St Nicholas Byzantine Catholic Church

June 23, 2024 Bulletin

LITURGICAL SCHEDULE

Sat. 22: 4:00 pm @ St. Nicholas

For the parishioners

Sun. 23: 11:00 am @ St. Nicholas

5th Sunday after Pentecost

+Nicholas & + Mary Dubos

Mon. 24: 6:00 pm @ Infant Jesus

Birth of John the Baptist

For the parishioners

Tues. 25: NO LITURGY

Wed. 26: NO LITURGY

Thurs. 27: NO LITURGY

Fri. 28: NO LITURGY

Sat. 29: 4:00 pm @ St. Nicholas

Peter & Paul Apostles

For the parishioners

Sun. 30: 11:00 am @ St. Nicholas

6th Sunday after Pentecost

+Nicholas & + Mary Dubos

Collection Report

Week of 06/16/2024

$ 789.00 Offering

$ 3.00 Children

$ 5.00 Holy Day

$ 131.00 Garage Rental

$ 173.00 Candles

$ 1126.00 TOTAL

Attendance from last week’s Liturgies:

Saturday: 24

Sunday: 33

PLEASE PRAY FOR THE HEALTH AND WELL-BEING OF OUR PARISHIONERS:

Michael Volsko- Briarfield Manor, 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 $137,138.90 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 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.

LITURGICAL REQUESTS:

We have not been receiving liturgical requests. Please send your liturgical request envelopes into the collection basket or call Paula Slemons.

SACRED HEART SWOCIETY:

June is the month of the most Sacred Heart of Jesus!

Sacred Heart Society membership dues are now being collected for the year 2024. Dues are still $5.00 per year and can be sent to:

Treasurer Mary Jane Backus @

5645 Clingan Road, Unit 23-A

Struthers, Ohio 44471

New members are always welcome!!

Jesus, I trust in you!!!!!

KENYWOOD DAY:

The 2024 GCU Kennywood Day will be held on Thursday, July 25^th. Tickets are $27 for ages 4+, ages 3 and under are free. Deadline to order tickets is Wednesday, July 10^th, Go to GCUusa.com for tickets.

CELEBRATION OF MARRIAGE:

The annual Celebration of Marriage will be held on Sunday, September 15, 2024 at St. Elias Church. All parishioners who are celebrating their wedding anniversaries of 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35, 40, 45, 50 or additional years that are multiple of 5 during this year of 2024 will be honored. If you are unable to attend, certificates will be sent. Please notify Paula Slemons or Fr. Michael by July14th to relay your information to the Chancery.

VACATION BIBLE SCHOOL:

St. Michael Church in Campbell will host Vacation Bible School and are inviting all BYZANTINE KIDS pn an amazing undersea adventure where they’ll experience the ever flowing, never ending love of God! At SCUBA VBS, kiddos will dive into a friendship with God, be immersed in His word & discover what living water is really all about! VBS will take place at St. Michael Hall, 405 Robinson Road, Campbell, beginning Monday, July 22^nd through Friday, July 26^th from 9:00 am- 12:30pm. Registration forms can be found at www.stmichaelbyzcampbell.org or facebook.com/st.michaelbyz.campbell and are due by Friday, June 28^th. There is no charge to participate.

SANCTUARY CANDLE:

The Sanctuary candles will be lit for the entire week for your intentions. The week of June 23-29 +Nicholas & + Mary Dubos.

The Devil has not Full Power

Among the angelic powers the chief of the terrestrial order, the one to whom God had entrusted the task of looking after the earth, was not evil by nature, he had not received any trace of evi1 from his creator. He was good. However, he did not maintain the light and the honor that God had given him. By a deliberate act of his own free will he rebelled against the Creator. He turned his face away from goodness and fell into evil. Evil is in fact is merely the absence of good, as darkness is the absence of light. A host of angels placed under his command followed him in the fall. Despite their angelic nature, they also freely plunged from goodness down to evil and became wicked. The devils cannot do anything against us without God s permission. But with God’s permission they are powerful. All wickedness, all the passions are inspired by them But listen: God allows them to suggest sin to a person, but they cannot force him to do it. We ourselves are responsible for accepting or rejecting their seductive suggestions. By St. John Damascene – The Orthodox Faith, 2, 4 (PG94,873ff.)

