ST. JOSAPHAT UKRAINIAN CHURCH W. Union Blvd. at Kenmore Ave. -- Bethlehem, PA. Archpriest Daniel Gurovich, Pastor -- Carol Hanych, Cantor Vesperal Liturgy: Sat. 6:30 PM Liturgy: Sun. 10:00 AM Vespers: Evenings before Holydays 6:30 PM Matins: Major Holy Days 8:00 AM (610) 865-2521 -- Email: [email protected] www.stjosaphatbethlehem.org WHERE FAITH AND TRADITION MEET OCT 18 20th SUNDAY AFTER PENTCOST TONE 3

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MON OCT. 19: Prophet Joel (4) 22nd Gospels this week 8:00 AM: Forgotten souls in Purgatory (Irene Hrycenko)

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SUN OCT 25: 21st SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST Epistle of the 21st Sunday – Gospel of the 22nd Sunday Sat eve Vigil: 6:30 PM: Fore the Living and Departed Members of our Parish (PP) 10:00 AM Intention of Nick and Carol Hanych (50th Wedding Anniversary) ECF CLASSES FOLLOW (5) READERS GREETERS Body of Christ – the Church – and these ☺ OCT 17: Denardo Meixell Kadingo at exits responsibilities are growing daily, given the events OCT 18 Tighe ☺ Buddock Pastrick at exits OCT 24: Rybak ☺ Kadingo at exits taking place in the world around us. Please make OCT 25: Tighe/Kidd ☺ Buddock Pastrick at exits church attendance and prayer a regular part of your Church Cleaning: See 2020 OCTOBER Schedule daily lives. Please.

FUTURE EVENTS INTERNET WEB SITE ECF CLASSES MEET TODAY AND NEXT The weekly bulletin is available on the World Wide SUNDAY [Wear mask to Liturgy and Class] Web in PDF Format. It is the same as the printed November 2: Possible Tryzub Monthly version you are now reading. The Internet version Meeting (7:00) of the bulletin usually appears five to six days earlier December 6: St. Nicholas Party for the than the printed version. Bookmark children. (Tentative) www.stjosaphatbethlehem.us and check it weekly for the latest bulletin, back issues, and information not NOTIFICATION OF INTENT TO MARRY appearing in the printed version. Check out the FAQ Mr, Danylo J. Maczaj of Holy Ukrainian page. The material here is not usually found in the , Kerhonkson NY, weekly bulletin. Thank you to Mark DeNardo and and Ms. Larissa J. Martin of St. Robert Silvert for keeping the site up to date and in Josaphat Ukrainian Catholic excellent format condition. Church, Bethlehem PA, desire to be joined together in the Holy Mystery of Marriage. If anyone has any reason as to why this couple should not be crowned in Matrimony, they are bound in conscience to make it known to the Pastor of St. Josaphat Ukrainian Catholic Church, Bethlehem PA or the Promoter of Justice of the Ukrainian Catholic Archeparchy of Philadelphia. This is the second call.

NOTICE TO THE PARISH Please pass this notice to those members of our parish who have not been regular in their church attendance and ask them to carefully consider the message below. I want you to know that our parish needs you, and that you also need to be here with us. We have a responsibility to one another as members of the Taken from Eastern Catholic Life. The publication of the Ruthenian of Passaic NJ Reflections by +Kurt Burnette Bishop of Pasaic

“The things we see done in our country by well-off, educated young people who have enough money and food cannot be explained by any human force. People marching in armies chanting, ‘every city, every town, burn the precinct to the ground.’ And these aren’t just words. Young people are trying to burn down police stations. Mothers are marching with their toddlers, encouraging their small children to say obscene words and make violent threats against the police, while onlookers cheer and make videos.”

“These are the things we read about barbarians doing before they became Christians. These are the things we read about the Nazis doing during World War II. There were many cases in Eastern Europe in which the Nazis herded Slavs into a barn or church and then lit it on fire.”

