UKELODEON: For The Next Generation (02/12/06)

UKELODEON

For The Next Generation

Hartford SUM branch gathers for double celebration

HARTFORD, Conn. - Members of the Ukrainian American Youth Association (known by its Ukrainian acronym as SUM, for Spilka Ukrainskoyi Molodi) gathered in November 2005 to celebrate the feast day of St. Michael the Archangel, the patron saint of SUM. At the same time the youths marked the 15th anniversary of the priesthood of the Rev. Ihor Midzak and his elevation to the rank of mitred archpriest. Father Ihor is a member of SUM and pastor of St. Michael's Ukrainian Catholic Church in Hartford. Seen on the left are the members of Hartford's SUM branch with Father Ihor.

Parma parish's children remember Famine victims

PARMA, Ohio - Parish youths had an important role to play at St. Vladimir's Ukrainian Orthodox Cathedral during memorial services offered in memory of the victims of the Famine-Genocide of 1932-1933 in Ukraine. The special prayers were offered during both the 8:30 a.m. and 10:15 a.m. liturgies at the request of the Ukrainian Genocide Famine Foundation. As seen above, during the earlier liturgy, children were invited by the clergy to come to the front of the church and light 33 candles, symbolically uniting the congregation with the 33,000 candles that had been lit the previous day in St. Sophia Square in Kyiv.

Mishanyna

To solve this month's Mishanyna, find the words on the list below in the Mishanyna grid. The place names, or toponyms, that follow are the names of many of the oblasts and the autonomous republic that are part of Ukraine. (Next month: another Mishanyna covering the remaining oblasts of Ukraine.)

Cherkasy, Chernihiv, Chernivtsi, Crimea, Dnipropetrovsk, Donetsk, Ivano-Frankivsk, Kharkiv, Kherson, Khmelnytskyi, Kyiv, Kirovohrad

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