LITURGICAL SCHEDULE
Sat. 25: 11:00 am @ St. Nicholas
Christmas
Birth of Our Lord
For the parishioners
4:00 pm @ St. Nicholas
Health and Wellbeing of all benefactors of our parish
Sun. 26: 11:00 am @ St. Nicholas
+ Margaret Biros from
Michael Vasilchek
Mon. 27: 6:00 pm @ Infant Jesus
Stephen Protomartyr
+Dorothy Popovich from
Jack Popovich
Fri. 31: 6:00 pm @ Infant Jesus
Vigil of Circumcision of Our Lord
Basil the Great Archbishop
Sat. Jan 1: 4:00 pm @ St. Nicholas
Circumcision of Our Lord
Basil the Great Archbishop
For the parishioners
Sun. 2: 11:00 am @ St. Nicholas
Sunday Before Theophany
+ Jeanette Kulifay from
Theresa Kulifay
Collection Report
Week of 12/19/2021
$ 1517.00 Offertory
$ 10.00 Holy Day/Thanksgiving
$ 4.00 Children
$ 80.00 Christmas
$ 39.00 Christmas Flowers
$ 12.00 Christmas Candles
$ 81.00 Garage Rent
$ 43.64 Gas royalty
$ 73.00 Candles
$ 1914.64 TOTAL
Attendance from last week’s Liturgies:
Saturday: 23
Sunday: 28
PLEASE PRAY FOR THE HEALTH AND WELL-BEING OF OUR PARISHIONERS:
Kevin Ulrich Ivywoods Manor, Paul Fabian -Windsor House, Mary and Nicholas Dobus, Minerva Zepeda at Oasis, Fr. Nicholas Kraynak at Shepherd of the Valley on Western Reserve Rd. Catherine Ulrich and Roseanne Glaspell at home. May God grant to all the sick and homebound of our parish many blessed, happy and healthy years.
UPDATE-CAPITAL CAMPAIGN:
The NEW total we have collected is $91,229.77 for the Capital Campaign. We continue to work towards our goal of $200, 000. Thank you for your generous donations and continued support to our Church.
PHONE NUMBER REQUEST:
There is a sign-up sheet for parishioners to give their phone numbers in order to receive phone information/updates on our church if interested.
Father Michael, Maryna, Andryi, Emma and Veronica wish all parishioners, family and friends a blessed and Merry Christmas. May our Almighty God who sent to us his Beloved Son grant us his Divine Mercy, health and peace.
SAVE THE DATE:
The 9th Annual Women’s Retreat “The Gift of Prayer” will be held on March 18, 2022 at Our Lady of the Pines Retreat Center in Freemont, Ohio. Father Cyril Pinchak, SJ will be retreat master. Contact Joan Washburn @ (865) 696-7809 for further information.
SANCTUARY CANDLES:
The Sanctuary candles will be lit for the entire week for your intention. For the week of December 26-Jan. 1. The left sanctuary candle is in memory of + Mary & + Joseph Hudran from the Graneto & Vrabel families. There is no request for the right sanctuary candle.
CHRIST IS BORN!
GLORIFY HIM!
SLAVITE JEHO!
Nativity of Our Lord
By St. John Chrysostom
Let us then also follow the magi, let us separate ourselves from our barbarian customs, and make our distance from them great, that we may see Christ, since they too, had they not been far from their own country, would have missed seeing Him. Let us depart from the things of earth. For so the wise men, while they were in Persia, saw but the star, but after they had departed from Persia, they beheld the Sun of Righteousness. Or rather, they would not have seen so much as the star, unless they had readily risen up from thence. Let us then also rise up; though all men be troubled, let us run to the house of the young Child; though kings, though nations, though tyrants interrupt this our path, let not our desire pass away. For so shall we thoroughly repel all the dangers that beset us. Since these too, except they had seen the young Child, would not have escaped their danger from the king. Before seeing the young Child, fears and dangers pressed upon them from every side; but after the adoration, it is calm and security; and no longer a star but an angel receives them, having become priests from the act of adoration; for we see that they offered gifts also.
St Nicholas Byzantine Catholic Church 