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Ukrainian Catholic Church
Parish of St. John the Baptist - Perth
Parish Priest: Fr. Wolodymyr Kalinecki
20 Ferguson St, Maylands WA 6051
T/F (08) 9271 4711 | M: 0418 926 267
E: [email protected]
Fr Deacon Richard—mbl 0439 622 056
PARISH WEEKLY NEWS
3rd-10th May 2015
Parish Postal Address:
PO Box 230, Dianella WA 6059
Sister Servants of Mary Immaculate:
Sr Nicodema Zemliak 16 Ferguson St, Maylands WA 6051
T: (08) 9272 9361
Editor: Luba Valega
T: (08) 9276 3160 | M: 0401 309 228
E: [email protected]
This is a weekly Parish newsletter for all to read, to inform you of what is happening in our Parish and
share with you some interesting readings. Please feel free to share it around!
This Week’s Readings
Epistle: Act 9:32-42
Gospel:
John 5:1-15
SUNDAY of
Paralytic Man
Tone 3
Epistle . Acts 9:32-42 9:32. Peter travelled from place to place to visit them and in his travels came to the believers in the
town of Lydda. 33. There he met a man named Aeneas, paralysed and bedridden for eight years. 34. Peter said to him,
“Aeneas! Jesus Christ has healed you! Get up and make your bed.” And he was healed instantly. 35. Then the whole
population of Lydda and Sharon turned to the Lord when they saw Aeneas walking around.
36. In the city of Joppa there was a woman named Dorcas, a believer who was always doing kind things for others,
especially for the poor. 37. About this time she became ill and died. Her friends prepared her for burial and laid her in an
upstairs room. 38. But when they heard that Peter was nearby at Lydda, they sent two men to beg him to return with them to
Joppa. 39. This he did; as soon as he arrived, they took him upstairs where Dorcas lay. The room was filled with weeping
widows who were showing one another the coats and other garments Dorcas had made for them. 40. But Peter asked them
to leave the room; then he knelt and prayed. Turning to the body, he said, “ Get up, Dorcas,” and she opened her eyes! And
when she saw Peter, she sat up. 41. He gave her his hand and helped her up and called in the believers and widows,
presenting her to them.42. The news raced through the town, and many believed in the Lord. 43 And Peter stayed a long
time in Joppa, living with Simon, the tanner.
Gospel : John 5:1-15 5:1 After this there was a feast of the Jews,
and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. 2 Now there is in Jerusalem by
the Sheep Gate a pool, in Hebrew called Bethza'tha, which has
five porticoes. 3 In these lay a multitude of invalids, blind, lame,
paralysed. 4 5 One man was there who had been ill for 38 years 6
When Jesus saw him and knew that he had been lying there a long
time, he said to him, "Do you want to be healed?" 7 The sick man
answered him, "Sir, I have no man to put me into the pool when
the water is troubled, and while I am going another steps down
before me." 8 Jesus said to him, "Rise, take up your pallet, and
walk." 9 And at once the man was healed, and he took up his mat
and walked. Now that day was the Sabbath. 10 So the Jews said to the man who was cured, "It is the Sabbath, it
is not lawful for you to carry your mat." 11 But he answered them, "The man who healed me said to me, 'Take up
your mat, and walk.'" 12 They asked him, "Who is the man who said to you, 'Take up your mat, and walk'?" 13
Now the man who had been healed did not know who it was, for Jesus had disappeared, in the crowd that was
there. 14 Later, Jesus found him in the temple, and said to him, "See, you are well! Sin no more, that nothing
worse befall you." 15 The man went away and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had healed him.
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Re Sunday of the Paralytic by Fr Iraneaus. Canada
For thousands of years people with certain diseases have been going to hot springs for health and healing. At the
time of our Lord there was in Jerusalem a pool of water, called Bethsaida, that attracted huge crowds of sick
people. It was believed that an angel of the Lord periodically came down and made the water bubble. The first
person who entered the water at the time of bubbling was considered certain to be healed.
Today's Gospel tells us that Jesus one Sabbath day came to this pool and there saw a man who had been
paralyzed for 38 years. The Lord had pity on him and asked: "Do you want to be made well?" This might seem
like a silly question, but, on the contrary, it is a profound psychological one. Not every sick person wants to
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be made well; some glory in their illness which focuses attention and pity upon them. Also, to gain health it is
often necessary to arouse a desire for it.
The lame man answered Christ, saying: "Sir, I have no one to help me into the pool when the water is stirred. By
the time I get in, another has beaten me." What a terrible cry this is: "I have no one to help me." Over and over
again, down through the ages of time, this cry has come from the lips of the aged, the sick, and the lonely. And it
is heard in our day, too. Our institutions are full of such forgotten people who die the slow death of being unloved
and unwanted.
