LITURGICAL SCHEDULE
Sat. 17: 4:00 pm @ St. Nicholas
For the parishioners
Sun. 18: 11:00 am @ St. Nicholas
Sunday before Christmas-
Of the Holy Ancestors
+Sister Leocadia from
Mary Jane Backus
Mon. 19: NO LITURGY
Tues. 20: NO LITURGY
Wed. 21: NO LITURGY
Thurs. 22: NO LITURGY
Fri. 23: 4:00 pm @ Infant Jesus
Christmas Eve-Great
Compline & Candle light
Procession
For the Parishioners
Sat. 24: 4:00 pm @ St. Nicholas
Saturday Virgil of
Christmas Divine Liturgy
Of St. Basil the Great
+Margaret Sekerak from
John Popovich
Sun. 25: 11:00 am @ St. Nicholas
Christmas Day Divine
Liturgy
+Katherine Ulrich from
Sacred Heart Society
Collection Report
Week of 12/11/2022
$ 845.00 Offertory
$ 111.00 Candles
$ 20.00 Initial
$ 2.00 Children
$ 24.00 Christmas candles
$ 65.00 Christmas flowers
$ 49.14 Gas Royalties
$ 100.00 Rental
$ 1216.14 TOTAL
Attendance from last week’s Liturgies:
Saturday: 21
Sunday: 24
PLEASE PRAY FOR THE HEALTH AND WELL-BEING OF OUR PARISHIONERS:
Kevin Ulrich Ivywoods Manor, Mary and Nicholas Dobus, Minerva Zepeda at Oasis, Fr. Nicholas Kraynak at Shepherd of the Valley on Western Reserve Rd. 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 $66,676.11 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.
SANCTUARY CANDLE:
The 2023 Sanctuary request sheet is available on the vestibule table.
CHRISTMAS DECORATING:
Thank you to all who help decorate our church for the Christmas season. The parish looks beautiful. God bless all of you for your continued time and talent.
SAVE THE DATE:
The Tenth Annual Women’s Retreat will be held on February 24-26, 2023 @ Our lady of the Pines Retreat Center in Freemont, Ohio. Contact Joan Washburn for further information @ 865-696-7809.
The Second Annual Men’s Retreat will be on March 10-12, 2023 at the same place. Contact Ken Busam for further information @ 419-626-6811.
Save the Date Cards are on the vestibule table and both events are sponsored by St. Mary Byzantine Catholic Church in Marblehead. Ohio.
CHRISTMAS LITURGICAL SCHEDULE:
December 23, Friday-Christmas Eve
Great Compline & candlelight procession
4:00 pm @ St. Nicholas
7:00 pm @ Infant Jesus
December 24, Saturday Vigil of Christmas-Divine Liturgy of St. Basil the Great
4:00 pm @ St. Nicholas
6:00 pm @ Infant Jesus
December 25, Sunday-Christmas Day Divine Liturgy:
9:00 am @ Infant Jesus
11:00 am @ St. Nicholas
December 26, Monday-Synaxis of the Theotokos
10:00 am @ St. Nicholas
December 27, Tuesday-Stephen Protomartyr
6:00 pm @ Infant Jesus
SANCTUARY CANDLE:
The Sanctuary candles will be lit for the entire week for your intentions.
For the week of December 18-24, there is no requests for the sanctuary candles.
Christ genealogy
PSEUDO-CHRYSOSTOM:
Having enumerated the generations from Abraham to Christ, He divides them into three divisions of fourteen generations, because three times at the end of fourteen generations the state of the people of the Jews was changed. From Abraham to David they were under Judges; from David to the carrying away into Babylon under Kings; from the carrying away to Christ under the High Priests. What he would show then is this; like as ever at the end of fourteen generations the state of men has changed, so there being fourteen generations completed from the carrying away to Christ, it must needs be that the state of men be changed by Christ. And so since Christ all the Gentiles have been made under one Christ Judge, King, and Priest. And for that Judges, Kings, and Priests prefigured Christ’s dignity, their beginnings were always in a type of Christ; the first of the Judges was Joshua the son of Nave; the first of the Kings, David; the first of the Priests, Jesus son of Josedech. That this was typical of Christ none doubts.
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