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Ss. Peter & Paul Ukrainian Catholic 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. Fri. - 9:00 AM – 3:00 PM Wed. Thurs. 9:00 AM -12:00 Noon 1st Collection: Candles 2nd Collection: Regular Offering

Sunday of the Forefathers December 15, 2013 Saturday 12-14-13 Welcome: We the people of Ss. Peter & 3:15 PM Confessions Paul/Assumption Churches, are a Catholic 4:00 PM For the Parishioners community that worships God, spreads the Sunday 12-15-13 Good News of Christ, and serves those in need. Sunday of the Forefathers Come into the house. Bring all you are, no need 8:15 AM Confessions to check your failures at the door. There are no 9:15 AM + Leo, Sr. & Anna Berzinski – perfect people here. You are invited: come. Anniversary of Death - req. by Leo Berzinski, Come in seeking, come in wondering, come in Jr. hurting. Come into this house of companionship 11:00 AM at Assumption B.V.M. Church and + Nicholas Balandovich req. by Theresa Mattu compassion. Come in. You are welcome here. & Family Ss. Peter & Paul/Assumption Churches open Monday 12-16-13 their doors to you. 8:00 AM at Assumption B.V.M. Church + Al Olszewski – First Anniversary of Death - Upcoming Events: Mark your calendars and req. by Wife, Sandy & Children plan to support the following events……. Tuesday 12-17-13 December 15 – Annual Christmas Pageant and No Divine Liturgy St. Nicholas Party – Christmas Pageant begins at Wednesday 12-18-13 4:00 PM - Hot Buffet meal at 5:00 PM No Divine Liturgy Holiday Cookie Sale – Orders are due today Thursday 12-19-13 Drawing of I Pad & Kindle Fire Raffle Tickets – 8:00 AM at Assumption B.V.M. Church Last day for Baby Item Donations - Items will + Charles Kent req. by Helen, John & Nicholas be taken to the Pregnancy Center Friday 12-20-13 December 21 – Holiday Cookie Pick-up from 8:00 AM at Assumption B.V.M. Church 11:00 AM TO 2:00 PM + John Kuzo, Jr. req. by Mary Matty & Family December 24 – Christmas Eve Saturday 12-21-13 December 25th – Birth of Our Lord 8:00 AM + Charles Kent req. by December 26 – Feast of the Mother of God Donna & Richard Whyne December 27 – Feast of St. Stephen 3:15 PM Confessions December 28 –Saturday After Christmas 4:00 PM + Ann Marie Smalley December 29 – Sunday After Christmas – req. by John & Irene Wislotsky David, Joseph & James Sunday 12-22-13 December 30 – Divine Liturgy Sunday before Christmas – of the Ancestors December 31 –New Years Eve - Feast of St. 8:15 AM Confessions Basil the Great/Circumcision of our Lord 9:15 AM For the Parishioners January 1 – New Years Day - Feast of St. Basil 11:00 AM at Assumption B.V.M. Church the Great/Circumcision of our Lord + Boris Maksymuk req. by Mary Tracey Sunday Social: Sunday Social will not be held 8:00 AM weekday liturgies are at Assumption on December 22, 2013 due to the Christmas B.V.M. Church until further notice Dinner being prepared for our homebound parishioners. Sunday social will resume on January 5, 2014. Thank you to everyone who came to this social. See you next year!! handy and refer to it often so that you can attend all services which have been scheduled.

