LITURGICAL SCHEDULE
Sat. 23: 4:00 pm @ St. Nicholas
Saturday Before Christmas
NO LITURGY
Sun. 24: 11:00 am @ St. Nicholas
Sunday before Christmas-of
The Ancestors
For the parishioners
4:00 pm @ St. Nicholas
Christmas Eve Liturgy
+Paula Angelo from Steve &
Bernadette Stanislav
Mon. 25: 11:00 am @ St. Nicholas
Christmas-Birth of Our Lord
For the parishioners
Tues. 26: 6:00 pm @ Infant Jesus
Synaxis of the Theotokos
For the parishioners
Wed. 27: 10:00 am @ St. Nicholas
Stephen Protomartyr
For the parishioners
Sat. 30: 4:00 pm @ St. Nicholas
Saturday after Christmas
For the parishioners
Sun. 31: 11:00 am @ St. Nicholas
Sunday after Christmas-
David, Joseph and James
+Sister Leocadia Sevachko
From the Slemons Family
Collection Report
Week of 12/17/2023
$ 937.00 Offertory
$ 45.00 Christmas Flowers
$ 15.00 Holy Day
$ 27.00 Christmas Vigil Lights
$ 340.00 Christmas
$ 12.00 BCW
$ 3.00 Children
$ 10.00 Charities
$ 75.00 Garage rental
$ 100.00 Renovations
$ 169.00 Candles
$ 1733.00 TOTAL
Attendance from last week’s Liturgies:
Saturday: 26
Sunday: 26
PLEASE PRAY FOR THE HEALTH AND WELL-BEING OF OUR PARISHIONERS:
Michael Volsko – 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 collected is $121,397.10 for the Capital campaign. We continue to work towards our goal of $200,000. Thank you for your continued generosity and support to our church.
CALENDARS:
Our yearly church calendars are available on the back table. Please feel free to take one for your home.
SANCTUARY CANDLE REQUEST:
The sanctuary candle request sheet for 2024 is on the back table in the church. Cost remains $10 per candle. Please call Paula @ (330) 799-5983 for specific requests. Money can be deposited in the weekend collection.
MERRY CHRISTMAS:
Father Michael, Marina, Andriy, Emma and Nica wish all parishioners, families and friends a very Merry Christmas and all of Gods blessings this holiday season.
SANCTUARY CANDLE:
The Sanctuary candles will be lit for the entire week for your intentions. The week of December 24-30, 2023 the right sanctuary candle is in memory of +Mary Terlecky from her son Myron Terlecky. There is no request for the left sanctuary candle.
ST. AUGUSTIN. But shall we therefore say that the Holy Spirit is the Father of the man Christ, that as God the Father begot the Word, so the Holy Spirit begot the man? This is such an absurdity, that the ears of the faithful cannot bear it. How then do we say that Christ was born by the Holy Spirit, if the Holy Spirit did not beget Him? Did He create Him? For so far as He is man He was created, as the Apostle speaks; He was made of the seed of David according to the flesh. For though God made the world, yet is it not right to say that it is the Son of God, or born by Him, but that it was made, or created, or formed by Him. But seeing that we confess Christ to have been born by the Holy Spirit and of the Virgin Mary, how is He not the Son of the Holy Spirit, and is the Son of the Virgin? It does not follow that whatever is born by anything is therefore to be called the son of that thing; for, not to say that of man is born in one sense a son, in another a hair, or vermin, or a worm, none of which are his son, certainly those that are born of water and the Spirit none would call sons of water, but sons of God their Father, and their Mother the Church. Thus Christ was born of the Holy Spirit, and yet is the Son of God the Father, not of the Holy Spirit.
CHRIST IS BORN!
GLORIFY HIM!
SLAVITE YEHO!
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