The Cathedral Bulletin Sunday, July 24, 2016 Year 130, Issue 30 PAGE 1

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1 The Cathedral Bulletin Sunday, July 24, 2016 Year 130, Issue 30 PAGE 1 UKRAINIAN CATHOLIC OF THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION УКРАЇНСЬКА КАТОЛИЦЬКА КАТЕДРА НЕПОРОЧНОГО ЗАЧАТТЯ PARISH FOUNDED 1886 OLD PURCHASED 1909 NEW BUILT THE MOST REVEREND STEFAN SOROKA METROPOLITAN-ARCHBISHOP OF PHILADELPHIA FOR UKRAINIAN CATHOLICS ПРЕОСВЯЩЕННИЙ ВЛАДИКА СТЕФАН СОРОКА + REV. JOSEPH SZUPA RECTOR + О. ЙОСИФ ШУПА ÏÀÐÎÕ REV. WALTER PASICZNYK PAROCHIAL VICAR O. ВОЛОДИМИР ПАСІЧНИК СОТРУДНИК REV. DEACON МICHAEL WAAK О. ДИЯКОН MИХАЙЛО ВАК C A T H E D R A L L I T U R G Y T I M E S Saturday afternoon аt 4:30 p.m. Divine Liturgy for Sunday in English Sunday morning Liturgies in Ukrainian 11:00 a.m. in English Daily Liturgies: please see schedule on next page Ч А С И Л І Т У Р Г І Й В К А Т Е Д Р І У суботу вечером o 4:30 год. Літургія за неділю по-англійськи Літургії в неділю ранком: 9:00 год по-українськи 11:00 год по-англійськи Щоденні Літургії: розпорядок на наступній сторінці Mailing address / Поштова адреса: Cathedral Rectory Office 833 North Franklin Street Philadelphia, PA Cathedral Phones / Катедральні телефони: Rectory Office Fax Cathedral Hall/Pyrohy St. Mary's Cemetery Other phones/інші телефони: Аrcheparchy of Philadelphia: Byzantine Church Supplies: byzsupplies@yahoo.com Treasury of Faith Museum: tofmuseum@ukrcap.org Missionary Sisters of The Mother of God Convent: msmg@ukrcap.org Cathedral / Катедральна е-пошта: C ATHE DR AL O NFR AN KL IN@CO MC AS T.NE T OUR W EB-SITE: C ATH EDR AL.COM First Time in our Cathedral? Don t worry! Just ask anyone of us, What was that all about? We welcome you to our parish community. Be free to introduce yourself to anyone of our priests, who are Fr. Walter Pasicznyk, Fr. Dcn. Michael Waak or any assisting Father. We would love to meet you. Also come to our parish cafeteria after Sunday services for coffee and fellowship. Still another wonderful opportunity to get to know one another. We have a simple Do and Don t Rule here Do.. Come and Enjoy. Don t. Worry.

2 The Cathedral Bulletin Sunday, July 24, 2016 Year 130, Issue 30 PAGE 2 THE SCHEDULE OF DIVINE SERVICES РОЗПОРЯДОК БОГОСЛУЖЕНЬ Saturday, July 23 4:30 p.m. Vesperal Divine Liturgy + Peter Rapij Ann Rapij (English) Sunday, July 24 11:00 a.m. 10th Sunday after Pentecost 10-ма Неділя після Зіслання Святого Духа Tone 1 1 Cor. 4: 9 16 Gospel: Mt. 17: Myroslav Soltyo Wife & Family (Ukrainian) God s Blessings on all our parishioners (English) Monday, July 25 + Joan Mary Fidler (40th Day) George Fidler (English) Tuesday, July 26 8:00 a.m. +Olyna Oleksyn Friend Wednesday, July 27 8:00 a.m. + Andrej Oprysk Maria Oprysk Thursday, July 28 8:00 a.m. + William Marchuk Legacy Friday, July 29 NO DIVINE LITURGY Saturday, July 30 4:30 p.m. Vesperal Divine Liturgy + Anastasia Matula Ann Rapij Sunday July 31 11:00 a.m. 11th Sunday after Pentecost 11-та Неділя після Зіслання Святого Духа Tone 2 1 Cor. 9: 2 12 Gospel: Mt. 18: God s blessings on all our parishioners (Ukrainian) + Ronald Maxymiuk, Jr. Ronald Maxymiuk, Jr.

