Holy Angels Byzantine Church

June 13, 2021 Third Sunday after Pentecost; The Holy Martyr Aquilina of Byblos in Syria; Our Holy Father Triphyllius, bishop of Leucosia in Cyprus June 13, 2021 Schedule of services for the week of June 14 - June 20 Saturday, June 19 – The Holy Apostle Jude, Brother of the Lord 9:00 AM – Divine Liturgy 5:00 PM – Great Vespers Sunday, June 20 – Fourth Sunday after Pentecost; The Holy Hieromartyr Methodius, bishop of Patara 8:40 AM – Third Hour 9:00 AM – Divine Liturgy “Seek first the kingdom of God and his Mark your calendars – Sunday, July 4 righteousness.” Our Lord challenged and Holy Angels traditional always challenges his followers to be sure Moleben, barbecue and seek his will. Spiritual fathers and mothers fireworks viewing. can be guides to help others so that we do not love mammon instead of God. Is a life of increased prayer and devotion to God Time to be announced. something he is asking you to consider by discerning a vocation to the monastic life, to The Book and Icon shop the priesthood or the diaconate? will re-open on June 20th. Contact the Vocations Office at 206-329-9219 or email: [email protected] Ethnic Foods sales hours during the week are Monday, Tuesday, Friday & OPhysicianofSoulsandBodies,weprayfor: Saturday from 10 to 2. Angie Bitsko, Mary Beko, Loretta Brodke, Kathleen Burns, For the Acceptance of God’s Will Fr. Andriy Chirovsky, Maria Lavasanipour, Chris Morales, OLord,IknownotwhattoaskofYou.You Jamie, Margaret Raya, Elnora Rusnak, Ladislav Sandor , alone know what are my true needs. You love me more than I myself know how to love. Help Karen Simonich, Andrea Triolo, Brenda Washicko, me to see my real needs which are concealed Gianna, Ly, Eddie and his wife from me. I dare not ask for either a cross or blessed consolation. I only desire whatever Let nothing disturb you, You choose to send me. My heart is open to Let nothing frighten you, You. Visit and help me, for Your great mercy’s All things are passing away: sake. Chastise me and help me, cast me God never changes. down and raise me up. I worship in silence Patience obtains all things Your holy will and Your inscrutable ways. I Whoever has God lacks nothing; offer myself as a sacrifice to You. I put all my God alone suffices. trust in You. I have no other desire than to – St. Teresa of Avila fulfill Your will. Teach me how to pray, and, Yourself, pray in me. Amen. Confession is available by appointment only. Volunteers needed! Please email [email protected] or call Please help with the social following the Sunday liturgy. Each week we need the at 858-277-2511 to schedule. someone to: Visits to the church can be schedule online at 1) Setup; 2) Serve; and 3) Clean up. calendly.com/holyangelsbcc/prayer-visit There is a signup sheet on the serving table. GOD’S PROVIDENCE OUR CHURCH COSTS TOO MUCH The first few pages of the Holy Gospel describe A certain Catholic once said to a friend, how God created the world and set it in order. All “Our church costs too much. They are His creations had their own place in this order. always asking for money.” People have the most important assignment - to “Some time ago a little boy was born in protect their soul from sin and return it to the our home,” replied her friend. “He cost me Creator. From our Catechism lessons we know that a lot of money from the very beginning: he our soul lives a special, supernatural life. Serious had a big appetite, he needed clothes, sins can kill it, deprive it of supernatural life and, medicine, toys and even a puppy. Then he then, a person cannot fulfill his obligation and attain went to school, and that cost a lot more; eternal happiness. Jesus Christ tells us: “Do not fear later he went to college, then he began those who deprive the body of life but cannot dating, and that cost a small fortune! But in destroy the soul. Rather, fear him who can destroy his senior year at college he died, and since both body and soul in Hell” (Mt. 10, 28). the funeral he hasn’t cost me a penny. Now which situation do you think I would rather The Lord, having created the world, constantly have?” cares for it, and the world, in order to exist, needs After a significant pause she continued: the constant creative strength of the Lord. If the “As long as this church lives it will cost. Lord God, even for a moment, stops thinking about When it dies for want of support, it won’t the world, then all the planets, the stars, the angels, cost us anything. A living church has the people, animals, plants - in a word, all of Creation - most vital message for all the world today, would cease to exist. The Lord controls and takes therefore I am going to give and pray with care of the world, from the smallest to the highest of everything I have to keep our church alive.” His creations. All is in His merciful care. We call this caring God’s Providence. The truth of God’s Prayer for the Beginning of the Day Providence is often repeated in the Holy Gospel: OLord,grantmetogreetthecoming “Because He Himself made the great as well as the small, He provides for all alike” - we read