Welcome all visitors of St. John’s. We are happy to see you again.

Mon. June 11 - Virgin-martyr Theodosia of Tyre. Commemoration of the First Ecumenical Council (325). Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos “Surety of Sinners” Romans 7:1-13. Matthew 9:36-10:8. Fast Day.

Tue. June 12 - Saint Isaac the confessor, founder of the Dalmatian Monastery at Constantinople. Saint Macrina, grandmother of Saint Basil the Great. Romans 7:14-8:2. Matthew 10:9-15. Fast Day.

Wed. June 13 - 10:00 am. Akathist to the Mother of God. Apostle Hermes of the Seventy. Martyr Hermias. Romans 8:2-13. Matthew 10:16-22. Fast Day.

Thu. June 14 -10:00 am. Akathist to St. John the Baptist. Martyr Justin the philosopher, and those with him at Rome. Saint Agapitus, unmercenary physician of the Kyiv Caves. Romans 2:22-27. Matthew 10:23-31. Fast Day

Fri. June 15 - 10:00 am. Akathist to our Lord. Hieromartyr Erasmus, bishop of Formia in Campania, and 20,000 martyrs with him. Romans 9:6-19. Matthew 10:32-36; 11:1. Fast Day.

Sat. June 16 - 4:30 pm Great Vespers. Saint Athanasius, the wonderworker of Cilicia. Romans 3:28-4:3. Matthew 7:24-8:4. Fast Day.

Sun. June 17 - 8:20 - 8:50 am. Hours/Confession. 9:00 am. Divine Liturgy. Tone 2. Synaxis of All Saints of Halychyna. Saint Metrophanes, first patriarch of Constantinople. Saints Martha and Mary sisters of Saint Lazarus. Prayer for travelers. Special Coffee Hour. HAPPY FATHER’S DAY. Fast Day.

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Priest: Let us be attentive! Peace be with you all!

Reader: And with your spirit! Priest: Wisdom!

Reader: The Prokimen on tone 1. Let Thy mercy, O Lord, be upon us / as we have set our hope on Thee.

Verse: Rejoice in the Lord, o ye Righteous! Praise befit’s the just!

Priest: Wisdom!

Reader: The reading from the Acts of the Apostle.

Priest: Let us be attentive

Reader: Brethren, glory, honor, and peace to everyone who works what is good, to the Jew first and also to the Greek. For there is no partiality with God. For as many as have sinned without law will also perish without law, and as many as have sinned in the law will be judged by the law. For not the hearers of the law are just in the sight of God, but the doers of the law will be justified; for when gentiles, who do not have the law, by nature do the things in the law, these, although not having the law, are a law to themselves, who show the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and between themselves their thoughts accusing or else excusing them in the day when God will judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ, according to my gospel. Priest: Peace be with you reader.

Reader: And with your spirit. Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia.

Verse: God gives vengeance unto me, and subdues people under me!

Verse: He magnifies the salvation of the king, and deals mercifully with Christ, with David and his seed for ever.

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Happy Birthday: June 11 John Buchma, 12 Nicholas Shirk, 15 John Cenesky, 15 Roman Sr. Lewkowicz, 16 Mary Mihalko.

Happy Anniversary: June 13 Daniel and Marty Sullivan.

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Our prayers and best wishes to John Cenesky on his 90^th Birthday.

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Congratulations: Vika Wasyliw who received a Math Olympiad award and trophy for the Highest Individual Score in Mathematics for 2006-2007 at Boynton Middle School in Ithaca, NY. Vika also had the highest mathematics score in 2005-2006.

Furthermore, we congratulate Roman Kit who graduated from Binghamton University with a chemistry major.

We greet J. Ross Colombo who graduated from Fordham Prep High School in NYC. He will be attending the Skidmore University in Saratoga Spring University NY. the same University his mother Gall Dudack attended.

And congratulations to Colin Ellsworth and Olenka Zharsky for receiving a 2006-07 Academic Award from Johnson City High School.

If you know any more students who were recognized for their academics study or who have finished high school to collage. Please tell Father and we will congratulate them in next Sunday’s bulletin.

