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SUNDAY MARCH 10ер, 2019
SUNDAY LITURGY
10:00 a.m. English
(Rosary at 9:30 am)
12:00 p.m. Ukrainian
Office Hours (Tues. & Thurs.)
11:00 am – 2:00 pm
CONFESSIONS Before Divine Liturgies
BAPTISIMS By appointment
FUNERALS By arrangement
MARRIAGES: By appointment at least six months in advance
WEBSITE: www.saintbasilwpg.ca
PARISH OFFICE EMAIL ADDRESS: [email protected]
BULLETIN SUBMISSIONS: [email protected]
SAINT BASIL the GREAT
СВ. ВАСИЛІЯ ВЕЛИКОГО
Ukrainian Catholic Parish Парафія УГКЦ
202 HARCOURT STREET, WINNIPEG, MB R3J 3H3
Parish Office: 204-837-4180 Parish Hall: 204-889-9057
Rev. Fr. Ihor Shved о. Ігор Швед Cell: 431-996-2343
Email Address [email protected]
HISTORY OF THE SUNDAY OF ORTHODOXY
Icons were venerated in the Eastern Church until the reign
of Leo III (717-741 A.D.). Under the influence of two bishops
from Asia Minor (Turkey), he decreed that since the venera-
tion of icons was idol worship all veneration of them should
cease and all icons should be destroyed. This decree
marked the beginning of a long bloody battle against sacred
images in the Eastern Church. Icons were destroyed or
burned and their defenders cast into prison, exiled and even
tortured. It lasted, with short intervals of peace, for about
100 years. In 842 A.D. Empress Theodora restored the use
and veneration of icons. A synod at Constantinople was con-
voked which restored the veneration of holy images. On the
first Sunday of the Great Lent the icons were brought back
to the churches in solemn procession. That day was made
into a perpetual memory of the triumph of Orthodoxy at the
end of the Iconoclast persecution. © https://www.skeparchy.org/
wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/first-sunday-of-great-fast.pdf
We warmly
welcome all of
our visitors! It’s
good to have
you with us!
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Schedule
NOTE: All the Liturgies scheduled on the calendar are all open for your intention requests.
If you would like to request please contact the office and book your preferred date.
These names will be published in the bulletin the following week.
PLEASE REMEMBER IN YOUR PRAYERS
Call and visit our many parishioners that are ill or experiencing various challenges in life.
Remember: If anyone wishes to receive the Sacraments at home or in the hospital or nursing
home please contact the parish office or Fr. Ihor directly, at the numbers given above,
and we will be happy to visit.
SCHEDULE
Time Feast or Intention, requested by
10 Mar., Sunday 10:00 AM
12:00 PM
Divine Liturgy for all parishioners
Divine Liturgy (UKR)
11 Mar., Monday 10:00 AM Divine Liturgy open
12 Mar., Tuesday 10:00 AM
7:00 PM
Divine Liturgy open
Lecto Divina
13 Mar., Wednesday 11:00 AM
19.00 PM
Presanctified Liturgy followed by UCWLC meeting
Stations of the Cross
14 Mar., Thursday 10:00 AM Divine Liturgy open
15 Mar., Friday 10.00 AM Presanctified Liturgy and the Sorokousty Service
16 Mar., Saturday 10:00 AM Divine Liturgy for all deceased
17 Mar., Sunday 10:00 AM
12:00 PM
Divine Liturgy for all parishioners,
Divine Liturgy (UKR)
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God’s Blessings for your
Happiest Birthday
Katherine Dunsford
Tony Stastook
Allan Rebenchuk
МНОГАЯ ЛІТА!
EPISTLE READERS:
March 17—Martin Nechwediuk March 24—Alex Zimrose
March 31—Rob Hotel
SANCTUARY LIGHT
burns eternally to indicate the presence of
the Holy Eucharist in the tabernacle.
Sanctuary Light March 10th --March 17st.
For the soul of Walter Malchuk offered by
Gus & Pearl Groan and family.
Tatsa counters
for March are Linda & Andy Labay,
Phyllis Fedorchuk
DONATIONS – God bless you for supporting
your parish.
Sunday collection for March 3, 2019—was $
Church Custodians
March — David &Phyllis Shumski,
MaryAnne Siwicki
Dear Parishioners, Please contact me to help
clean the church for a month in 2019. Your early
attention would be greatly appreciated Diane
Pinuta - Church Cleaning Chair
204-774-1350
USHERS & GREETERS
March 10—Gus & Pearl Groen Mar. 17 & 24—Nick Labay &
Raymond Yakimik
To Rob Hotel for the very
informative presentation
on the timely topic of
Fraud on Feb. 21, 2019.
Our next Senior Game Day Meeting will be
held March 21, 2019 1:30-4:00 PM. Please
bring your favorite gameor activity. We will
also have a brief discussion on suggestions
for future events.
