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“Every one who • Archpriest John Zdinak drinks of this water Dean will thirst again, • Archpriest Pavel Soucek Retired/Attached but whoever drinks • Theodore Lentz of the water that I Sacristan shall give him will • Julius Kovach Ecclesiarch & Choirmaster never thirst; the water that I shall give him will become in him a spring of water Divine Services Eve Sundays & Feast Days welling up to 5:00 PM Confessions eternal life” 6:00 PM Great (John 4: 13-14). Sundays and Feast Days 8:40 AM 3rd and 6th Hour 9:00 AM Divine Indeed He is Risen!

St. Theodosius Orthodox Cathedral Ambo - Page 1 Welcome Visitors Our parish welcomes you and thanks you for joining us in worship and praise this morning. While only Orthodox Christians may approach the for Holy , everyone is welcome to partake of the Holy Bread after Liturgy. You are also invited to join us for fellowship in the Parish Hall following Liturgy.

spending his time in unceasing and , , and collected services, into Equal of the Apostles and reading the works of the holy Fathers. the Slavic tongue. This occurred in the year Teacher of the Slavs, Cyril The emperor soon summoned both of the 863. holy brothers from the monastery and sent After completing the translation, the holy Commemorated on May 11 them to preach the to the Khazars. brothers went to Moravia, where they were Saints Cyril and Methodius, Equals of the Along the way they stayed in the city of received with great honor, and they began to Apostles, and Enlighteners of the Slavs came Korsun, making preparations for their mis- teach the services in the Slavic language. This from an illustrious and pious family living in sionary activity. There the holy brothers mi- aroused the malice of the German , the Greek city of Thessalonica. St Methodius raculously discovered the of the hiero- who celebrated divine services in the Mo- was the oldest of seven brothers, St Constan- martyr Clement, Pope of Rome (November ravian churches in Latin. They rose up tine [Cyril was his monastic name] was the 25). against the holy brothers, convinced that youngest. At first St Methodius was in the divine services must be done in one of three military and was governor in one of the 'Praise the Lord, all languages: Hebrew, Greek or Latin. Slavic principalities dependent on the Byzan- nations, praise the tine Empire, probably Bulgaria, which made Lord all peoples (Ps St Constantine said, "You only recognize three 116/117:1).' languages in which God may be glorified. But it possible for him to learn the Slavic lan- David sang, 'Praise the Lord, all nations, guage. After living there for about ten years, There in Korsun St Constantine found a Gos- praise the Lord all peoples (Ps 116/117:1).' St Methodius later received monastic tonsure pel and Psalter written in Russian letters [i.e. And the Gospel of St Matthew (28:18) says, at one of the monasteries on Mount Olympus Slavonic], and a man speaking the Slavic 'Go and teach all nations....'" The German (Asia Minor). tongue, and he learned from this man how bishops were humiliated, but they became St Constantine distinguished himself by his to read and speak this language. After this, bitter and complained to Rome. great aptitude, and he studied with the em- the holy brothers went to the Khazars, where peror Michael under the finest teachers in they won a debate with Jews and Moslems The holy brothers were summoned to Rome Constantinople, including St Photius, the fu- by preaching the Gospel. On the way home, for a decision on this matter. Taking with ture of Constantinople (February 6). the brothers again visited Korsun and, taking them the relics of St Clement, Sts Constantine up the relics of St Clement, they returned to and Methodius set off to Rome. Knowing that St Constantine studied all the sciences of his Constantinople. St Constantine remained in the holy brothers were bringing these relics time, and also knew several languages. He the capital, but St Methodius was made igu- with them, Pope Adrian met them along the also studied the works of St Gregory the men of the small monastery way with his clergy. The holy brothers were Theologian. Because of his keen mind and near Mount Olympus, where he lived a life of greeted with honor, the Pope gave permission penetrating intellect, St Constantine was asceticism as before. to have divine services in the Slavonic lan- called "Philosopher" (wise). Upon the comple- guage, and he ordered the books translated tion of his education, St Constantine was Soon messengers came to the emperor from by the brothers to be placed in the Latin ordained to the holy priesthood and was the Moravian prince Rostislav, who was under churches, and to serve the Liturgy in the appointed curator of the patriarchal library at pressure from German bishops, with a re- Slavonic language. the church of Hagia Sophia. He soon left the quest to send teachers to Moravia who would capital and went secretly to a monastery. be able to preach in the Slavic tongue. The At Rome St Constantine fell ill, and the Lord emperor summoned St Constantine and said revealed to him his approaching death. He Discovered there, he returned to Constantino- to him, "You must go there, but it would be was tonsured into the monastic schema with ple, where he was appointed as instructor in better if no one knows about this." the name of Cyril. On February 14, 869, fifty philosophy. The young Constantine's wisdom days after receiving the schema, St Cyril died and faith were so great that he won a de- St Constantine prepared for the new task with at the age of forty-two. bate with Ananias, the leader of the heretical and prayer. With the help of his iconclasts . After this victory Constantine was brother St Methodius and the disciples Go- St Cyril commanded his brother St Methodius sent by the emperor to discuss the Holy Trin- razd, Clement, Sava, Naum and Angelyar, he to continue with their task of enlightening ity with the Saracens, and again he gained devised a Slavonic alphabet and translated the Slavic peoples with the light of the true the victory. When he returned, St Constantine the books which were necessary for the cele- Faith. St Methodius entreated the Pope to bration of the divine services: the Gospel, send the body of his brother for burial in went to his brother St Methodius on Olympus, their native land, (continued on page 5)

