Almsgiving for the Nativity Fast

December 9, 2022 0 Comments

Food Drive: Subdeacon Paul Zalonski, working with Saint Michael the Archangel Ukrainian Catholic Church in New Haven, Connecticut, is organizing a food drive for the people of Ukraine. Items needed are limited to the following only: dried soups, dried oatmeal like Quaker’s High Protein Oatmeal, and high protein milkshakes like Carnation Breakfast Essentials. Please drop …

Melkite Nativity Fast

December 9, 2022 0 Comments

The fasting period begins on Saturday December 10 to Saturday, December 24. Some may observe the traditional Nativity Fast that is 40 days in length called the St Philip’s Fast which begins with Vespers on November 14th, lasting until Vespers on December 24th. The Melkite Synod of Bishops approved a shorter number of days for …

Nativity Fast 2020

December 8, 2020 0 Comments

How will we prepare for the coming of the Lord on the feast of His Incarnation, the Nativity (Christmas) this year on December 25th? Certainly, Covid 19 has posed great challenges  to us: relating to others in a normal manner, the faithful worship of God at the weekly Divine Liturgy, not giving into nihilism, economic …

A Prayer for the Nativity Fast

November 16, 2020 0 Comments

Lord Jesus, You have come so many times to us and found no resting place; forgive us for our overcrowded lives, our vain haste, and our preoccupation with self. Come again, O Lord, and though our hearts are a jumble of voices and our minds overlaid with many fears, find a place however humble, where …

The Nativity Fast

November 15, 2020 0 Comments

Today we begin a 40 day journey to the adore Our Savior in the Bethlehem cave. However, some Melkites will take up the option of beginning the Nativity Fast on December 10. The Church always presents us with the fullness of the Tradition, and exhorts us to conform our lives to it, to the best …