Official Publication of the Ukrainian Catholic Archeparchy of Philadelphia VOL. LXX - No. 4 MARCH 15, 2009 ENGLISH VERSION Bishop Ken Nowakowski, Head of Patriarchal Commission, chairs meeting of formators of North & South America in Brazil, February 4-6, 2009 Curitiba, BRAZIL— Green is the color of new life, and our Ukrainian Catholic Church rightfully uses this color on the great feast of Pentecost to celebrate the life that the Holy Spirit brings to the Church and its faithful. One of the first things that is very noticeable, when arriving in this beautiful, vibrant, and hospitable place is, that no matter where one looks, one can not help but take notice that this place is lush, full of life, and greener than the Emerald Isles. Fathers Wasyl Kharuk and Robert Hitchens, spiritual director and rector of St. Josaphat Pictured at the opening Divine Liturgy celebrated in the Cathedral of St. John the Seminary, Washington, Baptist in Curitiba, Brazil, are (l-r front row) Bishop Meron Mazur OSBM, Bishop DC, made a pilgrimage Ken Nowakowski, Bishop Volodemer Koubetch OSBM, and Bishop Daniel to this beautiful country to Kozlinski. (l-r back row) Very Rev. Archpriest Bohdan Danylo, rector, St. participate in a historical Basil Minor Seminay, Stamford, Conn.; Rev. Dr. Michael Kwiatkowski, spiritual gathering of seminary director, Holy Spirit Major Seminary, Ottawa, Canada; Rev. Andriy Kachur, formators of the Ukrainian rector, Holy Spirit Major Seminary, Ottawa, Canada; Rev. Sandro Dobkowski, Catholic Church from the rector, St. Josaphat Little Seminary, Mallet, Brazil; Rev. Wasyl Kharuk, spiritual Western Hemisphere, as director, St. Josaphat Major Seminary, Washington, DC; and Rev. Robert Hitchens, part of the newly rector, St. Josaphat Major Seminary, Washington, DC. Not pictured are: Rev. established Patriarchal Gabriel Haber OSBM, director Basilian House of Studies, Edmonton, Canada; Rev. Teodor Halitski, OSBM, protohegumen, Basilian Fathers, Brazil; Rev. Joachim Commission for Priestly Sidorovich, rector, St. Josaphat Major Seminary, Curitiba, Brazil; and Rev. Antonio (continued on next page) Sobrino, OSBM, hegumen, St. Basil the Great Major Seminary, Curitiba, Brazil. Bishop Ken Nowakowski, Head of Patriarchal Commission, chairs meeting of formators of North & South America in Brazil (continued from previous page) Formation in Seminaries of Americas had ever met one inter-eparchial The three-day the Ukrainian Catholic together as one body. The seminary, located in meeting provided the Church, to discuss the meeting took place in the Ottawa, Ontario, and one participants opportunities education and formation context of the Patriarchal monastic house of studies, to exchange information of seminarians preparing Commission’s mandate: to conducted by the Ukrainian about their individual for priesthood in the develop norms and Catholic Basilians of Saint programs of priestly Ukrainian Catholic Church. minimum standards for Josaphat in Edmonton, formation, the challenges On Wednesday, 4 formation programs for Alberta. In the United that they face in their February 2009 the first priestly ministry. The States of America, there respective countries, as meeting of the newly Commission will hold a are two eparchial well as discovering the established Patriarchal similar meeting for the seminaries, one located in many areas that they share Commission for Priestly formators of seminaries Stamford, CT, and St. in common. Upon Formation in Seminaries of and houses of studies in Josaphat Seminary, completion of the the Ukrainian Catholic the European Region later Washington, DC. Brazil meetings, the participants Church began with a this year. has one eparchial major were all assigned tasks to celebration of the Divine The participants at seminary, an eparchial concretize that which was Liturgy in St. John the the Brazilian meeting minor seminary and also discussed, in order, to Baptist Ukrainian Catholic represented both monastic seminaries of the begin formulating a Cathedral in Curitiba. The eparchial and monastic Ukrainian Catholic Basilian common program of Divine Liturgy was seminaries. Canada has Fathers. (continued on next page) celebrated by the Most Rev. Ken Nowakowski, the head of the Patriarchal Commission and Eparch of New Westminster for Ukrainian Catholics in British Columbia and the Yukon, Canada, Most Rev. Volodemer Koubetch OSBM, Eparch of St. John the Baptist Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of Brazil along with Auxiliary Bishops Meron Mazur OSBM, and Daniel Kozlinski, and the rectors and spiritual directors