region.