Ss. Peter & Paul Ukrainian Church /Assumption B.V.M. Church 131 North Beech Street, Mount Carmel, Pa. 17851 Very Reverend Archpriest Michael Hutsko, Pastor Rectory 570-339-0650 Church Hall 570- 339-4333 Web Site- sspeterandpaulmc.org - E-Mail: [email protected] - Fax 570-339-2715 Prayer Line: Louise Cuff 339-3660 – Eleanor Stebila 339-2353 – Louise Troyan 339-1565 Please notify the rectory office if you or a loved one is hospitalized or admitted to a nursing home Office Hours: Mon. Tues.- 9:00 AM-3:00 PM 1ST Collection : Candles Wed., Thurs. 9:00 AM - 12:00 Noon 2nd Collection: Regular Offering

12th Sunday After Pentecost August 27, 2017

Saturday – August 26, 2017 Welcome: We the people of Ss. Peter & Paul and 3:15 PM – Confessions Assumption Churches, are a catholic community that 4:00 PM - +Michelle Whyne – 5th Year Anniversary worships God, spreads the Good News of Christ, and req. by Mom, Helen and Family serves those in need. Come into the house. Bring all Sunday – August 27, 2017 you are, no need to check your failures at the door. 12th Sunday After Pentecost There are no perfect people here. You are invited: No Divine Liturgy at Ss Peter & Paul. come. Come in seeking, come in wondering, come in A Call to Prayer Holy Pilgrimage at Assumption hurting. Come into this house of companionship and BVM: compassion. Come in. You are welcome here. Ss. Noon – Divine Liturgy Peter & Paul/Assumption Churches open their doors 2:00 PM – Living Rosary to you. 3:00 PM–Akafist to the Dormition of the Mother of God before the Holy Shroud of the Dormition Bulletin Requests 4:30 PM – Candlelight Procession for a Moleben to Any requests or any information to be placed in the the Mother of God, Prayers &Anointing for Healing bulletin must be in writing and submitted to the Monday – August 28, 2017 church office by 12:00 Noon on Mondays. Thank No Divine Liturgy you for your cooperation. Tuesday –August 29, 2017 Beheading of John the Baptist (Simple Holy Day) The Vibrant 7:30 AM - +Michael & Anna Merikas req. by Family A place to encounter the living Christ through the Wednesday – August 30, 2017 Word of God, the Holy Mysteries & Prayer, Serving 7:30 AM – +Rita Laukaitis req. by Ellen Goretsky One’s Neighbor, Leadership, Fostering & Serving Thursday – August 31, 2017 Unity & Missionary Spirit. 7:30 AM – For the Souls in Purgatory Friday – September 1, 2017 Please Remember No Divine Liturgy To pray for vocations to the Holy Priesthood & Saturday – September 2, 2017 Religious Life. 8:00 AM – Health of John & Gloria Bogush req. by John Bogush In Your Prayers 3:15 PM – Confessions Please remember to pray for the sick & infirm of our 4:00 PM - +Robert Bergal req. by Wife, Jeanne Parishes. Sunday – September 3, 2017 13th Sunday After Pentecost Your Stewardship 8:15 AM - Confessions We thank you for your financial support of our parish 9:15 AM – For the Parishioners communities. 11:00 AM – Assumption BVM - +Thomas McGinley req. by Joe Cheddar Divine Liturgy Change - Pilgrimage There will be no Divine Liturgy at Ss Peter & Paul on Rosary Intention Sunday, August 27th due to the Pilgrimage at For the week of August 27, 2017 – For the Sick and Assumption BVM. The Divine Liturgy at Infirm of our Parishes Assumption BVM will be celebrated at Noon with Metropolitan Stefan Soroka.

