Saturday, Sept. 27 – Callistratus and Others, Martyrs
5:00 PM Santa Paula Outreach Divine Liturgy
Sunday, Sept. 28 – 16th Sunday after Pentecost
8:00 AM Matins
9:30 AM Divine Liturgy
Monday, Sept. 29 – Cyricus, Venerable
8:30 AM Morning Prayer
Tuesday, Sept. 30 – Gregory Illuminator, Bishop and Martyr
6:30 PM Akathist* and Discussion for Addictions & Mental Illness
Wednesday, Oct. 1 – Protection of the Theotokos
8:30 AM Morning Prayer
6:30 PM Reader Vespers
7:30 PM Firepit Social
Thursday, Oct. 2 – Cyprian, Bishop and Martyr
6:30 PM Neighborhood Bible Study
Saturday, Oct. 4 – Hierotheus, Bishop and Martyr
5:00 PM Santa Paula Outreach Divine Liturgy
Sunday, Oct. 5 – 17th Sunday after Pentecost
8:00 AM Matins
9:30 AM Divine Liturgy
11:30 AM Family Day Celebration
*Add first names to this prayer service by emailing niemirick@gmail.com
St. Mary’s: Sundays 8:45 AM or by appointment
Santa Paula: Saturdays 4:15 PM or by appointment
(Please resubmit or submit names to admin@ByzantineLA.com)
The Carlin Family, Michael Hefferon, Shirley Kunze, Diana Mina, Michael Mina, Peter Mina, Fr. John Mina, Lana Zimmerman, Patrick Zimmerman, Shannon O’Neill, Fern Bonowicz, Stephen Petach, Jenny Roman, All the sick and suffering of St. Mary’s
Collection: $870.00; Online: $745.00 Santa Paula; $4,853.44; Candles: $134.50; Parish Social: $25.00;
Total: $5,027.76/ Attendance – PSM: 61 HAR: 85
The earliest Carpatho-Rusyn immigrants settled initially in northeastern Pennsylvania and took jobs as miners in the anthracite coal fields of the region. The émigrés, however, soon began to realize that what had identified, preserved and sustained them in the “Old Country” and in the long journey to America was painfully missing in their strange, new and difficult surroundings. They had no spiritual home, no place of worship that they could call their own, and no church where they could practice their distinctive Greek Catholic faith. Thus, they began to organize parishes, build churches and petition for priests to be sent from Europe.
In 1884, Reverend Father Ivan Voljanskyj, a priest from the Eparchy of L’viv in Galicia, answered the call to minister to the newly arrived faithful in the United States. In the same year, he organized the first Greek Catholic parish in the United States in Shenandoah, Pennsylvania. Within a short period of time, his pastoral work led to the establishment of additional parishes in Pennsylvania: Freeland (1886), Hazleton (1887), Kingston (1888), Wilkes-Barre (1888), Olyphant (1888); and in Jersey City, New Jersey (1889), Minneapolis, Minnesota (1889), Whiting, Indiana (1889) and Passaic, New Jersey (1890). By 1894, with the arrival of additional clergy primarily from the Prešov and Mukačevo Eparchies, there were 30 Greek Catholic parishes serving more than 100,000 faithful.
In time, more and more Carpatho-Rusyn immigrants would arrive in America. Steadily, they would move ever westward to Western Pennsylvania and Eastern Ohio for employment in the region’s steel mills and coal mines.
(read the entire history of our Byzantine Catholic Church in America in the first article in this week’s email, or at https://www.archpitt.net/archeparchy-of-pittsburgh-history/)
Our Annual Family Day Celebration is on October 5th. RSVP and food sign-ups are in the small hall please sign up as soon as you can so we can get an accurate head count.
“When they had brought their boats to shore, they left everything and followed him.” Have you seen the Lord work in your life in such a powerful way that you would consider leaving everything to follow him? This is the response of the apostles in today’s gospel reading. The Church is fortified by men and women who follow him as priests, deacons, subdeacons, monks and nuns. If you may be hearing this call, Contact the Vocations Office at 602-861-9778 or email: vocations@ephx.org
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