News

Archbishop Stefan Soroka has  announced that  Patriarch Sviatoslav Shevchuk, head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church  will be addressing the United States  Conference of Catholic Bishops on Monday, Nov. 14th at 2:10 pm.  It will be broadcast live on EWTN.

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Last week, our Pastor Fr. Ivan Turyk  was named  a  chaplain for  the Perth Amboy Police Department. Department Chaplains serve as "ambassadors" dedicated to providing a ministry of presence and  support to members of the Police Department. Police chaplains can also counsel officers and members of the police department as well as their families, make death notifications, provide assistance to victims, help at suicide incidents, serve as part of the department’s crisis response team.

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The Holy Name Society is a men's spiritual and fraternal organization. The principal objective of the society is devotion and reverence to the Holy Name of Jesus. The society sponsors several breakfasts and a picnic for  parishioners and guests of the parish.  Despite the bad weather, the annual parish breakfast that was held twoo weeks ago was again a great success. Its success could not have been accomplished without hard work and dedication of all men from the Holy Name Society.  Thank you all for making the Assumption Parish  a truly special place to worship in faith, fellowship, and fun! Congratulations also to Mr. Nicholas Makar who joined the Holy Name Society this year.

On the evening of Saturday, October 22 the St. Ann’s Society of the Assumption Parish sponsored its Annual Calendar Dinner Dance. The over two  hundred parishioners and guests gathered for an evening of good music, singing and fun. Dinner, dancing, and great fellowship marked one of the most important evenings for our parish. Thank ladies for another successful dance. We are truly grateful to everyone who gave so enthusiastically of their time, talent and treasure.

Fr. Ivan and more then 30 parishioners of the Assumption Parish  attended the Solodka Darusia [Sweet Darusia] performance based on Maria Matios’s novel of the same name. The Ivan Franko Theater of Ivano-Frankivsk oblast. Ukraine, in conjunction with Meest America Inc., presented the play at the Ukrainian Cultural Center in Whippany, NJ.   Sweet Darusia is Ukrainian story set in the 1930s-1970s in Bukovyna and Halychyna. “A drama in three lives,” as the author defined her novel’s genre, is a moral warning that the history and every human being in all times, under all regimes are closely connected, while sin and atonement are material, almost palpable phenomena. The Sweet Darusia performance was possible because hard work and dedication of our parishioner and Meest America Inc Corporate Director  Mrs.  Natalia Brandafi

Sunday, November 13th , 2011
CATHEDRAL OF THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION
Philadelphia, PA at 2:30PM
RECEPTION AT INDEPENDENCE CENTER
LIBERTY VIEW BALLROOM
Philadelphia, PA
6:00PM – 9:00PM
Tickets are $100.00
All proceeds go to the Resurrection Sobor in Kyiv
Round-trip transportation provided
No tickets will be sold at the door.
Tickets are available by mail from the Chancery or by Paypal on the Archeparchy website: www.ukrarcheparchy.us
Deadline is November 7th
Come and spend time visiting the Leader of Our Church…