Christ the Saviour Cathedral CATHEDRAL JOTTINGS Corner of Garfield Street and Butler Avenue Johnstown, Pa. 15906 Rectory Office 249 Butler Avenue; Johnstown, Pa. 15906 Cathedral Church of His Grace, Bishop Gregory Tatsis of the American Carpatho-Russian Orthodox Diocese of the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople Cathedral Clergy Pastor Very Reverend Protopresbyter Robert A. Buczak, Cathedral Dean Very Reverend Protopresbyter Frank P. Miloro, Chancellor Very Rev. John A. Baranik Jr. Very Rev. John S. Brancho Rectory Phone. 814-539-8086 Mobile Phone..412-759-4481 Cathedral Office.. 814-254-4011 Web-site. http://cathedral.acrod.org E-mail Address (for Father Robert Buczak)... kbuczak@msn.com Vol. 71 No. 1469 March 30 th, 2014 Fourth Sunday of the Great Fast Saint John Climacus Sunday Saint Alexis the Man of God & St. Patrick the Enlightener of Ireland Divine Liturgy of Saint Basil the Great 9:00 am Sunday School - 10:20 Panachida for Pani Anna Yurcisin and Andrew and Anna (Homyak) Popovich offered by Ann Melanie Yurcisin Resurrection Tone 7 Epistle: Hebrews 6:13-20 Gospel: Mark 9:16-30 Tropar & Kondak: pages 99 &183-184 Services for the week of March 30 th Tue. 4/01 +Pani Brenda Conrad (Perpetual); and +Stephen Sroka offered by the Havrilla Family Parastas 8:00 am Wed. 4/02 + Anna Gladish offered by Mr. & Mrs Richard McCoy (Perpetual) Parastas 8:00 am Confessions. 6:15-7:00 pm The Great Canon of Saint Andrew of Crete. 7:00 pm Thu. 4/03 +Sophie Medvic offered by John and Nancy Kobal - Parastas...... 8:00 am Fri. 4/04 + Helen Herman offered by John and Helen Herman; and +Pauline McCormick (Perpetual) - Parastas.....8:00 am Confessions..6:15 7:00 pm Pre-sanctified Liturgy 7:00 pm Sat. 4/05 +Andrew Krett offered by Ann Mishurda; and Reggie Lengyel (Perpetual)...8:00 am Great Vespers.6:00 pm
Sunday, April 6 th, 2014 Fifth Sunday of the Great Fast Saint Mary of Egypt Sunday Communion Breakfast Divine Liturgy of Saint Basil the Great 9:00 am ////// NO Sunday School Panachida for Peter Malinowsky offered by the Family Resurrection Tone 8 Epistle: Hebrews 9:11-14 Tropar & Kondak: pages 102 &185-186 Gospel: Mark 10:32-45 Services for the week of April 6 th Vespers for the Feast of the Annunciation Immediately following the Communion Breakfast Monday April 7, 2014 Feast of the Annunciation Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom - 9:00 am Epistle: Hebrews 2: 11-18 Gospel: Luke 1:24-38 Wed. 4/09 + Susan Korinko offered by Pani Emily Molchany; +Anna Patchen offered by John Patchen; +Peter and +Helen offered by John Kuzovich (Perpetual); and +Mae Kopach offered by Theresa Froehlick and family Parastas..8:00 am Confessions. 6:15-7:00 pm Paraklis... 7:00 pm Thu. 4/10 + Charles and Mary Yarina offered by Joseph Gorman; + Orthodox Christians offered by Julia Hamilla, +Simon Lazarak offered by Anna Lazarak; and +Julia Hamilla (Perpetual) - Parastas...... 8:00 am Fri. 4/11 Confessions...6:15 7:00 pm Pre-sanctified Liturgy 7:00 pm Saturday, April 12 th, 2014 Lazarus Saturday Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom 9:00 am Panachida for husband Michael, Justine, son John, Justina, parents Andrew and Mary, inlaws Paul and Anna, brother Michael offered by Justina Slachta; and John and Elizabeth offered by Velma and Irene Wargo (Perpetual) Epistle: Hebrews 12:28-29; 13:1-8 Gospel: John 11:1-45 Tropar & Kondak: Blue Book pages 186-187 Vespers for the Feast of the Triumphal Entry of Our Lord into Jerusalem 6:00 pm Sunday, April 13 th, 2014 Triumphal Entry of Our Lord into Jerusalem - Palm Sunday Blessing