St. John the Baptist Orthodox Church

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1 Meatfare 19th The Last Judgment USE UP/FREEZE DAIRY THIS WEEK FAREWELL TO MEAT TODAY FIND A COMPASS SAY A PRAYER FACING EAST THIS WEEK. CHRIST IS RETURNING FROM THE EAST WE WAIT HIM! ASK EACH OTHER GIVENESS EACH EVENING THIS WEEK BEE BED. St. John Baptist Orthodox Church OUR JOURNEY TO PASCHA! th Urban, Rev. Fr. Dave Pasr TRIUMPH ORTHODOXY Very Rev. Fr. John Brancho, Pasr Emeritus 26th FAREWELL TO CHEESE TODAY Adam and Eve are cast from Paradise! GIVENESS SUNDAY A Parish American Carpatho-Russian Orthodox Diocese, Ecumenical Patriarchate Constantople 1st 2688 California Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pa BRING AN ICON TO CHURCH PROCESSION. Recry: Timothy Mart, Reader Fr.Sleepless@GMAIL.com Matw Peifer & Stephen Canrs SUNDAYS THEMES / GOSPEL READING HOW TOBrancho, PARTICIPATE: 2nd Matw Peifer, Church Council President JohnBRING Radick, day A PRAYER ROPE becanr blessed Fast - Free ST GREGORY PALAMAS TRUST IN GOD, day! Use it eachnot dayyourself! this week! Fd us on FB: facebook.com/pages/st-john--baptist-orthodox-church--northside-pittsburgh Publican and Pharisee ASK HIS HELP BEE EVERY th TASK + + THIS WEEK! OUR JOURNEY TO PASCHA! 2017 OUR 2017 JOURNEY TO PACHA! 3rd WEAR YOUR CROSS TO CHURCH CROSS SUNDAY Half Way There! KiSS THE CROSS EACH MORNING WITH A BOW! TO PARTICIPATE: The Prodigal Son Returns! THEMES / GOSPEL READING HOW 19th Normal Fast SUNDAYS USE UP/ FREEZE MEATS THIS WEEK 4th Fast - Free Meatfare26th5th 19th FAREWELL TO MEAT TODAY Publican Ladder Pharisee ST JOHNand The Last Judgment USE UP/FREEZE DAIRY THIS WEEK SCHEDULE A CONFESSION TRUST IN GOD, NOT YOURSELF! Every time you climb stairs day ask St. John HIS HELP BEE help youask reach Paradise with sign EVERY TASK WEEK! cross! this THIS throughout A week o! FACING FIND ADo COMPASS SAY PRAYER EAST THIS WEEK. CHRIST IS RETURNING FROM THE EAST WE WAIT HIM! 5th am Fast Dive Tone 7 Liturgical Color: Purple Normal Liturgy St Basil Pray Virg Mary fer you and world The Prodigal Son Returns! Epistle: Hebrews 6:13 20; Gospel: Mark 9: nd ST MARY EGYPT pure thoughts and pure ideas this week. SCHEDULE CONFESSION ASK EACHAOTHER USE UP/ FREEZE /MEATS THIS WEEK for +Olga Tongel Add l Collection for our Community Outreach Panachida (1 year anniversary) Adam and Eve are cast from Paradise! GIVENESS EACH EVENING 26th THIS WEEK BEE GIVENESS SUNDAY 3:00TOpm en Rank (146 Third Ave., Rank, Pa 15104) Homilist: Fr. BED. Dave FAREWELL CHEESE TODAY Mission Vespers SUNDAY! Meatfare SERVICES READINGS THE FIND A WEEK COMPASS SAY A PRAYER FACING BRING PUSSYWILLOWS TO BE BLESSED (Sign The LastSUNDAY Judgment 1st April 9th 19th EAST THIS WEEK. CHRIST RETURNING Vicry!) Place behd anis icon at home and USE UP/FREEZE DAIRY THIS WEEK Wednesday, March 29 am Selections from Great Canon EAST SneAndrew Crete FAREWELL TOBEGINS MEAT TODAY HOLY WEEK FROM THE WE WAIT HIM!/ your car! BRING AN ICON 5th TRIUMPH ORTHODOXY 7 pm Presanctified Liturgy (at DoubleTree Sheran Dr., Mars, PA 16046) TO CHURCH PROCESSION. ASK EACH OTHER Significance Great Fast series: commemoratg Israel s 40 years wanderg wilderness REFRAIN FROM TV and CELLEACH PHONES Adam Eve are cast from Paradise! HOLY and GIVENESS EVENING 14th 2nd 26th Friday, March 31 am Akathist Hymn Theokos HONOR Christ s Death THIS WEEK BEE BED. GIVENESS SUNDAY FAREWELL TO CHEESE TODAY BRING A PRAYER ROPE be blessed April 1 **8:30am ST GREGORY PALAMAS Saturday, Parish Clean Up / 11a-1p Mystery Holy Confession day! Use it each day this week! FEAST OF FEASTS! * 1st Monday * Tuesday 3rd 16th 5th * Wednesday * Thursday19th * 2nd Friday * Saturday 4th Isaiah 37: 33 38: 6 Genesis 13: : 27 15: 4 TELL YOUR PRIEST FAMILY: Isaiah 40: Genesis 15: 1 15 CHRIST IS RISEN! 