PARISHIONERS- are you getting email updates? Have you signed up to volunteer through the week before and during the consecration? If not please email office[at]saintelias.com and let us know you can help and to to be sure we have your updated e-mail address.
SINGERS- you should have received your practice schedule via email. If not please call the parish office.
The view from the parish house today thanks for Protodeacon Nazar for this photo.
A FEW NOT-TO-MISS NEWS ITEMS from around the internet.
1. Mnohaya Lita to one of our Jesuits- Fr. Christopher Hadley (now teaching in California)
2. A piece by another of our Jesuits- Deacon Cyril Pinchak http://jesuitsmidwest.org/news-detail?TN=NEWS-20160826021218
3. Martha Charron is doing really well! The latest update is here: https://www.youcaring.com/fr-jason-charron-and-family-605583
The Ottawa delegation of singers are preparing for the Consecration service on October 1. This video is part of a post with observations by Protodeacon Nazariy Yaruniv, (he and Fr. Ivan Hobela) are visiting us from Lviv Ukraine to help with preparations for the Consecration Weekend.
If this video is any indication we have so much to look forward to. Our local singers continue rehearsals every Sunday from now until October 1st.
Are you ready to do it all over again on October 1 2016? As we continue our preparations and the completion of the rebuilt temple here is a two hour "highlight reel" from October 8 1995 to remind of the joy consecration day will bring. Look closely and you will see familiar faces. The link begins at the construction of the altar. Click through to view the whole service. Make sure you have a good speaker on your device.
Consecration of Saint Elias Church October 8 1995 (original temple)
with +Bishop Isidore Borecky and +Bishop Julian Voronovsky
With thanks to Fr. A. Chirovsky for the original video and edits and to Markian Radomskiy for posting.
Consecration of Saint Elias Church October 8 1995 (original temple) with +Bishop Isidore Borecky and +Bishop Julian Voronovsky With thanks to Fr. A. Chirovsky for the original video and edits. gallery view camera.
a video clip from this evening...here.
Just 4 weeks away...the first guests have arrived.
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Many thanks to the volunteers who came out today.
JUST 6 WEEKS AWAY- ПОМІЧ ПОТРІБНA! Volunteer help will be needed from now until Consecration every saturday (or during the week too please call the office). Please block off time in your schedule to help! More details below.
1. VOLUNTEERS NEEDED ON CHURCH GROUNDS EVERY SATURDAY - from 1-6 p.m. (then supper and Vespers). if you can only come in the morning - or only for a couple of hours, that's OK. Come when you can - there is much to be done. ПОМІЧ ПОТРІБНА - ЩОСУБОТИ від 1 - 6 пополудні (тоді вечеря і вечірня).
2. SINGING PRACTICE AFTER LITURGY- every week - all interested are welcome. Sparrows Singers, bring your folders.
3. GARDEN GOODS - are now being collected for the preparation of food for the Consecration Day reception. Cabbage, onions, beets, dill, cucumbers, potatoes, carrots - whatever you have inabundance, we are happy to receive. Donations can be brought to the parish house or to church on the next few Sundays. Хто має багато городини - капусти, цибулі, буряків, кріпцю, моркви, бараболі - жінки радо приймають до підготовлення прийняття після Освячення Храму. Пожертви можна принести до парафії або в неділю до церкви.
4. OCTOBER 1/2 WEEKEND WORK. Parish event co-ordinators will be contacting parishioners for specific help in their area by the end of August.
5. HOSPITALITY HOMES are needed to house some guests on Consecration Weekend. If you are able to offer a room, a bed, or even a sofa to one of our special visitors, please call pani Iryna at 905-453-6565. When you receive in your home a stranger, you are welcoming Christ into your home. Currently we need a place for a priest and his wife, a priest and his wife and three children, four monks, and more!
More information will be posted as it becomes available.
It's that time of year! Register for our annual golf tournament. Enjoy a fun day on the greens, lots of prizes and a tasty meal.
a first...
video here
