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Holy Angels Byzantine Catholic Church Twenty Holy Angels Byzantine Catholic Church The Rich Man and Lazarus October 25 2020 Twenty-first Sunday after Pentecost The Holy Martyrs and Notaries Marcian and Martyrius The Holy and Just Tabitha the Merciful October 25, 2020 Schedule of services for the week of October 26 - November 1 Friday, October 30 7:00 PM – Great Vespers with Litija Saturday, 31 – Our Venerable Father and Martyr Theodore Romzha 9:00 AM – Divine Liturgy 5:00 PM – Vesperal Divine Liturgy Sunday, November 1 – Twenty-second Sunday after Pentecost; The Holy Wonderworkers and Unmercenaries Cosmas and Damian; 9:00 AM – Baptism of Finnian Gregory Chambers and Divine Liturgy For all parishioners Catholics in the Public Square Te Church needs clear and courageous teaching God will make all things work for the good. It is and witness to confront the idols of a secularized, also the duty of the Catholic faithful to support post-Christian America. For many years now, my courageous people who do this through both friend Bishop Tomas Olmsted of Phoenix has our actions and prayers.” been one of the Church’s clearest and most Catholics in the Public Square is a must-read for all courageous teachers and leaders. In his ministry of us who are trying to engage the culture and to we see all the essentials of the new Christian proclaim the Church’s beautiful vision for humanism that is called for in our times. human life and human society. I pray that this I welcome this fourth edition of Bishop book will be widely read and widely lived. Olmsted’s widely read and infuential Catholics in + Most Reverend José H. Gomez the Public Square.Tis book is a kind of “question Archbishop of Los Angeles and answer catechism” on some of the deepest issues of faith and public life. Bishop Olmsted is Please visit: a wise and prudent guide, and over the years, I htps://dphx.org/catholics-in-the-public-square/ fnd I am still learning from him. to read Bishop Olmstead’s words. As he writes in this new edition: “It is our duty to engage the culture, not run from it. We must O Physician of Souls and Bodies, place our trust in the Lord and know that by we pray for: doing His will and speaking the truth in love, Angie Bitsko, Marie Bates, Loretta Brodke, Kathleen Burns, COMPULSIVELY-LATE CHURCH GOERS! Fr. Andriy Chirovsky, Elizabeth Crucitt, Fr. Julian Gnall, Margaret Raya, DAYLIGHT SAVING TIME Elnora Rusnak. ENDS NOVEMBER 1st Confession is available by appointment only. Please email [email protected] or call the parish at 858-277-2511 to schedule. Visits to the church can be schedule online at calendly.com/holyangelsbcc/prayer-visit Help is needed to clean after Divine Liturgy. If you can stay after the Liturgy to help, please do so. It is greatly appreciated! Blessed Theodore Romzha (14 April 1911 – 31 October 1947) Blessed Theodore was bishop of the Soon after the brutal assault began a civilian Ruthenian Catholic Eparchy of Mukacheve truck came upon the scene and the assailants fled. from 1944 to 1947. Assassinated by NKVD, he Romzha and his companions were taken to was beatified as a martyr by Pope John Paul II on Uzhhorod where they were hospitalized. 27 June 2001. Romzha was making good progress when, late on the night of 31 October, the nuns who were EARLY LIFE nursing him were suddenly dismissed and new Theodore Romzha was born in the nurse was assigned to him by the regime. A little Subcarpathia region, Hungary, Austria-Hungary after midnight Moscow Time, Romzha was (in the Rusyn village Velykyi Bychkiv, now found dead. The nurse had poisoned Romzha Ukraine) on 14 April 1911. with an injection of curare provided by the head of NKVD Laboratory 1, Dr Grigory His father, Pavel Romzha, worked as an Mairanovsky. According to research in Soviet official of the railroad. His mother, the former archives by Yevgenia Albats, the Bishop's Maria Semack, was a full-time homemaker. murder was ordered personally by Nikita Like many ambitious families in the region, the Khrushchev. Romzhas spoke the Hungarian language in the home. In the presence of others, however, they switched to their “According to the instructions of Khruschev, a member of the native Rusyn language. After his graduation from the Politburo (Central Committee of the Communist Party) of Gymnasium in Khust, Theodore left to study for the priesthood in Ukraine and the first secretary of the same, according to the Rome. He began as a seminarian at the Collegium Germanicum, plan developed by the Ministry of State Security in Ukraine and but later switched to the Russicum. approved by Khruschev, Romzha was eliminated in Mukachiv. Theodore was ordained a priest there by Bishop Aleksander The head of the Greek Catholic Church, he had actively Evreinov on Christmas Day, 1936 in the Basilica