Sat. 19: 4:00 pm @ St. Nicholas
+Richard Alan Tirpak from
Robert & Helen Marie
Vaclav
Sun. 20: 11:00 am @ St. Nicholas
12th Sunday after Pentecost
For the parishioners
Mon. 21: NO LITURGY
Tues. 22: NO LITURGY
Wed. 23: NO LITURGY
Thurs. 24: NO LITURGY
Fri. 25: NO LITURGY
Sat. 26: 4:00 pm @ St. Nicholas
+Ms. Michele Migletz from
Parents
Sun. 27: 11:00 am @ St. Nicholas
13th Sunday after Pentecost
For the parishioners
Collection Report
Week of 08/13/2023
$ 1207.00 Offertory
$ 216.00 Candles
$ 20.00 Holy Day
$ 156.00 Garage Rent
$ 1599.00 TOTAL
Attendance from last week’s Liturgies:
Saturday: 25
Sunday: 23
PLEASE PRAY FOR THE HEALTH AND WELL-BEING OF OUR PARISHIONERS:
Michael Kisak- Inn at Glenellen, Kevin Ulrich Ivywoods Manor, Minerva Zepeda at Oasis, Fr. Nicholas Kraynak at Shepherd of the Valley on Western Reserve Rd. and Margaret and William Zigarevich 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 $117,271.10 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
SISTERS OF ST. BASIL PILGRIMAGE:
Sisters of the Order of St. Basil the Great 89th Annual Pilgrimage will be held on September 2&3, 2023 at Mount Macrina in Uniontown, Pa. Theotokos: Seeker of the Lost is this year’s pilgrimage. For more information, please visit their website-https://sistersofstbasil.org
SUPER BINGO:
St. Mary’s Byzantine Catholic Church, 356 Belle Vista, 2nd Super Bingo ($6,000 in pay-outs) will be held on Saturday, September 9th. Doors open at 2:00pm, dinner served 2:00-4:30 and 1st game begins at 5:30. Tickets are $45.00 and includes 24 cards and 1 special pack, pasta and meatball dinners plus other prizes. Tickets are at church hall from 9:00am-6:00pm.
BLESSINGS OF STUDENTS & TEACHERS:
As the new school year is approaching, Father Michael will be blessing all students (pre-school-college) and teachers after liturgy THIS WEEKEND, August 19th & 20th.
Byzantine ASSEMBLY—St Mary Church, Hillsborough, NJ, November 3-5, 2023
The venue includes lectures, discussions, fellowship, and a gala dinner with folk music and dancing. The Assembly
cost is $250 for individuals and $400 for couples. The Maria Theresa Foundation will underwrite the
registration fees of individuals and couples between the ages of 18 and 35. For more information, contact the
Assembly coordinators, Fr. Ed Cimbala, at 212-677-0516 or Fr. Yuriy Oros at 609-394-5004.
SANCTUARY CANDLE:
The Sanctuary candles will be lit for the entire week for your intentions. The week of August 20-26, the right sanctuary candle is in memory of +John Volchko from John & Donna Volchko. There is no request for the left sanctuary candle.
Keep which commandments? Chrysostom; Note how prepared the young man is to obey the commandments. For he says, “What must I do to have eternal life?” He seems ready to do what he would be told. If his purpose had been to put Jesus to a test, the Evangelist would have given some indication of this as he does in other cases, for instance, in the case of the lawyer.10 If the young man had remained silent or been deceptive, Jesus would have easily exposed that and brought it into the open. If the young man had come to test him, he would not have retreated downcast at what he heard. This never happened to any of the Pharisees. When refuted they were all the more angry. This man was not angry. He went away in sorrow, which is no little signal that he did not come to him with evil intent. But he did come with too weak a will. Truly he did desire life but was held in the grip of a serious moral infirmity. When therefore Christ said, “If you would enter life, keep the commandments,” he said “Which?” not putting him to the test—far from it—but because he thought that there were some other ones beside those in the law which could bring him life. So he seems to be quite earnest. The Gospel of Matthew, Homily 63.1.
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