St Nicholas Byzantine Catholic Church

April 30, 2023 Bulletin

LITURGICAL SCHEDULE

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

For the parishioners

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

Sunday of the Paralytic Man

+Ed & +Marge Sekerak from

Kim & Pam Trevis

Mon.1: NO LITURGY

Tues. 2: NO LITURGY

Wed. 3: NO LITURGY

Thurs. 4: NO LITURGY

Fri. 5: 8:30 am @Infant Jesus

For the Living & Deceased

Members of the Sacred Heart

Society of St. Nicholas

Sat. 6: 4:00 pm @ St. Nicholas

For the parishioners

Sun. 7: 11:00 am @ St. Nicholas

Sunday of the Samaritan

Woman

In memory of the Senda,

Zakucia & Gozur families

From Marge Babik

Collection Report

Week of 04/23/2023

$ 887.00 Offertory

$ 105.00 Candles

$ 2.00 Children

$ 20.00 Easter

$ 10.00 Seminary collection

$ 40.00 Renovation

$ 45.00 Garage Rent

$ 1109.00 TOTAL

Attendance from last week’s Liturgies:

Saturday: 28

Sunday: 20

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 $111,152.10 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 specific request.

RUMMAGE SALE:

St. Michael Byzantine Catholic Church, 2140 Highland Road, Hermitage is having a Rummage & Bake Sale. The event will be held on Thursday, May 4^th from 4:00pm-7:00 pm; Friday, May 5^th from 9:00 am-2:00 pm and Saturday, May 6^th from 9:00 am-1:00 pm. Household items, clothing, toys, books, furniture and more are available.

CONDOLENCES:

Our deepest sympathy and prayers to the Mingo family on the passing on of our former parishioner Randy Mingo. Services were held last Tuesday. Blessed repose to his servant Randall.

THANK YOU!

To Patrick A Rouan & Linda Mathews,

John R & Ruth Straub, Terry & David Healey for generous donation in memory of Andrew L Stanislav

SANCTUARY CANDLE:

The Sanctuary candles will be lit for the entire week for your intentions.

For the week of April 30-May 6, there are no requests.

THE PERSEVERANCE OF THE PARALYTIC,

CHRYSOSTOM: The perseverance of the paralytic was astonishing. He was thirty-eight years old, and each year he hoped to be freed from his disease. He lay there waiting, never giving up. If he had not persevered as much as he did, wouldn’t his future prospects, let alone the past, have been enough to discourage him from staying around that place? Consider how alert the other sick people there would be, since no one knew for sure when the waters would be troubled. The lame and the limping could observe it, but how would a blind man? Maybe he learned it from the clamor that arose. Let us be ashamed then, beloved, let us be ashamed and groan over our excessive laziness. That man had been waiting thirty-eight years without obtaining what he desired, and he still did not withdraw. And he failed, not through any carelessness of his own but through being oppressed and suffering violence from others. And still he did not give up. We … might persist in prayer for something for ten days or so, and if we have not obtained it, we are too lazy afterwards to employ the same energy [as he did]. And yet, we will wait forever on our fellow human beings, fighting and enduring hardships, performing menial labor, all for the chance of something that in the end fails to meet our expectations. But when it comes to our Master, from whom we are sure to obtain a reward greater than our labors … we exercise no such diligence in waiting on him…. For even if we receive nothing from him, isn’t the very fact that we are able to converse with him continually the cause often thousand blessings? HOMILIES ON THE GOSPEL OF JOHN 36.1-2.16

CHRIST IS RISEN!

INDEED HE IS RISEN!

CHRSITOS VOSKRESE!

VOISTINU VOSKRESE!

April 23, 2023 Bulletin

LITURGICAL SCHEDULE

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

For the parishioners

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

Sunday of the Myrrh-Bearers

George Great-Martyr

+Sister Leocadia Sevachko

From Sacred Heart society of

St. Nicholas

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

Sunday of the Paralytic Man

+Ed & +Marge Sekerak from

Kim & Pam Trevis

Collection Report

Week of 04/16/2023

$ 1012.00 Offertory

$ 113.00 Candles

$ 20.00 Holy Day

$ 210.00 Easter

$ 3.00 Initial

$ 50.00 Renovation

$ 131.00 Garage Rent

$ 1539.00 TOTAL

Attendance from last week’s Liturgies:

Saturday: 25

Sunday: 21

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

UPDATE-CAPITAL CAMPAIGN:

The NEW total we have collected is $111,152.10 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 specific request.

