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SAINT BASIL the GREAT PARISH

202 HARCOURT STREET, WINNIPEG, MB R3J 3H3

Parish Office: 204-837-4180 Parish Hall: 204-889-9057

Parish Priest: Rt. Rev Canon Walter Klimchuk

A Call to Healing

“He who believes in me will also do the works that I do,

because I go to the Father” (John 14:12)

From Father Walter

Christ had been revealing

his miraculous powers by

curing the sick, raising the

dead to life, and expelling

demons (Luke 7:2-10, 12-

16; 8:26-33); now he

commissioned his

disciples to do the very

same work. Materially, the

disciples were sparsely

equipped for this work.

They were told to "take

nothing for the journey"

(Luke 9:3). But spiritually,

Jesus gave them what

was needed to do the

work: Jesus "gave them

power and authority over

all demons and to cure

diseases" (Luke 9:1).

Jesus wanted the disciples to continue his work on earth so he

empowered them to do so. Their mission reaffirms Jesus' words

in John's Gospel: "He who believes in me will also do the works

that I do; and greater works than these will he do, because I go to

the Father" (John 14:12).We can probably visualize Jesus

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performing acts of great power. It may be more difficult to imagine the disciples doing so, and

even harder to picture ourselves performing such works.

Bishops, as successors to the apostles, and the priests who share in their ministry have the

commission to preach and to heal, but the call does not stop there. All who belong to the

church through faith and baptism are commissioned to bear witness to the gospel (Vatican II,

On the Church, 31,33). Not all of us may go forth on missionary journeys, but - as disciples -

we can make the gospel message our first priority. For many of the early disciples, the

message of God's kingdom was more important than food, clothing or money; for us it should

be more important than our merely personal pursuits and ambitions. In our home or work

environments, we could put aside our own agenda from time to time and instead try to bring

God's peace into difficult situations by sharing the faith, by caring for those in need, or by

praying with others.

We should take to heart the example by lay workers in scripture who truly served the church.

Priscilla and Aquila (Acts 18:2-28) and Paul's other assistants (Romans 16:1-16)

demonstrate the call of lay people to serve Christ and the good news. Empowered by the

Holy Spirit, they were able to do great works.

"Lord Jesus, I often feel inadequate to do the work of God. By the Spirit, teach me to rely not

on myself but to trust fully in your power to achieve God's holy will."

The Beatitudes, Part Four:

It is not at all uncommon these days to hear of an

ambitious person as being "hungry" to accomplish

significant things. Writers apply this term to athletes who

want to make it to the professional leagues, to actors who

want to attain stardom, and to businesspersons who seek to

become CEO or president of a major corporation. These people drive themselves to work

harder than their competition. They push themselves in studying every facet of their

discipline, and they practice longer and harder than others. Their ambition knows no limits.

They seem to play every angle to bring themselves to the attention of their superiors. They

seize every opportunity to "sell" themselves to those who might be useful in promoting them.

Words do not exist in isolation; they exist against a background of experience and thought;

and the meaning of any word is conditioned by the background of the person who speaks it.

That is particularly true of this beatitude. It would convey to those who heard it for the first

time an impression quite different from the impression which it conveys to us.

Very few of us in modern conditions of life know what it is to be really hungry or really thirsty.

In the ancient world it was very different. A working man in Palestine ate meat only once a

week, and in Palestine the working man and the day laborer were never very far from the

border-line of real hunger and actual starvation.

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It was still more so in the case of thirst. It was not possible for the vast majority of people to

turn a tap and find clear, cold water pouring into their house. A man might be on a journey,

and in the midst of it the hot wind which brought the sand-storm might begin to blow. There

was nothing for him to do but to wrap his head in his burnous and turn his back to the wind,

and wait, while the swirling sand filled his nostrils and his throat until he was likely to

suffocate, and until he was parched with an imperious thirst. In the conditions of modern

western life there is no parallel at all to that.

Jesus is not using "hunger" or "thirst" as we would describe the emptiness or dryness we feel

between meals, but a hunger or thirst that seemingly can never be satisfied. With physical

appetite, this would be a hunger and thirst that, even after a full meal with plenty of drink, we

would still feel as though we could eat and drink much more! It is the hunger of the man who

is starving for food, and the thirst of the man who will die unless he drinks.

Nothing can better express the kind of desire we should have to obtain righteousness. The

Bible's writers frequently employ the imagery of hunger and especially thirst to illustrate an

ardent desire, particularly for the things of God:

Psalm 42:1-2: As the deer pants for the water brooks,

so pants my soul for You, O God. My soul thirsts for God,

for the living God. When shall I come and appear before

God?