In Your Prayers: Please remember to pray for the sick and the infirm of our Parishes. Metropolitan-Archbishop Stefan Soroka Please Remember: To pray for vocations to the invites all to “Come Home for Christmas” Holy Priesthood and religious life. A 5 minute DVD entitled “Come Home for Christmas” has been produced in both English Rosary Intention: For the week of December and Ukrainian language versions and is being 15, 2013, for world peace, and an end to hunger mailed to all parishioners throughout the in the world. Archeparchy. In addition the video program is posted on the archieparchial website Ss. Peter & Paul Replenish Fund Donations http://www.ukracheparchy.us/ and YouTube at as of December 8, 2013 are : http://www.youtube.com/user/thewayukrainian. $ 200.00 – Walter Visloskie The Christmas service schedules of all parishes $ 50.00 – Anthony Warsheski are also posted on the archieparchial website and $ 50.00 – Elizabeth Warsheski will be emailed to the faithful. Metropolitan $ 25.00 - John Bogush Stefan asks all the faithful to share this invitation $ 25.00 - Gloria Bogush with family, friends and neighbors to “Come Home for Christmas”. Non- Parishioner Replenishing Fund Donations: Divine Liturgy Intentions:. Divine Liturgy Total To Date Replenishing Fund Donations: Intention requests for Calendar Year 2014 are $ 38, 048.73 now being accepted. Note: Weekend requests are limited to two per person, but weekday Apology from Church Office: intentions are available. Please Note: All Divine An apology from Joe & Deb, because of Liturgy Intentions are subject to change only carelessness we published an incorrect report on by Father Michael. Thank you for your the parish replenish fund last week. The total consideration requesting Divine Liturgy donation for the December 8th bulletin should Intentions. In addition, please remember that have been $ 37, 798.73. We apologize for any although there are usually three (3) Divine confusion this may have caused. Liturgies on the weekend that one Liturgy Intention must be for all parishioners. Ss. Peter & Paul Church Rebuilding Fund: $ 100.00 – In Loving Memory of Special Thank You: A very special thank you + Albert Olszewski on the First Anniversary of to everyone who came out this past week to Death request by Wife, Sandy & Children make pyrohy. Your help is always appreciated. We are still in need of help in all aspects of this Assumption B.V.M. Church Christmas Gift project. Please lend a helping hand with this Donation: project if you have a few spare hours of time. $ 300.00 – Bohen Zublic

Altar Flowers: Altar flowers can be sponsored Ss. Peter & Paul Church Collecting weekly for $30.00 per arrangement. Parishioners Donations: SS. Peter & Paul Church Altar can sponsor these flowers in Memory of a loved Rosary Society would like to thank everyone for one, or for any occasion. Anyone interested in their donations to The Pregnancy Center. Your sponsoring flowers may call 570 - 339-0650. donations were greatly appreciated.

Schedule of Services: All of you should have received a letter with all the services listed for Christmas and the New Year. Please keep it Please Remember: The traditional greeting during the Christmas season is: Christos Razhdayetsya! Slaveete Yeho! or Christ is Born! Glorify Him! Ss. Peter & Paul Church Lector Schedule: Religion Classes: Religion classes are held at SS. Sat. December 14 - 4:00 PM Peter & Paul Church on Monday evenings from Ellen Goretsky 6:00 PM to 7:15 PM. All children from pre-school Sun. December 15 - 9:15 AM age to 8th grade are encouraged to attend. Children Christine Bogner receiving the Sacrament of Penance/Holy Sat. December 21 - 4:00 PM Communion in Calendar Year 2013-2014 must Brock Bridy attend these classes. Registration forms are Sunday December 22 - 9:15 AM available. If you have any questions please contact Faythe Timmins Christine Bogner at 847-4385. Religion classes have ended for 2013. Classes will resume on Assumption B.V.M. Church Lector Schedule: Monday, January 6, 2014 at 6:00 PM. Sun. December 15- 11:00 AM Bryce Fiamoncini Sun. December 22- 11:00 AM Fund Raising Donations Request from Church Bryce Fiamoncini Office: Please! When you are donating to the new Fund Raising (Replenishing) Donation