LITURGICAL SCHEDULE
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
Mon. 26: 10:00 am @ St. Nicholas
Synaxis of the Theotokos
For the parishioners
Tues. 27: 6:00 pm @ Infant Jesus
Stephen Protomartyr
+Nicholas Vasilchek from
Michael Vasilchek
Wed. 28: NO LITURGY
Thurs. 29: NO LITURGY
Fri. 30: NO LITURGY
Sat. 31: 4:00 pm @ St. Nicholas
Saturday after Christmas
+John Paul Fabian from
Mary Elizabeth Brown
Sun. 1: 11:00 am @ St. Nicholas
Sunday before Theophany
Circumcision of Our Lord
For the Parishioners
Collection Report
Week of 12/18/2022
$ 633.00 Offertory
$ 87.00 Candles
$ 200.00 Christmas
$ 2.00 Children
$ 12.00 Christmas candles
$ 130.00 Christmas flowers
$ 56.00 Rental
$ 1320.00 TOTAL
Attendance from last week’s Liturgies:
Saturday: 21
Sunday: 20
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 $106,997.10 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.
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.
CONGRATULATIONS:
Aspen Glaspel graduated from YSU and successfully defended his doctorate thesis in Physics (Material Science). He is currently employed at Naval Nuclear Laboratory as Advanced Weld Engineer. Congratulations Dr. Glaspel! God grant you many and blessed years!
SANCTUARY CANDLE:
The Sanctuary candles will be lit for the entire week for your intentions.
For the week of December 25-31. The left sanctuary candle is in memory of + Edward Vrabel from the Graneto and Vrabel families. There is no request for the right sanctuary candle.
MERRY CHRISTMAS:
Father Michael, Maryna, Andriy, Emma and Veronica wish all parishioners, families and friends a very blessed and Merry Christmas.
Nativity of Our Lord
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 