June 16, 2024 Bulletin

LITURGICAL SCHEDULE

Sat. 15: 4:00 pm @ St. Nicholas

For all Fathers of our Parishes

Sun. 16: 11:00 am @ St. Nicholas

4th Sunday after Pentecost

Father’s Day

For the parishioners

Mon. 17: NO LITURGY

Tues. 18: NO LITURGY

Wed. 19: NO LITURGY

Thurs. 20: NO LITURGY

Fri. 21: NO LITURGY

Sat. 22: 4:00 pm @ St. Nicholas

For the parishioners

Sun. 23: 11:00 am @ St. Nicholas

5th Sunday after Pentecost

For the parishioners

Collection Report

Week of 06/09/2024

$ 832.00 Offering

$ 15.00 Maintenance Fund

$ 10.00 Sanctuary candles

$ 25.00 Garage rental

$ 3.00 Children

$ 141.00 Candles

$ 1036.00 TOTAL

Attendance from last week’s Liturgies:

Saturday: 19

Sunday: 25

PLEASE PRAY FOR THE HEALTH AND WELL-BEING OF OUR PARISHIONERS:

UPDATE-CAPITAL CAMPAIGN:

The NEW total collected is $137,138.90 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:

OUT OF TOWN:

Father Michael will be out of town June 17-21. For an emergency, please contact him on his cell phone @ 412-722-4670

SACRED HEART SWOCIETY:

June is the month of the most Sacred Heart of Jesus!

Sacred Heart Society membership dues are now being collected for the year 2024. Dues are still $5.00 per year and can be sent to:

Treasurer Mary Jane Backus @

5645 Clingan Road, Unit 23-A

Struthers, Ohio 44471

New members are always welcome!!

Jesus, I trust in you!!!!!

KENYWOOD DAY:

CELEBRATION OF MARRIAGE:

The annual Celebration of Marriage will be held on Sunday, September 15, 2024 at St. Elias Church. All parishioners who are celebrating their wedding anniversaries of 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35, 40, 45, 50 or additional years that are multiple of 5 during this year of 2024 will be honoured. If you are unable to attend, certificates will be sent. Please notify Paula Slemons or Fr. Michael by July14th to relay your information to the Chancery.

LITURGICAL REQUESTS:

We have not been receiving liturgical requests in the past years. Please send your liturgical request envelopes into the collection basket or call Paula Slemons for a specific date of your intention.

HAPPY FATHER’S DAY:

We wish all fathers, grandfathers, fathers-in-law, stepfathers, and godfathers a Happy Father’s Day. May God bless all with happiness, health and a blessed day!

SANCTUARY CANDLE:

The Sanctuary candles will be lit for the entire week for your intentions. The week of June 16-22 the left sanctuary candle is in memory of +Edward Vrabel from the Graneto & Vrabel families. Right sanctuary candle – All our Fathers.

FATHER’S DAY
By St. Clement of Alexandria – The Teacher, I, 9 (PG8, 340)
The Word that Hurts but Heals

The word of Wisdom exhorts us thus: ‘Have you sons? Discipline them and break them in from their earliest years. Have you daughters? See that they are chaste, and do not be too lenient with them.’ [Ecclus. 7:23-24] It is true that we love our own children very much, more than anything else. But those who speak only gentle words to them are in fact loving the children they are afraid of hurting only a little. On the other hand, those who correct them strictly are hurting them today but doing them good for the future. Our Lord did not seek what is comfortable today for us. Rather he sought for us a good future. So let us follow his educational method inspired by love. This admonition is a loving reproof that enlightens the mind. Christ our teacher had recourse to it when, for example, he said: ‘O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, killing the prophets and stoning those who are sent to you! How often would I have gathered your children together as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, and you would not!’ [Matt. 23:37] Reproof may be made with contempt. Reproof may be made with vehemence, as a violent censure. But reproof may be made to lay bare sins. This is the kind of correction the Lord is constrained to use because in so many people faith has evaporated. Reproof and correction hurt the soul that they heal of its faults. But they keep the death of the soul at bay.

