Sunday of the Myrr-bearers

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Icon of Our Lord’s Appearance to the Myrr-bearing Women

Eastern Christian Bulletin Service -- PO Box 3909 -- Fairfax, VA 22038-3909 www.ecbulletin.com Ph: 703-691-8862 Fax: 703-691-0513 UKRAINIAN NATIONAL SHRINE OF THE The Hierarchy of our Ukrainian in the USA has directed that 4250 Harewood Road NE ALL PUBLIC CELEBRATION OF CHURCH SERVICES MUST BE STOPPED. Washington, DC 20017 Phone: 202-526-3737 Fax: 202-526-1327 E-mail: [email protected] Saturday and Sunday Services will be Live Streamed from Holy Family Webpage: www.ucns-holyfamily.org THE CHURCH WILL NOT BE OPEN IN CASE OF AN EMERGENCY PLEASE CALL: 202-262-5040 Субота 25 квітня Pastoral Care entrusted to: 6:00 вечора Велика Вечiрня Father Robert Hitchens Father Wasyl Kharuk Неділя 26 квітня 3-а Неділя Пасхи Неділя Мироносиць Sunday – April 26, 2020 10:00 ранку Св. Літургія (за парохію) Христос Воскрес – Воістину Воскрес is Risen – Indeed He is Risen Вівторок 28 квітня

9:00 ранку (+Ivan Kroytor from the Mulvey Family) ALL PUBLIC CELEBRATION OF CHURCH SERVICES MUST BE STOPPED. Saturday and Sunday Services will be Live Streamed from Holy Family Середа 29 квітня THE CHURCH WILL NOT BE OPEN 9:00 ранку (+Pauline and + Fedak from Ruth) Saturday April 25 Четвер 30 квітня Great Vespers 6:00 p.m. 9:00 ранку (Deceased of the Toth-Davis Family from Ellen) Sunday April 26 Sunday of the -bearers П’ятниця 1 травня 10:00 a.m. Divine Liturgy (For the ) 9:00 ранку (Deceased of the Nagurney-Medwid Family from Irene) Субота 2 травня Tuesday April 28 Велика Вечiрня 9:00 a.m. (+Ivan Kroytor from the Mulvey Family) 6:00 вечора Wednesday April 29 Неділя 3 травня 4-а Неділя Пасхи Неділя Розслабленого 9:00 a.m. (+Pauline and +Michael Fedak from Ruth) 10:00 ранку Св. Літургія (за парохію) Thursday April 30 Prayer List 9:00 a.m. (Deceased of the Toth-Davis Family from Ellen) Our prayer list of the sick or elderly and friends of our parish: Theresa Aranda, Liana Arnold, Friday May 1 Fr. Frank Avant, Susan Avant, Andriko Bilaniuk, Charles Belanger, Barbara Blendy, Bluey 9:00 a.m. (Deceased of the Nagurney-Medwid Family from Irene) Family, Yevhenia Borys, Taisia Bullard, Fr. David Clooney, Mary Connors, Jack Davis, Darlene Dossick, Solomia Dutkewych, Ruth Fedack, Bernard F, Damian Fedoryka, Lilian Garland, Thomas Saturday May 2 Great Vespers Gutmann, H.H., Josie Hacker, Catherine Hetmansky, 1LT Catherine Hetmansky Hayes (Active 6:00 p.m. Duty Iraq), Julia Hetmansky, Bernadell Rita Higgins, Daniel Horeczko, Nila Iwaskiw, Kateryna Sunday May 3 Sunday of the Paralytic Jurach, Sarah Kelt, Stephania Kopka, Dorothy Kozmoski, Suzanne Krumpelman, Fr. Mykhailo 10:00 a.m. Divine Liturgy (For the Parish) Kuzma, Michael Joseph Little, Michele Pretka Litvar, Yaroslava L., Mufada and Family, Sallie

