Holy Trinity Ukrainian Catholic Church

Why does the orthodox cross have three bars with the bottom one slanted?

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Good listen for those interested in the Greek Catholic (Byzantine) Catholic Church.

What is the Byzantine Catholic Church? In this video, Father Christopher Zugger from Our Lady of Perpetual Help Parish explains what the Byzantine Catholic Church is. To support our Parish, please...

Our pastor Father Jason Charron on Fox News this weekend. Please pray for an end to all violence throughout the world…especially here in the United States, in Ukraine, and the Holy Land.

Pope John Paul II's Prayer for Peace

Lord Jesus Christ, who are called the Prince of Peace,
who are yourself our peace and reconciliation,
who so often said, "Peace to you," grant us peace.

Make all men and women witnesses of truth, justice,
and brotherly love.
Banish from their hearts whatever might endanger peace.

Enlighten our rulers that they may
guarantee and defend the great gift of peace.
May all peoples on the earth
become as brothers and sisters.
May longed for peace blossom forth
and reign always over us all.

Priest believes 'hand of God' entered into affairs of men in Trump assassination attempt Fr. Jason Charron tells 'Fox News Live' he's praying for a 'solid, robust defense of Ukraine' and of 'the right to life' and discusses his experience at the ...

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Pray for faithful Catholics in Germany. Here is our pastor, Father Jason, speaking about the problems going on in the German Catholic Church on Pints With Aquinas

Be sober and vigilant. Your opponent the devil is prowling around like a roaring lion looking for [someone] to devour. Resist him, steadfast in faith, knowing that your fellow believers throughout the world undergo the same sufferings. 1 Peter 5:8-9

"They Can Occupy Our Churches, but They Are Outside The True Faith" w/ Fr. Jason Full Episode: https://mattfradd.locals.comFr. Jason and Matt Fradd compare the situation in The German Catholic Church to that of the A***n Crisis.Clip Sourc...

Please join us this weekend to congratulate our new parish cantor, Mr Peter Coelho-Kostolny, as he officially begins his ministry. May God grant him and his wife many happy, healthy, and blessed years! 🎼

EASTERN CATHOLICISM 101: The epitrachelion (Greek: ἐπιτραχήλιον “around the neck”; a stole in casual English) is the liturgical vestment worn by priests and bishops of the Eastern Catholic Churches as the symbol of their priesthood, corresponding to the Western stole.

It is essentially the orarion (which the deacon wears) adapted for priests and bishops, worn around the neck with two ends of equal length hanging down in front of the clergyman’s body (more or less to the ankle) and with the two adjacent sides sewn or buttoned together up the center, leaving enough space through which to place the head. In practice, the epitrachelion is made to be worn only this way, tailored to lie flat around the neck, and is never actually unfastened. The portion hanging down in front is sometimes even a solid piece of fabric. It is usually made of brocade with seven embroidered or appliquéd crosses, one at the back of the neck and three down each side.

The epitrachelion is the only required vestment whenever a priest is conducting an Orthodox service; without it, he is unable to perform the service.

The Jesus Prayer 📿
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Eparchy of St. Josaphat diaconate students - Jeremy Coombs (St Sophia UCC - Garner, NC), Brett McCaw, Andrew Kurzawski (Holy Trinity UCC - Carnegie, PA) at the 2024 Holy Apostles Institute Diaconate Residency at St Sophia Ukrainian Catholic Church in Garner, NC.

The mission of the Holy Apostles Institute is to prepare future deacons for ministry, according to the Byzantine tradition of Eastern Catholicism.

Holy Apostles Institute is affiliated with the Ukrainian Catholic Church, under the auspices of the St. Josaphat Eparchy and Bishop Bohdan Danylo.

Please pray for the men of our Eparchy and those studying with the Institute who are discerning the priesthood and diaconate.

EASTERN CATHOLICISM 101: The phelon (Greek - to shine), also “riza”, “sakkos” - the sleeveless upper liturgical vestment of eastern priests and bishops. Symbolically, the phelonion is an illustration of divine light, righteousness, and joy.

HISTORY

In ancient times, a phelonion was a round or rectangular piece of white cloth with a hole for the head. It was usually long and wide and served as protection from the rain and wind. Similar garments were worn in daily life by Christ and the apostles. First patriarchs and metropolitans, and later bishops began to wear sakkos as an upper liturgical garment, so the phelonne came to be considered the garment of priests. The short phelonion was often used in sacred services. Later, in order to make the phelonion top of light fabrics lofty, it began to be sewn with a rigid lining.

SYMBOLISM

The cross is placed on the back at the top of the phelonion in the same way as on the stichar. And at the bottom of the back of the phelonion, in line with the cross is an eight-pointed star, which signifies the eighth century - the coming of the kingdom of heaven.