Psalm 63:1: O God, You are my God; early will I seek

You; my soul thirsts for You; my flesh longs for You in a

dry and thirsty land where there is no water.

Even limiting hunger and thirst to our normal, daily need

for nourishment illustrates a continuous cycle of consuming a most vital necessity for spiritual

life and strength.

The Beatitudes seem to be linked in two general groups with the first four directed

specifically toward one's relationship with God. Each link leads to the next while

presupposing the one preceding it. If we are poor in spirit, we will humbly acknowledge our

utter spiritual bankruptcy before God. We are thus led and enabled to mourn over the cause

of our bankruptcy, our sins, as well as the ever-present corruption of human nature and its

reign of sin and death in this world. Since we are sinners, when we are measured against the

standard of God's holiness, and have nothing that will grant us preference over others, we

must allow these two virtues to condition our behavior toward both God and men. We then

make poverty of spirit, mourning and meekness part of the motivation to make up for

deficiencies in our character God graciously exposes by revealing to us what we really are. If

we are ever to be in His image, hungering and thirsting after righteousness must follow our

confession of the sins God reveals.

Hungering and thirsting after righteousness is deeply involved in accomplishing important

steps toward salvation. These steps are called a number of terms in God's Word, including

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justification, sanctification, growing, overcoming, becoming perfect, going on to perfection,

coming to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ, seeking holiness and being

created in God's image. God enables us to have this desire and make use of it, but we must

make the choices to sacrifice ourselves in accomplishing His desire for us. God's will for us

now is that we prepare to live with Him just as He lives in His Kingdom.

In Matthew 6:33, Jesus commanded, "But seek first the kingdom

of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be

added to you." Here it has the sense of seeking all of God's

spiritual blessings, favor, image and rewards. We see in this

verse not only a broad New Testament application of the term but

also, more importantly, its priority to life. This dovetails perfectly

with the hunger-and-thirst metaphor. It is not enough to

ambitiously yearn to accomplish. According to Jesus, God's Kingdom and His righteousness

are the very top priorities in all of life. Seeking God's righteousness is that important.

The Bible shows three kinds of righteousness, and each is important in its own right. All

three are included within the scope of Jesus' words because all three are important to

Christian life and development. All three are to be sought within each Christian's relationship

with God and with fellow man. Two of them are exceedingly important, and the third less so

only because of the Christian's God-limited authority in relation to this world.

The first is the righteousness of faith that comes when God justifies a sinner by

grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus. This results when Christ's

obedience is imputed to him, thus giving him legal righteousness before God. David writes in

Psalm 14:1, "There is none who does good, no, not one"; Paul changes the wording in

Romans 3:10, "There is none righteous, no, not one."

God makes these powerful indictments against a world in which most people undoubtedly

consider themselves as "good." But it is a goodness perceived through their own standards—

in a mind not awakened to God's righteousness, filled with the pride of self-righteousness,

deceived and blinded by the god of this world (Revelation 12:9; II Corinthians 4:3-4). Such a

mind can be, like the unconverted Paul, an accomplice in killing and persecuting God's true

children and thinking all the while it is righteously doing God’s service (John 16:2). They are

like those described in Titus 1:16: "They profess to know God, but in works they deny Him,

being abominable, disobedient, and disqualified for every good work."

According to God, all of us have been somewhere in this picture. As sinners we frequently

broke God's law in word, thought and deed, and in many cases, were ignorant of doing so

because of the deception and blindness Satan has wrought. But God in His calling removed

the veil that was over our minds and revealed Himself, His purpose and His standards. We

convicted ourselves of spiritual bankruptcy. Where we formerly thought of ourselves as

perhaps involving ourselves in a "little" sin—but basically okay as measured against our

neighbor and the evil people in society—we now begin to see ourselves in a far different

light. We do not have a leg to stand on before God.

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Romans 2:4 makes it clear that only by God's mercy are we led to

see ourselves to some degree as He sees us: "Or do you despise

the riches of His goodness, forbearance, and longsuffering, not

knowing that the goodness of God leads you to repentance?" God

enables us to measure our goodness, our righteousness—which

He describes as "like filthy rags" (Isaiah 64:6)—against Him rather

than our neighbor. We realize that certain death for sin is staring

us right in the face, yet He has graciously provided us with a perfect righteousness in Christ.

