ST. NICHOLAS OF MYRA ORTHODOX CHURCH A PARISH OF THE AMERICAN CARPATHO-RUSSIAN ORTHODOX DIOCESE OF THE ECUMENICAL OF CONSTANTINOPLE 288 E. 10th Street, New York, NY 10009 Sunday : 9 AM Pastor: Rev. Fr. William Bennett Cantor & Choir Director: Nicholas Timko Asst. Cantor: Reader Robert Zizik Church Phone #: 212-254-6685 Church Website: www.stnicholaschurchnyc.org Church Email: [email protected] WELCOME, ALL ST. NICHOLAS FAITHFUL & VISITORS! ______For Dial-in Service: 10 minutes prior to church services, call 1-877-459-3710 and enter access code 2546685# For Online Streaming Service: 10 minutes prior to service, visit our website (www.stnicholaschurchnyc.org) and scroll down and press play on our live service feed. If using a smartphone, use our YouTube Channel: “St. Nicholas of Myra Orthodox Church NYC” Follow us on Facebook: www.facebook.com/StNicholas10street / Follow us on Instagram: “10thSt.Orthodox” ______August 1st, 2021: ST. MACRINA THE YOUNGER Epistle: Romans 12:6-14 Gospel: Matthew 9:1-8 Tropar & Kondak: p 45, tone 5

PARISH PRAYER LIST PLEASE CONTINUE PRAYERS FOR: Matuska Olga Andrejuk, Anna Benyo, Walter Bubniak, Peter & Maria Ceselka, Tony Ceselka, Michal Derevjanik Sr., Pani Kathy Dutko, Mary & Tommy Fackovec, John Geida, Julius Gontkovsky, Diana Hannan, Priest Joseph Hoffmann, Magdalena Ilanovska, Jana Johnson-Plutchok, Helen Karpiak, Michael Kerr, Paul Koehler, Maria & Michael Koneval, Betty Kormanik, Donna Larson, Ann Mammoliti, Anna Mamrillova, Alex & Holly Marchak, Luboš Matlak, Richard McCullough, Stephanie McNellis, Christine Merriam, Sean Merriam, Stephen Pezzulich, Michael Pirich, Fred Polik, Dan Prisuta, Newborn Stella Rose Prokos, Rastislav Salon, John Salony, Paul Sikoryak Sr, Toni Sikoryak, George Sipko, Miroslav Strenk, Katherine Tam, Paul Tymus Sr, Teri Upton, Lorraina Vira, Marek Vattek, Bill Vislocky, Catherine Vislocky, Dennis & Cathy Walsh. For Expectant Parents: Priest Andrew & Pani Davina Wythe. For Catechumens: Owen Drummond, Susana Spontak. For all of those suffering from COVID-19 & for those embattled for the health of others. For requests, please contact Fr. William: [email protected]

O HOLY FATHER NICHOLAS, WONDERWORKER OF MYRA, PRAY TO THE LORD GOD FOR US! CAMP NAZARETH 2021 Genesis 8:15-16 - “Then God said to Noah, ‘Go forth from the Ark’.”

The week of July 18th, our St. Nicholas campers spent invaluable time at heavenly Camp Nazareth in Pennsylvania. They were joined with brothers and sisters from across the diocese for fellowship and fun in Christ. Church services, relay races, campfres, hikes, swimming, Zumba, tile painting; all of it flled our joyful and truly relaxing time together. SUNDAY, AUGUST 1st: HAPPY BIRTHDAY: Mnohaja i Blahaja L’ita! Let us all wish many more happy & blessed years to those celebrating their birthdays this week, especially to Milan Derevjanik, Maria- Verginia Ganfalean, AJ Ioukliaevskikh, & Jovan Bankovic!

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY: Mnohaja i Blahaja L’ita! Let us all wish many more happy & blessed years to those celebrating their anniversaries this week, especially to Miroslav & Julia Streak!

SUMMER HOURS CONTINUE! Divine Liturgy begins at 9 AM instead of our usual 10 AM from here on through Labor Day Weekend.

COFFEE HOUR continues after Divine Liturgy in the Main Hall downstairs. Thank you to our beloved volunteers who continue to make our fellowship possible every week! Join us!

DURING THE WEEK: MON. AUGUST 2nd - DIVINE LITURGY @ 8 AM, FEAST OF THE PROPHET ELIAS

SAT. AUGUST 7th - GREAT VESPERS @ 6 PM

SUNDAY, JULY 18th: Following Divine Liturgy, we celebrated the 50th Wedding Anniversary of George NEXT WEEK, SUNDAY, AUGUST 8th: & Justina Chobor. May God continue to SUMMER HOURS CONTINUE! Divine Liturgy begins at 9 AM grant them many more blessed years, in instead of our usual 10 AM from here on through Labor Day Weekend. health and salvation! THE BLESSING OF VEHICLES will take place following Divine Liturgy next week in honor of the Feast of the Prophet Elias, which takes place this week. As a chariot ascended in glory carrying blessed Elias, may God guide and protect all of our travelers, helping them to ascend to His holy will. Moreover, may He continue to bless and guide those travelers to Camp Nazareth through this season.