7 SAY19 IT BEE AN ICON15: HOLY PASCHA! (CHRIST IS RISEN!) BRING TRIUMPH MORNING NIGHT! Isaiah 41: 4 14 ORTHODOXY Genesis 17: : 20 16: 9 WEAR YOUR CROSS TO CHURCH TO CHURCH PROCESSION. CROSS Half Way CROSS EACH MORNING WITH A Isaiah 42: 5 16 SUNDAY Genesis 18: There! KiSS THE 16: 17 17: 17 BOW! Isaiah 45: Genesis 22: : 17 18: 5 Hebrews 9: : be blessed BRINGMark A PRAYER ROPE ST GREGORY PALAMAS Every time youuse climb stairs day daythis askweek! St. John day! it each * Let us Imitate Christ and Ladder Sats and Faslp asyou y reachdid! Paradise with sign ST JOHN this throughout week o! Where re is no prayer and fastg, re are demons. cross! +St Do Theophan Recluse 3rd 26th 5th 19th 2nd 4th WEAR YOUR CROSS TO CHURCH CROSS SUNDAY Half Way There! KiSS THE CROSS EACH MORNING WITH A Pray Virg Mary fer you and world BOW! ST MARY EGYPT pure thoughts and pure ideas this week. Every time you climb stairs day ask St. John am 26th Dive Liturgy St Basil Tone 7 SUNDAY! help you reachliturgical Paradise with Color: sign Purple ST JOHN Ladder cross! Do this week o! Epistle: Hebrews 9: 11 14; Gospel: MarkBRING 10: 32 45throughout PUSSYWILLOWS TO BE BLESSED (Sign April 9th SUNDAY Vicry!) Place behd an icon at home and 3:00 pm en Mission Vespers North Side;Homilist: Fr.oneBob HOLY WEEK BEGINS 5th your car! Pray + ++ Virg + +Mary + + fer + +you + and world 2nd ST MARYTo EGYPT thoughts and pure ideas this week. A Warm Welcome Our Visirs! pure REFRAIN FROM TV and CELL PHONES HOLY 14th Glory Be To Jesus Christ! (Glory Be Forever!) HONOR Christ s Death This Bullet is fered SUNDAY! Slava Isusu Christu! (Slava na v iki!) In Lovg Memory BRING PUSSYWILLOWS TO BE BLESSED (Sign FEAST OF FEASTS! April 9th We are happy that you have joed ussunday day! Please jo us downstairs for +Lawrence Mart, Sr. Vicry!)TELL Place one behd iconfamily: at home and YOUR PRIESTan HOLY WEEK BEGINS cfee and a bite eat. It is our pleasure have you our presence this morng your car! CHRIST IS RISEN! SAY IT BEE May his memory 16th HOLY PASCHA! (CHRIST IS RISEN!) NIGHT! and we wish God s Blessgs all who visit with us day and hope you sp MORNING be eternal! aga soon! If you have any questions regards our worship or Orthodoxy, FROM TV and CELL PHONES HOLYanswer 14th please see Fr. Dave and he will gladly any your questions REFRAIN best HONOR Christ s Death his ability. He looks forward meetg you! FEAST OF FEASTS! 16th TELL YOUR PRIEST FAMILY: BULLETIN BOARD ANNOUNCEMENTS HOLY PASCHA! (CHRIST IS RISEN!) CHRIST IS RISEN! SAY IT BEE MORNING NIGHT! (Please have submissions for this section Far by Wednesday.) Construction Please be aware that 65 Outbound, essentially between Ft Duquesne and McKees Rocks Bridges, is down one lane due construction this summer. morngs have not had traffic issues, but begng durg Holy, please allow enough time arrive at church on time for services Books March Sale The Ancient Faith Sre is ferg a different book for 50% f each day month March! Visit site daily or sign up for ir s and keep an eye out for a book that will help you along your Spiritual Journey! Visit:

2 Book Drive - Durg Great Fast, Pittsburgh Deanery is havg a book drive support BOOK EM, Pittsburgh s Books--Prisoners Program. Before emptyg your shelves and brgg us everythg you have, please consider formation below. BOOKS THEY CURRENTLY NEED: small-size dictionaries, all types mythology, fitness /yoga, how sell real estate, super-hero comics, African-American fiction & non-fiction, books about music or musicians, guides playg guitar, troducry language books, horror / sci-fi / fantasy, westerns, James Patterson novels (Fd an updated at: A LITTLE LIST OF WHAT THEY DO NOT NEED: Bibles or Christian non-fiction books (as y are provided by prison pasrs), general women's or young adult