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Українська Католицька Едмонтонська Єпархія EPARCHIAL NEWSLETTER UPCOMING EVENTS Graveside services will take place 2:00 pm, Sunday, June 15 (Pentecost, Julian) at Saint Michael’s Cemetery. For more information, contact Very Rev. Mihajlo Planchak, Protopresbyter (Dean), Edmonton Protopresbyterate. From 15 to 22 June, Canada will welcome the 49th International Eucharistic Congress in Quebec City. This great Church event will bring together thousands of pilgrims from across Canada and around the world. Catholics from our region are invited join in by benefiting from this opportunity to renew our faith in the Eucharist, and also by making a financial contribution toward its program and activities. A special collection is being held in all Canadian parishes this weekend when we celebrate the Solemnity of the Body and Blood of Our Lord. The Congress’ organizers hope to count again on your generosity to ensure the success of this event, which we know will have a wonderful impact on our lives as Catholics and on the life of the Church. In 2008, Catholic Missions in Canada is celebrating its 100th Anniversary of service to missions and missionaries throughout Canada, which includes assisting Ukrainian Catholics in need. Sunday, June 29 has been set aside as Awareness Sunday throughout the Eparchy of Edmonton to make the work of Catholic Missions in Canada better known. This Sunday was specially chosen as it coincides with the Feast of the Saints Peter and Paul, the Apostles, who as great missionaries spread the Gospel message to the far ends of the world. Catholic Missions in Canada, formerly known as the Catholic Church Extension Society of Canada, works to support 600 missionaries – priests, deacons, sisters, brothers and lay ministers – as they proclaim the Gospel in the isolated and farthest reaches of our nation. Pastors are asked to include a pastoral newsletter in their June 29 th parish bulletins. Also, where possible the Catholic Missions in Canada “Celebrating 100 Years” video could be shown in the month of June among parishioners and parish organizations. Camp Saint Basil will hold its annual summer Children’s Camp from July 6 to 19 at Pigeon Lake. For more information call (780) 434-8010. The annual Camp Oselia Children’s Camp will take place July 20 – August 2. Theme: “Calling All Aspiring Superheroes!” For registration and/or registration forms, visit www.edmontoneparchy.com. The 2008 Acolyte Camp will take place August 10-16 at Camp Saint Basil, Pigeon Lake. For registration and further information, contact Rev. Josaphat Tyrkalo, osbm, Program Director at (780) 632-3433 or ucveg@telusplanet.net. Newman Theological College presents a one-week intensive course July 21-26 on The Role of Icons on the Sacred Liturgy taught by Rev. Stephen Wojcichowsky. The course is a study of the meaning and role of icons in the Byzantine Liturgy. The theology of icons and their use in liturgical worship will be discussed. Visits to local churches to view icons will be arranged. The course runs Monday to Friday evenings, 6:45-9:05 pm and Saturday, 9 am – 3 pm. The course is part of the 2008 Summer School in Liturgical Studies. For registration and information, contact the Registrar, Carol Anne Seed at registrar@newman.edu or call (780) 447-2993 or 1-800-386-7231. Fee $195. 2008 Presbyteral Council/Consultors Meeting: 2:00 – 5:00 pm, September 29, November 4, Chancery Office. 2008 Clergy Conference: 10:00 am – 4:00 pm, September 30, November 5. ANNOUNCEMENTS Pope Benedict gave his assent to the canonical election carried out by the Synod of Bishops of the Greek-Catholic Ukrainian Church of Fr. Taras Senkiv O.M., spiritual director of the major seminary of Ivano-Frankivsk, as Auxiliary Bishop of the Eparchy of Stryj of the Ukrainians (area 4,100, population 418,000, Catholics 372,307, priests 212, permanent deacons 2, religious 63), Ukraine. The bishop-elect was born in Bilobozhytsia, Ukraine in 1960 and ordained a priest in 1982. The Synodal Commission on Youth Matters of the Ukrainian Catholic Church issued a Pastoral Letter on Youth, entitled “On the road to Emmaus.” This document was written by Bishop Yaroslav (Pryriz), Auxiliary Bishop of the Sambir and Drohobych Eparchy and by Bishop David (Motiuk), Eparch of Edmonton. The message was written in the spirit of the work and decisions of the 4th session of the Patriarchal Sobor (Council), “Youth in the Church of Third Millennium,” which was held in Pushcha-Vodytsya near Kyiv from August 13 to 17, 2007, and the addresses of the Head of the Church, His Beatitude Lubomyr, to senior members of the UGCC and to youth, which were promulgated on December 31, 2007. In this text the members of the Synodal Commission on Youth Matters offer young people pastoral advice: “walk confidently on the way to real happiness offered by the Church of Christ.” Upon the recommendation of Very Rev. Eugene Richlark, osbm, Provincial Superior, Bishop David made the following pastoral assignments effective July 1, 2008:
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