Saint Nicholas Byzantine Catholic Parish
SUNDAY, January 28, 2018 Sunday of the Prodigal Son Tone 1; Matins Gospel 1 Apostolic reading: 1 Cor. 6:12-20; Gospel: Lk. 15:11-32
Served by: The Rev. Nicholas R. A. Rachford, J.C.L., Pastor Cantors: Mrs. Adrienne Terleck, Mr. David Stacko; Mrs. Linda Skibo, weekday cantor Administrative Assistant: Mrs. Adrienne Terleck 2711 West 40th Street Lorain, Ohio 44053-2252 church: 282-7525; church fax: 282-9185; kitchen: 282-7742 Web site:www.stnicks.org; e-mail addresses: office –
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This week at St. Nicholas
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Vespers +Monica Quintin by Matthew & Michelle Moran (35-2) Matins Pro populo Pastoral council planning workshop Three Holy Hierarchs – simple +Maria Rokyta by Vera Brazina (40-22)j Encounter of the Lord with Simeon & Anna – solemn +Mary Skibo by Bruce Skibo (40-10) First All Souls Saturday Vespers Pro populo Matins Living and deceased members by the Rosary Society (40-18)
High school ECF Cantor meeting
Phone: 440-233-LAWN (5296) Email:
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From the Pastor
Sign up for the Pilgrim Vocation Icon. The sign-up sheet is on the parking lot
entrance bulletin board. At last check there are still 17 weeks not taken. This is a program for which all of our parishioners should participate. Don’t let any week go by untaken.
Adult enrichment: This year’s sessions will be about the Christian mystical tradition. They will be held on each Tuesday from 11 a.m.12:30 p.m. Cost per participant is $5 to pay for
supporting materials. Please sign up on the sheet posted on the parking lot bulletin board. Payment can be made at any time, including the first day of the program, Feb. 13. During the sessions we will consider the mystical experiences and writings of: Ignatius of Loyola, “The Cloud of Unknowing”, Teresa of Avila, John of the Cross, Julian of Norwich, Angela of Foligno, Francis de Sales, Catherine of Siena, Karl Rahner, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin and Mother Teresa.
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Supporting the mission of our parish: Sunday offering: $1,465; holy days: $75;
candles: $14; Christmas: $50; building fund: $200; initial offering: $35; poor: $3. COLLECTION INCOME: $1,842. TOTAL EXPENSES: $1,057. THIS WEEK’S BALANCE: +$785.00.
Parish
Expenses for 1/22-26:
office: $156.96 snowplowing & salting: $610.00 auto ins. (1st half): $290.04
Rosary Society: All are welcome to join Feast of St. Nicholas Sale: the Rosary Society and receive the many benefits Profit:$12,471.00. Thank you again to everyone of being a member. At the time of your death, a who helped in any way. rosary will be recited and a Divine Liturgy offered for your repose. We pray the rosary following the 50/50 raffle: Tickets currently being sold Divine Liturgy on the first Sunday of every month are for the 50/50 raffle drawing for Feb. 4. that contains a Marian holy day. You can place January: Linda Skibo. Total: $370. your annual dues of $6 in an envelope with your name on it, in the collecP i l g r i m tion basket. For any quesV o c a t i o n tions, please call Gerrie For the Divine Liturgy this Weekend Everyone Program: Ribbons at pages 11, 73, 161, 215 Sandor at 282-5827. in the parish is invited to pray for and encourP a r i s h i o n e r Option E for trisagion, cherubikon, “We age others within the praise you..”, Communion hymn, birthdays this Option A for the rest. church that they might Thomas week: Tropar tone 2, page 130 and Encounter respond generously to Knick (28), John Camp page 321 God’s call in their lives. (30) and Megan Knick Kontak of Meat-fare, page 217. We need generous men (2/3). Prokimen & alleluia of Meat-fare, pages and women to minister 217-218 among us as priests, P a r i s h i o n e r Magnification and irmos of Encounter, deacons, monastics and anniversaries for pages 322-324. sisters. We need people January: Michael and Our Father, tone 2, page 67. such as you to pray for Rose Marie Koscho (27), Communion hymn E, page 80 and of Meatand encourage them. Frank and Erna fare, page 213 Sign up today to have Kodman (28), Terry and the Pilgrim Vocation Mary Todhunter (30) and Icon in your home. You will be greatly blessed. Robert and Hazel Gross (2/4). Please sign up on the sheet that is posted at the Holy Name Society news: The annual parking lot entrance bulletin table. dues of $3 is now past due.
Annual Stewardship Appeal for 2017/2018: You should have received your
stewardship mailing from the eparchy. This year’s theme is “Let Your Light Shine”. Our parish goal is $6,000. Remember to make checks out to St. Nicholas Parish and put in the collection basket along with the parish and eparchy portion of the recept. Keep the other portion for your records. The Stewardship Appeal helps cover the costs of a variety of programs in the eparchy, including seminarian formation and education, communications, youth ministry and much more. Please respond with your pledge and payments today. You may mail in the cut-out form in Horizons, or visit us online at www.parma.org to submit your donation.
