Ukrainian Catholic National Shrine of the Holy Family
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UKRAINIAN CATHOLIC NATIONAL SHRINE OF THE HOLY FAMILY 4250 Harewood Road NE Washington, DC 20017 Phone: 202-526-3737 Fax: 202-526-1327 Webpage: ucns-holyfamily.org IN CASE OF AN EMERGENCY PLEASE CALL: 202-262-5040 Pastoral Care entrusted to: Fr. Robert Hitchens email: [email protected] Fr. Wasyl Kharuk email: [email protected] Deacon Theophil Staruch email: [email protected] Sunday – April 24, 2011 Христос Воскрес! – Воістину Воскрес! Christ is Risen! – Indeed He is Risen! SCHEDULE OF DIVINE SERVICES Saturday April 23 Vespers and Divine Liturgy (Easter Vigil) 1st Liturgy of Pascha 7:00 p.m. (Our Deceased Bishops and Priests) (Fulfills Easter Obligation) Blessing of Easter Food Baskets to follow Sunday April 24 Pascha – Easter 2011 8:00 a.m. Procession of Joy and Resurrection Matins 9:00 a.m. Divine Liturgy of Pascha (For the Parish) Blessing of Easter Food Baskets to follow Monday April 25 Bright Monday 7:00 p.m. (Health of Anna Drabyk from the Drabyk Family) Tuesday April 26 Bright Tuesday 7:00 p.m. (+Stephen Slota from Michalina Slota) Sunday May 1 Thomas Sunday - SVIACHENE-PARISH EASTER DINNER **10:30 a.m.** (For the Parish) Fr. R. (+Stephan Kurylas from the Olha Kurylas Family) Fr. W All the services of Bright Week are celebrated in Ukrainian and English EASTER BAZAAR 2011 – A FABULOUS SUCCESS! We inadvertently for got to thank the Mariyska Druzshyna for their help with the bazaar. Thank you to all who helped make this a wonderful day. So many of our parishioners (too many to name, even…) pulled together as One Holy Family to cook, serve, clean, and welcome guests and fellow parishioners, that many comments were made to Fr. Wasyl and Robert about how great our parish is how new families can join us. God bless you all! SVIACHENE-PARISH EASTER DINNER – SUNDAY, MAY 1 – ONE LITURGY AT 10:30 A.M. Join us for our annual Sviachene as we celebrate the Resurrection as ONE HOLY FAMILY and share our Easter Dinner and Agape Meal in celebration of our Lord’s Victory. There will be a special program and a surprise for our Parish Children as well as our Easter Egg Hunt. Tickets will be available at the door. Adults $13 and Parish Youth $1. WELCOME TO OUR NEWEST PARISHIONER, FRANCESCA LUCIA ADELE KEDA-ANDRIYENKO We welcome our newest parishioner, Francesca Lucia Adele Keda-Andriyenko, infant daughter of Dmytro Andriyenko and Julia Keda-Andriyenko and sister of Carolina. Francesca was baptized, chrismated, and received the Holy Eucharist on Sunday, April 10. May God grant Francesca and her family many happy years – Mnohaya Lita! SPECIAL THANKS Both Fr. Wasyl and Fr. Robert would like to thank first of all, our parishioners who donate monetarily, give of their time, and help to make our church the beautiful and spiritual parish that it is. We are very grateful to the many individual people (unsung heroes) like Deacon Theophil and his wife, Arunya, and the Seminarians of St. Josaphat, who help the priests; and many others who work with our collections and bookkeeping; work on our web-page; stuff envelopes; cook our special parish meals; clean our church and manage our grounds; paint and touch-up; manage our hall rentals, record our envelopes, organize our bazaars; and other very important behind the scenes projects that keep our parish going. We also are very thankful for the devotion of our Mariyska Druzshyna. We thank our Knights of Columbus for their efforts to assist with projects. We thank the folks that help support and keep our Library that does more than just offer books, but help to organize special events and special displays for our parish. We also note of gratitude for our ladies who run the Sunday Coffee Hospitality Ministry for our parish, so that we might enjoy Christian fellowship. We thank all of our devoted Pirohy Workers who turn potatoes into GOLD. We also greatly appreciate the efforts of our Rosary Altar Society who pray for us and help to keep our Sanctuary well appointed for its sacred use. We also thank our Altar Servers who assist at the liturgies, and those who help to Cantor and Sing at our liturgies. All in all, we are very blessed Community of Christians who are doing our best to not only see to it that the Gospel is preached, but that we manifest the Risen Christ in a World that needs to be enveloped by the Light of Christ. PRAYER LIST OF THE SICK OR AGED Our prayer list of the sick or elderly and friends of our parish: Ray Bluey, Bluey Family, Petro Daniluk, Orest Dackiw, Eustachiy Derzko, Theodore Fedak, Steve Henshaw, Catherine Hetmansky, Julia Hetmansky, Walter Hetmansky, Wasyl Hnatiw, Bohdan “Bodie” James(age 5), Stevanna Karlinchak, Bishop Robert Moskal, Alba Nagurney, Oleh Rogalsky, Anna Romaniuk, Margaret Mary Burger Rose, Helen