December 18, 2022 Bulletin
LITURGICAL SCHEDULE
Sat. 17: 6:00 pm @ Infant Jesus
+Marian Dzurak from
family
Sun. 18: 9:00 am @ Infant Jesus
Sunday before Christmas-
Of the holy Ancestors
Baptism of Stella Jane
Kurkiewicz
+Joseph Hritz from Carol
Dumez, Mary Jane
Schultheis & Michael
Kudlovsky
Mon. 19: NO LITURGY
Tues. 20: NO LITURGY
Wed. 21: NO LITURGY
Thurs. 22: NO LITURGY
Fri. 23: 7:00 pm @ Infant Jesus
Christmas Eve-Great
Compline & Candle light
Procession
For the Parishioners
Sat. 24: 6:00 pm @ Infant Jesus
Saturday Virgil of
Christmas Divine Liturgy
Of St. Basil the Great
+Mary Lynn Smercansky
From family
Sun. 25: 9:00 am @ Infant Jesus
Christmas Day Divine
Liturgy
+Patricia Flaherty from
Family
Collection Report
Week of 12/11/2022
$ 1,793.00 Offertory
$ 320.00 Holy Day
$ 50.00 Christmas
$ 30.00 Maintenance Fund
$ 260.00 Christmas Candles
$ 90.00 Christmas Flowers
$ 60.00 Anniversary Book Sale
$ 54.00 Candles
$ 2657.00 TOTAL
Attendance from last week’s Liturgies:
Saturday: 32
Sunday: 54
ON LINE: 8
PLEASE PRAY FOR THE HEALTH AND WELL-BEING OF OUR PARISHIONERS:
Richard Kuty, Pearl Tablack, & Nina Zavatsky & Bernie Litwin all at home. Mary Rotunno at Assumption, Dolores Schurko & Louise Macabobby at Hampton Wood and the rest of our parishioners who are in nursing homes. May God grant to all the sick of our parish many blessed, happy and healthier years.
ATTENTION:
If any parishioner or family member is ill & would like to be on the pray list, or receive get-well wishes, call Karen or Kathy Kollar @330-272-1857.
ANNIVERSARY BOOKS:
Our 50th Anniversary are available to purchase for $15-please see Fr. Michael to purchase. Those who generously donated and receive a free book, please see Fr. Michael or Paula Slemons.
SANCTUARY CANDLE:
The 2023 Sanctuary request sheet is available on the vestibule table.
ROSARY:
The Altar & Rosary Society will again be praying the rosary on Sunday, January 1st at 8:30 am. Everyone is welcomed.
PARISHIONER NEWS:
Congratulations to Robert & Stephanie Kurkiewicz on the Baptism/Chrismation of their daughter Stella Jane today. May God bless Stella and her beautiful family with health, happiness and many blessed years.
CHRISTMAS DINNER:
Thank you to Bob & Stephanie Sheely and the Byzantine Social Club for hosting the Christmas Dinner last week. Congratulations to Karen Kollar who won the 50/50 raffle and all who won poinsettias. It was a wonderful time. Hoping to be having more socials in 2023.
CHILDREN’S CHRISTMAS PARTY:
REMINDER:
The Children’s Christmas Party will be THIS Sunday December 18th following 9:00 am liturgy.
SAVE THE DATE:
The Tenth Annual Women’s Retreat will be held on February 24-26, 2023 @ Our lady of the Pines Retreat Center in Freemont, Ohio. Contact Joan Washburn for further information @ 865-696-7809.
The Second Annual Men’s Retreat will be on March 10-12, 2023 at the same place. Contact Ken Busam for further information @ 419-626-6811.
Save the Date Cards are on the vestibule table and both events are sponsored by St. Mary Byzantine Catholic Church in Marblehead. Ohio.
CHRISTMAS LITURGICAL SCHEDULE:
December 23, Friday-Christmas Eve
Great Compline & candlelight procession
4:00 pm @ St. Nicholas
7:00 pm @ Infant Jesus
December 24, Saturday Vigil of Christmas-Divine Liturgy of St. Basil the Great
4:00 pm @ St. Nicholas
6:00 pm @ Infant Jesus
December 25, Sunday-Christmas Day Divine Liturgy:
9:00 am @ Infant Jesus
11:00 am @ St. Nicholas
December 26, Monday-Synaxis of the Theotokos
10:00 am @ St. Nicholas
December 27, Tuesday-Stephen Protomartyr
6:00 pm @ Infant Jesus
CHRISTMAS ORNAMENTS:
All parishioners are welcomed to add a family ornament to the tree in the back of the church.
SANCTUARY CANDLES:
The Sanctuary candles will be lit for the entire week for your intentions.
For the week of December 18-24, the right sanctuary candle is in memory of +Mary Mehley from Karen & Kathy Kollar. The left sanctuary candle is in memory of +Anna Mamone from Peter Smerchansky
Christ genealogy
PSEUDO-CHRYSOSTOM:
Having enumerated the generations from Abraham to Christ, He divides them into three divisions of fourteen generations, because three times at the end of fourteen generations the state of the people of the Jews was changed. From Abraham to David they were under Judges; from David to the carrying away into Babylon under Kings; from the carrying away to Christ under the High Priests. What he would show then is this; like as ever at the end of fourteen generations the state of men has changed, so there being fourteen generations completed from the carrying away to Christ, it must needs be that the state of men be changed by Christ. And so since Christ all the Gentiles have been made under one Christ Judge, King, and Priest. And for that Judges, Kings, and Priests prefigured Christ’s dignity, their beginnings were always in a type of Christ; the first of the Judges was Joshua the son of Nave; the first of the Kings, David; the first of the Priests, Jesus son of Josedech. That this was typical of Christ none doubts.
Infant Jesus of Prague Byzantine Catholic Church 