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

Sun. Sep. 16, 2007, 8:20 - 8:50 am. Reading of the Hours. 9:00 am. Divine-Liturgy. Tone 7. Saint Edward, martyr and king of England (978). Saint Ioannicius II, first patriarch of Serbia. Prayer for travelers. Coffee Hour. 10:45 - 11:30 am. Sunday School.

Mon. Sep. 17 - Uncovering of the relics of Saint Ioasaph, bishop of Bilhorod. Icon of the Theotokos “The Unburnt Bush” Ephesians 1:22-2:3 Mark 10:46-52

Tue. Sep. 18 - 10:00 am. Panahida in memory of Vera Cibulsky departed on September 18. Holy Prophet Zacharias and Righteous Elizabeth. (1^st c.) parents of the Forerunner. Ephisians 2:19-3:7. Mark 11:11-23

Wed. Sep. 19 - Commemoration of the Miracle of Archangel Michael at Colossae. Ephisians 3:8-21. Mark 11:23-26. Fast Day

Thu. Sep. 20 - 10:00 am. Akathist to the Mother of God. 5:00 pm. Great Vespers with Litiya. Martyrdom of Venerable Macarius, archimandrite of Kaniv. Ephesians 4:14-19. Mark 11:27-33.

Fri. Sep. 21 - 10:00 am. Divine Liturgy. The Nativity of our Holy Lady the Birth -Giver of God and Ever-Virgin Mary. Philippians 2:5-11. Luke 10-38-42, 11:27-28. Fast Day.

Sat Sep. 22 - 4:30 pm. Vespers/Confession. Holy and Righteous Ancestors of God Joachim and Anna. 1 Corinthians 14:20-25. Matthew 25:1-13.

Sun. Sep. 23 - 8:20 - 8:50 am. Reading of the Hours. 9:00 am. Divine Liturgy. Tone 8. Saint Paul the Obedient of the Kyiv Caves Monastery. Prayer for travelers. Coffee Hour. 10:45 11;30 am. Sunday School

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Priest: Let us be attentive! Peace be with you all! Reader: And with your spirit!

Priest: Wisdom!

Reader: The Prokimen in tone 7.The Lord shall give strength to His people! / The Lord shall bless His people with peace!

Verse: Offer to the Lord, o ye sons of God! Offer young rams to the Lord.

Priest: Wisdom!

Reader: The reading from the second letter of Apostle Paul to the Corinthians

Priest: Let us be attentive

Reader: Brothers, we then, as workers together with Him also plead with you not to receive the grace of God in vain. For He says: “In an acceptable time I have heard you, and in the day of salvation I have helped you.” behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation. We give no offense in anything, that our ministry may not be blamed. But in all things we commend ourselves as ministers of God: in much patience, in tribulations, in needs, in distresses, in stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labors, in sleeplessness, in fasting; by purity, by knowledge, by longsuffering, by kindness, by the Holy Spirit, by sincere love, by the word of truth, by the power of God, by the armor of righteousness on the right hand and on the left, by honor and dishonor, by evil report and good report; as deceivers, and yet true; as unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and behold we live; as chastened, and yet not killed; as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things.

Priest: Peace be with you reader.

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

Verse: It is good to give thanks unto the Lord, to sing praises to Thy Name, O Most-High!

Verse: To declare Thy mercy in the morning, and Thy truth by night!

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Happy Birthday: Sep. 16 Margaret Klish, 16 Mary Chebiniak, 16 Nancy Tarcha, 17 Paul Chebiniak, 18 John Lewkovich, 20 Emily Smorol.

Happy Anniversary: Sep. 16 Philip & Beth Harendza, 18 John & Josephina Baranyk, 20 John Sr. & Mary Mihalko, 21 Jeffrey & Caroline Hatala.

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Dear parishioners at an emergency if you can’t reach Father at the rectory, you can call him on his cell phone 245-9988.

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Please let Father know who is in need of visiting, prayers or receiving of sacraments. Visits can be any time.

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Dear parishioners this Thursday Mary and John Sr. Mihalko will celebrate their 60^th marriage Anniversary. May God bless them, and thank you Mary and John for all of your work for God’s glory and St. John’s Parish for so many years.

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Thank you all who attended yesterday’s trip to South Bound Brook, NJ. and participated in Divine Liturgy and blessing of the Seminary.

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Thank you all members of Social Club and all who prepared Party in the Park last Sunday, we all had a good time.

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Thank you all who worked at yesterday’s work session at the Memorial Center.

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Broome County Council of Churches Jail Ministry Needs: The Jail Ministry program is in need of clothes. Specific are for women’s sweat suits in large and extra sizes. The other major needs is men’s and women’s socks and underwear, all sizes. If you can help with this needs please see Father.

We would like the items by September 28.

*************************************************************** WHAT IS ORTHODOX CHRISTIANITY?

We believe that God has been revealed in Christ crucified, in the person who died a shameful death for us. The God we see in the incarnate Christ is the only God that exist. This is how we understand what it means to be God’s son, what kind of Father God is, who the Spirit is and why the Spirit was sent. This certainly upsets certain prevailing notions of power, and if this is the God who is also creator, sustainer of the universe, King of kings, Lord of lords, if this is the revelation of the Father’s love, then things are not as we thought they were or would like them to be. All of us love the control given to us by the idea we have of god and our relationship of God; we love to think that our kinship is one where we retain some hold, where we manage the degree of our commitment. But our being is completely contingent on the love of the God revealed in Christ crucified. We do not naturally participate in that life. It is offered to us as a gift by the One who wills us into being, moment by moment. The important thing for us is to understand that it is a gift, and the proper response to a gift is gratitude.

