We're Hiring!
If you haven't already heard, I will be leaving the youth ministry position at St. Nicholas Parish come September 2019 as I have been accepted into the After-Degree program in Secondary Education at the U of A. As a result we are looking for applicants to this position! The job description is as below: Requirements: - Experience working with youth and or young families - Active member of a Ukrainian Catholic parish faith community - Knowledgeable about the Ukrainian Catholic
Preparing for Lent (Wait, what? Already?)
Glory be to Jesus Christ! Слава Ісусу Христу! We're back to our regular church greetings which must mean... the Christmas season is finally over! This also means... Lent is almost upon us! I know, I know... how can it be that we're starting to think about Lent already?! But it's true. Lent will be here in four short weeks, on Monday, March 4, 2019. In fact, this past Sunday, the Sunday of Zacchaeus, marked the first prep week before Lent begins. Yes, we have prep weeks to pre
Okay. Let's Talk About Child Sexual Abuse.
If the above title has made you uncomfortable, I'm glad. Child sexual abuse should make everyone uncomfortable, especially when it happens within our church by our clergy. What I dearly hope, though, is that this discomfort doesn't make you stop reading beyond this point. I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that those of us in the Ukrainian Catholic Church aren't great at talking about tough issues. With all the talk going on in the news the last couple weeks about the
Staying in Touch with Jesus this Summer
Remember that time a friend of yours moved to a new school or city? You were sad that you wouldn't get to see each other as often, but promised you would keep in touch, whether by phone or email (or letters, as it was when I was younger), and get together every once in a while. But some time passes and the phone calls and emails and texts get less frequent and you never do find time to get together and catch up. Suddenly someone who was your good friend turns out to be a stra
Keeping the Faith With Books: Summer Reading List
I love books. I am one of those people who can spend hours on Pinterest looking up nerdy bookworm pictures and pinning them to my "Nerd" board, like these: My love of books definitely stemmed from being read to extensively as a child, so as I grew older it was no surprise that I spent a lot of my time reading, even during the summer break (though I did spend a lot of time outside as well). Reading was always a way I could enter into the minds of other people to help me learn
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