Check out the youth & young adult web page: http://ucymb.wordpress.com Ukrainian Catholic Youth and Young Adult News Volume 10, Issue 7 UCY/UCYA Winnipeg October 2012 From The Director’s Chair to my amazing team who made Slava Isusu Khrystu! members of the Selo Ukrain- EVENTS AT A sure the weekend ran smoothly ian Dancers who performed. Welcome Back! GLANCE and to Wilderness Edge Retreat Finally, a huge thank you to Centre for their wonderful food Wed, Sept 26 Wow! What a summer it has been! all the youth who attended and hospitality. A fabulous and the first meeting of the youth Fr Semzcuk memorial I hope everyone had an enjoyable summer as we are now well into prayer-filled weekend was had volunteer program at Holy service at St Andrews fall. We pray that by all. Family Nursing Home. Many Mon, Oct 8 everyone has a In addition to individuals have already been Unity, a small Happy Thanksgiving blessed Thanksgiving helping in a number of ways and a good start to group of young at the home and your pres- October 19-20 their school year. adults attended ence has made the group that Unity 2012 Windup the theology of much more special. First of all, I would like weekend the body semi- Moving on to the end of this to thank all of those nar by Christo- month and into November, Sat, Oct 20 who attended Unity pher West in the Unity 2012 team wraps up 2012 this past sum- UCY exec mtg at mid-August. its official duties on the week- mer. We ended up 10:30am at chancery Thanks to end of October 19-20 with a with approximately those dedicated retreat at 233 Scotia begin- Sat, Oct 20 130 individuals from all eparchies, people who came. Also, we ning at 6:00 pm. We will stay including four from the United Spaghetti Dinner at were blessed at the beginning of over at the chancery and con- States. Many thanks go out to all Sts Peter & Paul September to have the very first clude on the Saturday with a of our wonderful speakers: our Synod of the Ukrainian Catholic spaghetti dinner and Liturgy Sat, Oct 27 keynote Fr. Athanasius, our Facili- Church to be held in Canada. at Sts. Peter and Paul begin- tators Fr. Ivan Nahachewsky and Ukrainian Park Camp The youth and young adults ning at 4:00 pm. Hope to see Lesia Sianchuk, Fr. Stephen Fundraising Dinner played an important role in the you there. The following Sat- Wojichowsky for our reconciliation event. Thanks to Alexandria urday, members of our ex- Sat, Nov 10 service and all of our wonderful Kazmerik, Jay Korban and Alex- ecutive will be attending the workshop presenters. Thanks also UCY meeting at 1pm ander Pankiw for greeting His Ukrainian Park Fundraising go to our bishops who took the Beatitude Sviatoslav with bread Dinner at Sts. Peter and Paul. Sun, Nov 11 time to chat with us during Bishop and salt and to all those who Finally, the young adults from Tweets, our clergy who barbecued Remembrance Day came to welcome him at the our Archeparchy have been on the first night, and Holy Eucha- airport. Also, special thanks to invited to attend a visioning November 23-25 rist Parish for their bookstore and Andrew Konopelny for mediat- retreat for the next Unity shuttle van, and to all those who Unity 2014 Visioning ing the evening with the Patri- which will take place in 2014. made donations of money and Retreat in Edmonton arch for youth and to Patricia This will be the final weekend materials in order to make the Tyrchniewicz and her choir and of November and I will need weekend a success. A special all those who attended and to know numbers soon in or- Inside this issue: thank you goes to the Konopelny helped at the event. It was a der to book transportation. family for the building of the Unity pleasure to see St. Nicholas so That's all for now, see you in Youth Article 2 Cross and to Kevin Gerbrandt for full. Thanks also to all those November. God Bless! the donation of the outdoor cross who attended the Hierarchical Puzzles & Comics 3 Tamara Lisowski and centrepieces. Finally, thanks Divine Liturgy and Banquet and Light Reading 7 Upcoming Events 10 "The start is what A Recently Spotted "The difference be- Bumper Sticker: tween listening and Saint’s Corner 10 stops most people." hearing is that listen- Coach Don Shula Do you follow Jesus ing is wanting to hear Contact Us! 10 this close?? Anonymous Check out the youth & young adult web page: http://ucymb.wordpress.com