This offer is not free, though, because we must totally surrender our lives to His rule. Even as

it cost Jesus His life to provide this deliverance, it also costs us our lives, as living sacrifices

(Romans 12:1), to take advantage of God's offer. Nonetheless, it is amazing how hungry and

thirsty we become for God's offer of justification leading to salvation.

However, we cannot stop here. Hunger and thirst have brought us this far, but it is only a

beginning. If it is a true, godly hunger and thirst, it remains, even though we are justified,

because the justified person realizes God has only begun a good work in us (Philippians

1:6). The hungry person will recall Romans 5:1-2:

“Therefore, having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord

Jesus Christ, through whom also we have access by faith into this grace in which we stand

and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.”

Justification brings reconciliation and therefore peace with God and access to Him. But it

also brings with it the hungering and thirsting for the very glory of God! Once we have an

imputed righteousness, having God's very image created in us, imparted to us by His Spirit,

is the goal of the process we began through God's calling. It can be ours!

Have we ever been offered anything greater? Can any other goal

in life even begin to compare? We must not "neglect so great a

salvation" (Hebrews 2:3)! We must not let this great potential slip

from our grasp! No wonder Jesus used such strong language to

describe the driving desire for God's righteousness that pleases

Him. And when He sees it in us, He will also satisfy it.

The second kind of righteousness for which we are to hunger and thirst is the one

that occupies the greater portion of our life after

conversion. Notice how Jesus states this beatitude. He

does not say, "Blessed are those who have hungered . .

. ," but rather, "Blessed are those who hunger [do

hunger, KJV]." This hungering and thirsting is a

continuous state, and it must be this way for the second

kind of righteousness, elsewhere called pursuing

holiness, going on to perfection, or growing in the grace

and the knowledge of Jesus Christ. Frequently the Bible

calls it sanctification. None of these terms is specifically righteousness, but all are contained

within its broad meaning. This righteousness is created in us, imparted to us by God's Holy

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Spirit following justification as we experience our relationship with God. It is seeking godly

character to be prepared for living in His Kingdom.

God cannot create His holy and righteous character by fiat.

It requires the willing and freely given cooperation of the

called; by exercising their free moral agency, they submit to

Him in the experiences of life. Submission is difficult, and thus

Christianity is no cake-walk through a garden. Jesus often

warns that it will require a devotion to Him of such degree that

all else must be secondary to Him. We are to bear our crosses

and count the cost (Luke 14:26-28). He also warns, "The way

is difficult and narrow" (Matthew 7:14), and "He who endures

to the end shall be saved" (Matthew 24:13). The trek of the

ancient Israelites through the wilderness is a type of the

Christian's pilgrimage to the Kingdom of God. Their wilderness

experiences expose a number of pitfalls that can destroy a

Christian's faith and enthusiasm for continuing to the end.

Through this beatitude, God presents us with a serious challenge. Because it is continuously

needed, it establishes a demanding requirement. How much do we want goodness, the

righteousness of God? Do we want it as much as a starving man desires food or a parched

man wants water? Do we so lack vision that we will give up our faith as all the Israelites,

save Joshua and Caleb, did in the wilderness? According to Hebrews 4:1, though they heard

the good news, they did not believe it sufficiently. They, therefore, died in the wilderness,

their pilgrimage finished before they reached their goal. Rather than submit, they resisted

God until their deaths. Apparently, they did not hunger for it.

Most of us have a desire for God's Kingdom and His righteousness, but it is, to our detriment,

frequently nebulous rather than sharp. When the time comes to make a choice, we are not

prepared to make the required effort or sacrifice that the righteousness of God demands. It is

situations like these that reveal that we do not desire righteousness more than anything else.

Why do we do things like this even when we desire righteousness? It is very easy to answer

that the problem lies with human nature, and this is not wrong, just quite broad. Jesus gives

an answer along this line in Matthew 15:18-20:

“But those things which proceed out of the mouth come from the heart, and they defile a

man. For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts,

false witness, and blasphemies. These are the things which defile a man, but to eat with

unwashed hands does not defile a man.”

The heart symbolizes our innermost being, the source of our words and actions. Today we

call it the mind. When God awakens us to some of His great truths, when we at last begin to

realize the vital importance of righteousness, there is a blush of first love, and we begin to

hunger to apply them in our lives. But what is already in the heart fights almost desperately

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not to be displaced by the new nature in hope of wearing down our enthusiasm for the truth.

Paul illustrates this resistance in Galatians 5:17:

“ For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh;

and these are contrary to one another, so that you do not do the things that

you wish.”

