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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,- 9:00 12:00 Noon – Liturgy of Pre-Sanctified AM-3:00 PM Gifts - Wed, Thurs, 9:00 AM - For God’s Blessings on our Parishes 12:00 Noon Saturday – April 8, 2017 5th SUNDAY OF THE GREAT FAST 9:00 AM - Friendship Breakfast Liturgy - COMMEMORATION OF ST. MARY OF For the Souls in Purgatory EGYPT 11:00 AM – 12:00 Noon – Confessions Vigil of Flowery (Palm) Saturday – April 1, 2017 Sunday/Solemn Blessing of Pussy 3:15 PM - Confessions Willows & Palms 4:00 PM – For the Parishioners 3:15 PM - Confessions Sunday –April 2, 2017 4:00 PM – For the Parishioners 8:15 AM - Confessions 9:15 AM - +Joseph Lynn (Legate) req. by Anna Lynn Family 1ST Collection : Candles 11:00 AM - +Thomas Buhay – 40th Day 2nd Collection: Regular Offering – req. by Charles and Lorraine Buhay 3:00 PM – Stations of the Cross – St. Michael’s Hazleton April 2, 2017 Monday – April 3, 2017 6:00 PM – Confessions – Ss. Peter & Sunday – April 9, 2017 Paul and Assumption BVM Vigil of Flowery (Palm) No Stations of the Cross Sunday/Solemn Blessing of Pussy Tuesday – April 4, 2017 Willows & Palms No Services 8:15 AM - Confessions Wednesday – April 5, 2017 9:15 AM - +Michael Hutsko, Sr. req. by 6:00 PM – Liturgy of the Pre-sanctified wife, Pearl and family Gifts 11:00 AM - +Thomas Buhay req. by +Ruth and Victor Snyder req. by niece, Julia Kriesher and Family Ellen Goretsky and Family 3:00 PM – Stations of the Cross – St. Thursday – April 6, 2017 Nicholas, Minersville 2:00 PM – Mount Carmel Nursing Home – For the Health of All of the Residents Welcome: We the people of Ss. Peter Friday –April 7, 2017 & Paul and Assumption Churches, are a catholic community that worships God, spreads the Good News of Christ, and April 6: Pysanky Class (Last Class) serves those in need. Come into the April 8: Lenten Friendship Breakfast house. Bring all you are, no need to April 9: Palm Sunday check your failures at the door. There April 9: Holy Name Society Sunday are no perfect people here. You are April 9: Easter Egg Hunt invited: come. Come in seeking, come in April 9: Stations of the Cross – wondering, come in hurting. Come into Minersville this house of companionship and April 12: Soup and Sandwich compassion. Come in. You are welcome April 16: Easter here. April 23: Easter Dinner Ss. Peter & Paul/Assumption Churches April 26: Soup and Sandwich open their doors to you. *All Stations of the Cross begin at 3:00 PM Bulletin Requests: *All Pysanky classes begin at 6:00 Any requests or any information to be PM placed in the bulletin must be in writing and submitted to the church office by Ss. Peter & Paul Replenish Fund 12:00 Noon on Mondays. Thank Donations as of March 26, 2017 you for your cooperation. Total To Date: $70,424.54 Replenish Fund: None Rosary Intention: Rebuilding Fund: $200 – In Memory For the week of April 2, 2017 – For the of Joe Pochakilo by wife, Louise Sick and Infirm of our Parishes Pochakilo $500 – In Memory of Mother & Dad by In Your Prayers: Daughter, Louise Pochakilo Please remember to pray for the sick & Your Stewardship: We thank you for infirm of our Parishes. your financial support of our parish communities.