3 The Cathedral Bulletin Sunday, July 24, 2016 Year 130, Issue 30 PAGE 3 PARISH ANNOUNCMENTS COME TO THE PARISH HALL AND TRY OUR DELICIOUS FOODS & PYROHY DEEP THANKS GO TO OUR KITCHEN VOLUNTEERS May God bless Iryna Shpylchak, Sr. Martin, MSMG, Luba Cyhan, Katherine Dewedoff, Petro Iwaniw, Ottilia Karpin, Anna Krawchuk, Anna Laluk, Anna Maxymiuk, Vera Sawchyn, Myroslav Shpylchak, Ivan Shpylchak and Anna Slotwinski for your labor of love and support of our parish. SINCERE THANKS GO TO LUBA CYHAN, ANNA MAXYMIUK & DEACON MICHAEL WAAK FOR THE DONATIONS YOU MADE! PLEASE PRAY FOR THE WELL BEING AND HEALTH OF THE FOLLOWING PEOPLE: Bishop Richard Seminack, Fr. Ruslan Romaniuk, John Chytruk, Maria Jackiw, Peggy Konzerowsky, Anne Krawczuk, Michael Lubianetsky, Julia Maksymchuk, Maria Plekan, Jack Righter, Rosalie Senick. And Donna Stanczyk. If you are admitted to the hospital, or at home and would like a priest to visit you, please call the parish office at , or in case of an emergency please call Memorial Candle Offerings Sanctuary Lamp In memory of +Pawlo Zaliwciw offered by daughter, Anna Czajka & family The Candle before Christ on the Iconostas In memory of our departed beloved parents offered by John S. Vasko and family The Candle before the Mother of God on the Iconostas In memory of + Fr. Joseph Szupa offered by Ann Krawchuk. The Candle before John the Baptist on the Iconostas In memory of +Stefan & Kataryna Semkow and Ivan Hucaluk offered by Michael Semkow & Anna Hucaluk The Candle before St. Nicholas on the Iconostas In memory of +Bohdan Z. Myr offered by Patricia Myr and Family The customary donation for a Memorial Candle is $5.00 per week ************************** Last Sunday s Collection Total: $4, Basket: $2,242.00, Candles: $182.00; Kitchen: $620.00; Bingo: $1,200.00; ********************************************************************* CONGRATULATIONS The servants of God, Donald Scannell and Dayna Hrynczyszyn, both Ukrainian Greek- Catholics were crowned in the Mystery of Marriage Saturday, July 23rd. We offer them a heartfealt congratulations and all our prayers for a healthy and spiritual marriage, may they live to see their children s children and may they inherit eternal life. God grant them Many Happy Years! Многая літа! Books are the most wonderful friends in the world. When you meet them and pick them up, they are always ready to give you a few ideas. When you put them down, they never get mad; when you take them up again, they seem to enrich you all the more. Fulton J. Sheen, Life Is Worth Living

4 The Cathedral Bulletin Sunday, July 24, 2016 Year 130, Issue 30 PAGE 4 ANNUAL UKRAINIAN SEMINARY DAY The clergy and faithful of the South Anthracite Deanery of Pennsylvania are hosting the 82 nd Annual Ukrainian Seminary Day on Sunday July 31, 2016 at St. Nick's Picnic Grove in Minersville, Pa. The theme for this year s event is the 75 th Anniversary of Saint Josaphat Ukrainian Catholic Seminary and the celebration of all who have discerned their vocation to the Priesthood through the past years in the seminary. All funds raised go to support St. Josaphat Seminary in Washington, D.C. We encourage all our faithful to go and attend to observe 82 years of celebrating our Ukrainian Catholic Faith, culture and heritage. For any information, please ask the Cathedral Fathers. HOLY DORMITION PILGRIMAGE SLOATSBURG, NY The Annual Holy Dormition of the Mother of God Pilgrimage will be held this year on Sunday, August 14, 2016 in Sloatsburg, NY. The Sisters Servants of Mary Immaculate invite everyone to attend. The theme is Jesus the Face of Mercy; Mary the Mother of Mercy. Please make time to go, if at all possible. ***************************************************** Calendar 31 July 2016 The No Stupid Questions Forum. Bring your questions to the parish hall following the 11 am Divine Liturgy. This will be an open forum question and answer session for all the faithful in the parish. Just like our movie events only this will be directly about The Church, Theology and Our Liturgy. 8-9 Oct 2016 Creation Retreat Weekend Fr. Joe and Fr. Walter have arranged to have a retreat weekend and the subject of focus is God s Creation and What This Means for Mankind. We will have a guest speaker and there will be three (3) presentations scheduled.

