St. Nicholas Orthodox Church Main Street Sixth Street Jacobs Creek, Pa. Monongahela, Pa. Very Rev. Edward Pehanich www. orthodoxmon.org 724-863-3741 [email protected] 412-651-2587 c July 25, 2021 5h Sunday after Pentecost Commemoration of the Holy Martyrs Proclus and Hilary of Ancyra (2nd century) and St. Veronica (the woman healed by touching the robe of Jesus) Thank you for these donations toward the icon of “Our Lady of the Sign” in memory of John Volk: Joyce & Joe Hann - $50 Robbie Dattis - $20 Choir Do you like to sing? We are going to attempt to reorganize our choir. Young Women’s Encounter A virtual Our coir will be open to anyone in the retreat will be held August 15, 16 & 17 congregation. Please see Pani Kathy if with sessions in the morning and you are interested. evening. See the bulletin board. disease, especially in the month of Blessing of Cars Next Sunday August. In response, the practice following the Divine Liturgy. The developed of blessing holy water with blessing is in conjunction with the Feast the Wood of the True Cross at the of the Prophet Elias (Aug.2) who did not beginning of the Dormition Fast** and die but ascended to heaven in a fiery then processing through the streets of chariot. Constantinople, led by the venerable Wood of the True Cross, and sprinkling this holy water for the sanctification of the city and for relief from sickness. Rememberin prayer Joyce Hann recuperating following outpatient Historically, this was done each day of surgery. the Dormition Fast, a practice that has given way to the singing of the Supplication (Paraklis) to the Mother of Blessing of the River Since we were God each day of this Fast. However, in unable to have our Pan-Orthodox many places we still bless water and Blessing of the Monongahela at process with the Cross on August 1st, in Theophany due to inclement weather, order to mark the beginning of the all Orthodox Christians and our beloved Dormition Fast and to refill our neighbors in the greater Mon Valley containers of holy water, which for area are being invited to join in blessing many have begun to run dry since the the Monongahela on Sunday, Aug. 1st, Great Blessing of Water at Theophany. at 2:00 PM. We will be meeting outside the By George Restaurant, 1 Most importantly, it allows us to Monongahela St, Monessen. The solemnly enter into this beautiful Fast in service of the Lesser Sanctification of honor of the Theotokos, preparing us to Water will then take place at the celebrate her falling-asleep and Herman Mihalich Memorial Boat assumption from the dead – our Launch behind the restaurant. "Summer Pascha": the foretaste and assurance of the future resurrection of Why a blessing in August? In the large, all mankind. crowded city of medieval Constantinople, the hot and humid summers, combined with a lack of (** Dormition Fast on the Julian Calendar modern sewage systems, made begins August 14) conditions ideal for the spread of .