fiction (as 90% our readers are men terested fiction and nonfiction written for and about men), No book with spiral bdg or with underlg or writg it (If re is a name written on front page, it can be blacked out or page can be rn out), books which are musty, staed, or outdated (out respect for mates), also, encyclopedias or travel guides. More formation can be found on flyer Church Hall as well as at: ly Candle Intentions/Memorials were fered last week by Tim Mart; Melanie Shuster; Viola Peifer; Eleanor Sanger; Roberta Kruchkevich; Joanne Nelson; Theresa Sharpless; Steve Buhonick; Cdy Pavilonis; Michael Puhac; and Patty Watson. I am light world; he who follows Me will not walk darkness, but will have light life. - Jn 8:12 The Eternal Lamp was fered last week by Cdy Pavilonis, Memory Far, Joseph Pavilonis. May His Memory Be Eternal! Vičnaya Pamjat! Book : Thirty Steps Heaven: The Ladder Dive Ascent for All Walks Life by Archimandrite Vassilios Papavassiliou (ISBN # ) Many laypeople have attempted read great spiritual classic, The Ladder Dive Ascent, but have been frustrated attemptg apply lessons this monastic text ir everyday lives world. Archimandrite Vassilios terprets Ladder for ordary Christian without sacrificg any its beauty and power. Now you o can accept challenge fered by St. John Climacus ascend closer God with each passg day. Confessions will be heard followg every service and on Saturday s durg Great Fast from 11am 1pm. The side gate and side door will be open. Or times are available by appotment. Please contact Fr Dave arrange this. Confessions will only be heard through Holy Wednesday. Church & Grounds Sprg Matenance will be THIS Saturday, April 1 st begng at 8:30am (with breakfast). Please contact Kathy Schrmack (kschrmack@verizon.net) (we want have enough food available) if you are able share your time and talent on this day as we clean up what God has shared with us. "Whatever you do, do your work heartily, as for Lord rar than for men, knowg that from Lord you will receive reward heritance. It is Lord Christ whom you serve." - Col 3:23-24 Bake Sale Our sister parish St John s Ambridge will have ir annual bake sale on Saturday, April 8 th from 12p 5p. Please see flyer hall for a list food and more details. Sip & Dip - Have you ever wanted learn how make beautiful Easter Eggs? The Rank Junior Tamburitzans are ferg a fun way learn this folk art! At "Sip & Dip" you will be taken step by step through process creatg a beautiful Pysanka your very own! We and light snacks will be served while you are creatg your work art. The class will beg at 2:00 pm on, April 9 TH at Rank Croatian Home (236 Fourth Ave., Rank, PA 15104). All supplies will be provided. The price for this ADULTS ONLY class is $35. Please Contact Bob Pollack at bobbypoll@msn.com reserve a space. Checks should be made out : The Rank Junior Tamburitzans. Reserve your spot ASAP as class size is limited! Pascha cover-dish cfee social Just a quick remder/request that we are all asked participate and brg somethg for cfee social followg Feast Feasts. ORTHODOXY AROUND DA BURGH Our Stewardship Gift To God Dues/Stewardship: $ 500 Candles/Eternal Lamp/Small:$ 172 Envelopes: $ 268 Special Monthly Envelopes: $ 600 Presanctified Collection: $ 80 Loose Money: $ 0 Total Donations: $ 1620 Collection for Sats: On first day week let each one you lay somethg aside, srg up as he may prosper 1 Cor 16:2 Visit Our Diocese On-Le Diocesan Website: Camp Nazareth: FB: Twitter: twitter.com/acrodnews You Tube: youtube.com/acroddiocese A free en talk on "Mary Scriptures" will be held Saturday, April 1 st at 10:30am at St Nicholas Orthodox Church (320 Munson Ave, McKees Rocks, PA). Orthodox Christian author and scholar Dr Edith Humphrey Pittsburgh Theological Semary will lead 90 mute program. A Dive Liturgy will be served at 9:00am with a contental breakfast followg.

