Divine Liturgy Guide
Sunday, December 17, 2023
Sunday of the Forefathers
SAT DEC 16: 4:00 p.m. Divine Liturgy +Mary Skorupka The Zak Family
SUN DEC 17: 9:00 a.m. Divine Liturgy Sunday of the Forefathers Blessing for His People
MON DEC 18: 8:30 a.m. Divine Liturgy Blessing and Healings for Sosonowyj Family
TUES DEC 19: Boniface Martyr READ Mark 10:2-12
WED DEC 20: 8:30 a.m. Divine Liturgy +Nicholas Biloskirka The Biloskirka Family
THURS DEC 21: 8:30 a.m. Divine Liturgy The Aborted Unborn The Lilik Family
FRI DEC 22: 8:30 a.m. Divine Liturgy +Bohdana Myronyuk by Cristopher Lilik
SAT DEC 23: 4:00 p.m. Divine Liturgy Blessings & Healings for Tony & Dennis Lilik The Myronyuk Family
SUN DEC 24: 9:00 a.m. Divine Liturgy Sunday Before Christmas Blessing for His People
Collection Basket
12/9 & 12/11 $2590
Thank you to last week’s counters
Dave Pedley and Linda Gerrity
Next Week’s Counters are:
Mike Trusz & Olenka Chandoha-Knott
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
December 16-22
Deborah Dommes – Dec. 19
Maria Black – Dec. 21
VIGIL CANDLE SPONSORS: week beginning December 16, 2023
| 1 2 3 | Hanging Eternal Lamp $10 2 Altar Vigil Candles $10 Proskomedia Candles $10 | By: Linda Pirritano For: I.M.O. + Joseph and + Esther Linko By: Sharmayne, Michael, Tony & Matt Tucker For: I.M.O. + Walter Michael Tucker, Jr. By: Michael Trusz For: I.M.O. + Olga Trusz – 3rd anniversary of repose DEC 18 |
| 4 5 6 7 | 2 Tetrapod Candles $10 Jesus Vigil at Iconostas $5 Mary Vigil at Iconostas $5 St. Nicholas $5 | By: Sharmayne Tucker For: I.M.O. + Paul, Sr. and + Betty Schwenk By: Regina Kozel For: I.M.O. + Ihor Shablovsky By: Biloskirka Family For: I.M.O. + Nicholas and + Nadia Biloskirka By: Mary Warholak For: Health and God’s Blessings for Debbie Dommes |
| 8 9 10 | St. Vladimir Vigil at Iconostas $5 Jesus Entrance Vigil $5 Mary Entrance Vigil $5 | By: Laskowski Family For: I.M.O. + Joseph & + Marlene Laskowski, our parents By: Stella Patrick For: Health and God’s Blessings for Stephen Patrick By: Laskowski Family For: Health & God’s Blessings – Jeffrey Lyden & family |
| 11 12 13 14 15 | Mother of God Statue $10 Altar 7 branch Saturday $5 Altar 7 branch Sunday $5 Blessed Mother (side altar) $5 Jesus (side altar) $5 | By: Linda Gerrity For: I.M.O. + Stefan and + Ewanna Sydor By: Laskowski Family For: Health & God’s Blessings – Casey McNulty Evans By: Laskowski Family For: Health & God’s Blessings for Miranda Vasquez By: Linda Pirritano For: I.M.O. + Esther Linko By: Linda Pirritano For: I.M.O. + Joseph Linko |
| CONFESSIONFor anyone that would like to receive the holy sacrament of confession you can let Father Myron know and set up a time either before or after Liturgy from Tuesday through Saturday. |
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 9:00 a.m.,
Holy Days & Weekdays see bulletin
OUR MISSION PARISH: Saints Peter and Paul Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church
635 North River St., Wilkes-Barre, PA 18705
Sick calls / Communion calls / Home visits/ Emergencies: call parish office.
CALENDAR
- Pyrohy sale distribution dates:
- Saturday, December 16, 2023
- Saturday, January 20, 2024
- Saturday, February 17, 2024
- Saturday, March 16, 2024
- Decorating for Christmas December 22, Friday – 11 am. Need help please.
CHRISTMAS SCHEDULE
- December 24 Christmas Eve
- Only Sunday Morning Services at 9:00 am (not for Christmas Eve)
- There will be NO VIGIL/EVENING LITURGY FOR THIS YEAR ONLY
- December 25 Christmas Day
- 11:00 a.m. Divine Liturgy Nativity of Our Lord
- December 26 Synaxis of the Theotokos
- 9:00 a.m. Divine Liturgy
ANNOUNCEMENTS
- Workers needed for Church Decorating on Friday
The Decorating of the Church for the Christmas season will take place this Friday, December 22nd, beginning at 11:00am. Workers will be needed to set up the Manger, set up Christmas trees, hang Wreaths, arrange Flowers, string Lights, change Candles, and more. Come and join us.
