16th Sunday After the Pentecost
Glory to Jesus Christ! Glory Forever!
16th Sunday after Pentecost
September 28, 2025
Sat 9/27/25 4pm Vigil Divine Liturgy +Andy and +Christina Soley by Drew Moniot
Sun 9/28/25 9:30am Divine Liturgy +Lyman Ringbloom by Shari and Kevin Allen
Wed 10/1/25 9:30am Divine Liturgy Protection of the Theotokos +Peter and +Gloria Dalton by Pocchiari Family
Wed 10/1/25 7pm Liturgy for Healing Germaine Bellis by Cindy Hills
Fri 10/3/25 7pm Moleben to Jesus
Sat 10/4/25 4pm Vigil Divine Liturgy +Daniel Moniot by Drew Moniot
Sun 10/5/25 9:30am Divine Liturgy +Shirley Cyphert by Shari and Kevin Allen
Variable Parts: Tone 7 - Pages 156 — 158
Epistle: 2 Corinthians 6:1-10
Gospel: Luke 5:1-11
Memorial Candle Request: +Andrew and +Pearl Baysura by Linda Mueller
Epistle Readers 27-Sep John Baycura/Mary Motko 28-Sep Kathy Moyta 4-Oct Mary Troyan 5-Oct Eva Babick
Please Pray for: Brian Buchkovich, Lejen Warner, Sharon King, Ole J. Bergh, Liz Moyta, Fr. Michael Huszti, Fr. Laska, Susie Curcio, Teresa Milkovich, Robert Saper, Anna Habil, Mike Dancisin, Diane Sotak, Anna Pocchiari, Larry Hamil, Beverly Jones, Maryann Russin Schyvers, Nick Russin and Ken Konchan
Collection: 9/20 - 29, 9/21-87 Attendance: 9/20 and 9/21 - $1,903.00
Student Food Pantry: Thank you for the great response from the August food collection. Our parish contributed over 175 items. For September, we will collect canned ready to eat meals, like beefaroni, spaghetti, chili, ravioli, etc., as well as canned vegetables. Any questions, please contact Pam Gagen.
Boscov Coupons: The Boscov Friends helping Friends coupons are back. For $5.00 you can get a 25% off coupon that can be used all day on Wednesday, October 22nd. Please see Elizabeth Pocchiari or Fr. Radko to buy one.
Rummage Sale: Beginning next week, we will be taking rummage sale donations until October 5th. Please make sure your donations are not broken and in working order. No electronics. Large items must be taken back if they do not sell. The rummage sale will take place on October 10th and 11th. We will NEED HELP organizing the rummage sale items on the following dates and times. October 6th 6 - 8pm, October 7th 9am - 1pm, October 8th 9am - 1pm and October 9th 6pm - 8pm. Signup sheets are on the bulletin board.
Theotokos Icons: As September is coming to a close, it is time to take down the beautiful icons of the Blessed Mother. Thank you to everyone who shared their icons with us. If you wish, they can stay till after Her next feast day, The Protection.
Holy Land vendor - visiting our church on October 11 - 12, they will sell the products from Bethlehem and surroundings for the support of the Catholic community in Holy Land
Halupki/Halushki: The Ladies guild will be making halupki and halushki to sell at the Rummage Sale. In order that we have enough for our church members we are taking pre-orders for them. The halupki and $3.00 each and halushki is $4.00 a bowl. Signup sheets are on the bulletin board and must be filled in by September 30th. Pickup on will be on Saturday, Ocober 11th 10:00am — 1:00pm. The Office of Youth and Young Adult Ministry invites all TEENS and YOUNG ADULTS (18-39) to the PILGRIMAGE TO LORETTO PA on October 4, 2025. REGISTER by September 29, 2025 via form: https://forms.gle/QYyd4gKrcqFJc2QT9
There is an innate law engraved on the human heart that dictates that special honor should be shown to creatures who are clothed with a special dignity. Children must honor their parents; servants must revere their masters; soldiers must respect their officers; subjects must show loyalty to their rulers. God himself has, in fact, positively commanded, in his revelation to man, this honor that the natural law prescribes. (4th Commandment) Thus it is as clear as day that, besides the supreme honor that we give God, and which we term adoration, there is an inferior honor that we not only may but must show to all creatures who are clothed with special dignity. What, then, must be said of our duty of honoring the Blessed Virgin Mary, whose dignity as far transcends that of any other creature as heaven excels earth?. . . Of all creatures Mary has the unique privilege. To Mary alone can God the Son address the title Mother!
