CONGRATULATIONS!
Father Stepan on the occasion of your priestly ordination.
As you share in the ministry of Christ,
may you be filled with the sure knowledge of His love,
and open to the power and grace of the Holy Spirit.
May the Lord bless you and keep you, fill your life with His joy and sustain you by His grace.
CONGRATULATIONS!
Deacon Stepan on the occasion of your diaconal ordination.
May the blessings of the Lord be upon you as you follow in His way.
May you find joy and peace as He inspires you each day.
To the Clergy, Religious and Lay-Faithful of the Eparchy of New Westminster
3 July 2015
Glory to Jesus Christ!
Dear Friends,
I have the great pleasure to announce the following wonderful news for our Eparchy!
Stepan Dovhoshyia has been visiting our Eparchy for the last few weeks. Together we have been discerning his vocation to the priesthood in our Eparchy. Stepan has completed all of his seminary formation in Ukraine, he is married to Julia and they have a baby boy named Luke.
I will be ordaining Stepan a sub-deacon at our Church of the Holy Dormition of the Mother of God located at: 8700 Railway Ave., Richmond, BC. The ordination will take place during the celebration of the Divine Liturgy on the feast day of Saint Volodymyr the Great on Wednesday, 15 July at 7:00 PM. There will be a small reception to follow. Please be so kind as to phone: 1-604-447-1731 by Sunday, 12 July to let the parishioners know if you are attending and how many so that they can be prepared to host you at the reception following the Divine Liturgy. Ordination to the sub-diaconate is the first step toward priestly ordination.
Then on Sunday, 19 July at 5:00 PM I will be ordaining Stepan a deacon at Holy Eucharist Cathedral Parish located at: 501-4th Ave., New Westminster, BC. There will be a dinner following the Divine Liturgy and ordination in our parish hall. Please be so kind as to phone: 1-604-526-1261 by Wednesday, 15 July to indicate your attendance so that we can be prepared to host you.
I will be ordaining Stepan to the priesthood in his home parish in Ternopil, Ukraine on 28 August this year. We hope to welcome the newly ordained Fr. Stepan and his wife and son to our Eparchy in October of this year and at that time I will make an announcement where his pastoral appointment will be.
It is not too often that the faithful of our Eparchy have an opportunity to participate in sub-diaconal and diaconal ordinations so I would encourage everyone to make an effort to attend at least one of this joyful events.
With assurance of my prayerful best wishes,
+Ken
Bishop of New Westminster
MOST REVEREND SEVERIAN YAKYMYSHYN, O.S.B.M.
Bishop Emeritus of New Westminster
Episcopal Motto: “GOD IS LOVE”
Celebrating:
70th Anniversary of entrance to the Basilian Fathers’ (March 16, 1945)
60th Anniversary of priestly ordination (May 19, 1955)
20th Anniversary of episcopal ordination (25 March 1995)
Bishop Severian was born at Plain Lake, Alberta on April 22, 1930. He entered the Novitiate of the Basilian Order of St. Josaphat (OSBM) in Mundare, on March 16, 1945; Made his Simple Vows in Mundare on November 21, 1946; his Solemn Perpetual Vows in Rome, Italy on January 1, 1953.
He was ordained a priest in Rome on May 19, 1955 and Fr. Severian received an STD in Theology from the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome in 1958.
Fr. Severian was appointed Second Bishop of New Westminster on January 5, 1995 and ordained to the Episcopate in Vancouver on March 25, 1995. He served as the eparchial bishop of New Westminster until his retirement on June 1, 2007.
MINISTRY AND OTHER POSITIONS PRIOR TO EPISCOPAL ORDINATION:
Pastoral services: pastor of the Transfiguration Church in Mundare, Alberta – 1958-1961; of St. John the Baptist in Borschiw and of the Protection of the BVM in Krakiw, Alberta 1964-1969; as assistant pastor of St. John the Baptist in Ottawa and served the Ukrainian Rite communities in Kingston and Smithfalls, Ontario- 1969-1976;
Services within the Basilian Order: assistant master of novices and teacher at the Basilian House of Studies in Mundare – 1958-1961; Director of the Basalian Press in Toronto – 1961-1964; director of vocations, teacher at the Basilian House of Studies and novice master in Mundare 1964-1969; master of novices in Ottawa 1969-1976; lecturer at St. Paul University 1971-1972; Superior of the Monastery of St. Josaphat in Ottawa 1973-1976; director of the St. Basil the Great Liturgical Society 1964-1976; director of the Basilian Press and Publications in Toronto and Consultor of the Canadian Province 1976-1979; General Econome, Superior and Econome of the House of Studies and the General Curia in Rome 1979-1995; General Consultor 1982-1988 and 1992-1995; during the stay in Rome he visited Ukraine 7 times to help reconstruct and renovated to Basalian Monasteries;
Services outside to Order: Spiritual Director of the Novitiate of the Sisters Servants of Mary Immaculate in Ancaster Ontario 1962-1964; directed spiritual retreats for priests, religious, seminarians and faithful throughout Canada, USA, Brasil, Austria, France Germany, Italy, Poland, and Ukraine; sent by the Apostolic See twice he visited the Ukrainian Rite communities in England, -29 in all.
As Bishop of New Westminster, he was a member of the Synod of Ukrainian Catholic Bishops and also served on the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Commission for Canon Law/Inter Rite and was a Consultor of the Holy See’s Special Commission for Liturgy with the Sacred Congregation for Eastern Churches.
O Lord, God, shine forth the light of Your Holy Gospel, so that the Christian faith might spread through us, the baptized, as children of the Light. Let us be witnesses to Your Living Presence in our lives and in our parish community, O Lord, hear us and have mercy.
Dear parishioners, you are invited to embark on an extraordinary pilgrimage that will last for ten days—from the Ascension (May 14) to the Pentecost (May 24). During this time the attention of our entire Church will be towards our common vocation as “missionaries,” that is to say a community ready to share God’s Word of salvation with others.
We read in the Mission Days Guidebook: “Through our active participation in the spiritual efforts of these ten Mission Days, once again we are called upon to discover and understand anew that our parish communities and families (domestic churches) are missionary in nature. Such understanding flows form the gift of our Baptism, by virtue of which, and through the power of its mystery, we have committed ourselves to believe, live, serve, and share the experience of our faith in Christ; and not simply with our family members, but with everyone we meet in life”.
Let our entire parish community gather on May 14, the feast of the Ascension of the Lord, in our church to begin this pilgrimage together. Let us pray that the Lord might renew our life in God by the grace and intercession of the Holy Spirit.
Please contact your parish office for a Mission Days schedule. If you cannot participate in the Mission Days during these 10 days days you can make this pilgrimage at home with you family. Dedicate at lest 5 minutes of your time during these 10 days by praying with the “Mission Days Guidebook” and contemplating how you can fulfill the mission task (also included in this Guidebook). The booklets are also available in all of our parishes throughout the Eparchy.
Mission Days Guidebook – English version Путiвик Декади Мiсiйностi – українська версія
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