3 + + + LOOKING AHEAD LOCALLY Tuesday, 4/4 **10:30am Third Hour Wednesday, 4/5 am Third Hour / 7pm Presanctified Liturgy ( Cranberry) Friday 4/7 am Vesperal Liturgy for Feast Annunciation Lazarus Saturday, 4/8 am Dive Liturgy / 11a-1p Mystery Holy Confession Palm, 4/9 am Dive Liturgy for Feast Entry our Lord Jerusalem Holy Monday, 4/10 7pm Presanctified Liturgy Holy Tuesday, 4/11 7pm Presanctified Liturgy Holy Wednesday, 4/12 7pm Mystery Holy Unction / *Fal day for Confessions before Pascha Holy Thursday, 4/13 am Vesperal Liturgy St Basil / 7pm 12 Passion Gospels (Mats Good Friday) Holy and Good Friday, 4/14 7pm Vespers and Procession Holy Shroud Holy Saturday, 4/15 am Vesperal Liturgy St Basil / 7pm Resurrection Mats / Blessg Paschal Baskets ORTHODOX WORD OF THE WEEK AKATHIST a hymn dedicated a sat, holy event, or one persons Holy Trity. The word akathist itself means "not sittg." The akathist par excellence is that written 6th century Theokos (used Byzante tradition durg Great ). The writg akathists contues day as part general composition an akolouthia, especially Slavic tradition, although not all are widely known nor translated beyond origal language. Most newer akathists are pastiche, that is, a generic form imitatg origal 6th century akathist which a particular sat's name is serted STEWARDSHIP: A Way Of Life From: Beg In Communion (III) All thgs are for your sakes, that grace, havg spread through many, may cause thanksgivg abound glory God. (2 Cor. 4:15) In this fal part Beg Communion I would like concentrate on communion as it relates Dive Liturgy. As persons communion, we come Dive Liturgy with gratitude for what God has given us. All that we have is a gift from God, ALL, not just some! We sometimes fall misconception that WE are responsible for what we have and what we have become. As persons communion, we know that God has given us everythg and we come praise Him gratitude for His gifts. Durg Dive Liturgy, we brg our gifts be fered Christ. Origally first fruits harvest were brought, oil, we, wheat, bread, fruits. What was not fered durg Liturgy was distributed poor, needy, widows and orphans. Today we brg our gifts money, our time and our talents which are used purchase and make bread and FOOD FASTING RECIPE OF THE WEEK From: Autumn Squash Pasta INGREDIENTS 3 4 lbs. acorn or butternut squash 1 lb. ziti or penne 1/2cup olive oil 2 tbsp. unsalted butter 2 large leeks, cleaned and coarsely chopped 1/2 small onion, chopped 1 garlic clove, coarsely chopped 1/2 1 tsp. sea salt Freshly milled black pepper 1/2 cup dry white we or water 1/2 cup dry white we or water 1/3 cup grated Parmesan cheese (opt.) 1 tbsp. chopped fresh parsley INSTRUCTIONS 1. Preheat oven 350 F. Cut squash half; scoop out and discard seeds. Place squash, cut side down, 1 ch water a 13-by 9 ch glass bakg dish. Bake for mutes, until tender. Set aside just until cool enough handle, n scoop squash from shells. 2. Meanwhile, cook pasta boilg salted water for 2 3 mutes less than cookg time on package; dra and set aside. 3. Heat oil and butter a large pot over low heat. Add leeks, onion, garlic, sea salt, and pepper. Sauté until onion is translucent and leeks have become pliable, makg sure garlic does not burn. Add squash and we, stirrg until a thick sauce forms. Fold cooked pasta, taste and adjust seasong. Spoon same glass dish; sprkle with cheese (optional). 4. Bake for m. until cheese (if used) browns; sprkle with parsley and serve hot. we be fered as gifts and what is left over help those less fortunate. Too ten gifts given are not sufficient enough carry on any outreach. We brg our gifts and fer m God communally, as body Christ. We approach chalice not as an dividual but as body Christ; we are communion with God and each member body Christ. As members body Christ and you made a covenant with God at your baptism become a member body Christ, you are committed journey Theosis, tal communion with God, as well as helpg ors on that journey fd ir 3

