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Year XXX, issue 9 (365) – March 2011 Monthly newsletter

Address of Archbishop Ihor (Vozniak),

Administrator of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church,
concerning the beatification of God’s Servant Pope John Paul II
To the Most Reverend Bishops, Reverend Fathers,
Reverend religious Brothers and Sisters,
the beloved in Christ laity of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church

Beloved in Christ!
By the will of Divine Providence, this year’s Great Fast is a time of
preparation not only for the illustrious feast of Christ’s Resurrection,
but also for another joyful event–the beatification of God’s Servant
Pope John Paul II, which is to be held on St. Thomas Sunday, May 1
of this year.
God’s Servant John Paul II, in his performing of Peter’s ministry,
and carrying out Christ’s order (see Luke 22,32), was tireless in
strengthening the faith of his brethren throughout the world. His
apostolic visits were always a feast of faith, hope, and love. His ministry,
which encompassed the whole world, did not bypass also us Ukrainian
Catholics with its fatherly attention.
Like no one else, the Holy Father John Paul II did much for the
legalization of our Church in the totalitarian USSR, and this became
the foundation of its free expansion in Ukraine. His voice never tired
of protesting against the oppression of Christians, especially those who found themselves behind the
iron curtain of the Communist block. His fatherly heart did not cease to beat in cadence with the hearts
of millions of persecuted Christians, of millions of those in need, and also in cadence with the whole
Christian world. His firm Hierarchical bearing echoed in the hearts of hundreds of thousands of Gdansk
shipyard workers, in the then Communist Poland, and inspired them and the entire Polish nation to
organize the “Solidarity” movement, this harbinger of the liberation of enslaved peoples from Communist
tyranny. For this they have not forgiven him to this day, those who then supported the Communist
regime, and those who today are trying to renew the “Prison of Nations”, disguised under various new
names.
It was John Paul II who spared no effort to make the USSR regime grant freedom to our Ukrainian
Greek Catholic Church. The Pope treated our Martyr Church with special love and respect, and a
testimony of this was the glorious beatification of Ukrainian new martyrs during his pastoral visit to our
country. His love for our Church was so great that he, as Supreme Pontiff of Christ’s Church, did not fear
to declare at the end of the 1980’s of the 20th century that the faithfulness of the Ukrainian Greek
Catholics obliges him to remain faithful to the Ukrainian Greek Catholics.
And our pious nation always answered the Pope with mutual love and devotion. Ten years ago, on
June 27 of the year of our Lord 2001, like sheep around their shepherd and led by the shepherds of our
Church, millions of our faithful rallied around Christ’s Vicar at the Lviv Hippodrome, as well as over
television and radio broadcasts, giving testimony of their love and devotion to Christ’s Church and to the
Continuation on the previous page.
 PARISH LIFE
Pope, Christ’s Vicar on earth. His words, addressed to us, fell deeply into our hearts, warming them with
love and igniting even more the flame of faith of millions of Greek Catholics in our homeland and in
communities abroad because this holy person of our time, in whom the Gospel became alive, gave a
testimony of faith not only in word but also in deed.
Unfortunately, beloved in Christ, our joy is not yet full, since today Christ’s Church is grieving and
suffering in our nation. It is painful to see that a new sect has appeared in Ukraine, the Dohnal Group,
who for the sake of their ambitions and interests are exerting every effort to defile the holy memory of
Pope John Paul II.
They shamelessly throw the mud of their morbid fabrications at the bright image of the man who did
so much good for the Ecumenical Church as a whole, and for our Church in particular, whose image and
position became close to many Ukrainians, and not only Catholics. Making use of distorted facts, this
pseudo-Christian group attempts to stir up turmoil and anxiety, to darken our joy on the occasion of the
beatification of God’s servant John Paul II. Thus this sect, hostile to everything Catholic and Ukrainian,
grouped around Anton (Illia) Dohnal, reveals its true face, showing that they do not care about the good
of the Ukrainian people, nor the good of Christ’s Church. It is precisely about such as these that our
Lord warns us: “Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but underneath are
ravenous wolves” (Matthew 7, 15).
Therefore, beloved in Christ, I call on you in the course of this Great Fast to pray for the repentance
of all those who, for various reasons, find themselves outside the saving spiritual fold of the Church,
which was founded by our Lord Jesus Christ himself on the firm rock of Peter. Let us pray for all those
seduced by false prophets, so that, enlightened by the grace of Christ’s Spirit, they might not be lost, but
return to the Lord’s fold. Let us be firm in our faith, to which our forebears testified more than once with
martyr’s blood, let us exert our efforts to get to know better the faith which our forebears considered a
priceless treasure, and for the sake of maintaining which they did not hesitate to give up even their life.
Let us not permit anyone to steal this most valuable treasure.
Let us also ask Almighty God for the glorification on God’s thrones of God’s Servants Metropolitan
Andrey (Sheptytsky) and Patriarch Josyf (Slipyj), who with their spiritual deeds over many years zealously
protected our Church and nation from similar assaults by the forces of darkness, and thus are for us
worthy examples of self-sacrifice and firmness in service for the glory of God and Ukraine.
May this Great Fast become another step on the road to the realization of true holiness in every
Christian soul!

