2nd Sunday After Pentecost
Glory to Jesus Christ! Glory Forever!
2nd Sunday After Pentecost
June 22, 2025
Sat 6/21/25 4:00pm Vigil Divine Liturgy +Paul and Helen Macko Michalco by Rebecca Michalco
Sun 6/22/25 9:30am Divine Liturgy +Andy and +Christina Soley by Drew Moniot
Mon 6/23/25 7:00pm Vigil Divine Liturgy +Ward and +MaryLove Hammond by John Pocchiari
Tue 6/24/25 9:30am Divine Liturgy Birth of John the Baptist +Antoinette Desantis by Pocchiari Family
Wed 6/25/25 7:00pm Liturgy for Healing +Souls in Purgatory by Marian Luther
Fri 6/27/25 7:00pm Moleben to Jesus
Sat 6/28/25 4:00pm Vigil Divine Liturgy Apostles Peter and Paul +Souls in Purgatory by Marian Luther
Sun 6/29/25 9:30am Divine Liturgy Peter and Paul +Fr. Bill Weithorn by Lynne and Hans Bergh
Variable Parts Tone 1 - Pages 125 - 127
Epistle Romans 2 :10-16
Gospel Matthew 4:18-23
Epistle Readers 21-Jun John Baycura/Mary Motko 22-Jun Mike Dancisin 28-Jun Mary Troyan 29-Jun Kathy Moyta
Memorial Candle Request: No Candle Request
Please Pray for: Lejen Warner, Sharon King, Ole J. Bergh, Erik Bergh, Liz Moyta, Fr. Michael Huszti, Fr. Laska, Susie Curcio, Teresa Milkovich, Robert Saper, Anna Habil, Martha Sapar, Mike Dancisin, Karen Smaretsky Vavro, Diane Sotak, Anna Pocchiari, Larry Hamil, Beverly Jones, Marilyn Book, Maryann Russin Schyvers, Nick Russin and Ken Konchan
Attendance: 6/14 — 16 6/15 — 55; Collection: 6/14 & 6/15 - $2,035.00
Congratulations Reily Martin! - We are proud of you making Dean's List at Grove City College!
Our Byzantine Catholic Archeparchy now has an official Facebook page! You can find it under "Archeparchy of Pittsburgh" This will be a platform for us to stay connected and share important news and updates . If we have an event we can reach out to Viktoria Zolnova via email: events@archpitt.org to share the details.
4 ways that Jesus Replicates Himself in every parish:
1st: In the Eucharist, Jesus replicates himself to be at our side in our church.- The reading from Luke is often called the multiplication of the loaves, and Church Fathers, the Catechism and eminent theologians throughout the years call what happens in the story "multiplication," so that's not wrong. But as Erasmo Leiva-Merikakis points out, writing about Matthew's version of the story, "the text carefully stresses the passing of the loaves from hand to hand," and he asks, "In whose hands were the loaves in fact 'multiplied?' ... Apparently the bread grew in the distribution of it, as a result of both Jesus's blessing and of the disciples' collaboration with him." St. Thomas Aquinas quotes St. Hilary saying essentially the same thing. "The five loaves are not multiplied into more, but fragments take the place of fragments, the substance growing whether upon the tables or in the hands that took them up, I know not." Aquinas also quotes St. Rabanus Maurus saying Jesus "creates no new food items, but having taken what the disciples had, he gave thanks."
The 20th century lay apologist Frank Sheed in his book To Know Christ Jesus argues that what happens in the miracle should be called the "multi-location" of the loaves and fishes. In other words, the miracle is like bilocation, which some saints such as Padre Pio are known for, only with food being in several places at once. Sheed quotes this odd sentence in John's account of the miracle for confirmation: "They filled 12 baskets with the fragments from the five barley loaves" — in other words, the original five loaves themselves fed the multitudes. This miracle is a necessary precursor to the Eucharist, says Sheed, because it helps us see how it is possible for Jesus to be both in heaven and in our church. Not only that, it helps us see how he can be in our church and the church across town and every Catholic church in the world.
If Jesus can make loaves of bread be in thousands of different places at once, then he can do the same thing with his body. Just as five barley loaves filled 12 baskets, one Jesus fills countless tabernacles.
