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Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Parish of

St. Joseph the Betrothed

5000 N Cumberland, Chicago, IL 60656

www.stjosephukr.com
stjosephucc@gmail.com
Office: 773-625-4805 Rectory: 773-625-4806 Fax: 773-887-5000

Fr. Mykola Buryadnyk - Pastor

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Fr. Volodymyr Kushnir

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About the Cover Icon

he feast of our Lords Nativity in the flesh celebrates
But when Josephs vocation is clarified by the angel
the great gift of new life and rebirth from God. Mary
in his dream, his calling is elevated beyond earthly limits and
gives birth to the Son of God, and Joseph gives him
gives way to a heavenly nature. He is Joseph, son of David.
the name Jesus, a name that communicates the
He is a servant of the Lord. He is strengthened to turn away
Childs divine vocation: to save Gods people from their sins
from his fear, to abandon his narrow righteousness, and to do
(Matt 1:21). In taking our flesh, He is called Emmanuel (Matt
the unexpected: Joseph takes Mary as his wife. He is no
1:23). His holiness is with us. All things are filled with His
longer merely a man navigating the arrangements of a marglory and His righteousness. God becomes man to offer eterriage and a divorce. We now know him as one belonging to
nal salvation to allto those already seeking the righteousthe genealogy that opens St. Matthews Gospel, the genealness of God and to those lost in darkness.
ogy that reveals Gods hand at work in human affairs. And it
St. Matthews Gospel is read in the Matins service as
is important for us to understand that one belongs to this gewell as in the Divine Liturgy of the Feast. At the Matins sernealogy, the lineage of Abraham, not through legal and biovice, the Gospel (1:18-25) tells of the miraculous birth of the
logical links or through personal righteousness, but because
child Jesus and his adoption by Marys husband, Joseph. In
God is with us. And we respond to Gods presence with faith,
that passage, Joseph is described not only as Marys husband,
humility, and obedience.
but as a just man. St. Matthew also explains how Joseph reThe angel of the Lord reveals to Joseph that Marys
solves to divorce Mary to save her from
being with child is not a source of shame
shame.
and that taking her as his wife is not
and her husband Joseph, being a
something to be feared. What Joseph
just man and unwilling to put her to
understood to be bad is, in fact, good.
shame, resolved to divorce her quiThat which is conceived in Mary is of
etly. (Matt 1:19)
the Holy Spirit and is from God. That
But an angel of the Lord interwhich was thought to be shameful, is
venes, appearing to Joseph in a dream,
holy.
and guides him on a different path. The
How often we forget that we
angel of the Lord refers to Joseph not
belong to God. So often we allow ourmerely as the husband of Mary, but as
selves to be guided by fear and shame.
a son of David:
Time and time again we allow fear to
But as he considered this, betake hold of our heart in the face of traghold, an angel of the Lord appeared to
edy and injustice. In times of trouble, we
him in a dream, saying, Joseph, son of
depend on our own righteous resources
David, do not fear to take Mary your
to lead us through. But God shows His
wife, for that which is conceived in her
presence and glory to us in the worriis of the Holy Spirit (Matt 1:20)
some realities of our lives. He offers us a
This change in Joseph invites
righteousness far beyond our own when
our reflection as we near the celebration of this
we
accept
that we are sons of David. We are part
Detail:
great feast day.
of the divine genealogy. The truth behind the trouJoseph is a just man who is led to under- The Temptation of bled realities of our lives is that we belong to God
stand Marys pregnancy as shameful. Her pregand God is with us.
St. Joseph
nancy will bring hardship and disgrace, and he preAn angel of the Lord, the messenger of
pares to divorce Mary in order to spare her public accusation
Gods holy intervention, breaks into the human realm and
and trial. Joseph shows kindness and care toward Marythe
reveals to Joseph the limits of his righteousness. This rightkindness and care of a righteous and just man. This righteouseousness seeks to spare Mary shame, but on its own is not
ness of Joseph is grounded in compassion and mercy.
sufficient to discern what is true and good and holy. On its
As long as Joseph understands his vocation as being
own, his righteousness, while allowing Joseph to yield to the
narrowly limited by earthly obligations, matters of marriage,
will of God, is still rooted in shame and lacking in courage.
and public shame, his sense of righteousness leads him to
His righteousness alone will neither fulfill the prophecies nor
believe that dissolution of the social, legal, and practical arfollow the will of God. The liturgical texts of the feast celerangement of the marriagea quiet divorceis the best posbrate Josephs encounter with the angel and his persuasion by
sible solution. With this narrowly conceived vocation, one
the angel to change his course of action:
that is rooted in what the evangelist Matthew identifies as
Tell us, Joseph, how is it that thou bringest to Bethlehem,
husband, Josephs choices and behavior make sense to us.
great with child, the Maiden whom thou hast received
Even in the most difficult of family and social circumstances,
from the sanctuary? I have searched the prophets, said
all of us can find the resolve to follow through with hard
he, and have been warned by an angel; and I am perchoices in a way that is respectful and compassionate to othsuaded that Mary shall give birth to God, in ways surers, even to those with whom we are locked in strong dispassing all interpretation. Magi from the east shall come
agreement and conflict. In the midst of turmoil of our lives,
to worship Him with precious gifts. O Lord, who for our
we are able to demonstrate love and charity toward others
sake hast taken flesh: glory to Thee
when we are guided by our sense of righteousness.
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Pastoral Letter