June 9, 2024 Bulletin

LITURGICAL SCHEDULE

Sat. 8: 4:00 pm @ St. Nicholas

For the parishioners

Sun. 9: 11:00 am @ St. Nicholas

3rd Sunday after Pentecost

For the parishioners

Mon. 10: NO LITURGY

Tues. 11: NO LITURGY

Wed. 12: NO LITURGY

Thurs. 13: NO LITURGY

Fri. 14: NO LITURGY

Sat. 15: 4:00 pm @ St. Nicholas

For the parishioners

Sun. 16: 11:00 am @ St. Nicholas

4th Sunday after Pentecost

Father’s Day

For the parishioners

Collection Report

Week of 06/02/2024

$ 519.00 Offering

$ 95.00 Maintenance Fund

$ 5.00 Holy Day

$ 88.00 Candles

$ 707.00 TOTAL

Attendance from last week’s Liturgies:

Saturday: 20

Sunday: 14

PLEASE PRAY FOR THE HEALTH AND WELL-BEING OF OUR PARISHIONERS:

UPDATE-CAPITAL CAMPAIGN:

The NEW total collected is $124,718.90 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:

SIMPLY SLAVIC:

Simply Slavic Heritage Festival will be held in downtown Youngstown on Friday-June 14^th from 5:00pm-11:00 pm and Saturday, June 15^th from 12:00 (noon)-11:00 pm. Admission is $5.00. Children under 12 years old and younger are free. The event will include live music, homemade ethnic food, folk dance performances and more. This year also has the pivski, a European outdoor beer garden. Come and celebrate Youngstown’s Slavic community.

SACRED HEART SWOCIETY:

June is the month of the most Sacred Heart of Jesus!

Sacred Heart Society membership dues are now being collected for the year 2024. Dues are still $5.00 per year and can be sent to:

Treasurer Mary Jane Backus @

5645 Clingan Road, Unit 23-A

Struthers, Ohio 44471

New members are always welcome!!

Jesus, I trust in you!!!!!

KENYWOOD DAY:

SANCTUARY CANDLE:

The Sanctuary candles will be lit for the entire week for your intentions. The week of June 9-15 the right sanctuary candle is in memory of +Lisa Ferenchak Currao from the Graneto family. There is no request for the left sanctuary candle.

Matthew 6:24 God and Mammon

SERVING Two MASTERS:

CHRYSOSTOM: Now Jesus calls mammon here “a master,” not because of its own nature but on account of the wretchedness of those who bow themselves beneath it.1 (According to a line of reasoning daring back to Clement of Alexandria, Chrysostom explains that riches are not evil in their very nature but in the evil use to which they are put, which causes humankind so much unhappiness.) So also he calls the stomach a god, (Phil 3:19.)

not from the dignity of such a mistress but from the wretchedness of those enslaved. To have mammon for your master is already worse itself than any later punishment and enough retribution before the punishment for any one trapped in it. For what condemned criminals can be so wretched as the providence of God, even where we seem to be active, that finally accompanies everything. In the light of God’s providence, none of our cares, anxieties, toils or any other such things will ever come to anything, but all will utterly pass away. THE GOSPEL OF MATTHEW, HOMILY 21.3.

June 2, 2024 Bulletin

LITURGICAL SCHEDULE

Sat. 1: 4:00 pm @ St. Nicholas

2^nd Saturday after Pentecost

For the parishioners

Sun. 2: 11:00 am @ St. Nicholas

2^nd Sunday after Pentecost

For the parishioners

Mon. 3: NO LITURGY

Tues. 4: NO LITURGY

Wed. 5: NO LITURGY

Thurs. 6: NO LITURGY

Fri. 7: 10:00 am @ Infant Jesus

For World Peace thru the

Blessed Mary & the Rosary

From Sacred Heart Society

Of St. Nicholas

Sat. 8: 4:00 pm @ St. Nicholas

For the parishioners

Sun. 9: 11:00 am @ St. Nicholas

3rd Sunday after Pentecost

For the parishioners

Collection Report

Week of 05/26/2024

$ 619.00 Offering

$ 5.00 Children

$ 69.00 Candles

$ 693.00 TOTAL

Attendance from last week’s Liturgies:

Saturday: 17

Sunday: 21

PLEASE PRAY FOR THE HEALTH AND WELL-BEING OF OUR PARISHIONERS:

UPDATE-CAPITAL CAMPAIGN:

The NEW total collected is $136,064.90 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:

SIMPLY SLAVIC:

SACRED HEART SWOCIETY:

June is the month of the most Sacred Heart of Jesus!