Please Remember: Weekly Parish Financial Report: To pray for vocations to the Holy Ss. Peter & Paul Church Priesthood & Religious Life. Sunday, March 26, 2017 $2,526.00 Soup & Sandwich $ 376.00 The Vibrant Parish: Expenses: $ A place to encounter the living Christ 649.00 through the Word of God, the Holy Sunday, March 27, 2016(Easter) Mysteries & Prayer, Serving One’s $7,799.27 Neighbor, Leadership, Fostering & Assumption BVM Church: Serving Unity & Missionary Spirit. Sun. March 26, 2017 $ 741.81 Upcoming Events: Soup & Sandwich $ 82.58 April 2: Altar Rosary Society April 2: Stations of the Cross – Hazleton Expenses: $ 614.00 April 3: Confessions, 6-7:00 PM – Mount Carmel Sunday, March 27, 2016 (Easter) $ and Centralia 1,473.80 April 5-6: Pyrohy Sale and focus on topics such as faith, traditions and contemporary challenges Ss. Peter & Paul Church Lector to living the Gospel message in today’s Schedule: society. Everyone, from High School age Sat – April 1st to Senior Citizens, is cordially invited to Ed Cuff 4:00 attend and participate on a weekly PM basis. Please take advantage of this Sun – April 2nd opportunity to deepen your faith and Christine Bogner 9:15 AM understanding of the call to discipleship Sat– April 8th Jesus extends to all of us. Ellen Goretsky 4:00 PM Mystery (Sacrament) of Penance: Sun – April 9th Justina Eisenhart 9:15 AM Is available before each Divine Liturgy on Saturday, 3:15 PM to 4:00 PM and Assumption BVM Church Lector on Sunday in Ss. Peter & Paul Church Schedule: 8:15 AM to 9:00 AM, and at Assumption Sun – April 2nd BVM Church on Sunday before 11:00 Kianna Rizzo 11:00 AM AM Divine Liturgy in the confessionals. Sun – April 9th Bryce Fiamoncini 11:00 AM

Say What: God formed and created. God’s spirit Fasting Regulations: moved across the face of the Earth. During the season of Lent we are to God breathed and gave life. God refrain from eating meat every Friday walked and talked with Adam and Eve in and are encouraged to fast from meat the Garden of Eden. This was spiritual on all Wednesdays of the Lenten relationship at its best. May we seek season. All are asked to keep this the same. discipline of the church.

Extra Books: Replenishment Fund Gifts: There are additional copies of the book We are still accepting donations/gifts to “Resisting Happiness” located on the our Parish Replenishment Fund table in the vestibule of our churches. established almost three years ago to Please feel free to take as many as restore monies that were used for the you need for yourself and your family as church renovations and repairs. Please well consider making a as friends. They are completely free of special donation to this Fund. All charge. donations remain here in our parish and are meant to Adult Discussion Group: secure the future financial health of our We are offering an Adult Discussion church. Your gift/donation will be Group led by Sr. Natalya every Monday greatly appreciated. Thanks! evening from 6:00 PM until 7:15 PM in Ss. Peter & Paul Social Hall. Discussions Deanery Raffle: will be “free-flowing” from week to week The parishes of our Deanery are I encourage all of you to participate in sponsoring a Lucky Three Raffle to the Best Lent Ever Program offered by benefit Ukrainian Day and St. Josaphat Dynamic Catholic. Best Lent Ever is a Seminary in Washington, DC. There are free, daily email program that will help three prizes available ranging from 1st you have a truly life-changing Lent. This prize -$500, 2nd prize - $200, and year’s program is based on Matthew 3rd prize - $50. Tickets sell for $1.00 Kelly’s bestseller, Resisting Happiness… each and are available now in the the book given to all of you at vestibule of the Church or in the Parish Christmas. To sign-up visit Office. The drawing date is Sunday, BestLentEver.com. Beginning Ash April 9th at the Palm Sunday Deanery Wednesday you will receive daily emails Services. Please generously support this with practical tips, short inspirational raffle. videos from Matthew Kelly, and personal reflections from Dynamic Catholic team Toy Donation for Youth Programs members. You will discover how to open Needed: your heart to God and do more than Please support our Youth Programs by just give up chocolate for Lent. donating a new toy of your choice to our “Kids Bingo” fundraiser this Spring. Annual Easter Dinner: We are in need of unused, unwrapped Our Parishes’ Annual Easter Dinner is toys of any kind for