LITURGICAL SCHEDULE
Sat: 20: 4:00 pm @ St. Nicholas
Saturday before Christmas
For the parishioners
Sun: 21: 11:00 am @ St. Nicholas
Sunday before Christmas-of
The Ancestors
Happy 25th Anniversary
Patrick & Davene Garvey
From Robert & Helen
Marie Vaclav
Mon. 22: 9:00 am @ Infant Jesus
Special Intentions
Tues. 23: NO LITURGY
Wed. 24: 2:00 pm @ St. Nicholas
Christmas Eve
For the parishioners
Thurs. 25: 11:00 am @ Infant Jesus
Christmas-Birth of Our Lord
+Edward & +Dolly Vrabel
From the Graneto & Vrabel
Families
Fri. 26: 6:00 pm @ Infant Jesus
Synaxis of the Theotokos
For the parishioners
Sat: 27: 4:00 pm @ St. Nicholas
Saturday after Christmas
Stephen Protomartyr
+Paula Angelo from Tyler
& Arica Hardgrove
Sun: 28: 11:00 am @ St. Nicholas
Sunday after Christmas-
David, Joseph & James
For the parishioners
Collection Report
Week of 12/14/2025
$ 715.00 Sunday Offering
$ 50.00 Holy Day
$ 102.00 Christmas Flowers
$ 10.00 Children
$ 45.00 Christmas Candles
$ 500.00 Christmas
$ 25.00 Garage Rental
$ 69.00 Candles
$ 1516.00 TOTAL
Attendance from last week’s Liturgies:
Saturday: 20
Sunday: 9
PLEASE PRAY FOR THE HEALTH AND WELL-BEING OF OUR PARISHIONERS:
Michael Volsko- Briarfield Manor, Kevin Ulrich- Ivywoods Manor, Minerva Zepeda at Oasis, John Porubensky-Windsor House at Omni manor, 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 $141,363.90 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.
SANCTUARY CANDLE REQUEST:
The sanctuary candle request sheet for 2025 is on the back table in the church. Cost remains $10 per candle. Please call Paula @ (330) 799-5983 for ALL requests. Money can be deposited in the weekend collection.
LITURGICAL REQUESTS:
Liturgical request for 2026 are now being taken. Please call Paula @ (330)799-5983 for specific dates.
PILGRIM VOCATION ICON PROGRAM:
Every parish has received an icon specially written for this program- “The Call of the Disciples. ”Those who accept the icon agree to pray daily during that time for religious and priestly vocations. Every member of the parish is invited to have icon in their home for a week of special prayer for vocations. Prayer booklets are provided. Please see the sign-up sheet in the vestibule. There are a few dates still available.
SANCTUARY CANDLE:
The 2026 Sanctuary candle sign-up sheet is on the table. Cost is still $10/candle. PLEASE CALL PAULA @ 330-799-5983 for ALL REQUESTS. Just deposit your money in the collection basket.
CHRISTMAS PARSIH PARTY:
Thank you, the Byzantine Social Club and all parishioners who came out in our winter wonderland, for last week’s Christmas party. It was a wonderful time. Also, a very sincere gratitude to the parishioners who donated baskets for the Chinese Auction. We truly appreciate Melissa Boughner for all her work in putting the auction together-she did an amazing job. Please watch the bulletin in January for announcements from the social club.
HAPPY ANNIVERSARY:
Congratulations and Happy 25th Anniversary to Patrick & Davene Garvey. May God bless them with health, happiness and many blessed years!
SANCTUARY CANDLES:
Sanctuary candles will be lit for the entire week. For the week of December 21-27, the left sanctuary candle is in memory of +Steve Kohl from Rose Bonamase. There is no request for the right sanctuary candle.
We wish all parishioners, families and friends a very Merry Christmas!
CHRIST IS BORN!
GLORIFY HIM!
Sunday Before the Nativity of Our Lord
By St. Cyril of Jerusalem
We do not preach only one coming of Christ, but a second as well, much more glorious than the first. The first coming was marked by patience; the second will bring the crown of a divine kingdom.
In general, whatever relates to our Lord Jesus Christ has two aspects. There is a birth from God before the ages, and a birth from a virgin at the fullness of time. There is a hidden coming, like that of rain on fleece, and a coming before all eyes, still in the future.
At the first coming He was wrapped in swaddling clothes in a manger. At His second coming He will be clothed in light as in a garment. In the first coming He endured the cross, despising the shame; in the second coming He will be in glory, escorted by an army of angels.
We look then beyond the first coming and await the second. At the first coming we said: Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord. At the second we shall say it again; we shall go out with the angels to meet the Lord and cry out in adoration: Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord.
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