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Saturday, July 21, Noon - 10:00 pm . 2:30 pm Church Tour. 4:00 - 5:30 pm St. John's Choir and Dancers. 5:30 pm. Vespers. 4:00 - 7:00 pm. Bill Flyn (Cool 100) Life. 6:00 pm - 10:00 pm - Bend: Jeff Nyschot’s Groove

Sunday, July 22, 11:00 am - 6:00 pm. 2:30pm. Church Tour. 2:00 - 6:00 pm - Band: Joe Stanky & His Cadets. No gambling. A second tent, 40X40 (donated) will be set up between the large tent and the fence.

Dear Parishioners, anyone who would like to donate a basket of cheer for our Ukrainian Day Festival please contact Jennifer Hatala 723-9435 or Carolyn Hatala 785-5391 thank you.

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Future Event. Please mark your calendars.

Sun. June 10 - 12:30 - 4:00 pm. St. John’s Social Club “Party in the Park”

Tue. June 12 - 6:30 pm. Choir rehearsal.

Wed. June 13 - 6:00 - 7:00 pm. Ukrainian Dance Practice.

Sat. June 16 - 7:30 am. Ukrainian Day pirohy session. We need your help.

Sun. June 17 - Prayers for the newly elected Jr. and Sr. board members. Also UOL picture at the front of the church after Divine Liturgy please wear your

“I Love UOL” t-shirts. You can buy t-shirts from Alexis Oryhon, thank you. Jr. Executive board: Pres. - Patrick Scannell, V.P. - William Ferrante, Treasure - Adam Hatala, Sec. - Olenka Zharsky,

Reporters - Mikayla Klym and Cassidy Sullivan. Sr. Executive Board:

Pres. - Pam Scannell, V.P. - Beth Harendza, Treas. - Bill Scannell, Sec. - Phil Harendza.

Sun. July 17 - Saint John’s Patron Feast Day Celebration.

Fri. Aug. 17 - 7:00 pm. Sr. UOL meeting in the board room.

Mon. June 18 - 7:00 pm. Parish Council Meeting.

Sun. Sep. 9 - 12:30 - 4:00 pm. Party in the Park.

Sat. Sep. 22 - Annual Golf Tournament.

Please let Father or Parish Board President Robert Onysko /607/ 754 - 4085 know who is in need of visiting, prayers or receiving of sacraments.

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Marriage and the Family: “At the current rate of increase the modern Irish family will soon be just as fragmented - or ‘diverse’ as some would have it - as the modern American family,” a researcher for the Iona Institute told the Catholic press service Zenit. One is seven Irish couples live together without being married, a higher percentage than for Americans (one in nine), and 26% of Irish children live in “non-marital family units” slightly less than the American percentage (30%)

* According for such factors as birth weight and the mother’s age and tobacco use, researches from Cambridge University and the British Medical Research Council found that babies with unmarried mothers are twice as likely to die of Sudden Infant death Syndrome.

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HAPPIER MEALS: It is all a bit overwhelming and sometimes remarkable silly, but I confess I, too read the reports and attend the lectures. And I have, in the last year, repeatedly heard one rather astonishing finding. There appear to be two decisive factors for predicting whether a child will do well in school and avoid early sexual activity or drug and alcohol abuse. They are:

1) participating in a religious life, and 2) eating dinner with the family.

In the lectures and discussion groups I have attended, these are invariably dismissed as two separate, unrelated activities. For many parents (bear in mind that I live in Manhattan), the notion of a religious life is, if not laughable, simply irrelevant.

Most will glide quickly past religion and focus instead on the need to eat dinner together. From there, it is only a matter of time before someone will venture that it’s not really about eating. Surely what’s prescribed is simply “quality time.” Whereupon there is a general nodding of heads and everyone departs feeling much reassured.

That there could be any possible connecting between religious life and family dinner never seems to occur to anyone. And yet, as a practicing Christian, I find the connection glaringly obvious. The central event of the Christian life is the Eucharist. The central event family life is or should be the family prayers and dinner.