children ages 6 scheduled for Sunday, April 23rd months to 18 years. You may bring your beginning at 12:30 PM in the social hall donation to the church office or place it of Ss. Peter & Paul Church. We cordially in the donation bin in the vestibule at invite ALL families and members of both the entrance of the church from now Assumption BVM and Ss. Peter & Paul until the end of April. Thank you in Churches to come together to celebrate advance for your support. the Resurrection of Our Lord in the very special and traditional way. Our very Spiritual Reading Lending Library: special guest speaker this year will be We have assembled a library based Fr. Petro Zvarych, Pastor of St. Michael’s upon spiritual reading, reflection and in Frackville and St. John’s in Maizeville. meditation for the benefit of our Tickets are available now in the parishioners and friends. It is located in vestibule of both churches and in the the vestibule of the church. Everyone is parish office. Tickets are priced at: invited to browse through and take a Adults $8.00, Children 12 and under book home to read. Once you have $5.00 and Families $20.00. No tickets finished the book, please return it so will be available at the door. Mark your others can make use of it. As we strive calendar now and plan to attend! to live good Christian lives, it is important we fill our minds and hearts Traditional Easter Dinners for Our with things that are “of the Lord”. Homebound Parishioners: Please take advantage of this The Altar Rosary Society will be opportunity to grow in faith and preparing the Traditional Easter Dinner knowledge. on Palm Sunday, April 9, 2017 to be delivered by the Holy Name Society to our homebound parishioners. We Best Lent Ever Program: extend a heartfelt thank you to the Altar Rosary Society and the Holy Name We are sponsoring classes in the Society for making this dinner possible. traditional Art of Pysanky—the making May God Bless you! of dyed eggs for Easter. We are blessed to welcome Rose Demsko, an Sunday Social: accomplished and expert pysanky artist, Sunday Social is held at Ss. Peter and to teach these classes. Classes are from Paul immediately after 9:15 AM Divine 6:00 PM until 7:30 PM in the social hall Liturgy. All are welcome. Donations are of Ss. Peter & Paul Church and continue accepted and appreciated. every Thursday through April 6th. Those attending should bring at least two Break the Bank Bingo uncooked eggs and a few pencils. For Sunday, April 2, 2017 at Our Lady of more information, please call the Church Lourdes. Doors open at 11:30 AM, Office at 570-339-0650 during office games begin at 1:00 PM. Cash prizes - hours. All are welcome….from beginner $1199 guaranteed to go with 90 or to expert. more people. Food and refreshments available. Soup and Sandwich Ministry: Our parishes have embarked upon a Annual Lenten Friendship new and exciting outreach to the Breakfast: community. We serve a humble lunch of Our Annual Lenten Friendship Breakfast a soup and sandwich every second and is scheduled for Saturday, April 8th, 2017 fourth Wednesday of the month beginning with Divine Liturgy at 9:00 between the hours of 11:30 AM and AM and a hot breakfast in the hall 1:00 PM. This lunch is open to everyone immediately following. Our guest in our community: the needy, the speaker will be Mr. Michael Klembara, elderly, and the lonely and is totally free Athletic Director and Head Girls’ of charge. Our next lunch will be served Basketball Coach at Lourdes Regional on April 12th. Special thanks to High School. All parishioners, neighbors everyone who has made a donation in and friends are cordially invited to join support of this project. We are grateful us for this morning of prayer, fellowship for your generosity. Keep in mind a and inspiration. As always there is no special third collection for “loose charge for this event and no tickets change” will be taken the last weekend required. Remember, be a friend, bring of every month. If you would like to a friend, make a friend! Hope to see you help serve meals please notify the there! rectory office, Chris Bogner, Abbie Timmins or Toni Shedleski. Any and all Altar Flowers: help is appreciated. Altar flowers can be sponsored weekly Ss. Peter & Paul Deanery Stations for $30.00 per arrangement. of the Cross – Thank you: Parishioners can sponsor these flowers Special thank you to everyone who in Memory of a loved one, or for any helped make our Deanery