November 9, 2025
Saturday, November 8 TWENTY SECOND SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST
4:00 PM Lawrence & Janice Lee- Deliverance from Demonic
Influence- Rita, Diane & Janice
Sunday, November 9 TWENTY SECOND SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST
8:30 AM God’s Blessings & Good Health for All Parishioners
Saturday, November 15 TWENTY THIRD SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST
4:00 PM UHelene Sirak- Gayle & Bobbie Miles
Sunday, November 16 TWENTY THIRD SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST
8:30 AM God’s Blessings & Good Health for All Parishioners
Transfiguration of Our Lord Church
Saturday Liturgy is 6:00 PM
Sunday Liturgy is 10:30 AM
Phillip’s Fast
St. Philip’s Fast This fast begins forty days before the Nativity of our Lord on November 15, the day after the feast of St. Philip, and that is why it called Saint Philip’s Fast (or the Philipian Fast – Pilipiwka in Ukrainian). The Philipian Fast is a time to prepare us to receive Christ into the world and into our hearts. On each Sunday of the fast in our church we celebrate a different figure who has helped to show us the way.
1. The first holy person we encounter is the Evangelist St. Matthew whose feast is celebrated on November 16. St. Matthew is the first Evangelist to give us the infancy narratives in the Gospels, the first to announce the “Good News” of salvation. He begins us on our journey.
2. Next we celebrate the entrance of the Theotokos (The God bearer – Mary) into the temple. Mary goes into the Temple to prepare her heart for God. She is the Temple where the Son of God will make His home until His birth. She shows us how to be a true servant of the Lord so we may give our entire life, so that we may also become a worthy dwelling place for our Savior.
3. St. Andrew who is celebrated on Nov. 30, was the first apostle called by Jesus. Tradition tells us that he travelled to Slavic territories to bring the light of Christ’s message to the Slavic people. He encourages, us to be the bearers of the light of Jesus to others.
4. The Feast of St. Nicholas, the Wonderworker, is on December 6. The account of this Saint is well known. St. Nicholas’ life is an example to us all of preparing our hearts by loving acts for one another.
5. This week we commemorate the ancestors of our faith; the great men and women of the Bible who kept the promise of the Messiah alive through the ages; the prophets, and we especially admire the Prophet Daniel and the faith and courage of the three children who went into the fiery furnace. They teach us to be courageous in our faith.
6. This week, we remember the ancestors of Jesus. These holy people waited and prayed with hope in their hearts that God would send the promised Savior to the world. They remind us to wait for the Savior with hope in our hearts.
(excerpt from the Edmonton Eparchy)
PRAYER FOR THE PROTECTION OF THE CHURCH
O glorious St. Michael, guardian and defender of the Church of Jesus Christ, come to the assistance of the Church, against which the powers of hell are unchained, guard with especial care her august Head, and obtain that for Him and for us the hour of triumph may speedily arrive. O glorious Archangel St. Michael, watch over us during life, defend us against the assaults of the devil, assist us especially at the hour of death; obtain for us a favorable judgement, and the happiness of beholding God face to face for endless ages. Amen.
Ask FATHER a question? During the Liturgy, the priest comes twice through the door which is on the left side as we face the iconstasis. What is the meaning of these two entrances? Do they signify events in Our Lord’s life? Yes, but they are more than just signaling events in our Lord’s life. Note that the entrance is not out of the Altar area but into the Altar for both of these entrances. The entrance with the Gospel Book, the Logos, is the entrance of Christ himself, the Son of God into the very midst of His people and reposing on His Throne. The second entrance with the Gifts which are Holy Communion and become the Body and Blood of Jesus Christ, the Lamb of God, likewise is Christ entering into the midst of His people and enthroned on the Altar. The word Logos in Greek as used by the Church Fathers means an active spoken and living Word Who is Christ Himself, Who created all things by speaking in the beginning and Who offers us salvation by speaking. The entrance from the Proscomedia Table into the midst of Christ’s people is also Christ, the Son of God, active in His church, offering the fullness of His graces for the salvation of man, “For He who eats My Flesh and drinks My Blood, lives in Me and I in him, and shall obtain everlasting life.” So these entrances are much more than signaling events in our Lord’s life, they are critical parts in the salvation of man. Books could be written about these entrances alone, some commentary can be found in various books on the Divine Liturgy such as “The Heavenly Banquet;” Understanding the Divine Liturgy,” by Father Emnmanuel Hatzidakis.
