Eparchy of New Westminster Welcomes the Icon of Blessed Josaphata Hordashevska
Chancery Office Eparchy of New Westminster
14 January 2015
To the Reverend Clergy, Religious and Lay-Faithful of the Eparchy of New Westminster
Christ is Born!
Dear Friends,
We have received some wonderful news this week that I would like to share with you. On February 11, Sister Pat Lacey ssmi, the Provincial Superior for all of the Sisters Servants of Mary Immaculate (SSMI) in Canada will be arriving in Vancouver and bringing with her a very special icon.
In August 2013, His Beatitude Patriarch Sviatoslav, blessed a special icon of the Co-Foundress of the SSMI, Blessed Josaphata Hordashevska at the Patriarchal Sobor in Kyiv, Ukraine. It is a pilgrimage icon with an embedded relic of Blessed Josaphata. This icon was written in honour of the upcoming 125th anniversary of the founding of the SSMI, which will take place in August of 2017. The special icon has already travelled to our faithful in Argentina, Brazil and the United States of America. The Sisters hope to have this icon travel to all of the countries, to the Eparchies and places where the Sisters have or are currently serving. The icon will be in our Eparchy for just over two weeks. The icon will travel across Canada over the next few months before departing to Poland in August of this year.
Sister Josaphata Hordashevska was beatified by Saint Pope John Paul II, when he visited Ukraine in 2001. Declaration of beatification is the final step toward canonization, or the declaration of Sainthood.
Below you will find the times and places you and your family invited to pray in front of the Icon:
So if you or someone you know is in the Lower Mainland or on the Island please make your plans and come and pray!
Wednesday, 11 February
Provincial Superior – Sister Pat Lacey ssmi arrives at Vancouver International Airport with the icon of Blessed Josaphata and will be met by Sisters Angelica and Daria. The icon will then be transferred to the Sisters’ home in New Westminster where the Eparchial clergy and Sisters’ families will welcome Sr. Pat and the icon.
Saturday, 14 February
Bring a “valentine” to Blessed Josaphata:
Holy Eucharist Cathedral
501-4th Avenue, New Westminster, BC, V3L 1S2
Tel: 1-604-526-1261
Web: http://www.holyeucharist.ca
Email: office@holyeucharist.ca
8:00 – 9:30 am devotion in front of the icon
8:30 am Divine Liturgy
Saturday, 14 February
Sisters Servants of Mary Immaculate home
506-5th Avenue New Westminster, BC V5Z 1P6
Tel: 1-604-526-9198
11:00 – 3:00 pm
Come to visit and pray in the Sisters private chapel in front of the icon for as long or as short of time as you want!
Sunday, 15 February
Dormition of the Mother of God Ukrainian Catholic Parish
8700 Railway Avenue, Richmond, BC, V7C 3K3
Tel: 1-604-447-1731
Web: http://www.easternchurch.wordpress.com
8:30 – 10:15 am devotion on front of the icon
9:00 am Divine Liturgy
After the Divine Liturgy there will be an opportunity to venerate the icon and to receive a special Holy Card of the icon. Then Sisters Angelica and Daria will transport the icon to our parish in Vancouver where they will arrive at St. Mary’s during the 10:30 am Divine Liturgy.
Protection of the Blessed Virgin Mary (St. Mary’s) Ukrainian Catholic Parish
550 West-14th Avenue, Vancouver, BC V5Z 1P6
Tel: 1-604-879-5830
Web: http://www.stmarysbc.com
Email: office@stmarysbc.com
11:00 – 12:30 am devotion in front of the icon
10:30 am Divine Liturgy
After the Divine Liturgy there will be an opportunity to venerate the icon and to receive a special Holy Card of the icon.
Monday, 16 February (1st day of the Great Fast/Lent)
Sisters Servants of Mary Immaculate home
506-5th Avenue New Westminster, BC V5Z 1P6
Tel: 1-604-526-9198
What a wonderful way to begin our Lenten/Great Fast journey… visit and pray in the Sisters private chapel!
Bring your family and friends to the Sisters home anytime between 11:00 am – 3:00 pm or from 6:00 – 7:30 pm and pray in front of the icon for as long or as short of time as you want
Tuesday, 17 February
Sisters Servants of Mary Immaculate home
506-5th Avenue New Westminster, BC V5Z 1P6
Tel: 1-604-526-9198
Come and pray before the icon at the Sisters’ chapel and participate in Divine Liturgy at 9:00
9:00 am – 11:00 am adoration (and pray in front of the icon for as long or as short of time as you want)
9:00 am Divine Liturgy
Saturday, 21 February
Sisters Servants of Mary Immaculate home
506-5th Avenue New Westminster, BC V5Z 1P6
Tel: 1-604-526-9198
Sisters Angelica & Daria invite the members of the UCWLC to their home to participate in Divine Liturgy at 9:00 am and time afterwards for adoration and prayer in front of the icon.
Sunday, 22 February
Exaltation of the Holy Cross Ukrainian Catholic Parish
13733-108th Avenue, Surrey, BC V3T 2K6
Tel: 1-604-496-2106
Email: office.holycross@gmail.com
8:30 – 10:15 am devotion in front of the icon
9:00 am Divine Liturgy
After the Divine Liturgy there will be an opportunity to venerate the icon and to receive a special Holy Card of the icon. Then Sisters Angelica and Daria will transport the icon to our Cathedral parish in New Westminster where they will arrive at Holy Eucharist Cathedral during the 10:30 am Divine Liturgy.
Holy Eucharist Cathedral Ukrainian Catholic Parish
501-4th Avenue, New Westminster, BC, V3L 1S2
Tel: 1-604-526-1261
Web: http://www.holyeucharist.ca
Email: office@holyeucharist.ca
11:00 – 12:30 am devotion in front of the icon
10:30 am Divine Liturgy
After the Divine Liturgy there will be an opportunity to venerate the icon and to receive a special Holy Card of the icon.
Sunday, 22 February
Sisters Servants of Mary Immaculate home
506-5th Avenue New Westminster, BC V5Z 1P6
Tel: 1-604-526-9198
Still on Sunday, 22 February, Sisters Angelica & Daria invite Fr. Richard Soo and the Eparchial Youth Group to join them at their home at 5:30 pm for a short prayer service in their chapel in front of the icon and then a meal.
Monday, 23 February
St. Nicholas the Wonderworker parish (Victoria)
1112 Caledonia Avenue, Victoria, BC V8T 1G1
Tel: 1-250-384-2292
Fax: 1-250-383-9770
Email: theomac@lycos.com
Sisters Angelica & Daria will be taking the icon for a cruise to Vancouver Island where their will be an opportunity for our faithful on Vancouver Island to attend a Moleben at St. Nicholas the Wonderworker Ukrainian Catholic Parish in Victoria at 6:30 PM
Thursday, 26 February
Sisters Servants of Mary Immaculate home
506-5th Avenue New Westminster, BC V5Z 1P6
Tel: 1-604-526-9198
Sisters Angelica & Daria invite you to join them at their home at 6:30 pm for a Moleben in their chapel in front of the icon and one last opportunity to pray in front of the icon before the icon departs from our Eparchy.
Please take advantage of these opportunities to pray together and to learn more about the fabulous and Blessed Josaphata!
With prayerful best wishes and assurance of my Episcopal blessings,
+Ken