Why do we not do the things we wish? The answer lies in the

extraordinary power of ingrained habits. They are most difficult to break

because they have had free sway for so long one unconsciously does what they incite. Paul

speaks of this using a different metaphor in Romans 7:23: "But I see another law in my

members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin

which is in my members."

The almost constant persistence of these habits can be depressing. If we seem to be

making no progress, life can become downright discouraging. But we must not give in to

discouragement. We have everything to gain and nothing to lose except that which is of no

value for the Kingdom of God anyway. Discouragement that feeds frustration only makes

Satan's work that much easier for him.

There are things we can do to enhance the initial hunger God gives to us. If we were

physically hungry or thirsty, we would give every last ounce of strength we had to find food

and water or die in the effort. We must be willing to do whatever it takes to make progress in

our quest for God's righteousness.

As adolescents, we were unaware that growth was taking place until someone who had

not seen us for a while brought it to our attention. Even though we were not aware we were

growing, we still made efforts to grow by eating and drinking the things that promote growth.

In the same way spiritual growth may also seem so slow that we think it is not happening.

But we should not let that stop us! We must keep on making the spiritual efforts even as we

did the physical, and growth will occur. Keep on praying for others, thanking God for His

goodness and mercy, asking for wisdom, love and faith. Keep studying God's Word,

filling the mind with it.

“ Whatever things are true, whatever things are noble,

whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever

things are lovely, whatever things are of good report, if there

is any virtue and if there is anything praiseworthy—meditate

on these things.” (Philippians 4:8)

Paul writes in II Timothy 3:1, "In the last days perilous times

will come." For us, a great deal of that peril exists in the

multitude of visible, emotional and audible distractions that

occupy minds nurtured by television, movies and radio. Through these mediums we invite

the world and much of its appeal directly into our homes. We have come to tolerate

television's intrusion into our lives. By means of the Internet, some of us have become

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information junkies, and others can hardly go anywhere without being accompanied by a

playing radio or iPod. We need to honestly examine ourselves as to whether we are showing

God that what this world bombards our minds with through these mediums is really what we

hunger and thirst for. How are they preparing us for the Kingdom of God?

God is the Source of what makes us grow spiritually, so we must strive to keep the

relationship with Him vibrantly alive through constant communication and striving to obey.

We must fill our minds with His character and His wonderful purpose, counterbalancing these

with knowing what this world is really like. These things will help to put an "edge" on our

hunger, helping to keep it alive and sharp.

We must ask God to fill our minds with insight into the glorious way He lives life—free of fear

and pain, unworried about murder or harm, always creating and involved in wonderful

projects that bring good to others, warmly satisfied in accomplishing good. Do we not desire

to live life forever like this too?

Because of the nature of Christianity

today, the third kind of biblical

righteousness does not touch as much on

our lives. At the same time, we must not

allow ourselves to think it is of little

importance. This kind of righteousness can

be called a social righteousness. It is

hungering and thirsting for righteousness for the community as well as for the self. It can

involve civil rights, justice in the courts, integrity in business, and honor in home and family.

At the very least, this righteousness contemplates, "Let your light so shine before men, that

they see your good works and glorify your Father in heaven" (Matthew 5:16).

Today, "our citizenship is in heaven" (Philippians 3:20). Peter describes us as "sojourners

and pilgrims," showing Christians as being aliens in a land not theirs, just passing through, as

it were, to another place (I Peter 2:11). Paul calls us "ambassadors for Christ" (II Corinthians

5:20). Therefore, in many aspects of the exercise of citizenship normally required in a

country of residence, our priority goes to the Kingdom of God.

Jesus is a clear example of what we must seek to do. Despite all of His wonderful powers,

He never moved to change society externally. Though exceedingly wiser than the

entrenched government, He in no way attempted to overthrow it or get a crowd behind Him

to vote it out of existence. He did not participate in its politics, nor did He sit in councils or

juries judging cases that normally come to those bodies. The apostle Paul followed His

example. There is no record of any of the apostles concerning themselves with these things,

even though they were undoubtedly disgusted with the outrageous injustices perpetrated and

sympathetic toward the victims. Indeed, like Jesus, they all may have been victims of human

government. They, like us, undoubtedly yearned with great desire for the time to come when

they could change things according to God's way.

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We should have this desire to change things,

and thus we pray virtually every day, "Thy

kingdom come." But this should not stop us

from doing good as we have opportunity.

Jesus did move to change society internally

by laying the groundwork through the

preaching of the gospel of the Kingdom of God and dying for the sins of mankind. He used

His office as God's apostle by traveling around the nation doing good through healing,

counseling and teaching. He did not do more because it was not yet God's time for it.

