Sunday, November 13, th Sunday After Pentecost Tone 1/Epistle: Ephesians 5:9-19 Gospel: Luke 10:25-37

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1 and St. Anne Ukrainian Catholic Churches Administrator: Rev. Fr. Lubomyr Zhybak (cell) Church 526 West Rayen Avenue Youngstown, Ohio Website: St. Anne Church 4310 Kirk Road Austintown, Ohio Website: Deacon Tom Bury Deacon Donald Billy Deacon Tom: Social Hall: Hall Rental: Maintenance/Property Manager: Dean Chance, Administrative Assistant Office: Fax: (please call ahead) Social Hall: Confessions: Every Sunday 15 minutes prior to Divine Liturgy (Other times available by appointment) Confessions: Every Sunday 15 minutes prior to Divine Liturgy (Other times available by appointment) For all Sacramental Celebrations, please contact the office as soon as possible. At the passing of a loved one, contact the funeral home and they will schedule the arrangements with the priest and/or deacon. Sunday, November 13, th Sunday After Pentecost Tone 1/Epistle: Ephesians 5:9-19 Gospel: Luke 10:25-37 Liturgical Greetings Next Sunday: November 20, 2016 Greeting: "Glory to Jesus Christ" "Sla-va Ee-su-su Khry-stu" 27th Sunday After Pentecost Tone 2/Epistle: Ephesians 6:10-17 Response: "Glory Forever" "Sla-va Na Vee-ki" Gospel: Luke 12:16-21 The Apostle Philip Monday, November 14

2 Divine Liturgy Schedule for (HT) and St. Anne s (SA) Churches Day: Date: Place Time: Intention: Offered By: Responder: Sun Nov 13 SA HT 8:30am 11:00am 26th Sunday After Pentecost Divine Liturgy for the People B. Bury J. Bodak Mon Nov 14 HT 9:00am John Bury Kay Bury J. Kicz Tue Nov 15 SA 9:00am For St. Anne s Parishioners G. Olbrych J. Bodak Wed Nov 16 SA 9:00am Mary Jane Pompilli Ronald Vass C. Elias Thu Nov 17 HT Fri Nov 18 HT 9:00am Lois Pronick John & Peggy Machingo J. Billy/J. Bodak Sat Nov 19 No Service Sun Nov 20 SA HT 9:00am Michael Kopczyk Sr. Lois Pronick M. Woloszyn 8:30am 11:00am St. Anne Financials For the Weeks Ending Sunday, November 6, /30/16 11/6/16 Loose Offerings: $ $ Sunday Offering: $ $ Dues: $ Maintenance: $ $ 2.00 Candle Offering: -- $ 3.00 Energy Needs: $ $ 2.00 Renov/Repair: -- $ 2.00 Sainthood: -- $ 7.00 Archangel Michael: -- $ 7.00 UCC Catechism: -- $ Theotokos/Ent: -- $ 2.00 Wine: -- $ Total Deposit: $ $ Attendance: th Sunday After Pentecost Financials Sunday, November 6, 2016 Candle: $ Sunday Offering: $ Dues: $ Diocesan: $ Sainthood: $ Donation: $ Sunday Social: $ Total Deposit: $ 1, November 50/50: $ 9.00 Attendance: 68 October Pyrohy Net Proceeds $ 6, Divine Liturgy for the People Moleben to the Merciful Christ Ann Blazina Annie Borovitcky Kay Bury Dee Dashko John Fecych Dan Malarcik Irene Perish George Popovich Marie Schuller K. Scenna M. Marczyszyn Eternal Light Luba Horsky is sponsoring the Week of November in memory of Nikolai Pavelko St. Anne s George Frommelt Marion Izak Carol Kalosky Carol Kaszowski Karen Kihm Ann Krill Fr. Ignatius Joyce Lesigonich-Padavick Paul Lesigonich Louis Mancini Gene Smereka Ann Stevens St. Anne Counters Nov 13 - Fred, Bill, Myron Nov 20 - Diane, Brian, Lil ECF 10:00am in the Social Hall St. Anne s All-Parish Meeting An All-Parish meeting will take place at St. Anne s today immediately following the 8:30am Liturgy. The topic will be preparations for next year s 50th anniversary celebration. St. Anne s Festival Items Still for Sale Some food from the St. Anne Festival is still available. All items are frozen in either containers or Ziploc bags. Ukrainian Kielbasi cooked - 6pc per Ziploc bag - $6 each Ukrainian Kielbasi uncooked - 6pc per Ziploc bag - $6 each Anyone wishing to make a purchase may see Diane Rogers after Liturgy or on Pyroghy Friday sale days.