+Ihor, Administrator of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church

Signed in Kyiv, at the Patriarchal Cathedral of the Resurrection of Christ
March 10, 2011

FOOD COLLECTION
During this month our parish is organizing a food collection.
We ask that you bring your donations to the church hall
(canned or dry food like rice, beans, pasta etc.)
The collected food items will be given to those in need through the
CAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK, Washington, DC.
 DIVINE LITURGY SCHEDULE

DIVINE LITURGIES IN MARCH 2011

1 - 9:30AM - Iryna Dybko – thanksgiving for Fr. Taras.
2 - 9:30AM - Richard & Mary Bergman for +Anna Demetro (4th Anniversary).
3 - 9:30AM - Petro & Sonia Krul for the health of Ksenia, Andreyka & family members
4 - 9:30PM - Theresa Ben – special intention for the Legeckis Family.
5 - 9:30PM - Theresa Ben – special intention for the Zynjuk Family.
6 - 11:30AM - Cheese-fare Sunday, tone 8; St. Timothy.
Andrij & Lada Onyshkevych Leshchyshyn for the health of Anna Galuga.
7- 9:30AM - Andrew & Christine Hruszkewycz – special intention for Theresa Ben.
The Great Fast begins today (strict fast day, w/o meat or dairy for 14-59 year-olds).
8 - 9:30AM - Andrew & Christine Hruszkewycz – special intention for Vera Pylypec.
9 - 9:30AM - Andrew & Christine Hruszkewycz for +Irena Stawnychy.
10 - 9:30AM - Modest & Natalia Zacharchenko for +Tamara Hloba (2nd Annioversary).
11- 6:30PM - Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts.
Modest & Natalia Zacharchenko for the health of Lubov Melnyk.
12 - 9:30AM - Adrian Kozak for +Olha Kozak (1st Anniversary).
13 - 11:30AM - 1st Sunday of the Great Fast ; tone1; St.Basil; Lit. of St. Basil the Great.
- for all parishioners.
Sunday of the Pochaiv Mother of God Sisterhood — rosary after the Liturgy.
14- 9:30AM - Mykola Stawnychy for +Maria Stawnychy.
15 - 9:30AM - Ann Woroniak for +Olha Kozak.
16 - 9:30AM - Alexander & Dada Sloniewsky for the health of Richard Legeckis.
17 - 9:30AM - Alexander & Dada Sloniewsky for the health of Vera Iwanycky.
18 - 6:30PM - Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts & “Sorokousty”.
Ostap & Irena Zynjuk - special intention for Ann Woroniak.
19 - 9:30AM - Luba Procyk for +Tekla Teshchuk.
20 - 11:30AM - 2nd Sunday of the Great Fast ; tone2; St.Basil; Lit. of St. Basil the Great.
Jurij & Lydia Martynec Mojsiak for the health of Anna Chekhovych.
St. Cyril & Methodius Brotherhood Sun.: prayer on”Chotky”(Eastern-rite rosary).
21 - 9:30AM - Bohdanna Geleta for +Iryna Hotra.
22 - 9:30AM - Ann Woroniak the health of Ostap Zynjuk.
23 - 9:30AM - Richard & Marta Legeckis for +Osyp & +Zenovia Huley.
24 - 9:30AM - Ann Woroniak for the health of Irena Zynjuk.
25 - 6:30PM - Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts & “Sorokousty”.
Walter and Nila Iwaskiw for +Alexander Woroniak.
26 - 9:30AM - Andrew & Christine Hruszkewycz for +Anna Gawdiak.
27 - 11:30AM - 3rd Sunday of the Great Fast (Veneration of the Cross); tone3;
St. Benedict; Liturgy of St. Basil the Great;
For Bishops +Soter Ortynsky (March 24) and +Jaroslav Gabro (March 28).
28 - 9:30AM - Ann Woroniak for +Alexander Woroniak.
29 - 9:30AM - Modest & Natalia Zacharchenko for the health of the Krul Family.
30 - 9:30AM - Modest & Natalia Zacharchenko for the health of Ostap Zynjuk.
31 - 9:30AM - Modest & Natalia Zacharchenko for the health of Richard Legeckis Fam.
 OUR PRIESTLY FAMILIES
This month (March 20) we will hear about the Reverend Fathers Kurylas (Stasyshyn and Kurylas
families); The next presentations will be in this order: April–Archbishop Volodymyr Sterniuk and the
Reverend Fathers Sterniuks and Podolaks (Podolak family); May–the Reverend Fathers Shankowsky
(Shmorhun family); June–Rev. Volodymyr Karmazyn (Karmazyn family); July–Rev. Emilian
Sharanevych (Sloniewsky family).

