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If you are living in New York City, you are in luck. By all means visit Saint Michael's Chapel on Mulberry Street - services are largely in English and the community will welcome you gladly. They have a web site which will give you the time of services.
By the way, the expression "Ukrainian Catholic rite" is meaningless; there is no special "rite" exclusive to the Ukrainian Greek-Catholics.
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Rachel - Slava Isusu Christu! and Vitaemo!. Much good information has been given already, especially dear Anhelyna's advice and website citations. Prayers for grace and peace for you and your family on this blessed journey. As a Ukrainian Greek Catholic deacon who also spent much of my school days in RC schools I can appreciate your situation. The bookstore attached to the Cathedral in Philadelphia has some nice books and other goods http://www.ukrcathedral.com/byzsup and it is run by Fr. Ivan Demkiv's wife Myroslava. The Anthology that Anhelyna referred to is available there, in addition to several other good books. You may also want to visit the English-language page of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church site in Ukraine, at http://www.ugcc.org.ua/index.php?L=2
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Thank you Diak and Father Serge, you're help is much appreciated. I will let you all know how it goes tomorrow.
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Rachel, St George's is the mother church, I believe, of all the UGCC temples in the NYC area. Links for it: St George's homepage [brama.com]St George's architecture [nyc-architecture.com]I don't know whether the Divine Liturgy is served in English. (Actually, if you happen to go there, I'd love some feedback on that, so that I can annotate its directory entry on the matter.) A full list of the UGCC parishes of the Eparchy of Stamford in NY state is here [stamforddio.org]. It includes links to detailed info on each and links from there to websites of those which have them. Many years, Neil
"One day all our ethnic traits ... will have disappeared. Time itself is seeing to this. And so we can not think of our communities as ethnic parishes, ... unless we wish to assure the death of our community."
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Thank you again, Neil. I went to Divine Liturgy at St. George's today at 12 p.m. and it was in Ukrainian. However, it was noted in the church that they have Divine Liturgy in English at 4 p.m. on Sundays. I hope to go to that next time. I am not very fluent in Ukrainian so it was hard for me to keep up some times.
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I'm glad you went  There are quite a few who are not fluent in Ukrainian and learn to cope reasonably well
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There are quite a few who are not fluent in Ukrainian and learn to cope reasonably well LOL - whoever would that be? 
"One day all our ethnic traits ... will have disappeared. Time itself is seeing to this. And so we can not think of our communities as ethnic parishes, ... unless we wish to assure the death of our community."
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So learn Irish - and a happy Saint Patrick's Day to all of us who keep the traditional calendar.
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Indeed - a happy St Patrick's Day to you Father - and to all enjoying this day today
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So learn Irish - and a happy Saint Patrick's Day to all of us who keep the traditional calendar.
Fr Serge, peccator rusticissimus Dear Father Serge, Since you live in Ireland, do you not also celebrate St. Patrick's day on March 17th with your fellow countrymen?  Respectfully in Christ, Alice P.S. A most blessed feast of St. Patrick the Enlightener on the traditional calendar, and may he intercede for you to our Lord God always, and bestow many blessings upon your ministry in Dublin.
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I am very glad I went too. I coped well enough without knowing all of words. I just would have like to understand the homily which was also in Ukrainian. I am going to work on understanding how to respond properly.
But overall, the experience was wonderful. I felt very blessed to be able to return and realize the importance of God in my life. Thank you all for giving me support in my journey!
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You are most welcome Rachel. Homilies in Ukrainian - well now that's a very different kettle of fish - I sit there and peacefully say a few prayers , or at Nativity and/or Pascha ,lose yet another chotki to a restive toddler in the pew in front of me [ and parents didn't bring a diversionary toy/book for them ]. I never claim the chotki back - the child is usually fascinated by it . Now stay and chat with us - don't just vanish because you have found your way back
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I promise not to vanish :) I am sure that I'll have more questions to discuss sooner or later too.
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