Of course the Christ we see on the cross would not be good news if that were cross end of it. But before moving too glibly to the resurrection, it is important to see that the cross really is the obvious and crushing truth of too many lives, and the truth finally of all lives. When Jesus says that we must take up our cross and follow Him, He does not suggest that we will not be crucified if we choose not to be. We will be crucified in any event. How will we respond to it? How will we see, straight on, the fact that all of us will suffer and die. We will see the suffering and death of people we love? God speaks of “taking up your cross” as if the assumption is that the cross will be there, whether we feel like taking it up or not. And not taking it up - given its inevitability - reminds of a terrifying line from Tolstoy: “After a stupid life there shall come a stupid death.” The cross is there. Most interesting philosophical thought has been a result of looking dimly, obliquely, at what the cross presents us with explicitly. The good suffer, as do the evil, as do we all. And still we say that God is good, the world is good, life is good. /Will be continued in next Sunday’s Bulletin/

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Sr. and Jr. UOL Membership Drive. Please join a great organization that is dedicated to our church and devoted to it's youth. Sr. UOL -$25.00 - to Bill Scannell. Jr. UOL - $5.00 - to Adam Hatala. It is the year of the 61st UOL convention - a great time to join and show our support and enthusiasm as a parish!! All dues are due by Sunday Sept 23^rd.

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Future Event. Please mark your calendars.

Today- Join your neighbors in the fight against Alzheimer’s disease at the annual Alzheimer’s Association’s Memory Walk. The event raises public awareness, and funds for local services for people with the decease, their families, and caregivers. Memory Walk will take place at Ostinningo Park in Binghamton, at 12:00 noon. For more info please call: /607/ 785-7852

Mon. Sep. 17 - 7:00 pm. Board meeting.

Tue. Sep. 18 - 5:00 pm. - 6:30 pm. Soup Kitchen at Sarah Jane Church. Philip Harendza, Pam, Bill, Patrick Scannell.

Tue. Sep. 18 - 7:00 pm. Ukrainian Day Meeting in the memorial center. All Chairpersons are requested to attend. Will review 2007 and plan 2008.

Sat. Sep. 22 - Annual Golf Tournament.

Sun. Sep. 23 - 12 noon - 7:00 pm. Carpatian Festival. St. Michaels’s Recreation Center, Clinton St. Take out sale Sat. Sep. 22, from 9:00 am -12 noon, 729-0261.

Sat. Sep. 29 -10th Annual Buddy Walk 12:00 to 4:30 PM at the Ross Park Zoo

Sun. Oct. 7- Pampered Chef party 12 noon at the Memorial Center. Proceeds to benefit our iconography project and the Sr. UOL. Please bring friends, relatives, neighbors, cooks at heart to enjoy a cooking show, try innovative tools, prepare recipes quickly, try tasty treats, relax and have fun!! Snacks, punch, beer and wine will be provided. Sign up in the hall and a prize for who brings the most guests. NEEDED: Any Sr. UOL member that can make an hors d'oeuvre to bring to the Pampered Chef party please call Pam Scannell at 754-1554. We would like to provide a variety of specialties for our guests. Thank you

Sun. Oct. 7 - The Broome County Right to Life Committee invites us to join the Life Chain which will take place on Sunday, October 7 from 2:30 -3:30 pm

at the corner of Harry L. Drive and Reynolds Road in Johnson City. We trust in God’s providence that these events will stir the hearts of Christians everywhere, as we gather as “one strong voice” from all over the Triple Cities. A Life Chain is a national, prayerful, peaceful witness to the sanctity of all human life. United together we will humbly proclaim that abortion hurts women and kills children. Join the Life Chain of Broome County.

Thu. Oct.18 - 7:00 pm. Sr. UOL Meeting.

Sat. Oct. 20 - 11:00 am - 5:00 pm. Broome County Ethnic Festival at Broome County Veterans Memorial Arena.

Sun. Oct. 21 - 11:30-2:00 pm. Sts. Peter and Paul Orthodox Church Ethnic Dinner. 210 Hill Ave. Endicott. Cost is $7.00 per Adult; and $3 for Children.

Sat. Nov. 17 - Solemn march to honor 10 million innocent victims of the Ukrainian Genocide of 1932-1933. Starting 11:45 am. 7^th Street, between 2^nd and 3^rd Avenues, New York City. 75^th anniversary of the Holodomor!

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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.

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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; 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, Jean Mulhollen, Robert Kocak, Audrey and Eugene Klym, Michael Hovancik, 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, Julie Sadowitz, Catherine Dobransky, Pelahia Kit, 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.

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JULY 30 - AUGUST 3, 2008. 61 ANNUAL UKRAINIAN ORTHODOX

LEAGUE CONVENTION AT ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST UKRAINIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH IN JOHNSON CITY, NY. “THE LIGHT OF CHRIST ILLUMINESS ALL” COME AND ENJOY SPIRITUAL AND COLTURAL ACTIVITIES.

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Children, youth and adults come and enjoy exercise with a game of basketball and the outside and after enjoy some pizza. Every Wednesday from 5-7pm near the Memorial Center with Jeff Hatala.

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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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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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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