Everyone is welcome. Coffee and snack will
be served. Thank you!
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Catechetical Sermon on the Divine Liturgy #3 The Entrance Rite Because we come to church today and wait in our place for the service to begin, it may sound strange to separate the gathering from the entrance, but in the very early Church—on the banks of the Mediterranean Sea with its milder yearlong weather—the people gath-ered in the courtyard of the church and then entered the building with the ministers together, so the two events of gathering and entering really were separate events, where one flowed from the other. The earliest description of what we call today the “little entrance” goes back to the early part of the 6
thcentury. The bishop and believers entered the church to-
gether while singing the Trisagion (Holy God, Holy Mighty, Holy Immortal . . . ), a hymn first documented in 451 at the Council of Chalcedon. In due time, possibly to make use of the time it took for people to get from the courtyard into the church and settle down, psalms were sung with refrains (evolving into a little office of three psalms already in use in Constantinople for votive processions). The hymn O Only Begotten Son was then sung to conclude the entrance rite, but was moved later to its present position. While credited by some to Athanasius of Alex-andria, who may have written it sometime after the First Ecumenical Council of Ni-caea in the 4
thcentury, most credit it to the 6
th century Byzantine Emperor Justini-
an the Great, possibly because he ordered it sung in all the churches of the Em-pire as part of the entrance rite of the Liturgy. Arriving at a friend’s home, if we are invited for dinner, we may gather in a living room or family room to socialize, but at a certain point someone will indicate that “dinner is served.” In the same way, at the Divine Liturgy the priest usually prays (privately today), “Lord God our Master . . . grant that as we make our en-trance, the holy angels may enter too, serving with us and joining in the praise of your goodness.” Humanity and the angels, the living and the dead, are all called to the gathering. The priest says, “Blessed is the entrance of your holy ones!” And the people reply, “Come, let us worship and fall down before Christ!” We are arriving, not simply from one place to another, we are coming from one dimension and entering another: the invisible realm of the Kingdom of God about to become physical among us. © http://stjosaphateparchy.com/catechetical-sermon-on-the-divine-liturgy-2/
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569 Authentic fasting means “to put away all evil, to control the tongue, to resist anger, and to abstain from lust, slander, falsehood, and perjury.”392The mean-ing of fasting for the Christian is presented in a sticheron from the Vespers of Cheesefare Sun-day:Let us set out with joy upon the season of the Fast, and prepare ourselves for spiritual combat. Let us purify our soul and cleanse our flesh; and as we fast from food, let us abstain also from every passion. Rejoicing in the virtues of the Spirit, may we per-severe with love, and so be counted worthy to see the solemn Passion of Christ our God, and with great spiritual gladness behold his holy Passover.393The Lenten liturgical services progressively reveal the essence of true fasting: if we sow the “seeds of re-pentance” (First Sunday of Lent), our “shoots of vir-
tues” will grow to maturity (Second Sunday of Lent), to allow us to consume the fruit of the life-giving Tree “which leads us back to paradise” (Third Sunday of Lent, the Veneration of the Holy Cross), and by way of the “spiritual ladder” (Fourth Sunday of Lent, Commemoration of Saint John of the Lad-der) reach the summits of spiritual purification and repentance (Fifth Sunday of Lent, Commem-oration of Saint Mary of Egypt).
570 Saint John Chrysostom, in his teaching on fasting, emphasizes the fruits of fasting in the moral and spiritual life:What advantage is it, if we have gone through the Fast devoid of good works? If another says, “I have fasted the whole of Lent,” then you should say, “I had an enemy, but I was rec-onciled; I had a habit of speaking evil of others, but I put a stop to it; I had a habit of swearing, but I have broken through this evil practice.”394If we engage the Fast with zeal, we will experience what is described by Saint John Chrysostom in his teaching: Having in this week attained the practice of not swearing at all; and in the following having extinguished wrath; and in that which succeeds it, having pulled up evil-speaking by the roots; and after that, having amended what yet remains; thus go-ing for-ward in our course, we shall come by little and little to the very summit of virtue.
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Lord and Master of my life, keep me from being
lazy, apathetic, selfish, and boastful. (Prostration)
Instead, bestow on me, your servant, the spirit of
integrity, humility, patience, and love. (Prostration)
Yes, O Lord and King, let me see my own sins and not judge my brothers and sisters;
For you are blessed forever and ever. Amen (Prostration) During the period Great Lent, the prayer written by St. Ephrem the Syrian is said frequently. It is
a prayer on which everyone should carefully meditate. Allow the prayer into your heart and
mind, and it will inevitably speak to you. Each of us can relate to this prayer, allowing it to raise
many issues in our hearts. It reminds us that God is the Master of our lives, and asks God to free
us from the sins of everyday life, like pride and gossip and laziness and greed. In it we ask God to
give us humility and love of our neighbor, awareness of our own sins, and disinterest in the sins
of others. It asks for the gifts and graces we need to lead a holy life.
