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Divine Liturgy for the coming week

Glory to Jesus Christ

Sunday, 10/01/17 17th Sunday after Pentecost — Protection of the Mother of God

9:00 a.m. For God’s blessing and health for Sophie DeCarlo on her 100 birthday requested by Barbara Schwartz
10:30 a.m.  For the people of the parish

Epistle: 2 Corinthians 6: 16-7:1
Gospel: Luke 6: 31-36, Tone 8

Monday, 10/02/17 The Holy-Priest Martyr Cyprian; and the Holy Martyr Justina; and Holy Andrew, Fool for the Sake of Christ
8:00 a.m.   no special intention for the Divine Liturgy

Tuesday, 10/03/17 The Holy Priest-Martyr Dionysius the Areopagite
8:00 a.m.   no special intention for the Divine Liturgy

Wednesday, 10/04/17 The Holy Priest-Martyr Hierotheus, Bishop of Athens; Our Venerable Father Francis of Assisi
9:00  +Ivan and Halyna Lobay (Pan.) requested by Maria Lobay

Thursday, 10/05/17 The Holy Martyr Charitina
8:00 a.m.   no special intention for the Divine Liturgy

Friday, 10/06/17 The Holy and Glorious Apostle Thomas
6:00 p.m.  For God’s blessing and health for Michelle Turczyk and Trinidad Perez

Saturday, 10/07/17 The Holy Martyrs Sergius and Bacchus
8:00 a.m.   no special intention for the Divine Liturgy

Sunday, 10/08/17 18th Sunday after Pentecost
9:00 a.m. +Anna Docknevich requested by Martin Docknevich
10:30 a.m.  For the people of the parish

Epistle: 2 Corinthians 9: 6:11
Gospel: Luke 7:11-16, Tone 1

Divine Liturgy for the coming week

Glory to Jesus Christ!

Sunday, 9/24/17 16th Sunday after Pentecost
9:00 a.m. +Walter, Mary, Lillian, John requested by Cathy Kolesnik
10:30 a.m.  For the people of the parish

Epistle: 2 Corinthians 6:1-10
Gospel: Luke 5:1-11, Tone 7

Monday, 9/25/17 Our Venerable Mother Euphrosyne
9:00 a.m. +Maria Sowa (Pan.) requested by Bohdan Sowa

Tuesday, 9/26/17 The Passing of the Holy Apostle and Evangelist John the Theologian
9:00 a.m.  +Ivana Bohoslova

Wednesday, 9/27/17 The Holy Martyr Callistratus and His Wife
9:00 a.m.   no special intention for the Divine Liturgy

Thursday, 9/28/17 Our Venerable Father and Confessor Chariton
9:00 a.m.   no special intention for the Divine Liturgy

Friday, 9/29/17 Our Venerable Father Cyriacus the Anchorite
9:00 a.m.   no special intention for the Divine Liturgy

Saturday, 9/30/17 The Priest-Martyr Gregory
9:00 a.m.   no special intention for the Divine Liturgy

Sunday, 10/01/17 17th Sunday after Pentecost
9:00 a.m. Special Intention
10:30 a.m. For the people of the parish

Epistle: 2 Corinthians 6:16:7:1
Gospel: Luke 6:31-36, Tone 7

Divine Liturgy for the coming week

Glory to Jesus Christ

Sunday, 9/17/17 Sunday after the Exaltation of the Cross
9:00 a.m. +Hryhorij Dubno requested by the Family
10:30 a.m. For the people of the parish

Epistle: Galatians 2:16-20
Gospel: Mark 8:34-9:1,Tone 6

Monday, 9/18/17 Venerable Father Eumenes, Bishop of Gortyna, Wonderworker
8:00 a.m.   no special intention for the Divine Liturgy

Tuesday, 9/19/17 Holy Martyrs Trophimus, Sabbatius, and Dorymedontus
9:00 a.m. Special Intention

Wednesday, 9/20/17 Holy Great-Martyr Eustathius and companions
9:00 a.m. +Aniela Gerula requested by Kateryna Szymkiw