of Willows and Palms - 8:50 am Divine Liturgy of Saint John Chrysostom 9:00 am Sunday School 10:20 am Epistle: Philippians 4:4-9 Tropar & Kondak: pages 188-192 Gospel: John 12: 1-18 BIRTHDAY PRAYERS are offered for Jason Louis Buczak (4/1), Fred Leer, Kolton Mack Deater, Kaelyn Rebecca Deater (4/2) and Romayne Laichak (4/4). You were remembered today in the Proskomedia. ETERNAL LAMP The Eternal Lamp is offered in memory of Joseph Kamara by Claire Nash ALTAR CANDLES - are offered in honor of the birthday of Anna T. Mishurda by Patricia Gritzer. BULLETIN SPONSOR The Cathedral Jottings bulletin is sponsored this week in memory of Michael and Helen Gritzer offered by their daughter Patricia Gritzer. Thank you!
CONFESSIONS The Sacrament of Reconciliation (Confessions) will be offered 1 hour before all Lenten Services. Please use these opportunities to take advantage of this ministry and avoid interrupting the Divine Liturgy on Sunday mornings to have your confession heard. PANACHIDA OFFERINGS We are reminded that Panchidas (Memorial Services for the Departed) CANNOT be served on the Major Feast Days of our Lord including Sunday, April 13th (Palm Sunday), Sunday, April 20th (Great and Holy Pascha) and Sunday, April 28 th (St. Thomas Sunday). Please make your offerings for Panachidas on the Sunday s preceding these dates (April 6 th, or after Sunday May 4th. CATHEDRAL SENIORS SOUP SALE The Cathedral Seniors are selling quarts of soup in the Church Auditorium after Divine Liturgy. The price of soup is $6.00 per quart and are of a variety of tastes and flavors. SUNDAY SCHOOL NEWS Cancelled Stamps are still being collected. This Lenten Project will be used to help the Veterans Rehabilitation project. You may give your cancelled stamps to any student or teacher. Candy Orders may be picked up at the Communion Breakfast on April 6 th. Thank you to Patricia Gritzer for her kind donation of $50.00 to the Sunday School in memory of her parents Michael and Helen Gritzer. NUT ROLLS FOR SALE Saint Stephen s Orthodox Church in Latrobe is selling Nut, Poppyseed and Apricot Rolls for $10.00 each. If you would like to order one, Please call Fr. Robert at 539-8086. Pickup dates are April 5 th or April 12 th at the Cathedral CAMP NAZARETH FAMILY DAY RAFFLE Raffle tickets for the annual Family Day Raffle are now available in the church office. This is the only diocesan-wide fundraiser and it is a significant source of income for the Camp program and our children. Raffle tickets are $20.00 each with prizes exceeding $20,000.00. Get yours today! TREASURE EGG HUNT INDIVIDUALLY WRAPPED SOFT CANDY is needed to fill the plastic eggs for the children s egg hunt. Please bring your candy donation and leave it on the Auditorium stage. Thank you! LAUREL VALLEY GOLF MARATHON A unique Golf Marathon will be held Saturday, May 17, 2014 at the Oakbrook Golf Course, Jennerstown, Pa. For more information please call Pauli at Laurel View Village @ 814-288-2724. PENNIES FOR CAMBRIA CITY MISSION This annual Lenten project that our church undertakes provides for our brother and sister in need. Please deposit your loose change into the container near the doors of the nave of the church. God bless you for your charity and almsgiving. ANNUAL APPEAL FOR ST. SOPHIA S SCHOOL St. Sophia Orthodox Christian Academy is holding its annual fund raising appeal during the Lenten season. Donations may be made using the appeal letter and donor form available at the back of the church or in the church hall, or donations can be given directly to Susan Kalcik, Dee Tvarozna, or Romayne Laichak.