5 The Cathedral Bulletin Sunday, July 24, 2016 Year 130, Issue 30 PAGE 5 Greatmartyr and Healer Panteleimon The Great Martyr and Healer Panteleimon was born in the city of Nicomedia into the family of the illustrious pagan Eustorgius, and he was named Pantoleon. His mother St Euboula (March 30) was a Christian. She wanted to raise her son in the Christian Faith, but she died when he was young. His father sent him to a pagan school, after which the young man studied medicine at Nicomedia under the renowned physician Euphrosynus. Pantoleon came to the attention of the emperor Maximian ( ), who wished to appoint him as royal physician. The hieromartyrs Hermolaus, Hermippus and Hermocrates, survivors of the massacre of 20,000 Christians in 303 (December 28), were living secretly in Nicomedia at that time. St Hermolaus saw Pantoleon time and again when he came to the house where they were hiding. The priest invited the youth to the house and spoke about the Christian Faith leading Pantoleon to visit St. Hermolaus every day. One day the saint found a child who had been bitten by a snake dead on the street and the snake was still beside the child s body. Pantoleon began to pray to the Lord Jesus Christ to revive the dead child and to destroy the venomous reptile. He firmly resolved that if his prayer were fulfilled, he would become a follower of Christ and receive Baptism. The child rose up alive, and the snake died before Pantoleon s eyes. was baptized by St Hermolaus with the merciful ). St Panteleimon prepared his anity. When the Eustorgius saw how his sus Christ, he then believed and was bap- was restored. Following this miracle, Pantoleon name Panteleimon (meaning allfather Eustorgius for accepting Christison healed a blind man by invoking Jetized together with the man whose sight After his father s death St Pan- teleimon dedicated his life to the suffering, the sick, the unfortunate and the needy. He treated all those who turned to him without charge, healing them in the name of Jesus Christ. He visited those held captive in prison, usually Chris- tians, and he healed them. Reports of the charitable physician spread throughout the city and the inhabitants began to turn only to St Panteleimon. The envious doctors told the emperor that St Panteleimon was healing Christian prisoners. Maximian urged the saint to refute the charge by offering sacrifice to idols. St Panteleimon con- fessed himself a Christian, and suggested that a sick person, for whom the doctors held out no hope, should be brought before the emperor. Then the doctors could invoke their gods, and Panteleimon would pray to his God to heal the man. A man paralyzed for many years was brought in, and pagan priests who knew the art of medicine invoked their gods without success. Then, before the very eyes of the emperor, the saint healed the paralytic by calling on the name of Jesus Christ. The ferocious Maximian executed the healed man, and gave St Panteleimon over to fierce torture. The Lord appeared to the saint and strengthened him before his sufferings. They suspended the Great Martyr Panteleimon from a tree and scraped him with iron hooks, burned him with fire and then stretched him on the rack, threw him into a cauldron of boiling tar, and cast him into the sea with a stone around his neck. Throughout these tortures the martyr remained unhurt, and denounced the emperor. At this time the priests Hermolaus, Hermippus and Hermocrates were brought before the court of the pagans. All three confessed their faith in the Savior and were beheaded (July 26). By order of the emperor they brought the Great Martyr Panteleimon to the circus to be devoured by wild beasts. The animals, however, came up to him and licked his feet. The spectators began to shout, Great is the God of the Christians! The enraged Maximian ordered the soldiers to stab with the sword anyone who glorified Christ, and to cut off the head of the Great Martyr Panteleimon. They led the saint to the place of execution and tied him to an olive tree. While the martyr prayed, one of the soldiers struck him with a sword, but the sword became soft like wax and inflicted no wound. The saint completed his prayer, and a Voice was heard from Heaven, calling the passion-bearer by his new name and summoning him to the heavenly Kingdom. Hearing the Voice, the soldiers fell down on their knees before the holy martyr and begged forgiveness. They refused to continue with the execution, but St Panteleimon told them to fulfill the emperor s command, because otherwise they would have no share with him in the future life. The soldiers tearfully took their leave of the saint with a kiss. When the saint was beheaded, the olive tree to which the saint was tied became covered with fruit. Many who were present at the execution turned to Jesus in Christ. The saint s body was thrown into a fire, but remained unharmed, and was buried by Christians. St Panteleimon s servants Laurence, Bassos and Probus witnessed his execution and heard the Voice from Heaven. They recorded the life, the sufferings and death of the saint.