4 hypostatic prciple, ir personhood. We are all a constant state becomg: We are not yet what we shall be (1 John 3: 2). When not usg gifts that God has given us we fall out communion with God and each or. We put our salvation at risk as well as those who we do not assist. We fall back self-centeredness and beg rely on our rational md resolve all issues our lives fallg a deep sense loneless and alienation that marks modern human begs as stated by Fr. Stephen Freeman, Glory God for All Thgs. As Paul stated Galatians 2: 20, It is no longer I who live, but Christ me. Can you say that all honesty? When you can make that statement, you will be communion with God and with body Christ. You will be a good steward freely and lovgly givg your gifts gratitude for what God has given you! LIVING ORTHODOXY 4 To assist faithful makg most this holy season, additional resources have been added our Diocesan Website. The Ladder Dive Ascent Icon (excerpt from ) Jesus Christ s teachg is overwhelmg its simplicity. Rar than give us burdens, He tells us take up only one thg: our cross. Instead demandg many sacrifices, He desires from us only one thg: our lives. For whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake and gospel will save it. (Mk 8: 34-36) Because such words are overwhelmg ir directness, Jesus Christ ordaed Apostles and teachers help guide us livg this simple God-centered life; much Epistles Bible are given over this subject. Jesus Christ did not sp appotg such people lead us after death Apostle John, and so addition Holy Scriptures re are many or treatises tended humbly guide us through snares and pitfalls this world and ward Salvation. One best known and well-loved is The Ladder Dive Ascent, written by St. John ~600 A.D. St John was abbot a monastery Sai, well known for his wisdom, but also a lover solitude; it was with much sistence from his fellow-monks that he fally wrote down his pearls wisdom a piece which was known as Ladder. There are numerous articles about this work, and how it spread throughout Orthodox monasteries world, and a number m are given lks below. The Icon Ladder developed wilderness regions Egypt, from monasteries that would have, and still do, have readgs from work all through. The ladder icon usually has 30 rungs, number chapters St John s work. Upon ladder are people at various stages ascent. At first glance those on ladder may seem similar, all beg bearded men, but this must be seen context. The Dive Ladder was prcipally a work written for monastics, and it is only relatively recently that greater numbers nonmonastics have become familiar with se writgs. As such, most older icons Ladder reflect prciple audience image monks and so show only men, and only bearded men at that. The icon does, however, show men differg ages, and usually cludes at least one man vested as a bishop. Moreover, no specific person is beg depicted, but stead a general type person. The implicit suggestion is that all Christians who struggle ward and desire Salvation are represented on Ladder Dive Ascent. The Ladder is shown cuttg through Icon, ascendg from botm left, p right, and separatg Heavenly from worldly. Around about Ladder are numerous pitchblack demons which are besettg those on ladders with arrows, spears, and chas. These are physical manifestations sful thoughts and temptations which beset us as we walk narrow path, or narrow ascent, ward Salvation. Some those beset with passions are shown fallg, and those that do are swallowed up by Hades, represented as a dark head; it is also sometimes shown as a monster s head, as Icons Last Judgment. To left, upper portion, misterg angels are shown tercedg for those on Ladder, and ready receive m when y reach Heaven. In some icons y are shown swoopg crown those who reach summit. In p-right is Jesus Christ