St. Theodosius Orthodox Cathedral Ambo - Page 2 Eastern Orthodox Women’s Guild of Greater Cleveland 2007 Graduate Honorees † 44th Anniversary Year † unity through participation On Sunday, June 17th all 2007 High School and College Graduates are to be honored. Please MAY call the church office by June 8th with the name Meeting to be held on and school information of your graduates. Saturday, May 19, 2007 Have you enjoyed the recently lit domes? 11:30 a.m. Some members have expressed an interest Skeet of the of the in offsetting the projected $2,000 annual Hayesville, Ohio 44838 cost of illuminating the domes. Why {There will be a car-pool to the Monastery} not adopt the domes for a month or 419-368-4421 week? You can donate to celebrate ------an anniversary, a birthday or some

Pot Luck Lunch – Please bring your favorite dish or dessert other significant event. Rates (no meat, please) . are $170 for a month or $42.50 [Food or paper product donations welcome for Monastery] for a week. Sign up by con- Plan to attend. Mother Theodelphia will be our host, tacting the parish office. and it will be a delightful day to spend with friends. Contributions can be placed in the weekly col- If you have any questions or would like to attend, please contact lection or forwarded to Antoinette Geanneses 216-479-8194 or 440-842-3421 the church office. "God is Spirit: and they that worship Him must worship Him in Spirit and in Truth" (John 4:24). SATURDAY, MAY 12TH The May Special Collection is CORSAGE MAKING CLASS designated for Cathedral Landscaping. CHILDREN OF ALL AGES ARE INVITED TO THIS FUN FREE WORKSHOP IN WHICH EVERYONE WILL MAKE A CORSAGE FOR THEIR MOTHER, GRANDMOTHER, GODMOTHER OR OTHER BELOVED PERSON ALL CORSAGE MATERIALS PROVIDED - AND THERE’S A FREE LUNCH, TOO! 11 AM in the Parish Hall nd ry Pola USA Sl unga ovak CALL VIRGINIA MEDVEC TO RESERVE SPOTS FOR YOURSELVES H R ia ep s ub AND/OR YOUR CHILDREN 440-892-4562 us li R c

Good Food! News from Ss. Peter & Paul Prepared from authentic, time honored recipes Good Music! Mark your calendar for Services for the See Music by Bob and Shelly Orlandi 90th Anniversary Weekend SONIA Good Fun! Thursday 6/28 - 7 pm Vespers with Litya VORELL or Silent Auction!! & Chinese Auction!! TAMMY Friday 6/29 - 9:30 am Liturgy Good Fellowship PONOMAR- Beer and Wine Saturday 6/30 - 4 pm Vespers followed by ENKO if you Sunday Sunday April June 22, 3rd2007 Banquet at 5:50 would like to 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. help with the A commemorative booklet is being issued JUNE 3rd Ridge Manor Party Center and sponsors are invited to place ads 4630 Ridge Road ranging from 1/8 page for $25 to full page Fund- Brooklyn, Ohio for $100. Call or write Carolyn Carson raiser! Sponsored by St. Theodosius Orthodox Cathedral for details. 440.734.6260. [email protected] Adults: $25.00 For Tickets & Information call Children Ages 3-12: $5.00 Sonia Vorell 440-238-6912 Under age 3: free Tammy Ponomarenko 440-572-8727 St. Theodosius Orthodox Cathedral Ambo - Page 3 Prayer Requests Departed: Upcoming Events Crescencia Caraballo + 3/19/07 May 6 - Hymns of Pascha Choral Concert @ the Cathedral (Jose’s mother) Mary Bainer + 4/26/07 May 12 - Corsage Making Class @ Parish Hall

