St Nicholas Byzantine Catholic Church

July 30, 2023 Bulletin

LITURGICAL SCHEDULE

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

For the parishioners

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

9^th Sunday after Pentecost

+Mary Jean Vrabel from the

Komara Family

Mon. 31: NO LITURGY

Tues. 1: NO LITURGY

Wed. 2: NO LITURGY

Thurs. 3: NO LITURGY

Fri. 4: 8:30 am @ Infant Jesus

For the Living & Deceased

Members of Sacred Heart

Society

Sat. 5: 4:00 pm @ St. Nicholas

For the parishioners

Sun. 6: 11:00 am @ St. Nicholas

Transfiguration of Our Lord

+Dorothy Popovich from

John Popovich

Collection Report

Week of 07/23/2023

$ 697.00 Offertory

$ 129.00 Candles

$ 100.00 Initial

$ 100.00 Renovation

$ 1026.00 TOTAL

Attendance from last week’s Liturgies:

Saturday: 17

Sunday: 28

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

OUR LADY OF LEBONAN SHRINE:

The 58^th Annual Assumption Pilgrimage “A Pilgrimage to Rediscover Jesus in the Most Holy Eucharist” will be held at the Basilica & National Shrine of Our Lady of Lebanon August 13-15, 2023. For more information call the Shrine at (330)538-3351.

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 9^th. Doors open at 2:00pm, dinner served 2:00-4:30 and 1^st 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.

SISTERS OF ST. BASIL PILGRIMAGE:

Sisters of the Order of St. Basil the Great 89^th 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

CELEBRATION OF MARRIAGE:

The Celebration of Marriage will be held this year on September 10^th @ 3:00 pm –St. Elias Church in Pittsburgh. Couples who are celebrating their significant wedding anniversary years (10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35, 40, 45, 50 or additional years that are multiples of five) during this year of 2023 will be honored. Please notify Fr. Michael or Paula by July 16^th in order to notify the diocese. Couples who are unable to attend, certificate will be sent.

SANCTUARY CANDLE:

The Sanctuary candles will be lit for the entire week for your intentions. The week of July 30-August 5, the left sanctuary candle is in memory of +Nicholas Terlecky (father) from Myron Terlecky. The right sanctuary candle is for the special intentions of Myron Terlecky.

Jesus walks on water

chrysostom: The disciples are tossed on the waves again. They are in a storm, fully as bad as the previous one. Gently and by degrees he excites and urges the disciples on toward greater responsiveness, even to the point of bearing all things nobly. Whereas in the previous storm they had him with them in the ship, now they were alone by themselves. Even when he was asleep in the boat in the previous situation, he was ready to give them relief from danger. But then he was present to them.

Now he is leading them into a greater degree of challenge. Now he is not even present to them. He has departed. In mid-sea he permits a storm to arise. This was all for their training, that they might not look for some easy hope of preservation from any earthly source. He then allows them to be tossed by the storm all night! This had the purpose of awakening their stony hearts in a most complete way. This is how Jesus dealt with the nature of their fear, which the rough weather and the timing had produced. He cast them directly into a situation in which they would have a greater longing for him and a continual remembrance of him. the gospel of Matthew, homily 50.I.

July 23, 2023 Bulletin

LITURGICAL SCHEDULE

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

Happy 66^th Anniversary to

Robert & Helen Marie Vaclav

From children, grandchildren

& great-grandchildren

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

8^th Sunday after Pentecost

For the parishioners

Mon. 24: NO LITURGY

Tues. 25: NO LITURGY

Wed. 26: NO LITURGY

Thurs. 27: NO LITURGY

Fri. 28: NO LITURGY

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

For the parishioners

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

9^th Sunday after Pentecost

+Mary Jean Vrabel from the

Komara Family

Collection Report

Week of 07/16/2023

$ 1134.00 Offertory

$ 200.00 Candles

$ 4.00 Children

$ 15.00 Renovation

$ 56.00 Garage rental

$ 1409.00 TOTAL

Attendance from last week’s Liturgies:

Saturday: 28

Sunday: 23

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

UPDATE-CAPITAL CAMPAIGN:

The NEW total we have collected is $113,714.1011 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

CELEBRATION OF MARRIAGE:

PARISHIONER NEWS:

Happy 66^th Anniversary to Robert & Helen Marie Vaclav. May God bless you with health, happiness and many blessed years!