- Christmas Eve is a Day of Fasting
A reminder that next Sunday, December 24th, the Vigil of the Nativity, No Meat may be Eaten. This is a Day of Fasting for Ukrainian Catholics. Please Honor this Regulation of the Church.
- 2024 Church envelopes and calendars
2024 Church envelopes and calendars are available in the back of the church. If there is an error or if you need a box, contact Jean Pedley.
- THANK YOU
THANK YOU Edward J. Chomko Funeral Home & Cremation Services for providing us with the 2024 church calendars again this year! God Bless you for your ongoing and faithful generosity!
- Sign-up sheets for Pyrohy helpers
Sign-up sheets are available in the back of the church for the pyrohy making process. Come 1 day, come 3 days or come for a few hours. All help of any amount of time is appreciated. Our pyrohy sale income is the key to paying our heating bills for our church properties…..
- REACH OUT TO OUR NEIGHBORS ACROSS THE STREET THIS CHRISTMAS!!!!
Lackawanna County Office of Youth & Family Services provides programs for children in our county. Outreach – Center for Community Resources (our neighbors across the street) provides children involved in those programs with books, pajamas, and educational toys each year. Lackawanna County Office of Youth & Family Services provide these items to over 250 children and are still looking for additional support. We are in need of pajamas sizes 2T – 10 for boys and girls; toys and games for infants through 6 years old, and books for children 0 – 10. If you would like to donate, we will have a contribution box in the back of the church for you to drop off these items. New items please, no used items and do not gift wrap. Use the above list to make your purchases. Thank you for your support. The items will be collected through December 20th. See Jean Pedley if you have any questions.
- Thank you St. Nicholas for visiting St. Vladimir’s parish
A big thank you to everyone who helped to make the St. Nicholas luncheon, basket raffle, and performance a great success! Thank you to the religious education students who worked hard and did a great job with their presentation. Thank you St. Nicholas for giving the children of our parish (“big & small”) inspirational words to live by every day.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
- New Priest ordained on Feast of St. Nicholas
On December 6, during the solemn hierarchical liturgy at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Philadelphia, metropolitan Borys Gudziak ordained a new priest. Father Mykola Dziurakh became the third priest ordained this year in the Ukrainian Catholic Archeparchy of Philadelphia and the sixth who joined the ministry in the Archeparchy. Numerous priests of the Archeparchy came to share this joyful occasion. In attendance was Father Mykola’s uncle, bishop Bohdan Dziurakh, who serves as a Ukrainian Catholic bishop in Germany and Scandinavia, and whose supportive presence added an extra layer of significance to the event and the responsibilities Father Mykola was about to embrace. He presented Father Mykola with an icon of the Good Shepherd painted by his sister, who is a redemptorist nun in Ukraine. Father Mykola accepted his new ministry with humility and determination, surrounded by the support and love of his family and the Church community. In his brief address he thanked his family in Ukraine, bishops, priests, and fellow seminarians who supported his vocation, and especially his wife Uliana who accompanied him on his path to priesthood. In his homily metropolitan Borys emphasized that this joyous event took place on the feast of Saint Nicholas. “Feast of St Nicholas is a feast of giving, of generosity. And Saint Nicholas is generous with us. A new priest is a great gift. In the twenty first century a bishop cannot have a greater gift than to have an opportunity to share the grace of priesthood with a new priest”. Mykola Dziurakh was born in the village of Hirske, Lviv region, on November 16, 1996. From 2014 to 2020, he studied at the Kyiv Theological Seminary of the Three Holy Hierarchs. Currently, he is a student of the licentiate program in patristics and dogmatic theology at the Ukrainian Catholic University. He has experience in catechetical and missionary ministry in eastern Ukraine. With the blessing of His Beatitude Patriarch Sviatoslav, Mykola was ordained a deacon in Munich on June 12, 2022, by Bishop Bohdan (Dzyurach), Apostolic Exarch for Ukrainians of the Byzantine Rite in Germany and Scandinavian countries. He served as a deacon in Germany until February 2023. In February 2023, at the invitation of Metropolitan Borys Gudziak, with the blessing of His Beatitude Patriarch Sviatoslav, along with his wife Uliana Mykola began serving in the Ukrainian Catholic Archeparchy of Philadelphia.
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.
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