Fund, the $250.00 fundraising donation request, please Next Pyrohy Sale: The SS. Peter & enclose your donation in a plain white envelope, Paul/Assumption Pyrohy Sale will be held on mark it Fund Raising Donation. Also please Wednesday, January 15, 2014 starting at 9:00 AM, include your name and amount you are donating to and on Thursday, January16, 2014 starting at 8:00 the fund. The green envelope which is in your AM. We are still in need of help in all aspects of envelope box is the Church Renovation envelope this project please try to devote some of your time and is a separate fund raising project. Thank you and talents to this project. All are welcome. for your cooperation. Thank you Advent Season: During the time of “Christmas Christmas Offering: We ask you to try to make Fast” the Psalm of Typica/Beatitudes found on an extra special offering to our churches on page 6 and page 10 respectively of the white Christmas Day. We ask each parishioner to Divine Liturgy booklet will be responded instead consider making a Christmas donation of at least of the Regular Sunday or Weekday Antiphons. $25.00. Gifts of $50.00, $75.00, $100.00 or more This will last until the Sunday before Christmas. would be greatly appreciated. When we stop to consider the great gift of Jesus himself, The Son of Ss. Peter & Paul/Assumption B.V.M. Churches God, given to us at the first Christmas it is easy for Collecting Food Donations: Ss. Peter & us to respond generously as we celebrate His Paul/Assumption B.V.M. Churches are continuing birthday. to collect food items to be donated to the Mount Carmel Area Food Bank. With the holidays fast Fasting Requirements: Please keep in mind approaching please continue to donate to the less that Tuesday, December 24th is traditionally a fortunate in our community. Thank You! day of strict abstinence. No meat or dairy products are to be consumed until after the Holy Supper or celebration of the Christmas Knights of Columbus Bishop Schott Poster Contest: Knights of Columbus Bishop Schott Divine Liturgy. This fast is obligatory for all Lodge 628 is sponsoring a “Keep Christ in Ukrainian Catholics between the ages of 14 Christmas” poster contest for children 5 to 14 years and 59 with the exception of those pregnant, of age. Deadline is December 20, 2013. For more on medication, or in ill-health. information and rules contact Dave Berezovske at 570-205-4818. Bulletin Requests: Any requests or any information to be placed in the bulletin must be in writing and submitted to the church office by 12:00 Noon on Mondays. Sunday of the Forefathers A Prayer for Renewal Troparion: Almighty Lord, we bow our heads in prayer Through faith, O Christ, You justified the And beseech You to rebuild our House of God. Patriarchs, for through them You made a The psalmist reminds us, commitment to a church with gentiles. * These Unless the Lord builds the house, Saints are glorified because from them * descends the builders labor in vain. the Virgin who gave You birth. * Through their Dear Lord, rebuild this house and guide the hands prayers, O Christ our God, have mercy on us. of the architects, the contractors, the laborers; May they perfect the imperfections, as they recreate and renew this church, our Heaven on earth, where we gather to lay aside all cares of life. Kontakion: Almighty Lord, we are also reminded that we too Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to are temples, living temples of the Holy Spirit. the Holy Spirit: Now and ever and forever: During this time of re-creation and renewal Amen. May our imperfections also be perfected. You did not worship a man-made image, O May the gifts of the Holy Spirit renew in each of thrice-blessed Youths, * but were glorified in the us our faith and our love of God and each other. test of fire, * protected by a power beyond May we spiritually become the children of God we description. * From the searing flames you cried are called to be Christian faithful who are forgiving out to God, saying: * “Hasten to help us, O and caring, and welcoming. And may our patrons, Merciful Lord, * for in Your greatness You can do Saints Peter and Paul, always inspire us through whatever You will.” their courage and example to faithfully hear the Word of God and live it.

