Holy Eucharist Parish

A pysanky (decorative Ukrainian Easter egg) workshop will be conducted in the church auditorium from 6:30-8:00 pm on Tuesday, February 14, 19, and 21. Classes limited to 20 students, six years and older. Five year olds will be accepted if they are supervised by an adult. This workshop is open to all children of the parish, parents and grandparents are most welcome also. Please bring two or three eggs ONLY. For registration please contact Rose Swiecicki at 663-6513.

There will a very special Married Life Workshop and Retreat - a Couple’s Day Out to  enrich their lives as a couple. All couples, married or engaged, as well as single people are welcome to participate.  This event will take place on Saturday, 29 September, 9:00 am - 3:30 p.m. at St. Andrew’s Church, 160 Euclid Street, Winnipeg. Facilitator: Fr. Charles Joanides - Fr. Joanides was a Presenter at the Eastern Catholic Bishop’s Assembly of Canada and the U.S. in Chicago. Cost: $20.00 per person or $35.00 per couple. Beverages will be provided, please bring Bag Lunch. Topics: Why marriages succeed and fail: an overview; Myths in society re divorce; Value of communication/problem solving & conflict resolution; Faith as positive impact on marriage; Christ centred existence. For further information: please contact the Chancellor, Fr. Richard Soo, SJ at 338-7801.

For those who were not able to participate in the Grave Blessings at All Saints and Holy Family Cemeteries on Pentecost and All Saints, you’ll be happy to know that we will have special services on Sunday, June 24 (Nativity of St John the Baptist and Sunday of All Saints of Kyivan-Rus’ and Canada) at the following times:

• Holy Family Cemetery, 2:00 pm
• All Saints Cemetery, 4:00 pm

It is our custom to bless the graves of our loved ones sometime during Bright Week and on the All Souls Saturday before Pentecost. In the Archeparchy of Winnipeg, it has long been the local custom to have these blessings take place on Pentecost Sunday itself. As the Gregorian and Julian calendars align this year for Pascha (and therefore Pentecost), there will be two Sundays of grave blessings.

• 2:00 pm, Sunday, May 27
  Holy Family Cemetery
• 2:00 pm, Sunday, June 3
  All Saints Cemetery

We do not know if Metropolitan Lawrence will be presiding at either cemetery.

For our own parish, we have many loved ones buried at the Elmwood Cemetery. We will begin Grave blessings there at 11:00 am on Saturday, June 2. We will meet at the main entrance and determine then the order we will follow.

On April 25 our parish will visit the Shrine of Blessed Bishop-Martyr Vasyl Velychkovsky at St. Joseph Parish in Winnipeg (Canada’s second Martyr’s Shrine). Our pilgrimage begins at 7:00 pm. We will have opportunity to pray together before his holy relics which were entombed in 2002 and to be anointed with blessed oil touched to these relics (third class relic). I encourage all parishioners to participate in this holy event, to receive the mercies of our loving God through the intercession of His martyr, Vasyl. Great things have happened already through this saint’s prayers. For more information, please visit the Shrine website.