SS PETER & PAUL RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CATHEDRAL BULLETIN
Sunday, March 7, 2010
*Adoration of the Holy Cross*
Heb. 4:14-5-6*Mark 8:34-9-1
WEEKLY SCHEDULE OF SERVICES
Wednesday March 10th Presanctified Liturgy at St. Johns 7:00 PM Akathist |
Saturday, March 13th 9:00 am - Soul Saturday - Panikhida Saturday, March 13th 5:00 PM - Great Vespers |
FOR THE BLESSED REPOSE OF THE SERVANTS OF GOD:
Patriarch Sergei, Patriarch Alexei I, Patriarch Pimen, Patriarch Alexei II, Priest Elias Klopotovsky, Priest Joseph Stephanko, Priest Michael Sotak, Mitered Archpriest Joseph A. Havriliak, Mitered Archpriest Dennis M. Havriliak, Archpriest John Havriliak, Archpriest Eugene Carroll, Archpriest Gregory Onisko, Psalmist Demetro Havriliak Sr., Psalmist Joseph Hruse, Anna Ritchie, Michael, Mary & Michael Allen Kerpcsar, Doris Kudlacik.
N.D. Mary Sutiak by Fr. Stephen & Mat. Valerie, James Ridgell (40th day), Nicholas Mirowsky by Arlene Clavin, Anna Orlovsky by loving children, Olga Cebula by loving son Robert, Jopseh Kandravy (B'Day) by loving family, Janet Pedhoretsky by Rebecca Gleba, Julia Hlipala (B'Day) by loving daughter Audrey Brady & Family, Julia (Anniv.) & Michael Hutnick by granddaughter Rebecca Gleba, Andrew & Susie Cocula by loving daughter Marge Kupec & family, Frank Shaffer by daughter & son-in-law Dorthoty & Michael Gajdos.
THE FLOWERS THAT ADORNED THE HOLY CROSS TODAY ARE GIVEN IN MEMORY OF JACK RODENBAUGH BY LOVING WIFE HELEN.
Commemorations for next Sunday, March 14th: Michael Kandravy, Nicholas Mirowsky, Olga Cebula, James ERidgell, Elizabeth & Leo Gleba.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
The Annual Parish Meeting will be today at 11:30 AM in the Center Lounge. the meeting was rescheduled from last Sunday due to the lack of a quorum.
Presanctified Liturgy will be served this Wednesday at 6:30 PM at St. John the Baptist Russian Orthodox Church on Lexington Ave in Passaic. Fr. Sophrony Royer has invited all our parishioners to attend. A Lenten meal will follow.
Very Rev. Hieromonk Michael (Dahulick) will be the guest speak at a Lenten lecture hosted by our own FOCA Chapter 30 on Friday, March 19th at 7 PM in the Center Lounge. Fr. Michael is the Bishop-Elect of the OCA Diocese of NY and NJ and has served for many years as the Dean of st. Tikhon's Seminary.
Orthodox author and speaker Frederica Mathewes-Green will hold a lecture and book signing on Friday, March 12th at 7:30 pm at St. Anthony Orthodox Church, 385 Ivy Lane in Bergenfield. The topic will be "The Lost Gospel of Mary." A second lecture is scheduled for Saturday, March 13th from 11 am to 3 pm on the topic of the jesus prayer. For information and reservations, please call 201-568-8840 and press "7"
A Pysanky Workshop will be held on Saturday, March 27th at 2 PM at the Museum of Early Trades & Crafts located at 9 Main St. in Madison, NJ. Participants will get hands-on experience in the ancient art of Easter egg decorating. The workshop is open to everyone age 6 and up. The cost is $15 and pre-registration is required. Please call 973-377-2982, extension 14, before March 20th for reservations or more information.
Gift Cards for Shop-Rite, Pathmark and A&P/Food Basics are available for purchase after Divine Liturgy on Sundays or at the church office during the week. For every $1000 of gift cards we sell, the church makes $50. Use them yourself or give them as gifts; it’s a great fundraiser for the church.
COFFEE HOUR: 2/28/10 : $92.00
Donations:
The Annual Richard J Miskiv Memorial Beefstead Dinner will be held in our Cultural Cener on Saturday, May 1st at 5:30 PM Proceeds of the dinner go towards scholarships at both Garfield High School and to members of the New Jersey District FOCA. The price for adults is $40.00 and children under 16 are $20.00. This year there will be a guest appearance and performance by "Elvis." Please see Ken Baron, Sue Burek, Mike Kupec or Marianne LeJava for tickets and additional information.
