June 29, 2025 A. D.
Saturday, June 28 FEAST OF SAINTS PETER & PAUL – PRIME APOSTLES
THIRD SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST (Myrovania)
4:00 PM Mary Ann Kachinko- John & Theresa Ivan
Sunday, June 29 FEAST OF SAINTS PETER & PAUL – PRIME APOSTLES
THIRD SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST (Myrovania)
8:30 AM God’s Blessings & Good Health for Andrea Phillips
-Becker Family
Friday, July 4 Independence Day- No Liturgy
Saturday, July 5 FOURTH SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST
4:00 PM Donald Magill- wife, Anna Magill
Sunday, July 6 FOURTH SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST
8:30 AM God’s Blessings & Good Health for All Parishioners
Liturgy On Friday, July 4 at Transfiguration of Our Lord Church at 8:00 AM
Transfiguration of Our Lord Church
Saturday Liturgy is 6:00 PM
Sunday Liturgy is 10:30 AM
Pray simply. Do not expect to find in your heart any remarkable gift of prayer. Consider yourself unworthy of it. Then you will find peace. Use the empty, cold dryness of your prayer as food for your humility. Repeat constantly: I am not worthy, Lord, I am not worthy! But say it calmly, without agitation. This humble prayer will be acceptable to God. When practicing the Jesus prayer, remember that the most important thing of all is humility; then the ability-not the decision only-always to maintain a keen sense of responsibility towards God, towards one’s spiritual director, men, and even things. Remember, too, that Isaac the Syrian warns us that God’s wrath visits all who refuse the bitter cross of agony, the cross of active suffering, and who, striving after visions and special graces of prayer, waywardly seek to appropriate the glories of the Cross. He also says, “God’s grace comes of itself, suddenly, without seeing it approach. It comes when the place is clean.” Therefore, carefully, diligently, constantly clean the place; sweep it with the broom of humility. St. Makarii of Optino
Change your entire point of view! Life is not a mockery. Disappointments are merely markers on the road of life, saying: “Perfect Happiness is not here.” Every disillusionment, every blasted earthly hope, every frustrated carnal desire, points to God. You can come to God not only by being good, but, if only knew it, by a succession of disgusts. The very sense of loss you feel in this world is in itself a proof that once you were possessed, and possessed by God. Though your passions may have been satisfied, you were never satisfied, because while your passions can find satisfaction in this world, you cannot. If at the present time your vices have left you, do not think you have left your vices.- Venerable Archbishop Fulton Sheen, Remade for Happiness pp.12-13
PRAYER TO THE MOTHER OF GOD
Mother of Perpetual Help, you have been blessed and favored by God. you became not only the Mother of the Redeemer, but Mother of the redeemed as well. We come to you today as your loving children. Watch over us and take care of us. As you held the child Jesus in your loving arms, so take us in your arms. Be a mother ready at every moment to help us. For God who is mighty has done great things for you, and God’s mercy is from age to age on those who love God. Intercede for us, dear Mother, in obtaining pardon for our sins, love for Jesus, final perseverance, and the grace always to call upon you, Mother of Perpetual Help.
Always have the fear of God before your eyes (Ps 36:2) and avoid all thoughtlessness so that you are constantly mindful of everything God has commanded. You can’t have self-esteem without self-respect. And because you are made in the image and likeness of God (Gen 1:27), that means that you begin by respecting God. Now the Bible talks about respecting God, the term it uses is theosebeia- literally, “God-fearing.” – Humility Rules:St, Benedicts guide to Genuine Self-Esteem
HISTORY OF THE CHURCH BY EUSEBIUS
Penguin, Available on Amazon
The only surviving historical record of the Church during its crucial first 300 years.
Bishop Eusebius, a learned scholar who lived most of his life in Caesarea in Palestine, broke new ground in writing the history of Christianity and provided a model for all later ecclesiastical historians. In tracing the history of the Church from the time of Christ to the Great Persecution at the beginning of the fourth century, and ending with the conversion of the Emperor Constantine, his aim was to show the purity and continuity of the doctrinal tradition of Christianity and its struggle against persecutors and heretics.
