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Eparchial Family Day Retreat Was Held at St Україномовна частина знаходится на ст . 5 offiCiaL PUBLiCaTioN of THe UKraiNiaN CaTHoLiC dioCeSe of STaMford Vol. XXXVii; No. 12 ThStamfoerd, Conne cticutS 06902 ower december 22 , 2019 THe ediTor & S Taff of Merry Christmas & Happy New Year! THe Sower send warmest Christmas greetings and best wishes for God’s blessings to His Holiness Pope francis, His Beatitude Patriarch Sviatoslav, archbishop Borys, Bishop Paul, Bishops Benedict, Bohdan, andriy, the cler - gy & religious, seminari - ans & novices, our sub - scribers, and all the peo - ple of God of the eparchy of Stamford of the Ukrainian Catholic Church. eparchial fFaammily Liilfey Of fidce ay retreat on Sunday, November 17th, an eparchial family day retreat was held at St. Basil Seminary in Stamford. it was entitled Parents as the first Teachers of faith for Their Children, who Proclaim the Gospel to Them. The Program began at 9:00 aM with the registration. over seventy attendees were regis - tered. at 10:00 the Pontifical divine Liturgy was offered by Most rev. Paul Chomnycky, oSBM. Concelebrants were Very rev. Bohdan Tymchyshyn, rector of St. Basil Seminary, and rev. Vasile Colopelnic, director of the eparchy department of religious education and Catechesis. Bishop Basil H. Losten – Bishop emeritus ren - dered spiritual assistance. rev. ilie Babota was designated for the confessional ministry. at 11:30 a delicious luncheon was served to all in the Seminary dining area. following the luncheon, fr. A group photo following the Divine Liturgy CoNTiNUed oN PaGe 3 page 2, december 22 , 2019 The Sower The Holy Father has written an Apostolic Letter on the meaning and importance of the Nativity Scene. With this Letter he wishes to encourage this beautiful family tradition of preparing the Nativity Scene in the days Bring Christ into Your family before Christmas. He signed the Letter during his visit on Sunday, 1 LiGHT oNe CaNdLe December, to the Italian town of Greccio. The following is the English text of the Letter. Fr. Ed Dougherty, M.M., The Christophers’ Board of Directors aPoSToLiC LeTTer The birth of Christ happened during a hectic and dangerous time for the Holy family. They were on the run from Herod’s executioners, huddled in a stable of THea HodLYm faiTrHaerb firlaeNC SiS iogN nTHue mMeaNiNG because it was the only shelter they could find, and fear - aNd iMPorTaNCe of THe NaTiViTY SCeNe ful for their future and their place in the world. Many would look at their situation and see only destitute peo - 1. The enchanting image of brings them close to our own ing scene was accompanied by ple, but we are called to see in the Holy family the very the Christmas crèche, so dear to daily lives. the gift of a marvellous vision: model for our lives. the Christian people, never But let us go back to the ori - one of those present saw the To understand the Holy family more fully, we ceases to arouse amazement and gins of the Christmas crèche so Baby Jesus himself lying in the should begin with Saint Joseph, because his role is the wonder. The depiction of Jesus’ familiar to us. we need to imag - manger. from the nativity scene easiest to imagine. He was the protector and provider for birth is itself a simple and joyful ine ourselves in the little italian of that Christmas in 1223, “every J his family, which is the role every husband and father is proclamation of the mystery of town of Greccio, near rieti. one went home with joy”.3 called to fulfill. The Bible doesn’t tell us all that much the incarnation of the Son of Saint francis stopped there, 3. with the simplicity of that about Joseph, but that may just mean that he performed God. The nativity scene is like a most likely on his way back from sign, Saint francis carried out a his duties quietly. living Gospel rising up from the rome where on 29 November great work of evangelization. Pope Benedict XVi said of Saint Joseph, “Let us allow pages of Sacred Scripture. as we 1223 he had received the confir - His teaching touched the hearts ourselves to be ‘infected’ by the silence of Saint Joseph! We have contemplate the Christmas mation of his rule from Pope of Christians and continues much need of it in a world which is often too noisy, which does story, we are invited to set out Honorius iii. francis had earlier today to offer a simple yet not encourage reflection and listening to the voice of God.” on a spiritual journey, drawn by visited the Holy Land, and the authentic means of