SPAGHETTI DINNER AND BASKET RAFFLE A Spaghetti Dinner and Basket Raffle will be held Sunday, March 30 th from 11:30 am 3:00 pm and the St. Clement Church Social Hall, 110 Lindberg Avenue, Johnstown. Tickets are $7.00 for adults and $4.00 for children 5-12 and may be purchased at the door. Take-out meals are available. Please call 814-255-1964 for more information. BLOOD SCREEN The Resurrection Roman Catholic Parish is offering a complete Multiphasic Blood Screen with Lipid Profile and TSH, April 5 th, 2014 from 7:00 am 9:00 am at the Resurrection Parish, 324 Chestnut Street. Please call 814-421-2962 for more information. Donation is $32.00. A.C.R.Y. BOWLING TOURNAMENT Chapter #34 of Elizabeth, New Jersey is pleased to be the host for the 2014 66th Metropolitan Orestes Memorial Bowling Tournament. Come join them for an enjoyable weekend of bowling, Christian Fellowship and worship! All pertinent information can be accessed at the National ACRY Webpage at: http://acrod.org/organizations/senioracry/acryn-e/acrycomingevents/2014-bt. ALL DEADLINES FOR THE TOURNAMENT ARE APRIL 30, 2014 FAMILY CAMP @ CAMP NAZARETH The Diocesan Families and children are cordially invited to take part in the Second Annual Family Camp at Camp Nazareth this year which is being held in conjunction with Family Day. The event is exactly what it sounds like. Families camping together in the Camp cabins and participating in a weekend of services, games, discussions, activities and challenges that are all designed to help families deepen their relationship with God and with one another. Please see Fr. Buczak for more information. SUMMER CAMP @ CAMP NAZARETH July 13 th -19 th, 2014 The cost for 2014 Diocesan Camping Season is: $285.00 Per Diocesan Camper. ($335.00 Non- Diocesan Camper) A Family Discount of $25.00 per child (after the first child) will be offered for families sending more than 1 child (siblings only). *NEW* Early Bird Discount -- $20.00 -- Register by May 15th. Please note that payment must be postmarked by MAY 15 or credit card applied by MAY 15 to be considered for Early Bird Discount. Please see Father Buczak or download your registration forms from the camp website. QUOTES FROM THE HOLY FATHERS Some labor and struggle hard to earn forgiveness, but better than these is the man who forgets the wrongs done to him. Forgive quickly and you will be abundantly forgiven. To forget wrongs is to prove oneself truly repentant, but to brood on them and at the same time to imagine one is practicing repentance is to act like the man who is convinced he is running when in fact he is fast asleep. St. John Climacus What a gnawing worm of the soul, what a plague of our thoughts, what a rust of our heart it is to be jealous of someone s strength or happiness. That is, to hate one s deserved profit or divine benefits, to turn others advantages into your harm, to be tormented by the prosperity of famous men, to make other people s glory your own penalty, and as it were, to execute yourself or to bring tormentors to your thoughts and feelings, that they might tear up your stomach and strike the secret places of the heart with hatred. To such a person no food is joyous, no drink can be cheerful. They are always sighing, groaning, and grieving. Since the envious never put off envy, the crazed heart is torn violent day and night. St. Cyprian of Carthage Humble yourself and reproach yourself. Do not justify yourself, even if you are absolutely right, for self-justification is not conducive to the healing of our spiritual illness If you want to be fragrant, embrace a humble, simple, obedient, and meek spirit. Despise egotism as a stench and stupidity. You do well to reproach yourself in everything. This is most true to the Fathers. Yes, my child, implant this manner of life deeply within your dear little soul and you will benefit enormously. Elder Ephraim of the Holy Mountain
