Ñåðäå÷íî â³òàºìî íàøèõ ãîñòåé, ÿê³ ìîëèëèñü ñüîãîäí³ ç íàìè. Áóäåìî ðàä³ áà÷èòè Âàñ ó íàñòóïíó íåä³ëþ. Íåõàé Âàñ îáåð³ãຠÃîñïîäü.

Sun. Aug. 10 - 8:20 - 8:50 am. Hours/Confession. 9:00 am. Divine Liturgy. Apostle Prochorus. Memorial Litany in memory of Josephine Hatala, departed on Aug. 10, 1967 by request of her granddaughter Linda Kocich.

Mon. Aug. 11 - 1 Cor. 11:31-12:6. Matt. 18:1-11

Tue. Aug. 12 - 1 Cor. 12:12-26. Matt. 18:18-22, 19:1-2, 13-15.

Wed. Aug. 13 - 10:00 am. Panahida in memory of Mary Kostyun, departed on Aug. 13, 2006. 1 Cor. 13:14-14:15. Matt. 20:1-16. Fast Day.

Thu Aug 14-1 Cor 14:6-19 Matt 20:17-28 Beginning of the Dormition Fast

Fri. Aug. 15 - 1 Cor. 14:26-40. Matt. 21:12-14, 17-20. Fast Day.

Sat. Aug. 16 - Rom. 14:6-9. Matt. 15:32-39. Fast Day.

Sun. Aug. 17 - 8:20 - 8:50 am. Reading of the Hours. 9:00 am. Divine Liturgy. Holy Seven Youth of Ephesus. Coffee Hours. Fast Day.

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Priest. Let us be attentive. Pease be with you all.

Reader: And with your spirit. The Prokimen in tone 7. The Lord shall 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 first letter of Apostle Paul to the Corinthians. Priest: Let us be attentive.

Reader: Brothers, now I plead with you, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment. For it has been declared to me concerning you, my brethren, by those of Chloe’s household, that there are contentions among you. Now I say this, that each of you says, I am of Paul,” or “I am of Apollos,” or “I am of Cephas,” or “I am of Christ.” Is Christ divided? Was Paul crucified for you? Or were you baptized in the name of Paul? I thank God that I baptized none of you except Crispus and Gaius, lest anyone should say that I had baptized in my own name. Yes, I also baptized the household of Stephans. Besides, I do nor know whether I baptized any other. For Christ did not send me to baptize, but to preach the gospel, not with wisdom of words, lest the cross of Christ should be made of no effect. For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. For it is written: “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent.”

Priest: Peace be with you reader.

Reader: And with your spirit. Alleluia. Alleluia. Alleluia. 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: Aug. 11 Adrian Mihalko, 11 Kristi Lomonaco, 11 Wasyl Krawecki, 13 Shirley Buchma, 14 Olga Tylko, 16 Peter Sr. Hatala, 16 Bernice Armant.

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Friday, August 15, Father will serve Divine Liturgy at Holy Myrrhbearers Orthodox Monastery in Otego, NY. If some of you would like to go with Father please let him known. We will leave from the parish at 8:30 am.

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MARK YOUR CALENDAR - Sunday, September 14th will be

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The Ukrainian Independence Day Flag Raising will take place at Binghamton City Hall on Monday, August 25, 2008 at 10 AM. Because we were at City Hall in May for a longer program, the flag raising will be shorter than usual and will take place at the flag pole outside of City Hall.

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With this letter on behalf of our community I would like to invite you and your parishioners to share the joy of the celebration of our parish’s Feast - the Dormition of the Virgin Mary. Festive services will take place on Thursday, August 14^th at 7:00 pm. (Vespers and Litiya) and on Friday at 9:00 am. (Divine Liturgy). All of you are most cordially invited to participate in the fellowship that will follow the Festive Liturgy.

We surely are looking forward to your visit and common prayer to our Lord God and Savior Jesus Christ and His Most-Holy Mother.

In Christ God the Savior, Fr. Ilya Gotlinsky

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Ion Golgotha stood three crosses. On the middle one hung the Son of Man, with a malefactor on each side. Most people knew quite well that they were crucifying an innocent man in Jesus. What they did not know was that they were crucifying God. Only one person seemed to have known it with no shadow of doubt, and that was one of the despised thieves. His name is not recorded, but his last words are and have come down to us in Holy Scripture to be used in the Holy Liturgy. We repeat them as we go up individually to receive Holy Communion: “Lord, remember me when You come into Your kingdom.” (Luke 23:42)

In the whole terrible tragedy of the Crucifixion we may pass this incident by, ignoring the tremendous importance to us as an example of penitence and impenitence. We know nothing about either of the malefactors. We are only told how they died. Evidently neither was a follower of Christ. One was a bitter man who in his last hours had only harsh words for a fellow sufferer, siding with the merciless crowd. The other had a flash of comprehending light; he knew himself to be hanging next to the suffering God, the Lord of Life who accepted death for his sake. At that moment, he believed that Jesus Christ is God and entrusted himself to Him, acknowledged sinner that he was. He had not asked to enter the kingdom, only to be remembered. The Lord reassured him, “Verily I say to you, today you will be with Me in Paradise.” These words were never spoken to any other living soul. Thus, as St. John Chrysostom wrote, he sprang right off the cross into Paradise. It is never too late to repent. God grants us time, to our very last breath. Yet, for us Orthodox Christians, it can never be too early to repent, for we know not what tomorrow will bring.

