UKRAINIAN CHRISTMAS GREETING

To all my friends and readers who are celebrating the "first" (Gregorian) Christmas.   For a number of my articles on Ukrainian Christmas traditions, you can scroll through my articles on this blog, and also Google my name and "Ukrainian Christmas" or similar topics.  And a note:  hopefully, by this time next year, my book on Ukrainian Christmas traditions will be out.   Working title:   "First Star I See Tonight:  Ukrainian Christmas Traditions."     [applying for grants right now, but if there is a generous philanthropist out there to help with the publication, will be grateful!  The lottery numbers ain't working....]

 

Traditional Ukrainian Christmas Greetings

(Vinchuvannia)

На щастя, на здоров’я з колядою,

Щоб Ви тішилися як пташка весною,

Як пташка на калині,

Дай, Боже, щастя Вашій родині!

Доброго здоров’я, багато щастя,

Чистої води в криниці,

У полі ярої пшениці,

Хліба й солі на столі,

І погоди на душі!

Христос ся Раждає!

May you find peace, joy, and health for yourself, your family, your children, and your farm animals;

May you be as healthy as the spring waters,

May you be as cheerful as the swallows in the sky,

May your home never be hungry,

And may it be as prosperous as the fields of grain at harvest time,

And as full as the beehives are with honey,

And the orchards are ripe with fruit.

We wish you all this, and may we come together next year to greet and wish each other again.

Khrystos Rodyvsia!  Christ is Born!

Slavimo Yoho!  Let us praise Him!

UKRAINIAN CHRISTMAS TRADITIONS - РІЗДВО

With the first day of Christmas yesterday, two more to come (in Ukrainian tradition, it's three days of Christmas), I'm sharing some of my articles on Ukrainian Christmas traditions.  These I have written over many years, for The Ukrainian Weekly, an award-winning international English-language Ukrainian newspaper from New Jersey, edited by Roma Hadzevych.

Also, here is a YouTube (in four parts, so click on all of them) of my presentation about Christmas traditions at the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) a few years ago.   

This coming year I hope to do what I've been planning for a long time -- and have been encouraged by my dear faithful readers to do:  I will be compiling my Christmas articles into a book.  Later, will do the same with articles on other topics.  It's mindboggling to think of how many of my articles are actually out there!

For starters, here are a few on some esoteric aspects of Ukrainian Christmas traditions.

http://www.ukrweekly.com/old/archive/1997/519720.shtml

http://www.ukrweekly.com/old/archive/1993/029318.shtml

http://www.ukrweekly.com/old/archive/2006/530616.shtml


I do look forward to hearing from you!

CHRISTMAS WISHES - ВІНЧУВАННЯ

Traditional Ukrainian Christmas Greetings

(Vinchuvannia)

На щастя, на здоров’я з колядою,

Щоб Ви тішилися як пташка весною,

Як пташка на калині,

Дай, Боже, щастя Вашій родині!

Доброго здоров’я, багато щастя,

Чистої води в криниці,

У полі ярої пшениці,

Хліба й солі на столі,

І погоди на душі!

Христос ся Раждає!

May you find peace, joy, and health for yourself, your family, your children, and your farm animals;

May you be as healthy as the spring waters,

May you be as cheerful as the swallows in the sky,

May your home never be hungry,

And may it be as prosperous as the fields of grain at harvest time,

And as full as the beehives are with honey,

And the orchards are ripe with fruit.

We wish you all this, and may we come together next year to greet and wish each other again.

Khrystos Rodyvsia!  Christ is Born!

Slavimo Yoho!  Let us praise Him!

http://www.ukrweekly.com/old/archive/2001/500118.shtml

[the title of the Weekly article should be "Vinchuyu Vas" , not "..Vam"]

TWO CLASSES LEFT AT MCNALLY'S

There is still time to register for the two remaining Ukrainian Culture classes at McNally Robinson --

http://www.ucc.ca/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/McNally-classroom.pdf  


The folks attending the previous ones are wonderful, enthusiastic, and participate in the very interesting discussions.   And many are attending all the classes. 

Please join us.

YouTube from the ROM

My thanks to Bill (Vasyl') Szuch for filming -- Sunday, Dec. 5, 2010.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTvyVv5fygU&feature=related

in 4 parts