Miller, John Moeller, Deborah Pickering, Alexandra Pohorecka, Ron#119, Michael Joseph The Hierarchy of our Ukrainian Catholic Church in the USA has directed that Radigan, Roman Rusynko, Maria Sawkiw, Lisa Schaible, Christopher Sell, Shliakhta Bogdana, ALL PUBLIC CELEBRATION OF CHURCH SERVICES BE STOPPED. Shliakhta Mark, Shliakhta Andrew, Thomas Stadnik, Timothy Stock, Lindsey Sydnor, Saturday and Sunday Services will be Live Streamed from Holy Family Thomas Sydnor, Helen Lefcheck Torre, Jarrelyn Trusen, Lisa Pretka Turner, Gloria and Luis Platform: https://www.facebook.com/holyfamilyshrine/ Vega, Jennifer Wilson, Danny Wolff, Nataliya Wozniak, Michael Zabych. If you know of someone who should be on this list, please email or call with the name of the individual. Our intercessory prayer If you are having an Emergency and need Fr. Robert; for the sick and the aged is truly helpful and comforting. In your Christian Charity, kindly remember our please call - 202-262-5040 sick parishioners in your prayers and perhaps a card or note.

the Cross. He restored Adam and By faith and by baptism we inherit sunday Theosis #2-57 Eve and broke the power of death. this Kingdom. By our faith and offer- He opened the gates of Paradise and ing ourselves with Christ we share in inaugurated the Kingdom of Grace. His Victory. We sing this truth in our Good News from the East feel.” He spoke well. He spoke truly. His mother’s love was so strong, so He paid the price of pride by His hu- resurrection matins: “I was buried By Father John Zeyack mility. He paid the price of disorder yesterday with You, O Christ; but to- faithful, so personal that each of her by His obedience. He paid the price day I rise resurrected with You. Yes- Resurretion of Our Lord children knew they were special and unique. of death by His own death on the terday I crucified myself with You, O Pascha Cross. He paid the price of depravity, Savior. Now glorify me with You in of hatred, of evil, and restored our Your Kingdom.” Christ is Risen! human race. In Him, God’s Kingdom is risen from the Christ is risen! God is King! Christ is and Power and Dominion and God’s dead! He has conquered risen! The Kingdom of God is open! Glory shown forth. All Power is His: death! He has overcome Christ is risen! The Kingdom of God the world that is alienated Full authority has been giv- is ours. Christ is risen! And we are from God. He has raised en to me both in heaven and risen with Him! That is the Victory us to new life! This is our on earth; go therefore and make of . Let us live this faith! Let song! This is our creed! disciples of all the nations. us live Christ’s command to love one This is what we live by as Baptize them in the name of another as I have loved you! Let us Christians! the Father, and of the Son, and bless, praise, and thank our God of the Holy Spirit. Teach them for His Victory. Let us embrace one What is different about to carry out everything I have another in that Victory and take our this new life? What does Jesus give I think that God’s love for each of us commanded you. And know victory song into the world. Christ us that we don’t already have? What is the same. We have the same hu- that I am with you always, until will not be defeated! His reign will does God offer us that the world man nature. But each one of us has the end of the world. have no end. Christ is risen from the does not offer us? a unique character, a name, some- dead! By death He conquered death I would like to remember a very vivid thing unrepeatable about us. God John’s prologue that we read in to- doesn’t make two alike. day’s puts it this way: and to those in the graves, He grant- story. A mother died. She had five ed life! children and many grandchildren. That is so different from what our The Word became flesh and She was a well-loved woman. One of world tells us. Our everyday world, made His dwelling among her sons had asked to speak on be- our world of competition, our world us, and we have seen His Glo- half of the family. He stood up and of numbers, our world of betrayal ry. The Glory of the only begot- began to speak about his mother. and unfaithfulness, tells us we are ten Son coming from the Father He told of her warmth, her humor, always being compared, we are al- filled with enduring love. …of For more educational information, visit: her willing sacrifice for her family, ways being measured, and that we his fullness we have all had a Books: www.ecpubs.com her joy, and her love. Then he said, are always coming up short. We share… for while the Law was Media: www.olfoundation.net “I know that my Mom loved me best. aren’t good enough, we aren’t smart given through Moses, Grace StreamingVideo: www.oltv.tv I know that for my Mom I was spe- enough, and we aren’t rich enough. and truth came through Jesus cial…and that’s how she made us all There is always something missing Christ!

