Visti 588 - Ukrainian Catholic Church
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Visti 588 - Ukrainian Catholic Church
No. 956 (588) Ukrainian Catholic Church Parish of St. John the Baptist - Perth Parish Priest: Fr. Wolodymyr Kalinecki 20 Ferguson St, Maylands WA 6051 T/F (08) 9271 4711 | M: 0418 926 267 E: [email protected] Fr Deacon Richard—mbl 0439 622 056 PARISH WEEKLY NEWS 3rd-10th May 2015 Parish Postal Address: PO Box 230, Dianella WA 6059 Sister Servants of Mary Immaculate: Sr Nicodema Zemliak 16 Ferguson St, Maylands WA 6051 T: (08) 9272 9361 Editor: Luba Valega T: (08) 9276 3160 | M: 0401 309 228 E: [email protected] This is a weekly Parish newsletter for all to read, to inform you of what is happening in our Parish and share with you some interesting readings. Please feel free to share it around! This Week’s Readings Epistle: Act 9:32-42 Gospel: John 5:1-15 SUNDAY of Paralytic Man Tone 3 Epistle . Acts 9:32-42 9:32. Peter travelled from place to place to visit them and in his travels came to the believers in the town of Lydda. 33. There he met a man named Aeneas, paralysed and bedridden for eight years. 34. Peter said to him, “Aeneas! Jesus Christ has healed you! Get up and make your bed.” And he was healed instantly. 35. Then the whole population of Lydda and Sharon turned to the Lord when they saw Aeneas walking around. 36. In the city of Joppa there was a woman named Dorcas, a believer who was always doing kind things for others, especially for the poor. 37. About this time she became ill and died. Her friends prepared her for burial and laid her in an upstairs room. 38. But when they heard that Peter was nearby at Lydda, they sent two men to beg him to return with them to Joppa. 39. This he did; as soon as he arrived, they took him upstairs where Dorcas lay. The room was filled with weeping widows who were showing one another the coats and other garments Dorcas had made for them. 40. But Peter asked them to leave the room; then he knelt and prayed. Turning to the body, he said, “ Get up, Dorcas,” and she opened her eyes! And when she saw Peter, she sat up. 41. He gave her his hand and helped her up and called in the believers and widows, presenting her to them.42. The news raced through the town, and many believed in the Lord. 43 And Peter stayed a long time in Joppa, living with Simon, the tanner. Gospel : John 5:1-15 5:1 After this there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. 2 Now there is in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate a pool, in Hebrew called Bethza'tha, which has five porticoes. 3 In these lay a multitude of invalids, blind, lame, paralysed. 4 5 One man was there who had been ill for 38 years 6 When Jesus saw him and knew that he had been lying there a long time, he said to him, "Do you want to be healed?" 7 The sick man answered him, "Sir, I have no man to put me into the pool when the water is troubled, and while I am going another steps down before me." 8 Jesus said to him, "Rise, take up your pallet, and walk." 9 And at once the man was healed, and he took up his mat and walked. Now that day was the Sabbath. 10 So the Jews said to the man who was cured, "It is the Sabbath, it is not lawful for you to carry your mat." 11 But he answered them, "The man who healed me said to me, 'Take up your mat, and walk.'" 12 They asked him, "Who is the man who said to you, 'Take up your mat, and walk'?" 13 Now the man who had been healed did not know who it was, for Jesus had disappeared, in the crowd that was there. 14 Later, Jesus found him in the temple, and said to him, "See, you are well! Sin no more, that nothing worse befall you." 15 The man went away and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had healed him. ================================================================================ Re Sunday of the Paralytic by Fr Iraneaus. Canada For thousands of years people with certain diseases have been going to hot springs for health and healing. At the time of our Lord there was in Jerusalem a pool of water, called Bethsaida, that attracted huge crowds of sick people. It was believed that an angel of the Lord periodically came down and made the water bubble. The first person who entered the water at the time of bubbling was considered certain to be healed. Today's Gospel tells us that Jesus one Sabbath day came to this pool and there saw a man who had been paralyzed for 38 years. The Lord had pity on him and asked: "Do you want to be made well?" This might seem like a silly question, but, on the contrary, it is a profound psychological one. Not every sick person wants to Page 1 be made well; some glory in their illness which focuses attention and pity upon them. Also, to gain health it is often necessary to arouse a desire for it. The lame man answered Christ, saying: "Sir, I have no one to help me into