Sacred Heart Society membership dues are now being collected for the year 2024. Dues are still $5.00 per year and can be sent to:

Treasurer Mary Jane Backus @

5645 Clingan Road, Unit 23-A

Struthers, Ohio 44471

New members are always welcome!!

Jesus, I trust in you!!!!!

CLERGY DAY:

Father Michael will be out of town this Tuesday for clergy day. If an emergency, please contact him on his cell phone @ (412) 722-4670.

KENYWOOD DAY:

CONGRATULATIONS:

Congratulations to Sophia Rivera on her graduation from Boardman High School. She will be attending YSU and continuing her golf career on their golf team.

SANCTUARY CANDLE:

The Sanctuary candles will be lit for the entire week for your intentions. The week of June 2-8 the left sanctuary candle is in memory of +Evelyn Senda. There is no request for the right sanctuary candle.

How jesus called His first disciples.

chrysostom: “And they left their nets, and followed him.” And yet John (the Evangelist) says that they were called in a different way. From this it is evident that this was a second call. One may conclude this from several evidences. For there it is said that they came to him when “John had not yet been thrown into prison” but here it says after he was in confinement. And there Andrew calls Peter, but here Jesus calls both. On the one hand, John says, “Jesus saw Simon coming and said, ‘You are Simon, the Son of Jonah. You shall be called Cephas, which is translated Peter.’” On the other hand, Matthew says that he was already called by that name, for he says, “Seeing Simon who was called Peter.” … In the other instance, Andrew is seen corning into his house and hearing many things. But here, having heard one brief call, they both followed immediately. When they earlier had seen that John was in prison and that Jesus was withdrawing, it would not have been unnatural for them to return again to their own craft, fishing, having followed him at the beginning and then later having left him to fish. Accordingly, you now see that Jesus finds them actively fishing. But he neither resisted them at first when they desired to withdraw from him, nor having withdrawn themselves, did he let them go altogether. He gave way when they moved aside from him and came again to win them back. This, after all, is exactly what fishing is all about. the gospel of Matthew, homily 14.

May 26, 2024 Bulletin

LITURGICAL SCHEDULE

Sat. 25: 4:00 pm @ St. Nicholas

3^rd Finding of the Head of

John the Baptist

All Soul Saturday

For the parishioners

Sun. 26: 11:00 am @ St. Nicholas

Sunday of All Saints

For the parishioners

Mon. 27: NO LITURGY

Memorial Day

Tues. 28: NO LITURGY

Wed. 29: NO LITURGY

Thurs. 30: NO LITURGY

Fri. 31: NO LITURGY

Sat. 1: 4:00 pm @ St. Nicholas

2^nd Saturday after Pentecost

For the parishioners

Sun. 2: 11:00 am @ St. Nicholas

2^nd Sunday after Pentecost

For the parishioners

Collection Report

Week of 05/19/2024

$ 1294.00 Pentecost

$ 30.00 Holy Day

$ 70.00 Maintenance Fund

$ 76.00 Candles

$ 1470.00 TOTAL

Attendance from last week’s Liturgies:

Saturday: 22

Sunday: 15

PLEASE PRAY FOR THE HEALTH AND WELL-BEING OF OUR PARISHIONERS:

UPDATE-CAPITAL CAMPAIGN:

The NEW total collected is $136,064.90 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:

SIMPLY SLAVIC:

SACRED HEART SWOCIETY:

June is the month of the most Sacred Heart of Jesus!

Sacred Heart Society membership dues are now being collected for the year 2024. Dues are still $5.00 per year and can be sent to :

Treasurer Mary Jane Backus @

3645 Clingan Road, Unit 23-A

Struthers, Ohio 44471

New members are always welcome!!

Jesus, I trust in you!!!!!

MEMORIAL DAY PANACHIDA:

Father Michael will be having a Panachida at St. Nicholas Cemetery in Campbell this Sunday, May 26^th @12:30 pm.

MEMORIAL DAY:

Father Michael, Marina, Andriy, Emma and Veronica wish all parishioners, family and friends a Blessed Memorial Day. May we remember and honor all men and woman who have sacrificed their lives in service for our great country.