When, as a congregation, we share the Body and the Blood, we are one in Christ. When, as a family, we eat pasta together, we are united.

As a nation, we are obsessed with calories, sugars, fats, carbohydrates. But what if the real problem is how we eat? Perhaps if the how were better, a healthier what would follow.

Just as there are rituals that surround the Eucharist, so there ought to be traditions connected to the family meal. The more the better. Prayer, plates, glasses, silverware, linens, candles, manners, conversation, these are the stuff of a family dinner.

Even as the Bread and Wine are blessed and served from the alter, the family meal deserves an appropriate presentation: on a table, not a couch in front of a television. The table is the crucial connecting objects, physically bridging the space between people and directing their attention to each other.

Why is a sit-down dinner more successful that a buffet? The conversation is invariably better, livelier, more intimate, because the guests are physically connected to each other by the table.

So also, the place in which one sits at table is important. The father sits there; the mother sits there; and you, the child, sit here. When I am a guest in someone’s home, I am always happier when told where to sit. I feel taken care of by the host who has given the matter though and ordered his table appropriately. Even as the Eucharist locates one’s place in God’s narrative, one’s place at the dinner table indicates a location in the family’s story.

Moreover, when we eat, we should eat slowly, with care, paying attention to what has been cooked. We remember our connection to the land, to animals, to God’s creation.

Why do our children need a religious life? Why do they need to eat dinner with us? And why are these not two unrelated activities but intimately connected? It is from the traditions of church and family that children learn their identity.

The child who has grown up knowing who he is-a child of God and a child of his family - will not forget it when confronted by the temptations of present-day culture. A secure child will not need to seek outside reassurance from sex, the Internet, or the mall.

Yet for many of us, religious or not, family dinner is “pie in the sky.’ Even is a child is lucky to have two parents, the mom is probably working, the dad is flying across the country, and the child has too much homework. No one has time to eat take-out together, much less cook.

That may indeed be the reality with which some of us are currently burdened, but it is a reality we have consciously or unconsciously chosen, and we can decide to choose something else. We must begin by acknowledging the consequences of our choices and stop deluding ourselves that all will be well.

We banish religion from our schools only to discover that religion’s presence is some form or other is the best guarantee of safety for our children. We abandon the nightly family meal only to discover that its absence contributes to a culture of obesity, eating disorders, and kids at risk.

Is it too late? Can we turn the clock back? Why not? We have to decide that dinner together comes first. Before work, before homework. Before soccer practice, or the TV or the cell phone.

So light the candles, say the prayer, unlock the wine, pass the bread. Taste. See. Remember.

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Dear parents and youth. You can obtain applications and information for our All Saints Church Camp in Emlenton, PA. from Father. Church School Camp for ages 8-13 will be held from June 24-July 7. Teenage Conference will be from July 8-21, but you can go only for one week. Mommy and Me, Daddy and Me camp for little children is from July 30-August 3.

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Office of Youth and Young Adult Ministry.

With the blessing of the Council of Bishops, the Office of Youth & Youth Adult Ministry and Mission and Christian Charities of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the USA announce its Missionary trip to St. Sophia Seminary in South Bound Brook NJ. for High School aged teenagers. The High School Mission Trip to St. Sophia’s will take place August 5-12, 2007. St. Sophia Seminary was established in 1976. The Seminary is in major need of remodeling and has been under constriction for over a year. We are pray that you will be able to join us on this ground-breaking trip to act upon the command of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. For application please see Father.

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Please give Father any information or announcements that you would like to publish in the Sunday’s bulletin, before Friday of that week. This way all parishioners will know about St. John’s events. Thank you.