3 To our dear Family Parishioners celebrating their Birthday and Anniversary this week. Our very Best Wishes and Blessings! Nov 15: Valerie Woloszyn 6721 Tippecanoe Rd #2, Canfield, Ohio Nov 19: Deacon Donald Billy 2515 McCollum Rd, Youngstown, Ohio St. Anne s Nov 16: Paul and Barb Welch (21) Nov 19: Jim Behmer Na Mnohaya ee Nov 17: John Laczko Nov 19: Jim and Diane Behmer (5) Blahaya Leeta Nov 18: Josephine Olbrych Nov 20: Parashos and Mary Ann Malahtaris (45) Nov 18: Rod and Karen Scenna (44) St. Philip s Fast (Pylypivka) November 15 - December 24 Philip s Fast (Pylypivka) is a period abstinence and penance practiced by the Eastern Orthodox and Eastern Catholic Churches in preparation for the Nativity of Christ, (December 25). The fast is similar to the Western, or Roman Catholic, Advent, except that it runs for 40 days instead of four weeks. The fast is observed from November 15 to December 24, inclusively. The fast is called Philip's Fast (or the Philippian Fast), as it traditionally begins on the day following the Feast of St. Philip the Apostle (November 14). Our pre-nativity period of preparation developed rather late.the present liturgical pre-nativity season was established at the Council of Constantinople (1166). The Council decreed that the fast would begin on November 15 and last until December 24 inclusive.it begins at sundown on November 14th (when the Church begins a new day) and concludes at Christmas. The fast was introduced to prepare the Church for a worthy celebration of the great and holy day of the Birth of Christ. To worthily meet our Lord and Savior, we should sanctify this pre-nativity season of the Philippian Fast. Sanctifying means spending our time in faith and in the service of God and in kindness towards our neighbor, especially those who are in need of our assistance. This preparation is made by fasting, extra special prayers, good deeds extending help to the poor, going the the Sacrament of Reconciliation (Confession), receiving our Lord in Holy Communion, visiting the sick at home, hospital, nursing facilities and reading and meditating on the Holy Scriptures.

4 Save the Dates for Volunteering in Ukraine Come and serve with the Sisters of St. Basil in their ministry to Ukraine's needy. This coming year s Basilian Volunteer Program will take place from around May 26 to June 16, Last year the program served 200 children in four different area camps and many other children in 8 orphanages, psychiatric institutions, halfway houses, etc. Join the Sisters as they continue their annual ministry of evangelization and bringing support and comfort to the needy of Ukraine. Sister Ann Laszok, OSBM and Sister Joann Sosler, OSBM together with the accepted applicants will collaborate with the Sisters, priests and seminarians of Ukraine to provide Berlitz style English camps as well as continue bring financial support to the orphanages. Volunteers provide their own airfare to Lviv and the Sisters provide room, board and transportation within Ukraine. For an application and additional information for Come and Serve with the Sisters in Ukraine contact Sr. Ann Laszok OSBM at srannl@aol.com or Numbers are limited so please apply early. Anyone wishing to help the Sisters financially can donate by sending a check to: Sr. Dorothy Ann Busowski, OSBM at 710 Fox Chase Rd. Jenkintown, PA Christmas Baking Christmas baking of kolachi and the braided bread November 19 - Kolachi ($12) December 3 - Kolachi ($12) December 10 - Bread ($10) Orders will be taken by: Marlene Kolachi options are for nut, apricot or poppyseed Baking will be limited and, once orders are full, no additional orders will be taken. Volunteers Wanted The baking crew is looking for new hands to fill a lot of new job openings, including: dough making, dough cutting, and many other positions. Contact Marlene, the parish office, or John Pierko, if interested. St. Anne s Christmas Baking December 10 - Bread ($10) Orders will be taken by: Diane Kolachi options are for nut, nut and raisin, apricot or poppyseed Pickup of kolachi will be on December 10 from 5-6pm Volunteers Wanted Please sign up after Liturgy. Rollers are needed at 8am!

