Nicholas Byzantine Catholic Church News & Happenings Parish Rectory: (203) 743-1106 Church Hall: (203) 628-7997 Giving for May 30, 2021 E-mail: [email protected] Sunday Offering: $678.15 Website: www.stnicholasdanbury.org Energy: $20.00 Served by: Very Rev. Father Ronald J. Hatton and Fr. Deacon Stephen R. Russo Seminary: $25.00 Cantor: Mr. Randy Weyant Total Income: $723.15 Glory to Jesus Christ! Slava Isusu Christu! Glory Forever! Slava na V!iki! Do not be afraid. Do not be satisfied with mediocrity. Put out into the deep and let down your nets for a catch. –Pope St. LITURGICAL SCHEDULE FOR JUNE 6, 2021 John Paul II Sunday, June 6 2ND SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST

9:00 AM H&GB Mary Margaret Laczkowskie, by Sharon Siwik “But doers of the Law will be justified” He makes inquisition, not into the quality of persons, but into the Sat., June 12 VENERABLE FATHERS BESSARION & difference of actions. By so saying, he shows that it was not in actions, but in 5:00 PM – Vespers persons only, that the Jew differed from the Gentile. …For it is not because Sunday, June 13 3RD SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST one is a Jew and the other a Gentiles, that one is honored and the other 9:00 AM + Petro & +Mary Petro Dancik Butkovski, disgraced, but it is from the worlds that either treatment comes. …He shows by Anna Petro not only the equality of the Jew and the Gentile, but that the Jew was even much burdened by the gift of the Law. For the Gentile is judged without law. Sunday Propers: Resurrectional Tone 1, pp. 125-127 But this “without law” here expresses not the worse plight, but the easier, that Readings for Next Sunday: Romans 5:1-10 (pg. 129), Matt. 6:22-34 (pg. is, he does not have the Law to accuse him; …he is condemned solely from the reasoning of nature, but the Jew …the greater the attention he enjoyed, 5). the greater the punishment he will suffer. …For in that they said they did not Vigil Lamp: The vigil lamp is burning during June for the Deceased of need grace, being justified by the Law, he shows that they need it more than the Deliman & Kost Families, by Anna Petro. the Gentiles, considering they are liable to be punished more. –St. John Chrysostom, Homily 5 on Romans 1.

Saints Celebrated on this Sunday Our Holy Father Bessarion was born and educated in . He dedicated himself to the spiritual life at an early age, and “did not stain the spiritual garment in which he was clothed at Baptism.” He visited St. Gerasimus by the Jordan and learned from St. Isidore of . He subdued his body through extreme fasting and vigils but concealed his from men as much as possible. He once stood at prayer for forty days, neither eating nor sleeping. He wore one garment in both summer and winter. He possessed a great gift of miracle-working. He did not have a permanent dwelling place but lived in the mountains and forests until deep old age. He healed the sick and worked many other miracles for the benefit of the people and to the glory of God. He reposed peacefully in the year 466. Our Holy Father Hilarion was the abbot of the Dalmatian monastery in Constantinople. He was a of Gregory of Decapolis and an imitator of the life of Hilarion the Great, whose name he took. Hilarion was powerful in prayer, persevering and courageous in suffering. He suffered much for the sake of the icons at the time of the evil iconoclastic emperors, Leo the Armenian and others. Later the Emperor Leo was slain by his own soldiers in the same church and on the same spot where he had first mocked the holy icons and from which he had removed the first icon. St. Hilarion was then released from prison, but only for a short time. Again, he was tortured and detained in prison, until the reign of the right-believing Empress Theodora. Hilarion was clairvoyant and had the give of insight. He saw angels of God as they were taking the soul of St. Theodore the Studite to heaven. Having pleased God, he fell asleep and entered the Kingdom of heaven in the year 845, in his seventieth year. –From the Prologue of Ochrid.