CONDOLENCES:

Our deepest sympathy and prayers to the Dubos family on the passing on of our former parishioner Mary Dubos. Service will be held on cemetery at 10 am on coming Tuesday. Blessed repose to his servant Mary.

CAR BLESSINGS:

Fr. Michael will be blessings cars following this week’s liturgies in occasion of the Feast of Elijah the Great Prophet.

THANK YOU:

Thank you to the family and friends of the Stanislav family for their generous donation of $400.00 to our maintenance fund in memory of Andrew Stanislav. May God bless all for their generosity and may Andrew memory be eternal!

SANCTUARY CANDLE:

The Sanctuary candles will be lit for the entire week for your intentions. The week of July 23-29, there are no request for this week’s sanctuary candle.

Feeding 500 thousand in the Gospel of Mathew

14:14-21 The miracle of the feeding of the five thousand, reported by all four evangelists, shows Jesus feeding His people as God fed the Israelites in the desert. The Church Fathers see in this an image of the Eucharist, an idea also expressed in John 6, the discourse on the Bread of Life. In 15:32-39 and Mark 8:1-10 another miracle is mentioned, in which Jesus feeds four thousand people with seven loaves and a few small fish. This miracle is probably not a duplicate report of the first miracle, but another performed in a different place. Moved with compassion is used in very similar situations (see 20:34; Mark 1:41; 6:34; Luke 7:13) to show the Messiah’s power and authority extending to those who suffer.

14:19 Jesus is teaching us not to eat until we first give thanks to God. The terminology reminds us of the Last Supper (see Luke 22:15-20) and leads to the Eucharistic interpretation of this miracle. The participation of the disciples in distributing the loaves and the fish is important. In the Church Jesus feeds His flock at the Eucharist through His servants, the priests.

July 16, 2023 Bulletin

LITURGICAL SCHEDULE

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

Joshua Marino from

Anonymous

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

Sunday of the Fathers of the

Six Ecumenical Councils

For the parishioners

Mon. 17: NO LITURGY

Tues. 18: NO LITURGY

Wed. 19: 6:00 pm @ Infant Jesus

Elijah Great Prophet

H&W Veronica Farynets

Blessing of cars

Thurs. 20: NO LITURGY

Fri. 21: NO LITURGY

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

Happy 66^th Anniversary to

Robert & Helen Marie Vaclav

From children, grandchildren

& great-grandchildren

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

8^th Sunday after Pentecost

For the parishioners

Collection Report

Week of 07/09/2023

$ 1037.00 Offertory

$ 166.00 Candles

$ 5.00 Holy Days

$ 65.00 Children

$ 175.00 Garage Rental

$ 1385.00 TOTAL

Attendance from last week’s Liturgies:

Saturday: 20

Sunday: N/A

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

Michael Kisak- Inn at Glenellen, Kevin Ulrich Ivywoods Manor, Mary Dubos and 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 $113,714.10 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.

CELEBRATION OF MARRIAGE:

The Celebration of Marriage will be held this year on September 10^th @ 3:00 pm –St. Elias Church in Pittsburgh. Couples who are celebrating their significant wedding anniversary years (10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35, 40, 45, 50 or additional years that are multiples of five) during this year of 2023 will be honoured. Please notify Fr. Michael or Paula by THIS SUNDAY July 16^th in order to notify the diocese. Couples who are unable to attend, certificate will be sent.

METROPOLITAN ASSEMBLY

Living our Faith, Moving Forward, appreciating our past will be the topic of Metropolitan Assembly this year November 2-5 in Hillsborough, NJ

More information on website: byzantineassembly2023.org

GCU BYZANTINE FAMILY DAY

Thursday, July 27, 2023 Ride all Day in Kennywood Park, Pittsburgh, PA

$25 – ages 4 +, Free – ages 3 and under.

LUNCH-Served at Pavilion 5 from 12-1 PM, $25 adults – age 11 + , $20 youth – ages 3-10.

Deadline to Order tickets is Monday, July 10. For More information call rectory or visit: https://gcuusa.com/events/gcu-byzantine-family-day-at-kennywood-park

SANCTUARY CANDLE:

The Sanctuary candles will be lit for the entire week for your intentions. The week of July 16-22, the left sanctuary candle is in memory of +Caroline Volchko from John & Donna Volchko. There is no request for the right sanctuary.