5 St. Matthew (Nov 16) The Holy Apostle and Evangelist Matthew, was also named Levi (Mark 2:14; Luke 5:27); he was one of the Twelve Apostles (Mark 3:18; Luke 6:45; Acts 1:13), and was brother of the Apostle James Alphaeus (Mark 2:14). He was a publican, or tax-collector for Rome, in a time when the Jews were under the rule of the Roman Empire. He lived in the Galilean city of Capernaum. When Matthew heard the voice of Jesus Christ: Come, follow Me (Mt. 9:9), left everything and followed the Savior. Christ and His disciples did not refuse Matthew s invitation and they visited his house, where they shared table with the publican s friends and acquaintances. Like the host, they were also publicans and known sinners. This event disturbed the Pharisees and scribes a great deal. Publicans who collected taxes from their countrymen did this with great profit for themselves. Usually greedy and cruel people, the Jews considered them pernicious betrayers of their country and religion. The word publican for the Jews had the connotation of public sinner and idol-worshipper. To even speak with a tax-collector was considered a sin, and to associate with one was defilement. But the Jewish teachers were not able to comprehend that the Lord had come to call not the righteous, but sinners to repentance (Mt. 9:13). Matthew, acknowledging his sinfulness, repaid fourfold anyone he had cheated, and he distributed his remaining possessions to the poor, and he followed after Christ with the other apostles. St Matthew was attentive to the instructions of the Divine Teacher, he beheld His innumerable miracles, he went together with the Twelve Apostles preaching to the lost sheep of the house of Israel (Mt. 10:6). He was a witness to the suffering, death, and Resurrection of the Savior, and of His glorious Ascension into Heaven. Having received the grace of the Holy Spirit, which descended upon the Apostles on the day of Pentecost, St Matthew preached in Palestine for several years. At the request of the Jewish converts at Jerusalem, the holy Apostle Matthew wrote his Gospel describing the earthly life of the Savior, before leaving to preach the Gospel in faraway lands. In the order of the books of the New Testament, the Gospel of Matthew comes first. Palestine is said to be the place where the Gospel was written. St Matthew wrote in Aramaic, and then it was translated into Greek. The Aramaic text has not survived, but many of the linguistic and cultural-historical peculiarities of the Greek translation give indications of it. The Apostle Matthew preached among people who were awaiting the Messiah. His Gospel manifests itself as a vivid proof that Jesus Christ is the Messiah foretold by the prophets, and that there would not be another (Mt. 11:3). The preaching and deeds of the Savior are presented by the evangelist in three divisions, constituting three aspects of the service of the Messiah: as Prophet and Law-Giver (Ch. 5-7), Lord over the world both visible and invisible (Ch. 8-25), and finally as High Priest offered as Sacrifice for the sins of all mankind (Ch ). The theological content of the Gospel, besides the Christological themes, includes also the teaching about the Kingdom of God and about the Church, which the Lord sets forth in parables about the inner preparation for entering into the Kingdom (Ch. 5-7), about the worthiness of servers of the Church in the world (Ch ), about the signs of the Kingdom and its growth in the souls of mankind (Ch. 13), about the humility and simplicity of the inheritors of the Kingdom (Mt. 18:1-35; ; 20:1-16; 25-27; 23:1-28), and about the eschatological revelations of the Kingdom in the Second Coming of Christ within the daily spiritual life of the Church (Ch ). The Kingdom of Heaven and the Church are closely interconnected in the spiritual experience of Christianity: the Church is the historical embodiment of the Kingdom of Heaven in the world, and the Kingdom of Heaven is the Church of Christ in its eschatological perfection (Mt. 16:18-19; 28:18-20). The holy Apostle brought the Gospel of Christ to Syria, Media, Persia, Parthia, and finishing his preaching in Ethiopia with a martyr s death. This land was inhabited by tribes of cannibals with primitive customs and beliefs. The holy Apostle Matthew converted some of the idol-worshippers to faith in Christ. He founded the Church and built a temple in the city of Mirmena, establishing there his companion Platon as bishop. When the holy apostle was fervently entreating God for the conversion of the Ethiopians the Lord Himself appeared to him in the form of a youth. He gave him a staff, and commanded him to plant it at the doors of the church. The Lord said that a tree would grow from this staff and it would bear fruit, and from its roots would flow a stream of water. When the Ethiopians washed themselves in the water and ate the fruit, they lost their wild ways and became gentle and good. When the holy apostle carried the staff towards the church, he was met by the wife and son of the ruler of the land, Fulvian, who were afflicted by unclean spirits. In the Name of Christ the holy apostle healed them. This miracle converted a number of the pagans to the Lord. But the ruler did not want his subjects to become Christians and cease worshiping the pagan gods. He accused the apostle of sorcery and gave orders to execute him. They put St Matthew head downwards, piled up brushwood and ignited it. When the fire flared up, everyone then saw that the fire did not harm St Matthew. Then Fulvian gave orders to add more wood to the fire, and frenzied with boldness, he commanded to set up twelve idols around the fire. But the flames melted the idols and flared up toward Fulvian. The frightened Ethiopian turned to the saint with an entreaty for mercy, and by the prayer of the martyr the flame went out. The body of the holy apostle remained unharmed, and he departed to the Lord. The ruler Fulvian deeply repented of his deed, but still he had doubts. By his command, they put the body of St Matthew into an iron coffin and threw it into the sea. In doing this Fulvian said that if the God of Matthew would preserve the body of the apostle in the water as He preserved him in the fire, then this would be proper reason to worship this One True God. That night the Apostle Matthew appeared to Bishop Platon in a dream, and commanded him to go with clergy to the shore of the sea and to find his body there. The righteous Fulvian and his retinue went with the bishop to the shore of the sea. The coffin carried by the waves was taken to the church built by the apostle. Then Fulvian begged forgiveness of the holy Apostle Matthew, after which Bishop Platon baptized him, giving him the name Matthew in obedience to a command of God. Soon St Fulvian-Matthew abdicated his rule and became a presbyter. Upon the death of Bishop Platon, the Apostle Matthew appeared to him and exhorted him to head the Ethiopian Church. Having become a bishop, St Fulvian-Matthew toiled at preaching the Word of God, continuing the work of his heavenly patron.

