LITURGICAL SCHEDULE
Sat. 9: 4:00 pm @ St. Nicholas
Saturday before the
Exaltation of the Cross
Synaxis of Joachim & Anna
For the Parishioners
Sun. 10: 11:00 am @ St. Nicholas
Sunday before the Exaltation
Of the Cross
+Sister Leocadia Sevachko
From Greg & Paula Slemons
Mon. 11: NO LITURGY
Tues. 12: NO LITURGY
Wed. 13: NO LITURGY
Thurs. 14: 6:00 pm @ Infant Jesus
Exaltation of the Holy Cross
For the Parishioners
Fri. 15: NO LITURGY
Sat. 16: 4:00 pm @ St. Nicholas
Saturday after the
Exaltation of the Cross
For the parishioners
Sun. 17: 11:00 am @ St. Nicholas
Sunday after the Exaltation
Of the Cross
+John & +Mary Backus and
The deceased members of the
Backus family from Mary
Jane Backus
Collection Report
Week of 09/03/2023
$ 947.00 Offertory
$ 137.00 Candles
$ 90.00 Renovation
$ 75.00 Rent
$ 45.00 Holy Day
$ 4.00 Children
$ 1298.00 TOTAL
Attendance from last week’s Liturgies:
Saturday: 24
Sunday: 21
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 $118,048.10 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
SUPER BINGO:
St. Mary’s Byzantine Catholic Church, 356 Belle Vista, 2nd Super Bingo ($6,000 in pay-outs) will be held on Saturday, October 14, 2023. 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-5:00pm or at Bingo.
ECF CLASSES:
ECF classes will be starting in October following 9:00 am Sunday liturgies at Infant Jesus of Prague. All children pre-school through 12th grade are invited and encouraged to attend. There is a sign-up sheet in vestibule.
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.
CHINESE AUCTION:
St. Michael Byzantine Catholic Church, Campbell, is having a 3-Tier
Chinese Auction THIS Sunday, September, 10, 2023 at St. Michael’s Hall, 405 Robison Road, Campbell. Admission is $7.00 and includes 25 tier-one tickets and lunch. Doors open at noon & drawings begin at 2:00 pm. Over 100 all brand new fabulous prizes, gifts certificates and theme baskets all waiting to be won.
SANCTUARY CANDLE:
The Sanctuary candles will be lit for the entire week for your intentions. The week of September 10-16, 2023 there are no requests for the sanctuary candles.
THE PRECEDENT OF LOVE WITH ABRAHAM AND ISAAC. EPHREM THE SYRIAN: Abraham had many servants. Why did [God] not command him to offer up one of these? It was because [Abraham’s] love would not have been revealed by a servant. His son, therefore, was necessary so that Abraham’s love might be revealed. There were likewise [other] servants of God, but he did not show his love toward his creatures through any of these but rather through his Son, through whom his love for us might be proclaimed….
From Abraham [onwards] the symbols of the wood and the lamb began to be delineated. For Isaac was a symbol of the lamb [caught] in the tree, while Jacob showed [that] the wood can vivify water. Wood therefore was worthy that he be suspended from it, since no bone in him was broken. The fruits of the earth are stimulated by wood, and the treasures of the sea are grasped by means of wood. So too, in the case of the body and the soul. It was this [the wood of the cross] that was hewn by the wrath of the rabid crowd. It was like a mute person in its silence, and in its agility a source of growth to the heights for humanity. COMMENTARY ON TATIAN’S DIATESSARON 21.7,9.
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