First Six Ecumenical Councils

First Ecumenical Council – Nicea, Asia Minor, 325 A.D. – Formulated the First Part of the Creed. Defining the divinity of the Son of God.

Second Ecumenical Council – Constantinople, 381 A.D. – Formulated the Second Part of the Creed, defining the divinity of the Holy Spirit.

Third Ecumenical Council – Ephesus, Asia Minor, 431A.D. – Defined Christ as the Incarnate Word of God and Mary as Theotokos.

Fourth Ecumenical Council – Chalcedon, Asia Minor, 451A.D. – Defined Christ as Perfect God and Perfect God and Perfect Man in One Person.

Fifth Ecumenical Council – Constantinople II, 553 A.D. – Reconfirmed the Doctrines of the Trinity and Christ.

Sixth Ecumenical Council – Constantinople III, 680 A.D. – Affirmed the True Humanity of Jesus by insisting upon the reality of His Human will and action.

July 9, 2023 Bulletin

LITURGICAL SCHEDULE

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

+Bev Dobos from family

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

6^th Sunday after Pentecost

For the parishioners

Mon. 10: NO LITURGY

Tues. 11: NO LITURGY

Wed. 12: NO LITURGY

Thurs. 13: NO LITURGY

Fri. 14: 9:00 am @ Infant Jesus

For World Peace thru the

Blessed Mary & the Rosary

From the Sacred Heart

Society

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

Joshua Marino from

Anonymous

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

Sunday of the Fathers of the

Six Ecumenical Councils

For the parishioners

Collection Report

Week of 07/02/2023

$ 1059.00 Offertory

$ 90.00 Candles

$ 25.00 Holy Days

$ 65.00 Renovation

$ 20.00 Peter Pence

$ 1259.00 TOTAL

Attendance from last week’s Liturgies:

Saturday: 26

Sunday: 20

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

UPDATE-CAPITAL CAMPAIGN:

CELEBRATION OF MARRIAGE:

The Celebration of Marriage will be held this year on September 10^th @ 3:00 pm –St. Elias Church in Pittsburgh. Couples who are celebrating their significant wedding anniversary years (10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35, 40, 45, 50 or additional years that are multiples of five) during this year of 2023 will be honored. Please notify Fr. Michael or Paula by July 16th in order to notify the diocese. Couples who are unable to attend, certificate will be sent.

GCU BYZANTINE FAMILY DAY

Thursday, July 27, 2023 Ride all Day in Kennywood Park, Pittsburgh, PA

$25 – ages 4 +, Free – ages 3 and under.

LUNCH-Served at Pavilion 5 from 12-1 PM, $25 adults – age 11 + , $20 youth – ages 3-10.

Deadline to Order tickets is Monday, July 10. For More information call rectory or visit: https://gcuusa.com/events/gcu-byzantine-family-day-at-kennywood-park

SANCTUARY CANDLE:

The Sanctuary candles will be lit for the entire week for your intentions. The week of July 9-15, the right sanctuary candle is in memory of +John Volchko from John & Donna Volchko. There is no request for the left sanctuary.

THEY MARVELED AND GLORIFIED GOD.

CHRYSOSTOM: Do you see how he is shown to be Creator of both souls and bodies? He heals the paralysis in both soul and body. The healing of the soul is made evident through the healing of the body, even while the body still remains a creature crawling on the ground. The crowds were slow to recognize who he was; “When the crowds saw it, they were afraid, and they glorified God, who had given such authority to humans.” … He proceeded by his daily actions to arouse them and lift up their thinking. It would have been no small thing for him to be thought greater than all others, as having come from God. If they had established this adequately in their own minds, they would have known in due order that he was indeed the Son of God.

But they did not grasp these things clearly. Because of this they did not come close to recognizing who he was. For again they were saying, “This man is not from God! How can this man be from God?” Their minds churned over these statements continuously. THE GOSPEL OF MATTHEW, HOMILY 29.2.

July 2, 2023 Bulletin

LITURGICAL SCHEDULE

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

+Julia B. Fabian from John

Balas

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

5^th Sunday after Pentecost

For the parishioners

Mon. 3: NO LITURGY

Tues. 4: NO LITURGY

Wed. 5: NO LITURGY

Thurs. 6: NO LITURGY

Fri. 7: NO LITURGY

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

+Bev Dobos from family

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

6^th Sunday after Pentecost

For the parishioners

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

UPDATE-CAPITAL CAMPAIGN:

The NEW total we have collected is $112,099.10 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.