SANCTUARY CANDLE:

The Sanctuary candles will be lit for the entire week for your intentions. The week of May 26-June 1 the left sanctuary candle is in memory of +Carolyn Volchko from John Jr. & Donna Volchko. Right sanctuary candle +Veterans of Our Parishes

ALL SAINTS SUNDAY

St. Nikephoros of Chios,

Fortunate is the man who has come to have God as his helper and to have his hopes in Him alone. Let the Devil bear malice towards him, let all men persecute him and plot against him, let all his adversaries fight against him – he never fears anyone, because his has God as his helper. He remains always a victor, always glorified, always happy, always rich, always cheerful and joyful, even if he happens to fall into extreme poverty and into a great many adverse and grievous circumstances of this present life. For inasmuch as he hopes in Almighty God, he does not despair, he is not sorry, is not anxious, but expects help from Above. Fortunate, then, is such a man and worthy to be deemed happy, just as the Prophet-king David regards such a man as happy, saying: “Blessed is he whose helper is the God of Jacob, whose hope is in the Lord his God.” Such were all the Prophets, the Apostles, the Martyrs, the Holy Ascetics and all the Saints from the beginning of time.

May 19, 2024 Bulletin

LITURGICAL SCHEDULE

Sat. 18: 4:00 pm @ St. Nicholas

5^th All Souls Saturday

For the parishioners

Sun. 19: 11:00 am @ St. Nicholas

Pentecost Sunday

+Ms. Michele Migletz from

Her parents

Mon. 20: NO LITURGY

Tues. 21: NO LITURGY

Wed. 22: NO LITURGY

Thurs. 23: NO LITURGY

Fri. 24: NO LITURGY

Sat. 25: 4:00 pm @ St. Nicholas

3^rd Finding of the Head of

John the Baptist

For the parishioners

Sun. 26: 11:00 am @ St. Nicholas

Sunday of All Saints + All Veterans of both Parishes

Collection Report

Week of 05/12/2024

Attendance from last week’s Liturgies:

Saturday:

Sunday:

$ 1347.00 Offertory

$ 88.00 Holy Day

$ 25.00 Maintenance Fund

$ 100.00 Easter

$ 6.00 Children

$ 156.00 Garage Rental

$ 126.00 Candles

$ 1848.00 TOTAL

PLEASE PRAY FOR THE HEALTH AND WELL-BEING OF OUR PARISHIONERS:

UPDATE-CAPITAL CAMPAIGN:

The NEW total collected is $118,778.10 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.

SANCTUARY CANDLE REQUEST:

THANK YOU:

Thank you to all who came on Tuesday to change altar linens for Pentecost. Your continued time and work for our parish is greatly appreciated.

SIMPLY SLAVIC:

MEMORIAL DAY PANACHIDA

On May 26, right after Sunday Liturgy we will have Panachida for all Deceased Veterans of our Parish and those who buried on our cemetery. We will meet at 12:30 PM next to The Cross on St Nicholas Cemetery in Campbell, OH

SANCTUARY CANDLE:

The Sanctuary candles will be lit for the entire week for your intentions. The week of May 19-25 the right and left sanctuary candles are in memory of Ms. Michele Migltez. Both candles are given from her parents. .

Pentecost

Leading the repentant man to undertake spiritual work, the Holy Spirit, Who called him to repentance, also grants him His comforts and teaches him not to turn back nor be attached to anything of this world. To this end, He opens the eyes of the soul and gives her to see the beauty of the purity reached through the works of repentance. In this way He kindles in it zeal for complete purification both of itself and of the body, that the two may be one in purity. For this is the aim of the teaching and guidance of the Holy Spirit – to purify them completely and bring them back to their original state, in which they were before the Fall, by destroying in them all adulterations introduced by the devil’s envy, so that nothing of the enemy should remain therein. Then the body will become obedient to the dictates of the mind in all things, and the mind will masterfully determine its food and drink, its sleep and its every other action, constantly learning from the Holy Spirit to “keep under” the “body, and bring it into subjection” (I Corinthians 9:27) as did Apostle Paul. St Anthony the Great, “Early Fathers from the Philokalia,” translated by E. Kadloubovsky and G.E.H. Palmer, (London: Faber & Faber, 1981), pp. 39-40

