Divine Liturgy Guide
Sunday, May 10, 2020
Sunday of the Samaritan Woman
SAT may 9: No Public Services Father will pray privately for our parish
SUN may 10: Sunday of the sAMARATAN WOMAN (Mother’s day) No Public Services Father will pray privately for our parish
MON May 11: No Public Services Father will pray privately for our parish
TUES may 12: No Public Services Father will pray privately for our parish
WED may 13: No Public Services Father will pray privately for our parish
THURS MAY 14: No Public Services Father will pray privately for our parish
FRI May 15: No Public Services Father will pray privately for our parish
SAT may 16: No Public Services Father will pray privately for our parish
SUN may 17: Sunday of the Fathers of the 1st Eccumenical Council No Public Services Father will pray privately for our parish
VIGIL CANDLE SPONSORS: week beginning May 9, 2020
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Hanging Eternal Lamp
$10
2 Altar Vigil Candles
$10
Proskomedia Candles
$10
By: Marlene Laskowski
For: I. M. O. +Anna Marinchak & +Pearl Laskowski
By: Olenka and John Knott
For: Happy Mothers Day to our mothers & I. M. O. +our Grandmothers
By:Olenka Knott
For: Health and God’s Blessings for Monsignor Terlecky
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2 Tetrapod Candles
$10
Jesus Vigil at Iconostas
$5
Mary Vigil at Iconostas
$5
St. Nicholas
$5
By: Helen Chandoha-Knott
For: Health and God’s Blessings for Mrs. Cosentino
By: Regina Kozel
For: Health of Ihor Shablovsky
By: Nadia Biloskirka
For: I. M. O. + Nicholas Biloskirka
By: Sharmayne Tucker
For: Health and God’s Blessings for Walter Tucker, Jr.
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St. Vladimir Vigil at Iconostas
$5
Jesus Entrance Vigil
$5
Mary Entrance Vigil
$5
By: Marlene Laskowski
For: I. M. O. + Joseph E. Laskowski, Sr
By: Stella Patrick
For: Health and God’s Blessings for Stephen Patrick
By: Walter Skula
For: I. M. O. +Dorothy Skula
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Mother of God Statue
$10
Altar 7 branch Saturday
$5
Altar 7 branch Sunday
$5
Blessed Mother (side altar)
$5
Jesus (side altar)
$5
Olenka and John Knott
For: Health and God’s Blessings for Mrs. Ewasko
By: Parish Family of St. Vladimir’s Church
For: Birthday Blessings for Sofiya Myronyuk MAY 11
By: Sharmayne Tucker
For: I. M. O. +Betty Schwenk on Mothers Day
By: Paul and Helen Ewasko
For: All Mothers of our Parish
By: Walter Tucker, Jr.
For: God’s Blessings on Mothers Day for Mary Tucker
SAINT VLADIMIR
Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church
Mailing address: 430 N. 7th Ave., Scranton, Pa. 18503-2104
Telephones: Parish Office (570) 342-7023 Fax 342-7130
Website stvladimirscranton.org
REVEREND MYRON MYRONYUK, PASTOR Email: myronyukm@yahoo.com
Glory to Jesus Christ! Glory Forever! Slava Isusu Christu! Slava Na Viky!
Divine Liturgies: Saturday 4 p.m., Sunday 10:30 a.m.,
Holy Days & Weekdays see bulletin
OUR MISSION PARISH: Saints Peter & Paul, 47 Rittenhouse Street, Simpson, Pennsylvania
Sick calls / Communion calls / Home visits/ Emergencies: call parish office.
Because of covid 19 pandemic all EVENTS CANCELLED until further notice please contact father myron with any questions
All ccd classes and events cancelled through may 31st until furtHer notice
June 7 Sunday School; Last Day of Sunday School; Children’s Sunday
Announcements
1. Covid-19 MEMORANDUM
For the time being All daily and Sunday worship will temporarily serve in our churches without the physical presence of the community of the faithful. The priests will continue to pray for you. They will serve the Divine Liturgy and other worship in the intention of the faithful, especially for the health of the sick, the nurse workers, for the wise decisions of those with civil authority and for the eternal peace of the deceased.