The Ukrainian Catholic

Hierarchy of the USA
to

Clergy, Hieromonks and Brothers,

Religious Sisters, Seminarians, and
Beloved Faithful

his year we Ukrainians conclude the Jubilee Year

Commemorating the 1025th anniversary of the Baptism
of our ancestors in the River Dnipro by the Grand
Prince, St. Volodymyr the Great, the Equal-to-theApostles. Because of this dramatic and blessed event,
our people were illuminated by the light of Jesus Christ
and His Word penetrated their hearts.
Pope Francis states in his Encyclical Letter, Lumen Fidei: The light of Faith: this is how the Churchs
tradition speaks of the great gift brought by Jesus. The
Holy Father continues by quoting St. Johns Gospel
where Christ says of Himself: I have come as Light
into the world, that whoever believes in Me may not
remain in darkness (Jn. 12:46).
That darkness was shattered by the appearance
of a bright star followed by the Wise Men from the
East. We are able to celebrate anew the great mystery
of our faith the Nativity of our Lord Jesus Christ
because we inherited this faith from our ancestors. And
what a mysterious and magnificent faith this is. The
Son of God, our Lord Jesus Christ, took on flesh and
dwelt among us. Jesus became man so that all of us can
become children of God, inheritors of the Kingdom of
Heaven, partakers of His glory.
All of this is beyond our ability to comprehend.
It is astonishing that Almighty God became an infant
for our salvation. The Word of God went through the
whole process of conception and birth for us (by the
power of the Holy Spirit He was born of the Virgin
Mary, and became man Nicene Creed).
This good news was announced to the shepherds. Together with them we are filled with wonder as
the heavenly angelic host praises God and sings,
Glory to God in the highest heaven, and peace on
earth to those who enjoy His favor rests (Lk. 2:14).
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The Gospel passage continues, the shepherds returned,