May 12 , 2024 Bulletin

LITURGICAL SCHEDULE

Sat. 11: 4:00 pm @ St. Nicholas

+Dorothy Blasko from

Family

Sun. 12: 11:00 am @ St. Nicholas

Sunday of the fathers of the

1^st Ecumenical Council

+John & +Katerina Duritza

From Maureen Peel

Mon. 13: NO LITURGY

Tues. 14: NO LITURGY

Wed. 15: NO LITURGY

Thurs. 16: NO LITURGY

Fri. 17: NO LITURGY

Sat. 18: 4:00 pm @ St. Nicholas

5^th All Souls Saturday

For the parishioners

Sun. 19: 11:00 am @ St. Nicholas

Pentecost Sunday

+Ms. Michele Migletz from

Her parents

Collection Report

Week of 05/05/2024

$ 604.00 Offertory

$ 25.00 Holy Day

$ 60.00 Maintenance Fund

$ 10.00 Seminary Fund

$ 21.00 Candles

$ 723.00 TOTAL

Attendance from last week’s Liturgies:

Saturday: N\A

Sunday: 29

PLEASE PRAY FOR THE HEALTH AND WELL-BEING OF OUR PARISHIONERS:

UPDATE-CAPITAL CAMPAIGN:

The NEW total collected is $136.064.90 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:

VOLUNTEERS WELCOMED:

Volunteers are welcomed to help change altar linens on Tuesday, May 14^th @ 10:00 am for the Feast of the Pentecost.

SIMPLY SLAVIC:

HAPPY MOTHER’S DAY:

We wish all our mothers, grandmothers, stepmothers, and godmothers a very Happy Mother’s Day. May God bless all with a day filled with love and joy.

CONGRATULATIONS

Violet Penelope Lambert received her Sacraments of Baptism, Chrismation and Eucharist last Sunday. May God grant her and all her family many and blessed years!

SANCTUARY CANDLE:

The Sanctuary candles will be lit for the entire week for your intentions. The week of May 12-18 there are no requests for the sanctuary candles.

NEW APPOINTMENTS

Archbishop William has made the following Appointments effective Saturday, May 18, 2024:

Very Reverend Richard I. Lambert as his own request relieved from active ministry, As Pastor of St. Mary Church, Youngstown, Ohio, as Protopresbyter of the Youngstown Protopresbyterate and as member of the Pension Board in order to enter retirement.

Father John J. Welch appointed Administrator of St. Mary Church, Youngstown, Ohio.

Father Kevin E. Marks appointed Protopresbyter of the Youngstown Protopresbyterate.

Wish Fr. Lambert happy retirement and to his new chapter in his life and Marks and Welsh good start to their new appointments. God grant them peace, health and happiness.

O most merciful Father, Eternal God: we ask You to be attentive to
the voice of our supplication which we, Your humble and lowly
servants, offer today in behalf of all of our mothers. Give Your
guidance and wisdom to our youthful mothers; reassure and inspire
those of our mothers who are in the prime of life, endowing them with
that spiritual joy that comes from having truly experienced mature
motherhood; comfort and sustain our elderly mothers: and generously
favor those of our mothers whom You have already called to Your
heavenly abode by abundantly rewarding them. Kindle within our
hearts that same burning love and faithful devotion that Your Only-
Begotten Son, Our Lord, God, and Savior, Jesus Christ showed
toward His most holy mother, the Most Pure Virgin Mary. We pray to
You, O heavenly Father, on this day as we especially pay tribute to all
of our mothers, to accept our prayers and to promptly hear us and
show all of them Your mercy.