Upcoming Events Tweets from His Holiness Francis Aug 27: Assumption BVM Pilgrimage “The journey of entrusting ourselves to the Lord Aug 29: Beheading of John the Baptist (Simple Holy begins every day, starting each morning.” Day) Sept 3: Altar Rosary Society Sunday Replenishment Fund Gifts Sept 8: Feast of the Nativity of the Blessed We are still accepting donations/gifts to our Parish Mary (Solemn Holy Day) Replenishment Fund established almost three years Sept 10: Holy Name Society Sunday ago to restore monies that were used for the church Sept 12: Ukrainian Day Wrap Up Meeting, 7:00 PM renovations and repairs. Please consider making a Frackville special donation to this Fund. All donations remain Sept 13: Soup & Sandwich here in our parish and are meant to secure the future financial health of our church. Your gift/donation Ss. Peter & Paul Replenish Fund Donations as of will be greatly appreciated. Thanks! August 20, 2017 Total To Date: $73,059.54 Loose Change Collection: Replenish Fund: None Please keep in mind, we will have the monthly Rebuilding Fund: $150 special third collection for support of our Soup & $100: +Irene Homanick LeComte by Dennis Curran Sandwich Ministry at all Liturgies this weekend. We $50: +Irene Homanick LeComte by Mary Ann again ask for any loose change you may be carrying, Pupchock as well as any special offering you may wish to make. Your generosity and support is greatly Weekly Parish Financial Report appreciated. Ss. Peter & Paul Church Sunday, August 20, 2017 $2,245.00 Clean Up Help Needed Expenses: $2,846.46 Help is needed at Assumption BVM in cleaning up Sunday, August 21, 2016 $2,214.00 the property following the Pilgrimage. We will have a lot to do starting at 9:00 AM on Monday, August Assumption BVM Church 28th. Please try to attend to help out. Thank you! Sunday, August 20, 2017 $1,167.00 Expenses: $2,468.28 Baked Goods Needed Sunday, August 21, 2016 $ 561.57 Baked goods are needed for the Pilgrimage on Pilgrimage Donations: $100-Reese Family, $100- August 27th from Ss. Peter & Paul Church and Anna Budraitis Assumption BVM Church. Donations of baked goods may dropped off at Ss Peter & Paul Saturday Ss. Peter & Paul Church Lector Schedule or brought to Assumption BVM the morning of the Sat– August 26th Pilgrimage. Thank you in advance for your support Ellen Goretsky 4:00 PM of our 2nd Annual Pilgrimage. Sat– September 2nd Ed Cuff 4:00 PM Altar Rosary Society Bus Trip Sun – September 3rd Ss. Peter & Paul's Altar Rosary Society is sponsoring George Ann Katchick 9:15 AM a bus trip to the American Music Theater in Lancaster on November 9th to see "Home for the Assumption BVM Church Lector Schedule Holidays." Lunch will be at the Smorgasbord at Sun – September 3, 2017 Shady Maple to the show. Cost for the trip is Kianna Rizzo 11:00 AM $87. For reservations please call Jeanne Bergal at 570-339-0513 or Christine Bogner at 570 847-4385. Sunday Social Reservations & payment must be received by Sunday Socials at Ss. Peter & Paul Church will October 1st. resume after liturgy on Sunday, September 3, 2017. Altar Flowers Mystery (Sacrament) of Penance Altar flowers can be sponsored weekly for $30.00 per Is available before each Divine Liturgy on Saturday, arrangement. Parishioners can sponsor these flowers 3:15 PM to 4:00 PM and on Sunday in Ss. Peter & in Memory of a loved one, or for any occasion. Paul Church 8:15 AM to 9:00 AM, and at Anyone interested in sponsoring flowers may call Assumption BVM Church on Sunday before 11:00 570-339-0650. AM Divine Liturgy in the confessionals.