RUMMAGE SALE:

HAPPY BIRTHDAY:

Happy 93^rd Birthday to Dolly Vrabel. May God bless Dolly with health and happiness.

SANCTUARY CANDLE:

The Sanctuary candles will be lit for the entire week for your intentions.

For the week of April 23-29, the right sanctuary candle is for the health & well-being of Dolly Vrabel on her 93^rd birthday from the Graneto & Vrabel families. There is no request for the left sanctuary candle.

15:42 The Day Before the Sabbath

yesterday he was slain.

gregory nazianzen: Yesterday the lamb was slain, and the door posts sprinkled with his blood, while Egypt mourned for her first-born. But the destroying angel and his sacrificial knife, fearful and terrifying, passed over us, for we were protected by the precious blood. This day we have wholly departed from Egypt, and from Pharaoh its cruel tyrant, and his oppressive overseers. We are freed from laboring with bricks and straw, and no one forbids us celebrate the festival of our passing over, our Pasch, and to celebrate not with the leaven of malice and wickedness but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth. Yesterday I was crucified with Christ; to day I am glorified with him. Yesterday I died with him; today I am given life with him. Yesterday I was buried with him; today I rise again with him. on the holy Pasch AND his own RELUCTANCE.

CHRIST IS RISEN!

INDEED HE IS RISEN!

CHRSITOS VOSKRESE!

VOISTINU VOSKRESE!

April 16, 2023 Bulletin

LITURGICAL SCHEDULE

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

Bright Saturday

+Helen Vaclav from

Granddaughter Denise &

James Danko

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

Thomas Sunday

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

Sunday of the Myrrh-Bearers

George Great-Martyr

+Sister Leocadia Sevachko

From Sacred Heart society of

St. Nicholas

Collection Report

Week of 04/9/2023

$ 474.00 Offertory

$ 521.00 Candles

$ 34.00 Holy Day

$ 2765.00 Easter

$ 3.00 Easter Candles

$ 10.00 Easter Flowers

$ 10.00 Seminary collection

$ 4.00 Children

$ 100.00 Garage Rent

$ 3921.00 TOTAL

Attendance from last week’s Liturgies:

Saturday: 71

Sunday: 46

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

UPDATE-CAPITAL CAMPAIGN:

The NEW total we have collected is $110,480.10 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 specific request.

RUMMAGE SALE:

THANK YOU:

Thank you for your generosity this Easter season. Your continuous support of our parish is greatly appreciated. May God bless all of you!

SANCTUARY CANDLE:

The Sanctuary candles will be lit for the entire week for your intentions.

For the week of April 16-22, the left sanctuary candle is in memory of +George William Vrabel from the Vrabel & Graneto families. There is no request for the right sanctuary candle.

CHRIST IS RISEN!

INDEED HE IS RISEN!

CHRSITOS VOSKRESE!VOISTINU VOSKRESE!

The marks of the nails.

Theodoret of Cyr: And so, the reason why the Lord stood in the midst of the disciples, even though the doors were closed, after the passion but not before it, was that you might know that your body was sown as a physical body but raised as a spiritual body.” But in order that you might not think that what rises is something different, when Thomas did not believe in the resurrection, he shows him the marks of the nails. He shows him the scars of the wounds” He who healed everybody even before the resurrection could have healed him- self—especially after the resurrection, could he not? Yes, but through the marks of the nails that he shows he teaches that it is this [body], while through the closed doors by which he enters, he reveals that it is not such a [body as it was]. It was this [body], in order that he might fulfill the goal of the divine plan by raising that which had died, bur it was such a body [as it was], in order that it might not lapse into corruption again and not be subject to death again. Dialogue 2.56.