Stations of occasion. Anyone interested in the Cross a success…those who sponsoring flowers, may call 570-339- provided baked goods, those who 0650 during office hours. helped set up and clean up, and all those who attended. Everything was Pysanky Classes: delicious and much appreciated. May Wednesay, April 5th from 4:00 to 6:00 God Bless All of You! PM, at St. Nicholas Hall, Primrose. Choice of baked haddock or crab cakes, Food Sale mashed potatoes, stewed tomatoes, Divine Redeemer Church is hosting a green beans, cole slaw, roll and dessert. sale of macaroni & cheese with or $10 per platter, eat in or take out. without stewed tomatoes, and pyrohy in Advance tickets only by calling the St. Divine Mercy Hall, 400 block of W. Nicholas rectory office at 570-544-4581. Cherry St, Mount Carmel on Friday, April 7th from 11 AM to 6:30 PM. Eat in or METROPOLITAN STEFAN’S take out. For more info, call 570-339- MEDITATION FOR THE FIFTH 3450 during parish office hours. SUNDAY OF GREAT FAST Our Great Fast Meditations have It’s That Time of Year: meditated on the sinfulness of living Pussy willows are once again needed for with feelings of entitlement. Today’s Palm Sunday weekend Divine Liturgies Gospel tells of how two apostles who April 8th and 9th, 2017. If you are able to blatantly asked Jesus to sit on either provide pussy willows, kindly call the side of him when he comes into his church office at 570-339-0650 during glory. It brought out feelings of regular office hours. Thank you so animosity among the other ten apostles. much. Is this not true of life – our life, when we strive for being regarded as in some Next Pyrohy Sale: way superior and thereby more entitled Ss. Peter & Paul/Assumption BVM to life’s privileges than others? It occurs Pyrohy Sale will be held on Wednesday among all of us, between people of all April 5, 2017 starting at 8:00 AM and on ages, ethnic groups and races, people Thursday, April 6, 2017 starting at 8:00 with different levels of education, amidst AM. Deadline for ordering is Thursday, hierarchy, clergy, faithful, and so on. It March 30, 2017 at Noon. All help is causes dissension, envy and brutality greatly appreciated. Thank you! amidst us.

Easter Offering: Jesus was calling his apostles to a Please begin now putting aside a couple change of mind, to live with a new of dollars a week so that you can make vision. It was not easy for them to an extra special offering to our churches understand that greatness meant on Easter Sunday. We ask each becoming a servant of others. Like the parishioner to consider making an apostles, we are slow to grasp Jesus’ Easter donation of at least $25.00. Gifts vision of joy and peace, slow to accept of $50.00, $75.00, $100.00 or more the truth that sets us free. Can we would be greatly appreciated. When we grasp the hand of Jesus Christ with His stop to consider the great gift of Jesus promise that we will not walk in himself, the Son of God, it is easy for us darkness if we follow Him? Jesus taught to respond generously as we celebrate that “whoever wants to rank first among His Resurrection. you must serve the needs of all” (Mk 10:45). Fish Dinner Our Holy Father recently reminded us Tickets can be purchased locally at the not to be hypocritical in the celebration Ukrainian Educational & Cultural Center, of our faith. As we make plans for 700 N. Cedar Road, Jenkintown, PA Easter celebrations, plan to make the 19046 (215-663-1166). entire journey with Jesus Christ, by participating in the Vespers and Exposition of the Holy Shroud on Good Easter Egg Hunt Friday and entering through His sacrifice Ss. Peter & Paul/Assumption will into the celebration of Pascha, the sponsor an Easter Egg Hunt for all the glorious Resurrection of our Lord and children of our parishes. The Easter Savior Jesus Christ. I urge you not to Egg Hunt will be held on Palm Sunday, be hypocritical with God by choosing to April 9th at 1:00 PM at Ss. Peter & Paul enjoy the blessing of Easter foods and Church Hall. A social will follow participating in Easter Sunday services immediately after the egg hunt. Please without having entered through the complete the form below and return it door of Christ’s passion and death on to the church office before Sunday, April the cross. 