Cheese-Fare Forgiveness Sunday 3 Березня March 3, 2019

Holy Family Ukrainian Catholic Church Українська Католицька Церква Пресвятої Родини

Our Mission is to be responsible, trustworthy and faithful stewards of God’s gifts by living out the Gospel of Jesus Christ through the

catechism and spirituality of the Ukrainian Catholic Church.

1001 Grant Avenue, Winnipeg MB R3M 1Y3,

ph 204-453-4653, fax 204-452-2332

holyfamilychurch.wordpress.com

Parish Office Hours, Tue - Fri : 9:30 to 4 pm

Pastor - Fr John Mostivsky: 204-453-4653

jmostivsky@shaw.ca

Office Manager - Joe Kulyk: 204-453-4653

holyfamilyparishoffice@gmail.com

Liturgical Sunday Schedule: Weekdays

9:00 am (English) Tue - Thu 7:30 am

11:00 am (Ukrainian) Fri 7:00 pm

Sacrament of Reconciliation (Confession) Sundays before Liturgy & by appointment

Sacrament of Baptism & Chrismation by appointment with the Pastor

Sacrament of Holy Matrimony (Marriage)

by appointment with the Pastor - 9 months in advance

Funerals - by appointment with the Pastor

Parish Auditorium - 204-452-2332

Parish Pastoral Council Jim, Antonick, Chairperson - 204-489-8482

K of C - Zenon Scraba, GK - 204-453-2949

UCWLC - Pat Antonick, President - 204-489-8482

Club 55+ Stella Hyska, President - 204-489-6425

Catechism - Martin Pasieczka, 204-453-4965

Queen of Peace Prayer Group Leonard Terrick 204-269-4696

Pastoral Care - Linda Marak 204-895-8478

Слава Ісусу Христу! - Glory to Jesus Christ! Слава На Віки! - Glory For Ever!

Forgiveness is a central theme of Cheese-

Fare Sunday which is also known as the

Sunday of Forgiveness. “Turn to God, so

that God will forgive your sins!”

Lent begins Monday, March 4th

Pancake Breakfast & Silent Auction

after the 9 am Liturgy

Mar 3 Mar 10

Rosary Marianne Derkach Leonard Terrick

Greeters Allan and Patsy

Armstrong

Jean Uchach

Carol Nowasad

Epistle Vicki Adams Richard Pidsadny

Ushers Rick Duchnycz

Dean Robinson

Roman Christiuk

Nelson Caruk

Eucharist Martin Pasieczka Richard Pidsadny

Sacristan Zenon Scraba Zenon Romaniuk

9:00 AM DIVINE LITURGY

11:00 AM DIVINE LITURGY

Просимо молитися за хворих парафіян - Please pray for their health:

Mar 3 Mar 10

Greeters

Ushers

Wally Komonko

Lawrence Luba

Wally Komonko

Lawrence Luba

Epistle

Eucharist Myron Musick Myron Musick

Sacristan Peter Tkach Peter Tkach

If you would like a hospital visit or home visit please

call the Pastoral Care Linda Marak

204-895-8478

We pray in hope that God’s

healing power may touch those who are sick:

Vigil Lamps

Icon of Mary Icon of Jesus

Mar 3-9

God's blessing and health for Bill Kutchma by Coffee guys

Health and blessing for Deputy Grand Knight Bill Kutchma

by Holy Family K of C Council #8499

SUNDAY COLLECTION НЕДІЛЬНА ТАЦА

February 24, 2019

54 Envelopes - $1,657.10 Loose Cash - $10 Visitors - $30 Candle Offering - $62.25 Church Maintenance - $58 Coffee & Donuts - $29.90 Vigil Lamps - $35 Perogy Supper/Sales - $3,439 Donation - $4.65

Please Note: The above income does not show expenses.

Дякуємо за вашу щедрість! Thank you for your generosity!

Happy Birthday! З Днем Народження - March 4th

Fr John Mostivsky

МНОГАЯ ЛІТА!

