St Josaphats Ukrainian Catholic Church

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Welcome to St. Josaphat Church! Schedule of Divine Liturgies

If you have any questions, please contact Sunday School Coordinator, Paula Siviy, at psiviy@gmail.com. SCHEDULE & REGISTRATION FORM

The annual Ukrainian Catholic Retreat sponsored by St Josaphats Holy Name Society was a great success. Sixty-eight men and women, including thirty from St. Josaphats, attended on August 27 29 at Notre Dame Retreat House overlooking Canandaigua Lake. We were fortunate to have great weather for the weekend and even more fortunate to have Bishop Paul as our retreat leader. The Bishop spoke in depth on Christs Sermon on the Mount and provided those attending great insight into the Beatitudes that Christ delivered with this sermon. As always there was ample time to see old friends from Ukrainian and non-Ukrainian Parishes from across New York State. There were many new attendees at this years retreat and all who spoke with retreat coordinator, Mike Anuszkiewicz, indicated a desire to come back next year. Read more

CENTENIAL CELEBRATION The history of St. Josaphat Ukrainian Catholic Church can be traced back to the arrival of Ukrainian immigrants to the Rochester area in 1903. As more immigrants arrived, there developed a need to provide for the religious and cultural life of the people. In the early years, priests from Auburn, Buffalo, Elmira Heights and Troy, New York would come to Rochester to administer to the spiritual needs of the faithful.
In 1908, the Benevolent Fraternity of St. Josaphat, a branch of the Ukrainian National Association, was organized. This benevolent society and its membership are the pioneers of organized Ukrainian life in the Rochester area.
On November 15, 1908 the first official meeting of the Ukrainian Catholic Community took place at St. Stanislaus Church with the serious intent of organizing a parish. At a meeting held on June 28, 1909, 93 parishioners agreed to contribute 3 days salary and on July 5, 1909 the sum of $417.50 was collected to purchase land on Remington Street, where the first St. Josaphat Church was constructed. Read more

By appointment. Sponsors must be practicing Catholics

Please contact you Pastor at least six months in advance. Attendance at PreCana is required.

Ministry to the Sick:
Kindly notify the rectory office about parishioners who are confined to home, hospital, or convalescent home, so that a priest might visit them.

Sunday Bulletin Deadline:
Notices should be phoned in or brought to the Parish Office no later than 12:00 noon on the Monday previous to the publication.

In making out your will, kindly remember your church. St Josaphats Ukrainian Catholic Church of Rochester, NY is our legal title.

He who follows Me shall not walk in darkness, says our Lord.

In these words Christ counsels us to follow His life and way if we desire true enlightenment and freedom from all blindness of heart. Let the life of Jesus Christ, then, be our first consideration.

The teaching of Jesus far transcends all the teachings of the Saints, and whosoever has His spirit will discover concealed in it heavenly manna. But many people, although they often hear the Gospel, feel little desire to follow it, because they lack the spirit of Christ. Whoever desires to understand and take delight in the word of Christ must strive to conform his whole life to him. Read more

0 Lord Jesus Christ, my God, hope of all bounds of the earth, and of those far away at sea, You have established these holy days of fasting by Your law and the prophets, as a way of my mortification and repentance.

In the fullness of time, You manifested Yourself in the flesh on this earth, and by Your fast of forty days and nights, You sanctified the practice of fasting and commanded me to follow Your example.

As a merciful and gracious God, enable me to begin these holy days of Great Fast with perfect repentance, with humility rather than hypocrisy, with diligent prayer, with hunger and thirst, with frequent prostrations, and with a contrite heart. Enable me also to complete this time of the Great Fast, without fault and with a pure conscience, keeping my faith intact and achieving victory over sin. Read more

Volunteers-"One Person Can Make a Difference"
Our parish offers several opportunities to volunteer your time and effort: Help Make Varenyky-Wednesdays, May 5,12,19 & 26.
"Day of Caring"- Saturday, June 5,2010.
St Josaphat Ukrainian Festival - August 12-15, 2010.

"If I then, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one anothers feet. 15 For I have given you an example, that you should do as I have done to you. 16 Most assuredly, I say to you, a servant is not greater than his master; nor is he who is sent greater than he who sent him. Verses 13:14-17 View pictures

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