Page 2 Found at: www.Proverbs31.org What’s Up with Being Rich? things may keep me from being available to Richly Blessed, Jesus poignantly remarks to his Him in ways I may have no idea He has disciples that “it is hard for a rich planned. Maybe God wants me to spend that Richly Purposed man to enter the kingdom of time helping a neighbor to clean up her yard. by Jennifer Aulthouse heaven”. My things can occupy my mind as I focus on I’ve realized a horrifying truth: For the first time in my walk, I re- what I’m going to do with my things and then I’m rich. alized these words were for me ponder over the other things that I need to have I suppose most people would and others like me: people of rela- to go with the things I have now. Maybe God question me here. Am I actually tive financial privilege, able to wants me to use that mental space instead to rich? If so, why am I horrified? pursue at least most of the oppor- pray over how I can bless a struggling friend. Well, this is a game tunities put in front My things can also occupy my wallet. I spend of comparison. I’m of us, but who money on things, and then I need to spend middle-class, living largely focus on money to maintain the things, and then more in a middle-class what we don’t have money on the things I pondered over that I need town, with a family while drowning in to go with the things I already have. Maybe God income pretty much material wealth wants me to invest that money in a family who in line with my when compared to has lost their income. peers’. But my eyes the rest of the Convicted, I asked God to change me and to have been opened to planet. Further, His help me see opportunities to assist in this a far deeper truth. words apply to fi- change. The insight I received was that my pos- Three years ago we nancially- sessions must have a purpose to them: a purpose moved into our current home, a privileged Christians, who really rooted in Him and offered to Him to use how- three-bedroom split-level in a do love the Lord, yet if faced with ever He wishes. For me, this means I carefully nice neighborhood, giving us the challenge of giving up every- pray and consider how having this item might much more space than the thing to follow Him, would we? bring pleasing fruit to Him. It isn’t about being cramped semi-detached home In very subtle ways, my things and miserly; it’s an attitude of devotion and daily we had lived in since before the my attitude towards them owned thanksgiving for His abundant provision. children came along. Our new me. My desire for a comfortable So I started intentionally analyzing my posses- home is all we need and more, lifestyle in which I can express sions, pulling out not simply the items that I but it wasn’t long after we myself through my home, feel af- didn’t like or use anymore, but also items I did moved in before I found myself firmed in my value as a person by but felt called to give anyway. Most represented still desiring more space and measuring up to my peers, and ex- purposeless accumulation, and I donated many wishing we could afford higher- perience enjoyment in what my of these things—such as clothing, shoes, cd’s, quality upgrades and fancier possessions can offer me certainly movies, home décor, toys, jewelry, cookware— home decor. But reading a fa- affects my discipleship, as it did either to other families or to charities. I have miliar Bible passage one day the rich man in Matthew 19. In barely even made a dent. I’ve committed to pierced my thinking. fact, anything that makes me think continually consider each item, offer it to the Matthew 19:16-26 (NIV) tells twice before obeying the Lord Lord, and reduce as I feel called. I must con- the story of a rich man who asks holds too high of a place: there- stantly remind myself that as I am His to do Jesus what good thing he must fore, it is an idol. with as He wishes, my things are also His to do do to inherit eternal life. Jesus My possessions can hinder my with as He wishes. replies with the command to be obedience in other unintended Jennifer Aulthouse is a Christian writer, obedient. The man claims he ways, as well. They have a way of speaker, and teacher. She has a Bachelor of has done what Jesus says. Jesus occupying much more than just Arts degree in English from Penn State Univer- then tells him he must sell his shelf or floor space.