Ukrainian Catholic Parish of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary625 5th Avenue SW Moose Jaw SK S6H 5W2 (306) 692-9456

Fr. Yurij Lazurko, administrator(306) 693-6636 (home) (306) 690-9709 (cell)

CHRIST IS AMONG US!HE IS AND WILL BE!

Sunday September 22, 201318th Sunday after Pentecost tone 1

Epistle: 2Corinthians 9:6-11 Gospel: Luke 5:1-11

ХРИСТОС ПОСЕРЕД НАС!І Є І БУДЕ!

Sun Sept 22 9:00 a.m. Moose Jaw for parishioners Mon Sept 23 7:45 †Huska & †Bialkowski families Int Bronie Huska & Peter HuskaTues Sept 24 7:45 †Stebnicki & †Dombrowich families Int Bronie Huska & Peter Huska Wed Sept 25 NO LITURGYThurs Sept 26 7:45 †Janet Legault Int Bronie Huska & Peter HuskaFri Sept 27 NO LITURGYSat Sept 28 NO LITURGYSun Sept 29 9:00 a.m. Moose Jaw 1:00 p.m. Chaplin

Opening Hymn: O Virgin Mary pg 25 (2 verses)Closing Hymn: May you, Christ, be blessed pg 45 (2 verses)

PRAY THE ROSARY DAILYPlease notify Fr. Yurij when someone is sick or hospi-talized in order that these people be visited in a timely manner.

Thought du jour

“I was recently on a tour of Latin America, and the only regret I have was that I didn’t study Latin harder in school so I could converse with those people.” - Dan Quayle

EVENTS & THINGSPlease be mindful in your prayers of John Smuk, Jim Powaschuk, Anne Sahai-dak, Anne Romanuk, Steve Okraincee, Harry Mackow and Stella Bida and of all who are in the need of the gift of health.

UCWLC NotesLadies are asked to return the raffle tickets/money to Dorothy Lazurko as soon as possible..

Annual Meeting Monday No-vember 25; 7 p.m.

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Set out into the deepIn today’s Gospel scene, Jesus is teaching by the shore and the crowds press in on him. Jesus spots the boat of Simon and gets in it, and asks him to launch out a bit from the shore so that he can preach from there. When finished, he tells Simon to take the boat into the deep water and let down his nets. Simon is wary: “Master, we have toiled all night and caught nothing!”…the weary words of a veteran who knew how frustrating the sea could be. But there was something about this Galilean that made one want to comply, so Simon let down his nets.

Despite the frustration of the nightlong toil, Simon’s willingness to follow Jesus’ suggestion to put out the nets into deeper waters prepares for the miracle about to happen. Simon is brought person-ally into the sphere of Jesus’ mighty power, and that experience becomes the basis of a promise that is made to him. Though Si-mon, conscious of his utter sinfulness and unworthiness to associ-ate with such a person as Jesus drops to his knees in reaction, he is reassured by Jesus, who promises him that he will play a role of gathering human beings into the kingdom that Jesus has come to preach. This he will do much as a fisherman gathers in fish in his net.What follows is the “miraculous catch” – a whole school of fish, straining the nets and the boats to the breaking point. Peter sinks to his knees in awe before this mysterious figure: “Depart from me, Lord, for I am a sinful man.” But Jesus assures the awestruck disciple: “Do not be afraid, Si-mon, from now on you will be catching people.” It was as though Jesus said to this discouraged Galilean fisherman: “I shall not de-part from you. I know who you are. I know your past, but that is not what is important to me. I need your hands, your feet, your heart and your very life. There is hope for you! I have cast my nets wide, and you are my best catch. See how the net is breaking and the boat begins to sink. You have labored and toiled for many years without hope. Come now to labor and spend yourself with me. I will teach you to walk on water, to cast a net of light into the waters above the abyss. Do not be afraid, for I am with you.”A compelling call to a new lifeIn Luke, they leave everything, an indication of Luke’s theme of

111,111,111x111,111,111=12345678987654321If you eat polar bear liver, you will die. Human bodies cannot handle so much Vi-tamin A.Butterflies taste food by standing on top of it! Their taste receptors are in their feet unlike humans who have most on their tongue.