of St Mary opposed the uniting of Greek Catholics to Orthodoxy.” – From a Major. After completing his compulsory military service he letter of Pavlo Sudoplatov, General of state security, to served briefly as a pastor in several Transcarpathian parishes (part delegates of the 23rd Assembly of the Communist Party of the of Czechoslovakia since 1918) before being assigned as Soviet Union professor of philosophy at the Eparchial Seminary in Uzhhorod in 1939, now given back to Hungary. On 4 November 1947, a large crowd attended Romzha's funeral, despite Soviet efforts to shut down and block public EPISCOPATE transportation. He was buried in the crypt of Holy Cross These were difficult years for the Church in Subcarpathia as it Cathedral in Uzhhorod. The Ruthenian Catholic Church was experienced the invasions, later in 1938 by Hungary, one of Axis relentlessly persecuted and in 1949 officially suppressed. All its powers during the Second World War, then direct rule from Nazi properties were allocated to the Russian Orthodox Church. Germany and lastly the Soviet Red Army. FEAST DAY AND RELICS On 24 September 1944, at the young age of 33, he was Romzha was beatified as a Martyr for the Faith by Pope John consecrated bishop and appointed apostolic administrator of the Paul II in Lviv on 27 June 2001, with 1 November assigned Eparchy of Mukacheve in the cathedral of Uzhorod by Bishop initially as his feast day. At the request of the Eparchy of Miklós Dudás, O.S.B.M.. He had immediately to face the Soviet Mukacheve, the Congregation for Oriental Churches transferred Red Army, which occupied the churches, assigned them to the the feast day to 31 October, effective 2009. Romzha died shortly Orthodox and arrested priests. Bishop Romzha refused in front of after midnight 1 November, according to Moscow Time, the General Petrov to break with the Pope. Soviet-imposed time zone throughout Ukraine from 1930-1990; He organized a celebration of the Feast of the Dormition with however, according to local time, Romzha died before midnight aparticipationofmorethat80,000pilgrimsbutthiswasnot on 31 October. tolerated by the Communist officials who now began looking to In 1998, the relics of Blessed Theodore were found in a tomb dispose of the young bishop. On 27 October 1947, on the way in the crypt of Holy Cross Cathedral in Uzhhorod, and then home from a parish visitation, Bishop Romzha's horse-drawn transported to Budapest, Hungary for medical examination. On carriage was purposely rammed by a Soviet military truck and 27-28 June 2003 his relics were translated and carried in solemn pushed off the side of the road. The soldiers, who were dressed as procession back to Uzhhorod, where they are enshrined in a side civilians, jumped from the truck and beat the bishop and his chapel at Holy Cross Cathedral. In commemoration of the event, companions. asecondfeastday,theTranslationoftheHolyRelicsofBlessed Theodore Romzha, is celebrated on 28 June. From the Cathechism “Christ our Pascha” IV. THE PERSONAL PRAYER OF THE CHRISTIAN [You] need to pray always and not lose heart. (Lk 18:1) A. THE NEED FOR PRAYER 668. The mature prayer of the Christian has two dimensions: liturgical and personal. This prayer is called to fulfil the task of unceasing worship. Jesus Christ teaches us “to pray always and not lose heart” (Lk 18:1; see Lk 11:5-8). The apostle Paul in turn calls us to “pray without ceasing” (1 Thes 5:17). The life of the Christian— beginning from the Holy Mystery of Baptism, when the person is immersed (the literal meaning of the word baptism) in the life of the Most Holy Trinity, chrismated by the Holy Spirit and joined to Christ in Holy Communion—this life becomes a time of prayer, filled with praise, thanksgiving, and glorification of the Creator. Our life is then transformed into a prayerful state,1 or stance, a constant readiness of the heart. Christians should ceaselessly cultivate this state: “They ‘pray without ceasing’ who join prayer to works that are of obligation, and good works to their prayer ... It is only in this way that we can understand the injunction ‘pray without ceasing’as something that we can carry out.”2 Saint Basil the Great in his Rules coupled work to sevenfold liturgical prayer in the course of the day, in order thus to consecrate the entire day to the Lord.3 669. Personal or private prayer always has an ecclesial dimension. Saint Cyprian teaches: “When we pray, we pray not only for ourselves but for the entire people, because we all are one people ... Christ himself, our teacher and master, desired that each would pray for all, as he, having gathered all within himself, brought them to the Father.”4 Therefore, those who pray in the name of Christ, always pray in the Church, the Body of Christ, and for the Church.
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