Thus, the two symbols, the cross and the eight-pointed star, symbolize the beginning and end of human salvation. These symbols may also signify the birth of Christ and his feat on the Cross. Another meaning is the connection in the Eastern of the Old and New Testaments.

The phelon remains an integral part of the priest’s vestments until the present time.

A very happy and blessed birthday to Pani Bobbi Pantalo Spak!

Pani Bobbi and Father Deacon Myron do many things around our parish that are often unseen but never unappreciated. We are incredibly fortunate to have them both here at our amazing parish.

Mnohaya lita!

EASTERN CATHOLICISM 101: Altar Servers Robe (Sticharion) is a part of Christian clergy vestments in form of a long straight robe with wide sleeves. Altar servers vestments are worn by the deacon on top of the cassock. It symbolizes the garment of salvation and usually sewn of light-colored cloth.

Such vestments are known by various names: robe, cassock, stychar, stycharis, sticharion, alba. Almost all of these names referred to the common undergarments worn by men and women in ancient times. The Christian Church adopted altar servers robes as sacred, after the pattern of the priestly garments of the Old Testament, known by the name of the Chiton. Altar server robe was usually used in orthodox and catholic churches. The most widespread stycharis color was the white. One variation of the name Alba means white garment.

The altar servers cassock symbolizes the light of life, recalls the purity and chastity with which God’s ministers should carry out their service, and expresses their spiritual joy for the Lord, who taught purity of life.

These orthodox christian robes are worn before the divine service and are blessed at the beginning of each service. For blessing the robe must be folded in a special way. It is folded twice in half in height, and the sleeves are tucked under the folding to make a square, on top of which is a cross on the back. Folded sticharion is placed on the left hand and two signs of the cross are made to the High place. After that it is necessary to come up to the serving priest, put the right hand on top of the cross with the palm up and take a blessing. After that turn to the High place, make the third sign of the cross, kiss the cross sewn on the back of the sticharion and reverently put on the robe.

The image of Our Lady of Perpetual Help is an icon, painted on wood, and seems to have originated around the thirteenth century. Traditionally, the image is also known as “Our Lady of Perpetual Succour.” The icon (about 54 x 41.5 centimeters) depicts our Blessed Mother Mary, under the title “Mother of God,” holding the Child Jesus. The Archangels Michael and Gabriel, hovering in the upper corners, hold the instruments of the Passion– St. Michael (in the left corner) holds the spear, the wine-soaked sponge, and the crown of thorns, and St. Gabriel (in the right corner) holds the cross and the nails. The intent of the artist was to portray the Child Jesus contemplating the vision of His future Passion. The anguish He feels is shown by the loss of one of His sandals. Nevertheless, the icon also conveys the triumph of Christ over sin and death, symbolized by the golden background (a sign of the glory of the resurrection) and the manner in which the angels hold the instruments, i.e. like trophies gathered up from Calvary on Easter morning.

In a very beautiful way, the Child Jesus grasps the hand of the Blessed Mother. He seeks comfort from His mother, as He sees the instruments of His passion. The position of Mary’s hands– both holding the Child Jesus (who seems like a small adult) and presenting Him to us– convey the reality of our Lord’s incarnation, that He is true God who became also true man. In iconography, Mary here is represented as the Hodighitria, the one who guides us to the Redeemer. She also is our Help, who intercedes on our behalf with her Son. The star painted on Mary’s veil, centered on her forehead, highlights her role in the plan of salvation as both the Mother of God and our Mother

According to popular tradition, a merchant acquired the icon of Our Lady of Perpetual Help from the island of Crete and had it shipped to Rome towards the end of the fifteenth century. During the voyage, a terrible storm arose, threatening the lives of all on ship. The passengers and crew prayed to our Blessed Mother, and were saved.

Once in Rome, the merchant, dying, ordered that the image should be displayed for public veneration. His friend, who retained the image, received further instructions: in a dream to his little daughter, the Blessed Mother appeared and expressed the desire for the image to be venerated in a Church between the Basilicas of St. Mary Major and St. John Lateran in Rome. The image, consequently, was housed at the Church of St. Matthew, and became known as “The Madonna of Saint Matthew.” Pilgrims flocked to the church for the next three hundred years, and great graces were bestowed upon the faithful.

After Napoleon’s troops destroyed the Church of St. Matthew in 1812, the image was transferred to the Church of St. Mary in Posterula, and remained there for nearly forty years. There, the image was neglected and forgotten.