“Already, it is easy to see why Marxism is incompatible with the Gospel. Aside from its overt contradiction of God’s laws, the Gospel is oriented toward bringing people together, not dividing them. As we say in our Troparion for Pentecost, ‘at Babel the Most High confused tongues (in response to Nimrod’s pride), but at Pentecost, the Holy Spirit brings all men to unity.’ As a bishop, I cannot become involved in partisan politics, but as a shepherd, I must protect my flock when I see wolves trying to seduce my sheep using pride, envy, anger, and other sins.” Bishop +Kurt Edited for the Bulletin. Read Bishop Kurt’s reflection in full at www.eparchyofpassaic.com/files/ECL-5609-WEB.pdf Excerpts from CHRIST OUR PASCHA The Catechism of the Ukrainian Catholic Church Sin, is, first of all, a person’s state that manifests itself in actions, and a sinful deed is the conscious and voluntary violation of God’s commandment. Violation of even one of God’s commandments is a violation of all of God’s Law. “For whoever keeps the whole law but fails in one point has become accountable (guilty) for all of it. For he who said, ‘You shall not commit adultery,’ also said, ‘You shall not murder.’ Now if you do not commit adultery but if you murder, you have become a transgressor of the law” (James 2:10-11). As one illness can cause another, so one [sin] soon leads to another. John of Damascus emphasizes that there are eight evil “thoughts” (in Greek, logismoi), that give rise to sin: gluttony, lust, avarice (or greed), melancholy, anger, acedia (or despondency), vainglory, and pride. We call them the capital sins as they are the root of all other sinful acts. (#758) Reprinted from the website of the Eparchy of St. Josaphat in Parma (https:// bit.ly/3kaAHIV). Edited for the Bulletin. The Real Damien of Molokai

By C. C. Pecknold, FIRST THINGS, August 6th, 2020 [Reprinted from https://www. firstthings.com/ web-exclusives/2020/08/the-real-damien-of-molokai, edited for the bulletin.] Taken from Holy Ghost Newsletter, West Easton.

Note: This excellent article in the well-known magazine FIRST THINGS was penned by a professor at Catholic University of America. This article by Dr. Pecknold illustrates the war against truth that is currently being waged in our midst. There are those who proclaim themselves to be “Catholic” and yet demean Saint Damien to push forward an agenda that is anti-truth and anti-Catholic. Through the intercession of St. Damien, may we be found worthy to be a true example of God’s love and remain always steadfast in truth and faith.

Marisol Escobar’s statue of St. Damien of Molokai has graced the statuary hall in the U.S. Capitol since 1969. The people of Hawaii chose this statue to mark their tenth anniversary of state-hood. It stands out, in part, because of Escobar’s distinctive blocked . “Marisol” (as she was called) sculpted her subjects almost as square frames, flattening them like screens upon which she could project her own presence. One critic called this “feminine playfulness” set against square “patriarchy.” Marisol said she simply preferred to see herself in her subjects this way.

Yet as Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez recently discovered—after claiming that Marisol’s statue represents “patriarchy and white supremacist culture”—sometimes reality resists our projections. In the case of Damien of Molokai, the reality is quite different from the flattened image upon which the New York congresswoman has projected her presence.

Fr. Damien was born Jozef De Veuster in Tremelo, Belgium, on January 3, 1840. At age nine-teen he entered the of the Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary—an order that had formed amid the upheavals of the French Revolution. These priests had refused to join the republic’s “Civil Constitution of the Clergy.” Far from being “colonialist,” the order was founded by priests in exile who wanted only to conform souls to “the sacred hearts of Je-sus and Mary.”

The congregation (nicknamed the “Picpus Fathers” after their founder’s town in France) devoted themselves to missionary work in the islands of the Pacific Ocean, including the Kingdom of Hawaii. The first six of Hawaii were all members of this Congregation. After Jozef De Veuster’s formation, the order sent him to the Hawaiian mission. In 1864 he chose a new reli-gious name, Damien, and gave his life in service to the sacred hearts of Jesus and Mary—not patriarchy and white supremacist culture. The bishop ordained Damien a priest as soon as he arrived in May of that year.

Leprosy was not well understood in the nineteenth century, but Hawaii had an outbreak of it at this time. The Hawaiian government quarantined the patients in a hospital, and doctors studied the disease. The leprosy sores would come and go, but come back again as ulcers susceptible to infection. Fingers or toes would go numb until they were lost. The disease could take even whole limbs. As lepers increased, so did panic about a contagion that seemed resistant to all cure.