of The Ukrainian Catholic seminaries of North and South America also celebrated the opening liturgy. This was the first Bishops and Formators of Seminaries and Houses of Study from North & South time that the formators of America participants of the Patriarchal Commission for Priestly Formation in the seminaries in the Seminaries of the Ukrainian Catholic Church held in Curitiba, Brazil. March 15, 2009 2 Bishop Ken Nowakowski, Head of Patriarchal Commission, chairs meeting of formators of North & South America in Brazil (continued from previous page) priestly formation that will be used through out the Ukrainian Catholic Church. After the meetings in Curitiba, Frs. Hitchens and Kharuk joined Bishops The "lush tropical Nowakowski, Koubetch, green" countryside. Mazur, and Kozlinski for an informative excursion to other cities and parishes in the Eparchy. Brazil is a very large country and the fifth largest in the world, ranking right after the United States. Most of the Ukrainians who came to Fr. Robert trying out the Brazil in the late 1890’s pulpit of St. Michael the settled in the state of Archangel Church at Parana, and this is where Serra de Tigre village, the the majority of parishes are first Ukrainian Catholic located. One interesting Church in Brazil fact is that if you were to constructed in 1897 and ask one of the bishops currently being restored. how many parishes there (The first Church in the were in a given city or United States is also town, such as under the patronage of Prundentopolis or Unia St. Michael in Vitoria, the answer would Shenandoah, PA, be one or two, and that founded in 1884, and would probably be not celebrating 125 years this important to most people. year.) But, the right question to ask would be how many chapels are served by the parish or parishes to which the answer would be 30 or 40 chapels. To the mind of someone from the US, the image created in the The iconostas from mind is something that is St. Michael’s Church. small and probably where 15 or 20 people gather for a Sunday liturgy. In Brazil, a chapel is the size (continued on next page) March 15, 2009 3 Bishop Ken Nowakowski, Head of Patriarchal Commission, chairs meeting of formators of North & South America in Brazil (continued from previous page) of some of our largest parishes where 300 people gather for a Divine Liturgy on a Sunday a few Fr. Wasyl in the garden times a month, but gather of the Sisters Servants during the week for of Mary Immaculate at molebens and other Sacred Heart Ukrainian services led by Sisters Catholic Church, Servants of Mary Mallet, Brazil. Immaculate or the Catechetical Sisters of St. Anne, who staff the parishes during the week and assist the visiting pastors with the daily ministry and administration of chapel (parish) life. Sacred Heart Ukrainian Visiting the country, Catholic Church in Ivai one also notices that there staffed by the Basilian is a good blend of Fathers where their children, young College Seminary of the parishioners and old Assumption is located as parishioners who come to well as the Novitiate of church regularly, and even the Sisters Servants of though Ukrainian is still Mary Immaculate is used for liturgical services, located. there are also services that are bi-lingually celebrated or completely celebrated in Portuguese. One also notices that women religious and the male and female laity take active roles in assisting the priest at the Divine Liturgy A view from the including girls acting as Corcovado Mountain altar servers. The Divine overlooking Rio de Liturgies are lively and Janeiro, Brazil spiritually uplifting. Our Ukrainian Catholic Church in Brazil is one that is alive and active and living as the followers of the Lord in that (continued on next page) March 15, 2009 4 Bishop Ken Nowakowski, Head of Patriarchal EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY Commission, chairs meeting of formators of North & South America in Brazil Maintenance Technician (continued from previous page) Philadelphia, PA upper room energized by Ascension Manor the Holy Spirit on that first Apartments is seeking Pentecost. 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Lenten Mission in the Cathedral of Immaculate Conception and St. Nicholas Parish will be given by Redemptorist Father from Ukraine Ïîñòí³ Ðåêîëåêö³¿ ó íàø³é Êàòåäð³ òà â Ïàðàô³¿ Ñâ. Ìèêîëàÿ ïðîâåäå îòåöü-ðåäåìïòîðèñò ç Óêðà¿íè The Schedule for Lenten Mission: at St. Nicholas / â Ïàðàô³¿ Ñâ. Ìèêîëàÿ: (24th & Poplar St., Philadelphia, PA) 1. ×åòâåð 19-ãî Áåðåçíÿ î 6:30 ãîäèí³ âå÷åðîì Õðåñíà Äîðîãà (1-øà ̳ñ³éíà Ïðîïîâ³äü) 2.