Thursday, 9/21/17 Leave-taking of the Feast of the Exaltation of the Cross
9:00 a.m.   no special intention for the Divine Liturgy

Friday, 9/22/17 Holy Priest-Martyr Phocas, Bishop of Sinope
5:00PM God’s blessing for Brooks Patrick Converse and  Alicia Maria Wasynczuk

Saturday, 9/23/17 Conception of the Honorable and Glorious Prophet, Forerunner and Baptist John
10:00 a.m. For God’s blessing and health for teachers and students of Ridna Shkola

Sunday, 9/24/17 16th Sunday after Pentecost
9:00 a.m. +Walter, Mary, Lillian John requested by Kathy Kolesnik
10:30 a.m. For the people of the parish

Epistle: 2 Corinthians 6:1:10
Gospel: Luke 5:1-11, Tone 7

Sunday after the Exaltation of the Holy Cross

Galatians 2:16-20; Mark 8:34-9:1

The first sticheron of the Feast of the Holy Cross tells us, “By this Cross …. In his mercy (Christ) clothed us with beauty and made us worthy of heaven.” This is confirmed in the Hymn of Light from Matins: “The Cross is the beauty of the Church.” How can this be? For the Cross is ugly torture, and the Prophet Isaiah foretells of the Messiah:

“See, my servant shall prosper, he shall be raised high and greatly exalted. Even as many were amazed at him— so marred were his features, beyond that of mortals his appearance, beyond that of human beings. He had no majestic bearing to catch our eye, no beauty to draw us to him. He was spurned and avoided by men, a man of suffering, knowing pain, like one from whom you turn your face, spurned, and we held him in no esteem. (Isaiah 52:13-14; 53:2-3)”

One is reminded of St. Paul, “For you know the gracious act of our Lord Jesus Christ, that for your sake he became poor although he was rich, so that by his poverty you might become rich. (2 Corinthians 8:9)”  We might re-phrase: “In his ugliness, we have all been made beautiful.” Where is the beauty of the Cross? It is in the holiness of Jesus, who died that the Kingdom of God – life, love, mercy, wisdom – might be established in the world. We are called to “take up the cross,” which means uniting ourselves with Christ in love that the truth and wisdom and the glory of God might shine forth.

Today, therefore, St. Paul writes, “I have been crucified with Christ; yet I live, no longer I, but Christ lives in me; insofar as I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God who has loved me and given himself up for me. (Galatians 2:19-20)”

Meditation by Archpriest David Petras

Sunday before the Exaltation of the Cross

Galatians 6:11-16; John 3:13-17

The Gospel today refers back to a story of Moses from the Old Testament:

“The Lord sent among the people seraph serpents, which bite the people so that many of the Israelites died. Then the people came to Moses and said, “We have sinned in complaining against the Lord and you. Pray to the Lord to take the serpents from us.” So Moses prayed for the people, and the Lord said to Moses: Make a seraph and mount it on a pole, and everyone who has been bitten will look at it and recover. Accordingly Moses made a bronze serpent and mounted it on a pole, and whenever the serpent bit someone, the person looked at the bronze serpent and recovered. (Numbers 21:6-9)”

This is a very unusual story, almost magical where a representation of a serpent is a healing talisman. However, for the Christian believer the full meaning is revealed only in our Lord Jesus Christ. St. John tells us that just as Moses raised the serpent in the desert, so Jesus was raised on the Cross so that anyone who looked upon him was healed of their sins. The serpent in the desert was not the serpent Eve saw in the tree in Eden, who brought death into the world through sin through his lie, but it was a serpent of life, who brought healing through the truth of faithfulness to God. But this was only a foreshadowing of Jesus. Of our Lord, St. Paul said, “For our sake God made him to be sin who did not know sin, so that we might become the righteousness of God in him. (2 Corinthians 5:21)” The serpent in the desert was bronze, yet brought salvation from the fatal bites of serpents. Jesus is truly God and truly a man, and brings the salvation of freedom from sin and death. Yes, “God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him might not perish but might have eternal life. (John 3:16) ” That is why in this great feast we celebrate this week, “We bow to your Cross and glorify your holy resurrection.”

