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 www.stjosaphatbethlehem.org (610) 865-2521 -- Email: [email protected] “...At the present time there is a remnant left, selected out of .” [Romans 11:5]

DEC 8 26TH SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST TONE 1

SUN DEC 8: 26th Sunday after Pentecost (Tone 1) Sat Eve Vigil: 6:30 PM: +Sophie Kowalyk (1year) (Fr. Daniel) 10:00 AM: +Michael Belzecky (Mary (Nancy) and Family) St. Nicholas for the Children Follows No Vespers tonight ------MON DEC 9: Conception of of St. Anne () 9:00 AM: +Mary Novrosky (1 Yr) (Fr. Daniel) ------TUE DEC 10: Menmas et al. No Services. Please remember in your prayers today Fr. Daniel ------WED DEC 11: Daniel the Stylite [FAST] No Services ------THUR DEC 12: Spiridon the Wonderworker No Services ------FRI DEC 13:Eustratius the Martyr [FAST] No Services ------SAT DEC 14: Martyr Thrysus 10:00 AM: +George Cehelesky (1yr) (Family} ------SUN DEC 15: SUNDAY OF THE FOREFATHERS Sat Eve Vigil: 6:30 PM: Health of Walter Zagwoski (Mary and Dennie) 10:00 AM ++Osyp Lepeta (Daughter, Mary DeNardo) ECF Classes (12) Coffee Social each Sunday fol- lowing the Divine Liturgy..Please join us while the children are in class.

READERS GREETERS of the wreaths. In the spirit of Christmas, we Thank DEC 7: Rybak ☺Meixell DEC8: Hambor/Halibey ☺ Buddock/Pastrick/Belzecky you. DEC 9: Cantor ☺ Place on Tetrapod DEC 14: DeNardo ☺ Kadingo THANKYOU DEC8: Hambor ☺ Buddock/Pastrick/Arnold We would like to thank Marlene Onesky-Tilley for Church Cleaning: None this week her recent donation to help us with expenses during FUTURE EVENTS this holiday season. TODAY: St. Nicholas Party DEC 7/8: Sobor/Gathering in Philadelphia MEMORIAL FUNDWe would like to thank MONDAY: Feast of the Conception of St. Anne Amy Ambler and JoannePinette for their recent DEC 15: ECF Classes (12) donation to the Memorialfund in memory of JAN 11: New Years Party +Ressell Hoysan JUNE 7: Iron Pigs NOT FEELING WELL – Please Pray For: UKRAINIAN Sick of the Fr. Daniel SCHOLARSHIP FUND On December 20 the Archeparchy will hold a drawing to benefit the WREATHS ACROSS AMERICA Ukrainian Catholic Scholarship Fund. Proceeds The Tryzub Organization is from the drawing will benefit three students by again, this year, honoring paying their tuition for the coming year. The our veterans by students in most need at the three remaining participating in the nation elementary schools will be chosen to receive the scholarships. There are three cash prizes. 1st prize wide observance of rd Wreaths Across America. is 5000 dollars, 2nd prize is 3000, and the 3 prize The deceased veterans at is 2000 dollars. The cost of a ticket is 10.00 dollars. If you would like to take a chance at the prizes, see our cemetery in Lower th Saucon will be remembered by the placing of a Fr. Daniel TODAY.10 . wreath at each of the veterans graves. We encourage everyone to participate. The motto of the program PRAYERFULATMOSPHERE is REMEMBER-HONOR-TEACH. Tryzub members There are people who come to Church early to pray will start the program this Saturday, December 14 and meditate before the Divine Services begin. There at 10:00 in the church hall by decorating 70 wreaths. are also those who choose to stay afterwards to do At 12:00 the wreaths will be placed on the graves of the same. Please refrain from unnecessary the identified veterans at the cemetery. All members talking, both before and after the divine services, of the church community are welcome to participate so that an appropriate atmosphere of prayer in God’s in this program including a donation toward the cost holy house may be maintained. Francis Accepts the Resignation of Auxiliary

Philadelphia, Pa.—The Holy Father on Friday, November 15, 2019 accepted the resignation from the office of of the Ukrainian Catholic Archeparchy of Philadelphia, presented by Bishop John Bura.

Bishop Bura, who reached the canonical retirement age of seventy-five in June, submitted his resignation pursuant to the provisions of Canon 210 of the Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches.

Archbishop , of the Ukrainian Catholic Archeparchy of Philadelphia and Metropolitan of Ukrainian Catholics in the United States commented that “Bishop John is a kind and noble man who has served God, the Church and the community- at-large with dedication, both as a priest and as a bishop. Throughout a life that began in great danger and hardship he remained faithful. In my first months of service Bishop John has been for me a most valuable and reliable guide for under- standing the pastoral history and current issues of our archeparchy. Our prayers are that the Lord will grant him good health and longevity in retirement as he begins this new chapter in his life.”

Bishop John was nominated on January 3, 2006 auxiliary bishop of the Ukrainian Catholic Archeparchy of Philadelphia by Pope Benedict XVI upon the recommenda- tion of the Ukrainian Catholic Synod of .