April 9, 2023 Bulletin

LITURGICAL SCHEDULE

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

Holy Saturday

Resurrection Matins followed by

Blessings of Easter Baskets

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

Resurrection of Our Lord-Pascha

+Edward “Red” Vrabel from the

Graneto & Vrabel Families

Mon.10: 10:00 am @ St. Nicholas

Bright Monday

For the parishioners

Tues. 11: 6:00 pm @ Infant Jesus

Bright Tuesday

For the parishioners

Wed. 12: NO LITURGY

Thurs. 13 NO LITURGY

Fri. 14: 9:00 am @ Infant Jesus

Bright Friday

For the Living & Deceased

Members of the Sacred Heart

Society of St. Nicholas

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

Bright Saturday

+Helen Vaclav from

Granddaughter Denise & James

Danko

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

Thomas Sunday

For the parishioners

Collection Report

Week of 04/2/2023

$ 1207.00 Offertory

$ 186.00 Candles

$ 45.00 Holy Day

$ 50.00 Easter

$ 9.00 Easter Candles

$ 100.00 Easter Flowers

$ 2.00 Children

$ 50.00 Renovation

$ 1629.00 TOTAL

Attendance from last week’s Liturgies:

Saturday: 29

Sunday: 24

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.

DONATION BOX:

The donation boxes have been removed from Infant Jesus of Prague because of Boardman Zoning Department request. We thank all of you who donated items. God bless you for your kindness.

HAPPY EASTER:

Father Michael, Maryna, Andriy, Emma and Nica wish all parishioners, families and friends a Happy and Blessed Easter and are thankful for all your personal card and greetings!

THANK YOU:

Thank you to all parishioners who donated towards Easter flowers. Also, our gratitude to all who help prepare our church for Easter, Ken Stanislav, Helen Vaclav and Family, Al and Jane Antonelli. May God bless all of you for your continued time, talent and generosity to our parish.

SANCTUARY CANDLE:

The Sanctuary candles will be lit for the entire week for your intentions.

For the week of April 9-15, the left sanctuary candle is in memory of +Mr. & Mrs. Michael T. Tirpak from niece Denise & James Danko. The right sanctuary candle is in memory of +Joseph R. Danko from Son James & Denise Danko.

CHRIST IS RISEN!

INDEED HE IS RISEN!

CHRSITOS VOSKRESE!

VOISTINU VOSKRESE!

PASCHA:

(From the Resurrection Homily of Saint Gregory Nazianzus)

This is the Day of the Resurrection. Let us then keep the Festival with splendor, and I let us embrace one another. Let, us say Brethren, even to those who hate us; much more to those who have suffered out of love for us. Let us forgive all offences for the resurrection’s sake. Let I us give one another’s pardon, for the noble tyranny which I have suffered; and you who exercised it, if you had cause to blame my tardiness; for perhaps this tardiness may be more; precious in God’s sight than the haste of others. Yesterday, I was crucified with Him, today, I am glorified with Him. Yesterday, I died with Him, today, I am quickened with Him. Yesterday, I was buried with Him, today, I rise with Him. But let us offer to Him, who suffered and rose again for us, not the mere material of earth, which remains here below and is, for the most part, always possessed by bad men, slaves of the world and of the Prince of the world. Let us offer ourselves – the possession most precious to God, and most fitting. Let us give back to the Image what is made after the Image. Let us recognize our Dignity; let us honor our Archetype; let us know the power of the Mystery, and for whom Christ died. Let us give all, offer all, to Him Who gave Himself a Ransom and a Reconciliation for us. But one can give nothing like oneself, understanding the Mystery, and becoming for His sake all that He became for ours.”

April 2, 2023 Bulletin

LITURGICAL SCHEDULE

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

Saturday of Lazarus

For the parishioners

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

Palm Sunday

+Ed & +Marge Sekerak

From Kim & Pam Trevis

Mon.3: 6:00 pm @ Infant Jesus

Holy Monday

Lenten Hours

Tues. 4: 6:00 pm @ St. Michael

Holy Tuesday

Pre-Sanctified Liturgy

Followed by confession

Wed.5: 6:00 pm @ Infant Jesus

Holy Wednesday

Pre-Sanctified Liturgy

Followed by Anointing with Holy

Oil

Thurs. 6: 6:00 pm @ Infant Jesus

Holy Thursday

Divine Liturgy with Vespers

Fri. 7: 4:00 pm @ St. Nicholas

Good Friday

Vespers with Procession of the

Holy Shroud

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

Holy Saturday

Resurrection Matins followed by

Blessings of Easter Baskets

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

Resurrection of Our Lord-Pascha

+Edward “Red” Vrabel from the

Graneto & Vrabel Families

Collection Report

Week of 03/26/2023

$ 610.00 Offertory

$ 96.00 Candles

$ 25.00 Holy Day

$ 5.00 Charity

$ 15.00 Easter Candles

$ 3.00 Children

$ 100.00 Easter Flowers

$ 851.00 TOTAL

Attendance from last week’s Liturgies:

Saturday: 23

Sunday: 18

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.

KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS:

The Knights of Columbus are selling charity (raffle) tickets. Tickets are $5.00/ticket with total winnings over $108,000. 100% of all profits will be used for their council’s charities. Please see Fr. Michael for tickets.

SPAGHETTI DINNER:

St. Michael Byzantine Catholic Church, 405 Robinson Road in Campbell, is having a Dine-In or Take-Out Spaghetti Dinner THIS SUNDAY, Palm Sunday, April 2, 2023 from 12:00 (noon)-2:30 pm. Tickets are $12.00 per dinner and children under 10 are $6.00. Walk-ins are also available.

DONATION BOX:

There is a yellow donation box in the parking lot by the pavilion at Infant Jesus of Prague for new/slightly used coats, clothing and shoes. These donations will be sent to the Ukraine to those affected by the war. Your donations are truly appreciated.

SANCTUARY CANDLE:

The Sanctuary candles will be lit for the entire week for your intentions.

For the week of April 2-8, the left sanctuary candle is in memory of +Mrs. Anne Booth from niece Denise & James Danko. The right sanctuary candle is in memory of +Mr. & Mrs. Michael R. Tirpak from granddaughter Denise & James Danko.

PALM SUNDAY:

By St. Andrew of Crete

Let us go together to meet Christ on the Mount of Olives. Today he returns from Bethany and proceeds of his own free will toward his holy and blessed passion, to consummate the mystery of our salvation. He who came down from heaven to raise us from the depths of sin, to raise us with himself, we are told in Scripture, above every sovereignty, authority and power, and every other name that can be named, now comes of his own free will to make his journey to Jerusalem. He comes without pomp or ostentation. As the psalmist says: He will not dispute or raise his voice to make it heard in the streets. He will be meek and humble, and he will make his entry in simplicity. Let us run to accompany him as he hastens toward his passion, and imitate those who met him then, not by covering his path with garments, olive branches or palms, but by doing all we can to prostrate ourselves before him by being humble and by trying to live as he would wish. Then we shall be able to receive the Word at his coming, and God, who no limits can contain, will be within us. In his humility Christ entered the dark regions of our fallen world and he is glad that he became so humble for our sake, glad that he came and lived among us and shared in our nature in order to raise us up again to himself.

March 26, 2023 Bulletin

LITURGICAL SCHEDULE

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

Annunciation of the Theotokos

+Sister Leocadia Sevachko

From Mr. & Mrs. Stephen

Stanislav

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

5th Sunday of Great Lent

Synaxis of the Archangel

Gabriel

For the parishioners

Mon. 27: NO LITURGY

Tues. 28: NO LITURGY

Wed. 29: 6:00 pm @ Infant Jesus

Pre-Sanctified Liturgy

Lenten Education Class to

Follow

Thurs. 30: NO LITURGY

Fri. 31: 4:00 pm @ St. Nicholas

Pre-Sanctified Liturgy

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

Saturday of Lazarus

For the parishioners

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

Palm Sunday

+Ed & +Marge Sekerak

From Kim & Pam Trevis

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

UPDATE-CAPITAL CAMPAIGN:

KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS:

SPAGHETTI DINNER:

St. Michael Byzantine Catholic Church, 405 Robinson Road in Campbell, is having a Dine-In or Take-Out Spaghetti Dinner on Palm Sunday, April 2, 2023 from 12:00 (noon)-2:30 pm. Tickets are $12.00 per dinner and children under 10 are $6.00. Please call (330) 770-9213 for guaranteed dinner tickets, walk-ins are also available.

HOLY WEEK LITURGICAL SCHEDULE:

Holy Monday: 6:00 pm @ Infant Jesus-Lenten hours

Holy Tuesday: 6:00 pm @ St. Michael

In Campbell: Pre-Sanctified Liturgy followed by Confessions & Social in church hall.