Ill-afflicted: May 13 - Mothers’ Day Brunch Fr. John Zdinak @ Fr. Stephen Jula May 14 - IOCC Banquet St. Michael’s Woodside Helen Baldner May 15 - Parish Council Meeting @ Ridge Manor John Clements Eileen Eschuk May 17 - Ascension Henry & Julia Grabowski May 19 - EOWG meeting @ Skete in Hayesville, OH John & Ann Shuleva Jan Tkacz May 19 - Carpatho-Rusyn Society Seminar @ CVCC Jeanne Twitchell Billy J Spurlock May 27 - James Sheehan June 3 - International Buffet @ Ridge Manor Julia Zimmerman Mary Wazevich June 17 - Honoring of College & High School Graduates Valentina Ponomarenko Natalie Ponomarenko June 30 - Ss. Peter & Paul 90th Anniversary Banquet Roy A. Baldner Michael & Jennifer Turczyk Congratulations to RESEARCHING THE PEOPLE FROM ‘NO MANS Helen Kozak LAND’ THE CARPATHO-RUSYNS OF AUSTRO-HUNGARY Nick Jarachovic John& Ann Shuleva Marshall Prock on their A hands-on Geneology Research Workshop facilitated Mary Ann Silberhorn by Margaret Rusynyk 65th Wedding Anniversary THOMAS A. PETERS, CGRS John Conrad May 9th 2007 SATURDAY, MAY 19, 2007 George Ponomarenko 9:30 AM -1:30 PM Joyce Surplus (Tylers’ Aunt) Mnohaya i Blahaya Lita! Daniel Morris God grant you Many CUYAHOGA VALLEY CAREER CENTER Jeanne Kish 8001 Brecksville Rd., Brecksville, OH Timothy Winsky Years! Members $20 (Nonmembers $23) Fee includes lunch Terrence Winsky CARPATHO-RUSYN SOCIETY Newborns: “If anyone is thirsty, let him come www.c-rs.org Nora Grace Oprisko 3/7 to me! Let the man come and drink who believes in me; as scripture Bonnie Burke 440-729-2045 Sophia Magdalen Grimes 3/28 Marcia Benko 440-331-3856 Madeline Margaret Fox says: From His breast shall flow fountains of living water. He was CONGRATULATIONS to Mat- speaking of the Spirit which those thew and Rhonda Fox on the birth of who believed in Him were to re- St. Michael’s Church in Broadview their daughter Madeline Margaret! ceive; for as yet the Spirit had not Hts will be holding their annual We wish the new family many years! been given, because Jesus was not “Garage Sale” on June 28th at glorified” (John 7: 37-39). Woodside gym. The cost is Parish Council News $10.00 per table. If you would  The next Parish Council Reservation deadline for the May 14th like to order a table please con- Meeting is 6:00 PM Tuesday, IOCC Banquet has been extended tact Mary Jane Lucak at 440- May 15th at Ridge Manor. Any through TODAY. See Frank Tkacz if 526-9696. It is not too early to parish member is welcome. you would still like to order your table now! purchase tickets ($25 each). Coffee Hour & Greeters Schedules 2007 Dues Coffee Hour Hosts: Greeters: 5/06 Kate Zolikoff Steven & Eileen Bondor $250.00 per 5/13 Mothers’ Day Brunch Debbi Pinta & Maca Tyler 5/20 Mary Swit & Tammy Ponomarenko Linda Smotzer & Phyllis Gindlesperger Adult member 5/27 Joyce Tabeling Maca Tyler & Michael Tabeling (18 and older) 6/03 Patti Sankovic, Natalia Pricinovskis Karen Felon & Linda Smotzer 6/10 Dan & Lavinia Morris Phyllis Gindlesperger & Virginia Medvec per year.

