Transfiguration of Our Lord Ukrainian Catholic Church 240 Center Street Nanticoke, PA 18634 Nanticoke Rectory: (570)735-2262 Fax: (570)735-6020 Church Email: HolyTransfiguration@verizon.net WebSite: www.transfigurationucc.org Father Volodymyr Email: typyk2@yahoo.com Rev. Volodymyr Popyk Cell Phone: (609) 372-7161 Divine Liturgy Schedule September 14, 2014 Saturday, September 13 EXALATION OF THE HOLY CROSS 5:45PM Holy Rosary 6:00PM Blessings for Maryan Popyk for his 13 th Birthday Myrovania (anointing of Holy Oil) Sunday, September 14 EXALATION OF THE HOLY CROSS 10:15 AM Holy Rosary 10:30 AM God s Blessings and Good Health on all Parishioner Myrovania (anointing of Holy Oil) MATINS TO CROSS Monday, September 15 9:00AM Michael Hvozda- Ed & Mary Schwartz SEPTEMBER 15-18 CLERGY CONFERENCE Friday, September 19 4:00PM Henry Jakimowicz- A Friend 6:00PM RELIGIOUS CLASSES-ALL ARE WELCOME!!! Saturday, September 13 5:45PM Holy Rosary 6:00PM Joe Harvey - Ed & Mary Schwartz Sunday, September 14 SUNDAY AFTER THE EXALATION OF THE HOLY CROSS 10:15AM Holy Rosary 10:30 AM God s Blessings and Good Health on all Parishioner
SUNDAY OF THE EXALTATION OF THE HOLY CROSS September 14, 2014 ANTIPHON 1: My God, my God, be attentive to me! Why have you forsaken me? The litany of my sins places me far from my salvation. REFRAIN: Through the prayers of the Mother of God, O Savior, save us. My God, I cry out by day, but you do not hear; by night and it shall not be attributed to me as folly. REFRAIN: Through the prayers of the Mother of God, O Savior, save us. Yet you dwell in the holy place, O praise of Israel. REFRAIN: Through the prayers of the Mother of God, O Savior, save us. Glory Be: Now and for ever: O Begotten Son: ANTIPHON 3: The Lord is king; let the people tremble. He is enthroned on the cherubim, let the earth quake. Tropar 1: O Lord, save your people and bless your inheritance. To all who do battle with sin and evil, grant victory; and by the power of your cross protect your people. The Lord in Sion is great, and he is high above all the peoples. Troparion: O Lord, save your people and bless your inheritance. To all who do battle with sin and evil, grant victory; and by the power of your cross protect your people. Let them profess your great name, for it is awesome and holy. TROPARION: O Lord, save your people and bless your inheritance. To all who do battle with sin and evil, grant victory; and by the power of your cross protect your people. EISODIKON: Exalt the Lord, our God, and worship at his footstool, for he is holy. TROPARION: O Lord, save your people and bless your inheritance. To all who do battle with sin and evil, grant victory; and by the power of your cross protect your people. Glory to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit, now and forever and ever. Amen. KONDAK: It was of your own free will that you were raised upon the cross. Generously bestow your mercies upon your new community named for you, O Christ God! By your power gladden the faithful and let them triumph over every evil, for your cross is their ally and their weapon is peace, assuring unfailing victory.
INSTEAD OF THE TRISAGON: To our cross, O Master, we bow in veneration, and we glorify your holy resurrection. (3 times) Glory to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit, now and for ever and ever. Amen. And we glorify your holy resurrection. To our cross, O Master, we bow in veneration, and we glorify your holy resurrection. PROKIMEN: Exalt the Lord, our God, and worship at his footstool, for he is holy. Verse: The Lord is King, let the peoples tremble. A reading from St. Paul's First Epistle to the Corinthians (1:18-24): Brethren, for the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. For it is written: I will destroy the wisdom of the wise; the intelligence of the intelligent I will frustrate. Where is the wise person? Where is the teacher of the law? Where is the philosopher of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world? For since in the wisdom of God the world through its wisdom did not know him, God was pleased through the foolishness of what was preached to save those who believe. Jews demand signs and Greeks look for wisdom, but we preach Christ crucified: a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles, but to those whom God has called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God. ALLELUIA: Remember your congregation which you acquired from the beginning. Alleluia (3). But God is our King from of old. He has wrought salvation in the midst of the earth. Alleluia (3). (over.) CLERGY CONFERENCE: Father Popyk will be attending a Clergy Retreat at Long Beach, NJ from September 15 to September 18. No Liturgical Services will be held at this time. PARISH COUNCIL: The next meeting of the Parish Council will be on Tuesday, October 7 at 6:00PM.