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Служби Божі / Divine Liturgies

Day Date Time Intention

Sun Mar 3 9:00 am 11:00 am

God's blessing and health for Leonard Sawchuk by family За інтенції всіх Парафіян intentions of all our parishioners

Tue Mar 5 7:30 am Health of Gerry Holt by Fay Holt

Wed Mar 6 7:30 am Health of John Kozakevich by Fay Holt

Thu Mar 7 9:30 am 10:00 am

Rosary / Confession Elizabeth Weselowski by Deborah Hernandez

Fri Mar 8 6:30 pm 7:00 pm

Rosary / Confession God's blessing and health for the Myk family

Sun Mar 10 9:00 am 11:00 am

Elizabeth Weselowski by family †

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Great & Holy Lent 2019

Lenten Suppers Fridays: 5:30-6:45

March 8, 15, 22, April 5

Way of the Cross Fridays: 7:00 pm

March 8, 22, April 5

Presanctified Liturgy Fridays: 7:00 pm

March 15, 29, April 12,

Sorokousty Saturdays: 10:00 am

March 9, 16, 23, 30 April 6,13

Holy Week April 14-20

PASCHA - Easter SUNDAY, April 21

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Calendar of Events 2019 www.archeparchy.ca

Mar 3 - Holy Eucharist UCWLC 73rd Daffodil Tea, Sunday March 3rd, 1-3 pm at the Parish Centre, 450 Monroe Avenue.

Mar 29 - Holy Family Parish Perogy Supper 5-7 pm

Apr 11 - Caritas Awards Dinner, RBC Convention Centre, Reception 6:00 pm, Dinner 7:00 pm. Tickets available at the Parish Office.

May 10 - Holy Family Parish Perogy Supper 5-7 pm

Cabbage Rolls on Sale

On March 10th after the 9:00 am Divine Liturgy, the UCWLC will be selling holubchi (cabbage rolls) at $10.00 a dozen. There is a limited amount so sale will be on a first

come first served basis. The next perogy supper will be Friday, March 29th and the last until September will be on Friday, May 10th. - last chance to stock up for the summer. There will not be a perogy supper in April.

40 Cans for Lent Food Drive

Mar 3rd to Apr 7th.

Donation of canned food will help feed

the hungry at Welcome Home.

Monetary donations also welcome Please

make cheques payable to Knights of Columbus Council

#8499 ~ Zenon Scraba

Perogies for Sale Every Sunday after 9 am Divine Liturgy or call the

parish office during the week

$6.00 per dozen

VIGIL LAMPS - Vigil Lamp offerings are $5.00 each and are lit for your personal intention for the entire week .

Last week a parcel of family photos and

personal documents were found outside our

church. They belong to the Holmstrom

family. Olga Holmstrom was a member of

Holy Family Parish in the late 70's. We tried

to locate her and her family with no avail. If

anyone has any knowledge of her

whereabouts, please inform the parish office.

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Cheese Fare Sunday (Forgiveness Sunday)

This Sunday is known by several names: Cheese-fare, Adam’s Lament, and Forgiveness Sunday. Cheese-fare is derived from the past practice of fasting from all meat, egg and dairy products for 40 days. Today, we have two days (Monday, the 1st day of Lent and Good Friday) of a strict fast, which is abstinence from meat, eggs and dairy products and having ONE full meal on that day. This Sunday, the last of the preparatory Sundays before Great Lent, has two themes: it commemorates Adam’s expulsion from Paradise, and it accentuates our need for forgiveness.

Adam’s Lament Focus is placed on the exile of Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden, an event that shows us how far we have fallen in sin and separated ourselves from God. At the onset of Great Lent and a period of intense fasting, this Sunday reminds us of our need for God’s forgiveness and guides our hearts, minds, and spiritual efforts on returning to Him in repentance.

Forgiveness Sunday The second theme, that of forgiveness, is emphasized in the Gospel reading for this Sunday (Matthew 6:14-21) and in the special ceremony of mutual forgiveness at the end of the Vespers on Sunday evening. Before we enter the Lenten fast, we are reminded that there can be no true fast, no genuine repentance, no reconciliation with God, unless we are at the same time reconciled with one another. We do not travel the road of Lent as isolated individuals but as members of a family. Our asceticism and fasting should not separate us from others, but should link us to them with ever-stronger bonds. The Sunday of Forgiveness also directs us to see that Great Lent is a journey of liberation from our enslavement to sin. The Gospel lesson sets the conditions for this liberation…

The first condition is fasting — the refusal to accept the desires and urges of our fallen nature as normal; the effort to free ourselves from the dictatorship of the flesh and matter over the spirit. To be effective, however, our fast must not be hypocritical, a “showing off.” We must “appear not unto men to fast but to our Father who is in secret”.