Holy Wednesday–6:00pm @ Infant Jesus-Pre-Sanctified Liturgy followed by Anointing with Holy oil

Holy Thursday: 6:00 pm @ InfantJesus. Divine Liturgy with Vespers

Holy Friday: 4:00 pm @St. Nicholas

6:00 pm @ Infant Jesus

Vespers with position of the Shroud

Holy Saturday: 4:00 pm @ St. Nicholas

7:00 pm @ Infant Jesus

Resurrection Matins follow by Blessings of the Easter Baskets

Resurrection of Our Lord (Pascha):

Easter Divine Liturgy

9:00 am @ Infant Jesus 11:00 am @ St. Nicholas

SANCTUARY CANDLE:

The Sanctuary candles will be lit for the entire week for your intentions.

For the week of March 26-April 1, there are no requests for the sanctuary candles.

THE MISTAKEN PREMISE OF THEIR REQUEST.

CHRYSOSTOM: They were expecting him to enter into [the kingdom], but not to go to the cross and death. Even though they had heard it ten thousand times, they could not clearly understand. Since they had not gotten a clear and certain knowledge of his teachings, they thought that he was going to this visible kingdom and would rule in Jerusalem. So the sons of Zebedee caught up with him on the road. They thought they had found the opportune moment. They put their request to him. They had broken away from the throng of the disciples and, just as if the whole situation had turned out exactly as they wanted, they asked about the privilege of the first seats and about being first among the others. They asked for this because they assumed that everything was finished and the whole business was over and done with. They made their request because they thought that now was the time for crowns and rewards. ON THE INCOMPREHENSIBLE NATURE OF GOD 8.31.

March 19, 2023 Bulletin

LITURGICAL SCHEDULE

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

4th All Souls Saturday

Loving memory of

+Margaret Hawkins from

Robert & Helen Marie

Vaclav

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

4th Sunday of Great Lent

St. John Climacus

For the parishioners

Mon. 20: NO LITURGY

Tues. 21: 10AM at Infant Jesus

Canon of Andrew of Crete

Wed. 22: 6:00 pm @ Infant Jesus

Pre-Sanctified Liturgy

Lenten Education Class to

Follow

Thurs. 23: NO LITURGY

Fri. 24: 6:00 pm @ Infant Jesus

Eve of Annunciation of the Theotokos

For the Parishioners

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

Annunciation of the Theotokos

+Sister Leocadia Sevachko

From Mr. & Mrs. Stephen

Stanislav

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

5th Sunday of Great Lent

Synaxis of the Archangel

Gabriel

For the parishioners

Collection Report

Week of 03/12/2023

$ 1207.00 Offertory

$ 221.00 Candles

$ 15.00 Renovation

$ 50.00 Charity

$ 276.00 Garage rent

$ 12.00 Easter Candles

$ 150.00 Easter

$ 45.00 Easter Flowers

$ 1976.00 TOTAL

Attendance from last week’s Liturgies:

Saturday: 38

Sunday: 22

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.

LENTEN EDUCATION CLASS:

This year, following all Wednesday Pre-Sanctified liturgies at Infant Jesus of Prague there will be again, a Lenten adult education class. All parishioners, family and friends are welcomed to learn about our Byzantine faith.

SPAGHETTI DINNER:

KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS:

DONATION BOX:

SANCTUARY CANDLE:

The Sanctuary candles will be lit for the entire week for your intentions.

For the week of March 19-25, there are no requests for the sanctuary candles.

FOURTH SUNDAY OF GREAT LENT

Collegeville Bible Commentary

9:14-29 “I do believe! Help my unbelief!” The healing of the possessed boy is one of the longest miracle stories in Mark’s Gospel (only the expulsion of the demons in 5:1-20 is longer). It is also one of the more detailed stories, becoming a bit complicated in the repetition of some of those details (e.g., in v. 22 the father of the boy tells Jesus what he has already told him in v. 18; the crowd gathers twice within the same story in vv. 15 and 25). Despite its length and detail, there is a very clear and simple message that Mark wishes to convey: Anything is possible to one who trusts (v. 23), and trust is deepened by prayer (v. 29)! Although Jesus is the one who heals the boy (vv. 25-27), it is the father’s profession of faith that Mark holds up for his readers to imitate. Even in the most desperate moments, when prayer and trust seem useless, Jesus invites his followers to go one step further and pray like the boy’s father: “I do believe! Help my unbelief!” (v. 24). Perhaps the alert reader of the Gospel will hear the echoes of Jesus’ message all along (e.g., “Do not be afraid; just have faith” in 5:36; “Please, Lord, even the dogs under the table eat the children’s scraps” in 7:28), calling for a persistent and ever more radical trust in him. The same theme will carry over into the following passages, in which the total trust of little children becomes the model of what is needed to take part in the kingdom of God (9:35-37 and 10:13-16).