Gospel of John 19:6-11;13-21;25-27;30-35: At that time, after the high priests and elders decided to put Jesus to death, they led him to Pilate.. As soon as the chief priests and their officials saw him, they shouted, Crucify! Crucify! But Pilate answered, You take him and crucify him. As for me, I find no basis for a charge against him. The Jewish leaders insisted, We have a law, and according to that law he must die, because he claimed to be the Son of God. When Pilate heard this, he was even more afraid, and he went back inside the palace. Where do you come from? he asked Jesus, but Jesus gave him no answer. Do you refuse to speak to me? Pilate said. Don t you realize I have power either to free you or to crucify you? Jesus answered, You would have no power over me if it were not given to you from above. Therefore the one who handed me over to you is guilty of a greater sin. When Pilate heard this, he brought Jesus out and sat down on the judge s seat at a place known as the Stone Pavement (which in Aramaic is Gabbatha). It was the day of Preparation of the Passover; it was about noon. Here is your king, Pilate said to the Jews. But they shouted, Take him away! Take him away! Crucify him! Shall I crucify your king? Pilate asked. We have no king but Caesar, the chief priests answered. Finally Pilate handed him over to them to be crucified. So the soldiers took charge of Jesus. Carrying his own cross, he went out to the place of the Skull (which in Aramaic is called Golgotha). There they crucified him, and with him two others one on each side and Jesus in the middle. Pilate had a notice prepared and fastened to the cross. It read: JESUS OF NAZARETH, THE KING OF THE JEWS. Many of the Jews read this sign, for the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city, and the sign was written in Aramaic, Latin and Greek. The chief priests of the Jews protested to Pilate, Do not write The King of the Jews, but that this man claimed to be king of the Jews. Near the cross of Jesus stood his mother, his mother s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene. When Jesus saw his mother there, and the disciple whom he loved standing nearby, he said to her, Woman, here is your son, and to the disciple, Here is your mother. From that time on, this disciple took her into his home. When he had received the drink, Jesus said, It is finished. With that, he bowed his head and gave up his spirit. Now it was the day of Preparation, and the next day was to be a special Sabbath. Because the Jewish leaders did not want the bodies left on the crosses during the Sabbath, they asked Pilate to have the legs broken and the bodies taken down. The soldiers therefore came and broke the legs of the first man who had been crucified with Jesus, and then those of the other. But when they came to Jesus and found that he was already dead, they did not break his legs. Instead, one of the soldiers pierced Jesus side with a spear, bringing a sudden flow of blood and water. The man who saw it has given testimony, and his testimony is true. He knows that he tells the truth, and he testifies so that you also may believe. INSTEAD OF: (It is truly right...) Extol my soul, the holy cross of the Lord. IRMOS: O Mother of God, you are the mystical garden of paradise, from which Christ came forth without any human cultivation. He planted the life-giving tree of the cross on the earth. And so, as we venerate the cross raised on high today, we extol you.