Eastern Christian Bulletin Service PO Box 3909 Fairfax, VA 220383909 www.ecpubs.com Ph: 7036918862 Fax: 7036910513 in us. You are just a number. You to new life – not by blood, nor by trustfully, and openly with God. So was thwarted. God’s creation was are measured by what you do and carnal desire, nor by our willing it, that we see His grace and loving defiled, and God’s sovereignty was what you have. And that’s not from but by God. kindness and that we offer this gift denied. And we know the rest of the God! But it’s a message we hear ev- The Word became flesh and made to our world, to our families and to story: evil, death, sin reigned; ig- eryday. His dwelling among us and we have one another. norance, fear, terror, deception, in- And so we work harder, we try hard- seen His Glory: the glory of an only May the love of Jesus, which has trigue took over. er, we fail miserably, we compen- begotten Son coming from the Fa- been poured into us, which we have God would win back his world, his sate with drugs, alcohol, sex and all ther filled with enduring love. Of received, fill us with joy and peace creation, his humanity and restore sorts of escape routes. We measure His fulness we have all had a share, and hope. his order in the world. He sent His ourselves through constant competi- grace for grace. Son. The Devil laughed. The pow- tion. We abuse power and position. Blessed is the Kingdom The Law came through Moses, but ers of evil mocked God on the Cross. We are only concerned about num- We come to bless God, to praise Grace and Truth came through Je- The reign of death and sin couldn’t ber one – me. We become selfish Him, to thank Him, to glorify Him. sus Christ! That Grace and Truth be overcome. The Cross was the fi- and selfserving. And we see that as We come to acknowledge God’s are ours. We know nal defeat of God. normal. We are so caught up in this Kingdom, God’s Dominion over our That’s not the end of the story. And world of illusion and lies. God’s Love. We are God’s children in lives and over all life. We come to Jesus Christ. We are special. We are acknowledge God’s Kingdom over all that’s why we are here today: to ac- And then comes Jesus. unique. We are loved with an eter- creation. knowledge God’s Victory over death, The Gospel today from St. John’s nal love. This is what Jesus gives sin, and evil. We come to praise God gave Adam and Eve everything, opening words summarizes God’s us. This is what transforms our ev- God, to bless Him, to thank Him, all creation. They were given Para- plan of salvation. The Eternal Word, eryday lives. This is what has been to glorify Him for His Victory. We dise, pure gift, unearned gift, God’s God’s Son, true God from all eter- poured into us by the Grace of the come to acknowledge that Jesus is gift. But they had to acknowledge nity, through Him all things came Holy Spirit. Lord of the living and of the dead. God’s sovereignty: they couldn’t par- into being. He Himself came into And over and over we sing a hymn This is why Jesus’ teaching is so take of the tree of good and evil. this world. He came into our world, of triumph – by death He conquered rich. This is why we worship and to reveal God’s Love, to open us to The Devil won. The tempter wrapped death. He reached down into the ut- praise God. This is why we renew God’s truth. the bait in such sweet words that ter depths and depravity of sin and our Covenant with God in the Holy they just had to try it. God’s plan death and nailed it with himself on He was announced by John the Eucharist and remember all that Baptist: “Look! Here is the Lamb of God has done for us in Jesus Christ. God who takes away the sin of the This is why we receive Holy Commu- world.” nion –to be filled with Jesus’ Body He came unto His own and His own and Blood, to be filled with His Spir- rejected Him. But any who did ac- it. To be nourished by God Himself cept Him He empowered to become so that we can carry our burdens children of God. These are they who in hope and trust, so that we can believe in his name… be faithful in loving ourselves and one another, so that we can forgive These are they who are born again and start anew, so that we live fully,