2. Vigil Candles available for Sponsorship
Honor a loved one by sponsoring a Vigil Candle which will be lit for even through this Turbulent time. candles are available with your special intention starting at only $5. Contact Helen Pagnotti to reserve yours today.
Announcements
3. Happy Mothers Day
We would like to wish all of our parishioners a wonderful Mother’s Day and are looking forward to celebrating with you as soon as possible.
4. Our new Youtube channel
Thank you to Father Myron and our helpful parishioners at starting a new YouTube channel for our parish where we will upload whenever possible our divine liturgies. To search for us type in St. Vladimir Church Scranton PA. Please Subscribe and hit the Bell Icon so you get updates for new videos immediately after they are published. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSTF1fIzjXg
5. LUC Meeting Cancelled
The meeting set for Sunday, May 24 at Edwardsville’s St. Vladimir Church has been cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic. When our country returns to at least a semi-normal lifestyle, a meeting will then be scheduled. In the meantime, let us all continue praying for each other’s health and safety.
6. VIGIL CANDLES DURING CORONAVIRUS
Although the lay faithful are not present in church during the coronavirus situation, their sponsored candles are still being lit according to the customary practice. The Candle Lists are included in the bulletin as published online or in print. Thank you for helping St. Vladimir’s Church!
PROPERS Pg. 535
Troparion When the disciples of the Lord learned from the angel the glorious news of the resurrection and cast off the ancestral condemnation, they proudly told the apostles: “Death has been plundered! Christ our God is risen, granting to the world great mercy.”
Second Troparion At the midpoint of the Feast, O savior, water my thirsty soul with streams of true godliness; for You cried out to all: Let any who thirst, come to Me and drink. O Source of life, Christ our God, glory to you!
Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit.
Kondakion Drawn to the well by faith, the Samaritan woman beheld You, the Water of wisdom, and drinking abundantly of You, she inherited the heavenly Kingdom forever, becoming everlastingly glorious.
Now and for ever and ever. Amen.
Second Kondakion At the midpoint of the feast according to the Law, Maker of all things and Master, You said to those present, O Christ God: Come, and draw the water of immortality. And so we fall before You crying out with faith; Grant us Your mercies, for You are the source of our life.
Prokimenion Sing to our God , sing; sing to our King sing.
Verse: Clap your hands, all you nations; shout unto God with the voice of joy.
Alleluia verses Poise yourself and advance in triumph and reign in the cause of truth , and meekness, and justice.
You have loved justice and hated iniquity.
Instead of “It is truly…” Virginity is alien to mothers and childbearing is foreign to virgins yet in you, O Mother of God, both of them came together. Therefore we and all the nations of the earth without ceasing magnify you.
Communion Verses Receive the Body of Christ; taste the fountain of immortality.
Praise the Lord from the heavens; praise Him in the highest. Alleluia! (3x)
Epistle Act 11:19-26 & 29-30
A reading from the Acts of the Holy Apostles
In those days some of the Lord’s followers had been scattered because of the terrible trouble that started when Stephen was killed. They went as far as Phoenicia, Cyprus, and Antioch, but they told the message only to the Jews. Some of the followers from Cyprus and Cyrene went to Antioch and started telling Gentiles the good news about the Lord Jesus. The Lord’s power was with them, and many people turned to the Lord and put their faith in him. News of what was happening reached the church in Jerusalem. Then they sent Barnabas to Antioch.
When Barnabas got there and saw what God had been kind enough to do for them, he was very glad. So he begged them to remain faithful to the Lord with all their hearts. Barnabas was a good man of great faith, and he was filled with the Holy Spirit. Many more people turned to the Lord.
Barnabas went to Tarsus to look for Saul. He found Saul and brought him to Antioch, where they met with the church for a whole year and taught many of its people. There in Antioch the Lord’s followers were first called Christians.