Father VASYL KURYLAS

Father Vasyl Kurylas was born in Mykolaiv on March 3, 1891, in
a family of wealthy townspeople, Clement and Catherine (nee
Mykytka) Kurylas. He studied in the local grammar school, then
attended high school in Striy. In the autumn of 1909 he entered the
University of Lviv, and then in 1911 he entered the Seminary, where
he studied together with Josyf Slipyj. World War I broke out during
his last year of studies, he was arrested and sent to a concentration
camp in Thalerhof near Graz, in Austria. In December 1914 he was
freed and continue his theological studies in the University of Vienna,
and finally in the Ukrainian Theological Seminary in Kromeriz in
Moravia (Czech lands). He married Helen Korduba, daughter of Father
Peter O. Korduba. He was ordained on January 30, 1916, by the
Armenian Catholic Archbishop Josef Teodorovich (because
Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky had been arrested by the Russian
armed forces and deported to Kursk). His first ministry was in the
village of Hermaniv. The Polish authorities arrested him and he spent
six months in the Brigidki prison in Lviv. After being freed he was
pastor in the village of Zhyravka (1920-24), in the town of Dobrotvir
(1924-33), and in the village of Butsniv near Ternopil (1933-44). In the
autumn of 1945 he was arrested by the NKVD and sentenced to ten
years in Siberia. He was freed in 1956 and returned to Butsniv, where
he ministered as an underground priest. His wife Helen died on January
19, 1973, and on January 11, 1978, in his 86th year, Father Vasyl
went to his eternal rest. They had 17 children!

Father BOHDAN KURYLAS

Father Bohdan Kurylas was born in the village of Hermaniv on February 2,
1917, the eldest of the 17 children of Father Vasyl and Helen Kurylas. He
finished grammar school in Dovrotvir, and then the high school of the
Redemptorist Fathers in Holosko in the Lviv region. In 1933 he joined the
Redemptorist Order and was ordained to the priesthood on February 2, 1940
in the town of Yaroslav by bishop Gregory Lakota, auxiliary bishop in Peremyshl.
He ministered briefly in Tyliav in the Lemko region and then, after emigrating,
in Brussels among the Ukrainian emigrants in Belgium, until his death on
September 5, 1991. He was a talented preacher, writer, and literary scholar.
He wrote under the pen name Ihor Kalinenko. He defended his Ph.D. dissertation
on “The Union of Archbishop Meletiy Smotrytsky” at the Ukrainian Free University
in Munich in 1962.
 PARISH LIFE

THE SHROUD OF TURIN

A copy of the Shroud of Turin will be on display in
the Ukrainian Catholic National Shrine of the Holy
Family in Washington, from March 6 to April 14, 2011:
On Sundays from 9-3, and on Tuesday, Thursday, and
Saturday from 10 to 4 PM (4250 Harewood Rd. NE,
Washington, DC). We highly recommend that you visit
this Shroud and pray at its side during the Great Fast!
More detailed information can be found at the following address:
www.philashroud.org – Tel. 202-526-3737 – e-mail ucnsholyfamily@catholic.org