St. Cyril of Jerusalem has a long passage in his catechetical Lectures:

“Concerning the robbers who were crucified with Him, it is written… Both of them were before this transgressors, but one was so much longer. For the one was a transgressor to the end, stubborn against salvation; who though his hands were fastened, smote with blasphemy by his tongue.. But the other rebuked the reviler, and it was to him the end of life and the beginning of restoration; the surrender of his soul, a first share in salvation. O Light Eternal, which gives light to them that are in darkness! Adam by the Tree fell away; thou by the Tree art brought into Paradise. The faithful Abraham had not yet entered, but the robber enters! Moses and the Prophets had not yet entered, and the robber enters though a breaker of the law. The robber has a will to work righteousness, but death prevents him; I wait not exclusively for the work, but faith also. I am come who feed My sheep among the lilies. I am come to feed them in the gardens.”

St. Cyril sees the robber as a fellow traveler with Christ in agony. Christ is always our fellow-traveler in our joy and in our pain. The Son of God suffered unto death not that we may be exempt from suffering but that our suffering might be like His.

The repented thief fully admitted that his crimes deserved punishment. How often are we ready to acknowledge our faults great or small without trying to justify them? To accept forgiveness is not easy because it implies the recognition of our faults.

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August 24, 1991 - Ukrainian Parliament proclaims Ukraine independence.

24 ñåðïíÿ, 1991 Âåðõîâíà ðàäà ïðèéíÿëà çàêîí ïðî íåçàëåæí³ñòü ñàìîñò³éíî¿ ñîáîðíî¿ óêðà¿íñüêî¿ äåðæàâè.

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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: Peter Dobrasky, Eleza Kourevelis, John and Shirly Buchma, Charles Stasko, Stephanie Sabath, Doris Okrepkie, Susan Cosner, Paul Chebiniak, John Glowa, John Tylko, Evelyn Kanazawich, Robert Kocak, Audrey Klym, Michael Hovancik, Kevin Terpak, Mildred Charnetsky, Mary and Walter Gulachok, Mary Gormish, Olga Gooley, Mary Ford, John Mihalko, Margaret Klish, Marlyn Klish, Cypryan Klish II, Sophia Malowicky, Genevieve Sadowitz, 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, to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit now and ever and unto ages of ages Amen.

***************************************************************Future Event. Please mark your calendars

Sun. Aug. 10 - 12 noon. to 6:00 pm. Czechoslovak Moravian Picnic, at the Lutheran Fellowship Center on Airport Rd. For more info. please call 797-3351

Sat. Aug. 16 and Sun. Aug. 17 - Garlic Festival at American Civic Association on Front St. 11:00 am. - 5:00 pm. Lots of vendors.

Sat. Aug. 16 - St. Mary’s of Assumption Italian Parish Bazaar on Court St.

6:00 pm. - 11:00 pm. and Sun. Aug. 17 from 2:00 pm. - 7:00 pm.

Sat. Aug. 30 and Sun. Aug. 31 - J.C. Field Days at Northside Park - Harry L. Drive COOL 100 coverage 11:00 am.

Sun. Aug. 31 - 3:30 pm. Sacrament of Baptism for the children of God Thomas Lomonaco and Maxwell Hatala.

Sun. Oct. 26 - 26^th Annual Walk for Hunger Binghamton University.

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Our dear brothers and sisters, it is with gratitude to Almighty God for all things and with abundant joy that we invite you to celebrate with us the inauguration of our 100^th Anniversary in the life of our Parish Family on Saturday, 11 October 2008.

The events for the day will begin with the greeting of Metropolitan Constantine and Archbishop Antony at 9:00am followed by the Archpastoral Divine Liturgy celebrated by the Hierarchs and brothers clergy. The Inaugural Banquet will follow at 2:00pm at the Holiday Inn Conference Center in Fogelsville, PA. Individual tickets for the banquet will be $37.50 per person. Reservations are needed to be made by Sunday 14 September 2008 and payment must accompany the reservation. Please make your reservation by sending your request to: Vera Muzychka 2316 Riverbend Circle, Allentown, PA. 18103

We pray that you will find it possible to participate with us as we begin to celebrate 100 years in the life of our parish. If you have any question please feel free to contact Walter Milinichik, anniversary chairman /610/ 434-0824 or /610/ 657- 4839; or Vera Muzychka, banquet chairman /610/ 967-3757

Praying to see you all soon, I remain, for the 100^th Anniversary Committee, your servant in Christ Father Myron Oryhon, parish priest.

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

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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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