The followers in Antioch decided to send whatever help they could to the followers in Judea. So they had Barnabas and Saul take their gifts to the church leaders in Jerusalem
Gospel John 4:5-42
And on his way he came to the town of Sychar. It was near the field that Jacob had long ago given to his son Joseph. The well that Jacob had dug was still there, and Jesus sat down beside it because he was tired from traveling. It was noon, and after Jesus’ disciples had gone into town to buy some food, a Samaritan woman came to draw water from the well. Jesus asked her, “Would you please give me a drink of water?” “You are a Jew,” she replied, “and I am a Samaritan woman. How can you ask me for a drink of water when Jews and Samaritans won’t have anything to do with each other?”
Jesus answered, “You don’t know what God wants to give you, and you don’t know who is asking you for a drink. If you did, you would ask me for the water that gives life.” “Sir,” the woman said, “you don’t even have a bucket, and the well is deep. Where are you going to get this life-giving water? Our ancestor Jacob dug this well for us, and his family and animals got water from it. Are you greater than Jacob?”
Jesus answered, “Everyone who drinks this water will get thirsty again. But no one who drinks the water I give will ever be thirsty again. The water I give is like a flowing fountain that gives eternal life.” The woman replied, “Sir, please give me a drink of that water! Then I won’t get thirsty and have to come to this well again.” Jesus told her, “Go and bring your husband.” The woman answered, “I don’t have a husband.” “That’s right,” Jesus replied, “you’re telling the truth. You don’t have a husband. You have already been married five times, and the man you are now living with isn’t your husband.” The woman said, “Sir, I can see that you are a prophet. My ancestors worshiped on this mountain, but you Jews say Jerusalem is the only place to worship.”
Jesus said to her: Believe me, the time is coming when you won’t worship the Father either on this mountain or in Jerusalem. You Samaritans don’t really know the one you worship. But we Jews do know the God we worship, and by using us, God will save the world. But a time is coming, and it is already here! Even now the true worshipers are being led by the Spirit to worship the Father according to the truth. These are the ones the Father is seeking to worship him. God is Spirit, and those who worship God must be led by the Spirit to worship him according to the truth. The woman said, “I know that the Messiah will come. He is the one we call Christ. When he comes, he will explain everything to us.” “I am that one,” Jesus told her, “and I am speaking to you now.” The disciples returned about this time and were surprised to find Jesus talking with a woman. But none of them asked him what he wanted or why he was talking with her. The woman left her water jar and ran back into town. She said to the people, “Come and see a man who told me everything I have ever done! Could he be the Messiah?” Everyone in town went out to see Jesus. While this was happening, Jesus’ disciples were saying to him, “Teacher, please eat something.” But Jesus told them, “I have food that you don’t know anything about.” His disciples started asking each other, “Has someone brought him something to eat?” Jesus said: My food is to do what God wants! He is the one who sent me, and I must finish the work that he gave me to do. You may say that there are still four months until harvest time. But I tell you to look, and you will see that the fields are ripe and ready to harvest. Even now the harvest workers are receiving their reward by gathering a harvest that brings eternal life. Then everyone who planted the seed and everyone who harvests the crop will celebrate together. So the saying proves true, “Some plant the seed, and others harvest the crop.” I am sending you to harvest crops in fields where others have done all the hard work. A lot of Samaritans in that town put their faith in Jesus because the woman had said, “This man told me everything I have ever done.” They came and asked him to stay in their town, and he stayed on for two days. Many more Samaritans put their faith in Jesus because of what they heard him say. They told the woman, “We no longer have faith in Jesus just because of what you told us. We have heard him ourselves, and we are certain that he is the Savior of the world!”
Liturgy Petitions for the Healing from Coronavirus
Jesus Christ, you traveled through towns and villages “curing every disease and illness.” At your command, the sick were made well. In the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, give your command that we may be spared from this illness and experience your healing love, let us pray to the Lord.
Supreme Physician of our souls and bodies, heal those who are ill from coronavirus, have mercy on those who have died and comfort their families, grant the wisdom to those searching for a cure, and help us, through your peace, to overcome our anxiety and fear, let us pray to the Lord.
PLEASE PRAY FOR
Please include in your prayers those members of our parish who are in hospitals, care homes, rehabilitation facilities & those who are not able to join us actively in our church community.