St. Theodosius Orthodox Cathedral Ambo - Page 4 (continued from page 2) teaching in its purity, and was sent again but the Pope ordered the relics of St Cyril to the capital of Moravia, Velehrad. to be placed in the church of St Clement, Here in the remaining years of his life St where miracles began to occur from them. Methodius, assisted by two of his former After the death of St Cyril, the Pope sent pupils, translated the entire Old Testament St Methodius to Pannonia, after consecrat- into Slavonic, except for the Book of Mac- ing him as Archbishop of Moravia and cabbees, and even the Nomocanon (Rule Pannonia, on the ancient throne of St of the holy Fathers) and Paterikon (book Andronicus (July 30). In Pannonia St of the holy Fathers). Methodius and his disciples continued to Sensing the nearness of death, St Metho- distribute services books written in the Slavonic language. This again aroused the dius designated one of his students, Go- wrath of the German bishops. They ar- razd, as a worthy successor to himself. rested and tried St Methodius, who was The holy predicted the day of his sent in chains to Swabia, where he en- death and died on April 6, 885 when he dured many sufferings for two and a half was about sixty years old. The saint's years. burial service was chanted in three lan- princes. The German bishops began to perse- guages, Slavonic, Greek, and Latin. He After being set free by order of Pope John cute the saint for a third time, because he was buried in the cathedral church of VIII of Rome, and restored to his archdiocese, did not accept the erroneous teaching about Velehrad.  St Methodius continued to preach the Gospel the of the Holy Spirit from both among the Slavs. He baptized the Czech the Father and the Son. St Methodius was “Go and teach prince Borivoi and his wife Ludmilla (Sep- summoned to Rome, but he justified himself all nations....” tember 16), and also one of the Polish before the Pope, and preserved the Orthodox (Matthew 28:18)

hear it? Rarely are we able to pray sincerely, sometimes Sunday of the Samaritan Woman not at all, and there is little benefit from automatic prayer. When we stand in church or at home before the holy What should we do? Should we stop praying? , make the , bow our heads or pros- No, dear brethren! The Lord answers us through the Sa- trate ourselves, say the words of prayer, make charitable maritan woman. contributions to the church, abstain from non-Lenten food, i.e. keep the fast, etc., – then we are externally serving The Lord met this woman at the well, and during His con- and worshipping God. However, such worship is not yet versation with her He made her aware of her sinful life. This revelation set her on the path to salvation – she was the worship “in spirit and in truth” that was mentioned in the first among the Samaritans to acknowledge Christ as today’s Gospel, it is not yet genuine prayer, but only its Messiah. Without even having had time to do any penance, outward manifestation. she asks this Stranger about spiritual life, and He explains it to her. He does not reject her, though she is a sinner, Today’s Gospel reading tells us of how Jesus Christ in His but discourses with her on the same level as with His lis- conversation with the Samaritan woman teaches us, too, teners in the synagogues. how to pray and how to worship God. The Lord knows what is in everyone’s heart, He knew We have just celebrated the great feast of Christ’s Resur- rection, the celebration of which continues until the end of what was in the Samaritan woman’s heart, and He also the paschal period. And throughout this period of time, knows our own hearts and our weaknesses. He knows us every Sunday the Church brings to our attention Gospel well and can help us, only we must not fall prey to de- readings from St. John the Theologian, whose Gospel is spondency. Tradition holds it that the Samaritan woman, distinguished from the others by its lofty spiritual style, who was called Photinia, was persecuted during Nero’s and which most frequently deals with dogmatic teaching reign in approximately 66 A.D. for spreading Christianity, and speaks of Jesus Christ as the Son of God, as the Mes- and died a martyric death by being thrown into a well. siah. Despite leading a sinful life, the Samaritan Photinia had a The Holy Church, preparing us throughout the entire year sincere desire to know the true faith, and the Lord did not for the feast of Pascha, now offers us supreme truths in overlook her desire. In other words, she was not lukewarm these Gospel readings. in faith as is, unfortunately, the overwhelming majority of Often in prayer our soul is distracted by various earthly contemporary mankind. The Lord accepted the sinful Sa- thoughts, even against our will. Often we ourselves do not maritan woman, but did not approve of the scribes and know what we are saying, since our lips say one thing, the Pharisees, despite the fact that outwardly their life while the heart deals with another. How can we expect may have appeared more righteous.  God to hear our prayer when we ourselves often do not www.holy-transfiguration.org

St. Theodosius Orthodox Cathedral Ambo - Page 5 Weekly Schedule Sunday May 6 Sunday May 13 5th Sunday of Pascha 6th Sunday of Pascha Sunday of the Samaritan Woman Sunday of the Blind Man 9:00 AM Mothers’ Day 3:00 PM “The Cried” Hymns of Pascha 9:00 AM Divine Liturgy Choral Concert at Cathedral followed by Mothers’ Day Brunch Monday May 7 Tuesday May 8 Hristos Anesti! Alethos Anesti! Wednesday May 9 Thursday May 10 11:00 AM Faith Enrichment Christos Voskrese! Friday May 11 Ss. Cyril and Methodius 9:00 AM Divine Liturgy Voistinu Voskrese! Saturday May 12 11:00 AM Corsage-making class in the Parish Hall El Massih Kham! Haaken Kham! 6:00 PM Great Vespers Hristos a inviat! Ådevarat Inviat!

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