THE HOPE TO WHICH THE LORD CALLS US Â Pastoral Letter of the Synod of Bishops of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church To the Clergy, Religious, and all the Faithful of the UGCC I do not cease to give thanks for you, remembering you in my prayers, that the God of...
Week 1:Â Find a large basket or a box that you can fill over the six weeks of St. Phillips Fast with food for your choice of charity. Some suggestions are: Youth Empowerment Services, Wings of Providence, WINN House, Boyle Street Services. Make a large cloth Christmas...
The Emmanuel Moleben is a beautiful prayer service preparing one for Christmas. The Nativity Fast (St. Philip’s Fast, Пилипівка) is a time to prepare ourselves to receive Christ incarnate. One way that we do that is to take part in various prayer services. Consider...
Week 1: Feast of St. Philip Read: Jesus Calls Philip and Nathanael, John 1:43-50  The next day, Jesus decided to leave for Galilee. Finding Philip, he said to him, “Follow me.” Philip, like Andrew and Peter, was from the town of Bethsaida. Philip found...
This fast begins forty days before the Nativity of our Lord on November 15, the day after the feast of St. Philip, and that is why it called Saint Philip’s Fast (or the Philippian Fast – Pilipiwka in Ukrainian). The Philippian Fast is a time to prepare us to...