the pool when the water is stirred. By the time I get in, another has beaten me." What a terrible cry this is: "I have no one to help me." Over and over again, down through the ages of time, this cry has come from the lips of the aged, the sick, and the lonely. And it is heard in our day, too. Our institutions are full of such forgotten people who die the slow death of being unloved and unwanted. But this paralyzed man had Christ. The Lord commanded him: "Take up your bed and walk." Immediately new life and power throb-bed through his shrivelled limbs. He lifted his mat on his back and away he went, walking with a sureness he had not known for 38 years. Where do you think the man went? He hadn't been able to walk around for such a long time... where do you think his heart led him first? He went to church! The Gospel says Jesus found him in the temple. And there the Lord again spoke to him: "Behold, you are made well. Sin no more, lest a worse thing befall you." 1. What a wonderful place for the man to be found by the Lord! In church. At prayer. He had apparently gone there to thank God for the gift of healing he had received. Some might say today: if God had raised me up from such a bed that I had laid on for 38 years, I too would go to church, every Sunday, in thanksgiving. But don't you see? We have greater reason than that paralyzed man to be grateful unto God, for which one of us has had to lie sick for such a long time? Most of us have been blessed with good health and we haven't lain 38 hours in illness. Thank God for the bodily health we enjoy, and for all the means at our disposal to keep us in good health. 2. What Jesus told him: "Sin no more." There is a tie between sickness and sin. It is not a direct tie, so that we cannot accuse every ill person of sin. But sin is deeply ingrained in the very nature of man down through the centuries. Ever since the first sin, this has been the scourge of mankind, the cause of man's troubles, sickness among them. Surely it is the obligation of every Christian man and woman and child to strive to "sin no more" in obedience of the Lord's command. 3. Christ told the paralytic to sin no more, "lest a worse thing" befall him. What could be worse than 38 years of paralysis? What could be worse than being laid up, unable to walk, for such a long time? Well, there is such a thing as spiritual sickness, illness of the soul. A person steeped in sin. A person dying in sin. This is something worse. A person, you see, can live, breathe, speak, see, hear, walk, and still be spiritually ill or even spiritually dead. He can be dead to God because he lives without God and without love. Jesus Himself once talked about people who have eyes, "but see not," and who have ears, but "hear not." If there are any among us today who are spiritually ill or paralyzed, the Lord says to you: 'Get up from your bed of unbelief, indif-ference, and self-love. Stand, and come and follow Me.' Perhaps some are wondering just why this beautiful Gospel story of the healing of the paralytic is read during the Easter season. What, if any, is the connection between this incident and the resurrection of Christ from the dead? The Fathers of the Church have pointed out that in the person of the paralytic raised from his bed we have a picture, a foreshadowing, of our own resurrection from the grave. Just as then an angel of the Lord came to "trouble" or move the waters to make possible a resurrection from illness, so on the last day an angel of the Lord shall come and "trouble" or move the dust of the earth and the dead in Christ shall rise at the voice of Christ. Amen. —————————————————————————————————————————————UAWA takes pride inviting you to the Australian premiere screening of the documentary film “The Ukrainians” on Sunday May 17, at the Ross Lecture Theatre, Room G-41, Physics Building, UWA. The film starts at 1pm. We also have pleasure to be hosting one of the directors, Ivan Yasniy, who will be speaking about events in Ukraine and the making of the film. The film is a documentary depicting the battles which took place at the Donetsk Airport (running time is 82 minutes). “The Ukrainians” (or as it is titled in in Ukrainian "Volunteers of God’s Brigade") is the story of the creation of the Ukrainian army, the fraternity, the deeds and the betrayals. It is a story of cowardice and heroism. It is the story of the volunteers who defended the Donetsk Airport who, because of their faith in God and Ukraine, risked their body and soul for our freedom. They were called cyborgs because they appeared to be indestructible; they kept the enemy at bay for 242 days, until the terrorists resorted to leveling the entire building structure. The documentary is in Ukrainian with English subtitles and is a must watch! Admission, $15 per person. Tickets will be on sale at the door. Please