ВеÑелих СвÑÑ‚! Enjoy your Holy Supper tonight! Still don’t know what Ukrainian Christmas is about?
Update: If you need some Christmas music for your meal tonight, here are some traditional carols.
Just a quick post today with a some notable items:
A special Christmas message from Nash Holos:
News stories making the rounds today:
- Ukrainian Canadians begin their Christmas Celebrations Canada NewsWire
- Ukrainian Christmas ‘not a generic holiday’ St. Catharines Standard
- Ukrainian Christmas celebration begins Thursday Northern Daily News
- Local Eastern-rite congregations prepare for Christmas Waterloo Record
The Monsignor is making an appeal for Ukrainians to keep their Christmas traditions alive. “Therefore I’m appealing to all Ukrainian Canadians to be proud of celebrating our Christmas differently but at the same time culturally rich and saintly, starting with the Holy Supper on Christmas Eve and attending Holy Ukrainian Mass on Jan. 7 at 10 a.m., not forgetting Holy Confessions and Holy Communion at the Ukrainian St. Vladimir Church in Kirkland Lake.”
What the media more often gets wrong is that it’s not only Orthodox Christians who celebrate Christmas tomorrow, but Eastern Rite Catholics as well:
- Orthodox Christmas poses its challenges Regina Leader-Post
- Merry Christmas From Ukraine Portage Online
Anyways, hope you enjoy all the delicious food tonight:
- A Ukrainian Beacon in the East Village New York Times
“Everyone in Ukraine — Catholics, Orthodox, whatever — shares the same meal that night,†said Andrew Lastowecky, a Ukrainian-American who has been a regular at Veselka since the 1950s
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Veselka is particularly famous for its pirogi, although that is the Polish term for the plump dumplings more properly called varenyky in Ukrainian. “I challenge Tom on nomenclature all the time,†Mr. Lastowecky said. “There are those who would be offended to see the word ‘pirogi’ on a Ukrainian menu.â€
- Ukrainian Christmas Borscht New York Times
And for some reason some news media are skipping Christmas and reporting about the upcoming New Years:
- Ukrainians gearing up for Malanka BCLocalNews
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