May 5, 2024 Bulletin

LITURGICAL SCHEDULE

Sat. 4: NO LITURGY

Sun. 5: 11:00 am @ St. Nicholas

Sunday of the Man Born Blind

For the parishioners

Mon. 6: NO LITURGY

Tues. 7: NO LITURGY

Wed. 8: NO LITURGY

Thurs. 9: 6:00 pm @ Infant Jesus

Ascension of Our Lord

For the parishioners

Fri. 10: NO LITURGY

Sat. 11: 4:00 pm @ St. Nicholas

+Dorothy Blasko from

Family

Sun. 12: 11:00 am @ St. Nicholas

Sunday of the fathers of the

1^st Ecumenical Council

+John & +Katerina Duritza

From Maureen Peel

Collection Report

Week of 04/28/2024

$ 697.00 Offertory

$ 3.00 Children

$ 50.00 Maintenance Fund

$ 113.00 Candles

$ 863.00 TOTAL

Attendance from last week’s Liturgies:

Saturday: 26

Sunday: 21

PLEASE PRAY FOR THE HEALTH AND WELL-BEING OF OUR PARISHIONERS:

UPDATE-CAPITAL CAMPAIGN:

The NEW total collected is $136,064.90 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:

SUPER BINGO:

St. Mary’s Byzantine Catholic Church, 356 S. Belle Vista in Youngstown is holding their 3^rd Annual Super Bingo on Saturday May 11^th. Doors open at 2:00 pm and Bingo starts @ 5:00 pm. Cost is $45 that buys everything and includes a free picnic lunch. Call 330-951-7343 for more information.

VOLUNTEERS WELCOMED:

Volunteers are welcomed to help change altar linens on Tuesday, May 14^th @ 10:00 am for the Feast of the Pentecost.

SIMPLY SLAVIC:

HAPPY BIRTHDAY:

Happy Birthday to Sr. Bernarda Sevachko, OSBM who is celebrating her 95^th this Sunday, May 5^th. May God grant Sr. Bernarda peace, health, happiness and many blessed years!

CONGRATULATIONS:

Congratulations to Marina Farynets who is graduating from Youngstown State University with a Bachelor in Science in Nursing. May God grant Marina success and happiness in her new career.

SANCTUARY CANDLE:

The Sanctuary candles will be lit for the entire week for your intentions. The week of May 5-11 the left sanctuary candle is in memory of +John Sr. & +Carolyn Volchko from John Jr. & Donna Volchko. There is no request for the right sanctuary candle.

9:2 Who Sinned?

Why the disciples ask.

Chrysostom: They were led to ask this question because our Lord had said above, when he healed the paralytic, “See, you are well! Sin no more.” Thinking from this that the man had been paralyzed because of his sins, they say, “That other person was paralyzed because of his sins, but what would you say about this man? Had he sinned? How can you say that, since he was blind from birth? Have his parents sinned? Neither can one say this because the child does not suffer punishment because of his parents.” The same way we ask how it can be when we see a child suffering, this is how the disciples spoke here, not so much asking for information as being perplexed. Homilies on the Gospel of John 56.1.

April 28, 2024 Bulletin

LITURGICAL SCHEDULE

Sat. 27: 4:00 pm @ St. Nicholas

For the parishioners

Sun. 28: 11:00 am @ St. Nicholas

Sunday of the Samaritan

Woman

In honor of Dolly Vrabel on

Her 94^th Birthday from the

Graneto & Vrabel families

Mon. 29: NO LITURGY

Tues. 30: NO LITURGY

Wed. 1: NO LITURGY

Thurs. 2: NO LITURGY

Fri. 3: 9:00 am @ Infant Jesus

Living & Deceased Members

Of the Sacred Heart Society

Sat. 4: NO LITURGY

Sun. 5: 11:00 am @ St. Nicholas

Sunday of the Man Born Blind

For the parishioners

Collection Report

Week of 04/21/2024

$ 702.00 Offertory

$ 3.00 Children

$ 50.00 Maintenance Fund

$ 112.00 Candles

$ 867.00 TOTAL

Attendance from last week’s Liturgies:

Saturday: 18

Sunday: 16

PLEASE PRAY FOR THE HEALTH AND WELL-BEING OF OUR PARISHIONERS:

UPDATE-CAPITAL CAMPAIGN:

The NEW total collected is $124,718.10 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.

SANCTUARY CANDLE REQUEST:

SUPER BINGO:

NO LITURGY:

Please note that next Saturday, May 4^th, there will be NO 4:00pm liturgy on Saturday.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY:

Happy 94^th Birthday to Dolly Vrabel. May God bless you with happiness, health and many more blessed years.

SIMPLY SLAVIC:

SANCTUARY CANDLE:

The Sanctuary candles will be lit for the entire week for your intentions. The week of April 27-May 4 the left sanctuary candle is in memory of +Virginia & +Donald Graneto from the Graneto family. The right sanctuary candle is in memory of +George Filo from family.

