UKRAINIAN CATHOLIC CHURCH
Brantford, Ontario
PARISH PICNIC
17/AUGUST
Please join us for our Summer Parish Potluck Picnic
When: Sunday, August 17th
after Divine Liturgy
This will be held on the lawn behind the church (weather permitting), and will be potluck style.
All are welcome, and those who are able are invited to bring chairs and umbrellas, along with contribution of food.
Preserve Our Heritage
Assure Our Future Fundraiser
Please consider donating to help us restore our church
Our small Ukrainian Church in Brantford is seeking $85,000 to help us maintain our church and the broader Ukrainian identity in Brantford.
Even though we are a small parish, our plans are ambitious and our needs great.
Sadly, we have had to make substantial repairs to our buildings due to aging infrastructure and vandalism. We funded these through a combination of our own resources, insurance claims and government grants.
We have always tried to be prudent in our expenditures and proactive in seeking out available funding. These repairs inspired new pride in our church and inspired our goal to restore degrading infrastructure and make needed upgrades.
We invite you to register with our Parish
For more information regarding
registration, its benefits as well as the protocols we have in place to secure your information please, contact Fr.Don
Telephone: 519-751-3990
On the feast of the Transfiguration, the Church blesses the first-fruits of the harvest both as a giving back to the Lord what is His and has come from Him (1 Chronicles 29:14) and as a celebration of the promise of the final transfiguration of all things in Christ. The Divine Light glimpsed by the Apostles on Mount Tabor will transform all creation to its most perfect flowering and fruitfulness. The blessing of grapes, as well as other fruits on this day is the most beautiful and adequate sign of the final transfiguration of all things in Christ. It signifies the ultimate flowering and fruitfulness of all creation in the paradise of God’s unending Kingdom of Life where all will he transformed by the glory of the Lord.
When we celebrate the feast of Transfiguration on August the 6th, it is a good time to encourage families to bring fruits of the earth to church for blessing in beautifully decorated baskets with our embroidery in a similar manner as we do it at Easter. Such a tradition can reawaken our gratitude to God for who we are, and for the many gifts that we are endowed with so generously. A table can be set up before the icon of Christ on the morning of the Feast, August 6th. The faithful may bring their basket or tray of fruit and place it on the table. The fruit will be blessed at the end of the Divine Liturgy.
This is a wonderful opportunity especially for the children to go shopping with their parents, to bring a basket of fruit to the church, and then to bring these delicious and blessed fruits home to enjoy.
Courtesy UCWL Eparchy of Edmonton
ANNOUNCEMENTS
June 12, 2025
Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of Toronto and Eastern Canada
Our Eparchy is proud to be launching “Road to Emmaus”
Our Eparchy is proud to be launching “Road to Emmaus” together with The Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky Institute of Eastern Christian Studies which provides a propaedeutic year of preparation for those discerning a vocation to ordained ministry within the Church, as well as a discernment year for those interested in lay-leadership in Church ministries. For more information, speak to your pastor.