Old Testament books were scrolls, a strip of animal skin that was rolled up on two sticks. One ancient copy of the book of Isaiah is twenty-four feet long.

to be continued

Three Keys to Spiritual HealthHow to deepen your life with the Lord. (conclusion)

“Give Them Some Food.” During his time on earth, Jesus gave his followers a number of opportunities to learn how to share the gospel and serve the people of God. When faced with a hungry crowd, he told them, “Give them some food” (Matthew 14:16). He sent out the Twelve and told them to proclaim, “The kingdom of heaven is at hand” (10:7). He even sent out seventy-two disciples and told them to heal the sick and announce the kingdom (Luke 10:9). Clearly, the disciples had a number of trial runs to help them grow in confidence!But then Jesus ascended into heaven, and the trial runs came to an end. He sent the Spirit to fill all of his followers—and that includes each of us! Now it’s up to us, just as it was up to Peter and the rest.So let’s pay attention to the heavenly aspect of our lives by prais-

complete detachment from material possessions. Discipleship is a powerful, compelling call to a new life: a call away from routine, away from frustration, to new purpose. Jesus, himself, was now calling them to be fishers of people, to be engaged in the struggle with the raging waters of the sea, the sea that was both the source of their livelihood, their food, but also the sea that was a mystery, a threat and chaos, the sea that could take their lives as well as feed them.We are in this boat togetherJesus gets into Peter’s boat in order to teach the crowds; and from the Bark of Peter, the Church, He continues to teach the whole world. At certain times, during Church history, and perhaps in our own history, it might seem as if the light of the Spirit had been all but extinguished and that Jesus is no longer with us in the boat. But let us be honest and realize that the flame never went out and the presence of the Lord has never disappeared. The Church goes on, saving souls and journeying to its final harbor. In that blessed realm, beyond the seas of this life, all the things which threaten God’s Church in this world will be gone for ever.We all are in this boat together with the Lord himself. We must trust the Lord to show us the way, to bring us to our goals safely, and to feed our souls on the journey. We will no doubt encounter problems – there will be days when we cast out our nets all day long, and at the end of the day, there might be nothing to show for it.At those times, we must listen to the Lord, as Peter did, and cast the nets again into the deep – for it is our faith that is being tested – not as to whether we profess it or not – but as to whether we are ready to do something about it or not.We are not sailing on Noah’s Ark or on the Titanic. We are on the waters with Jesus. The Lord does not abandon those who come seeking His mercy and His forgiveness. He walks upon the wa-ters. He calms the storm. He guides the boat into safe harbor, and brings with Him the great catch, the great feast, to which we are all summoned – the daily feast of His Body and Blood, our food for eternal life.

I pray that I may live to fish until my dying day.And when it comes to my last cast,

then I most humbly pray,when in the Lord’s great landing net

and peacefully asleepthat in his mercy I be judged big enough to keep. Amen.

ing and thanking Jesus and by asking him to fill us with his lov-ing presence at Mass, in prayer, or in his word. Let’s care for the interior aspect so that we may have good and healthy and holy relationships with others—not hampered by our wounds or by our sinful tendencies. And let’s strengthen the outward aspect by try-ing our best to love the people God has given us. If we work with Jesus in these three ways, we’ll find ourselves doing things we would have never imagined possible!

Edging the Christian Garden

The Lord God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to till it and keep it. (Gen 2:15)

Quality edging is one of the tell-tale signs between a well tend-ed garden and one that has been neglected. A well edged garden not only looks neater in that it has defined borders, but also has fewer weeds and grass that can creep in. The beauty on the inside of the garden is protected from whatever surrounds it. Edging a vegetable or flower garden is very similar to managing the garden of one’s soul. Proper boundaries in our lives between maintaining the good and keeping out evil is essential to growth in the Christian life.Edging requires hard work. Anyone who has taken to garden-ing seriously has realized that you have to dig deep, carefully and frequently to maintain a good edge to your garden. You have to be persistent and vigilant in order to protect what you have plant-ed. We can recognize this calling to edge the garden of our souls in some of the first psalms we recite in the morning (from First Hour, traditionally prayed an hour after sunrise): “I have walked within my house in innocence of heart. I have set no lawless deed before my eyes; I have hated those who do wrong. No twisted heart has cleaved to me; the evil man who avoided me I have not acknowledged. The one who secretly slanders his neighbour, him I have banished. With a man of proud looks and an insatiate heart, I have not eaten. I look with favour on the faithful in the land, that they might dwell with me; the man who walks on a blameless path, he has served me” (Psalm 100).** We begin the day by re-estab-lishing our behaviours: Do I slander people secretly? Am I proud? Am I content with what has been given to me? We know that to live the Christian life requires us to have certain borders around our behaviour and we re-edge our souls every morning while we chant the psalms.Edging is not only hard work, but it is sacrificial by nature. Your garden has to have a border, not everything can be your gar-den. Your garden begins in a certain place and ends in another. Establishing the border around your garden means reducing the size of it, cutting away what shouldn’t be there, and making a line that will not be passed by other plants. In our Christian lives we set up boundaries against evil, and establish a line in our own personal behaviour to help us not participate in evil. Things that we might want to do or say in a certain situation must be “cut off,” just like how we would cut the border around a garden. We give up part of the garden to act as a wall or moat around it. When we establish borders in our souls against evil are are also called to sacrifice things that endanger our souls.