CHURCH NEWS YOUR PRAYERS. PLEASE REMEMBER UKRAINE IN HAPPY BIRTHDAY!: Happy Birthday wishes to Maryan Popyk who celebrated his birthday on Saturday, September 13! May God Grant Maryan & His Family Many Happy Years!! Mnohaya Lita! PRAY THE ROSARY! ALL SATURDAYS AND SUNDAYS IN THE MONTH OF SEPTEMBER 15 MINUTES BEFORE THE DIVINE LITURGY! WELCOME! VITAEMO! PLEASE COME AND PRAY TO THE HOLY MOTHER OF GOD! COFFEE HOUR THANK YOU!: A big thank you to Helen Lipowski and Gerri Adamchak for sponsoring coffee hour last week! Special thanks to our Pear Pie Maker! MONDAY NIGHT WORK PROJECTS: There will be a work project on Monday, September 15 at 5:30PM. Bring hammers, gloves, drills and wrenches. Project will repair the fence on Perry Street. DIVINE LITURGY: No Divine Liturgy will be served on Saturday, October 25 at 6:00PM due to the Sobor. Petitions & Prayers for Our Parishioners Please pray for our Parishioners in the Nursing Homes: Catherine Lachowecz, Mary Kozmoski Assisted Living: Mary Manson, Dorothy Kobela At Home: John & Mary Hoolick, Mike Yurkowski, Lois Antal, John Petrochko, Irene Diakiw, Joseph & Dorothy Kopiak, Dolores Grozio, Helen Hook. UKRAINIAN IMMIGRATION TO THE COAL REGION: On Sunday, September 28 at 3:00PM speaker Paula Holoviak will discuss the reasons for this first major wave of Ukrainian immigration and explores the cultural legacy of the early immigrants. The presentation ends with a performance of Ukrainian folk songs and dancing by Kazka. The presentation will take place at St. John the Baptist Orthodox Church, 93 Zerby Ave, Edwardsville, PA. Admission is free, please reserve your seats by calling Shirley Gingo at 570-696-3450. COLLECTION: Week of Sept. 7: Total:$1394.50;Collection:$413;Candles:$158.50;Dues:$40; Maint.:$5; Diocesan:$6; HolyDays:$78; Ss.Peter & Paul:$300; Flea:$5;Proscomedia:$40; Reimb.:$349.
WEDDING ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION ON OCTOBER 19,2014: you are invited to join with Archbishop Stefan Soroka to celebrate the Wedding Anniversary Divine Liturgy at our Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Philadelphia at 11:00AM. A Banquet for all the celebrants will be held in the Cathedral Banquet hall after the Divine Liturgy. We invite all married couples from 1 year to 50+ years to come and join with us. Please use the form below to register or contact Dan.troyan@yahoo.com. Deadline for Registration is October 5, 2014. FALL FESTIVAL/CHICKEN DINNER: St. Andrew Parish (formerly St. Boniface, St. Patrick & Holy Rosary, W-B) is holding a Stuffed Breast of Chicken Dinner on Sunday, September 21, 2014 in St. Andrew s (St. Patrick s) Church Hall, 318 Parrish St., Wilkes-Barre. The dinner includes a stuffed breast of chicken, mashed potatoes, gravy, green beans, coffee/tea and dessert. There will also be a bake sale, theme basket raffle and instant bingo. Serving is from 11:30 A.M. to 4:00 P.M. Take-outs will be available. Cost is $9.00 for adults and $4.00 for children age 12 and under. Tickets can be purchased at the door. SISTERS OF THE ORDER OF SAINT BASIL THE GREAT: The Annual Pilgrimage to the Mother of God will be held on Sunday, October 5, 2014. The theme of this year s pilgrimage is Call to Holiness. It will highlight the life of the Metropolitan Andrew Sheptytsky on the 70 th Anniversary of his Death. The day begins with Matins at 9:00Am. Divine Liturgy will be celebrated at 11:30AM. For further information please visit the Sisters website at www.stbasils.com or call 215-379-3998 extension 17. PETITIONS TO THE MOTHER OF GOD: Petitions to the Mother of God will be held at the grotto in the month of OCTOBER immediately following Divine Liturgy. ASKING FOR CHRISTIANS FOR FORGIVENESS FROM GOD FOR THEIR SINS ON SEPTEMBER 21: On September 21 at an Oklahoma City Civic Center, Dakhama of Angra Mainyu will hold a public black mass, thereby exercising their First Amendment Rights. The event will be a tamer version of a traditional satanic ceremonies, by using vinegar for urine in order to comply with state health laws. The event sold 88 tickets and the parks and recreation department rented the facility for $420 to the group. The event is protested by Oklahoma City residents and a lawsuit was enacted by the Catholic Church.
SEPTEMBER CANDLES The Eternal Light is donated by the Kawczenski Family in loving memory of Joseph & Mary Englot. The Altar Candles are donated by Tom & Mary Potsko for a Special Intention. The Proscomedia Table is donated by the Anna Kutsup in loving memory of Mary Kressel. The Saint Nicholas Candle is donated by Lisa Placek for Nathan & Catherine Slota. The Church Bulletins for the month of September are donated by the Kawczenski Family in loving memory of Joseph & Mary Englot. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Rosary is the most beautiful and the most rich in graces of all prayers; it is the prayer that touches most the Heart of the Mother of God and if you wish peace to reign in your homes, recite the family Rosary. - Pope Saint Pius X