SAINT ANDREW THE FIRST CALLED APOSTLE UKRAINIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH OF BOSTON 24 ORCHARDHILL ROAD, JAMAICA PLAIN, MA 02130 Fr. Roman Tarnavsky, Pastor Parish House Phone 617-522-3323 Fr. Roman’s Cell Phone 617-780-4968 www.Ukrainianorthodox.org mailto:[email protected] February 28, 2021 – Tone 5 – 38th Sunday after Pentecost Sunday of the Prodigal Son ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Sunday, February 28, 2021 - 10:00 A.M. Divine Liturgy – Sunday of the Prodigal Son Sunday, March 7, 2021 - 10:00 A.M. Divine Liturgy followed by a Panahyda memorial service for George Musial on the 40th day of his falling asleep in the Lord. May his memory be eternal. Дорогі парафіяни свято- Андріївської Церкви в м. Бостон! Ми як парафія маємо можливість помістити 25 людей на час служби. Приходьте і спільними молитвами ми будемо просити нашого Господа про добробут і здоровя . Дотримуйтеся всіх написаних правил. Тому- що береженого Бог береже.( народна мудрість.) Dear Parishioners and Friends, We continue to safely hold Divine Liturgy through the deep commitment and kindness of our volunteers who enforce our Covid-19 guidelines. Last week there were 21 people in attendance. Please contact me if you would like to make a reservation as only 25 people can attend on any given Sunday. We thank Mike Muzyka and Oksana & Igor Oliynyk who are our volunteers again this week. If you are willing to be a greeter and/or to sanitize the church and bathrooms before the Divine Liturgy, please contact me via email or contact Fr. Roman on his cell phone. Most sincerely, Jane Yavarow, Parish President mailto:[email protected] CELL 508-397-2779 UOL Virtual Retreat (using Zoom) Saturday February 27, 2021 9:30 - 12:30 Speaker Fr. Anthony Perkins Being Orthodox during COVID and Social Unrest ZOOM Registration materials available on the UOL website or using this link https://forms.gle/cN5Mtne35ddavqx99 You can also scan to register -> Or email [email protected] to get registration SCAN TO REGISTER materials Hope you'll be joining us this SATURDAY, February 27, for our Virtual Pre-Lenten Retreat (webinar) via ZOOM: "Being Orthodox during COVID and Social Unrest" from 9:30AM ET until approximately 12:30PM. It's not too late to register! Your can click here to register: UOL RETREAT | Ukrainian Orthodox League of the USA (orthodoxws.com) We are most grateful to Fr. Roman for serving the Divine Liturgy on Sundays. We thank Andy Lozynsky for being the altar server, Tanya Portyankina who is the lone cantor rendering the responses and Oleksiy Svitelskiy who is live streaming the service on his Face Book page. Tune in Sunday Morning at 10 A.M. Special thanks to Oksana Piddubna who tends to the candles on Sunday! Check us out on Facebook and/or visit our website – ukrainianorthodox.org Please remember to support your church financially. We have many expenses, and as you know, we have been unable to conduct any of our annual fundraising activities. Checks should be made out to St. Andrew Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Boston. We are most grateful for your kindness. Please send your dues and donations to: Mr. Leonid Kondratiuk / Treasurer 53 Vernon Rd. Belmont, MA 02478 Sadly, last Saturday night a thief broke into the hall and enter our church. A small amount of cash was taken from the candle table. Fortunately, no other damage was done. Last year we replaced some of the old doors in the church. It is important at this time that we replace the remaining doors, all over 60 years old. The first phase of this project will cost $3,000. We ask you to consider at this time making a donation to help defray these expenses. Please keep Anatoliy Berezyuk, Mr. Alan Stec, Mr. Vasyl Stan, Ms. Denyce Raniuk, Mr. Gene Moroz, Mrs. Tania Hrycenko, Mrs. Anna Turchan, Mrs. Cornelia Yavarow, Mr. Ralph Annese, and Ms. Sasha Kondratiuk in your prayers. Please pray for the recovery of Fr. Deacon Paul’s wife, Mary Ann, who underwent surgery this week for a brain tumor. We send our thoughts and prayers to Fr. Deacon Paul, their children and extended family, as well. Special February Happy Birthday greetings are extended to Ivan Lesyuk (Feb. 3), Pearl Smith (Feb. 4), Nicholas Geba (Feb. 14), Olesia Pacholok (Feb. 16), Igor Oliynyk (Feb. 19) and Jane Yavarow (Feb. 28). May God grant them many happy years! Special March Happy Birthday greetings are extended to Steven Prutzer (March 1), Michael Hotz (March 15), Roman Tarnavsky Jr. (March 18), and Stacia Hill (March 22). May God grant them many happy years! AXIOS! NEW DEACONS TO BE ORDAINED! ДОСТОЙНІ! ДВА НОВИХ ДИЯКОНИ ЦЕРКВИ! With the blessing of His Eminence Metropolitan Antony: on Saturday, 6 March 2021 - Subdeacon Mykola Zomchak and on Saturday, 13 March 2021 - Subdeacon Ihor Protsak , graduates of St. Sophia Ukrainian Orthodox Theological Seminary will be ordained to the Holy Deaconate by Archbishop Daniel at