December 21, 2025 Bulletin
LITURGICAL SCHEDULE
Sat. 20: 6:00 pm@ Infant Jesus
Saturday before Christmas
+Anna Marie Bender from
Joe Rudinec
Sun. 21: 9:00 am @ Infant Jesus
Sunday before Christmas-
of the Ancestors
+Margaret Swansiger from
Mary & Jerry Novak
Mon. 22: 9:00 am @ Infant Jesus
Special Intentions
Tues. 23: NO LITURGY
Wed. 24: 4:00 pm @ Infant Jesus
Christmas Eve
+Paul Jonda from family
Thurs. 25: 9:00 am @ Infant Jesus
Christmas-Birth of Our Lord
+Thomas Schurko from
Anthony & Theresa
Swindler
Fri. 26: 6:00 pm @ Infant Jesus
Synaxis of the Theotokos
For the parishioners
Sat. 27: 6:00 pm@ Infant Jesus
Saturday after Christmas
Stephen Protomartyr
For the parishioners
Sun. 28: 9:00 am @ Infant Jesus
Sunday after Christmas-
David, Joseph & James
+John Marshall Baugher
Maureen Newell
Collection Report
Week of 12/14/2025
$ 150.00 Holy Day
$ 30.00 Christmas Flowers
$ 10.00 BCW
$ 280.00 Candles
$ 200.00 Christmas
$ 300.00 Maintenance Fund
$ 10.00 Thanksgiving
$ 2119.00 TOTAL
Attendance from last week’s Liturgies:
Saturday: 25
Sunday: 44
On –Line: 2
PLEASE PRAY FOR THE HEALTH AND WELL-BEING OF OUR PARISHIONERS:
Nina Zavatsky at home, Tillie Chachko at Shepherd of the Valley, Dolores Schurko at Hampton Wood and the rest of our parishioners who are ill or 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, please notify Fr. Michael or Paula.
ROSARY:
The Altar & Rosary Society will be praying the rosary again on SUNDAY January 4th at 8:30 am. Everyone is welcomed.
PILGRIM VOCATION ICON PROGRAM:
Every parish has received an icon specially written for this program- “The Call of the Disciples.” Those who accept the icon agree to pray daily during that time for religious and priestly vocations. Please see the sign-up sheet in the vestibule. There are still some open dates.
SANCTUARY CANDLE:
The 2026 Sanctuary candle sign-up sheet is on the vestibule. Cost is still $10/candle. Just deposit your money in the collection basket.
ANGEL TREE:
This year we are having an angel tree in the vestibule in memory of our deceased loved ones. All parishioners are welcomed to write their loved one’s name on an angel that is provided and hang on the tree.
PARISHIONER ORNAMENT TREE:
All parishioners are welcomed to add a personalized ornament to the tree in the back of the church.
CHRISTMAS PARSIH PARTY:
Thank you, the Byzantine Social Club and all parishioners who came out in our winter wonderland, for last week’s Christmas party. It was a wonderful time. Also, a very sincere gratitude to the parishioners who donated baskets for the Chinese Auction. We truly appreciate Melissa Boughner for all her work in putting the auction together-she did an amazing job. Please watch the bulletin in January for announcements from the social club.
CHRISTMAS LITURGY SCHEDULE:
Christmas Eve: 2:00 pm @ St. Nick
4:00 pm @ Infant Jesus
Christmas Day: 9:00 am @ Infant
11:00 am @ St. Nick’s
CANDLES:
The Sanctuary candles will be lit for the entire week for your intentions.
For the week of December 21-27, 2025, the right sanctuary candle is in memory of +Mary Mehley from Maureen Kredel. The left sanctuary candle is in memory of +Irene & +Joseph Kollar from Karen & Kathy Kollar.
We wish all parishioners, families and friends a very Merry Christmas!
CHRIST IS BORN!
GLORIFY HIM!
Sunday Before the Nativity of Our Lord
By St. Cyril of Jerusalem
We do not preach only one coming of Christ, but a second as well, much more glorious than the first. The first coming was marked by patience; the second will bring the crown of a divine kingdom.
In general, whatever relates to our Lord Jesus Christ has two aspects. There is a birth from God before the ages, and a birth from a virgin at the fullness of time. There is a hidden coming, like that of rain on fleece, and a coming before all eyes, still in the future.
At the first coming He was wrapped in swaddling clothes in a manger. At His second coming He will be clothed in light as in a garment. In the first coming He endured the cross, despising the shame; in the second coming He will be in glory, escorted by an army of angels.
We look then beyond the first coming and await the second. At the first coming we said: Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord. At the second we shall say it again; we shall go out with the angels to meet the Lord and cry out in adoration: Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord.
Infant Jesus of Prague Byzantine Catholic Church 