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Українська Католицька Церква Св. Миколая

Pastor: Rev. Andriy Dudkevych

Pastoral Care:

In emergencies, please call Fr. Andriy directly - mobile 267-269-4990 if you, a family

member, or someone you know who cannot attend church, is homebound,

hospitalized, or gravely ill and will need the Eucharist or Anointing of the Sick.

DO NOT WAIT TO THE LAST MINUTE.

Church Mailing Address:

60 Holdsworth Ct. Passaic, NJ 07055

Phone: 973-471- 9727 FAX: 973-473- 7197

www. stnicholasucc.org email: stnicholasucc@gmail.com

Pyrohy: 973-778-9734

Parish School: Sr. Eliane, SSMI - Principal

Phone: 973-779-0249 Convent: 973-778-0208

Cantors :

Anatoli Dolyk - Ukrainian Jerome Mykietyn - English

St. Nicholas Ukrainian Catholic School News Phone: 973-779-0249 * Fax: 973-779-6309

E-mail: snucs.news@gmail.com Web: www.stnicholaschool.com

CВЯТІ ЛІТУРГІЇ: Неділя: 8:30 р., [АНГЛ].

10:30 р.,[УКР] На будні: 7:00 р.,

Субота: 8:00 р., і 5:00 пп.

Свята:9:00 р., і 6:00 пп.

СПОВІДЬ: Перед Св. Літургіями - в Суботу вечером.

Неділі - Святочні дні. CONFESSIONS:

Before Liturgies - Saturday evening. Sundays & Holy Days.

DIVINE LITURGIES: Sunday: 8:30 am, [ENG]

10:30 am, [UKR] Weekday: 7:00 am,

Saturday: 8:00 am, & 5:00 pm.

Holy Days: 9:00 am, & 6:00 pm.

ЗАПРОШУЄМО НА КАВУ

A gentle reminder that our Parish expenses will continue during this

difficult time. Kindly mail your weekly contribution to the St. Nicholas parish

office at 60 Holdsworth Court, Passaic, NJ 07055.

A great big thank you to Nova UA Federal Credit Union for obtaining

Covid-19 relief money from the government.

The PTA was awarded $10,000 which will be used this upcoming school year.

We are grateful for their continued

support especially in these difficult times and are very proud members of

the Nova Federal Credit Union.

Dear Parents, Guardians, and Parishioners,

The Parent Teacher Association of St. Nicho-las Ukrainian Catholic School would like to thank everyone for their continued support of the church and school. As you recall, prior to the Covid-19 lockdown, we were selling 50/50 Cash Raffle tickets. Unfortunately, due to the lockdown, our sales were halted. How-ever, abiding with the Legalized Games of Chance Control Committee, we would like to inform you that the 50/50 Cash Raffle draw-ing scheduled for Saturday, June 6, 2020 has been postponed to Saturday, June 5, 2021. Those of you who have purchased tickets are already placed in the June 5, 2021 drawing and there have been no changes to your chances to win. You don't need to do anything other than hold on to your little pink ticket and wait for the new drawing date. In addition, we will resume selling our 50/50 Cash Raffle tickets in the upcoming weeks. Please look out for infor-mation which suggests how to purchase our tickets. In the event that another lockdown is mandated, we will be in communication via our church and school social media and weekly bulletin. If you have questions or con-cerns, please email us at the email address listed at the head of our letter. Once again, thank you for your support and may God bless you and your families. Thank you, PTA Board 2019-2020

PRAYER FOR OUR NATION God Our Father, Giver of life, we entrust the United States of America to Your loving care. You are the

rock on which this nation was founded. You alone are the true source of our cherished rights to life, liber-ty and the pursuit of happiness. Reclaim this land for Your glory and dwell among Your people. Send

Your Spirit to touch the hearts of our nation's leaders. Open their minds to the great worth of human life and the responsibilities that accompany human freedom. Remind Your people that true happiness is rooted in seeking and doing Your will. Through the intercession of Mary Immaculate, Patroness of our

land, grant us the courage to reject the "culture of death." Lead us into a new millennium of life - a pe-riod of good government, great happiness, prosperity and PEACE...

We ask this through Christ Our Lord. AMEN

Announcement: A reminder to all parishioners. The Pyrohy Ladies continue to collect gently worn clean clothing - men's, children's, as well as towels, sheets, blankets, quilts etc. As you are doing your Spring / Summer cleaning of your closets and drawers, consider donating for their project that benefits the Parish. Your donation is greatly appreciated. Thank You ! Any ques-tions, please phone Oksana Hrubec at 201-587-1343. Also, with the terrible news of the floods that have ravaged Western Ukraine - regions of Ivano-Frankivsk, Chernivtsi, Zakarpattya, and Lviv, we are looking to gather up clothing for shipment to CARITAS in Ivano Frankivsk for distribution to those who lost their homes and belongings. For further information on this project, kindly contact Fr. Andriy. If you have these items that you intend to discard, be sure to remember these projects and bring your cloth-ing items in black plastic bags to the parish and leave them at the back door of the school auditorium at 212 President St. Remember not to bring books, shoes or belts.