By divine providence, the forgotten image was rediscovered. In 1866, Blessed Pope Pius IX entrusted the image to the Redemptorists, who had just built the Church of St. Alphonsus, down the street from St. Mary Major. As a boy, the Holy Father had prayed before the image in the Church of St. Matthew. He ordered the public display and veneration of the image, and fixed the feast of Our Lady of Perpetual Help as the Sunday before the Feast of the Nativity of St. John the Baptist. In 1867, when the image was being carried in a solemn procession through the streets, a young child was cured, the first of many recorded miracles attributed to Our Lady of Perpetual Help.

To this day, the Church of St. Alphonsus displays the icon of Our Lady of Perpetual Help and welcome pilgrims for prayer. May each of us never hesitate to invoke the prayers and intercession of Our Blessed Mother in time of need

Worth noting is that the Redemptorist martyrs of Ukraine worked diligently to spread devotion to Our Lady of Perpetual Help during their lives here on earth.

BISHOP NICHOLAS CHARNETSKY (1884-1959)
BISHOP VASYL VELYCHKOVSKY (1903-73)
FATHER ZENON KOVALYK (1903-41)
FATHER IVAN ZIATYK (1899-1952)

Prayer for our Nation 🇺🇸

God our Father, giver of life, we entrust the United States of America to your loving care. You are the rock on which this nation was founded. You alone are the true source of our cherished rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Reclaim this land for your glory and dwell among your people.

Send your Spirit to touch the hearts of our nation’s leaders. Open their minds to the great worth of human life and the responsibilities that accompany human freedom. Remind your people that true happiness is rooted in seeking and doing your will.

Through the intercession of Mary Immaculate, patroness of our land, grant us the courage to reject the “culture of death.” Lead us into a new millennium of life. We ask this through Christ Our Lord. Amen.

Source: BostonCatholic.org

Some pictures from Ukrainian Summer Camp today 🇺🇦🇺🇸

Here are some photos from Sunday's Divine Liturgy, during which our parish thanked Father Jason and the Charron Family for ten great years as our pastor. We pray that the Lord will allow us many more happy, healthy, and holy years with Father Jason as our shepherd.

Thank you, Father Jason, Pani Halyna, and the Charron family, for 10 GREAT YEARS!

We look forward to many more blessed & fruitful years with you as our pastor. Mnohaya lita! ☦️

A HUGE THANK YOU to everyone who made our 2024 Vacation Bible School “Summer with the Saints” a massive success…over 30 children grew in their faith, learned about God’s creation, deepened their prayer life, made friendships, had tremendous fun, and broke bread together this past week all because of the fantastic adult teachers & high school counselors who kept everything running smoothly. A special thank you to Mrs Karina Kurzawski, who organized and ran the camp with Pani Halyna and our pastor, Father Jason Charron. We also need to thank the Holy Trinity Ukrainian Catholic Pyrohy Kitchen for feeding the children and staff… every day, the children received a hot, homemade meal with love.

In all things, may God be praised! It’s a great time to be a Holy Trinity Ukrainian Catholic Church parishioner.

On June 28 we remember the great sacrifice of the Ukrainian Redemptorists for their witness to the faith. May their martyrdom bear the fruits of love, hope and peace, especially in Ukraine, which is currently suffering from Russian aggression.

In September 1939 (Molotov-Ribbentropp pact), the Soviet Union united Western Ukraine to its own territory, unleashing violent persecution against the Greek-Catholic Church. Until the fall of communism in 1989, the Bolsheviks imprisoned in camps, tortured and killed thousands of faithful, bishops, priests and lay people. Among those martyred were the Redemptorists Nicholas Charnetsky (1884-1959), bishop, apostolic exarch of Volyn and Pidliasia, who died outside the prison, under the strict control of the police, after his health had been ruined during ten years of imprisonment in the camps, Basil Velychkovsky (1903-1973), bishop of the “clandestine” Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, who died in Canada as a result of torture during many years of imprisonment, after being expelled from the country in a precarious physical and psychological condition; Zenon Kovalyk (1903-1941), a priest, violently killed, according to some witnesses, by being crucified on the wall of a corridor in Brihidchy prison; Ivan Ziatyk (1899-1952), a priest, who died in prison after a violent beating. John Paul II beatified them in Lviv on 27 June 2001.

Glorious and ever living God,
you brought salvation to humanity through the Cross of Christ. By the merits and intercession of the blessed bishop Nicholas, and his companion martyrs, Vasyl, Zenon, and Ivan, grant that, in difficult times we may be steadfast in the faith and enjoy eternal happiness in their company. We ask this through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God for ever and ever. Amen

Source: CSSR (The Redemptorist Fathers) News

Don’t forget: We will be selling Pyrohy tomorrow (Friday) from 10 AM to 5 PM. Stop in to pick up some for dinner or grab yourself a hot, homemade lunch made by our amazing Pyrohy Kitchen staff! 🥟🥟🥟