ST. JOSAPHAT UKRAINIAN CATHOLIC 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 Matins: Major Holy Days 8:00 AM (610) 865-2521 -- Email: [email protected] www.stjosaphatbethlehem.org WHERE FAITH AND TRADITION MEET OCT 18 20th SUNDAY AFTER PENTCOST TONE 3 SUN OCT 18: 20th SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST Epistle of the 20th Sunday – Gospel of the 21st Sunday Sat eve Vigil: 6:30 PM: +Tekla Morrison (1 Yr.) (Helen Karol) 10:00 AM For the Living and Departed members of the Parish (PP) ECF CLASSES FOLLOW (5) MON OCT. 19: Prophet Joel (4) 22nd Gospels this week 8:00 AM: Forgotten souls in Purgatory (Irene Hrycenko) TUE OCT. 20: Prophet Joel No Services Today WED OCT 21: Hilarion the Great 8:00 AM: For the Living and Departed Members of the Paish (PP) THUR OCT. 22 Bishop Abercius (6) 8:00 AM: Health of Sandra Whitehead Mitchel (Mother Kathryn Whitehead) FRI OCT 23 Apostle James (5) [FAST] No Services SAT OCT 24 Arethas and Other Martyrs No Services – Private prayers for our country that it remain Christian SUN OCT 25: 21st SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST Epistle of the 21st Sunday – Gospel of the 22nd Sunday Sat eve Vigil: 6:30 PM: Fore the Living and Departed Members of our Parish (PP) 10:00 AM Intention of Nick and Carol Hanych (50th Wedding Anniversary) ECF CLASSES FOLLOW (5) READERS GREETERS Body of Christ – the Church – and these ☺ OCT 17: Denardo Meixell Kadingo at exits responsibilities are growing daily, given the events OCT 18 Tighe ☺ Buddock Pastrick at exits OCT 24: Rybak ☺ Kadingo at exits taking place in the world around us. Please make OCT 25: Tighe/Kidd ☺ Buddock Pastrick at exits church attendance and prayer a regular part of your Church Cleaning: See 2020 OCTOBER Schedule daily lives. Please. FUTURE EVENTS INTERNET WEB SITE ECF CLASSES MEET TODAY AND NEXT The weekly bulletin is available on the World Wide SUNDAY [Wear mask to Liturgy and Class] Web in PDF Format. It is the same as the printed November 2: Possible Tryzub Monthly version you are now reading. The Internet version Meeting (7:00) of the bulletin usually appears five to six days earlier December 6: St. Nicholas Party for the than the printed version. Bookmark children. (Tentative) www.stjosaphatbethlehem.us and check it weekly for the latest bulletin, back issues, and information not NOTIFICATION OF INTENT TO MARRY appearing in the printed version. Check out the FAQ Mr, Danylo J. Maczaj of Holy Trinity Ukrainian page. The material here is not usually found in the Catholic Church, Kerhonkson NY, weekly bulletin. Thank you to Mark DeNardo and and Ms. Larissa J. Martin of St. Robert Silvert for keeping the site up to date and in Josaphat Ukrainian Catholic excellent format condition. Church, Bethlehem PA, desire to be joined together in the Holy Mystery of Marriage. If anyone has any reason as to why this couple should not be crowned in Matrimony, they are bound in conscience to make it known to the Pastor of St. Josaphat Ukrainian Catholic Church, Bethlehem PA or the Promoter of Justice of the Ukrainian Catholic Archeparchy of Philadelphia. This is the second call. NOTICE TO THE PARISH Please pass this notice to those members of our parish who have not been regular in their church attendance and ask them to carefully consider the message below. I want you to know that our parish needs you, and that you also need to be here with us. We have a responsibility to one another as members of the Taken from Eastern Catholic Life. The publication of the Ruthenian Eparchy of Passaic NJ Reflections by +Kurt Burnette Bishop of Pasaic “The things we see done in our country by well-off, educated young people who have enough money and food cannot be explained by any human force. People marching in armies chanting, ‘every city, every town, burn the precinct to the ground.’ And these aren’t just words. Young people are trying to burn down police stations. Mothers are marching with their toddlers, encouraging their small children to say obscene words and make violent threats against the police, while onlookers cheer and make videos.” “These are the things we read about barbarians doing before they became Christians. These are the things we read about the Nazis doing during World War II. There were many cases in Eastern Europe in which the Nazis herded Slavs into a barn or church and then lit it on fire.” “Already, it is easy to see why Marxism is incompatible with the Gospel. Aside from its overt contradiction of God’s laws, the Gospel is oriented toward bringing people together, not dividing them. As we say in our Troparion for Pentecost, ‘at Babel the Most High confused tongues (in response to Nimrod’s pride), but at Pentecost, the Holy Spirit brings all men to unity.’ As a bishop, I cannot become involved in partisan politics, but as a shepherd, I must protect my flock when I see wolves trying to seduce my sheep using pride, envy, anger, and other sins.” Bishop +Kurt Edited for the Bulletin. Read Bishop Kurt’s reflection in full at www.eparchyofpassaic.com/files/ECL-5609-WEB.pdf Excerpts from CHRIST OUR PASCHA The Catechism of the Ukrainian Catholic Church Sin, is, first of all, a person’s state that manifests itself in actions, and a sinful deed is the conscious and voluntary violation of God’s commandment. Violation of even one of God’s commandments is a violation of all of God’s Law. “For whoever keeps the whole law but fails in one point has become accountable (guilty) for all of it. For he who said, ‘You shall not commit adultery,’ also said, ‘You shall not murder.’ Now if you do not commit adultery but if you murder, you have become a transgressor of the law” (James 2:10-11). As one illness can cause another, so one [sin] soon leads to another. Saint John of Damascus emphasizes that there are eight evil “thoughts” (in Greek, logismoi), that give rise to sin: gluttony, lust, avarice (or greed), melancholy, anger, acedia (or despondency), vainglory, and pride. We call them the capital sins as they are the root of all other sinful acts. (#758) Reprinted from the website of the Eparchy of St. Josaphat in Parma (https:// bit.ly/3kaAHIV). Edited for the Bulletin. The Real Damien of Molokai By C. C. Pecknold, FIRST THINGS, August 6th, 2020 [Reprinted from https://www. firstthings.com/ web-exclusives/2020/08/the-real-damien-of-molokai, edited for the bulletin.] Taken from Holy Ghost Newsletter, West Easton. Note: This excellent article in the well-known magazine FIRST THINGS was penned by a professor at Catholic University of America. This article by Dr. Pecknold illustrates the war against truth that is currently being waged in our midst. There are those who proclaim themselves to be “Catholic” and yet demean Saint Damien to push forward an agenda that is anti-truth and anti-Catholic. Through the intercession of St. Damien, may we be found worthy to be a true example of God’s love and remain always steadfast in truth and faith. Marisol Escobar’s statue of St. Damien of Molokai has graced the statuary hall in the U.S. Capitol since 1969. The people of Hawaii chose this statue to mark their tenth anniversary of state-hood. It stands out, in part, because of Escobar’s distinctive blocked style. “Marisol” (as she was called) sculpted her subjects almost as square frames, flattening them like screens upon which she could project her own presence. One critic called this “feminine playfulness” set against square “patriarchy.” Marisol said she simply preferred to see herself in her subjects this way. Yet as Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez recently discovered—after claiming that Marisol’s statue represents “patriarchy and white supremacist culture”—sometimes reality resists our projections. In the case of Damien of Molokai, the reality is quite different from the flattened image upon which the New York congresswoman has projected her presence. Fr. Damien was born Jozef De Veuster in Tremelo, Belgium, on January 3, 1840. At age nine-teen he entered the novitiate of the Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary—an order that had formed amid the upheavals of the French Revolution. These priests had refused to join the republic’s “Civil Constitution of the Clergy.” Far from being “colonialist,” the order was founded by priests in exile who wanted only to conform souls to “the sacred hearts of Je-sus and Mary.” The congregation (nicknamed the “Picpus Fathers” after their founder’s town in France) devoted themselves to missionary work in the islands of the Pacific Ocean, including the Kingdom of Hawaii. The first six bishops of Hawaii were all members of this Congregation. After Jozef De Veuster’s formation, the order sent him to the Hawaiian mission. In 1864 he chose a new reli-gious name, Damien, and gave his life in service to the sacred hearts of Jesus and Mary—not patriarchy and white supremacist culture. The bishop ordained Damien a priest as soon as he arrived in May of that year. Leprosy was not well understood in the nineteenth century, but Hawaii had an outbreak of it at this time. The Hawaiian government quarantined the patients in a hospital, and doctors studied the disease. The leprosy sores would come and go, but come back again as ulcers susceptible to infection.