The Hawaiians decided upon a more drastic form of quarantine: deportation to the nearby island of Molokai. Without the solace of their families, or the church, Hawaiian lepers were essentially exiled. Supplies and new lepers came to the island every couple of months, but the diseased were cut off from communication with friends or family.

The Picpus Fathers, concerned about these souls in exile, agonized over how to extend their mission to this place of death and disease. Bishop Louis Maigret knew he could not ask any man to go “in obedience” on a mission that was likely a death sentence. Though he would not send anyone by his own command, he gathered his priests and asked if anyone believed he was being called by God to make an extraordinary sacrifice. Only four men volunteered. The bishop determined that each would serve successively for three months, in hopes of mitigating their chances of infection. Fr. Damien went first to establish a parish for the lepers, with the idea that other priests would rotate in to relieve him. But as the months turned into years, the other priests never came, and from 1873 to 1889, Fr. Damien stayed in Molokai as “Apostle to the Exiles.”

When he arrived in Molokai, the leper colony was a place of anarchy. The strong stole from the weak, the women were forced into prostitution, many children were orphaned, and the men made stills to enable constant drunkenness. The putrid odor of the sickest lepers required an-other exile to the “death sheds,” filled with souls whose bodies could no longer move. They re-ceived no visitors, no human touch, no consoling embraces—save Fr. Damien, who would bring them meals and say his Rosary over them every evening, smoking a pipe so he could tolerate the stench of the disease. He would beg them to ask for the sacraments. When lepers died, he built the coffins and buried them with the dignity of the Church’s prayers. This was fatherhood, not patriarchy.

Fr. Damien knew that he might contract leprosy, but he believed that God could protect him from the disease for as long as he was needed. Abandoning himself to this hope, he physically embraced lepers. He shook their hands and hugged them as human beings in pain. He let leper boys serve at the altar, and even touch the chalice. He dressed their wounds. He organized sports for the orphaned children, and treated them as if they were his own. He put the healthiest into work crews and taught them how to plant crops and build schools, roads, an orphanage, a hospital, a graveyard. Fr. Damien took a hopeless pool of anarchic humanity and gave it dignity, work, and love. Most important, he begged the lepers to let God’s love touch them in the sacraments. Miraculously, God protected Damien from leprosy for eleven years.

But the spots appeared eventually. Fr. Damien’s foot grew numb. He began to have “the smell of his sheep.” He had always known that he was in Molokai to save souls, and to unite the suffering of lepers to Jesus Christ’s sacrifice on the cross. But he came to believe that he was also in Molokai to suffer for the sake of God’s love. For the next five years, Hansen’s Disease slowly ravaged his body, and the lepers saw their own suffering united to Christ’s sacrifice in the Mass in a new way. By the time Fr. Damien died in 1889, more than 600 of Molokai’s 1,000 lepers were Catholics devoted to the sacred hearts of Jesus and Mary.

The prime minister of Hawaii called him “a Christian hero.” The princess of the Kingdom of Hawaii bestowed upon him the highest honors of her people. Hawaiians erected a statue of this “white man” in front of the state capitol building out of admiration for his heroic example. When the Church beatified Fr. Damien in 2009, President Barack Obama, who was raised in Honolulu, praised him as “a voice for the voiceless.” But he was more than that. Fr. Damien was a witness to God’s presence among the forsaken, and he died a priest of Jesus Christ surrounded by a great cloud of witnesses.

In the eyes of many, Fr. Damien is merely “a white man.” But the flattened image that Rep. Ocasio- Cortez says honors “colonialism,” “patriarchy,” and “white supremacist culture” is not the real Damien. The congresswoman’s narrative, filled with its own curious form of hate, de-humanizes the man who exemplifies what it means to cherish human dignity. Her woke resistance is resistance to reality. The real Damien, St. Damien of Molokai, points us to a resistance that doesn’t deconstruct reality, but rather reveals it.

The future of the Catholic Church is not with Marisol’s statue, or with AOC’s bigoted projec-tions, but with St. Damien of Molokai. The future of the Catholic Church is Jesus Christ, to whose image Damien was perfectly conformed. It is Christ who offers us true resistance—resistance to sin and error—and true reality.

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