portraying we can imagine that the humility of the God who caves in Greccio reminded him the beauty of our faith. indeed, Saint Joseph must have became man in order to of the countryside of the place where this first nativi - been a man of prayer in encounter every man and Bethlehem. it may also be that ty scene was enacted expresses order to guide his family “With the woman. we come to realize that the “ Poor Man of Assisi” had been and evokes these sentiments. safely through the dangers so great is his love for us that he struck by the mosaics in the Greccio has become a refuge for they faced around the time birth of Christ, became one of us, so that we in roman Basilica of Saint Mary the soul, a mountain fastness of Christ’s birth. when we we see the turn might become one with Major depicting the birth of wrapped in silence. use our logic to fill in the blessings and him. Jesus, close to the place where, why does the Christmas gaps of the silent witness with this Letter, i wish to according to an ancient tradi - crèche arouse such wonder and of Saint Joseph, we find a trials of the encourage the beautiful family tion, the wooden panels of the move us so deeply? first, man of wisdom who used Holy Family tradition of preparing the nativ - manger are preserved. because it shows God’s tender his talents to provide for ity scene in the days before The franciscan Sources love: the Creator of the universe his family, to keep them beginning to Christmas, but also the custom describe in detail what then lowered himself to take up our safe, and to seek out and reflect the of setting it up in the workplace, took place in Greccio. fifteen littleness. The gift of life, in all create a peaceful environ - blessings and in schools, hospitals, prisons and days before Christmas, francis its mystery, becomes all the ment in which Christ could town squares. Great imagination asked a local man named John to more wondrous as we realize grow into the man He trials of our and creativity is always shown in help him realize his desire “to that the Son of Mary is the needed to be. own families.” employing the most diverse bring to life the memory of that babe source and sustenance of all life. Understanding Mary in materials to create small master - born in Bethlehem, to see as much as in Jesus, the father has given us relation to Saint Joseph pieces of beauty. as children, we possible with my own bodily eyes the a brother who comes to seek us brings the Holy family fur - learn from our parents and discomfort of his infant needs, how out whenever we are confused or ther into focus. Let’s face it, Mary asked a lot of Joseph grandparents to carry on this he lay in a manger, and how, with an lost, a loyal friend ever at our – to be father to a son they did not conceive together, to joyful tradition, which encapsu - ox and an ass standing by, he was side. He gave us his Son who for - live with her in a state of perpetual virginity, and what lates a wealth of popular piety. it laid upon a bed of hay”.1 at this, gives us and frees us from our they had to endure at the very outset of their marriage, is my hope that this custom will his faithful friend went immedi - sins. being hunted and living in fear for their lives. Yet, every - never be lost and that, wherever ately to prepare all that the Saint Setting up the Christmas thing Mary asked of Joseph came from God, and he it has fallen into disuse, it can be had asked. on 25 december, fri - crèche in our homes helps us to knew that, so we see a relationship between the two of rediscovered and revived. ars came to Greccio from vari - relive the history of what took them as one based on trust and sacrifice for the greater 2. The origin of the ous parts, together with people place in Bethlehem. Naturally, good. Christmas crèche is found above from the farmsteads in the area, the Gospels remain our source That greater good came in the form of the person of all in certain details of Jesus’ who brought flowers and torch - for understanding and reflecting Christ. with the birth of Christ, we see the blessings and birth in Bethlehem, as related in es to light up that holy night. on that event. at the same time, trials of the Holy family beginning to reflect the bless - the Gospels. The evangelist when francis arrived, he found its portrayal in the crèche helps ings and trials of our own families. To be a family is to Luke says simply that Mary “gave a manger full of hay, an ox and a us to imagine the scene.
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