Soup and Sandwich Ministry Religious Education Volunteers Needed Our parishes have embarked upon a new and exciting We invite any adult who is interested, to “get outreach to the community. We serve a humble lunch involved” in our parish Religious Education program. of a soup and sandwich every second and fourth No experience is necessary, except for a sincere Wednesday of the month between the hours of 11:30 desire to share the Faith with our young people. We AM and 1:00 PM. This lunch is open to everyone in will provide teacher manuals and all necessary items our community: the needy, the elderly, and the lonely to assist you. If you are interested, please contact and is totally free of charge. Our next lunch will be Father Michael at the rectory office. served on September 13th. Special thanks to everyone who has made a donation in support of this Date of Episcopal Ordination of -Elect project. We are grateful for your generosity. Keep in Announced mind a special third collection for “loose change” Metropolitan- Stefan Soroka of the will be taken the last weekend of every month. If Ukrainian Catholic Archeparchy of Philadelphia is you would like to help serve meals please notify the pleased to announce that our newly nominated rectory office, Chris Bogner, Abbie Timmins or Toni Auxiliary Bishop Andriy Rabiy will be ordained by Shedleski. Any and all help is appreciated His Beatitude during the Opening Hierarchical Divine Liturgy for the Synod Spiritual Reading Lending Library of to take place on Sunday, September 3rd, We have assembled a library based upon spiritual 2017 in St. George Ukrainian Catholic in reading, reflection and meditation for the benefit of Lviv, Ukraine at 11 a.m. Co- will be our parishioners and friends. It is located in the Archbishop Stefan Soroka, Metropolitan of vestibule of the church. Everyone is invited to browse Philadelphia and Bishop , Eparch of through and take a book home to read. Once you Edmonton . Our generously have finished the book, please return it so others can responded to the suggestion to conduct the episcopal make use of it. As we strive to live good Christian ordination in the city and country of the Bishop- lives, it is important we fill our minds and hearts with Elect’s native birth, where his parents, and things that are “of the Lord”. Please take advantage family reside. It highlights his being rooted strongly of this opportunity to grow in faith and knowledge. in the cultures and traditions of both Ukraine and USA., a special gift for our Ukrainian Catholic Jonah at Sight & Sound Church. The newly ordained Bishop Andriy will then The Catholic Daughters of the Americas is holding a participate in his first meeting of the Synod of bus trip to Sight & Sound in Lancaster to see “Jonah” Bishops. The newly ordained Bishop Andriy Rabiy on Monday, October 9, 2017. The cost is $110 and will be formally welcomed in the Ukrainian Catholic includes the bus, show ticket and dinner at Shady Metropolia of Philadelphia with his celebrating a Maple Smorgasbord. Call Mary Snyder at 570-339- Hierarchical Divine Liturgy in the Ukrainian Catholic 0420 to register. Cathedral of the in Philadelphia on Sunday, September 24th, 2017 at 3 Wedding Anniversary Celebration p.m., followed by a Formal Reception in the The Wedding Anniversary Celebration originally Cathedral Hall. Please pray for our Bishop-Elect scheduled for Sunday, September 24, 2017 will be Andriy as God’s enables him to fulfill his rescheduled to a new date since the Hierarchical episcopal ministry. Divine Liturgy welcoming our new auxiliary bishop, the Most Reverend Andriy Rabiy, will he celebrated September Pyrohy Sale at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception on Ss. Peter & Paul/Assumption BVM Pyrohy Sale will that 3 PM that day. When the new date and details resume on Wednesday, September 20th at 8:00 AM are finalized, the information will be distributed. and Thursday, September 21st, 2017 starting at 8:00 AM. Cost of Pyrohy is $8.00 per dozen. Orders must Ukrainian Festival – Reading be placed by Noon on Thursday, September 14th, Ukrainian Festival on Saturday, September 23, 2017 2017 by calling the church office at 570-339-0650. from Noon to 10 PM at Nativity BVM Ukrainian Orders received after that time will be placed on a Hall, 211 Grace Street, Reading PA. waiting list and if we have extra pyrohy for sale, we Entertainment, food, vendors, raffles, and games. Eat will notify you. We are in need of helping hands in in or take out. all aspects of this project. Anyone interested in helping, please come to the church hall on the above dates. Your help will be greatly appreciated.

Religious Education Registration and opening classes for our Parish Religious Education Program (PREP) will be held Monday evening, September 18th from 6:00 PM to 7:15 PM in the church social hall. Again this year, we will have classes for all youth of our parishes, both Ss. Peter and Paul and Assumption BVM, from Pre- K through 8th grade. Parents, I wish to remind you of your serious obligation before the Lord to bring up your children in the faith. Please be sure they are registered for classes and attend faithfully each Monday evening throughout the school year. In order to complete the registration forms, we will need a copy of the student’s baptismal certificate if they were not baptized in our parish.