in the day in peace. Help me in all things to Book of Wisdom (Wisdom 6, 7). rely upon Your holy will. In every hour of the day reveal Your will to me. Bless Today’s Holy Gospel again reminds us of the priority of spiritual life, of the transience of all that my dealings with all who surround me. is material, of this world. “What profit would a man Teach me to treat all that comes to me show if he were to gain the whole world and destroy throughout the day with peace of soul himself in the process? What can a man offer in and with firm conviction that Your will exchange for his very self?” (Mt. 16, 26). Of course, governs all. In all my deeds and words, man needs essential material means in order to guide my thoughts and feelings. In support himself and his family, to give donations unforeseen events, let me not forget and alms. But we have to be careful that too much material riches do not lead us to sin. People worry that all are sent by You. Teach me to act too much, often about small things. We must trust in firmly and wisely, without embittering God, for life without trust is unthinkable. Jesus and embarrassing others. Give me Christ assures us in deeply convincing words: “Do strength to bear the fatigue of the not worry what we will eat, what we will drink or coming day with all that it shall bring. how will we clothe ourselves. Our Heavenly Father Direct my will, teach me to pray, and, knows what we need; seek first the Kingdom of God, Yourself, pray in me. Amen. and the rest will follow!” In His Providence, the Lord remembers each of us. Amen. Instruction for Applying the Liturgical Prescriptions of the Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches Continued from last week CHAPTER II The Inalienable Value of the Particular Heritage of the Eastern Churches and the Urgency of its Flourishing 7. The heritage of the Eastern Churches The conciliar documents, the Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches and the repeated authoritative declarations of the Magisterium affirm the inalienable value of the particular heritage of the Eastern Churches. Lumen Gentium n. 23 declares that these, by divine Providence, whilst safeguarding the unity of the faith and the unique divine structure of the universal Church, enjoy their own theological and spiritual heritage, their own discipline, and their own liturgical usage. Orientalium Ecclesiarum n. 1 specifies that in these shines the Tradition derived from the Apostles through the Fathers, which constitutes part of the divinely revealed, undivided heritage of the Universal Church. Within the unity of the Catholic faith, each one of these heritages expresses the variety of its manifestations.12 The fullness of the Mystery of God reveals itself progressively according to the historical and cultural circumstances of peoples and expresses itself in each of the Eastern Churches’ manner of living the faith.13 8. Articulations of the Eastern Churches Addressing the various groups of Churches organically united, Lumen Gentium n. 23 affirms that “some of these, notably the ancient patriarchal Churches, as mothers in the faith, gave birth to other daughter- Churches, as it were, and down to our own days they are linked with these by bonds of a more intimate charity....” The Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches makes the same affirmation when it speaks of the Churches as a community of the Christian faithful united by a Hierarchy (can. 27); it recalls the rites that constitute their own heritage (can. 28 §1); and it specifies that these rites trace their origins to the Alexandrian, Antiochene, Armenian, Chaldean and Constantinopolitan traditions (can. 28 §2). 9. Particular aspects of the heritage of the Eastern Churches These Churches have jealously retained the symbolic biblical theology, explained at great length by the Fathers. They preserve the sense of the awesome and inexpressible Mystery which surrounds and connotes the celebrative act. In the texts and in their whole spirit, they maintain the sense of liturgy with formulas that are both rich and meaningful as unceasing doxology, as a petition for forgiveness and as uninterrupted epiclesis. These Churches boast of a spirituality drawing directly from Sacred Scripture and, consequently, a theology less subjected to strictly rational categories. For historical and cultural reasons, they have maintained a more direct continuity with the spiritual atmosphere of Christian origins, a prerogative that is ever more frequently considered even by the Occident not as a sign of stagnancy and backwardness but of precious fidelity to the sources of salvation. The Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches, in can. 28 §1 which refers to Lumen Gentium n. 23 and Orientalium Ecclesiarum n. 3, elucidates the important areas which articulate the heritage of each of the Churches sui iuris: liturgy, theology, spirituality and discipline. It is necessary to note that these particular fields penetrate and condition one another in turn inside a global vision of divine revelation which pervades all life and which culminates in the praise of the most holy Trinity. Such articulations imply the idea of a history, of a culture, of conceptions and uses specific to each Church, and likewise constitute the rays originating in the one Lord, the sun of justice which illumines every man (cf. Jn 1:9) and brings him to live in communion with him. Every one of these rays, received by each individual Church sui iuris, has value and infinite dynamism and constitutes a part of the universal heritage of the Church. 