Prokimenon: 2014 Church Envelopes: 2014 Church Blessed are You, and praiseworthy, O Lord, the Envelopes are in the vestibules of our parishes. God of our Fathers, and glorious forever is Your Every married couple or single person 18 years or Name. over is to be registered and receive envelopes. To V. In all that You have done, Your justice is be considered a member of our parishes, SS. Peter apparent. & Paul or Assumption B.V.M. Churches, regular attendance and use of church envelopes is required. Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia! If you are ill and/or aged let Father Michael know. V. Among His priests were Aaron and Moses; The neglect of regular church attendance and among those who invoked His name was Samuel. regular use of church envelopes can lead to V. They invoked the Lord and He answered. difficulties at the time of baptisms, weddings, Alleluia (3x) funerals, etc. If you have used your 2013 envelopes faithfully, no action is needed. If you did not Communion Hymn: receive church envelopes for 2014 and would like Praise the Lord from the heavens; praise Him in to receive offering envelopes, please call the the highest Alleluia! (3x) church office at 339-0650 during regular office hours. Second Hymn: Exult, you Just, in the Lord; praise from the Holiday Cookie Sale: The Holidays are a busy upright is fitting. Alleluia! time for all of us. Why not save some time and let us do the baking for you? This year we’re taking Epistle: Col 3:4-11 orders for cookie trays. Orders are due by Gospel: Lk 14:16-24 December 15, 2013 and may be picked up on December 21, 2013, from 11:00 AM to 2:00 PM. Thoughts to Ponder……………………. Cookie trays include an assortment of different types of cookies and are $13.00 a tray. To place an It is Christmas time every time you smile at your order call Amy Lapointe 570-205-9923 or Abbie brother and offer him a hand. Timmins at 570-339-3375, or the church office at 570-339-0650. All proceeds benefit the parish. Closing of Books for Calendar Year 2013: Prayer Intention Line: SS. Peter & Paul Parish The closing of the Church Books will be on has established a Prayer Intention Line sponsored Sunday, January 12, 2014. Any donations by the Altar Rosary Society. On the top page of the received after that date will be credited to calendar bulletin you will see several numbers, you are free year 2014. In the beginning of the year 2014, to call to request prayers for you or a loved one. anyone wanting a print out of their 2013 donations Your intention will be remembered in prayer by may contact the church office at 339-0650 during the members of the Altar Rosary Society and also normal office hours, and one will be sent to you. written in a special book which will be placed in the vestibule of the church so that all members of our parish can remember your prayer needs. You Altar Rosary Society Preparing Traditional can request to remain anonymous if you like. It is Christmas Dinner: my hope we can all pray for each other in time of The Altar Rosary Society will be preparing the need and be lifted-up through the prayers of our Traditional Christmas Dinner for our parishioners parish. who are homebound. The dinners will be prepared and delivered on December 22, 2013. The Holy Name Society will be delivering the dinners late morning. All Are Invited: A very special invitation is extended to our entire parish family to join us A Family Time: Christmas is a time for today (Sunday) for our Annual Christmas Pageant family’s to gather together to celebrate the and St. Nicholas Social. Our children, religious ed. Birth of Our Lord. I encourage all of you to instructors and parish choir have been hard at work come to church, participate in all of the preparing this Christmas Show to help us get in the services and give glory to God for all His spirit of the season. Festivities begin at 4:00 PM in the Church followed by a hot buffet meal in the goodness. Please make a sincere effort to bring social hall at 5:00 PM. During the meal we will your entire extended family to church and also have a visit from St. Nicholas himself. Hope celebrate with us. Christmas is also a time to to see you there! come back. If you, or someone you know, has “fallen away” in recent years we wish to welcome you home in a very special way. This is truly “the best time of the year” to come F.Y.I.: As of this week we have made payments back to the Lord and His Church. totaling $ 510,601.55 toward the contract price of $699,933.60 for repairs in our Church. Additionally, we had a change order for repairs for Ss. Peter & Paul Christmas Tree: This year, we the driveway wall amounting to $ 5, 650.00 which are planning to decorate a Christmas Tree to honor has been paid as well. Special thanks to you and all of our parish families. Any family wishing to the friends of our parish who have been making participate is asked to bring in an ornament to special and generous donations for this project. I decorate our family tree. The tree will be set up in truly understand the sacrifice that many are making the vestibule with lights only. Bring in your and I am very appreciative of that. May God Bless ornament and place it on the tree. After the You! holidays are over, feel free to take your ornament home or leave it for next year.