He was ordained a bishop by His Beatitude Lubomyr Cardinal Husar on February 21, 2006 in the Ukrainian Catholic of the Immaculate Conception in Phila- delphia. The principal co- were of Philadel- phia and Bishop , C.Ss.R. of Great Britain.

Bishop John was named the Apostolic Administrator of the of Josaphat in Parma on July 29, 2009 and served in that capacity until 2014, when Bishop was named bishop of that eparchy. IN BED WITH ABORTIONISTS Edited for the Bulletin Doesn’t matter how you slice it, an absolute hallmark of a hierarchy gone off the rails is its refusal to denounce abortion. And the modernist gang of wicked — from those attending the semi-annual U.S. bishops’ meeting last Novmeber in Baltimore to those running the Vatican — refuse to address this evil head-on.

They talk about the poor and immigrants but say nothing about the unborn. In fact, they hop in the sack with abortionists every chance they get when it advances their twisted worldview, and it’s disgusting. True, most of them probably don’t applaud abortion, but that only makes their silence more galling.

A couple weeks back, the Vatican signed a joint document with South American government leaders mod- eled after a U.N. population plan which includes abortion and contraception. It was done in the wake of the notorious Amazon Synod — which, for the record, some future pope needs to completely disavow and toss into the Tiber — and the United Nations plan talks about how to fight poverty.

It’s called the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG). The plan talks about all kinds of noble-sounding things, based on a lot of fake or exaggerated data passed off as science, but is little else than warmed-over, repackaged Socialism, with population reduction through either abortion or contraception, or both, near the top of the list.

And it’s little else than a giant game of pretend, where marxists pretend to care about the earth and the poor and the environment — which tickles the ears of Team Francis in Rome — but then brings along population control in the same shopping cart. And the Vatican simply overlooks that. The average Catholic in the pews needs to understand what’s going on here.

Tweet “The average Catholic in the pews needs to understand what’s going on here. Is the Vatican opposed to abortion? Well, sure — at least in principle. But when there are other issues on the opposite side of the moral ledger, like climate change, immigration, death penalty and all that — well, what’s a few million abortions here or there?”

But that’s exactly the calculus of these crazed clerics. But no Catholic, certainly in America, could possi- bly be surprised by this. Our very own bishops, for decades, have kept their mouths shut and refused to excommunicate fake Catholic pro-abort politicos because those same politicos buy their silence with hundreds of millions for immigration programs.

The U.S. bishops, and their counterparts in Rome, all of them who participate in this evil are going to have hell to pay when they die if they do not change their ways. They have lied to themselves and created an official informal policy that they just won’t take any action on this issue.

They think going to sleep at night privately being opposed to the most public slaughter in the history of humanity is somehow a moral stand, that they are basically good men, and will waltz into Heaven because they thought abortion was bad. They rationalize, no doubt encouraged by the taxpayer windfall they receive, that abortion is bad — but equally so is being unemployed, or scurrying along the U.S. border on the Mexican side.

Horrible clerics like New York’s Cdl. Timothy Dolan — a walking disgrace of a man — not only refuses to excommunicate the fake Catholic governor who signed into law the most murderous piece of legislation in the history of the world, but also tries to have his cake and eat it as well when he says he supports the South Carolina priest who refused Holy Communion to Joe Biden, but says he would not have done it.

So a question for Cdl. Bravo (a nickname he earned by saying “Bravo” when questioned about a gay wannabe NFL player who announced he was homosexual): In what manner do you actually “support” the priest when you wouldn’t do what he did?

Dolan acts like Canon 915 — which demands Holy Communion be refused in these circumstances — is just a suggestion.

No, Cdl. Bravo. It’s called canon law.

It’s revolting, these men and their duplicitous doublespeak, all the while children are being scissored up, cut to ribbons and sucked through a vacuum into a canister — and yes, Bravo, that’s what you are keeping quiet about. [picture here too graphic of bloody dead infant to be published in the bulletin (ed)]

You and the rest of your lot are revolting. No wonder the Church is shrinking, shriveling into nothing on your watch.

And the same goes for the corrupt homomafia in Rome. Who can even stomach to look at these clerics anymore? The very sight of them parading around, socializing with modern-day Nazis — who, for the record, couldn’t hold a candle to the killing machine of Planned Parenthood or Maria Stopes International — the sight of it turns your stomach.

And for those weak-minded, zombie Catholics out there who think it’s bad form to speak of members of the hierarchy as being revolting, well, which of these pictures do you think is more revolting? [picture here too graphic of bloody dead infant to be published in the bulletin (ed)

Exposing the truth of these men in clear terms, or this — because this is what they never protest, or seldom do. And they are silent because they are bought and paid for and have no supernatural faith. Little else on earth could be more revolting than a cleric having fallen from grace, other than a cleric who has fallen from grace and does nothing about the butchering of hundreds of millions of children.

They can issue the occasional statement all they want about abortion being bad in an attempt to try and pull the wool over people’s eyes. But to phrase it as Cdl. Bravo did, they support the actions of the pro-life movement; they just wouldn’t do it themselves.

Wicked, horrible, filthy disgusting lot. Good choice for them to side up with the U.N. They deserve each other. ANDREW’S PENCE COLLECTION Going on all this month. Use Envelope B.