Freedom with knowledge in worship.

Hilary of Poitiers: We see that the woman, her mind full of inherited tradition, thought that God must be worshiped either on a mountain, as at Samaria, or in a temple, as at Jerusalem…. The prejudices of both confined the all-embracing and illimitable God to the crest of a hill or the vault of a building. God is invisible, incomprehensible, immeasurable. The Lord said that the time had come when God should be worshiped neither on mountain nor in temple. For the Spirit cannot be shut up, as if in a cabin, or confined. It is omnipresent in space and time, and under all conditions it is present in its fullness. Therefore, he said that they are the true worshipers who shall worship in the Spirit and in truth. And these who are to worship God the Spirit in the Spirit shall have the One for the means,” the Other for the object, of their reverence. For each of the two stands in a different relation to the worshiper. The words “God is Spirit” do not alter the fact that the Holy Spirit has a name of his own and that he is the gift to us…. The imparted gift and the object of reverence were clearly shown when Christ taught that God, being Spirit, must be worshiped in the Spirit, and revealed what freedom and knowledge, what boundless scope for adoration, lay in this worship of God the Spirit, in the Spirit. On the trinity 2.3I.

April 21, 2024 Bulletin

LITURGICAL SCHEDULE

Sat. 20: 4:00 pm @ St. Nicholas

For the parishioners

Sun. 21: 11:00 am @ St. Nicholas

Sunday of the Paralytic Man

For the parishioners

Mon. 22: NO LITURGY

Tues. 23: 6:00 pm @ Infant Jesus

Holy Great-Martyr George

For the parishioners

Wed. 24: NO LITURGY

Thurs. 25: NO LITURGY

Fri. 26: NO LITURGY

Sat. 27: 4:00 pm @ St. Nicholas

For the parishioners

Sun. 28: 11:00 am @ St. Nicholas

Sunday of the Samaritan

Woman

In honor of Dolly Vrabel on Her 94^th Birthday from the

Graneto & Vrabel Families

Collection Report

Week of 04/14/2024

$ 897.00 Offertory

$ 20.00 Easter

$ 25.00 Peter Pence

$ 176.00 Garage Rental

$ 10.00 Maintenance Fund

$ 125.00 Candles

$ 1253.00 TOTAL

Attendance from last week’s Liturgies:

Saturday: 30

Sunday: 15

PLEASE PRAY FOR THE HEALTH AND WELL-BEING OF OUR PARISHIONERS:

UPDATE-CAPITAL CAMPAIGN:

The NEW total collected is $124,718.10 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.

SANCTUARY CANDLE REQUEST:

SUPER BINGO:

NO LITURGY

There will be no Liturgy on Saturday May 4, 2024 due to Fr. Michael attending graduation ceremony. Liturgy will be available: 6PM Infant Jesus and St Michael Byzantine Churches.

SANCTUARY CANDLE:

The Sanctuary candles will be lit for the entire week for your intentions. The week of April 21-26 the left sanctuary candle is in memory of +Florence Filo from family. There is no request for the right sanctuary candle.

CHRIST IS RISEN!

INDEED HE IS RISEN!

CHRSITOS VOSKRESE!

VOISTINU VOSKRESE!

5:3 A Multitude of Disabled

RARE HEALINGS MAGNIFY THE MIRACLE. THEODORE OF MOPSUESTIA: A great crowd of ill people, struck with different infirmities, had gathered here hoping to be healed as if these waters might affect something because the entrails of sheep offered as victims to God [for the temple] were washed in them. And God also supported this belief by causing the waters to move sometimes. Since they believed that the waters were moved by divine power, they obtained the grace of healing after they had come down [into the water]. It was not that many people were healed at the same time but that the one who came down first obtained the aid afforded by grace, [This happened] in order that the facility of the healing might not diminish the effect of the miracle. And so, because they waited with great attention and anticipation for the movement of the waters, once they recovered their health, they might have a better memory of their healing, even though many lay ill there, he did not heal all of them. But, in order to show his power, he chose one affected with a very serious infirmity and who was hopeless already about his recovery. COMMENTARY ON JOHN 2.5.2-5.