This prayer also acts as a warning to us. We need to spiritually be on our guard, avoiding the
temptations that each day brings, and making amends for our failings, first by recognizing them,
and then bringing them before our Lord God with humility and in repentance. To emphasize the
theme of this prayer– changing our lives –we accompany it with Great Prostration , kneeling and
touching the forehead to the floor.
Often we have become lazy, and even faint-hearted, in our prayers,
meditations and readings.This season of Great Lent reminds us to be
awake, alert, concentrating anew on the Glory that has been revealed
to us.
What we should really be doing, during this period of Lent, is seeking to overcome our faults,
and learning to be loving Christians! This is a time to look at our own errors, to honour our Lord
God in prayer, seeking out humbly our repentance. Let us take advantage of this rich period of
time given to us; let us, with great love in our hearts, go to Church more frequently -as the
Church offers us more services during this time of the 40 -day fasting period, and Holy Week,
eventually leading up to the joyful celebration of our Lord’s Holy Glorious Resurrection. What a
blessed time this is for us! Let us now begin humbly, and with love to pray as we continue our
journey to Holy Pascha. © http://sspp.ca/our-faith/liturgical-services-and-prayers/prayer-of-st-ephrem/
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UCWLC News:
Glory be to Jesus
Christ!
SAINT BASIL’S UCWLC PALM SUNDAY TEA WILL BE HELD ON
April 14, 2019
Can you help us make our Players Choice
Raffle (formerly known as Silent Auction)
a SUCCESS? Cash Donations will enable us
to purchase several larger items. You may
put your cash donation in a separate enve-
lope with your envelope number indicated
on it and put in in the collection basket.
For Further information, you may also con-
tact : Sylvia Martyniuk—204-831-1788
Gwen Dankewich—204-889-3104
Pearl Groan 204 888-3830
March 16th - LENTEN RETREAT Hosted St. Nicholas U.C.W.L.C. Saturday, March 16th at St. Nicholas Ukrainian Catholic Church 737 Bannerman (at Arlington) Presented By: Sister Theresa Matwe, SSMI Registration at 9:00 am, Confessions – 2:30 pm, Divine Liturgy – 3 pm All ladies are invited to attend – (you don’t need to be a UCWLC member)
On behalf of the parish council we thank all the parishioners that attended
the Annual General Meeting.
Your Feedback on reports and the questions asked, were an indication that you are interested in what is happening in our Church. We wel-come any ideas or suggestions that would make this parish more vibrant.
Below is the list of the Parish Council members for 2019:
President - Fr. Ihor Shved
Vice President -Rose Olynyk
First Vice President - Andy Labay
Financial Secretary - Gerry Skochyles
Treasurer- Harry Fediuk
Recording Secretary - Linda Gardiner
Committees Chairpersons :
Building and Maintenance - Orest Kulchyski
Social- Kyle Robins
Tatza - Linda Labay
Hall Rental- Leona Solomon
Carolling- Natalia Hotel
Thank you to all the members that accepted their positions.
Rose Olynyk Vice President
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2019 Youth Winter Games
Theme: Keep Christ In Your Life
Mini-Olympics: Saturday, March 16 *St.Basil's is co-hosting this event
Immaculate Heart of Mary School, 650 Flora Ave.
Registration 1:00pm
Games and snacks 2:00-5:00 pm.
Clean indoor shoes required
Basketball skills, floor hockey, relays and more!
for February 25 to March 22
have been changed to Monday
and Thursday from 11:00 am
to 2:00 pm due to Marusia be-
ing away in B.C. because of a
work contract with the Cana-
dian Food Inspection Agency.
Perogies for Sale
If anybody wants
perogies, we are selling them
for $6.00 a dozen. Please call:
Phyliss at 204-832-0175 or
Rose at 204-888-3884.
Home of Hope – Annual Fundraising Breakfast
Sponsored by the UCWLC Archeparchy of Winnipeg
Saturday, April 13th – 10 a.m.
Holy Eucharist Parish Hall - 460 Munroe Avenue, Winnipeg
Enjoy a breakfast and special presentation with the Sisters Servants of Mary Immaculate from Ukraine
Hear how you are helping keep young girls off the streets of Lviv.
Tickets are $30/person, all proceeds help to support the girls directly.
For tickets, please call the Lubov SSMI Foundation at 204-942-0443
OR contact a member of the (UCWLC) OR your parish office.
Also, available at the event will be the release of the new Easter CD “Христос Воскрес" recorded by the Chabluk family.
Net proceeds from CD sales go to support Home of Hope.