St. Andrew Ukrainian Orthodox Memorial Church in South Bound Brook, NJ AXIOS! WORTHY! ДОСТОЙНI! З благословення Високопреосвященного Митрополита Антонія в суботу - 6 березня 2021 року - іподиякон Микола Зомчак та в суботу - 13 березня 2021 - іподиякон Ігор Процак випускники Свято-Софіївської Української Православної Богословської Семінарії отримають дияконську хіротонію з рук Архієпископа Даниїла в Українській Православній Церкві- Пам’ятнику св. Андрія Первозванного в Савт Бавнд Бруці, Н. Дж. Consecration of Antimins in St. Sophia Seminary Chapel of the Three Holy Hierarchs – St. John Chrysostom, St. Gregory the Theologian and St. Basil the Great The consecration of the “Antimins” – meaning “In place of the Table” is an important responsibility for Orthodox Hierarchs in serving the needs of their parish communities and the faithful souls who worship in them. The Antimins is a silk or linen cloth depicting the removal of our Lord’s Body from the Holy Cross upon which He offered Himself for our salvation and preparation for His burial wrapping Him in the Holy Shroud. It is one the most important liturgical necessities without which the Divine Liturgy cannot be celebrated. Usually depicted on the Antimins are at least the Mother of God, Joseph of Arimethea (who was a member of the Jewish Ruling Council – the Sanhedrin and a follower of Christ who offered his own grave for the burial of our Lord’s Body) and the Four Evangelists, who in their Gospels relate the Life of Christ and the meaning of His Passion and Resurrection for all faithful souls. It also bears the inscription of the Tropar we sing during Holy Friday Vespers and Burial – “The noble Joseph, taking down Your most pure Body from the Tree, wrapped it in fine linen and spices, and laid it in a New Tomb.”Each Antimins has a relic of a Holy Martyr sewn into a small pocket on the back of the cloth, beneath where the Holy Chalice and Diskos will stand during the Eucharistic Canon of the Liturgy and the Communion of the clergy and faithful worshipping in the Liturgy. The Church is built upon the faith of the Holy Martyrs and the presence of their relics provides a firm foundation for the continued faith of all clergy and faithful who worship with them. The consecration of the Antimins is a ritual that is seldomly served in the lives of hierarchs themselves and the clergy and faithful under their jurisdiction because there are normally a significant number consecrated at once – each individually – which will serve the needs of our Church for at least a few decades. His Eminence Metropolitan Antony and Archbishop Daniel conducted this ritual on the Patronal Feast Day of the Three Holy Hierarchs Chapel in St. Sophia Ukrainian Orthodox Theological Seminary – 12 February. The Holy Martyrs placed in the 80 newly consecrated Antimins during this consecration were presented to our hierarchs by His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew: Five youths of Constantinople – Emmanuel, George, Michael, Theodore and George who were from Christian families in the early 19th century but forced to abandon their faith and families and convert to Islam by the Turks. They were sold into slavery but never forgot who they were and when they were able to escape, they returned to their homes and recommitted their lives to Christ. They were discovered and their return to Christ subjected them to horrific torture, but they remained firm in their faith. They were martyred in April of 1835 and they are commemorated each year on the first Sunday after Pascha – St. Thomas Sunday. May they fervently pray for the souls of all who worship in their presence in our parish churches where their Antimins are placed. The Antimins, along with Holy Chrism, wherever they may be placed belong to the hierarch who provides them and upon which his signature appears, along with that of the Prime Hierarch of our Church. They serve as the “Charter” authorizing the priests and faithful who comprise a given parish to conduct liturgical life as Ukrainian Orthodox parishes. If an Antimins or Holy Chrism is recalled, such authority is lost. Metropolitan Antony and Archbishop Daniel express their deep gratitude to the clergy and seminarians present and who assisted with the consecration of our Antimins – Rev. Frs. Yuriy Siwko, Stephen Hutnick, Stephen Motychak, Vitalij Pavlykivskyj, Vasyl Pasakas, Vasyl Dovhan, Vasyl Shak, Sviatoslav Hot and Deacon Myroslav Mykytyuk. In particular, they thank Fr. Dovhan, who brought his sewing machine all the way from his parish of St. Nicholas in Troy, NY to implant the relics in the Antimins. OUR GUIDELINES FOR RE-OPENING - We are pleased to announce the reopening of our Church, which has been closed since March due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Our first Divine Liturgy will take place on Sunday August 9, as part of a Phase 1 limited capacity re-opening plan approved by our Hierarchs.