Skoufis, Maria Szalaj, Mary Waris, and Bishop Michael Wiwchar. If you know of someone who should be on this list, please email or call with the name of the individual. Our intercessory prayer for the sick and the aged is truly helpful and comforting. In your Christian Charity, kindly remember our sick parishioners in your prayers and perhaps a card or note. EVENTS AT HOLY FAMILY SHRINE Sviachene-Parish Easter Dinner – Sunday – May 1 – One Divine Liturgy at 10:30 a.m. Ми, Ваші духовні отці, бажаємо Вам миру та We, your Spiritual Fathers, wish all of you Peace благословення під час цих святкових днів, коли and Blessings during these days when darkness темнота та смуток перетворюються у and sadness are transformed into glorious light переможне світло і тріумфальнy радість! and triumphant joy! Õðèñòîñ Âîñêðåñ - Christ is Risen See you at the Sviachene-Easter Dinner Next Sunday! Divine Liturgy at 10:30 a.m. Easter message of His Beatitude Sviatoslav To the Most Reverend Archbishops and Bishops, Reverend Priests and Hieromonks, Venerable Monks and Nuns, Beloved in Christ – Laity of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church Christ is risen! “This is the day of Resurrection. Be illumined, O people! Pascha, the Pascha of the Lord. From death unto life; and from earth unto heaven. O Christ, our God, has led us, as we sing a hymn of victory.” Resurrection Matins, Paschal Canon Today, on the bright Feast day of the Resurrection of Christ, the Church glorifies her Savior, Who rose from the dead, with these words from the Paschal Canon. Just as in the past, on the first day of the creation of the world, today out of the darkness of the tomb, which is certainly the darkness of nothingness, despair and hopelessness, the divine and unmade light of life has shined. “This is the day of Resurrection. Be illumined, O people!” This divine light, radiating from the torn and wounded yet resurrected body of Jesus, permeates all of us today, penetrates our personal darkness of sin, weakness, hopelessness and despondency and enlightens, enlivens and raises – it opens the door to a new life. The Pascha of the Lord, which we celebrate today, is an invitation of the risen Christ to follow Him from death into life. Today, He, like the new Moses, is calling us to leave behind the slavery of Egypt as well as the service of everything that takes away from us the dignity of being God’s children. The Servant of God, Pope John Paul II, whose solemn rite of the admittance to the ranks of the Blessed – Beatification – is to be held on the first of May of this year, has called this modern slavery a culture of death, that is, a set of rules of modern society that promotes violence against the unborn and the sick, that spreads contempt towards the Christian family and morals, that takes away our freedom as God’s children and forces us to grovel before a variety of earthly idols and contemporary celebrities. This year, celebrating the tenth anniversary of the pastoral visit of this holy man to Ukraine, let us recall his motto: “Christ – the way, the truth and the life!” as well as his paternal words, with which he instructed us on the path of life, recorded in God’s Ten Commandments. The Pascha of the Lord is a pilgrimage along this path; it is the beginning of a journey from earth to heaven. And this journey is fulfilled through the power of God, Who has conquered today that which is most powerful in this world - death itself. “From death unto life; and from earth unto heaven. O Christ, our God, has led us.” Let us not stand to the side of this divine path, let us not allow ourselves to be diverted to the sidelines of life by shallow allurements, because, only by walking in this Paschal procession, will we proceed, as a united People of God, with our Savior from earth to heaven. Beloved in Christ, sons and daughters of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church! On this radiant day, on the road to meet the risen Christ, we do not walk silently – “we sing a hymn of victory!” How important it is for our people that live on every continent and are at times confused, dejected and despondent regarding their inherent human dignity and strength, to sing today this solemn Paschal hymn of victory! May its splendid words echo from every Ukrainian heart, permeate every body and soul, and soar to heaven, for in the risen Savior is the power, endurance and victory of the Ukrainian spirit. “The Lord is my light and my salvation – whom shall I fear?” – sings Prophet David (Ps. 26:1). May this Paschal song of victory reverberate today in our every home and family! Along with an Easter egg and blessed bread let us carry it today to the poor and the suffering, to prisoners and those broken by hard labor, to the sick and those who mourn and weep under the burden of the crosses of daily life.