Nicholas Byzantine News & Happenings 13 Pembroke Road, Danbury, CT 06811 Food Pantry: Please remember to bring non-perishable foods and place them in the Ushers Room on Sundays. For Sunday, January Parish Rectory: (203) 743-1106 Church Hall: (203) 628-7997 19-26, we ask you to bring Tomato Sauce and Canned Fruit. Remember to see the bulletin board for other necessities. God bless E-mail: [email protected] all of you who donate. Website: www.stnicholasdanbury.org Served by: Very Rev. Father Ronald J. Hatton and Fr. Deacon Stephen R. Russo 2020 Envelopes: Due to production problems at the printing Cantor: Mr. Randy Weyant company, our envelopes still have not arrived. We will have Glory to Jesus Christ! Slava Isusu Christu! “generic” envelopes available in the Sunday bulletin each week for use by us until we receive our order (please remember to have a pen!). Glory Forever! Slava na V’iki! Sorry for the inconvenience, but the situation was/is out of our hands. LITURGICAL SCHEDULE January 12, 2020 2020 Wall Calendars are available in the Annex. Please remember Sunday, January 12 SUNDAY AFTER THEOPHANY to pick up yours after Liturgy today! 9:00 AM – H&GB Sharon Siwik & Family, by Sharon Siwik Giving for Sunday, January 5, 2020 Saturday, January 18 VENERABLE FATHER MACARIUS OF EGYPT Sunday Offering: $512.00 7:00 PM – Vespers Total Income: $512.00 Sunday, January 19 32ND SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST Please note that, in 2019, our Friday night Bingo has brought into the Parish 9:00 AM – H&GB Pauline Tita, by Sharon Siwik Operating Fund $40,000.00. This is not a trifling amount and has helped us pay our bills. Remember that we are always in need of help in the Kitchen and on the floor during Bingo. Even if you just help the Kitchen by bringing baked Sunday Propers: See Handout good, you are being of service to the parish. Many times, though, we find Vigil Lamp: The vigil lamp is burning during January for the Deceased ourselves short-handed both in the Kitchen and on the floor, and need people, of the Petro & Olexa Families by Anna Petro. so if you can spare a couple of hours on Friday evening, please join us! Readings for Next Sunday: I Tim. 1:15-17 (pg. 176), Luke 18:35-43 (pg. 70)

Celebration of Motherhood: The Knights of Columbus are hosting an event Celebrated on this Sunday for all mothers on Saturday, February 22, 2020, at 10:00 AM at St. Joseph The Holy Tatiana of was a Roman whose parents were from Roman Catholic Church, during the week of St. Margaret of Cortona, the patron the nobility. She was a Christian and a deaconess in the church. After the saint of single mothers. The event will begin with a 30-minute prayer service, death of Emperor Heliogabalus, there reigned the Emperor Alexander, whose followed by food and information on support services in Danbury. Daycare will mother, Mammaea, was a Christian. Emperor Alexander himself was be provided at St. Joseph School, if desired. More information is available in wavering and indecisive in his faith, for he kept statues of Christ, Apollo, the envelopes at the back of the church. RSVP for this event is January 31, Abraham and Orpheus in his palace. His chief assistants took it upon 2020. For more information, contact the Knights of Columbus, McGivney themselves to persecute the Christians without awaiting orders from the Council 29, at [email protected] or (203) 744-9562. emperor. When they brought out the Tatiana for torture, she prayed “What, then, O, brethren, is required of us in order that we might avail to God for her torturers. And lo, their eyes were opened, and they saw four ourselves of all the grace brought unto us from on high by the coming to angels around the martyr. Seeing this, eight of them believed in Christ, for earth of the Son of God? What is necessary, first of all, is faith in the Son which they also were tortured and slain. The tormentors continued to torture of God, in the Gospel as the salvation – bestowing heavenly teaching; a true repentance of sins and the correction of life and of heart; communion in St. Tatiana. They whipped her, cut off parts of her body, and scraped her prayer and in the mysteries; the knowledge and fulfillment of Christ’s with irons. All disfigured and bloody, Tatiana was thrown into the dungeon commandments. Also necessary are the virtues: Christian humility, that evening, so that the next day they could begin anew with different almsgiving, continence, purity and chastity, simplicity and goodness of tortures. But God sent His angels to the dungeon to encourage her and to heart. heal her wounds, so that each morning Tatiana appeared before the torturers “Let us, then, O brothers and sisters, bring these virtues as a gift to the completely healed. They threw her before a lion, but the lion fawned about One Who was born for the sake of our salvation – let us bring them in place her and did her no harm. They cut off her hair, thinking, according to their, of the gold, frankincense and myrrh which the Magi brought Him, as to One pagan reasoning, that some sorcery or magical power was concealed in her Who is King, God, and Man, come to die for us. This, from us, shall be the hair. Finally, Tatiana and her father were led out together, and both were most-pleasing form of sacrifice to God and to the Infant Jesus Christ.” –St. beheaded. Thus, Tatiana ended her earthly life in about the year 225, and John of Kronstadt, Sermon on the Nativity of Jesus Christ this heroic virgin, who had the fragile body of a woman but a robust and “Holiness does not consist in not making mistakes or never sinning. valiant spirit, was crowned with the immortal wreath of glory. Holiness grows with capacity for conversion, repentance, willingness to begin again, and above all with the capacity for reconciliation and forgiveness.” –Pope Benedict XVI