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Welcome to
St. Mary the Protectress Ukrainian Orthodox Church

CHRIST IS RISEN! TRULY HE IS RISEN!

OUR PARISH

The Ukrainian Orthodox Parish of St. Mary the Protectress was formed in 1952 primarily by people from Eastern Ukraine who had undergone the horrors of the famine-genocide of 1932-33, the brutal occupation by the Communist regime, the terrors of war and the uncertainties of emigration to a new land whose official languages were unknown to them.

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Order of Services
June 9, 2019

Today: 9:00 a.m. Liturgy followed by Vespers with the Kneeling Prayers – we kneel in the Temple for the first time since Pascha. We pray for the health of Volodymyr, father of Oleksii Vorobei (Sorokousty – 8).

June 17, Monday, Day of the Holy Spirit: 9:30 a.m. Liturgy. We pray for the health of Volodymyr, father of Oleksii Vorobei (Sorokousty – 9).

June 19, Wednesday: 9:30 a.m. Akathist to St. Nicholas the Wonderworker.

June 22, Saturday, Apodosis of Pentecost: 5:00 p.m. Vespers.

June 23, 1st Sunday after Pentecost. Sunday of All Saints: 10:00 a.m. Liturgy. We pray for the health of Volodymyr, father of Oleksii Vorobei (Sorokousty – 10).

June 26, Wednesday: 9:30 a.m. Akathist to our Lord God and Saviour Jesus Christ.

June 29, Saturday: 5:00 p.m. Vespers.

June 30, 2nd Sunday after Pentecost. Sunday of All Saints who shone forth from Rus’-Ukraine: 10:00 a.m. Liturgy. We pray for the health of Volodymyr, father of Oleksii Vorobei (Sorokousty – 11).

Calendar

PENTECOST – TRINITY SUNDAY.

Descent of the Holy Spirit. Martyr Lucillian and those with him at Byzantium: the youths Claudius, Hypatius, Paul, and Dionysius; and Virgin Paula (270-275). Hieromartyr Lucian the bishop, Maxianus the priest, Julian the deacon and Martyrs Marcellinus and Saturninus in Belgium (ca.96). St. Kevin, Abbot of Glendalough (618).

Liturgy: Acts 2:1-11; Jn. 7:37-52, 8:12.

CALENDAR 2019