CELEBRATION OF MARRIAGE:

The Celebration of Marriage will be held this year on September 10^th @ 3:00 pm –St. Elias Church in Pittsburgh. Couples who are celebrating their significant wedding anniversary years (10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35, 40, 45, 50 or additional years that are multiples of five) during this year of 2023 will be honoured. Please notify Fr. Michael or Paula by July 16^th in order to notify the diocese. Couples who are unable to attend, certificate will be sent.

HAPPY 4^th of JULY:

Father Michael, Maryna Andriy, Emma and Veronica wish all parishioners, family and friends a very blessed 4^th of July. May God bless the USA!!!

GCU BYZANTINE FAMILY DAY

Thursday, July 27, 2023 Ride all Day in Kennywood Park, Pittsburgh, PA

$25 – ages 4 +, Free – ages 3 and under.

LUNCH-Served at Pavilion 5 from 12-1 PM, $25 adults – age 11 + , $20 youth – ages 3-10.

Deadline to Order tickets is Monday, July 10. For More information call rectory or visit: https://gcuusa.com/events/gcu-byzantine-family-day-at-kennywood-park

SANCTUARY CANDLE:

The Sanctuary candles will be lit for the entire week for your intentions. The week of July 2-8, there are no request for the sanctuary candles.

Question for Jesus

Each of us should think about what is my question for Christ?

If I say something like, “Will He help me?” – that is not a question directed to Christ but a question for our self to answer. I need to change the question and ask it directly to Christ. I need to talk to Him. I need to orient my life so that I can so directly talk to Him.

If I ask, “Can you help me, Jesus?” – the answer is yes, of course He could, but whether the help I want is in accordance with God’s will is another issue. To ask that question seems to reflect some doubt in my heart about his ability/power or about His goodness and love.

To ask the right question, I need to think about who Jesus is, what His will and intention is, what is He capable of? And who am I in relationship to Him? Depending on who I am in relationship to Him determines what I can ask of Him.

If I am His servant, and He really is my Lord, I can ask, “How can I serve You?” “What is your will for me?”

My ability to hear His response will depend on my relationship to Him. I need to know who He is before I can relate to Him, or ask the right question of Him.

June 25, 2023 Bulletin

LITURGICAL SCHEDULE

Sat. 24: NO LITURGY

Sun. 25: NO LITURGY

Mon. 26: NO LITURGY

Tues. 27: NO LITURGY

Wed. 28: NO LITURGY

Thurs. 29: 6:00 pm @ Infant Jesus

STS. PETER AND PAUL

H&W Veronica Farynets

Fri. 30: NO LITURGY

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

+Julia B. Fabian from John

Balas

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

5^th Sunday after Pentecost

For the parishioners

Collection Report

Week of 06/18/2023

$ 836.00 Offertory

$ 138.00 Candles

$ 27.00 Holy Days

$ 3.00 Children

$ 100.00 Renovation

$ 5.00 Peter Pence

$ 56.00 Garage Rent

$ 1165.00 TOTAL

Attendance from last week’s Liturgies:

Saturday: 22

Sunday:33

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

UPDATE-CAPITAL CAMPAIGN:

The NEW total we have collected is $112,099.10 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.

CELEBRATION OF MARRIAGE:

The Celebration of Marriage will be held this year on September 10^th @ 3:00 pm –St. Elias Church in Pittsburgh. Couples who are celebrating their significant wedding anniversary years (10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35, 40, 45, 50 or additional years that are multiples of five) during this year of 2023 will be honoured. Please notify Fr. Michael or Paula by July 16^th in order to notify the diocese. Couples who are unable to attend, certificate will be sent.

SACRED HEART SOCIETY:

June is the month of The Most Sacred Heart of Jesus.

Sacred Heart Society membership dues are now being collected for the year 2023.

Dues are still $5.00 per year and can be sent to:

Treasurer: Mary Jane Backus

5645 Clingan Rd. Unit 23-A

Struthers, Ohio 44471

NEW members are always welcome!

JESUS, I Trust in YOU!

PARISHIONER NEWS:

Fr. Michael & Maryna would like to thank all of you for your prayers, love and support. Veronica (Nica) is home and recuperating after her open-heart surgery. Your continued prayers will be greatly appreciated.