But this paralyzed man had Christ. The Lord commanded him: "Take up your bed and walk." Immediately new
life and power throb-bed through his shrivelled limbs. He lifted his mat on his back and away he went, walking
with a sureness he had not known for 38 years.
Where do you think the man went? He hadn't been able to walk around for such a long time... where do you think
his heart led him first? He went to church! The Gospel says Jesus found him in the temple. And there the Lord
again spoke to him: "Behold, you are made well. Sin no more, lest a worse thing befall you."
1. What a wonderful place for the man to be found by the Lord! In church. At prayer. He had apparently gone
there to thank God for the gift of healing he had received. Some might say today: if God had raised me up from
such a bed that I had laid on for 38 years, I too would go to church, every Sunday, in thanksgiving. But don't you
see? We have greater reason than that paralyzed man to be grateful unto God, for which one of us has had to lie
sick for such a long time? Most of us have been blessed with good health and we haven't lain 38 hours in illness.
Thank God for the bodily health we enjoy, and for all the means at our disposal to keep us in good health.
2. What Jesus told him: "Sin no more." There is a tie between sickness and sin. It is not a direct tie, so that we
cannot accuse every ill person of sin. But sin is deeply ingrained in the very nature of man down through the
centuries. Ever since the first sin, this has been the scourge of mankind, the cause of man's troubles, sickness
among them. Surely it is the obligation of every Christian man and woman and child to strive to "sin no more" in
obedience of the Lord's command.
3. Christ told the paralytic to sin no more, "lest a worse thing" befall him. What could be worse than 38 years of
paralysis? What could be worse than being laid up, unable to walk, for such a long time? Well, there is such a
thing as spiritual sickness, illness of the soul. A person steeped in sin. A person dying in sin. This is something
worse.
A person, you see, can live, breathe, speak, see, hear, walk, and still be spiritually ill or even spiritually dead. He
can be dead to God because he lives without God and without love. Jesus Himself once talked about people who
have eyes, "but see not," and who have ears, but "hear not."
If there are any among us today who are spiritually ill or paralyzed, the Lord says to you: 'Get up from your bed
of unbelief, indif-ference, and self-love. Stand, and come and follow Me.'
Perhaps some are wondering just why this beautiful Gospel story of the healing of the paralytic is read during the
Easter season. What, if any, is the connection between this incident and the resurrection of Christ from the dead?
The Fathers of the Church have pointed out that in the person of the paralytic raised from his bed we have a
picture, a foreshadowing, of our own resurrection from the grave. Just as then an angel of the Lord came to
"trouble" or move the waters to make possible a resurrection from illness, so on the last day an angel of the Lord
shall come and "trouble" or move the dust of the earth and the dead in Christ shall rise at the voice of Christ.
Amen.
—————————————————————————————————————————————UAWA takes pride inviting you to the Australian premiere screening of the documentary film “The
Ukrainians” on Sunday May 17, at the Ross Lecture Theatre, Room G-41, Physics Building, UWA. The
film starts at 1pm.
We also have pleasure to be hosting one of the directors, Ivan Yasniy, who will be speaking about events in Ukraine and the making of
the film. The film is a documentary depicting the battles which took place at the Donetsk Airport (running time is 82 minutes).
“The Ukrainians” (or as it is titled in in Ukrainian "Volunteers of God’s Brigade") is the story of the creation of the Ukrainian army, the
fraternity, the deeds and the betrayals. It is a story of cowardice and heroism. It is the story of the volunteers who defended the Donetsk
Airport who, because of their faith in God and Ukraine, risked their body and soul for our freedom. They were called cyborgs because
they appeared to be indestructible; they kept the enemy at bay for 242 days, until the terrorists resorted to leveling the entire building
structure.
The documentary is in Ukrainian with English subtitles and is a must watch!
Admission, $15 per person.
Tickets will be on sale at the door. Please ensure you are at the event 30 mins before screening to ensure we start on time !!
Kind Regards,
Ukrainian Association of Western Australia Inc.
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Church Choir Rehearsals and Singing
05.05.15 Tuesday rehearsal
10.05.15 Sunday Liturgy 9am (Sunday of Samaritan Woman - Tone 4)
14.06.15 Sunday Liturgy 9am (Tone 1)
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WE ARE LEAVING STARTING TIMES OF HOLY LITURGY ON SUNDAYS AT 9AM FOR THE
DURATION . SURVEY AMONG PARISHIONERS WHO COME REGULARLY WANT 9AM START
INSTEAD OF 9:30AM.