2nd: But the Eucharist also makes every person at every Mass "hi-locate" — it puts each of us in two places at the same time. - St. Paul First Letter to the Corinthians is the earliest account of what Jesus did on the night before he died. It showed that, by the year 54 or 55, not long after Jesus died, Christians were focused on the Eucharist and Jesus's command at the Last Supper to "Do this in remembrance of me."
In the Letter, after describing the consecration of the Eucharist, St. Paul goes on to say that this is no mere commemoration of a past event. It is Jesus Christ's presence in the here and now. He says, "whoever eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord unworthily will have to answer for the body and blood of the Lord," and "anyone who eats and drinks without discerning the body, eats and drinks judgment on to himself"
The Catechism explains what he means. This isn't the Stations of the Cross or the Sorrowful Mysteries of the Rosary. The Mass doesn't just help us remember the Passion. Mass makes us present at the real thing: Jesus died in one time and in one place, but wants us all to be there. So, through the liturgy, the Passion of Christ "transcends all times while being made present in them all," says the Catechism.
It adds: "The sacrifice of Christ and the sacrifice of the Eucharist are one single sacrifice: The victim is one and the same, the same now offers through the ministry of priests who then offered himself on the cross; only the manner of offering is different."
And finally: "Christ's sacrifice present on the altar makes it possible for all generations of Christians to be united with his offering." Thus, the Mass is like a time-and-space portal that allows each of us to be in two places at the same time: at the altar of our parish and at the Lord's side during his passion.
3rd: But that's not all. Jesus is present to us in another way at every Mass. - The Multiplication of the Loaves and Fishes is one miracle that makes the Eucharist possible. The Bible reveals another pre-requisite for the Eucharist: the mysterious, miraculous priesthood that mediates God to us in every age. In the Reading, we meet Melchizedek, a priest who is also a king of "Salem" — Jerusalem, the city of Zion. He comes bearing bread, wine and a blessing, and Abram gives him a 10th of his possessions. We know what comes after that: Abram becomes Abraham, and founds a great nation. Just as Abram's meeting with Melchizedek changed the trajectory of his life, so does our encounter with our parish priest and his offering. Jesus ordained the first apostles, they ordained others, and so on went the chain until your parish priest was ordained. During his ordination, your parish priest was told what we pray in the Psalm this Sunday: "You are a priest forever, according to the order of Melchizedek." The Catechism calls Melchizedek "a prefiguration of the priesthood of Christ" and adds that "Christ is the source of all priesthood: The priest of the old law was a figure of Christ, and the priest of the new law acts in the person of Christ." Today, in the priesthood, we each encounter the person of Christ.
4th: There is one last way Christ "replicates himself" at Mass.- One aspect of the Eucharist is so obvious, we often overlook it: By coming in the form of bread that we consume, Jesus is telling us what he wants from its in as graphic and visceral a way possible, so that everyone from scholars to illiterate children can understand. li ink about Jesus Christ is in the form of a host at Mass. He has no arms, no legs and no voice. If the priest ,‘ ere to take a host out of the tabernacle and put it on a street corner, it would do nothing. It would remain the t tie presence of Jesus Christ — body, blood, soul and divinity — but in a form that is utterly unable to act in the world. A host can't feed the hungry, or house the homeless, or bring comfort to the downtrodden. 'Mead, the host is given to each communicant in a solemn act, and then we all "Go forth!" into the world, where we are told to "Go and announce the Gospel of the Lord." Jesus said, "He who eats my flesh and drinks ty blood abides in me, and I in him." St. Augustine said, If you say "Amen" to communion, "Be then a member of the Body of Christ that your Amen may be true."The Second Person of the Trinity, Jesus Christ, ,ime to earth so that we would see Christ in our neighbor and be Christ for those we see; the Eucharist makes Ills happen. Since we are the body of Christ, we are his presence in the world. God is love, and love is onerous. Jesus is so generous he replicates himself in every tabernacle, in every priest, and in every Christian, au that he can be present in every parish, every family, every neighborhood — through his emissaries; through Christians; through you and through me.
