St. Volodymyr's Parish

Parish weekly bulletin 03.02.2013

In the last decade or so, the contemporary term narodyvsia came into popular usage, replacing the more traditional Old Slavonic razhdayetsia.  Unfortunately, this attempt to make the term more understandable has changed the theological meaning of the Nativity greeting from Christ is Born, to Christ was Born.  This is not an insignificant detail.

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Parish weekly bulletin 13.01.2013

The joyous time of the Christmas Season is once again upon us,and we reflect once more upon a year gone by. For all of us there have been joys and disappointments. Putting it simply this is the nature of life. Many things have changed in the world,since the birth of Christ,but then many have unfortunately remained the same. Selfishness,greed and violence are still with us even after 2,000 years of Christianity. All of these things lead ultimately to conflict and war. This in turn leads to the relocation of families and sometimes whole communities.

On this holy and joyful day of the Nativity of Christ, I send you most sincere greetings on the occasion of this major feast of Christian faith.  Christmas is the day when the eternal and invisible God willed to become human as a newborn Child. Christmas is a time when the mighty and incomprehensible Almighty Lord who holds in his hands the life and fate of all living beings, willed Himself to a human being, to place himself in the embrace of His Virgin Mother and to seek refuge in her betrothed Joseph.  Christmas is a celebratory moment, when the lonely contemporary person feels the trembling of an unspoken closeness of God and His attention, when the heavens and the earth, angels and people, heavenly stars and earthly animals unite as one family around the Bethlehem manger in which today lies the newborn King of All Ages and  joyful sing "Glory to Him!”

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