“Do not let pass any opportunity to pray for anyone, either at his request or at the request of his relatives, friends, of those who esteem him, or of his acquaintances. The Lord looks favorably upon the prayer of our love, and upon our boldness before him. Besides this, prayer for others is very beneficial to the one himself who prays for others; it purifies the heart, strengthens faith and hope in God, and enkindles our love for God and our neighbor. When praying, say thus: ‘Lord, it is possible for Thee to do this or that to this servant of Thine; do this for him, for Thy name is the Merciful Love of Men and the Almighty.’” + St. John of Kronstadt, My Life in Christ
Remembrance Day for the Victims of Holodomor (Stalin imposed Genocide) in Ukraine this year is NOVEMBER 22, 2025.
In 1932–1933, a man-made famine, known as the Holodomor, killed 3.3–6 million people in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic (as part of the Soviet Union), included in a total of 5.5–8.7 million killed by the broader Soviet famine of 1930–1933. At least 3.3 million ethnic Ukrainians died as a result of the famine in the USSR.
BOOK(S) OF THE MONTH FOR NOVEMBER:
Achieving Your Potential in Christ: THEOSIS
Anthony M. Conaris
ISBN: 0-937032-93-X
The Altar Candles for the month of November are requested by Geri Kolotelo in loving memory of Ann Kolotelo.
Petitions & Prayers for Our Parishioners: Jewel Johnstone, John Ostrum,Donna Winsock. Keep them in your prayers.
VETERAN’S DAY: On Tuesday, November 11, we celebrate Veteran’s Day, please keep all THE veterans who served the United States in your thoughts and prayers. Remember, freedom is not free. Thank a Veteran!!
FLEA MARKET/RAFFLE/DONATION TO UKRAINE: Through the rummage sale basket raffle, poor box and Women’s Society contribution, the society gave Father Walter a $1000 donation to send to the Ukraine.
Thank you to all who contributed and worked to make the rummage sale a success. The financial report will be given at the Women’s Society’s meeting on Tuesday, November 11th at 6PM in the church hall. New members are always encouraged to join.
Congratulations to all the rummage sale basket raffle winners: Lori, Tyler B.,Christie Riscant, Betty, Mary Neeley, Traci Frisbee, Lisa Endress, Mary Ann Huback, Jones, Bob Tensa, Tom Ostrouwski, Lisa Placek, Judy Luchinno, Becky Molecavage, Brenda Bonk, Johanna Longenberger, Joyln Bartoli, Louise Hubiack, Erica Riscart.
MOVIE SUNDAY: As fall looms ahead and the days get shorter & cooler…… It’s Movie Time at Transfiguration of Our Lord Church this Sunday, November 9th! The movie is, “The Inspector General, a funny, light hearted and touching story. You do not have to stay for the movie, everyone is welcome to come for a light lunch and fellowship. Come for the lunch – don’t stay for the movie- come for the movie, have no lunch – that’s okay!
CHRISTMAS FLEA MARKET: Transfiguration of Our Lord Church will hold their Christmas Flea Market on Saturday, November 29th and Saturday, December 6th from 9am to 2pm. There will be a variety of ethnic foods to eat-in and potato pyrohy for sale.
Prayer For the Departed
We should not only pray for our neighbors who are alive, but also for those who have departed into the other world. Prayer for the departed is necessary first of all because, when someone who is close to us departs, we have a natural feeling of loss, from which we suffer deeply. But that person continues to live: only he lives in another state of being, because he has left for the other world. So that our connection with him who has departed might not be broken, we should pray for him. Then we will feel his presence, feel that he has not left us, and that our living connection with him has been preserved. But the other person, of course, also needs prayer for the departed, because when someone dies they pass into another world, where they meet God to answer for everything they did in their earthly life, good and bad. It is very important that such a person be accompanied on his way by the prayers of his loved ones, of those who have remained here on earth, who keep his memory. We, who remain on earth, can ask God that He lighten this person’s lot. And the Church believes that the departed’s posthumous lot is lightened by the prayers of those who pray for him here on earth. The hero of Dostoevsky’s novel The Brothers Karamazov, the Elder Zosima (whose prototype was St. Tikhon of Zadonsk) says this about prayer for the departed: “Remember also: every day and whenever you can, repeat within yourself: ‘Lord, have mercy upon all who come before you today.’ For every hour and every moment thousands of people leave their life on this earth, and their souls come before the Lord – and so many of them part with the earth in isolation, unknown to anyone, in sadness and sorrow that no one will mourn for them, or even know whether they had lived or not. And so, perhaps from the other end of the earth, your prayer for his repose will rise to the Lord, though you did not known him at all, nor he you. How moving it is for his soul, coming in fear before the Lord, to feel at that moment that someone is praying for him, too, that there is still a human being on earth who loves him. And God, too, will look upon you both with more mercy, for if even you so pitied him, how much more will he who is infinitely more merciful and loving than you are. And he will forgive him for your sake.” . (Excerpt from https://www.pravmir.com/prayer/)
SS Peter & Paul Ukrainian Catholic Church 