Sunday of the Fathers of the 7th Ecumenical Council
Glory to Jesus Christ! Glory Forever!
Sunday of the Fathers of the 7th Ecumenican Council
October 11, 2026
St. John the Baptist Byzantine Catholic
105 Kohler Ave
Lyndora PA 16045
Phone 724-287-5000
www.stiohnbyzlyn.com
athanasius@zoominternet.net
Sat 10/10/26 4:00pm Vigil Divine Liturgy +Michael Dancisin by John Baycura
Sun 10/11/26 9:30am Divine Liturgy +Marilyn Book by Fizer Family
Wed 10/14/26 7:00pm Liturgy +George Reeder and +Sharon Crocker by Rick and Irena Reeder
Fri 10/16/26 7:00pm Akathist to the Theotokos
Sat 10/17/26 4:00pm Vigil Divine Liturgy +Richard Callihan by Matt and Darlene Callihan
Sun 10/18/26 9:30am Divine Liturgy +Karen Bohin by Andy Bohin 8, Family
Variable Parts: Tone 3 - Pgs 135 — 137 Fathers of the 7th Council - 263 — 264
Epistle: Gal 1:11-19 or Heb 13:7-16
Gospel: Lk 7:11-16 or John 17:1-13
Memorial Candle Request: No Candle Request
Epistle Readers 10-Oct John Baycura/Mary Motko 11-Oct Amanda Stavish 17-Oct Mary Troyan 18-Oct Joel Hills
Memorial Candle Request: No Candle Request
Please Pray for: Lucas Benson, Lou Pocchiari, Mike Oshlick, Kathy Moyta, Dorothy Moyta, Brian Buchkovich, Lejen Warner, Sharon King, Liz Moyta, Fr. Michael Huszti, Fr. Laska, Susie Curcio, Teresa Milkovich, Robert Saper, Anna Habil, Diane Sotak, Anna Pocchiari, Larry Hamil, Beverly Jones, Maryann Russin Schyvers, Nick Russin and Ken Konchan
Attendance: 9/26 - 16, 9/27 - 81; 10/3 - 24; 10/4 - 83
Collection 9/26, 9/27 - $1,592.00 10/3, 10/4 - $3,240.00
Student Food Pantry: Thanksgiving is coming. We are now collecting Thanksgiving food items such as stuffing, gravy, yams, canned vegetables, etc. Donations may be placed in the designated area in the vestibule. Contact Pam Gagen if you have questions. Thank you!
Boscov Coupons: Our church will be selling Boscov coupons for a 25% off all day October 21. Coupons are $5.00. Please see Elizabeth Pocchiari or Fr. Radko to purchase one.
Operation Christmas Child: Please continue to send in your donations for the Operation Christmas Child program by October 25ffi. Thank you to those who have already generously donated. The box is in the vestibule. Please check out this website for suggestions on what is helpful to donate or ask Amanda Stavish. If you would prefer to give a cash donation, this is also very welcome! Amanda will purchase needed items with your donation. Thank you!
Today's Coffee Social — 50/50 Drawing: We will need help after the coffee social to pack up the items left from the Rummage Sale. If anyone wants anything, please take it. Thank you for your help! We will have the final drawing for the 50/50 at the coffee social.
Upcoming Events Dates:
November 13 — Halupki Making.
December 10, 11, 17 & 18 — Nut Roll Baking.
December 6 - Ladies Guild Christmas Party.
Homemade Halupki!
St. John the Baptist Byzantine Church
105 Kohler Avenue
Lyndora, PA
$3.00 Each
Pickup Saturday November 14
10am - 1pm at the church
To order call (412) 857-9446
BEFORE November 1
Pre-orders only, NO walk-Ins
(Please do not call the church or rectory)
The Virgin of La Salette appeared to two children in 1846 near the town of La Salette-Fallavaux, in Isere, France. Two young shepherds, namely Saint Mary Melanie of the Cross, aged 15, and Saint Maximin Giraud, aged 11, described how on Saturday the 19th of September 1846, towards three in the afternoon, while keeping watch on their employers' cows on a mountain near the alpine town of La Salette, within a resplendent light brighter than the sun, they saw a `Beautiful Lady' appear, weeping, who addressed them.