6 Announcements Sunday Social Please join us... This week, we d like to say Thank You to Deacon Don and Jean Billy of and Brian and Fran Chadwick of St. Anne s for sponsoring their respective socials. Also, many thanks to Olga Brown and Kit Kreuzwieser for their coffee donations. Parishioner Census Update Be sure you have returned your form envelope box distribution depends on it. St. Anne s Pyrohy Volunteers Wanted The St. Anne s pyrohy team is looking for more volunteers to assist with the weekly pyrohy project. Specifically, they would be happy to have an additional person to handle the front counter selling the pyrohy and working with money. Time frame for this spot is approximately 12pm-3pm every Friday. Sunday Radio Program *Christ Among Us* Tune in to WPIT-730AM - Pittsburgh, PA every Sunday at 2:00pm (EST) or listen to the radio program on-line at You can also listen any time at This program is brought to you each Sunday at this time to reach those who are elderly or ill, and those who are not able to attend their church for Sunday worship. This program is sponsored by the Diocesan Resource Committee of the Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of Saint Josaphat in Parma, OH, and by your contributions. Each Sunday we will bring to you the word of God and hope to brighten your lives with joy and solace. Ukrainian Radio Program Reminder to tune in on Saturday evening and listen to our own Marie Woloszyn and Anne Soroka as they dedicate our favorite Ukrainian music to listeners. Saturday: 7:30pm to 9:00pm WKTL (90.7) Remember Our Parishes and Eparchy in your Will The Church was a mother to you in life, providing for your spiritual needs. Please remember, St. Anne s Church, and the St. Josaphat Eparchy in your Last Will and Testament. Submissions and Requests If members of both parishes have news, information, and/or events they would like to share across the /St. Anne s audience, please feel free to submit this information to the Office by telephone or by noon on Fridays. Spiritually Adopt a Priest Program Our priests are indispensable. They give their lives to their saving mission of Christ and His church. It is our duty to pray for our priests. And so we are officially starting our Adopt a Priest Program. We will send interested parishioners a prayer card with the specific name of a priest, bishop or seminarian for whom to pray. And each year thereafter, at the beginning of our church year, September 1 st, we will send a different priest to include in your prayers. To participate, please your name and address to: spirituallyadoptapriest@gmail.com. Indicate your preference for an English or Ukrainian prayer card. Thank you for interceding on behalf of our priests. ПРОГРАМА ДУХОВНОЇ ПІДТРИМКИ СВЯЩЕНИКІВ Наші священики незамінні. Вони присвятили своє життя для спасительної місії Христа і Його Церкви. Наш обов язок молитися за наших священиків. І тому ми офіційно починаємо програму духовної підтримки священиків. Ми направимо зацікавленим парафіянам молитовну картку з ім ям певного священика, єпископа або семінариста, за кого слід молитися. Щороку на початку нашого церковного року, 1 вересня, ми будемо посилати Вам ім я іншого священика, щоб додати його до Ваших молитов. Для участі надішліть будь-ласка своє ім я та адресу на електронну пошту: spirituallyadoptapriest@gmail.com. Складаємо щиру подяку від імені наших священиків за Вашу турботу. Notice It is important, from time to time, to remind the people of our Eparchy that if anyone has been the victim of sexual abuse by the clergy or laity, he or she should come forward and make that known either to the bishop, to one's pastor, or to a member of the special Review Board that handles such cases. The bishop can be reached at his Chancery by dialing (440) or by writing to him at P.O. Box 34780, Parma, OH