ensure you are at the event 30 mins before screening to ensure we start on time !! Kind Regards, Ukrainian Association of Western Australia Inc. Page 2 Church Choir Rehearsals and Singing 05.05.15 Tuesday rehearsal 10.05.15 Sunday Liturgy 9am (Sunday of Samaritan Woman - Tone 4) 14.06.15 Sunday Liturgy 9am (Tone 1) **************************************************************************** =============================================================================== WE ARE LEAVING STARTING TIMES OF HOLY LITURGY ON SUNDAYS AT 9AM FOR THE DURATION . SURVEY AMONG PARISHIONERS WHO COME REGULARLY WANT 9AM START INSTEAD OF 9:30AM. Parish Council ============================================================================= Parishioners who passed away in Month of May Wolodymyr Sadowsky 18/ 5/1956 Ivan Gereta 5/1958 Anna Chlepnac 18/ 5/1959 Wasyl Lubenko 21/ 5/1970 Evhen Daszkewicz 11/ 5/1972 Mykola Vowk 1/ 5/1977 Maria Koltasz 8/ 5/1979 Evhen Tomiuk 25/ 5/1979 Pavlina Shkraba 25/ 5/1979 Ivan Temnyk 29/ 5/1986 Myroslav Jaremovych 7/ 5/1988 Teodor Hernawsky 28/ 5/1988 Stefan Tehij 10/ 5/1989 Kirilo Suprun 8/ 5/1991 Bohdan Maslij 19/ 5/1991 Wolodymyr Minosora 5/ 5/1992 Stefan Shulba 29/ 5/1993 Wolodymyr Setnik 22/ 5/1994 Halina Temnyk 3/ 5/1995 Mihajlo Hruzewycz 8/ 5/1996 Anna Pasko 30/ 5/1996 Mihajlo Kolodij 22/ 5/1997 Mihajlo Konstantinowicz 6/ 5/1999 Maria Rosovski 27/ 5/1999 Josef Zathej 9/ 5/2000 Maria Antoniak 30/ 5/2000 Feodor Melnyczuk 18/ 5/2001 Wasyl Konderewicz 30/ 5/2001 Stefan Petrivski 4/ 5/2003 Ivan Jaremczuk 29/ 5/2004 Olga Bochorsky 18/ 5/2006 Mykola Baczynskyj 25/ 5/2006 Mykola Chwastiak 27/ 5/2006 Mihajlo Klymiuk 6/ 5/2008 Maria Kociuruba 15/ 5/2010 Kataryna Baczynskyj 30/ 5/2010 Irene Lozyk 14/5/2012 Eugene Kostecki 9/5/2014 ETERNAL MEMORY— VICHNAYA PAMYAT Blessing of Graves at Karrakatta 18th April, 2015 If you would like Fr Wolodymyr to have a Liturgy and Panahyda for your loved ones who have passed away, please make a booking with him. The Souls of our family members who have passed away need our prayers. Day Date Time Feast Special Feast Days - Julian Calendar Sun Tone 3 3rd May, 2015 9:00 am Holy Liturgy 2pm >> Blessing graves >> Sunday of Paralytic Man >>Midland Mon 4th May, 2015 Tues 5th May, 2015 8:30am Wed 6th May, 2015 8:30am Holy Liturgy Thurs 7th May, 2015 8:30am Holy Liturgy Fri 8th May, 2015 Sat 9th May 2015 Sun Tone 4 10th May, 2015 Choir singing No Holy Liturgy Holy Liturgy Molebyn to Holy Mother Mary Holy Liturgy Molebyn to Holy Mother Mary 2pm 7pm Blessing Graves Holy Liturgy Pinnaroo in English 9:00 am Holy Liturgy Cleaning Church Roster Sat 2nd May—Irene Grynychyn Sat 9th May ========================================================= Holy Liturgy in Northam—next Holy Liturgy—17th May at 5pm ======================================== Please pray for sick people in our parish and visit them if you can. If you need Fr Wolodymyr to visit, please ring him to book a time. 08) 92714711 Fr Wolodymyr is also blessing houses. If you would like him to come bless your house, please make a booking on 92714711 or email him on [email protected] ———————————————————–———————- UAWA AGM 3rd May, 2015 at 11.30am. At Ukr Cath church hall, Maylands Ukr Cath Church AGM—17th May ================================================= Some important dates on Church calendar At Guildford Sat 2nd May, 2pm At Midland—Sun 3rd May, 2pm At Pinnaroo—Sat 9th May—2pm Northam—17th May—3pm ================================================== MOTHER’S DAY Sun of Samaritan Woman A RESTORATION (Maintenance) fund has being organised for our Church renovations. This is separate to the yearly upkeep (podatok) fund. If you wish to donate, please see Luba Valega. The Church building is in need of repairs and so the Parish Council is asking for your support. Total now $12,250.00 The Parish Council has installed a lift going up to the hall via the stairs outside to help people to be able to get to the hall much easier. We are looking for donations to help cover costs of the lift. Please see anyone on Parish Council if you would like to make a donation. The cost of the lift was $42,000 Total now $8428.81 Church donation . Mrs Hawilej $100 for departed husband Babij family $15 for newsletter costs Valega Family $100 for departed Wolodymyr Zagwocki—12 yrs ago May Jesus bless you all =============================== Websites to check out www.catholicukes.org.au for all your Eparchial information, all parishes info and lots of information for the Ukrainian Catholic Church in Australia http://news.ugcc.org.ua/en/news will get you news from Ukraine If you wish to make a donation direct via bank send to Dnister (Ukrainian Catholic church) BSB 704235/ acct 00006479 and email [email protected] to confirm Or post to PO Box 230, Dianella 6059— this can be for Easter envelope donations Highly recommended by Valega Family