Annual Christmas Festival of Christmas Thank You: Ss. Peter & Paul/Assumption B.V.M. Carols: Annual Festival of Christmas Carols will Churches has received a “Thank You” letter from held on Sunday, January 12, 2014 at 3:00 PM at the Archbishop’s Chancery for the generous the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in donations from our parishes to help the victims of Philadelphia. Choirs from different parishes will Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines. The donations participate. Everyone is welcome. were greatly appreciated. Sunday, December 15 Sunday of the Holy ForefathersWe are expected to have even greater faith. We must believe that the Lord was, and is, and will be; that He lived on earth as a man; that through His Church He remains with us On the Sunday that occurs on or immediately afterconstantly; the eleventh and that ofHe December, will again return we to earth to judge mankind. But for such a faith the commemorate Christ's forefathers according to the flesh,Lord bothHimself those promises that came us beforeeternal thebliss. When Jesus Christ appeared before the doubting Law, and those that lived after the giving of the Law. Apostle Thomas, who could not believe in the Lord’s resurrection unless he actually touched Christ’s wounds, and upon touching them cried out: “My Lord and my God!”, then the Lord On this Sunday the Church commemorates the Holy Forefathers,said to the apostle:i.e. the earthly“Because ancestors thou hast of seen Me, thou hast believed; but blessed are they that our Lord Jesus Christ, beginning with the first man,have Adam, not andseen, on and through yet have Seth, believed.” Enoch, Noah, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, King David, and others. These ancient people, separated from us by millennia, nevertheless have a direct and closeBut apart bearing from upon faith us,there contemporary is something else that binds us closely with the ancient forefathers – Christians. and that is their faithfulness to the awaited Messiah. They lived surrounded by a pagan world – a world which did not yet know Christ, but which had already rejected God. We too, dear brethren, Special commemoration is made of the Patriarch Abraham,live in toa similarwhom theand promise even worse was firstsituation. For nineteen centuries after the birth of Christ the given, when God said to him, "In thy seed shall all theworld nations lived of thewith earth Christ be blessed"and the Christian(Gen. culture, but in the 20th century an abrupt change took 22:18). This promise was given some two thousand yearsplace. before We Christ,now live when in Abrahama post-Christian was era, in a world that has once again become totally seventy-five years of age. God called him and commandedimmersed him in paganism. to forsake his country, parents, and kinsmen, and to depart to the land of the Canaanites. When he arrived there, God told him, "I will give this land to thy seed" (Gen. 12:7);We for often this hear cause, mention that land of the was arrival called of a “new age.” However, there is nothing new in this the "Promised Land," which later became the country“new of the age” Hebrew except people, for its andmore which modern is form. It is the same old rejection of God and even also called Palestine by the historians. There, afternegation the passage of God, of and twenty-four moreover years,– a complete rejection of Christ and profanation of Christ. Abraham received God's law concerning circumcision.Most In the Christians one hundredth do not year even of seehis howlife, they are perverting their Christian faith in trying to when Sarah was in her ninetieth year, they became themodernize parents ofit, andIsaac. how Having they arelived betraying 175 Christ in attempting to unite with the religions of years altogether, he reposed in peace, a venerable elderHis full persecutors of days and abusers.

