SUN SEP 7 13th Sunday after Pentecost. Tone 4
- 13тa Неділя після П’ятидисятнпці.
- Liturgy. Святa Літургія @ 9:00 AM
- Apostle 1 Cor. 16:13-24
- Gospel Mt. 21:33-42
MON SEP 8 The Nativity of the Most Holy Theotokos and Ever-Virgin Mary.
- Різдво Пресвятої Богородиці.
- Liturgy. Святa Літургія @ 9:00 AM
SAT SEP 13 Great Vespers. Велика Вечірня @ 5:00 PM
SUN SEP 14 The Universal Exultation of the Life-Giving Cross.
- Воздвиження Животворчого Хреста Господнього.
- Liturgy. Святa Літургія @ 9:00 AM
- Prayerful blessing of students of our Church School, as the new school year starts today.
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СЛАВА ІСУСУ ХРИСТУ! СЛАВА НАВІКИ! GLORY TO JESUS CHRIST! GLORY FOREVER!
CHURCH COUNCIL MEETING: The meeting will be held TODAY during coffee and…
COFFEE and… Thank you to Melissa and Cora Josefiak for hosting coffee and… last Sunday!! Hosting today is Luidmyla Madai, hosting next Sunday is Maria Kirichenko. Thank you for your continuous support!
SISTERHOOD NEWS: We have potato and cabbage pyrohy available for purchase $12/dozen!!!
ANGELS CLUB: TODAY we begin a new drive for the 2025-2026 ANGELS CLUB year. Please pick up your envelope announcing the new drive, located at the Church entrance. We welcome all parishioners to become an Angel and help support our Church. The Angels Club’s mission is to help raise money to pay for the heating and air conditioning expenses. Membership includes attending our annual banquet (free of charge) in the fall of 2026, as well as twelve monthly drawings for cash prizes. The 2025-2026 Angels Club Membership Drive letters and Membership Applications are located in the vestibule for the next two weeks. The Membership Drive will be ongoing September through October 2025. Your support of this fundraiser is greatly needed and appreciated. All 2024-25 Angels will receive written information and a Dinner Reservation Form in the mail for the free banquet scheduled on Sunday, October 19, 2025.
КЛУБ АНГЕЛІВ: Сьогодні ми починаємо новий запис на 2025-2026 рік до КЛУБУ АНГЕЛІВ. Будь ласка, візьміть свій конверт з оголошенням, розташований біля входу в церкву. Ми заохочуємо всіх парафіян стати Ангелом і допомогти підтримати нашу Церкву. Місія клубу – допомогти зібрати гроші на оплату витрат на опалення та охолодження. Членство включає відвідування нашого щорічного банкету (безкоштовно) восени 2026 року, а також дванадцять щомісячних розіграшів грошових призів. Листи про членство в Клуб Ангелів на 2025-2026 роки будуть знаходитися при вході до церкви наступні два тижні. Акція щодо членства триватиме з вересня по жовтень 2025 року. Ваша підтримка дуже потрібна і цінується. Усі Ангели 2024-25 років отримають письмову інформацію та форму бронювання вечері по пошті для безкоштовного банкету, запланованого на неділю, 19 жовтня 2025 року.
CONGRATULATIONS to the winners of the August drawing. They are: Iryna Dmytryshyn, $25.00; Bohdan Ivakhniouk, $15.00 and Anna Gulko, $10.00.
SAINTS OF THE DAY: Hieromartyr Macarius, Archimandrite of Kaniv is commemorated on September 7. He lived in the seventeenth century. This was a most terrible time for Orthodox Christians in Ukraine. The constant struggles of the Hieromartyr, were an attempt to defend the Orthodox Faith and Orthodox Church from uniaty. The holy Hieromartyr Macarius was born in 1605 in the city of Ovruch in Volyn’ into the illustrious Tokarevsky family, renowned adherents of Orthodoxy. In the years between 1614-1620 the saint studied at the Ovruch Dormition monastery, and upon the death of his parents he became a monk at this monastery, having begun his service as a novice. In 1637 the head of the Kupyatichsk monastery sent him to St. Metropolitan Peter Moghyla of Kyiv to hand over money collected by the brethren for the rebuilding of Kyiv’s church of the Holy Wisdom. Seeing in the hieromonk Macarius a talented son of God’s Church, the Metropolitan appointed St. Macarius a head of the Kamenetsk Resurrection monastery (in Grodnensk district) in 1638. Until the pillaging and seizing of the monastery by the uniates in 1642, Saint Macarius guided the brethren of the Resurrection monastery. More than ten years passed in constant struggle with the Latin Poles in Ovruch. Nothing could compel the brethren to quit the monastery. Only in the year 1671, after the devastation of Ovruch by the Tatars, did the holy archimandrite Macarius leave the monastery, in which there remained not a single monk, and he went to the Kyiv Caves Lavra. But the defenders of Orthodoxy, like Saint Macarius, were needed not only at Kyiv. Metropolitan Joseph assigned Archimandrite Macarius as head of the Kaniv monastery. Thus, after thirty years of struggle with the uniates, Saint Macarius was again on the front lines of battle for the Orthodox Faith. On September 4, 1678, the Turks aggressors rushed on the monastery. Saint Macarius met the enemy with cross in hand at the entrance to the monastery. The Turks demanded that the monk hand over to them the monastery treasury. Hearing the answer of the monk, that his treasure was in Heaven, the furious savages hung the saint hand and foot between two posts. After two days they beheaded the Hieromartyr on September 7, 1678. Witnesses to the martyric death of Archimandrite Macarius carried his body to the monastery church, in which they were hidden for safety. But the returning Turks placed firewood around the church and burned everything in the temple. When the surviving citizens of Kaniv began removing the bodies of those who perished, then only one body was found whole and as though alive. This was the body of the Hieromartyr Macarius. The holy body was buried in this temple beneath the altar on September 8, 1678. In 1688, during renovation of the temple, the grave of the Hieromartyr was opened, and the incorrupt body of the saint was found. On May 13, 1688 the holy relics were solemnly transferred to the Pereyaslavl Resurrection church. In 1942, the relics were transferred to the Trinity church in the city of Cherkasy, and from 1965 they have been in the church of the Nativity of the Theotokos in that same city.
A CHANCE TO SERVE: Anyone who would like to serve the Church next year is invited to volunteer to serve on the Church Council. Please see Vice-President Subdeacon Scott Kerry or Father Andrii.
МОЖЛИВІСТЬ ПОСЛУЖИТИ: Кожного, хто хотів би послужити нашiй церкві наступного року, запрошують до парафіяльної управи. Будь ласка, зверніться до віце-президента Скатта Керрі.
+ + + CHURCH SCHOOL AND YOUTH MINISTRY NEWS + + +
September 13 – 10:00 am – Church School teachers’ meeting and classroom preparation
September 14 – after Divine Liturgy Fr. Andrii will bless students, teachers, substitute teachers and aides. Classes will begin 15 minutes after dismissal from Liturgy and will end at noon. Parents are reminded to send the signed yellow registration form with their students to class.
TODAY is the last day that donations for “Coffee and…” will go to the Youth Ministry. Our heartfelt thanks go to parish family and friends who have been extremely generous for these past 10 weeks.
Congratulations to Anna as well as to the kindergarten class whose patron saint, St. Anna will be observed on September 9. May God grant Anna and the kindergarten students MANY BLESSED YEARS! MNOHII LITA!