2nd so that we have an idea of how many children will be attending. Any “ Resurrection: Music from the questions, please call the office at 570- Ukrainian Sacred Choral Tradition” 339-0650 during business hours. This All are cordially invited to a sacred Easter Egg Hunt is open to any and all music concert, “Resurrection: Music children of our parishes and the from the Ukrainian Sacred Choral community. Tradition” to be held on Friday, April 21, 7:00 PM at the Cathedral of the Name:______Immaculate Conception, 830 N. Franklin Age:____ Street, Philadelphia, PA 19123. This concert will feature over 50 professional Name:______and amateur singers from Canada, Age:____ Ukraine and the United States and will be led by one of the leading choral Name:______directors in North America, Michael Age:____ Zaugg of Pro Coro Canada. This extraordinary performance is part of a Name:______concert series that will showcase the CD Age:____ recording of a Resurrectional Divine Liturgy composed by Fr. John Sembrat Parent:______OSBM and other timeless music specific ______to our Paschal services including music from renowned Ukrainian composers Phone:______such as Bortniansky, Vedel, and Hurko. ______More information about the recording, concert series and tickets, including Total Number Attending: video and audio highlights, can be found ______on the website www.resurrectionalliturgy.com Quarts of Chili for Sale: We have quarts of chili available for purchase in the vestibule after services Epistle: Heb 9:11:14 or by contacting the office at 570-339- Gospel: Mk 10:32-45 0650. It is $5.00 per quart. Communion Hymn: The just man shall be in everlasting remembrance. An evil report he will not fear. 5 TH SUNDAY OF THE GREAT FAST Alleluia (3x) COMMEMORATION OF ST. MARY OF EGYPT Lenten Confessions: Monday, April 3 6:00 PM- 7:00PM Troparion: Assumption, Centralia In You, O Mother Mary, the divine Fr. Fesniak likeness shone forth faithfully, for by Ss. Peter & Paul, Mt. Carmel taking up the cross, you followed Christ. Msgr. Melnic, Fr. Zvarych You gave example to be not concerned with fleeting life, but to be watchful over Lenten Services: the eternal soul. Therefore, O Venerable Sunday, April 2 – Stations of the Cross Mary, you now rejoice with the Angels. – St. Michael’s, Hazleton Sunday, April 9 – Stations of the Cross Glory be to the Father, and to the – St. Nicholas, Minersville. Son, and to the Holy Spirit: Now All services will begin at 3:00 PM and ever and forever. COMMEMORATION OF ST. MARY OF Amen. EGYPT

Kontakion: Once filled with all kinds of vice, now through repentance she appears as the bride of Christ. Leading an angelic life, she crushes the devils with the help of the cross. Therefore, the venerable Mary has become a bride of the kingdom.

Prokimenon: God is wondrous in His Saints; the God of Israel.

Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia! God gives in vindication, and has subdued peoples under me. V. Making great the salvation of the King, and showing mercy to His anointed, to On the fifth Sunday of the Great Fast, David, and the Feast of St. Mary of Egypt is to His posterity forever. Alleluia (3x) commemorated. Many legends surround her life and conversion experience. Born pleaded with her to tell him her story. around 344 AD in Alexandria, she chose She asked Zosima to meet her again the to lead a selfish life of sin. Once on an following year at sunset on Holy excursion to Jerusalem, she had noticed Thursday by the banks of the Jordan. throngs of pilgrims entering the Church Zosima returned and Mary appeared on of the Holy Sepulchre. Curious to join the opposite side of the Jordan and the attractions, Mary tried to enter the miraculously walked across the water Church, but was prevented by some and met him. Mary received communion mysterious force. Mary wondered if her and walked back across the Jordan after sinful life was the cause for preventing giving him instructions that he should her entrance into the Church. At that return to where they first met exactly a moment, she became aware of the Icon year later. When he did so, he found of the Mother of God which had been Mary’s body with a message written on above the entrance of the Church. Filled the sand asking him for burial and with remorse, she cried for her many revealing that she died immediately sins. Mary sought a life of repentance after receiving communion the year for her wicked past by entering the before, and thus had been miraculously desert. There she lived as a hermit for transported to the spot where she now nearly fifty years. While in the desert lay. one day, she met Saint Zosimus, who