Meditation by Archpriest David Petras

Divine Liturgy for the coming week

Glory to Jesus Christ!

Sunday, 9/10/17    Sunday before the Exaltation of the Cross
9:00 a.m. +Michael Waselik (32th Anniv.) requestd by the Family
10:30 a.m. For the people of the parish

Epistle: Galatians 6: 14-18
Gospel: John 3: 13-17, Tone 5

Monday, 9/11/17    Our Venerable Mother Theodora of Alexandria
8:00 a.m.   no special intention for the Divine Liturgy

Tuesday, 9/12/17    The Holy Priest-Martyr Autonomus
8:00 a.m.   no special intention for the Divine Liturgy

Wednesday, 9/13/17    The Holy Priest-Martyr Cornelius the Centurion
8:00 a.m.   no special intention for the Divine Liturgy

Thursday, 9/14/17    The Universal Exaltation of the Precious and Life-Giving Cross
9:00 a.m. +Petro and Maria Makarenko, Clementina and Stepan Lobay (Pan.) requested by M. Lobay

7:00 p.m.  For the people of the parish

Friday, 9/15/17    The Holy Great-Martyr Nicetas
9:00 a.m. +Petro and Anastazia Malyk requested by Kateryna Szymkiw

Saturday,  9/16/17    The Holy, Great Woman-Martyr Euphemia the All-Praised
9:00 a.m. +Luba Malyk requested by Kateryna Szymkiw

Sunday, 9/17/17    Sunday after the Exaltation of the Cross
9:00 a.m. +Hryhorij Dubno requested by the Family
10:30 a.m. For the people of the parish

Epistle: Galatians 2: 16:20
Gospel: Mark 8: 34-9:1, Tone 6

Petitions for the victims of Hurricane Harvey

Special Petitions for the Victims of Hurricane Harvey at Divine Liturgy.  You may take one or several of these petitions in the ektenia after the Gospel.

For those who experienced the destructive forces of Hurricane Harvey and the subsequent flooding and now endure the anguish and suffering from personal injury and the loss of property, we pray You, hear us and have mercy.

Lord, have mercy! (3 x)

For those called home to the Lord during this natural disaster of Hurricane Harvey and the subsequent flooding, may they be granted rest in the bosom of Abraham and numbered among the saints and may their grieving loved ones be comforted by Your divine grace, we pray You, hear us and have mercy.

Lord, have mercy! (3 x)

For all those involved in serving their neighbor during this time including the first responders and those assisting in the continuing relief efforts of the victims of Hurricane Harvey and the subsequent flooding, strengthen them in mind, body and soul and inspire all of us to be charitable with our generosity to our brothers and sisters in their time of need, we pray You, hear us and have mercy.

Lord, have mercy! (3 x)

Twelfth Sunday after Pentecost

The Sacred Scripture for today’s Liturgy: 1 Corinthians 15:1-11; Matthew 19:16-26
 
Jesus never praised riches. Today he tells the people who have just seen a rich young man refuse the Lord’s invitation to follow him, “it will be hard for one who is rich to enter the kingdom of heaven.” This is repeated often in the scriptures. Jesus teaches, “Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven (Matthew 5:3)” But the rich in spirit cannot love God more than themselves, and it is a simple reality that if they cannot love God, they cannot love their neighbors, created by God. Mary therefore declares, “The hungry he has filled with good things, and the rich he has sent away empty. (Luke 1:53) And Abraham tells the rich man in hell, “you received what was good during your lifetime while Lazarus received what was bad; but now he is comforted here, whereas you are tormented. (Luke 16:25) And James admonishes his flock, who honored a rich man, “Are not the rich oppressing you? And do they themselves not haul you off to court? Is it not they who blaspheme the noble name that was invoked over you? (James 2:6-7)”
 
To be able to turn one’s back on riches is what it means to be human. As transcending the world, we should be able to see infinite and eternal realities. There is nothing wrong or bad about the material creation God has given us, but it has the power to blind us to greater riches. God does not simply take away riches, but he gives us spiritual riches beyond our understanding. This Sunday I am marking fifty years as a priest. I was not raised in a rich family, though today the poorest among us have more than the richest people at the time of Jesus. This is why it is so much more important to be able to see spiritual realities.
 