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Pray for the sick. The Lord said: “Do unto others as you would want them do unto you.” So if we will be sick, we will ask help from God, we will ask priests and people to pray for us. In order for the Lord to listen to us when we are sick, we need to pray for those who are sick. O Lord our God, Who by Your Word alone healed all diseases; Who cured the Mother-in-law of Apostle Peter of fever; Who chastises with pity and heals according to Your goodness; Who are able to put aside every malady and infirmity: Do You the same Lord, now relieve Your servants: Fr. Michael Michalopolos, Audrey and Eugene Klym, Valerie Melnychenko, Kevin Terpak, Emilia Lewkowicz, Mildred Charnetsky, Mary & Walter Gulachok, Mary Gormish, Olga Gooley, Mary Ford, Mary Mihalko, Margaret Klish, Marlyn Klish, Cypryan Klish II , Sophia Malowicky, Genevieve Sadowitz, Michael Sr. Duby, Anne and Karen Girnis, Paul Laszko, Julie Sadowitz, Catherine Dobransky, Pelahia Kit, Charles Stasko, Stephania Moroz, Mildred Bogdan, Wasyl Krawecki, Meghan Scannell, Olga Drost, Marion Kaspryk, Nicholas Corba, and cure them of the sicknesses which grieves them; lift them up from their beds of pain, sending down upon them Your mercy; and if it be Your will, give to them health and a complete recovery. For You are the Physician of our souls and bodies, and to You we ascribe glory: to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, now and ever and unto ages of ages, Amen.

**************************************************************Dear brothers and sisters for those who do not attend confession (repentance)

and Holy Communion, please participate in these sacraments. This is for your own salvation, for the remission of sins and life everlasting. Please do not wait till the last minute, it could be too late. We never know when God will call us.

Today we are here tomorrow we will go into eternity, and will stand before God’s judgment.

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Recycle for Charity is resumed again. Please bring your toners and ink cartridges to the copy room in the church. Thank you. The proceeds benefit All Saints Camp.

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The 61st Ukrainian Orthodox League (UOL) Convention will be held at the Holiday Inn Arena in downtown Binghamton from July 30-August 3rd, 2008.

St. John the Baptist Sr. and Jr. UOL chapters are hosting several hundred conventioneers from all over the nation. This is a great financial undertaking. We are inviting you to consider sponsoring one of the funding opportunities listed on the attached sheet. General contributions are also welcome.

All sponsors will be recognized in the Convention Yearbook and on St. John The Baptist Ukrainian Orthodox Church website. Your sponsorship will help us to host a wonderful convention for these special visitors to our community. If you are sponsoring through your business, it will provide your business with increased visibility on local, regional and national levels.

The UOL is a national organization that promotes and strengthens the Orthodox faith and its Ukrainian culture. It also provides charitable donations to local, national, and worldwide organizations and funds for seminarians and young adults attending college. In addition, our local chapter members serve in leadership roles in our church, do mission work, and participate in community affairs. Thank you in advance for your consideration and support of our organization. Please contact me at the above number for more information or to coordinate your sponsorship or gift today

Sincerely, Pam Scannell Convention Chair

2007 Opportunities

Promotional Convention Advertisement $300.00

Hospitality night $300.00

Promotional Banquet Favor $200.00

2008 Opportunities

Welcoming Gift $300.00

Nametags and Lanyards $150.00

Wednesday Hospitality Night $500.00

Holiday Inn Arena

Thursday Brunch $1720.00

Holiday Inn Arena

Thursday Event-Ukrainian Picnic $2700.00
On the 18th floor of the State office bldg

Thursday evening beverages

St. John’s Social Club Friday Event-TBD $4700.00

Holiday Inn Arena

Saturday Banquet and Ball $7500.00

Holiday Inn Arena ballroom

Sunday Farewell Luncheon St. Mary’s Sisterhood

At St. John’s Memorial Center

Convention Yearbook Printing $1000.00

A group of individuals or businesses can join together to sponsor an event or convention expense. All donations can be mailed to the above address.

Checks are payable to 61st UOL Convention.

Senior and Junior UOL Chapters

St. John the Baptist Ukrainian

Orthodox Church, Johnson City, NY.

61st Ukrainian Orthodox League Convention

July 30th-August 3rd, 2008 “THE LIGHT OF CHRIST ILLUMINES ALL” /Liturgy of Presanctified Gifts/

Pam Scannell, Convention Chair 754-1554. 2000 Clover Dr Vestal, NY 13850