SANCTUARY CANDLE:

The Sanctuary candles will be lit for the entire week for your intentions. The week of June 25-July 1, the left sanctuary candle is in memory of

+Mary & +Nicholas Terlecky from son Myron Terlecky. There is no request for the right sanctuary candle.

A man under authority.

Theodore of Mopsuestia: It was a sign of the centurion’s intelligence that merely by thinking to himself about what was likely, he believed such things about Christ. For he says,”! also am a man. But nevertheless I am the lord over those I have received authority to rule. Therefore it is nothing strange if you, who have received authority from God, should be able to command illnesses to depart by a mere word.” The centurion did not approach Jesus as one who is Son of God and Lord of the whole creation (for at that time, before the crucifixion, this was not yet known even by the disciples). Rather, he came to him as to a man who, because of his virtues, had received from God some greater-than-human authority. This is why he says, “For I also am a man.” For since he had said to him, “say the word,” and this might seem proper to God only, he rightly adds the statement, “for I also am a man,” as though to say, “It is nothing surprising if you, a man who has received authority from God, should be able to do this thing, since I myself, a man like you, receive subjects and I am set over them to command them as I will.”

June 18, 2023 Bulletin

LITURGICAL SCHEDULE

Sat. 17: 4:00 pm @ St. Nicholas

For the parishioners

Sun. 18: 11:00 am @ St. Nicholas

3^nd Sunday after Pentecost

Father’s Day

+Ed & +Marge Sekerak from

Kim & Pam Trevis

Mon. 19: NO LITURGY

Tues. 20: NO LITURGY

Wed. 21: NO LITURGY

Thurs. 22: NO LITURGY

Fri. 23: NO LITURGY

Sat. 24: 4:00 pm @ St. Nicholas

NO LITURGY

Sun. 25: 11:00 am @ St. Nicholas

NO LITURGY

9:00 am @ Infant Jesus

4th Sunday after Pentecost

+Mary Rotunno from Vic &

Sue Boyer

Collection Report

Week of 06/11/2023

$ 985.00 Offertory

$ 166.00 Candles

$ 5.00 Holy Days

$ 175.00 Garage Rent

$ 1331.00 TOTAL

Attendance from last week’s Liturgies:

Saturday: 29

Sunday:17

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

UPDATE-CAPITAL CAMPAIGN:

CELEBRATION OF MARRIAGE:

The Celebration of Marriage will be held this year on September 10^th @ 3:00 pm –St. Elias Church in Pittsburgh. Couples who are celebrating their significant wedding anniversary years (10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35, 40, 45, 50 or additional years that are multiples of five) during this year of 2023 will be honoured. Please notify Fr. Michael or Paula by July 16^th in order to notify the diocese. Couples who are unable to attend, certificate will be sent.

NO LITURGY NEXT WEEKEND

There will be no Liturgy next weekend at St. Nicholas Church. All parishioners are encouraged to attend Liturgy at Infant Jesus at 9 AM on Sunday June 25, or any local Byzantine Catholic Church. Sorry for inconvenience.

SACRED HEART SOCIETY:

June is the month of The Most Sacred Heart of Jesus.

Sacred Heart Society membership dues are now being collected for the year 2023.

Dues are still $5.00 per year and can be sent to:

Treasurer: Mary Jane Backus

5645 Clingan Rd. Unit 23-A

Struthers, Ohio 44471

NEW members are always welcome!

JESUS, I Trust in YOU!

HAPPY FATHER’S DAY:

Wishing all fathers, grandfathers, godfathers a very Happy Father’s day. May God bless all with health, happiness and many blessed years.

SANCTUARY CANDLE:

The Sanctuary candles will be lit for the entire week for your intentions. The week of June 18-24, the right sanctuary candle is in memory of +Edward “Red” Vrabel from the Graneto & Vrabel families. There is no request for the left sanctuary candle.

THE VALUE OF LIFE.