The rich young man was unable to follow Jesus’ call, but in humility I hope that I have answered the call to serve God and to see the image of God in all people, not only those I hope I have served. The gospel today, however, tells us one more thing, when describing how difficult it is for a rich man to be saved – easier for a camel to go through a needle’s eyes – Jesus says “for God all things are possible.” Everything that I may have accomplished in my fifty years as a priest was not due to my own talents or merits, but only to the grace of God. I hope to remain, though unworthy, in this calling, so that I may be “as sorrowful yet always rejoicing; as poor yet enriching many; as having nothing and yet possessing all things. (2 Corinthians 6:10)”
 
Meditation by Archpriest David Petras

Divine Liturgy for the coming week

Glory to Jesus Christ!

Sunday, 8/27/17    12th Sunday after Pentecost
10:00 a.m. For the people of the parish

Epistle: 1 Corinthians. 15-1-11
Gospel: Matthew 19:16-26, Tone 3

Monday, 8/28/17    Venerable Father Moses the Ethiopian and Holy Father Augustine of Hippo
9:00 +Wasyl Dobczansky (Pan.) requested by the Melnyk Family

Tuesday, 8/29/17    Beheading of the Honorable and Glorious Prophet, Forerunner and Baptist John
9:00 a.m. Special Intention

Wednesday, 8/30/17    Holy Fathers and Patriarchs of Constantinople Alexander, John, and Paul the Younger
8:00 a.m.   no special intention for the Divine Liturgy

Thursday, 8/31/17 Placing of the Precious Sash of Our Most Holy Lady the Mother of God in Calcoprateia
8:00 a.m.   no special intention for the Divine Liturgy

Friday, 9/01/17 Commemoration of Our Holy Father Symeon the Stylite and His Mother Martha

Beginning of the New Church Year (2017-2018)

8:30 a.m. +Halyna and Ivan Lobay (Pan.) requested by Maria Lobay

Saturday, 9/02/17    Holy Martyr Mamas
9:00 a.m.   no special intention for the Divine Liturgy

Sunday, 9/03/17    13th Sunday after Pentecost
9:00 a.m. Special Intention
10:30 a.m. For the people of the parish

Epistle: 1 Corinthians 16:13:24
Gospel: Matthew 21:33-42, Tone 4

Divine Liturgy for the coming week

Glory to Jesus Christ

Sunday, 8/20/17    11th Sunday after Pentecost
9:00 a.m.   For people of the parish
10:30 a.m.   God’s blessing and health for Anna Mazur requested by Stefanie Sisisky

Epistle: 1 Corinthians 9:2-12
Gospel: Matthew 18:2-35, Tone 2

Monday, 8/21/17    Holy Apostle Thaddeus and the Holy Martyr Bassa
8:00 a.m.   no special intention for the Divine Liturgy

Tuesday,  8/22/17    Holy Martyr Agathonicus and companions
8:00 a.m.   no special intention for the Divine Liturgy

Wednesday,  8/23/17   Holy Martyrs Luppus and Irenaeus, Bishop of Lyons
8:00 a.m.   no special intention for the Divine Liturgy

Thursday, 8/24/17     Holy Priest-Martyr Eutyches
8:00 a.m.   no special intention for the Divine Liturgy

Friday, 8/25/17     Holy Apostles Bartholomew and Titus
8:00 a.m.   no special intention for the Divine Liturgy

Saturday, 8/26/17    Holy Martyrs Adrian and Natalia
9:00 a.m.   no special intention for the Divine Liturgy

Sunday, 8/27/17     12th Sunday after Pentecost —Venerable Father Pimen
9:00 a.m.   Special Intention
10:30 a.m.   For the people of the parish

Epistle: 1 Corinthians 15: 1-11
Gospel: Matthew 19: 16-26, Tone 3