Similarly, though we do not have the office of God's apostle, we nonetheless have His

authority to do good works within the framework of our part of His body.

Thus Paul writes in Galatians 6:9-10:

“ And let us not grow weary while doing good, for in due

season we shall reap if we do not lose heart. Therefore, as we

have opportunity, let us do good to all, especially to those who

are of the household of faith.”

It is noteworthy that Paul includes some incentive to gain

more willing participation in seeking this righteousness. We

are not to give in to weariness but to know that we will reap reward. That is God's promise. If,

like a farmer, we want a harvest, we must also sow.

The opportunity to do good imposes the obligation to do it. We have been favored when an

opportunity to serve arises. We are not to do it only when it is convenient or when it will

contribute to our fame, but we should do it when we have opportunity, no matter how often it

occurs or how much self-denial it takes. Proverbs 3:27-28 adds the Bible's approval of this

maxim:

“Do not withhold good from those to whom it is due, when it is in the power of your hand

to do so. Do not say to your neighbor, "Go, and come back, and tomorrow I will give it," when

you have it with you.”

We should be thankful for the privilege of representing our Savior in this manner. If we are

not, we might need to ask ourselves, "Just how hungry am I to carry out this search for

righteousness?"

Like all the other beatitudes, this one also has a promise. Remember, this is a God-

created hunger that begins when He calls us into His Family. When God creates a hunger

and thirst in us, it is so that He may fill it. When God creates a need in us to know Him, to

understand His will and be like Him, it is for the express purpose of drawing us to Him to

embrace all these things as part of ourselves.

Like hungering and thirsting, there is first an initial and then a continuous filling. He fills us

with what He is and what we need to negotiate our pilgrimage to His Kingdom safely and

securely. He fills us with understanding that we might have His perspective on the affairs of

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this life and a clear vision of our future life in His Kingdom. He fills us with wisdom that we

might apply the understanding He makes available to us. He fills us with a peace that passes

all understanding in the midst of an insane world. He fills us with thanksgiving and knowledge

of Him that we might praise Him. He fills us with faith, hope and love that we might be like

Him (I John 3:2).

He does all this and much more that we might be done with sin forever. Then, according to

Revelation 7:16-17,

“ They shall neither hunger anymore nor thirst anymore; . . . for the Lamb who is in the

midst of the throne will shepherd them and lead them to living fountains of waters.”

THE TRAVELING ICON OF THE MOTHER OF POCHAIV

You can arrange to have the icon in your home by using the sign-up sheet at the back of the church. Just write your name on the week in the calendar that corresponds to your choice of time period.

When we speak of icons as a medium for “gazing into heaven”, we refer to their value as much more than ethereal-looking religious art. Instead, icons serve as a very real means for connecting us with God and His love. Icons are beautiful, but without relationship behind it, beauty alone feeds only a portion of the human soul, and ultimately patronizes the deep human need for loving connection with the Transcendent. With this in mind, we seek to view icons as points of visual and spiritual intersection with eternal things, as living prompts for our prayers, and as reminders of the very real world that exists beyond the limitations of this temporal one. Icons can seem complicated or strange at first. Take time to come present to the icon, to simply gaze, allowing both your sense of sight as well as the longings of your heart to interact with what the icon presents to you in a particular moment. Icons have a way of teaching the heart spiritual truths the mind cannot. This is part of what is meant by icons being “theology in color.

While the Icon is in your home pray before it, alone or with others, for all your intentions and needs. You may pray the Rosary, in whole or in part, or the prayers from the Moleben to the Mother of God, or pray in your own words; or simply spend some silent moments in meditation, listening and being attentive to God's Word.

In your prayers, approach the Blessed Mother with childlike confidence and bring her all your concerns, worries, disappointments, hurts and sufferings, and all your needs, wishes and hopes. But also say a prayer of thanksgiving for all of your successes and joys, your graces and blessings, known and unknown. Make the most of the presence of Mary's Icon in your home.

MUSICIANS WANTED

Marianne has had to give up her organ playing duties. She brought a lot to

our services through her gift of music. She will be missed.

If you play an instrument and would like to share your gift, please contact

Father Walter or the parish office. If you know of someone who may like to

play, please talk to them about it. Thank you.