CHRYSOSTOM: Note the acceleration of images: just when the lilies are decked out, he no longer calls them lilies but “grass of the field.”13 He then points further to their vulnerable condition by saying “which are here today.” Then he does not merely say “and not tomorrow” but rather more callously “cast into the oven.” These creatures are not merely “clothed” but “so clothed” in this way as to be later brought to nothing. Do you see how Jesus everywhere abounds in amplifications and intensifications? And he does so in order to press his points home. So then he adds, “Will he not much more clothe you?” The force of the emphasis is on “you” to indicate covertly how great is the value set upon your personal existence and the concern God shows for you in particular. It is as though he were saying, “You, to whom he gave a soul, for whom he fashioned a body, for whose sake he made everything in creation, for whose sake he sent prophets, and gave the law, and wrought those innumerable good works, and for whose sake he gave up his only begotten Son.” THE GOSPEL OF MATTHEW, HOMILY 22.1.14

June 11, 2023 Bulletin

LITURGICAL SCHEDULE

Sat. 10: 4:00 pm @ St. Nicholas

+George Kotyuha from

Mr. & Mrs. Anthony

Swindler

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

2^nd Sunday of Pentecost

For the parishioners

Mon. 12: NO LITURGY

Tues. 13: NO LITURGY

Wed. 14: NO LITURGY

Thurs. 15: NO LITURGY

Fri. 16: NO LITURGY

Sat. 17: 4:00 pm @ St. Nicholas

For the parishioners

Sun. 18: 11:00 am @ St. Nicholas

3^nd Sunday after Pentecost

Father’s Day

+Ed & +Marge Sekerak from

Kim & Pam Trevis

Collection Report

Week of 06/04/2023

$ 594.00 Offertory

$ 100.00 Candles

$ 10.00 Holy Days

$ 2.00 Children

$ 50.00 Renovation

$ 756.00 TOTAL

Attendance from last week’s Liturgies:

Saturday: 14

Sunday: 28

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

UPDATE-CAPITAL CAMPAIGN:

SIMPLY SLAVIC:

The Simply Slavic Heritage Fest will be Friday, June 16^th from 5:00pm- 11:00pm and Saturday, June 17^th from 12:00 (noon) – 11:00pm on Federal Plaza east in downtown Youngstown. Admission is $5.00 and children 12 years old and younger are free. The event will include live music, folk dance performers, homemade ethic food, ethnic vendors and much more.

PARISHIONER NEWS:

Congratulations to Erin and Michael Broderick on the birth of their daughter Ella Marie on April 13^th. Ella is the granddaughter of Sylvia and Tom Shirilla. May God bless Ella and her family with health, happiness and many blessed years.

SACRED HEART SOCIETY:

June is the month of the Most Sacred Heart Society.

Sacred Heart Society membership dues are now being collected for the year 2023.

Dues are still $5.00 per year and can be sent to:

Treasurer: Mary Jane Backus

5645 Clingan Rd. Unit 23-A

Struthers, Ohio 44471

NEW members are always welcome!

JESUS, I Trust in YOU!

CELEBRATION OF MARRIAGE:

The Celebration of Marriage will be held this year on September 10^th @ 3:00 pm –St. Elias Church in Pittsburgh. Couples who are celebrating their significant wedding anniversary years (10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35, 40, 45, 50 or additional years that are multiples of five) during this year of 2023 will be honoured. Please notify Fr. Michael or Paula by July 16^th in order to notify the diocese. Couples who are unable to attend, certificate will be sent.

SANCTUARY CANDLE:

The Sanctuary candles will be lit for the entire week for your intentions. The week of June 11-17, the left sanctuary candle is in memory of +Norman & +Mary Jane Guidos from Bob & Millie Jonda. 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 coming 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.M

June 3, 2023 Bulletin

LITURGICAL SCHEDULE

Sat. 3: 4:00 pm @ St. Nicholas

For the parishioners

Sun. 4: 11:00 am @ St. Nicholas

Sunday of All saints

+Ronald Buzer from

Mrs. Diane Herdman

Mon. 5: NO LITURGY

Tues. 6: NO LITURGY

Wed. 7: NO LITURGY

Thurs. 8: NO LITURGY

Fri. 9: NO LITURGY

Sat. 10: 4:00 pm @ St. Nicholas

+George Kotyuha from

Mr. & Mrs. Anthony

Swindler

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

2^nd Sunday of Pentecost

For the parishioners

Collection Report

Week of 05/28/2023

$ 1054.00 Offertory

$ 100.00 Candles

$ 50.00 Easter

$ 40.00 Renovation

$ 1204.00 TOTAL

Attendance from last week’s Liturgies:

Saturday: 22

Sunday: 24

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

UPDATE-CAPITAL CAMPAIGN:

The NEW total we have collected is $112,900.10 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.

SANCTUARY CANDLE:

The 2023 Sanctuary request sheet is available on the vestibule table. Please call Paula Slemons for request.