Chinese Auction Mark your calendars and plan to attend and participate in the Chinese Auction sponsored by the Altar Rosary Society in support Ss. Peter & Paul Church. This event is scheduled for Sunday, October 1st with a Browse and Bid on Saturday, September 30th. We are in need of new and high quality items for the auction tables. Please consider making a donation toward the success of this event. If you have any questions, feel free to ask one of the ladies or call Icon of Our Lady of Pochaiv the Church office at 570-339-0650 and we will Available for viewing and veneration at the provide suggestions for donations. There will be a Pilgrimage, the jewel covered Icon of Our Lady of bake sale along with the Chinese Auction. We are in Pochaiv is an 18th century replica of the original icon, need of baked goods. All donations will be greatly which has been in the Pochaiv Lavra (monastery) in appreciated. The kitchen will be open and food will Ukraine since 1597. It is based on an event in the be available to purchase. 14th century when a pillar of fire appeared to a September 30th - Browse & Bid and some shepherds while they prayed. The flames 11:00 AM till 2:00 PM withdrew to reveal the Blessed Virgin. The October 1st apparition left behind a footprint, from which a Doors Open 11:30 AM, Action Begins at 2 PM spring of fresh water flowed. In 1559, Metropolitan Neophytus of Constantinople, on his journey through Memoriam Volhynia, visited the noblewoman Anna Goiskaya We offer love, prayers, and sympathy to the family living at the estate of Orlya, not far from Pochaiv. As and friends of Anastasia Hopey, member of Ss Peter a farewell blessing he left Anna an icon of the & Paul Church, who fell asleep in the Lord this past Mother of God which he brought from week. May our Lord & Savior Jesus Christ comfort Constantinople. Anna’s servants began to notice a her family and friends and may Anastasia’s Memory radiance coming from the icon. In 1597, Anna’s be Eternal! Vichnaya Pamyat! brother Philip, who was blind from birth, was healed before the eyes of a monk who lived on the hill at Divine Redeemer Purse Bingo Pochaiv. Anna then gave the wonderworking image Divine Redeemer Parish will hold a “Designer Purse to the monk. The icon was placed in a church which and Accessories Bingo” on Sunday, September 17, was built in honor of the Dormition of the Most Holy 2017 in Divine Mercy Hall, 400 Block of West . A monastery was later established there, Cherry Street, Mount Carmel, PA. Doors open at and Anna Goiskaya provided a large portion of the 1:00 PM; Bingo starts at 2:00 PM. Admission: money needed for construction. Many miracles have $25.00 at the Door, Advanced Tickets: $20.00. For since been recorded. The icon was crowned by Pope Advanced Tickets Call: 570-590-5849 or 570-205- Clement XIV in 1773 and is still known as a wonder- 8751. Food and Refreshments will be available for working image to this day. sale. Purses will be Vera Bradley, Charming Charlie, Coach, Michael Kors, and Dooney & Burke.

12th Sunday After Pentecost August 27 th . All Divine Services and activities will take place in the Church and on the grounds of Troparion Assumption BVM Church on the mountainside above Let the heavens be glad, let the earth rejoice, for the the Borough of Centralia, PA. Prayers begin at Noon Lord has done a mighty deed with His arm. He with the celebration of the Divine Liturgy of St. John trampled death by death. He became the first-born of Chrysostom lead by Archbishop Soroka and joined the dead; He saved us from the abyss of Hades and by local clergy. There will be a “Living Rosary” granted great mercy to the world. recited in the outdoor chapel beginning at 2:00 PM. At the conclusion of the rosary, there will be a Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the reflection given by Father Martin Kobos of Mother Holy Spirit Cabrini Church in Shamokin. At 3:00 PM, the Akafist to the Dormition of the Most Holy Mother of Kontakion God before the Holy Shroud of the Dormition will be You rose from the tomb, O compassionate Lord, and held. Confessions will be heard throughout the day led us out from the gates of death. Today Adam by clergy of the South Anthracite Deanery. exults and Eve rejoices, and the prophets together Concluding ceremonies will begin at 4:30 PM with a with the patriarchs unceasingly acclaim the divine Candlelight Procession from the outdoor chapel to might of Your power. the Church. Archbishop Stefan will lead the singing of the Moleben to the Mother of God. Following the Now and ever and forever: Amen Moleben, oil will be blessed and prayers recited for the healing of body and soul, after which all are Theotokion invited to come forward to receive the anointing. The Today the Virgin stands before us in the church, and Icon of Our Lady of Pochaiv and the Icon and Relics together with the choirs of invisibly prays to of Blessed Martyr Bishop +Mykola Charnetsky, the God for us. Angels are worshipping with hierarchs, Healer of Souls will be available for veneration. apostles exult with prophets, for the Mother of God There will be light refreshments available and prays in our behalf to the eternal God. religious items on display for purchase. This is a rain or shine event. ALL FAITHS, ALL CREEDS, ALL Prokimeon PEOPLE OF GOOD WILL ARE WELCOME! Sing to our God, sing, sing to our King, sing. V. Clap your hands, all you nations; shout unto God with the voice of joy

Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia! In You, O Lord, have I hoped that I may not be put to shame for ever. V. Be a protector unto me, O God, and a house of refuge to save me. Alleluia (3x)

Epistle: 1 Cor 15:1 - 11 Gospel: Mt. 19:16 -26

A Call to Prayer During his visit in November 2015, Patriarch and Major-Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk, of the Ukrainian Catholic Church world-wide, marveled at the continuing presence of Assumption BVM Church in Centralia and the sense of true holiness which pervades the entire property. His desire is for all people of faith to come and experience the same holiness and sanctity he discovered during his visit. In his name, Archbishop Stefan Soroka and the Parishioners of Assumption Church invite you to again pilgrimage to this holy place to gather in prayer “Beseeching God’s Mercy and Praying for the Intercession of the Mother of God” on Sunday,