glorifying and praising God for all they had heard and
seen, in accord with what had been told them (Lk.
2:20). In one of our Christmas carols we sing: O Holy
Night, the stars are brightly shining, this is the night of
the dear Saviors birth. As with our ancestors, now we
are not alone. God is with us. Entering into our world,
Jesus, the Messiah, affects our every movement, our
every action, our every aspiration, in fact our very life
and destiny. The Incarnation, God-becoming-man, is not
an illusion. It makes sense. Through Him all things
came to be, not one thing had its being but through Him.
All that came to be had life in Him (Jn. 1:3-4).
Christmas is such an obvious opportunity for renewal. This past Year of Faith urged us to rediscover
and renew our relationships with Christ that was given to
us in Baptism. By virtue of our Baptism we are all called
to share the good news with others, to evangelize,
whether it is in our home in the example of prayer and
witness we give, or perhaps at work, or in different organizations, both religious and secular. In some ways we
are all given situations in which God is calling us to witness our faith.
1025 years ago, our ancestors were enlightened
by Christ and His good news. This blessed gift they
passed on to us. Now, let us pass it on to others. Let us
rejoice on this great feast of the Nativity of our Lord and
let us be grateful to Jesus for being born for our salvation. Christ is born let us glorify Him!
We wish all of you a truly grace-filled Christmas
and a very blessed and prosperous New Year.
The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, the love of
God the Father, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be
with all of you!
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HIS BEATITUDE LUBOMYR CALLED

UKRAINIANS TO WORK AND PRAY
Patriarch Emeritus Lubomyr (Huzar)
P made a speech to millions of Ukrainians,
who were on Independence Square in
Kiev and told Ukrainians a proverb: Work
as if everything depends on you, and pray to the
Lord as if everything depends on him

He welcomed "warmly" everybody on the Independence

Square and all the streets of Ukraine and the world.
"It is clear to all of us, who assembled here, that Ukraine
needs a big change. Maybe someone asks you where those
changes come from? Maybe someone will give them to us or
fight for them? No. These major changes, which we desire, because our country and the people truly need them, must be won
by ourselves", - the spiritual leader said.
Appealing to people His Beatitude remembered a proverb,
which he heard first in North America, and later - in different
states, among other nations, and more recently in Ukraine.
"This saying is simple, but has a profound meaning : work
as if everything depends on you and pray to the Lord , as if everything depends on him ," - said the spokesman .
He said that for younger generation to work means, first
of all, to know what the normal state is. And for the older generations - to make a profound analysis of the situation, to understand
what to do.
"When we work, we understand what we want" - he says.
The second part of the proverb - pray as if everything depends on God. "Our prayer is not a request to God to change
something. We pray to God to ask him to realize the things that
belong to us from time immemorial. Prayer is a request for God
to accomplish that he established when we started to be an independent nation. Pray to God is of critical importance for us. We
comprehend nothing without a prayer "- said the Patriarch Emeritus.
"So Dear community, I want to beg you ... not only I but
also the initiative group" First of December : work as if everything depends on us, let us pray like everything depends on the
Lord - called His Beatitude.
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Pastoral Letter
To the Son,
eternally and
immaculately born
of the Father,
Whoin the fullness
of timewas born
bodily, without
seed, from a Virgin,
Let us cry out to
Christ-God: Holy
are You, O Lord,
Who fortified our
strength!
t the voice of the angel,
calling to the shepherds
in the dark of night, let us
now hasten to the poor stable in Bethlehem. Here we
see in the Blessed Virgin
Marys arms the Son of
God, who came into our
world as a man. Together
with them, let us rejoice and
marvel; let us sing and contemplate the living and true
God, whoborn in a human
bodygives Himself into
human hands as a small,
gentle and defenceless
child.
Our Saviours Nativity reveals the depths of
Divine life as well as the
truth about man. Hewho
today appears in human
fleshexisted before the
creation of the world, for
as God before all agesHe
is eternally and immaculately born of the Father as a
son! This is the ineffable
and incomprehensible mystery of Jesus Christs divine
sonship which today is revealed and preached to all
mankind. This feast makes
the divine sonship accessible for all through the proclamation that God the Father loves us as his sons and
daughters. In His new-born
Son, we experience today
our nearness to God. We
experience the same warm,
powerful, real and lifegiving intimacy which is the
Fathers intimate affection
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glory of man as the crown

of all creation. In His Incarnation, God reveals the special dignity of man, because
He is incarnated in itthat
is to say, in his own image.
St. Irenaeus of Lyon says:
When the Word was made
flesh He Himself became
what His image was making man like the invisible
Father through the visible
Word (Adv. Haer., 5, 16,
2).
Glorifying the dignity of the human person,
Christs Church today sings
out: Let us cry out to
Christ-God: Holy are You,
O Lord, Who fortified our
strength! Just as the coming to earth of the Son of
God through the Incarnation
became the centre of world
history, similarly the dignity
of the human person is the

for His first-born.