SIMPLY SLAVIC:

SANCTUARY CANDLE:

The Sanctuary candles will be lit for the entire week for your intentions. The week of June 4-10, the left sanctuary candle is in memory of Lisa Ferenchak Currao from the Graneto family. There is no request for the right sanctuary candle.

The Peter and Paul Fast

(Petrovka) or the Apostles’ Fast for begins the day after All Saints Sunday, this coming Monday. All faithful of Byzantine Rite required to have a simple abstinence from meat on Fridays or equal penance.

Communion of The Saints

Just as the Father is never ignorant of the Son, nor the Son of the Father, just so neither are the saints. They are become gods by adoption through having God indwelling them. They can never be ignorant of each other, but shall look on one another and on each one’s glory, like the Son the the Father’s glory and the Father on the Son’s. What then shall be the glory of the saints? It will be like the Son of God’s. The latter Himself points out this very truth most clearly when He says: `The glory which You have given Me I have given to them, that they may be one even as We are one’ (Jn. 17:22).

St. Symeon the New Theologian, On the Mystical Life

May 28, 2023 Bulletin

LITURGICAL SCHEDULE

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

5^th All Souls Saturday

+Marge Hawkins from

Robert & Helen Marie

Vaclav

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

Pentecost Sunday

For the parishioners

Mon. 29: NO LITURGY

Tues. 30: NO LITURGY

Wed. 31: NO LITURGY

Thurs. 1: NO LITURGY

Fri. 2: 9:00 am @ Infant Jesus

For an increase in religious

Vocations from sacred Heart

Society

Sat. 3: 4:00 pm @ St. Nicholas

For the parishioners

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

Sunday of All saints

+Ronald Buzer from

Mrs. Diane Herdman

Collection Report

Week of 05/21/2023

$ 1242.00 Offertory

$ 108.00 Candles

$ 88.00 Holy Day

$ 2.00 Children

$ 20.00 Easter

$ 40.00 Renovation

$ 5.00 Initial

$ 10.00 Eastern Europe

$ 5.00 Seminary

$ 1520.00 TOTAL

Attendance from last week’s Liturgies:

Saturday: 27

Sunday: 27

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

UPDATE-CAPITAL CAMPAIGN:

SANCTUARY CANDLE:

The 2023 Sanctuary request sheet is available on the vestibule table. Please call Paula Slemons for specific request.

METROPOLITAN ASSEMBLY

Living our Faith, Moving Forward, appreciating our past will be the topic of Metropolitan Assembly this year November 2-5 in Hillsborough, NJ

More information on website: byzantineassembly2023.org

MEMORIAL DAY PANACHIDA

On May 28, 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

MEMORIAL DAY:

Wishing all parishioners, families and friends a wonderful Memorial Day.

SANCTUARY CANDLE:

The Sanctuary candles will be lit for the entire week for your intentions. The week of May 28-June 3, the left sanctuary candle is in memory of Caroline Volchko from John & Donna Volchko. There is no request for the right sanctuary candle.

There is Life in the Church because in the Church is the Spirit

By St. Augustine – Sermon 267, (PL38, 1231)

My brothers and sisters, if you want the Holy Spirit to dwell in you, listen carefully. Our spirit, by means of which each individual lives, is called the soul. And look what the soul does in the body. It gives life to all the limbs. It sees with the eyes, hears with the ears, smells with the nose, speaks with the tongue, works with the hands, walks with the feet. It is present at one and the same time in all the limbs to make them live. It gives life to all the limbs arid to each limb its function. It is not the eye that hears, not the ear that sees, not the eye or the ear that speaks. Yet they are nonetheless alive. The ear is alive, the tongue is alive. Their functions are different, the life is the same. The Church of God is like that. By means of some believers she performs miracles, by means of others she teaches the truth; by means of some she keeps virginity, by means of others she respects marital fidelity. The tasks are different, the life is the same. What the soul is to the body of a human being, the Holy Spirit is to the Body of Christ, the Church. The Holy Spirit does for the whole Church what the soul does for the body of the individual. Look then and see what you ought to fear and what you ought to avoid. If the body suffers an amputation (for example of a finger or a hand or a foot) does the soul go with the limb that has been cut off? While it was in the body, that limb was alive; when it is cut off it loses its life. It is like that with Christians. They are alive only while they are in the Body. If they are cut off from the Body, the Holy Spirit is no longer with them.