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Our parish this week Цього тижня в нашій парафії НИНІ: панахида +Михайло Слюсарчик Засідання відділу ЛУКЖК/meeting of our branch of the UCWLC 7.2.2017 (Tuesday) 10 a.m. Божественна св. Літургія/ Divine Liturgy 7 p.m. Засідання парафіяльної ради/Parish Council meeting 8.2.2017 (Wednesday) 11 a.m. Молебень/Moleben 1 p.m. Клюб Зустріч/ Seniors’ Meeting 10.2.2017 (Friday) 10 a.m. Божественна св. Літургія/ Divine Liturgy 7:00 p.m. Вервиця /Rosary

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Happy Birthday! Многая літа ! Вітаємо парафіян котрі цього тиждня відзначують день народження. Greetings and best wishes to all our parishioners who celebrate their birthday this week: Daria Marko and Andrez Kocan (5th), and Margareta Kocan (11th).

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Perhaps we can begin by having you just generally explain what the Divine Liturgy is. Talk about the Divine Liturgy usually contres on the idea that it’s important and we need to participate. Supposedly its meaning is obvious. I hear this all the time: in theological circles and in churches.However, we don’t usually consider the meaning of what is central to us, as people. For example a lot is said about love, we sing about love, but we have a problem when we try to define the nature of love. It is similar when it comes to the Liturgy. In our UGCC, and perhaps in Christianity generally, many people attend services, but how many of us understand the Liturgy? First, before we can bring about change, we need to shift the Divine Liturgy out of the category of obligation. We must revive the early Christian understanding of the Liturgy, as the source of our lives. I am not saying that there was a time when the Liturgy was ideal and now it is problematic. But it is a historical fact that from the 4th century, when Christianity became the official religion of the Roman Empire, something very serious changes in the understanding of the Liturgy: it moves from being an essential element of life to an obligation. And I would say this continues today. Of course, the Church, in making it an obligation, wanted to help. It wanted the baptised to participate in something that is essential for life. But by making Liturgy an obligation much became deformed. If I were to describe the Liturgy in one word, I would say that the Liturgy is CELEBRATION. A celebration of what is most important for the Christian: their life in God; a celebration of salvation given by Christ; all that we have and have received as gift. And there must be some ritual to assist us in coming to recognize this and to regularly experience it anew.

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Суть притчі добре передана картиною A.E.Borthwick “The Presence”. Художник зобразив кульмінаційну частину служби – причастя святих христових таїн. Храм темний і майже порожній, але вівтар яскраво осяяний світлом. У лівому нижньому кутку картини, коло самого входу, в напів-темряві, жінка стоїть на колінах, немов ховаючись, не наважується підійти ближче. Одразу позаду неї осяяна світлом фігура Христа. Спаситель протягує руку чи то благословляючи, чи відпускаючи її гріхи… Траппістський монах Томас Мертон так визначає суть смиренності: “Смирення означає бути в житті тим, ким ви є в очах Божих”. На його думку суть смирення не у зосередженні на поведінці, а в усвідомленні постійного перебування перед очима Божими. Бути не тим, ким ви хочете щоби вас бачили люди, або ким ви самі себе вважаєте, а тим, ким ви дійсно є перед Богом… Holmes, Robert M. “A Satisfactory Humility.” Day1.org. 23 Sept. 2001. Web.

WhygotoChurch?IntheupcomingweekswewillbeturningourattentiontotheDivineLiturgy.Inthebulletinwewillbeexcerptingarticleswhichhelpexplainthiscentralliturgicalevent.ThearticlescomefromthemagazineKANA(Dec.,2016)andofferusvariousperspectives.IfyouhaveyourownquestionsabouttheDivineLiturgy,pleasesendanemailtoFr.Myroslawandwewilltryandanswertheminanupcomingbulletin.

SowhatisgoingonintheDivineLiturgy?Sometimes you’ll come to Church and there are so many people there, the priest is singing his parts and the choir theirs. Some people are murmuring, others are silent . . .to my right an older woman is praying the rosary, near the confessional some are arguing about who is last in line and the priest has been trying the last half hour to deliver his homily. Yes, there is something going on here, but what? I want something to happen, but all I see is downturned heads. What am I doing here? If you have experienced some of this, you are not alone. That’s why we had a conversation with Maksym Tymo, a liturgist, theologian and lecturer at UKU, about why should we be at this Divine Liturgy and what happens here.

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