LENTEN MISSION
Under the direction of Redemptorist Father Mykhailo Ivaniuk
Teacher of Redeptorist Students at the Monastery of St. Alphonso,
at Zamarstynivska Street in Lviv, will proceed as follows:

Friday, March 18, 2011 at 6:30 PM

Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts, Confession, and first spiritual lecture

Saturday, March 19, 2011 at 9:30 AM

Holy Liturgy and Sorokousty, and the second spiritual lecture

Saturday, March 19, 2011, 6:30 PM

Akathist to Our Lord Jesus Christ, the third spiritual lecture, and Confession

Sunday, March 20, 2011 at 11:30 AM

Liturgy of St. Basil the Great, Confession, and the fourth spiritual lecture

My sincere thanks to all parishioners for the love you showed

me, by honoring my 60th birthday on Sunday, February 6,
2011. I am grateful for the great gift of the presence of Bishop
Hlib, of my mother and sister Natalie from Raleigh N.C., and
of all the family and friends. A special thanks to the
Sisterhood of Our Lady of Pochaiv, with its head Iryna
Yasinsky Graves, for organizing the formal dinner. I also want
to thank the children and parents of the Sunday School and
their cheerful singing, for the reminisces of Yevdoshka
Koroza about visiting her when she was seriously ill in the
hospital, for the greetings by Theodore Caryk in the name of
the Ridna Shkola, and for all personal greetings and gifts.
This celebration will remain for me like a pleasant memory
for many years. Also a great thank you to the Sisterhood
and the parishioners for commemorating the birthday of
Brothers Bishop Hlib and Father Taras Lonchyna
panimatka Lialia on Sunday, February 27, 2011. May God
con-celebrating at the Divine Liturgy, on the day of
bless all!
the celebration of the 60th birthday of our pastor
Father Taras and Panimatka Lonchyna
 PARISH LIFE
Parish Council calls a General Meeting for Sunday, March 13, 2011 at 1:30 PM in the church hall. We
ask all to come, to hear reports about the activity and finances of the parish for 2010 and to review plans
for our further growth and development.
A Meeting of the Parish Council is called for Sunday, March 27, 2011 following the Liturgy, at 1:15 PM
in the church hall.
Sunday School (including all children) meets on the first and third Sunday of the month. The meetings
are as follows: Sundays March 6 and 20, 2011 at 10:30 AM.
Preparation of children for First Confession under the direction of Father Taras continues on the
Sundays of March 6, 13, 20, and 27 following the Liturgy.
Baptized: Oleksa Kyrylo HARMATIY, on February 20, 2011; godparents: Andriy Leshchyshyn and
Natalia Smolylo. We welcome the new Christian baby!
“Sorokousty” is the celebration of memorial requiem services (panakhyda) during the 2nd, 3rd, and
4th week of the Great Fast, for the commemoration of deceased family members. Please give your list
of deceased family members to Father Taras.

A great thank you to Jurij Podolak

and Ivan Kryvutsky, as well as the
workers, for putting in the insulation
in the new ceiling, and some new
lights and “Exit” signs in the church
hall! We thank all of you who
contribute to the Building Fund,
because this makes it possible to
do various necessary repairs in the
parish!

A sincere thanks to these sponsors: Orest & Ruslana Kits for the golden
pitcher with sprinkler ($200); Natalka Krawchuk Wells for the “diskos” ($100)
and Danko and Darka Nebesh for the incense “boat” ($100). A total of $400.

We are looking for sponsors to finance: the cornerstone – $2,000 (the Ukrainian
text will be added), and of new cabinets in the hall, which will be finished with
granite – $2,500.

© Holy Trinity Particular Ukrainian Catholic Church; Editor – rev. Taras Lonchyna; Translated by – Wolodar Lysko;
Design: Andriy Harmatiy, Photo – o. Taras Lonchyna
Parish address: 16631 New Hampshire Ave, Silver Spring, MD 20905-3919; Tel.: 301-421-1739