Gazing into the
faces of the Divine Child
and His Mother Mary, let us
grasp the truth the Nativity
teaches us about our humanity and of His humanity,
which is a sign of Gods
presence: And this will be
a sign for you: you will find
a babe wrapped in swaddling cloths and lying in a
manger (Lk 2:12). This
childthe God of Israel,
Whoin the fullness of
timewas born bodily from
a Virgin without seed. He
bestows upon Joseph the
Betrothed, the wonderful
role of guardian. At the Nativity of Christ, we receive
the Eternal God in our own
form. For people rightly
desire to be cared for and
here in Bethlehem, God
himselfas a childis the
one caring for the human
family!
Humanenessas a
sense of and respect for the
sanctity of human lifeis a
moving and saving path
along whichon this mysterious nightthe Son of
God, the Son of Mary,
comes to our homes, to our
families, to our nation. And
this divine-humanitythe
God-Manhood of Incarnate
Son of Godgives us a
Christmas path to follow in
order to love God and
neighbour. By celebrating
Christmas with travellers
and the homeless, or in solidarity with those who are
despised and whose dignity
is denied, we, Christians, as
true guardians and evangelists of Gods presence
among us, make our world,
our society more humane
and dignified for man himself.
The birth of the Son
of God, the Eternal Word of
the Father, reveals along
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foundation for a true and

indeed humane society. The
Church teaches that social
institutions and their leaders
must respect each human
person and their prime duty
is to promote the holistic
growth of each person. The
person can never be a means
for the realization of economic, social or political
agendas imposed by secular
authorities. Rather governments must be vigilant
when placing restrictions on
freedoms or burdens on a
persons private life to
never harm human dignity
(Compendium of the Social
Doctrine of the Church,
131-133).
There is no future
for a society in which man
is demeaned. The dignity of
the human person is the
source for just laws and eq-

uitable social order. For in

the human person the temporal and eternal, the divine
and human, are united. Humanity is the door to eternity opened on Christmas
Day by the Son of Gods
humanity. So celebrating
the Nativity means to keep
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to human dignity, especially
of the weak and defenceless,
as was the Divine Child
Himself in the arms of the
Virgin Mary.
Today once again
Ukrainian society is striving
to build its future on the
foundation of the Christian
faith. The new-born Saviour
is the fulfilment of the
hopes of all mankind for the
coming of Gods kingdoma kingdom of justice,
peace and goodness. The
birth of the eternal King of
Peace was announced by the
angel, when he said to the
shepherds: Be not afraid;
for behold, I bring you good
news of great joy which will
come to all people; for to
you is born this day in the
city of David a Saviour (Lk
2:10-11). This historic moment is important to us, for
the word of the Evangelist
proclaims that Christ Himself is the source of our joy
and the end of our fears! In
the Nativity of Christ, may
our anxiety be transformed
into hope, may confusion
and uncertainty be directed
along the path that leads to
the place of our Lords
birth. On this Christmas
Day, when, according to the
apostle Paul, the power of
God was made manifest in
human weakness (cf. II Cor.
12:9), our sense of powerlessness is turned into a realization of our self-worth.
Through the action of the
Holy Spirit, this realization
of our self-worth becomes a
force that will enable us to
build a society worthy of
man. That is why today we
glorify the power of the divine-humanity, singing:
Holy are You, O Lord,
Who fortified our strength!
Dearly beloved in
Christ! On this joyous feast
day of Christs Nativity, I
wish all of you my sincerest
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Regular Liturgical Schedule

Please pray for the health and well-being of the following parishioners:

Lucille Maryniw
Luba Ciolko

William Corwyn
John Masley

Olga Kykta
Stephie Worobetz

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9:30 am Ukrainian
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