Glory to Jesus Christ! St. Mary Byzantine Catholic Church Glory Forever! Слава Исусу Христу! 4480 Route 981 Latrobe, PA 15650 Слава на вики!

Pastor: Fr. Paul-Alexander Shutt, O.S.B. Parish Office: 724-423-3673 Hall: 724-423-8838 Confession Schedule: Saturday 16:00–16:30; Sunday 9:00–9:30; or by appointment Parish email: st.marytrauger@yahoo.com Website: www.stmarybyzantinecatholic.org

20 March 2016 / 7524: Palm Sunday

LITURGICAL SCHEDULE:

Sat. Mar. 19 17:00 Vigil of Palm Sunday

Sun. Mar. 20 10:30 Palm Sunday Suffrages for pro populo parœciæ;

Suffrages for Robert Hulyk, - wife Margaret

Wed. Mar. 23 19:00 Divine Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts w/ Mystery of Holy Anointing

Thur. Mar. 24 19:00 Great and Holy Thursday

Fri. Mar. 25 19:00 Annunciation and Great and Holy Friday

Sat. Mar. 26 16:00 Vigil of Pascha: Great and Holy Sabbath Blessing of Baskets in the church basement

Sun. Mar. 27 09:00 Pascha: Resurrection Matins and Divine Liturgy

Acolytes Lectors Ushers

Sat. Mar. 19 ----------------- M. Harhai J. Snitzer, J. Kontir Sun. Mar. 20 Ruggieri, Syphans S. Vacha D. Hess, J. Knouse Wed. Mar. 23 T & M Syphan A. Syphan -------------------------- Thur. Mar. 24 All acolytes As assigned Any two present Fri. Mar. 25 All acolytes As assigned Any two present Sat. Mar. 26 All acolytes As assigned Any two present Sun. Mar. 27 All acolytes G. Krynicky Any two present

3/13/16 Adult: $1291 Student: $9 Easter Flowers: $55 Collection Fuel Oil: $20 Candles: $66 Total: $1441

Attendance: Presanctified: 14 Saturday: 26+2 Sunday 43+7

Next Sunday’s Readings ~ GREAT AND HOLY PASCHA Epistle: Acts of the Apostles 1: 1 – 8 The Promise of the Holy Spirit

Gospel: John 1: 1 – 17 The Word became Flesh

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~ Announcements ~ IN BLESSED REPOSE, grant, O Lord, eternal rest to your departed servant Eva

Harouse and remember her forever. Вичная памяать! Kindly remember Eva, her relatives, and all who mourn her transitus in your prayers.

Kindly remember the following parishioners in your prayers: Andy Boytim, Jerry & Barbara Chirdon, the Davis Family, Dolores Harhai, Agnes Osif, Mary Catherine Ross, Conrad Semensky, and Gladys Shultis.

CONGRATULATIONS to one of our own – Joanne Krynicky – on winning the St Patrick’s Day instant ticket sold by the parish.

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This year we will experience a unique liturgical convergence: Great and Holy Friday falls on 25 March which is the Feast of the Annunciation. This last occurred in 2005 and will not happen again until 2157! Because the Annunciation is one of the twelve solemn feasts of the Byzantine Churches, it is not transferred to another day. Instead, Vespers with the Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom is celebrated on the evening of Great and Holy Friday. This is the only time a Divine Liturgy is ever celebrated on Friday of Holy Week.

~ Holy Sonnets ~ Upon the Annunciation and Passion Falling upon One Day

John Donne, Anglican Divine

1608

Tamely, frail body, abstain today; today How well the Church, God’s court of faculties, My soul eats twice, Christ hither and away. Deals in some times and seldom joining these!

She sees Him man, so like God made in this, As by the self-fixed Pole we never do That of them both a circle emblem is, Direct our course, but the next star thereto, Whose first and last concur; this doubtful day Which shows where the other is and which we say Of feast or fast, Christ came and went away; (Because it strays not far) doth never stray, She sees Him nothing twice at once, who’s all; So God by His Church, nearest to Him, we know She sees a Cedar plant itself and fall, And stand firm, if we by her motion go; Her Maker put to making, and the head His Spirit, as His fiery pillar doth Of life at once not yet alive yet dead; Lead, and His Church, as cloud, to one end both. She sees at once the virgin mother stay This Church, by letting these days join, hath shown Reclused at home, public at Golgotha; Death and conception in mankind is one: Sad and rejoiced she’s seen at once, and seen Or ‘twas in Him the same humility At almost fifty and at scarce fifteen; That He would be a man and leave to be: At once a Son is promised her, and gone; Or as creation He had made, as God, Gabriel gives Christ to her, He her to John; With the last judgment but one period, Not fully a mother, she’s in orbity, His imitating Spouse would join in one At once receiver and the legacy; Manhood’s extremes: He shall come, He is gone: All this, and all between, this day hath shown, Or as though the least of His pains, deeds, or words

The abridgement of Christ’s story, which makes one Would busy a life, she all this day affords; (As in plain maps, the furthest west is east) This treasure then, in gross, my soul up-lay, Of the Angels’ Ave and Consummatum est. And in my life retail it every day.

John Donne 1572 – 1631