The second condition is forgiveness — “If you forgive men their trespasses, your Father in heaven will also forgive you”. The triumph of sin, the main sign of its rule over the world, is division, opposition, separation, hatred. Therefore, the first break through this fortress of sin is forgiveness: the return to unity, solidarity, love. To forgive is to put between me and my “enemy” the forgiveness of God Himself. To forgive is to reject the hopeless “dead-ends” of human relations and to refer them to Christ. Forgiveness is truly a “breakthrough” of the Kingdom into this sinful and fallen world. Adapted from http://lent.goarch.org/forgiveness/learn/

Bulletin Requests Any request or any information to be placed in the

bulletin must be in the Parish Office by WEDNESDAY NOON

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PRAYER FOR THE BEGINNING OF LENT

O Lord Jesus Christ, my God, hope of all bounds of the earth and of those far away at sea, You have established these holy days of fasting by Your law and the prophets, as a way of my mortification and repentance. In the fullness of time, You manifested Yourself in the flesh on this earth, and by Your fast of forty days and nights, You sanctified the practice of fasting and commanded me to follow Your example. As a merciful and gracious God, enable me to begin these holy days of Great Fast with perfect repentance, with humility rather than hypocrisy, with diligent prayer, with hunger and thirst, with frequent prostrations, and with contrite heart. Enable me also to complete this time of the Great Fast, without fault and with a pure conscience, keeping my faith intact and achieving victory over sin. Send me an angel of peace to watch over my life to protect me from all snares of my enemies, and to assist me in the performance of good deeds. Strengthen me by Your power so that I may accomplish the ascetic works of the Great Fast. Then, with my passion bridled and my soul and body cleansed, I will be worthy to partake, without condemnation, of Your Most Pure Body and Your Most Precious and Life-giving Blood. For you are the merciful and gracious lover of mankind Who has come to save all, and to You I render glory, together with Your Eternal Father, and Your All Holy, Good, and Life-Giving Spirit, now and ever, and forever. . .

Employment Opportunity St Joseph Ukrainian Catholic Church Is seeking a full time

Office Manager to provide bookkeeping and administration duties to the parish. The suc-cessful candidate must have excellent written and oral communication

skills, knowledge and experience in administrative and clerical procedures, excellent computer skills and the ability to work with minimal supervison. To explore this opportunity please send your resume in confidence as soon as

possible to: stjoeswinnipegjobs@gmail.com

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Pope Francis Appoints Most Rev. Borys Gudziak as new Metropolitan-Archbishop of the

Ukrainian Archeparchy Philadelphia On Monday, February 18th, 2019, the Vatican Information Service announced that the Holy Father has appointed Most Rev. Borys Gudziak as Archbishop of Philadelphia for Ukrainians and Metropolitan for the Ukrainian Catholic Church in USA and thus concurring with the recommendation of the appointment offered by the Synod of Ukrainian Catholic Bishops, which met in September of 2018 in Lviv, Ukraine. The Archeparchy of Philadelphia was declared by Pope Francis as “sede vacante” following the resignation of Most Rev. Stefan Soroka on April

16, 2018. Most Rev. Andriy Rabiy was named by Pope Francis as the Apostolic Administrator of the Ukrainian Catholic Archeparchy of Philadelphia until the appointment of the new Metropolitan-Archbishop. At the present time Most Rev. Borys Gudziak serves as the eparch of St. Volodymyr the Great Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy, which includes France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxemburg and Switzerland. He is the founder and president of the Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv, Ukraine. In addition, Archbishop Borys is the head of Department of External Church Relations of the Ukrainian Catholic Church. Bishop Andriy Rabiy, Apostolic Administrator, Bishop John Bura, Auxiliary Bishop, clergy, monastic orders and faithful of the Archeparchy of Philadelphia wholeheartedly and joyfully welcome the news and invite everyone to the installation of Most Rev. Borys Gudziak as the seventh Metropolitan-Archbishop for the Ukrainian Catholic Archeparchy of Philadelphia, which will take place on Tuesday, June 4, 2019, at the Ukrainian Catholic Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Philadelphia, PA Source: The Way

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Attention Bro. Knights: How are tickets sales? Deadline is March 24th. ~Zenon Scraba . G.K.