SELECTIONS FROM THE LADDER OF DIVINE ASCENT STEP 1: ON RENUNCIATION OF THE WORLD #3. God belongs to all free beings. He is the life of all, the salvation of all faithful and unfaithful, just and unjust, pious and impious, passionate and dispassionate, monks and laymen, wise and simple, healthy and sick, young and old just as the effusion of light, the sight of the sun, and the changes of the season are for all alike; for there is no respect of special persons with God. #4. The irreligious man is a mortal being with a rational nature, who of his own free will turns his back on life and thinks his own Maker, the Ever-Existent, as non-existent. The transgressor is one who holds the law of God after his own depraved fashion, and thinks to combine faith in God with heresy that is directly opposed to Him. The Christian is one who imitates Christ in thought, word and deed, as far as is possible for human beings, believing rightly and blamelessly in the Holy Trinity. The lover of God is he who lives in communion with all that is natural and sinless, and as far as he is able neglects nothing good. The content man is one who lives in the midst of temptation, snares, and turmoil, and who is eager to imitate with all his might those who are free from turmoil. #15. Let us eagerly run our course as men called by our God and King, lest, since our time is short, we be found in the day of our death without fruit and perish of hunger. Let us please the Lord as soldiers please their kin; because we are required to give an exact account of our service after the campaign. Let us fear the Lord not less than we fear beasts. For I have seen men who were going to steal and were not afraid of God, but, hearing the barking dogs, they at once turned back; and what the fear of God could not achieve was done by the fear of animals. Let us love God at least as much as we respect our friends. For I have often seen people who had offended God and were not in the least perturbed about it. And I have seen how those same people provoked by their friends in some trifling matter, and then employ every artifice, every device, every sacrifice, every apology, both personally and through friends and relatives, not sparing gifts, in order to regain their former love. #16. In the very beginning of our renunciation of the world, it is certainly with labor and grief that we practice the virtues. But when we have made progress in them, we no longer feel sorrow, or we feel little sorrow. But soon our mortal mind is consumed and mastered by our zeal, we practice them with all joy and eagerness, with love and divine fire. #27. So who is the faithful and wise man? He who has kept his fervour unabated, and to the end of his life has not ceased daily to add fire to fire, fervour to fervour, zeal to zeal, love to love. THIS IS THE FIRST STEP - LET HIM WHO HAS MOUNTED IT NOT TURN BACK PRAYER CHAIN Thomas Buczak Brenda McLean Raymond Hovan Cindy LaBarr Bernard Buczak Larry Buksa Aunt Eva Vaporis Patricia Freidhoff Steve Martyak Dr. P.Z. Vora Michael Talarovich Joan Wine Jessica McLaughlin Irene Popp Ernest Vasil Holly Scheibler Joann Bodnar Michael Sakmar Kylie and Emma Fischer Annie Mishurda LTJG Tatiana Kish Pani Betty Jean Baranik Rectory Office Hours Father is available any time by appointment. Emergency Sick Calls can be made at any time. Please phone the rectory when a family member is admitted to the hospital. Marriages are solemnized on Saturdays or Sundays. Consult the pastor at least six months in advance and before plans have been made for the wedding reception. Marriages cannot be celebrated during the fasting seasons of the church, or on Fridays. Baptisms are normally scheduled on Saturdays or Sundays. Consult the pastor. Two God-parents are required, at least one of whom must be Orthodox by faith and the other a practicing Christian. Church Funerals are provided for practicing Orthodox Christians who are current in their spiritual and financial obligations to the parish; otherwise burial is from the funeral home. The Church does not permit cremation.