St. Nicholas Ukrainian Catholic Church
9507 Austin O'Brien Rd Nw T6B 2C1 Edmonton, AB, Canada

Glory be to Jesus Christ! Dear Families and Friends! Tomorrow, November 21, we celebrate a major Feast: Feast of the Entrance into the Temple of Our Most Holy Lady, the Mother of God! Therefore, there will be Divine Liturgy at 10 AM at St. Nicholas Parish that you are welcomed to attend. If due to coronavirus reasons you are unable to attend, please pray via live stream at St. Josaphat's Cathedral: 9:30 AM Divine Liturgy.... Let us come tomorrow to church and give glory to God and to the Mother of God, the Theotokos on Her Feast Day. Let us remember that our parishes provide a very safe environment for us, it is definitely safer to go to church than to the grocery store :) Confessions are available, so that we can prepare ourselves to receive Jesus Christ Himself in the Most Holy Eucharist! Have a wonderful and blessed celebration tomorrow! God Bless!

Glory be to Jesus Christ! Dear families and Friends! Today is the 20th Sunday After Pentecost, when we commemorate the Holy Apostle and Evangelist Luke.... Sunday Liturgy today, at 10 AM at St. Nicholas parish. If due to coronavirus reasons you are unable to attend, please pray via live stream at St. Josaphat Cathedral: 9:30 AM (Eng), 11:15 AM (Ukr). Please remember that it is SAFE to go to church, confession and receive the Lord Himself in the Most Holy Eucharist! Our parishes provide a very safe environment for us. Have a blessed and wonderful Sunday! God Bless! :)

Glory be to Jesus Christ! Dear Families and Friends! Happy Thanksgiving to all of you! ... Thanks be to God for everything! Thanks be to God for our faith, our Church, the Sacraments, Confession, the opportunity to receive Jesus Christ Himself in the Most Holy Eucharist! Thanks be to God for our families and friends, for everything that we have! Thanks be to God for all of you! Thanks be to God for everything that He has done for us and our salvation! Tomorrow let us first and foremost remember to pray with our families in thanksgiving to the Lord for everything! :) If you would like to come to church to pray the Divine Liturgy in thanksgiving, there will be Divine Liturgy at 9 AM at St. Josaphat's Cathedral. If because of coronavirus you are unable to attend, you are welcome to pray via live stream, available on YouTube. I wish you all a very blessed and happy Thanksgiving day! May God bless us all and may the Mother of God protect us from all evil!

Glory be to Jesus Christ! Dear Families and Friends! Tomorrow is the 19th Sunday after Pentecost, when we commemorate the Fathers of the 7th Ecumenical Council. ... The Gospel Reading for tomorrow is: John 17: 1-13. It is a very powerful, touching and beautiful Gospel, where Jesus prays for His disciples and thus, not only for the Apostles, but also for all of us, asking God the Father to protect and guide us. What a great love of our Lord, God and Savior Jesus Christ! Despite our sinfulness, Jesus prays and cares for us! Please take a moment to read this Gospel: After Jesus said this, he looked toward heaven and prayed: Father, the hour has come. Glorify your Son, that your Son may glorify you. 2 For you granted him authority over all people that he might give eternal life to all those you have given him. 3 Now this is eternal life: that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent. 4 I have brought you glory on earth by finishing the work you gave me to do. 5 And now, Father, glorify me in your presence with the glory I had with you before the world began. Jesus Prays for His Disciples 6 I have revealed you to those whom you gave me out of the world. They were yours; you gave them to me and they have obeyed your word. 7 Now they know that everything you have given me comes from you. 8 For I gave them the words you gave me and they accepted them. They knew with certainty that I came from you, and they believed that you sent me. 9 I pray for them. I am not praying for the world, but for those you have given me, for they are yours. 10 All I have is yours, and all you have is mine. And glory has come to me through them. 11 I will remain in the world no longer, but they are still in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, protect them by the power of your name, the name you gave me, so that they may be one as we are one. 12 While I was with them, I protected them and kept them safe by that name you gave me. None has been lost except the one doomed to destruction so that Scripture would be fulfilled. 13 I am coming to you now, but I say these things while I am still in the world, so that they may have the full measure of my joy within them. Sunday Liturgy tomorrow, at 10 AM at St. Nicholas parish. If due to coronavirus reasons you are unable to attend, please pray via live stream at St. Josaphat Cathedral: 9:30 AM (Eng), 11:15 AM (Ukr). Please remember that it is SAFE to go to church, confession and receive the Lord Himself in the Most Holy Eucharist! Our parishes provide a very safe environment for us. God Bless! :)

