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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 23, 2019

Today: 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).

July 3, Wednesday: 9:30 a.m. Akathist to the Most Holy Theotokos.

July 7, 3rd Sunday after Pentecost. Nativity of the Holy Glorious Prophet, Forerunner and Baptist John: 9:30 a.m. Liturgy at St. Sophie Cathedral. 10:00 a.m. Liturgy at St. George’s Church in Lachine.

Note: On Sundays July 7, 14, 21 and 28 Fr. Ihor will be on vacation.
On the Sundays following, Liturgies will start at 9:00 am until September 8.

Apostles’ Fast: fish, wine and oil allowed.

Calendar

1st Sunday after Pentecost. Sunday of All Saints.

Tone 8. Hieromartyr Timothy, Bp. of Prussa (361-363). Martyr Alexander and Virgin-martyr Antonina at Constantinople (313). St. Theophanes, monk of Antioch (363). St. Bassion, bp. of Lodi (409). St. John, Metropolitan of Tobolsk (1715). Ven. Silvanus of the Kyivan Caves (XIII-XIV).

Liturgy: Heb. 11:33-12:2; Mt. 10:32,33, 37,38, 19:27-30.

CALENDAR 2019