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LITURGIES & INTENTIONS

INTENTION OFFERED BY

JUNE 19TH 10:00 BLESSINGS ON ALL FATHERS LIVING & DECEASED

GOOD HEALTH LEO & PETER MACSYMACH JEAN DERHAK

GOOD HEALTH MARGARET ANTONYSHEN JEAN DERHAK

THANKSGIVING THERESA ALLARD

HEALTH OF ED TOKARYK DIANE PINUTA

+SOUL OF VICKI PUSHKA FATHER WALTER

+SOUL OF LOU GOLLETS ROSE & JOHN WASYLIW

+SOUL OF ED PILAT ROSE & JOHN WASYLIW

JUNE 20TH 6:30 pm +SOUL OF ED PILAT TONY SKLAR

JUNE 21ST 8:30 am +SOUL OF RAY POPLAWSKI MARY POPLAWSKI

+SOULS OF GREGORY NICK POPLAWSKI MARY POPLAWSKI

JUNE 22ND 8:30 am +SOUL OF LOU GOLLETS MORLEY & EVELYN LUHOWY

JUNE 23RD 8:30 am +SOUL OF MARJORIE ROMANIK CAROL KOCH

JUNE 24TH 8:30 am +SOULS OF STANLEY & EMILY STOYANSKY & FAMILY C&A

JUNE 26TH 10:00 am +SOULS OF ALEX & DARLENE BUGERA VICKI BUGERA

+SOUL OF ED PILAT MILDRED GOLLETS

+SOUL OF MARJORIE ROMANIK MILDRED GOLLETS

+SOUL OF LOU GOLLETS ANNE TANCHAK

JUNE 27TH NO MASS

JUNE 28TH 8:30 am +SOUL OF ED PILAT STELLA PROKOPOWICH

JUNE 29TH 8:30 am +SOUL OF MARJORIE ROMANIK PHYLLIS FEDORCHUK

JUNE 30TH 8:30 am +SOUL OF LOU GOLLETS ADELINE SHYMANSKI

JULY 1ST NO MASS HAPPY CANADA DAY

JULY 3RD 10:00 am +SOUL OF VICKI PUSHKA FATHER WALTER

+SOUL OF LOU GOLLETS MARY TURKO

+SOUL OF ED PILAT ANNE TANCHAK

JULY 4TH NO MASS

JULY 5TH 8:30 am

JULY 6TH 8:30 am +SOUL OF LOU GOLLETS V KASKIW

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SANCTUARY LIGHT

WEEK OF INTENTION OFFERED BY

JUNE 19TH +SOULS OF SISTERS CHRISTINE, MARY & PEARL DOREEN MUSICK & FAMILY

JUNE 26TH +SOULS OF BROTHERS PAUL, WALTER & NICHOLAS DOREEN MUSICK & FAMILY

JULY 3RD HEALTH OF ANNA LABAY ANDY & LINDA LABAY

JULY 10TH +SOUL OF TONY NAHULIAK VIRGINIA MOORE

JULY 24TH +SOUL OF EMILY STOYANSKY ANGELA & CATHY STOYANSKY

AUGUST 28TH HEALTH & BLESSINGS ANGELA STOYANSKY CATHY STOYANSKY

SEPTEMBER 4TH +SOULS OF WILLIAM & NELLIE KABAN KABAN FAMILY

SEPTEMBER 11TH +SOUL OF ROSE CAMERON KABAN FAMILY

SEPTEMBER 18TH HEALTH & BLESSINGS ANGELA STOYANSKY CATHY STOYANSKY

SEPTEMBER 25TH +SOUL OF FRED SOLTYS ANNE SOLTYS & FAMILY

OCTOBER 2ND HEALTH & BLESSINGS FATHER WALTER CATHY & ANGELA STOYANSKY

OCTOBER 30TH +SOUL OF ANNE SKOCHYLES GERRY SKOCHYLES

NOVEMBER 6TH HEALTH & BLESSINGS CATHY STOYANSKY ANGELA STOYANSKY

NOVEMBER 13TH +SOUL OF LARRY FEDORCHUK PHYLLIS FEDORCHUK & FAMILY

DECEMBER 4TH +SOUL OF JOHN LABAY ANDY & LINDA LABAY

DECEMBER 18TH +SOUL OF STANLEY STOYANSKY CATHY & ANGELA STOYANSKY

DECEMBER 25TH +SOUL OF HNAT ZAMRYKUT ANNE TANCHAK & FAMILY

A Sanctuary Light burns eternally to indicate the presence of Jesus in the Holy Eucharist in the Tabernacle. It is a marvelous thing that we can actually be in His presence!