Sunday - July 12th - 6th Sunday after Pentecost - 6-тa Неділя після Зіслання Св. Духа

8:30 am God's Blessings for Daniel Bukalo Parents God's Blessings for Peter & Jody Zielonka & Family God's Blessings for Emily & Olivia Ulczak Grandparents 10:30 am God's Blessings for our Parishioner

Monday - July 13th - No services

Tuesday - July 14th No services

Wednesday - July 15th 7:30 am +Jaroslaw Fedun Filewicz Family

Thursday - July 16th 7:30 am +Mary Bilogan (with Panakhyda) Walter & Karen Galanowsky +Eva Macko (with Panakhyda) Family

Friday - July 17th 7:30 am +Emilia Ilnitska (with Panakhyda) Fr. Andriy & Family

Saturday - July 18th 8:00 am +Pavlo Djatschenko (with Panakhyda) Family 5:00 pm +Ostapiak Family (with Panakhyda) Walter Ostapiak +Andrew Yacykewych (with Panakhyda) Marta Swaryczewsky

Sunday - July 19th - 7th Sunday after Pentecost - 7-тa Неділя після Зіслання Св. Духа

8:30 am +Slawka Skala (with Panakhyda) Steve & Tosia Oliver +Olga Kuruk (with Panakhyda) Family 10:30 am God's Blessings for our Parishioner

Sunday - July 12th - 6th Sunday after Pentecost - 6-тa Неділя після Зіслання Св. Духа

SIXTH SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST Epistle - Romans 12: 6-14; ~ Gospel - Matthew 9: 1-8

Our Lord says “be of good cheer; your sins are forgiven you” (Matthew 9:2) in today’s Gospel.

The ministry of Christ in the world is the reconciliation of God and man. Every sermon, every trip, every miracle, every chastise-ment, they all have the goal of showing the audience the way back to God. In our Church, this can’t be stressed enough. The Christian life doesn’t get its purpose from our being good, or following laws. The Christian life is also not a selfish life focused on our earthly or even heavenly satisfaction. The ministry of Christ was to reconcile God and man. Everything in the Christian life is revealed to us to heal the rift that sin has caused between every human being and their Creator. This is the purpose of the Christian life. We are created to live with God; this includes following His will and partaking in His blessings…as effects of the primary goal—my life with God.

This is why many of the Church Fathers use the image of a hospital for the Church, Christ as the good physician, the sacra-ments and the ascetic life as medicine for our healing. Obviously, it’s not an exactly parallel image, but what this image reveals to us goes right to the heart of our lives as Christians. Christ was incarnate of the Holy Spirit and the Virgin Mary to bridge the gap between God and man, to bring healing to the broken situation of humanity. This is our focus—what must I do so that the work of Christ will not be for nothing? Or in more worldly language, as the rich man asked Christ—what must I do to be saved?

We were created to submit our will to His in order to have this harmony with Him. As we live our lives in conflict with God, others and the image and likeness of God within us our souls become sick. The soul becomes sick because it is cut off from its Crea-tor that nourishes it with the fruit of the tree of life. This lack of nourishment of the soul weakens the soul. In the worse cases it can no longer respond to God; it becomes paralyzed much like the man in today’s gospel.

When the soul is sick it is often accompanied by physical illness. We see this often in the Gospels with the healings of the blind, the epileptics, the deaf and dumb, and paralytics. In each of these healings we hear our Lord Jesus Christ say before the heal-ing, as we heard in today’s Gospel, “your sins are forgiven you.” Thus, before there can be any physical healing there must be a spiritual healing. In order to receive this spiritual healing the one that suffers must first come to believe in God and trust in Him. We see this need for belief in the healing of the epileptic child when the father says “Lord, I believe; help my unbe-lief.” (Mark 9:24)

We also see very vividly this morning the focus of the ministry of Christ—“your sins are forgiven” (Matthew 9: 2) He tells the man. Later comes bodily healing, but whether the man can walk or not has no bearing on his relationship with God. The state of his soul determines his relationship with God—his sins are forgiven, and in that moment he’s reconciled with God. The work that Christ has come to do is done. The other miracle, the healing of the man’s physical infirmity, St. John Chrysostom tell us this is done to witness to the scribes present the fact that Christ was the Messiah.