BISHOP EUSEBIUS: SAINT OF THE DAY JUNE 22
Saint Eusebius (Died c379 A.D.) Bishop and Martyr of Samosata in Syria. Died by being hit on the head by a thrown roof tile which caused a fractured skull and his death and the glory of the Palm of Martyrdom. His life had been a zealous one of defending the One True Faith against Arianism and of the intense pastoral care of his flock….Eusebius was one of the most zealous defenders of orthodoxy in the 4th Century. All which is definitely known of Eusebius is gathered from the letters of St Basil the Great and of St Gregory Nazianzen and from some incidents in the “Ecclesiastical History” of Theodoret In around 361 he became the Bishop of the ancient Syrian City of Samosata. Eusebius had been entrusted with the official recording of the election (360 A.D.) of Bishop St Meletius of Antioch, who was supported by the Arian Bishops, who were under the mistaken notion that he would prove sympathetic to their cause. When St. Meletius expounded his orthodoxy, the Bishops persuaded the Roman Emperor, Constantius II, a staunch Arian, to extort the record from Eusebius and destroy it. Constantius threatened Eusebius with the loss of his right hand because he refused to surrender the record but the threat was withdrawn when Eusebius offered both hands. It was chiefly due to the concerted efforts of Eusebius and St Gregory Nazianzen that, in 370 A.D., St. Basil was elected Archbishop of Cæsarea in Cappadocia. During the persecution of orthodox Christians under Julian the Apostate, Eusebius travelled incognito throughout Syria, Palestine and Phoenicia, disguised as a military officer, Ordaining Presbyters and Deacons and celebrated the Sacrament of Confirmation for the faithful. Orthodox Christians experienced a short respite during the brief reign of Jovian but in 374 A.D. the Emperor Valens, an Arian, banished Eusebius to Thrace, in the Balkan Peninsula. Bishop Eusebius asked the messenger to keep the imperial order confidential saying: “If the people should be apprised, such is their zeal for the Faith, they would rise in arms against you and your death might be laid to my charge.” Although advanced in years, Eusebius left that evening. After the Emperor’s death in 378 A.D., Eusebius was restored to his See of Samosata. While in Dolikha to consecrate a Bishop, he was killed after being struck on the head by a roof tile thrown by an Arian woman. Our lovely zealous St Eusebius is remembered today, 22 June in the Roman Martyrology as a Martyr. We have no extant sermons or writings by St Eusebius bar that little quote above which appears in St Gregory’s letters.
The Altar Candles for the month of June were requested by Rosemarie Kachinko IMO Ronald Kachinko.
ANNUAL CHILDREN’S TEA: ANNUAL TEA: Thank you to everyone who donated, baked, worked and participated in the “Fruits of the Spirit Tea.” Thank you especially to Alison Schappert, the Ladiesof Ss. Peter & Paul Church and most importantly the children for a lovely Tea. -Father Walter
I would like to extend my gratitude to everyone who attended the tea as it was a wonderful turnout. Additionally, the generosity of those who donated to make this event enjoyable. Thank you to the children did an exceptional job serving and divided the monetary donations between the two parishes.
RESCHEDULED ADULT DISCUSSION: There will be an Adult Discussion on the book of the month for May – Aquinas, On Human Nature on Saturday, July 12th after 6:00PM Liturgy at Transfiguration of Our Lord Church.. If you have any questions, related to the book or not – bring them to the class.
ASK FATHER A QUESTION? Father, what is Nihilism? Nihilism literally means “nothing.” It is a denial of God. It is a political movement trying to undermine God in all things church. It spreads lies as truth and claims evil actions good. Rights come from the government, there are no unalienable rights. Everything is relative.
ASK FATHER A QUESTION? Father, what is the symbolism of “green leaves” in the church for Pentecost and the time thereafter? In iconography, (“story in image”), green is the color of the Holy Spirit. On the Feast of Pentecost the entire church is vested in green, calling to mind and reminding us of the Holy Spirit coming to the Apostles, Mary, and the Whole Church.
ASK FATHER A QUESTION? Do Angels exist? Angels do exist! Besides our visible universe God has created another, invisible, corporeal spiritual world. Though angels are superior to us in dignity, we are created more perfectly in God’s image. The Holy Spirit attests to their creation before the universe to their great numbers, and to their primary ministry, which is to ‘present the prayers of the Saints’ to God, and to behold His glory. The Lord said, “Take care that you do not despise one of these little ones; for, I tell you in heaven their angels continually see the face of my Father in heaven” and glorify Him incessantly. The angels are assigned to many ‘orders’ usually grouped in nine, although we know nothing definite about this. God has assigned angels to protect us, from different scriptural passages we are taught the angels are assigned by God to protect entire nations and individuals. Certain angels are assigned to minister to us, by being God’s messengers, and attend to the spiritual progress and perfection of human beings. They are placed in the service of God’s plan of salvation for man. “Are they not all ministering spirits sent forth to serve, for the sake of those who are to salvation? “We pray for the guardian angel, (not that one may be given us), since each of us has one from the moment of his birth, but that he may be active and may fulfill his task, that he may protect us and lead us in the right way, and may not, angered by our sins, desert us.” Several of the Fathers of the Church teach that only baptized Christians have a guardian angel. According to certain Fathers, we are assigned two angels a good one, our guardian angel, and an evil one. Guardian angels guide human beings and steer them in the path of goodness without interfering with their free will or forcing them to follow it. When we fall into serious sin, however, the guardian angel departs. At the hour of death the guardian angel will carry the soul to heaven. In the prayer “You who in all times.” Recited during Hours, we pray, “Surround us with your holy angels, so that guarded and guided by their host, we may attain to the unity of the faith and the knowledge of Your unapproachable glory.”
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O say can you see, by the dawn’s early light, What so proudly we hail’d at the twilight’s last gleaming, Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight O’er the ramparts we watch’d were so gallantly streaming? And the rocket’s red glare, the bomb bursting in air, Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there, O say does that star-spangled banner yet wave O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave?
(4th stanza) O thus be it ever when freemen shall stand Between their lov’d home and the war’s desolation! Blest with vict’ry and peace may the heav’n rescued land Praise the power that hath made and preserv’d us a nation! Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just, And this be our motto – “In God is our trust,” And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave.
SS Peter & Paul Ukrainian Catholic Church 