"It is for us that, during eighteen hundred years, our divine Saviour has remained day and night

on our altars, that we may have recourse to Him in all our needs; and nothing so much afflicts

His divine Heart as our ingratitude for such a favor, and our neglect to visit Him and ask His

blessing. If we knew how profitable those visits are, we should be constantly prostrate before the

altar. The Saints understood this truth; they knew that Jesus Christ is the source of all grace, and

whenever they encountered any difficulty or wished to obtain any particular favor, they ran to

Jesus Christ in the Blessed Sacrament. St. Francis Xavier, St. Francis Regis and others spent

whole hours during the day and, frequently, a great part of the night at the foot of the altar; it was

in these long interviews with Jesus Christ that they advanced the good works they had in hand,

converted sinners, and obtained success in all their undertakings for the glory of God and their

own sanctification,"

- Blessed J. B. Marcellin Champagnat (1789-1840)

June 19, 2016

BLESSING PRAYER FOR OUR FATHER WALTER

Blessed are You, Lord and Father of all life, who has given to us the gift of the Father of our

parish.

Today, we honor him and we thank You for the numerous good things that are ours because of

him.

His love for us has been a sign of Your divine affection and a sharing in Your holy love.

His continuous concern for our needs and welfare is a mirror of Your holy providence.

And so, as we honor him we praise You, Father of all peoples.

Bless him this day with Your strength and holy power that he may continue to be a sign of You,

our God.

May we, the members of his parish family, assist him in his holy duties as a priest with our

respect, our obedience and our deep affection.

Bless him, Lord, with happiness and good health, with peace and with good fortune, so that he

who has shared of his very life may live forever with You, his God and heavenly Father. This

blessing and all graces, we pray, descend upon the Father of our parish, Father Walter; in the

name of the Father, and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.

Amen

June 19, 2016

A PRAYER FOR OUR FATHERS

Let us praise those fathers who have striven to balance the demands of work, marriage, and children with an honest awareness of both joy and sacrifice. Let us praise those fathers who, lacking a good model for a father, have worked to become a good father. Let us praise those fathers who by their own account were not always there for their children, but who continue to offer those children, now grown, their love and support.

Let us pray for those fathers who have been wounded by the neglect and hostility of their children. Let us praise those fathers who, despite divorce, have remained in their children's lives. Let us praise those fathers whose children are adopted, and whose love and support has offered healing. Let us praise those fathers who, as stepfathers, freely choose the obligation of fatherhood and earned their step children's love and respect. Let us praise those fathers who have lost a child to death, and continue to hold the child in their heart. Let us praise those men who have no children, but cherish the next generation as if they were their own. Let us praise those men who have "fathered" us in their role as mentors and guides. Let us praise those men who are about to become fathers; may they openly delight in their children. And let us praise those fathers who have died, but live on in our memory and whose love continues to nurture us. Grant that we, their sons and daughters, may honor them always with a spirit of profound respect. Grant this through Christ our Lord. Amen

June 19, 2016

IF IT’S BROKEN…

IF YOU NOTICE THAT ANYTHING IN THE CHURCH,

BASEMENT OR OUTSIDE THE BUILDING IS IN NEED

OF REPAIR, PUT A NOTE IN THE SUGGESTION BOX

WHICH IS LOCATED ON THE WALL, TO THE RIGHT OF

THE LITERATURE RACK.

Ukrainian Park Summer Camp The camp is located near Gimli, along the west shore of Lake Winnipeg. Children grades 6-10 can register to attend July3-10; grades K-6 attend July 10-17. Camp Counsellors and parent volunteers are needed. Visit the link below for the Camp brochure, registration form, video, and more. See you at Camp this summer!

CancerCare Challenge for Life 20K Walk

Thank you to all the parishioners who

sponsored me in the Challenge for Life 20K

Walk held this past Saturday June 11. With your

help I was able to raise $930. I completed the

20Km walk in 4.25 hours. Along with 756

participants ( one who was my sister ) , the total

raised was $955,062.

Thanks again, Gus Groen

HAPPIEST OF BIRTHDAYS TO:

ANDY LABAY will celebrate on June 20th

JEAN BAYDOCK who will celebrate on June 21st

LEONA SOLOMON who will celebrate on June 22nd

JO ANN ILKEW who will celebrate on June 23rd

MICHAEL ZYLA who will celebrate on June 25th

MNOHAYA -MNOHAYA LITA! GOD GRANT YOU MANY HAPPY YEARS

June 19, 2016

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY TO:

TONY & GAYLENE SIANCHUK (JUNE 23, 1973)

May your marriage be blessed with love, joy and companionship for all

the years of your lives.

