Church Bulletin for June 5, 2022
Оголошення Announcements
The second Memorial Parastas Service and Blessing of Graves will take place today at 2pm at Notre Dame Cemetery.You are welcome to come to the cemetery and submit the names of your deceased loved ones for commemoration if you have not yet emailed them.
Kneeling Vespers will be celebrated today at 7:30pm in church. Today is Pentecost on the Gregorian calendar and kneeling vespers is one of the celebrations connected to this great feast.
Next parish council meeting: 7:30pm, Thursday, June 9.
First Holy Communion for the 11:30am Sunday Liturgy will take place next Sunday, June 12. Several children will be receiving their first solemn communion then. They will have their first confession on June 11. The Liturgy will be followed by a pot luck lunch for the whole community to help celebrate. All parishioners are invited to participate, and bring a salad, main dish, or dessert. Here are the names of the children who will be receiving these sacraments; please keep them in your prayers this coming week:
Emilia Baran
Élie Bastien
Edith Coleman
William Coleman
Desmond Geraghty
Braxton Vasyl Hofmeister
Layla MacKay
Asher Yawnee
Leena Yawney
We commend to your prayers the souls of the servants of God Osypa Komarynksy. Her funeral services will take place Sunday, June 12 at 7pm at McEvoy Shields funeral home and at 10am on Monday, June 13 in church.
Our Parish Praznyk will be celebrated on Sunday, June 26th with a single bilingual divine liturgy at 10:30am, followed by a barbeque outside the church.
The Shrine has concluded an agreement with UCC Ottawa to work with them in setting up and running an office to provide settlement assistance to Ukrainian displaced persons arriving in Ottawa. The office will be located within the premises of the Maidan Marketplace space in Westgate Shopping Centre on Carling Avenue. If you would like to support the settlement assistance office, you can make a donation to “St. John the Baptist Ukrainian Catholic Shrine,” and write “Settlement Assistance Office” in the memo field of the cheque. The Ottawa Community Foundation has already given a grant of $20,000 to set up the office and hire staff members. The O.C.F. will be giving grants of money to support the office on an ongoing basis.
Most Reverend Bryan Bayda will be installed as the Ukrainian Catholic bishop of Toronto on Monday, June 27, 2022. Fr.’s Joachim and Ireneus will travel to St. Peter & Paul’s parish in Scarborough for the installation. The eparchy is reserving space for two volunteers from each parish to come to the installation. Anyone interested in attending the installation can contact Fr. Ireneus at 613-723-1673 or at pastor@stjbshrine.ca.