Eastern Catholics

Join us November 13 at 7 pm for Vespers, an evening sung service. After vespers, please join us for wine and cheese and socializing.

Dear Chaplaincy members and friends,
This Sunday, Sept 14, come 15 minutes early (11:15 am) for the elevation of the cross rite (BEFORE the Liturgy) - and don’t forget that on Tuesday, the 16th, we are doing a 15-minute prayer service as part of the open doors at Sacre Coeur.
GOD bless you!!!!

Dear Ottawa Students,

If you are new to town - or even if you’ve been here for a while - the beginning of a new school year can bring a lot of anxiety. You may be searching for a group of friends or anyone who could help you feel more at home. We at the Ottawa Eastern Catholic Chaplaincy would love to help you settle into life here.

We are a group of almost 40 young people from various backgrounds who share a passion for worshipping the living God in the Byzantine Christian tradition. We meet for the Divine Liturgy (Eucharist) at 11:30 am in a chapel (room 3) at Sacre Coeur Church, on the corner of Laurier and Cumberland. It’s right in the middle of the University of Ottawa Campus.

Almost all of the service is in English, with some French and other languages depending on who happens to be present that Sunday. Our worship tradition will be familiar to people who are Ukrainian Catholic, Slovak Byzantine Catholic, Hungarian Greek Catholic or Melkite Catholic. But you certainly don’t have to be of that background to worship with us (though we are not, of course, looking to proselytize anyone - just share the Lord’s hospitality). If you are a Catholic of the Roman Rite, you may want to join us once or twice a semester just to experience the other “half” of Catholicism. (Yes, were ARE Catholic, even though our worship looks so different.)

We also try to share our blessings with others at the Shepherds of Good Hope. Approximately once a month, we go there on Saturday morning to help staff the soup kitchen. Come help us serve!

In any case, we look forward to meeting you in person. And certainly if you need spiritual counselling, please contact me, Fr. Peter, at 613-230-0997.

May the Lord bless you abundantly, and protect you from all falsehood and harm.

Fr. Peter Galadza
Chaplain

Thanks to all who brought a tasty dish to follow our spiritual nourishment today for the beginning of our fourth year of the Ottawa Eastern Catholic Chaplaincy at Sacre Coeur Church on Cumberland and Laurier Streets in Ottawa.

We began our liturgical year with 40 participants in Divine Liturgy, which will be celebrated at the chaplaincy every Sunday (Matins - 9:30 a.m., Divine Liturgy - 11:30 a.m.). December 14 will be our last date this semester, and we will begin again in mid-January. For information on upcoming events (such as Saturday volunteering at the Shepherds of Good Hope, LifeChain on Oct. 5, courses at Saint Paul University, and others), please check back at this website.

To all those of you alumni reading this from afar (newly-married in New Orleans and British Columbia, newly-ordained in Chicago, newly-moved to the Welcome Home in Winnipeg, or newly-graduated and living somewhere else), please indicate whether or not you would like to continue receiving e-mail updates for the chaplaincy. We miss you, and hope you keep in touch.

If you would like to be on our e-mail list, please contact olenkagaladza@sympatico.ca

God bless your week!

Join us for Liturgy on Sunday 7 September 2008 at 11:30 am.

Join us this Thursday, November 8th, 2007, at 7:00 pm for Vespers. The service will be followed by talk about icons and iconography by iconographer Fr. Theodore Kufas.

Come join us and be the hands and feet of Christ!!!

This is an invitation to be a volunteer at the Shepherds of Good Hope - Soup Kitchen Ministry. The Soup Kitchen is located at 233 Murray Street, and is in operation 365 days of the year. On an average, 275 noon meals are served daily, and an additional 200 meals are provided to the Shelters. In addition, 600 sandwiches are distributed on a take-out basis.

Doors open at 11:30 am and volunteers serve a full-course hot meal. During the next hour, several rotations of guests fill the dining room which seats 94 people.
Volunteers perform a multitude of services from washing dishes, preparing the meals, making sandwiches and serving meals.

We have scheduled a Saturday for us to volunteer as a group. It will be on the 17th of November from 8:30am until 1:30pm. It would be preferable to have volunteers 18 years old and older. Please confirm your attendance by the 10th of November (after Divine Liturgy) because the names of the volunteers are needed by the volunteer coordinator. WE NEED AT LEAST 10 VOLUNTEERS FROM THE CHAPLAINCY.

In Christ,
Eumir Bautista
613-2363131 ext.4012
eumirbautista@yahoo.ca

Glory to Jesus Christ!

Hello everyone,

The Fellowship of St. John Chrysostom’s first monthly Vespers on the Hill will be held in the Fr. Sean O’Sullivan Chapel in East Block (building on left-hand side of Parliament Hill) on Thursday 18 October at 4:30. Fr. Peter Galadza of the Metropolitan Andriy Sheptytsky Institute at St. Paul U. and of the Eastern Catholic Chaplaincy of Ottawa will be serving. Accordingly, this month we will be following the Ukrainian-Catholic tradition. I hope that many of you will attend and support this new endeavour of the Fellowship. Please let your friends know.

If you plan to attend, you must RSVP with me by Thursday morning at the latest. I need to provide a list to the commissionaire at the entrance of East Block for security purposes.

Our next regular meeting will be held at the Chelsea Club (Metcalfe and Somerset) on Tuesday, 6 November at 12h00.

In Christ,

Andrew

Andrew P.W. Bennett
Political Risk Assessment (Europe and Central Asia)
Export Development Canada
1-613-597-7929

We are pleased to be starting the Light and Life program again this
Fall.  Fr. Bob Anderson will once again be giving most of our talks
throughout the year.  He is a walking encyclopedia of Church history
and theology, and we are blessed to have him share his knowledge with
us.

The first talk this year will be on Saturday, September 29th at 4:30,
on “Do you know what to do? Participating in the Mystery of the
Divine Liturgy.”

Customs, traditions and pious practices which help incarnate our
faith on a daily basis, as well as liturgical customs and traditions
practiced in the temple.

Come with your questions on why we do what we do in the Liturgy every
Sunday, so that instead of just going through the motions, you can
prayerfully enter into the mystery.

Vespers as usual will be at 6 PM.  Unfortunately, there will be no
meal afterwards due to the Pilgrimage.

For your calendars: the next session will be on Saturday, October 20,
and the talk will be given by Fr. Peter Galadza: “Our Church’s Rich
Musical Tradition”.

Hope to see you there!

This Sunday, September 23, Olya Zarichynska of the Ukrainian Catholic University, will present a slide show on the university located in Lviv, Ukraine. The presentation will take place at 1:00 pm at the Eastern Catholic Chaplaincy on the University of Ottawa campus, located at the corner of Laurier and Cumberland - in room 3 of Sacre Coeur Church. (The usual Sunday Divine Liturgy at 11:30 am will precede the presentation.) Ms. Zarichynska is a graduate of the Ukrainian Catholic University, and is the first director of the University’s Institute of Lay Leadership. She is also founding president of the University’s Alumni Association. She will speak for 20 minutes with a 20-minute question period. The Ukrainian Catholic University is widely considered one of Ukraine’s premier institutions of higher learning. It is highly regarded for its effective opposition to corruption in education. P.S. Sorry for the late notice. We just learned yesterday about Olya’s visit to Ottawa.