ADDITIONAL ANNOUNCEMENTS: DONATIONS FOR FLOOD VICTIMS IN JARABINA have come to an end, totaling approx. $16,000! Thanks be to God for His wonderful gifts, allowing us this precious show of outreach and support for our brothers and sisters in a time of need. Funds have been forwarded to the community for distribution, more information to come.

NORTH ROCKLAND FOOD PANTRY: Please continue to bring in canned vegetables, pastas, pasta sauce, rice, beans, cereals, etc., these are all most welcome and will be much appreciated. Money is appreciated as well to buy as needed, please give any donations to Bob Zizik. Do a little extra shopping on your next trip!

BLOOD DRIVE REFLECTION: Thank you to everyone who participated in the blood drive this past Thursday in our Main Hall, which was co-hosted with the NYPD 9th Precinct. Approximately 30 donors came and met the emergency demand for blood, of all types. May God continue to bless the medical staff doing this work, and bless us with opportunities like these! COMMENTARY ON TODAY’S SCRIPTURE: “And He entered into a boat, and passed over, and came into His own city. And, behold, they brought to Him a paralytic, lying on a bed.:” His own city means Capernaum, for it was there that He was living. He was born in Bethlehem, raised in Nazareth, and lived for an extended length of time in Capernaum. This paralytic is not the same as the one mentioned in John [5:2-9], for that one was beside the Sheep's Pool in Jerusalem, while this one was in Capernaum. And that one had no one to help him, while this one was carried by four men, as Mark says [Mk. 2:3-12], who lowered him through the roof, a fact which fact Matthew omits.

“And Jesus seeing their faith:” Either the faith of the men who brought the paralytic, for Jesus often worked a miracle on account of the faith of those who brought the one sick; or, of the paralytic himself.

“Said to the paralytic, Take courage, child; thy sins be forgiven thee:” Jesus calls him child, either as one of God' creatures, or because he believed. To show that the man's paralysis is a result of his sins, Jesus frst forgives him his sins.

*Taken from Catena App - Theophylact of Ochrid, 1107 AD ______Here again in another and a greater way He constrains His very enemies to confess His equality in honor, and by their own mouth He makes it manifest. For He, to signify His indifference to honor (for there stood a great company of spectators shutting up the entrance, wherefore also they let him down from above), did not straightway hasten to heal the visible body, but He takes His occasion from them; and He healed frst that which is invisible, the soul, by forgiving his sins; which indeed saved the other, but brought no great glory to Himself. They themselves rather, troubled by their malice, and wishing to assail Him, caused even against their will what was done to be conspicuous. He, in fact, in His abundance of counsel, made use of their envy for the manifestation of the miracle.

Upon their murmuring, then, and saying, This man blasphemes; who can forgive sins but God only? Let us see what He says. Did He indeed take away the suspicion? And yet if He were not equal, He should have said, Why fx upon me a notion which is not convenient? I am far from this power. But now has He said none of these things, but quite the contrary He has both affrmed and ratifed, as well by His own voice, as by the performance of the miracle. Thus, it appearing that His saying certain things of Himself gave disgust to his hearers, He affrms what He had to say concerning Himself by the others; and what is truly marvellous, not by His friends only, but also by His enemies; for this is the excellency of His wisdom. By His friends on the one hand, when He said, I will, be thou clean, Matthew 8:3 and when He said, I have not found so great faith, no, not in Israel; Matthew 8:10 but by His enemies, now. For because they had said, No man can forgive sins but God only, He subjoined,

“But that you may know that the Son of Man has power to forgive sins upon the earth (then says He to the sick of the palsy), Arise, and take up your bed, and go unto your house.” - John Chrysostom, 407 AD CHURCH SERVICE & ACTIVITY CALENDAR Note from Fr. William: If you would like anyone remembered or prayed for during the course of the week or would like someone remembered in a memorial service, please see Fr. William or simply email: [email protected]

AUGUST - SEPTEMBER 2021 *Shaded areas indicate days of fasting SUN MON TUES WED THUR FRI SAT

AUGUST 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Divine Liturgy @ 9 AM PROPHET Great Vespers ELIAS @ 6pm Divine Liturgy @ 8am

8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Divine Liturgy @ 9 AM Great Vespers - @ 6pm Blessing of Vehicles Dormition Fast Begins

15 16 17 18 19 20 21 Divine Liturgy @ 9 AM FEAST OF Great Vespers TRANSFIGURATION @ 6pm Divine Liturgy @ 8am

22 23 24 25 26 27 28 Divine Liturgy @ 9 AM FEAST OF DORMITION Divine Liturgy @ 8am - Great Vespers @ 6pm

29 30 31 SEPT 1 2 3 4 Divine Liturgy @ 9 AM NATL. ACRY CONVENTION (*No Services)