What connection is there between them and us? In general,And so, the against Church the bringsbackground them ofto thisour horrifying world, let us remember not only the faith of attention now, right before Christmas, largely becausethe ofHoly their Forefathers, faith – their but alsobelief their in thefaithfulness to Christ the Saviour; and as we prepare very promise given by God to Adam during his expulsion fromsoon the to gardencelebrate of HisEden, Nativity, that in thelet usend turn away from the paganism that surrounds us, and let a Saviour will come into the world and will redeemus mankind witness ourfrom total original devotion sin. and All loyalty the to the One Who said: “Lo, I am with you until the forefathers – who lived on earth long before the birth endof Christ of time.” – lived and burned with this faith, never allowing it to be extinguished. They are a shining example to us, who are living on earth after the incarnation of our Lord. Just like those ancient people we, too, have never actually seen Christ: they only knew that He would come He did come into the world. But they firmly believedSunday in His of coming the Holy and Fathers, their faith the Ancestors was of justified. Christ Usually people react to the Gospel reading today by asking: Why do we have to hear all those names every year? What are these fourteen generations of names times three? All the forefathers – who lived on earth long before theThese birth fourteen of Christ generations – lived and of burned names times with this faith, never allowing it to be extinguished. Theythree are end a shining in Joseph, example who to isus, not who even the are living on earth after the incarnation of our Lord.biological Just like father those of ancient the Saviour. people we,People will too, have never actually seen Christ: they only knewsay: that What is the importance of this? while we know that He did come into the world.____ The importance has to do with the fact of the Promise. In the reading from the Epistle to the Hebrews, we recall all these ancestors of Christ who had lived by faith, starting with Abraham. All these people lived in the hope of the fulfillment of the Promise of the Lord. The We are reminded that as human beings we are Promise of the Lord was a Saviour, a both physical and spiritual beings. Human Redeemer, and Life. We have to say, also, that beings consist of body and soul. This is the the Promise has to do with blessing. The Christian condition. Our faith is all about the whole Promise begins with Abraham, saying love of God concretely and physically that his descendants are going to be a blessing manifested to us. It’s all about God’s life- on the earth. People are generally taking the giving and saving love. If there is true matter of descendants as purely physical spirituality amongst us, it manifests itself in descendants. However, we are counting not this wholeness, this unity of spiritual, and only physical ancestry, but also spiritual physical. Actually, this was the characteristic ancestry. Hebrew mentality and belief--that spirit and the body are inseparable. Together, they are On the second Sunday before the Nativity, we one. pay attention to the spiritual ancestry of Christ, and today, the Sunday before the Nativity, the This physical presence of the Saviour, which is physical ancestry of Christ is emphasized. We coming with the Incarnation that we are about are talking about this life in faith. We are to celebrate, is the most important occurrence talking about life in faith, hope, and trust in that ever could have happened to us. This God’s love, trust in His Promise of a Saviour, proves to us the love of the Lord. Human trust in His Promise of blessing. The people beings always demand tangible, concrete proof who are the descendants of Abraham are truly of everything, and this included our need for people who have lived by faith. All those tangible evidences of the love of God for us, persons whose names we have heard today are and His physical presence among us. ancestors of Christ, spiritually speaking, and people who lived with faith in the fulfillment This is the reason for the Incarnation. This is of the Promise, and trust in the Lord. Many of why we Christian believers have to show to these people suffered because of their other people around us concrete evidence of confidence in the Lord, His love, and their our hope in Jesus Christ by how we behave hope in the fulfillment. and how we live. No matter how much people exasperate us, no matter how much they put us In the Scriptures, there two genealogies of to the test, we have to show them concretely Christ, one in the Gospel of Luke, the other in that we do love them. the Gospel of Matthew. Matthew’s genealogy The incarnational way the Lord continues to begins with Abraham. The Lucan