10. The duty to protect the Eastern heritage Desiring that these treasures flourish and contribute ever more efficiently to the evangelization of the world, Orientalium Ecclesiarum affirms, as do successive documents, that the members of Eastern Churches have the right and the duty to preserve them, to know them, and to live them.14 Such affirmation contains a clear condemnation of any attempt to distance the Eastern faithful from their Churches, whether in an explicit and irreversible manner, with its juridical consequences, inducing them to pass from one Church sui iuris to another,15 or whether in a less explicit manner, favoring the acquisition of forms of thought, spirituality, and devotions that are not coherent with their own ecclesial heritage, and thus contrary to the indications so often emphasized by Roman Pontiffs and expressed, with particular force, already in the Apostolic Letter Orientalium Dignitas of Leo XIII. The danger of losing the Eastern identity manifests itself particularly in a time like the present, characterized by great migrations from the East toward lands believed to be more hospitable, which are prevalently of Latin tradition. These host countries are enriched by the heritage of the Eastern faithful who establish themselves there, and the preservation of such heritage is to be sustained and encouraged not only by the Eastern pastors but also by the Latin ones of the immigration territories, because it wonderfully expresses the multicolored richness of the Church of Christ. 11. The progress of Tradition The Apostolic Letter Orientale Lumen particularly emphasizes the irreplaceable role of the Catholic Eastern faithful, “living bearers, together with our Orthodox brothers and sisters,” of the “venerable and ancient tradition of the Eastern churches” (n. 1). It refers to an expression already formulated in the Orientalium Ecclesiarum (n. 1), where it is moreover wished for the Eastern Catholic Churches that they might fulfill their mission with new apostolic strength. This does not exclude new development and, in fact, no Church, Eastern or Western, has ever been able to survive without adapting itself continuously to the changing conditions of life. Rather, the Church guards against every undue and inopportune precipitation, requiring that any eventual modification be not only well prepared, but also inspired and conforming to the genuine traditions. 12. Criteria for the interpretation of organic progress The Council specifies that changes in the rites and disciplines of these Churches are not admitted except by reason of their own organic progress16 and adds that whenever they have fallen short, due to circumstances of time or persons, they are to strive to return to their ancestral traditions.17The Holy Father John Paul II sees in this a “symbol of the firm attitude held by the Apostolic See, that the Council so efficiently expressed by asking the Eastern Churches in with it to have the courage to rediscover the authentic traditions of their own identity, restoring the original purity where necessary.”18 The organic progress, in every Church sui iuris, implies taking into account first of all the roots from which the heritage of these Churches was initially developed, mainly in Jerusalem, Alexandria, Antioch, Constantinople, Armenia, and in the ancient empire of Persia; and secondly, the manner in which such traditions were transmitted, adapting to the various circumstances and places but maintained in a coherent, organic continuity. To explain this principle it serves to mention an exhortation of Pope Paul VI to the members of the Commissions encharged with preparing the Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches. Evoking the double scope of the future Code (faithful to the traditions and in view of the demands of our world), he observed how in presenting new things it is necessary to pay attention to take sufficiently into account the system of the transmitted heritage. Any renewal, in fact, should be coherent and agree with sound tradition, in such a way that the new norms do not appear as an extraneous body forced into an ecclesiastical composite, but blossoming as though spontaneously from already existing norms.[19]