Parish Council
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Parishioners who passed away in Month of May
Wolodymyr Sadowsky 18/ 5/1956
Ivan Gereta
5/1958
Anna Chlepnac
18/ 5/1959
Wasyl Lubenko
21/ 5/1970
Evhen Daszkewicz
11/ 5/1972
Mykola Vowk
1/ 5/1977
Maria Koltasz
8/ 5/1979
Evhen Tomiuk
25/ 5/1979
Pavlina Shkraba
25/ 5/1979
Ivan Temnyk
29/ 5/1986
Myroslav Jaremovych 7/ 5/1988
Teodor Hernawsky
28/ 5/1988
Stefan Tehij
10/ 5/1989
Kirilo Suprun
8/ 5/1991
Bohdan Maslij
19/ 5/1991
Wolodymyr Minosora 5/ 5/1992
Stefan Shulba
29/ 5/1993
Wolodymyr Setnik
22/ 5/1994
Halina Temnyk
3/ 5/1995
Mihajlo Hruzewycz
8/ 5/1996
Anna Pasko
30/ 5/1996
Mihajlo Kolodij
22/ 5/1997
Mihajlo Konstantinowicz 6/ 5/1999
Maria Rosovski
27/ 5/1999
Josef Zathej
9/ 5/2000
Maria Antoniak
30/ 5/2000
Feodor Melnyczuk
18/ 5/2001
Wasyl Konderewicz
30/ 5/2001
Stefan Petrivski
4/ 5/2003
Ivan Jaremczuk
29/ 5/2004
Olga Bochorsky
18/ 5/2006
Mykola Baczynskyj
25/ 5/2006
Mykola Chwastiak
27/ 5/2006
Mihajlo Klymiuk
6/ 5/2008
Maria Kociuruba
15/ 5/2010
Kataryna Baczynskyj 30/ 5/2010
Irene Lozyk
14/5/2012
Eugene Kostecki
9/5/2014
ETERNAL MEMORY—
VICHNAYA PAMYAT
Blessing of Graves at Karrakatta 18th April, 2015
If you would like Fr Wolodymyr to have a Liturgy and Panahyda for your loved ones who have passed away,
please make a booking with him. The Souls of our family members who have passed away need our prayers.
Day
Date
Time
Feast
Special Feast Days - Julian Calendar
Sun
Tone 3
3rd May, 2015
9:00 am
Holy Liturgy
2pm >>
Blessing graves >>
Sunday of Paralytic Man
>>Midland
Mon
4th May, 2015
Tues
5th May, 2015
8:30am
Wed
6th May, 2015
8:30am
Holy Liturgy
Thurs
7th May, 2015
8:30am
Holy Liturgy
Fri
8th May, 2015
Sat
9th May 2015
Sun
Tone 4
10th May, 2015
Choir singing
No Holy Liturgy
Holy Liturgy
Molebyn to Holy Mother Mary
Holy Liturgy
Molebyn to Holy Mother Mary
2pm
7pm
Blessing Graves
Holy Liturgy
Pinnaroo
in English
9:00 am
Holy Liturgy
Cleaning Church Roster
Sat 2nd May—Irene Grynychyn
Sat 9th May
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Holy Liturgy in Northam—next Holy Liturgy—17th May at 5pm
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Please pray for sick people in our parish and visit them if you can. If you need Fr
Wolodymyr to visit, please ring him to book a time. 08) 92714711
Fr Wolodymyr is also blessing houses. If you would like him to come bless your
house, please make a booking on 92714711 or email him on
[email protected]
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UAWA AGM 3rd May, 2015 at 11.30am. At Ukr Cath church
hall, Maylands
Ukr Cath Church AGM—17th May
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Some important dates on Church calendar
At Guildford Sat 2nd May, 2pm
At Midland—Sun 3rd May, 2pm
At Pinnaroo—Sat 9th May—2pm
Northam—17th May—3pm
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MOTHER’S DAY
Sun of Samaritan
Woman
A RESTORATION (Maintenance) fund
has being organised for our Church renovations. This
is separate to the yearly upkeep (podatok) fund.
If you wish to donate, please see Luba Valega. The
Church building is in need of repairs and so the Parish Council is asking for your support.
Total now
$12,250.00
The Parish Council has installed a lift
going up to the hall via the stairs outside to help
people to be able to get to the hall much easier. We
are looking for donations to help cover costs of the
lift. Please see anyone on Parish Council if you
would like to make a donation. The cost of the lift
was $42,000
Total now $8428.81
Church donation . Mrs Hawilej $100 for
departed husband
Babij family $15 for newsletter costs
Valega Family $100 for departed
Wolodymyr Zagwocki—12 yrs ago
May Jesus bless you all
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Websites to check out
www.catholicukes.org.au
for all your Eparchial information,
all parishes info and lots of information for the
Ukrainian Catholic Church in Australia
http://news.ugcc.org.ua/en/news
will get you news from Ukraine
If you wish to make a donation
direct via bank send to Dnister (Ukrainian
Catholic church) BSB 704235/ acct
00006479 and email
[email protected] to confirm
Or post to PO Box 230, Dianella 6059—
this can be for Easter envelope donations
Highly recommended by Valega Family