Royal Doors

Jun

25

2013

6th Week After Pentecost – Wednesday

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1 Corinthians 2:9-3:8; Matthew 13:31-36 [button style="success"]Click here to subscribe in iTunes[/button] [button style="success"]Click here to subscribe in RSS[/button]

Jun

24

2013

By Fr. Roman Planchak

6th Week After Pentecost – Tuesday

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6th Week After Pentecost - Tuesday: 1 Corinthians 1:1-9; Matthew 13:24-30 [button style="success"]Click here to subscribe in iTunes[/button] [button style="success"]Click here to subscribe in RSS[/button]

Jun

21

2013

By Fr. Roman Planchak

June 24, Nativity of St. John the Forerunner

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Nativity of the Honourable and Glorious Prophet John Forerunner and Baptist of Christ; Romans 13:11-14:4; Luke 1:1-25 57-68 76 80 June 24 - The Nativity of St. John the Forerunner and Baptist of Christ [button style="success"]Click here to subscribe in iTunes[/button] [button style="success"]Click here to subscribe in RSS[/button]

Jun

20

2013

By Fr. Michael Winn

The Family Altar: Establishing a Place of Prayer

Christian Life, Prayer

by Deacon Michael Hyatt As a young junior high school student, I wasn't fast enough to run most track and field events. But one event I could participate in was the relay race. A large part of our training was concerned with handing off the baton. The idea was to sprint as fast as you could to the next runner on your team. His job was to meet you about fifteen yards before the hand-off and run with you, being careful to match your pace exactly. In this way, you didn't have to stop to hand him the baton; you…

Jun

20

2013

By Fr. Michael Winn

iWitness: Youth Evangelizing Youth

Jun

19

2013

By Fr. Michael Winn

Isaiah: The Fifth Gospel

Faith

In Winter of 2004, I followed a graduate course on Eastern Christian Hermeneutics and Exegesis in the Prophecy of Isaiah. It was taught by an excellent man and professor, Fr. Andrew Onuferko. At the time he was also the Acting Director of the Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky Institute of Eastern Christian Studies at Saint Paul University, Ottawa. One section of the course highlighted the early Church and their use of the only Scriptures they knew of at the time what we Christians now call the Old Testament. The author, John Sawyer in his excellent book, The Fifth Gospel: Isaiah in the…

Jun

19

2013

By Most Rev. Lawrence Huculak

The Iconostasis and the Ukrainian Catholic Church in Canada

Faith, Liturgy

Introduction The Sistine Chapel in Rome is famous, not only as the place where new popes are elected but also for the important series of frescoes, begun in 1508, by arguably the world’s greatest artist, Michelangelo. On 12 November 1979, two icons by a lesser-known artist, Sviatoslav Hordynsky, were placed in the Sistine Chapel for the episcopal ordination of Myroslav Ivan Lubachivsky, as Metropolitan-Archbishop of Philadelphia. The service took place according to the Ukrainian Byzantine Liturgical rites and the main celebrant was Pope John Paul II. The Sistine Chapel obviously did not lack in artistic decoration, but it was lacking…

Jun

19

2013

By Fr. Michael Winn

What is the Liturgical Year?

LiturgySeptember 1

In a pastoral letter issued at the close of the Second Vatican Council (1965), our Bishops, together with Cardinal Joseph Slipyj, defined the Liturgical Year as: “A liturgical cycle of the universal or some particular Church, that consists of Sundays, weekdays, the feasts of our Lord, the Mother of God, the saints and the periods of fasting and forbidden times.” We call the Liturgical Year the Ecclesiastical or Church Year, because it contains the Church Calendar, which in some respects is similar to and in others differs from the civil calendar. In the Eastern Church the Church Year differs from…

Jun

17

2013

By Fr. Roman Planchak

From Slavery to Freedom

Christian Life, Faith, Featured Articles

When we think of slavery it is the experience of blacks in America which most often comes to mind. Africans targeted by commercial slave traders as ignorant savages were captured in raids, transported across the Atlantic and sold on the open market like livestock. In the Roman Empire slavery was not tied to race as it was here. The first slaves seem to have been children sold by their own parents and enemy warriors and their families captured during battle. Debtors sold themselves into slavery to cover their debts. They could be freed if their family or friends paid off…

Jun

10

2013

By Fr. Roman Planchak

The Hope of Glory

Faith, Featured Articles

Recently, the website, “Ship of Fools,” reported the following list of support group meetings for the week at a Lutheran church in Ohio: Mon – Alcoholics Anonymous Tues – Abused Spouses Wed – Eating Disorders Thu – Say No to Drugs Fri – Teen Suicide Watch Sat – Soup Kitchen At the Sunday service the sermon was “America’s Joyous Future.” While America’s future may be joyous, its present seems decidedly troubled. There are not enough days in the week to treat all the disorders plaguing our society: internet gambling and pornography as well as school shootings, being only the most…