5 Himself, open-armed, receive all; those on Ladder, at every stage, have ir eyes fixed upon Christ. The only ones who don t, are those who are already fallg, though it is terestg note that all wher ascendg or fallg hold ir hands same pious, prayerful manner. In later icons, Hades is shown botm right, but older, Sai Icon it is not clear that Hades is beg shown all its lurid detail. It is likely that those botm-right are merely observg scene, and vitg us do same. In some Icons Church is explicitly shown at botm Ladder, usually with St John (shown with a halo) gesturg way those who have yet beg ir climb. (excerpt from PRAYER CORNER Our Parish Prayer List for Special Intentions & Or Needs * A Prayer For The Sick: O Christ, You alone are prompt defend us; quickly visit Your sufferg servant name. Through prayers Theokos, deliver him/her from sickness and bitter pa. Heal him/her so that he/she may sg You and always praise You for You alone love us. Amen. For Health... Helen, Jason, Ann, Eleanor D., Julie, Jane, Mildred, Mark, Viola, Juliana, Nathaniel, Katie, Kenneth, Michael, Jayne, Ann, Teresa, David, Larry, Susan, Anna Mae, Roberta, Fr Shuster, Thomas, Lawrence, Fredrick, Donald, Iris, Carol...through prayers St. Nectarios Wonderworker; St. Luke, Surgeon; and St. Panteleimon, Great-Martyr and Healer. Birthday Prayers for Marianne (Lorenzi) Kubis (3/29) May God allow her grow peace & love all days her life & may He grant her many & blessed years! Na Mnohaja I Blahaja L ita! For Special Intentions... Bishop Gregory, Joshua, Anastasia, Nicholas, Cassandra, Alexander, Scott, Sarah, Nancy, Amee, Andrea, Chrispher, Ryan, Marianne and our Church Council and Relocation Committee: Matw, John, Timothy, Patricia, Theresa, Lawrence, Jane, Sharon, Cynthia, Kare, Eleanor, John, Richard, John, and Margaret...through prayers St. Nicholas Wonderworker; St. John Baptist; Archangels Michael & Gabriel; and Theokos and Ever-Virg Mary. For Expectant Mors Bethany, Alyson, Nicole, Jessica, and Roxanne...through prayers St Anna, mor Theokos, & St Irene Chrysovalanu. For those servg Armed Forces & Civil Authorities... Sgt. Walter Dylan Mushsky...through prayers St George, Great-Martyr & Wonderworker. SPIRITUAL VITAMINS THE WEEK Those makg some progress blessed mourng are usually temperate and untalkative. Those who have succeeded makg real progress do not become angry and do not bear grudges. +St John Ladder To repent is not look downwards at my own shortcomgs, but upwards at God s love, it is not look backwards with self-reproach but forward with trustfulness, it is see not what I have failed be, but what by grace Christ I might yet become. +St John Ladder Unceasg prayer is born out love, but fault-fdg, idle talk, and self-dulgence are death prayer. +St Silouan Athonite DEVOTIONAL PRAYERS THE GREAT FAST: The Prayer Sat Ephraim Syrian O Lord and Master my life, take from me spirit lazess, despair, lust for power, and va talkg. + [Prostration] But give me, Your servant, spirit purity, humility, patience, and love. + [Prostration] Yes, Lord and Kg, grant me see my own ss, and not judge my bror, for blessed are You forever and ever. Amen. + [Prostration] Kondak St John Ladder As ever-bloomg fruits, you fer teachgs your God-given book, O wise John, most blessed, while sweeteng hearts all m that heed it with vigilance; For it is a ladder from earth un Heaven that confers glory on souls that ascend it and honor you faithfully. 5