PRAYER LIST
Please Remember These Names In Your Daily Prayers
The Sick and the Suffering
Matthew Kaznica, Mary Sutiak, Douglas Rachko, Michael Lissy, Helen Vasilenko, John Feyo, Mary Kardash, Mary Chanda, Mary Franko, Peter Popowich, Helen Pitlivka, Olga Smagula, Jean Banas, James Ridgell, Helen Ridgell, Anna Hoydicz, Mary Ann De Sante, Julia Van Ess, Margaret Soroka, Linda Taylor, Jeffrey Taylor, George Brozina, Barbara Brozina, Ann Kattwinkel, Helen Pasternack, Helen Jeseseke, Anna Deeda, Olga Boychik, Frances Madeo, Richard Ochab, Ida Mossinac, Peter Glita, Stephen Buynie, Doris Tompkinson, Nancy LaGreca, Kathleen Bobcock, Dara Boltuskonis, Frank Brincka, Tony Roskowsky, Dorothea Rohatsch, Alice Bacik, Holly Marie Pawloski, Kenny Burmeister, Margaret Klimek, John Krisko, Beatrice Warchol, Emil Tulenko, Charles Fedorko, Joseph Pannia, Frank Bizub, William Cuthbert, Fred Gmyrek, Andy Stangas, Kathleen Stangas, Joseph Randazzo, Julia Ann La Greca, Anna Glogiewicz, Louis DeLucca, Uleises Fierro, Melissa Pomales w/child.
The King of Kings
Together with the Holy Scriptures we proclaim that our Lord Jesus Christ is King, Prophet and High Priest of all Creation. And the Lord has told us that in the Christian Church and in the Kingdom, a King is not one who overpowers others to exact from them unconditional and slavish obedience, but He is the one who serves and gives His life for others. St. John Chrysostom teaches us that anyone can rule, but that no one but a king gives his life for his people, because he so identifies with his people that he has no existence, no life, no purpose but to serve them with all his life and if necessary with his death.
When we keep the Feast of the Cross we can realize with new strength, perceive with new depth what the Kingship of our Lord Jesus Christ means. It means a love for us so complete, so total that He can forget Himself ultimately, without any reservation, forget Himself to the point of existing, of living and of dying for us and together with us; forgetting Himself to such an extent, and identifying Himself with us in such a way that in His humanity He accepts the loss of the perception of His oneness with God, with the source of life eternal - indeed, with life eternal within Himself, and become one with our deadness, with our mortality. This is the love that makes our Lord Jesus Christ our worthy King; this is a Kingship which makes every knee to bow before Him.
And it is because He is such that He can also be the High Priest of all Creation. The high priests of the pagan world as well as the High Priests of Israel brought forth as a sacrifice victims with which they identified only metaphorically, symbolically, ritually. The Lord Jesus Christ brought as a victim His own Self, although there was nothing in Him that condemned Him to the death He has taken upon Himself. Doesn't He say in His High-priestly prayer, talking to His disciples that the adversary is coming near, but there is nothing in Him - in Christ - that belongs to him. There is nothing in Christ which belongs in the realm of death and of sin. And to His Father He says: I sanctify Myself for them, I bring Myself as a holy offering for My people. The High Priest who brings Himself frees thereby all other creatures from the horror of blood-offering, but confronts us with an immensity, a depth of love divine which otherwise we could not even fathom: life accepting to be quenched, light accepting to go out, eternity accepting to die the mortality of a fallen world.
And that is why the Word of God can speak to us as a Prophet. A prophet is not one who foretells the future; a prophet is one who speaks for God. One of the prophets of old says that a prophet is one with whom God shares His thoughts. Christ, the Word of God, Christ, the perfect image of Love divine, Christ who not only speaks for God, but who acts, enacts in His life and in His death the Love of God, sacrificial, total, perfect, given.
And this is why the Feast of the Cross is such a wonder in the experience of the Church. We will never be able to experience what it meant for Him to die upon the Cross, even our own death cannot disclose to us what His death was: how can Immortality die? But what we can learn, what we can discover by communing ever more deeply, ever more perfectly through a daring, wholehearted endeavor with the life, and the teaching, and the ways of Christ - what we can learn is to love in a way that approximates more and more to that love divine, and discover in this love the quality which unites death as forgetfulness of self, ultimate and perfect, with the victory of love, Resurrection and eternal life.
+Met. Anthony of Sourozh
