Welcome to
St. Mary the Protectress Ukrainian Orthodox Church

November 17, 22nd Sunday after Pentecost: 9:00 a.m. Matins. 10:00 a.m. Liturgy. We pray for the health of Volodymyr, father of Oleksii Vorobei (Sorokousty – 29).

November 20, Wednesday: 9:30 a.m. Akathist to our Lord, God and Saviour Jesus Christ.

November 21, Thursday, Synaxis of the Holy Archangel Michael and all the Bodiless Powers of Heaven: 9:30 a.m. Liturgy at St. Sophie Cathedral (Fr. Ihor shall be teaching at St. Andrew’s College in Winnipeg).

November 23, Saturday: 14h00 Commemoration of the Holodomor-Genocide of 1932-1933 – Ecumenical Panakhyda at Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary Ukrainian Catholic Church, 6175 10e Avenue, Montréal, QC H1Y 2H5. Organized by the Ukrainian Canadian Congress.

November 24, 23rd Sunday after Pentecost: 9:00 a.m. Matins. 10:00 a.m. Liturgy. We pray for the health of Volodymyr, father of Oleksii Vorobei (Sorokousty – 30). Panakhyda for the Martyrs of the Holodomor 1932-33. We encourage our Parishioners to prepare for and unite with our Lord in the Holy Eucharist, as a sign of our solidarity with our Martyrs.

November 27, Wednesday, Holy Apostle Philip, Beginning of the Nativity Fast: 9:30 a.m. Akathist to the Most Holy Theotokos.
November 30, Saturday: 5:00 p.m. Vespers.

December 1, 24th Sunday after Pentecost: 9:00 a.m. Matins. 10:00 a.m. Liturgy. We pray for the health of Volodymyr, father of Oleksii Vorobei (Sorokousty – 31). Panakhyda for Terry Procop of blessed memory (1st ann. – requested by his wife Nadia Sukhanova). Nativity Fast now – fish, wine and oil permitted.

21st Sunday after Pentecost. Tone 4. Ven. Job, Abbot and Wonderworker of Pochaiv (1651). Martyrs Terence and Neonilla of Syria and their children Sarbelus, Photus, Theodulus, Hierax, Nitus, Bele, and Eunice (249). Great Martyr Parasceva (III). Martyrs Africanus, Terence, Maximus, Pompeius, and 36 others at Carthage (250). Hieromartyr Cyriacus, pat. of Jerusalem (363). St. John the Chozebite, Bishop of Caesarea in Palestine (532). Hieromartyr Neophytus, Bishop of Urbnisi, Georgia (VII). St. Stephen of St. Sabbas’ Monastery, hymnographer (807). St. Arsenius I of Srem, archbp. of Serbia (1266). St. Demetrius, Metropolitan of Rostov (1709). St. Theophil of the Kyivan Caves.

Matins: G10 Jn. 21:1-14. Liturgy: Gal. 2:16-20; Luke 8:26-39 (Ord.); Gal. 5:22-6:2; Lk. 6: 17-23 (Venerable Father).

22nd Sunday after Pentecost. Tone 5. Ven. Joannicius the Great (846). Hieromartyrs Nicander, Bishop of Myra, and Hermas, presbyter (I). Ven. Mercurius of the Kyivan Caves (XIV).

Matins: G11 – Jn. 21:15-25. Liturgy: Gal. 6:11-18; Lk. 8:41-56.