March 12, 2023 Bulletin

LITURGICAL SCHEDULE

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

3^rd All Souls Saturday

88^th Birthday Blessings for

Helen Marie Vaclav from

Her husband Robert and

Children

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

3^rd Sunday of Great Lent

Veneration of the Cross

For the parishioners

Mon. 13: NO LITURGY

Tues. 14: NO LITURGY

Wed. 15: 6:00 pm @ Infant Jesus

Pre-Sanctified Liturgy

Lenten Education Class to

Follow

Thurs. 16: NO LITURGY

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

Pre-Sanctified Liturgy

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

4th All Souls Saturday

Loving memory of

+Margaret Hawkins from

Robert & Helen Marie

Vaclav

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

4th Sunday of Great Lent

St. John Climacus

For the parishioners

Collection Report

Week of 03/05/2023

$ 567.00 Offertory

$ 77.00 Candles

$ 2.00 Children

$ 5.00 Holy Day

$ 20.00 Easter Flowers

$ 726.00 TOTAL

Attendance from last week’s Liturgies:

Saturday: 18

Sunday: 23

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.

LENTEN EDUCATION CLASS:

PARISHIONERS NEWS:

Happy 88^th Birthday to Helen Marie Vaclav. May God bless you with health, happiness and many more blessed years!

KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS:

DONATION BOX:

SANCTUARY CANDLE:

The Sanctuary candles will be lit for the entire week for your intentions.

For the week of March 12-18, there are no requests for the sanctuary candles.

The Foolish Cross is the Power of God

Every action of Christ glorifies the Church, but the cross is the glory above all glory. Paul understood that well when he said: ‘I will glory in nothing else but the cross of Christ.’ [cf. Gal. 6:14] That a blind man should have been able to regain his sight by the pool of Siloam is certainly a marvelous fact. But what does this single episode add up to, when you think of the blind all over the world? The resurrection of Lazarus who had already been dead four days was a miraculous event, overcoming all the forces of nature. But this favor granted to him alone could not be any comfort to all those who had died through their own sin. It was a miracle to feed the five thousand with five loaves. But what use could that be for all the ignorant people starved of truth? The glory of the cross, by contrast, has enlightened all those who were blinded by ignorance. It has set free all those who were slaves of sin. It has redeemed the whole human race. Let us glory in the cross of the Savior. ‘The word of the cross is folly to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.’ [1 Cor. 1:18]

By St. Cyril of Jerusalem – Catecheses, 13, 1ff. (PG 33, 772)

March 5, 2023 Bulletin

LITURGICAL SCHEDULE

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

2^nd All Souls Saturday

For the parishioners

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

2^nd Sunday of Great Lent

+Helen Popovich from

John Popovich

Mon. 6: NO LITURGY

Tues. 7: NO LITURGY

Wed. 8: 6:00 pm @ Infant Jesus

Pre-Sanctified Liturgy

Lenten Education Class to

Follow

Thurs. 9: NO LITURGY

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

Pre-Sanctified Liturgy

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

3^rd All Souls Saturday

88^th Birthday Blessings for

Helen Marie Vaclav from

Her husband Robert and

Children

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

3^rd Sunday of Great Lent

Veneration of the Cross

For the parishioners

Collection Report

Week of 02/26/2023

$ 896.00 Offertory

$ 164.00 Candles

$ 2.00 Children

$ 33.00 Easter Candles

$ 25.00 Easter Flowers

$ 51.37 Gas Royalties

$ 1171.37 TOTAL

Attendance from last week’s Liturgies:

Saturday: 31

Sunday: 26

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

UPDATE-CAPITAL CAMPAIGN:

The NEW total we have collected is $108,461.10 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.

LENTEN EDUCATION CLASS:

PARISHIONERS NEWS:

Happy 88^th Birthday to Helen Marie Vaclav. May God bless you with health, happiness and many more blessed years!

DONATION BOX:

KNIGHT OF COLUMBUS CHARITY TICKET

Super Cash Bonanza. Total winnings over $108,000. Price for a ticket is $5

100% of the profits from these sales is used for our council’s charitable donations.

SANCTUARY CANDLE:

The Sanctuary candles will be lit for the entire week for your intentions.