genealogy show His love to us is through the Gospel, traces the lineage of Jesus back to Adam. The itself. The written word about the Saviour, the genealogies definitely demonstrate that the Lord’s Promise (and its fulfillment), those Saviour did not just appear out of nowhere words that are spoken from the Gospel, are (physically speaking). You hear in pagan words that are spoken as from the Saviour, mythologies that some people appear out of Himself. So, when we respond in our hymns to nowhere. The Saviour is a human being who what is proclaimed in the Gospel, we are comes from an ancestry that we know. We responding in words such as “today” this is know where He was born. We know where He happening or “today” is the fulfillment of the grew up. These are important details. These Lord’s Promise. When the time of the Nativity ancestors of Christ, these ancestors of Joseph will come, we will be saying: “Today Christ is (who was the foster-father of the Saviour) are Born.” When those words are proclaimed to people who prepared the way for Christ by us, it is Christ, Himself, coming to us, present their love, and by their faithfulness, they made with us. It is the Word giving us His words. the time of the Incarnation possible. Always identify the Gospel, the word of God with our Saviour, the Word Who became flesh, Who is in our midst. Because the Gospel is proclaimed in our midst during the Divine Liturgy, Christ is truly present in our midst. The Word of God came down from heaven, took flesh, and is in our midst, in the middle of us. We all have the responsibility to proclaim Christ, to present Christ, to re-present Christ. In the same way as the Lord put flesh on His love, it is important that we, ourselves, live out this love in concrete, tangible ways. Live on in my love, as I have loved you. Christmas - 2013 Christmas – New Year Schedule – 2013 - 2014

My Dear Parishioners and Friends, Tuesday, December 24 th – Christmas Eve During the Christmas Season, all of us will be receiving a second DVD from our beloved 8:00 AM - Divine Liturgy – Mount Carmel Archbishop Stefan entitled “Come home for Christmas.” What a fitting title and theme 4:00 PM - Great Compline – Centralia for us to ponder as we prepare to celebrate the most wondrous time of the year, the 5:00 PM – Christmas Liturgy - Centralia Birth of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. 7:30 PM – Great Compline followed by Traditional Caroling – Mount Carmel 8:00 PM – Christmas Liturgy – Mount Carmel Indeed, our culture is filled with songs and references to coming home for Christmas. Wednesday, December 25 th – Feast of the Nativity of Our Lord We love to sing the beautiful carol, “I’ll be home for Christmas”, or the song “Oh, 8:00 AM - Christmas Divine Liturgy – Mount Carmel there’s no place like home for the holidays”. It seems our every thought, every dream, 10:00 AM - Christmas Divine Liturgy – Centralia and every plan is to join family and friends “at home”. Home is a place of love, warmth, Thursday, December 26 th – Feast of the Mother of God peace, joy and safety for all of us. To be home is to be surrounded with those whom we 9:00 AM – Divine Liturgy – Centralia love and who love us. 6:00 PM - Divine Liturgy – Mount Carmel Friday, December 27 th – Feast of St. Stephen This Christmas, I join Archbishop Stefan in extending an invitation to all of you, along 9:00 AM - Divine Liturgy - Centralia with your family and friends, to come home to our parish church. Our parish is our 6:00 PM - Divine Liturgy – Mount Carmel spiritual home. Our parish provides a place where we can experience the same love Saturday, December 28 th – Saturday after Christmas and peace as we do in our own homes. Even more, our parish provides the unique 4:00 PM – Divine Liturgy – Mount Carmel opportunity to gather with our brothers and sisters in Christ, in the presence of our Sunday, December 29 th - Sunday after Christmas – David, Joseph and James loving Father to share in HIS LOVE and HIS MERCY. 9:15 AM – Divine Liturgy – Mount Carmel Our church, our spiritual home will be ready to welcome the coming of GOD WITH US 11:00 AM – Divine Liturgy - Centralia th this Christmas. Please join us in celebrating the Birth of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Monday, December 30 – Christ. Please, join us around the manger this year. Please, Come Home for Christmas! 8:00 AM Divine Liturgy – Centralia Tuesday, December 31 st - New Years Eve Wishing you and your family a very Blessed and Joy-filled Christmas, I am Feast of St. Basil the Great/ Circumcision of our Lord 4:00 PM – Divine Liturgy – Mount Carmel Tuesday, January 1 st 2014 – New Years Day Fr. Michael Hutsko Feast of St. Basil the Great/Circumcision of our Lord 9:00 AM – Divine Liturgy - Centralia

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