Eparchy
Iconography workshop: Father Marek Visnovsky will be offering an iconography workshop at St. Mary Byzantine Catholic church 4600 State Road, Cleveland, 44109. This class will be held on Thursdays during the Great Fast from 6:30 -10 p.m. The first day of the class will be Feb. 18. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. for prayer, talk, discussion, personal instructions and reflection. At 7 p.m. a hands-on demonstration will begin. We will paint the icon of “Weep Not For Me, O Mother”. The cost is $300 (includes boards and painting materials). Beginners as well as advanced artists are welcome. Deadline for registration is Wednesday, Jan. 31. Register online at www.stmarybyz.com. For any further information please email Father Marek at
[email protected] or call (216) 741-7979. Please make checks payable to Father Marek Visnovsky and send to St. Mary Byzantine Catholic Church, 4600 State Road, Cleveland, Ohio, 44109.
Save the date for the Sixth Annual Women’s Retreat Friday, March 2 through Sunday, March 4, 2018 at the Shrine of Our Lady of Consolation Retreat Center, Carey, Ohio. The retreat master will be Father Marek Visnovsky. Contact Joan Washburn for further information at (865) 696-7809. Save the date for the Miracle of Mariapoch Gala to be held Saturday, April 14.
Community
GCU: Lodge #77 will be holding a Valentine’s Day bake sale on Saturday, Feb. 10 and Sunday, Feb. 11 following the Divine Liturgies. A meeting will follow the bake sale. All GCU members are being asked to donate baked goods for this sale. Please contact Kathy Knick at 984-4468 if you intend to bake or have any questions.
Building friendships: Friendships are just plain good for you. In fact social connectedness is strongly linked to a person’s overall health, including risk for chronic diseases and depression. To connect better Lorain County adults ages 55 and over to the community, the Lorain County General Health District is launching the Buddy Connect Pilot Program for no cost. Starting this fall, two phone calls from a volunteer buddy will help you or a loved one to connect to the community. Home visits are also available. Call (440) 567-4120 to sign up or to volunteer. If you have any questions, please contact us at (440) 6367 or at
[email protected].
Great Fast – the “Bright Sadness”
adapted from Great Lent by Father Alexander Schmemann
For many, if not for the majority of [Eastern] Christians, Lent consists of a limited number of formal, predominantly negative, rules and prescriptions: abstention from certain food, dancing, perhaps movies. Such is the degree of our alienation from the real spirit of the Church that it is almost impossible for us to understand that there is “something else in Lent” – something without which all these prescriptions lose much of their meaning. This “something else” can best be described as an “atmosphere,” a “climate” into which one enters, as first of all a state of mind, soul, and spirit which for seven weeks permeates our entire life. ...This lenten “atmosphere,” this unique “state of mind,” is brought about mainly by means of worship, by the various changes introduced during that season into the liturgical life. Considered separately, these changes may appear as incomprehensible “rubrics,” as formal prescriptions to be formally adhered to; but understood as a whole, they reveal and communicate the spirit of Lent, they make us see, feel, and experience that bright sadness which is the true message and gift of Lent. ...The general impression, I said, is that of “bright sadness.” Even a man having only a limited knowledge of worship who enters a church during a lenten service would understand almost immediately, I am sure, what is meant by this somewhat contradictory expression. On the one hand, a certain quiet sadness permeates the service: vestments are dark, the services are longer than usual and more monotonous, there is almost no movement. Readings and chants alternate yet nothing seems to “happen.” At regular intervals the priest comes out of the sanctuary and reads always the same short prayer, and the whole congregation punctuates every petition of that prayer with prostrations. Thus, for a long time we stand
in this monotony – in this quiet sadness. But then we begin to realize that this very length and monotony are needed if we are to experience the secret and at first unnoticeable “action” of the service in us. Little by little we begin to understand, or rather to feel, that this sadness is indeed “bright,” that a mysterious transformation is about to take place in us. It is as if we were reaching a place to which the noises and the fuss of life, of the street, of all that which usually fills our days and even nights, have no access – a place where they have no power. All that which seemed so tremendously important to us as to fill our mind, that state of anxiety which has virtually become our second nature, disappear somewhere and we begin to feel free, light and happy. It is not the noisy and superficial happiness which comes and goes twenty times a day and is so fragile and fugitive; it is a deep happiness which comes not from a single and particular reason but from our soul having, in the words of Dostoevsky, touched “another world.” And that which it has touched is made up of light and peace and joy, of an inexpressible trust. We understand then why the services had to be long and seemingly monotonous. We understand that it is simply impossible to pass from our normal state of mind made up almost entirely of fuss, rush, and care, into this new one without first “quieting down,” without restoring in ourselves a measure of inner stability. ...What at first appeared as monotony now is revealed as peace; what sounded like sadness is now experienced as the very first movements of the soul recovering its lost depth. ...“Sad brightness”: the sadness of my exile, of the waste I have made of my life; the brightness of God’s presence and forgiveness, the joy of the recovered desire for God, the peace of the recovered home. Such is the climate of lenten worship; such is its first and general impact on my soul.