Scripture Teaches Devotion to Mary: Luke 1 verse 26 - 55. It is very hard to understand how any Christian can study this passage and then refuse to honor Mary. The "Hail Mary, "prayer which we Catholics love to address tO the Blessed Virgin, is explicitly given here; part of it was said by the angel Gabriel and part by Elizabeth. The angel was inspired by God and Elizabeth "was filled with the Holy Ghost" (v. 41). Let us put together the words that the angel Gabriel and Elizabeth addressed to Mary: "Hail, full of grace, the Lord is with thee: blessed are thou among women" (v. 28). "Blessed are thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb." Here we have the salutation that Catholics address to Mary. The only addition we have made are the two names, "Mary" and "Jesus." So that, in saying the Hail, Mary, we Catholics explicitly follow the Bible and fulfill the prophecy of God. The Scripture declares: "Behold from henceforth all generations shall call me blessed" (v. 48). Who, I ask, fulfills this prophecy: those who refuse to apply the adjective blessed to the Virgin Mary, or Catholics, who love to call Mary the Blessed Virgin?
Invocation of Mary Not only do we honor Mary; we also invoke her or ask her intercession. Some objectors say that we should pray to God alone. Well, we Catholics certainly do pray directly to God, for we regard the Our Father as the best and most beautiful of all prayers and frequently recite it. But we pray also to Mary, asking her to intercedefor us. Our non-Catholic friends ask one another's prayers, and in this we praise them. But, if I may say to a sinner on this earth, and he may say to me, another sinner, "Pray for me," for what reason may we not say to the sinless Mother of God enthroned in heaven, "Pray for us"? If St. Paul asked the Romans to "help him in their prayers for him to God" (Rom. 15:16); if he wrote to the Thessalonians, "Pray for us," why may we not ask Mary, who is far holier and nearer to God than the Roman and Thessalonian converts, to "pray for us"? In fact, we read in the Old Testament that God positively commanded Eliphaz and his two friends to go to the holy man Job and seek his intercession: "My servant Job shall pray for you; his face I will accept, that folly be not imputed to you" (Job 42:8). St James further claims: "The fervent prayer of a righteous person is very powerful." Our Lady of Guadalupe wonderfully summarized it in these words: "I am truly your merciful Mother, yours and all the people who live united in this land and of all the other people of different ancestries, my lovers, who love me, those who seek me, those who trust in me. Here I will hear their weeping, their complaints and heal all their sorrows, hardships and sufferings."
Protection of Theotokos: This miraculous appearance of the Mother of God occurred in the 10th century in Constantinople, in the Blachernae church where her robe, veil, and part of her belt were preserved after being transferred from Palestine in 5th century. On Sunday, October 1, during the All Night Vigil, when the church was overflowing with those at prayer, the Fool-for-Christ Saint Andrew at the fourth hour, lifted up his eyes towards the heavens and beheld our most Holy Lady Theotokos coming through the air, resplendent with heavenly light and surrounded by an assembly of the Saints. Saint John the Baptist and the holy Apostle John the Theologian accompanied the Queen of Heaven. On bended knees the Most Holy Virgin tearfully prayed for Christians for a long time. Then, coming near the Bishop's Throne, she continued her prayer. After completing her prayer she took her veil and spread it over the people praying in church, protecting them from.enemies both visible and invisible. The Most Holy Lady Theotokos was resplendent with heavenly glory, and the protecting veil in her hands gleamed "more than the rays of the sun."