“Love is patient, love is kind, it does not envy, it does not boast, it is not

proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it

keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices

with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.” (Corinthians 13:4-8)

JOHN & LEONA SOLOMON JUNE 25, 1966

Warmest congratulations & sincere best wishes on your Golden

Wedding Anniversary. May your beautiful & admirable union be

richly blessed & your love grow stronger. Cheers & abundant

blessings as you celebrate your 50 Years of Marriage!

FOUND

A HARDCOVER ‘VICTORIA’ BOOK. PLEASE CONTACT THE PARISH

OFFICE.

By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks

he’s wrong. – Charles Wadsworth

When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old

man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned

in seven years. – Mark Twain

June 19, 2016

Come celebrate family and faith at

St. Basil’s Family Fun Picnic Sunday, June 26th at 11:00 a.m.

(immediately following the liturgy)

Bring your favourite lawn chair and an appetite for fun!

The sign-up for attendance and potluck salads will be at the back of the church on Sunday, June 12th.

June 19, 2016

COMMUNITY CALENDAR

The Canon Luhovy Assembly Educational Foundation provides

financial assistance to Ukrainian Catholic students, seminarians &

religious sisters who attend post-secondary institutions, seminaries &

private Catholic secondary schools. Bursary application forms are

available on the bulletin board. The closing date for receipt of

applications is September 30th.

Celebrate 125 years of Ukrainians in Canada with

the oldest UCC & UOC Parishes in Southeast MB (Stuartburn UCC & Historical St. Michael’s), His Grace Metropolitan Lawrence, His Eminence Metropolitan Yurij, the Ukrainian Canadian Congress, & the Gardenton Ukrainian Festival!

Saturday, 9 July, 2016

9 am View Historic Church grounds & Panakhyda Celebrated by His Grace Metropolitan Lawrence @

Stuartburn UCC (2 miles east of Stuartburn on Hwy 201) 10:30 am Ecumenical Ukrainian Catholic & Orthodox Moleben Con-Celebrated by His Grace Metropolitan

Lawrence & His Eminence Metropolitan Yurij @ Gardenton Festival Stage 11:45 am Dinner with His Grace Metropolitan Lawrence & His Eminence Metropolitan Yurij @ Gardenton

Festival Grounds Advance Tickets: $20 / person, including Festival Pass. 1 pm Festival Concert For tickets or more info: Angela Smook 204.425.3386 or Facebook: Southeastern Manitoba Ukrainian

Heritage

The Welcome Home

Urgent: The Welcome Home is in need of a new refrigerator. It must be in good working

order. We can only fit a 30 in wide fridge that is no deeper than 27 in. If you can help us,

please call Justine at 204-946-5352 or Michelle at 204-799-1060. Thank you!

UR Youth

Saturday June 25, 9:45am-6pm - Hop on board the Mystery Bus! Plan on spending the entire day together.

Drop-off's and pick-ups from the parking lot at St. Joseph's Ukrainian Catholic Church. Parents must RSVP

to Michelle by Monday June 20. A "What to bring" list will be emailed out that week. It's gonna be good!

Contact Michelle at rymcssr@gmail.com or call/text 204-799-1060.

June 19, 2016

Under the Radar Urban Outreach Program at Siloam Mission July 25-28, 2016! Live at The Welcome Home

and volunteer at Siloam Mission . . . and do much, much more! Connecting compassionate youth with

Winnipeg's inner city! For ages 14-18 years. Deadline to apply: June 30th. Cost is $100. If you attend

UR Youth, it's only $50!

Ukraine-Kyiv Pavilion is starting its volunteer recruitment drive for folklorama 2016. This

year, Ukraine-Kyiv Pavilion will run during the first week of Folklorama (July 31 to August 6,

2016) and will be located at Maples Collegiate, 1330 Jefferson Avenue. Pavioion set up will

take place from July 25 theough 30. Pavilion take down will take place on Monday, August 8.

If you are interested in volunteering, please contact us at volunteers@kyivpavilion.ca. Please

note that volunteers must sign up ahead of time by July 24, 2016.

Ukrainian Park, located 9.5 km. North of Gimli. 3 bedroom, 2 story lake front cottage for rent. $750.00/ week. For details call 204-416-0050.

◄ May June 2016 July ►

Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat

19 Father's Day

20 Parish Council

Meeting 6:30 pm

21 National

Aboriginal Day

(Canada)

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25

26 FAMILY FUN

PICNIC 11:00 am

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June 19, 2016