Let us know the story of this Italian Roman Catholic Teenager the modern Saint of the Catholic Faith. Carlo Acutis : Servant of God Carlo Acutis died at the ag...e of 15 of a galloping leukaemia, leaving in the memory of all those who knew him a great feeling of emptiness and great admiration for his brief but intense testimony of authentic Christian life. From the day he received his First Communion at the age of 7, he never missed an appointment with daily Holy Mass. He always tried, either before or after the Eucharistic celebration, to pause before the Tabernacle to adore the Lord, always truly present in the Blessed Sacrament. Our Lady was his great confidant and he never failed to honour her by reciting the Holy Rosary every day. Carlo’s modern and up-to-date ways combined perfectly with his profound Eucharistic life and Marian devotion, which helped to make him that very special boy who everyone admires and loves. To quote Carlo’s own words: Our goal must be the infinite and not the finite. The Infinity is our homeland. We are always expected in Heaven. Another phrase of his was: All people are born as originals but many die as photocopies. To move towards this goal and not die as photocopies Carlo said that our compass must be the Word of God, that we have to measure up to constantly. But to reach such a lofty goal very special measures are necessary: the Sacraments and prayer. In particular, Carlo placed the Sacrament of the Eucharist at the centre of his life and he called it my highway to Heaven. Carlo was very gifted with everything related to the world of computers so that both his friends and adults with computer engineering degrees considered him a genius. Everyone was amazed at his ability to understand the secrets of computers that are normally only accessible to those who have specialized university degrees. Carlo’s interests involved computer programming, film editing, website creation, editing and laying out small publications, to helping those most in need especially children and the elderly. This young believer of the Diocese of Milan was a mystery, who before he died was able to offer his suffering up for the Pope and the Church. To be always united with Jesus, this is my plan of life. These few words Carlo Acutis, the boy who died of leukaemia, said outline the distinctive feature of his short life: living with Jesus, for Jesus, in Jesus. () I am happy to die because I lived my life without wasting even a minute of it on anything unpleasing to God. And Carlo asks of us the same thing: he asks us to spread the Gospel through our lives, so that each of us can be a beacon to light the journey of others. Carlo, like many adolescents of our time was busy at school, with his friends, and for his young age was an expert in computers. In the midst of all his commitments he encountered Jesus Christ. Carlo Acutis became a witness to the Risen Christ, he entrusted himself to the Virgin Mary. Carlo lived a life of grace and shared his overwhelming experience of God with his peers. He received the Eucharist every day, he attended Holy Mass devoutly daily and would pause for hours in adoration before the Blessed Sacrament. His experience and Christian maturity testify to the truth of Benedict XVI’s words in the Apostolic Exhoration Sacramentum Caritatis: the sacrifice of the Mass and Eucharistic Adoration strengthen, support, develop love of Jesus and the availability to ecclesial service. Carlo also nourished a special devotion to Our Lady, to whom he faithfully recited the Rosary, and feeling her motherly love, he offered her acts of mortification. This teenager sociologically similar to his school mates, was an authentic witness that the Gospel can be lived fully even by a teenager. In his short life, oriented to that encounter with Jesus, was like a light not only to shine on the path of those who knew him, but also of those who will come to know his story. I am sure that this first biography of Carlo Acutis, edited by Nicola Gori, with his well known ability to involve the reader, will help today’s adolescents, so problematic and so conditioned by the Mass Media, to reflect on the meaning of life and on the Gospel values to realize it fully. Looking at this teenager as their peers, who felt attracted by Christ’s friendship, and for this very reason experienced a truer joy, our children will be put in touch with a life experience that has not taken anything away from the wealth of young teenage years, but has enhanced them even more. Carlo’s witness to the Gospel is not only an incentive for today’s adolescents, but it also helps parish priests and teachers to question themselves about the value of the formation they give to young people of our parish communities and how to make this formation effective and incisive.