For the week of March 5-11, the left and right sanctuary candles are in memory of +Ed & +Marge Sekerak from Kim & Pam Trevis.

Four Virtues as four friends who helped paralytic

St. Bede

There are four virtues, by which a man is through an assured heart exalted so that he merits safety; which virtues some call prudence, fortitude, temperance, and justice. Again, they desire to bring the palsied man to Christ, but they are impeded on every side by the crowd which is between them, because often the soul desires to be renewed by the medicine of Divine grace, but through the sluggishness of the groveling body is held back by the hindrance of old custom. Oftentimes amidst the very sweetnesses of secret prayer, and, as it may be called, the pleasant converse with God, a crowd of thoughts, cutting off the clear vision of the mind, shuts out Christ from its sight. Let us not then remain in the lowest ground, where the crowds are bustling, but aim at the roof of the house, that is, the sublimity of the Holy Scripture, and meditate on the law of the Lord.

February 26, 2023 Bulletin

LITURGICAL SCHEDULE

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

Commemoration of the
Miracle of the Great-Martyr

Theodor

For the parishioners

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

1^st Sunday of Great Lent

+Sister Leocadia Sevachko

From Sacred Heart Society

of St. Nicholas

Mon. 27: NO LITURGY

Tues. 28: NO LITURGY

Wed. 1: 6:00 pm @ Infant Jesus

Pre-Sanctified Liturgy

Lenten Education Class to

Follow

Thurs. 2: NO LITURGY

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

Pre-Sanctified Liturgy

For increase in religious

Vocations from Sacred Heart

Society

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

2^nd All Souls Saturday

For the parishioners

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

2^nd Sunday of Great Lent

+Helen Popovich from

John Popovich

Collection Report

Week of 02/19/2023

$ 967.00 Offertory

$ 152.00 Candles

$ 2.00 Children

$ 3.00 Initial

$ 270.00 Renovation

$ 1394.00 TOTAL

Attendance from last week’s Liturgies:

Saturday: 23

Sunday: 26

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.

LENTEN ETHNIC FOOD SALE:

St. Michael Byzantine Catholic Church, 2140 Highland Road in Hermitage is holding Lenten Ethnic Food Sale on Wednesday, March 8^th from 3:00pm-5:00pm. PRE-ORDERS ONLY! All food is homemade which includes frozen potato-cheese, sauerkraut or prune pierohi for $9.00/dozen and 1 quart fresh halushki-also $9.00. Call Bill @ 724-962-4618 or Christine @ 724-866-0058 to place an order.

LENTEN EDUCATION CLASS:

PARISHIONER NEWS:

Our parishioner Nicholas Dubos passed away on February 22nd. His services were held on Friday. Our deepest sympathy, thoughts and prayers to

Nicholas’s family and friends. Blessed repose to his servant Nicholas.

LENTEN EDUCATION CLASS:

2022 FINANCILA REPORT:

The 2022 financial reports are available on the vestibule table. As of 12/31/2022:

We thank all parishioners for their continued support of our parish. May God bless all of you with health, happiness and many blessed years.

Any questions, please see Fr. Michael or Greg Slemons.

SANCTUARY CANDLE:

The Sanctuary candles will be lit for the entire week for your intentions.

For the week of February 26-March 4, the left sanctuary candle is in memory of mother +Ed and Marge Sekerak and the left is in memory of grandmother +Ed and Marge Sekerak both from Kim and Pam Trevis

Is the Veneration of Images Justified?

St John Damascene

Some people reprove us for honoring images of the Savior, of the Mother of God and other holy servants of Christ. But let them think for a moment. In the beginning God created humanity in his own image. Why ever should we have such respect for one another, if not because we are made in the image of God? In Basil’s words, ‘the honor paid to the image is in reality paid to its prototype,’ that is to say, to what the image represents. Thus, the Jewish people revered the Tabernacle because that, much more than the rest of creation, was an image of God. The making and the veneration of images are not a novelty. They are based on a very ancient tradition. God made the first human being as an image of himself. Abraham, Moses, Isaiah and all the prophets saw God, not in his true being, but in his image. The burning bush was an image of the Mother of God. When Moses wanted to approach, God said to him: ‘Put off your shoes from your feet, for the place on which you are standing is holy ground.’ [Exod. 3:5] If the ground on which Moses saw the image of the Mother of God was holy, how much more holy will the image itself be!