12 Cf. Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches (promulgated by John Paul II, 18 October 1990) [CCEO], can. 39. 13 Cf. CCEO can. 28. 14 Cf. Vatican Council II, Decr. on the Catholic Eastern Churches Orientalium Ecclesiarum, 6. 15 Cf. CCEO cann. 31 and 1465. 16 Cf. also CCEO can. 40 §1 17 Cf. Vatican Council II, Decr. on the Catholic Eastern Churches Orientalium Ecclesiarum, 6. 18 John Paul II, Homily during the Divine Liturgy in the Armenian rite (21 November 1987): L’Osservatore Romano, 23- 24 November 1987, p. 6; see also in Servizio Informazioni per le Chiese Orientali, supplement to nn. 485-556, p. 5. 19 Cf. Paul VI, Discourse of 18 March 1974; Nuntia. 1 (1975) 6. WALKING IN ALOST WORLD June 6, 2018 ·Fr. Stephen Freeman Ihavebeenengagedinaninterestingreading twentieth century and into our own time. project. The first part started with the travel Equally incongruent are the hikers themselves. accounts of Patrick Leigh Fermor, who made a Fermor is only 19, yet to attend college. You walking journey from Holland to Constantinople would be hard put to find a 19-year old of our (as he always called it) in 1933. His work (3 time with anything like his general knowledge volumes) is considered one of the best of its and grasp of history. His facility with languages genre in our times. He was only 19 when he was remarkable, even for its time (after three started and was far from being settled and weeks, his Greek was becoming passable – he mature. However, he had a deep interest in made conversation with Russian monks on Mt. culture, history, language, and people. His Athos by using the bits of Bulgarian he had curiosity flows across every page of the journey. acquired hiking). His later counterpart is little As such, his work is more than the story of a very like him. There is little need for language skill, long walk: it is a fascinating description of a as English is now nearly ubiquitous. Fermor Europe that would shortly explode. Many of the reads like a hike through culture itself, with people whom he met would not only not survive constant observations about ethnic history, the war, but their communities and way of life architecture, art, food, clothing. He not only would disappear. I recently finished my second describes a world that has disappeared – he is a reading of his volumes. world that has disappeared. His successor’s The second part of this project (as I’m calling it) story reads more prosaic: I came, I saw, We has been to read about another hiker (Nick drank. Parenthetically, there was something Hunt), writing in 2011-2012, who followed new in the landscape that was missing in the Fermor’s path across a very changed Europe. To 30’s: plastic trash. It somehow seems a proper say things had changed is an absurd metaphor for our time. understatement. Very little was the same or even comparable. The Danube had flowed As I have read, another image comes to me. The freely during Fermor’s time, while today a richness and depth of the earlier account has series of hydroelectric dams has changed its been replaced by a very thin one. It is not simply very character. As Fermor crossed Germany, he adifferenceinwriters:itisadifferencein had ominous encounters with the growing Nazi everything. As the century has gone by, the world presence. The war that followed in the next and the people in it have been attenuated – decade left many of the things he described in stretched and blended into a world culture that is ruins. For the lands East of Austria, the war was marked less by diversity than by sameness. followed by the brutal changes of Soviet Global markets require global people. With it, communism, destroying a way of life and humanity itself seems to have diminished. leaving a strange detritus in its wake. Fermor is not particularly religious, though he Fermor’s Europe was almost devoid of cars. doesn’t seem a stranger to the monasteries and Outside the cities, they received little notice and Churches he visits. His successor barely notices were encountered as rare and exotic things. religion (even when he’s at a monastery). A Nick Hunt, on the other hand, struggled to find night in the woods of Austria, however, offered a path for walking. Highways and paved roads an image that stood out for me. Hiking through were everywhere, automobiles, like a new a bit of a blizzard, Hunt comes close to being species of animal, dominated everything. The lost in the woods: clash of these two accounts is the heart of my reading project. They represent hikes across the …this night would plunge to minus fifteen, the “modern” world, though only a set of ideas, and I needed shelter. My anxiety grew when has become the creator of our infrastructure. the path tilted uphill, drawing me deeper Those who choose to live in any other manner into the woods. The familiar thrill of will be “swimming upstream.” In Fermor’s wildness tipped towards real fear. books, there is an encounter with an elderly And then came a moment of magic so pure I gentleman in Austria, complete with a was back in the realm of legends. In the prophecy: middle of the darkening forest appeared a little wooden hut; no hunting hide this, but ‘Everything is going to vanish! They talk of a miniature house with curtains behind building power-dams across the Danube glass windows. The snow on its stoop was and I tremble whenever I think of it! They’ll undisturbed and the door unlocked. I lifted make the wildest river in Europe as tame as the latch and peered inside, half expecting a municipal waterworks. All those fish from to see three bowls of porridge with three the East – they would never come back. wooden spoons. Never, never, never!’ What lay within was just as good. There was a bed covered in duvets, piled high with The fate of the Danube was the fate of Europe. pillows. The walls and ceiling were The Christians swimming upstream will carpeted, and on the windowsill lay a first- encounter seemingly insurmountable walls. aid kit, a few nibbled biscuits and a bottle of frozen lemonade. There was even a pair of That said, we have to be aware of where and slippers waiting by the door. I hesitated only when we live. The suburbanized life of the a moment before pulling off my boots and modern automobile (and everything that comes burrowing beneath the mousey blankets, with it) is not going to disappear. The new unable to believe my luck. The next day, I urbanism among many millennials (in which was to learn that the forest path was part of they prefer city life to any other) is, strangely, the Jakobsweg, the pilgrimage route that its own rebellion against the modern suburban winds through Europe to Spain’s Santiago world. de Compostela, and this perfect little house had been built to give shelter to wanderers I remind myself in the services of the Church like me, lost in the woods on snowy nights. that what I am privileged to experience once The world felt impossibly kind. had a place outside the walls, that the life of the It is perhaps the most civilized moment in the Church was once the life of a larger civilization. whole of his journey. What he cannot see, Today, it is not a relic of the past but a visitation however, is that the “perfect little house” was in the present of the Kingdom of God, of which there because there is a heart that recognizes everything in this world can only be a shadow, that everyone who wanders is a pilgrim whether some more precise than others. It is in the he knows it or not. The prayers of St. James clearer light of day that shines within the (Santiago) had left him a timely shelter from the sacramental life that we see the true patterning storm. It could also be a cabin from Narnia or Middle Earth. Certainly, it was a cabin built by of the world. That the landscape of Europe once Christian Europe, a reality not lost, but hidden thought such a pattern to be a worthy model is a beneath the thin crust of modernity. reminder that such a thing is possible, even if it increases our grief for its loss. The change in architecture and landscape, as well as the change in people demonstrates that God, give us more cabins. Holy Angels Byzantine 2235 Galahad Road San Diego, CA 92123-3931 Fr. James Bankston, Administrator Fr. Deacon Jonathan A. Deane Rectory/Office: 858-277-2511 Social Hall/Ethnic Foods: 858-268-3458 Email: [email protected] Website: www.HolyAngelsSanDiego.com Calendly: www.Calendly.com/HolyAngelsBCC Facebook: Holy Angels Byzantine Catholic Church

Bless, O Lord, the worship and Stewardship of your faithful servants: Adult tithes: $3380.00; Ascension: $50.00; Peter and Paul: $25.00; Candles: $266.09; Catholic Communications: $40.00; Bishop’s Appeal: $520.00; Loose Change: $79.00; Non-Parishioner: $300.00; Renovation Fund: $150.00 Total: $4810.09 Parish Advisory Council: Bruce Bitsko, Nelson Chase, Fr. Deacon Jonathan Deane, David Bates, Daniele Laman, Janet Greenwell Finance Council: Fr. Deacon Jonathan Deane, Bob Greenwell Vocation Icon: This week (June 13): Chase Family Next week (June 20): Aparicio Family Please sign up in the narthex to host the vocation icon. All those requesting Holy Mysteries must be parishioners for at least six months. Mysteries of Initiation: Requires Pre-Baptismal instruction. The Mysteries of Initiation are celebrated on Saturdays or Sundays within the Divine Liturgy. At least one sponsor must be a Catholic and the other a practicing Christian. Both sponsors must present documentation that they are in good standing with their church. Mystery of Crowning: Requires Pre-Marriage instruction. Consult Fr. James at least six months prior to making wedding plans. Marriages cannot be celebrated during the fasting seasons of the Church. Funerals: Contact Fr. James. Liturgy, Panakhyda and Eternal Lamp Intentions: Schedule with Fr. James. It is “holy and wholesome thought to pray for the dead” (2 Maccabees 12:46) especially on the 9th and 40th days, and on the anniversary of their falling asleep in the Lord. Holy Mystery of Confession: Confession is only available by appointment. Sick calls / Holy Anointing / Hospital Visits: Requested by parishioner, friend, or family. Call anytime in case of an emergency. Please submit all Bulletin announcements to Fr. James for approval by Wednesday of each week. Last Sunday’s bulletin is on our website and our Facebook page. There are several weeks of printed bulletins available in the narthex. Office Hours: For your safety during the pandemic, Office Hours are being curtailed. Fr. is available for phone conversations.