Physical suffering is part of life on this earth, and as Christians we know that this suffering is evil, but we also know that it’s tem-porary, and ultimately it’s not our focus in the Christian life. These “Christians” that preach health and wealth are entirely off the mark; Christ never promises physical health, but total spiritual healing—which does bring “earthly happiness” in the sense that we’re fulfilling the purpose for our creation when we’re in a proper relationship with Christ. The Fathers of the Church teach that

spiritual health is our attainable goal in this world, and physical health is a gift of the next. This walk with Christ, this heal-ing offered to us by the Great Physician, is a source of unending joy. “Be of good cheer,” Christ tells the paralytic this morning (Matthew 9: 2). The peace that passes all understanding, true and lasting joy, comes to us only when we’re in a right relationship with Christ; only when we’re entirely given to the work of God in our lives. Any other state we find ourselves in will be hell, because man finds his only fulfillment in Christ. As Bishop Kallistos (Ware) is so fa-mous for saying (perhaps repeating), God became man not only so that man could become god, but firstly, so that man could become truly man. (Excerpts from Homilies of Fr. Matthew Jackson; Fr. Milan Medakovic at Holy Trinity Serbian Orthodox Church)

CATECHISM - CHRIST OUR PASCHA - TODAY’S GOSPEL LESSON : SUFFERING: Page 66, Section 181; Page 77, Section 211-214; Page 153, Section 447-448; Page 157, Section 462-463 HEALING: Page 158, Section 466-469

“The Vibrant Parish - A Place to Encounter the Living Christ” “Жива Парафія - Місце зустрічі Живого Христа ”

2020

ROSARY PRAYER GROUP

Invites everyone to join us in the recitation of the ro-sary every Sunday, imme-diately after the 8:30 AM

Divine Liturgy. Let us ask the Mother of God to

intercede for us before Her Son, Our Lord Jesus Christ. The Parish family

that prays together, stays together.

МОЛИТОВНА ГРУПА запрошує всіх молитися на вервиці кожної неділі

після першої Служби Божої. Просімо у молитві

Матір Божу, щоб заступалася за нас

перед Ісусом Христом. Парафіяльна родина, коли молиться разом стоїть завжди разом.

П Р О Ч И Т А Й Т Е !!! Коли ти помираєш, і це гарантовано з дня твого народження на 100%!!! Тож коли ти помираєш --- не хвилюйся про своє тіло ... Твої родичі зроблять все, що потрібно відповідно до їх можливостей. Вони знімуть твій одяг, вони тебе помиють, вони одягнуть тебе, вони відвезуть теб з дому і завезуть на твою нову адресу. Багато хто прийде на твій похорон, щоб попрощатися із тобою. Деякі скасують заручини і навіть звільняться з роботи, щоб прийти на цвинтар і побачити, як твоя труна повільно опускається. Ваші речі, навіть те, що ви не любили позичати, будуть продаватися, роздаватися або спалюватися: Ваші ключі. Ваші інструменти. Ваші книги. Ваші записи. Ваше взуття. Ваш одяг ... І будь впевнений, що світ не зупиниться і небуде плакати за тобою. Економіка продовжить свій рух, Земля буде продовжувати обертатися навколо своєї осі. Хтось замінить тебе на твоїй роботі. Хтось із більшими здібностями займе твоє місце. Твоє майно перейде твоїм спадкоємцям…. Люди, які тебе знали лише скажуть: Бідний хлопець! Або: «шкода хлопця, він ще міг бути живим! » Твої друзі будуть плакати кілька годин або кілька днів... Але тоді вони будуть сміятися, живучи власним життям. Твої домашні тварини звикнуть до нового господаря. Твої фотографії будуть висіти на стіні деякий час або все ще будуть знаходитися на деяких меблях, але тоді вони будуть сховані. Хтось сяде на твій диван і будете їсти за твоїм столом. Глибокий біль у твоєму домі триватиме тиждень, два, місяць, рік ... Тоді ти станеш пам’яттю і тоді твоя історія закінчиться. Закінчився серед людей, закінчився в цьому світі. Тоді ти розпочнеш свою історію з нової реальності ... у новому, другому житті після смерті. Втратиться значення: Тіло - Зовнішній вигляд – Прізвище – Комфорт – Гроші – Кредити – Майно – Карєра - Банківські рахунки -Будинки – Автомобілі – Бізнес – Дипломи – Медалі - Нагороди - Подорожі ... У твоєму новому житті тобі потрібна буде лише одна Любов, яку ти зібрав в своєму серці до людей і до Бога. Це буде єдине щастя, на яке ти можете розраховувати. Ось чому намагайся жити і бути щасливим там, де ти є, бо, як сказав ... Св. Франциск Ассізький; «Ти не візьмеш нічого, що маєш тут. Ти візьмете лише те, що ти віддав »... Тож поки: Ти живеш, поширюй - Любов, Любов, Любов. Завжди шукай Бога, і живи з Богом і для Бога. Зроби Бога своїм - Планом, Дорогою і Ціллю! Живи так, ніби це твій останній день ...... Бо, може, так і є !!!

In Thanksgiving for the graces that we have received during this difficult time, let us be grateful and share with other less fortunate. As our Church has opened for public services, as we come to worship together, let us remember those less fortunate. We are resuming our “FOOD DRIVE” and ask that as you come to Liturgy, you bring at least one non-perishable food item for the local Food Pantry. Thank you and God Bless each of you.