MARY OF EGYPT
April 6, 2025
Saturday, April 5 5th SUNDAY OF LENT
4:00 PM Paul Joseph Stonikinis- Rebecca Micca
Sunday, April 6 5th SUNDAY OF LENT
8:30 AM God’s Blessings & Good Health for All Parishioners
Friday, April 11 LITURGY OF THE PRESANCTIFIED GIFTS
5:00 PM
Saturday, April 12 PALM SUNDAY (w/ Myrovania)
4:00 PM God’s Blessings & Good Health for All Parishioners
Sunday, April 13 PALM SUNDAY (w/Myrovania)
8:30 AM Christine & Mary Ann Youells – Youells Family
✠☼✠☼✠☼✠☼✠☼✠☼✠
Transfiguration of Our Lord Church
Saturday Liturgy is 6:00 PM
Sunday Liturgy is 10:30 AM
LITURGY OF THE PRESANCTIFIED GIFTS Wednesday at 6:30PM
Sorokousty is 8:00AM, Saturday, June 7th
Please come and pray for YOUR family.
SS. Peter and Paul Church-2025 A.D.
20 Nottingham Street, Plymouth, PA
Holy Tuesday, April 15
5:00 PM The Presanctified Liturgy. Confessions Before/After
Holy Thursday, April 17
3:00PM Matins of the Holy and Saving Passion of our Lord
Good Friday, April 18
1:00PM Vespers with the Placement of the Holy Shroud
Holy Saturday, March 19
2:30 Blessing of Food
4:00 PM Service at the Grave, Vespers, Divine Liturgy of Saint Basil the Great Blessing of Artos, Myrovania
PASCHA, Sunday, April 20
11:00AM Divine Liturgy, Blessing of Artos, Myrovania
Bright Monday, April, 21
8:30AM Divine Liturgy, Myrovania
Transfiguration of Our Lord Church – 2025 A. D.
240 Center St, Nanticoke, PA
Holy Monday, April 14
6:30 PM The Presanctified Liturgy. Confessions Before/After
Holy Wednesday, April 16
5:00 PM The Presanctified Liturgy with General Anointing
Holy Thursday, April 17
6:30 PM Matins of the Holy and Saving Passion of our Lord
Good Friday, April 18
5:30 PM Vespers with Placement of the Holy Shroud
Holy Saturday, April 19
1:00 Blessing of Food
PASCHA, Sunday, April 20
7:30AM Service at the Grave, Resurrection Matins,
8:30 AM Divine Liturgy (approximate time)
Blessing of Artos, Myrovania
Bright Monday, April 21
10:30 AM Divine Liturgy, Myrovania
THE FIVE SATURDAYS OF THE DECEASED (SOROKUSTY): The Church Typikon designates the five Sorokousty/ Saturdays of the Deceased for 2025. It is a tradition of our Holy Church to commemorate the memories of our beloved deceased at Matins of the Deceased (Parastas) on these five Saturdays of the year. The last Sorokousty is 8:00am on Saturday, June 7th at Transfiguration of Our Lord Church.
THANK YOU: Thank you to everyone who helped out and attended the theology and egg decorating class last week at Transfiguration of Our Lord Church.
ASK FATHER A QUESTION…….Father, why is Lazarus Saturday (Saturday before Palm Sunday) important? Is it just another miracle of Jesus Christ? Lazarus being raised from the dead is a pre-hinge (think I am the Door.) to the hinge of Holy Saturday that ALL of Salvation History pivots. Jesus comes for the lost so that we could return to the Garden of Eden which God created for us in the beginning, for God did not intend that we should die. We did this to ourselves by sin. So when Jesus says, this bad circumstance that Lazarus is going through – and Martha and Mary, the friends of Jesus-this is being done so that the glory of God will be shown to all men, including the Pharisees and the Sadducees. Even Mary and Martha who are very close to Jesus, and they understand His teaching, they still don’t fully grasp that God, Jesus, can do anything! So those people who started to grasp Jesus is God, and the Messiah, begin to truly believe and follow Him and live a life of Holiness. On the other hand, the priests in the temple, the Pharisees and Sadducees, who prefer their humanistic re-interpretation of God’s Law and did not like being corrected by Jesus, sought to put Him to death so that they would no longer have to deal with Him. (They did not believe Jesus was God. He blasphemes because He makes Himself God.) They claim to be experts on the Scriptures, but they deny the Scriptures. This Gospel Chapter is not read in it’s entirety at Liturgy on Lazarus Saturday, because the message of the Gospel Reading is the Glory of God, not the plotting of the enemies of Jesus. Lazarus Saturday is the Saturday before Palm Sunday, because Jesus raises Lazarus shortly before entering Jerusalem (Palm Sunday) on Holy Week, revealing to the whole world whom He truly is.
BOOK(S) OF THE MONTH FOR APRIL:
The Lives of the Desert Fathers
Norman Russell/Benedicta Ward ISBN: 978-0879079345
The Screwtape Letters
C.S. Lewis ISBN: 979-8343951851
5th Sunday of Lent
MARY OF EGYPT
April 6, 2025 A. D.
Glory to Jesus Christ! —- Glory Forever!
Slava Isusu Khrystu! —- Slava Na Viky!
Prayer For Peace in Ukraine
Heavenly Father, Your Son taught us “Blessed are the peacemakers for they shall be called the sons of God.” We fervently pray in the name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit, that you inspire men to become peacemakers. May mankind seek reconciliation and peace as is Your Will in this world. May tranquility be restored to all nations and especially Ukraine. God, Our Father, we beseech You to comfort the suffering, heal the wounded, and accept the souls of the dearly departed into Your heavenly kingdom. May the Most Holy Mother of God extend Her Mantle of Protection over Ukraine and the whole world. May each of us always live our lives as instruments of Your peace, in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. Amen.
The Sanctuary Light for this week was requested by Michaelene Ostrum IMO her father Michael Sirak.
SANCTUARY LIGHT: The sanctuary light sign-up sheets are located on the table in the vestibule. A $15 donation enables the light to burn for your intention throughout the week. Many weeks are still available.
CONFESSION: Let us prepare our souls by making a good Confession and receiving Communion. Holy Confession will be held before Divine Liturgy or after Divine Liturgy, if necessary. Confessions will be held before the Pre-Sanctified Liturgy and by appointment. Reminder, the Church decrees that you make at least one good confession a year before Easter. Reminder this is no confessions after Holy Wednesday.
ANOINTING OF THE SICK ON HOLY WEDNESDAY: The General Anointing of the Sick is done for all baptized Christians present at the Liturgy of Presanctified Gifts on Holy Wednesday. If there are two blessings, the first blessings is done at the end of The Litany of Peace and the second is after the Litany of Supplication. If more than one priest is present the people should be anointed by each of the priests present, up to seven priests in total. The Prayer of Anointing is said first for all present, then each is anointed on the forehead, cheeks and palm of the hands with the formula, “The servant of God is anointed for the healing of soul and body, for the forgiveness of sins and life everlasting.” This is the one time each year that this Mystery (Sacrament) is provided to all the faithful in attendance and forgives all sins so that even one who has not “gone to confession” is now freed from sin and if the person remains free from sin, is free to receive of the Eucharist, the Holy Body and Blood of Christ.
WOMEN’S SOCIETY: The Women’s Society will hold their monthly meeting on Tuesday, April 8th at 6PM in the church hall. New members are always welcomed.
SS Peter & Paul Ukrainian Catholic Church 