First seated and weeping with head in hands, the `Beautiful Lady' rose up and spoke at length. She explained to them that She was weeping at the impiety reigning in society, and urged them to renounce two grave sins become very common: blasphemy, and not observing Sunday as the day of rest and for attending Mass. She predicts dreadful chastisements to come if the people do not change, and promises divine mercy to those who do change. Finally She asked the children to pray, do penance and spread Her message. Among other things, the Virgin told the shepherd children that the hand of Her Son was so strong and heavy that She could no longer hold it back, unless the people did penance and obeyed God's Laws. If not, they would have much to suffer. The people did not observe the Lord's Day, but went on working without stop on Sundays. Only a few elderly women went to Mass in summer. And in winter, when they had nothing to do, they went to Church to make fun of religion. The Lenten season was ignored. Men could not swear without taking God' Name in vain. Disobedience and ignoring God's Commandments were the things that made Her Son's hand heavier. She continued conversing, and foretold a dreadful famine and shortages. All the light within which She appeared and which completely enveloped the three, came from a great Crucifix She wore on the breast, beside it a hammer and some pincers. On Her shoulders She wore a chain and, to the side, some roses. Her head, waist and feet were also encircled by roses; white dress, with a shawl or paholeta and golden apron. At the end, the "Beautiful Lady" went up by a slope and disappeared into the light.
"Melanie, what I shall now tell you will not always be a secret. You can publish it in 1858... Lucifer with a great number of devils will be freed from Hell; they will abolish the Faith little by little, including among persons consecrated to God; they will blind them in such a way that, unless by a special grace, those persons will take on the spirit of those bad angels; many monasteries and convents will lose the Faith entirely and ruin many souls.
Bad books will abound on earth and the spirits of darkness will spread universal laxity in everything to do with God's service; they will have great power over nature; there will be churches to serve these spirits.
... In all parts there will be extraordinary prodigies, given that the true Faith has been smothered and a false light illumines the world. The Vicar of My Son will have much to suffer, as for a time the Church will be abandoned to great persecutions; it will be a time of darkness; the Church will go through a dreadful crisis.
God's Holy Faith forgotten, each individual will want to guide himself and be superior to his fellows. Civil and ecclesiastical power will be abolished, all order and justice will be trampled on; only murders, hatred, jealousy, lies and discord will be see, without love for country or for family. The Holy Father will suffer greatly. I will be with him to the end` to receive his sacrifice. The wicked will make many attempts on his life without being able to harm him, but neither he nor his successor... will see the triumph of God's Church. Civil governments will have one sole aim, namely to abolish every religious principal and make all notion of religion disappear, to make way for materialism, atheism, spiritism and every kind of vice... The time has come; the abyss opens. See the king of the kings of darkness. Behold the beast with his subjects, saying he is saviour of the world.... Then water and fire will purify the Earth and consume all man's works of pride, and everything will be renewed: God will be served and glorified."
I call the true disciples of the Living God reigning in Heaven; I call the true imitators of Christ made Man, the one and true Saviour of men; I call My children, My true devotees, those who have given themselves up to Me so that I may lead them to My Divine Son, those who, so to say, I bear in my arms; those who have lived by My spirit. In brief, I call the Apostles of the Last times, the faithful disciples of Jesus Christ who have lived in contempt for the world and themselves, in poverty and humility, in contempt and in silence, in prayer and in mortification, in chastity and in union with God, in suffering, and unknown to the world. It is time for them to go forth and illuminate the earth.
After five years of investigation, the Bishop of Grenoble, Philibert de Bruillard, recognized the authenticity of the Apparition. Pope Saint Pius IX approved devotion to Our Lady of La Salette.
