HAPPY NEW YEAR 2008!
May Our Lord Jesus Christ Bless this New Year 2008 with Peace, Good Health, Prosperity, and Happiness! May we all be beneficiaries of Many, many years of Good Life!
Schedule of Events
J A N U A R Y 2 0 0 8
4th - Friday Royal Hours and Typical Psalms ...6:00 PM
5th Saturday Evening Great Vespers ..3:00 PM
6th Sunday before the Feast of the Nativity of Christ. Tone 7. Heb. 11:9-10, 17-23, 32-40/Matthew 1:1-25. Very Strict Fast Day!
Divine Liturgy - St. John Chrysostum followed by Vespers. ...10:00 AM
Eve of The Feast of the Nativity of Christ!
Vigil Service Great Complines and Matins .. 1:00 PM
7th Monday Feast of the Nativity of Christ. Gal.4:4-7/Matthew 2:1-12.
Divine Liturgy St. Basil the Great... .9:30 AM
No Fasting (Fast Free Period) from the Feast of the Nativity of Christ - until the eve of the Feast of Theophany!
8th Tuesday Synaxis of the Theotokos Virgin Mary! Heb. 2:11-18/Matthew 2:13-23. No Liturgy Scheduled!
9th Wednesday Feast of First Martyr Steven! Acts 6:8-7:5, 47-60/Matthew 21:33-42. No Liturgy Scheduled!
12th Saturday Evening Great Vespers ........3:00 PM
13th Sunday before the Feast of Theophany. Tone 8. 2 Tim 4:5-8/Mark 1:1-8.
Divine Liturgy ...10:00 AM
Installation of Church Council Members for the year 2008, and Potluck Xmas Party!
14th Monday Feast of the Circumcision, St. Basil, Julian Calendar New Year! No Liturgy Scheduled!
18th Friday Eve of the Feast of Theophany! A Very Strict Fast Day!
Vigil Service Great Complines and Matins . .6:00 PM
19th Saturday Feast of Theophany! Titus 2:11-14, 3:4-7/Matthew 3:13-17. Blessing of Holy Water! 1 Cor. 10:1-4/Mark1:9-11.
Divine Liturgy and Blessing of Holy Water .. 9:30 AM
20th Sunday after Theophany. Tone 1. Eph. 4:7-13/Matthew 4:12-17. Synaxis of St. John the Baptist. Acts 19:1-8/John 1:29-34.
Divine Liturgy .. 10:00 AM
26th Saturday Great Vespers .. 3:00 PM
27th Sunday Thirty-Fifth after Pentecost. Tone 2. 1 John 1:8-2:6/Mark 13:31-14:2.
Divine Liturgy .. 10:00 AM
F E B R U A R Y 2 0 0 8
2nd Saturday Great Vespers .. 3:00 PM
3rd Sunday Thirty-Sixth after Pentecost. Tone 3. 2 Cor. 16-7:1/Matthew 15:21-28.
Divine Liturgy .. 10:00 AM
9th Saturday Great Vespers .. 3:00 PM
10th Sunday of Zacchaeus. Tone 4. 1 Tim. 4:9-15/Luke 19:1-10.
Divine Liturgy .. 10:00 AM
14th Thursday Eve of the Feast of the Meeting of the Lord!
Vigil Service .6:00 PM
15th Feast of the Meeting of the Lord! Heb. 7:7-17/Luke 2:22-40.
Divine Liturgy .9:00 AM
16th Saturday Evening Great Vespers .. ..3:00 PM
17th Sunday of the Publican and the Pharisee. Tone 5. 2 Tim. 3:10-15/Luke 18:10-14.
Divine Liturgy ...10:00 AM
20th Wednesday Fast Free / 22nd Friday Fast Free! No Fasting Required!
22nd - Friday Holy Trinity O Clubs Annual Wine Tasting Party. Holy Trinity Church, Randolph, NJ ......7:00 PM
23rd Saturday Evening Great Vespers .. ... 3:00 PM
24th Sunday of the Prodigal Son. Tone 6. 1 Cor. 6:12-20/Luke 15:11-32.
Divine Liturgy . ... 10:00 AM
25th Monday Beginning of Meat Fare Week! Last week of eating Meat, and Meat Products, until Holy Pascha (Easter) the 27th of April 2008)!
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1st Saturday of Meat Fare Week. Ancestral Soul Remembrance! 1 Col. 4:13-18/John 5:24-30. Kindly please up-date your Lists of the Departed!
Divine Liturgy and Panikheida... ... ..9:00 AM
2nd Sunday of Meat Fare Week. Tone 7. 1 Cor. 8:8-9:2/Matthew 25:31-46. (Last Day to eat Meat and Meat Products until the Great Feast of Feasts Pascha Sunday April 27th 2008)!
Divine Liturgy ... 10:00 AM
3rd Monday Beginning of Cheese Fare Week! Last week of eating Dairy Products, until the Great Feast of Feasts Pascha (27th of April 2008)!
8th Saturday Evening - Great Vespers .. . 3:00 PM
9th Sunday of Cheese Fare Week. (Forgiveness Sunday) Tone 8. Romans 13:11-14:4/Matthew 6:14-21. Last day of eating Dairy Products, until the Great Feast of Feasts Pascha Easter Sunday (27thth of April 2008)!
Divine Liturgy . ... . 9:00 AM
O Clubs Annual Traditional Russian Blini Brunch. 12:00 PM ... .4:00PM.
Beginning of the Great Fast (ends on the Great Feast Pascha Easter Sunday April 27th,08)!
Forgiveness Vespers . .. 4:30 PM
10th Monday Evening of the First Week of the Great Fast.
Great Complines and Reading of the Great Canon of St. Andrew of Crete ... .6:00 PM
11th Tuesday Evening of the First Week of the Great Fast.
Great Complines and Reading of the Great Canon of St. Andrew of Crete 6:00 PM
12th Wednesday Evening of the First Week of the Great Fast.
Great Complines and Reading of the Great Canon of St. Andrew of Crete 6:00 PM
13th Thursday Evening of the First Week of the Great Fast.
Great Complines and Reading of the Great Canon of St. Andrew of Crete 6:00 PM
14th Friday Evening Akafist .. .. . . .6:00 PM
15th Saturday Evening Great Vespers .. .. ... ..3:00 PM
16th Orthodoxy Sunday First Sunday of the Great Fast. Tone 1. Heb. 11:24-26,32-12:2/John 1:43-51.
Divine Liturgy .. . 10:00 AM
Patriarchal Parishs Lenten Mission Service Location to be determined.....4:00 PM
19th Wednesday Evening Presanctified Divine Liturgy (Fasting begins at 12:00 Noon)!. . . ..6:00 PM
21st Friday Evening Akafist . .. . 6:00 PM
22nd Saturday Evening Great Vespers .. . ... . .3:00 PM
23rd Sunday Second of the Great Fast. St. Gregory of Palamus. Tone 2. Heb. 1:10-2:3/Mark 2:1-12.
Divine Liturgy ... 10:00 AM
Patriarchal Parishs Lenten Mission Service Location to be determined .4:00 PM
26th Wednesday Evening Presanctified Divine Liturgy (Fasting begins at 12:00 Noon)! .. . . .6:00 PM
28th Friday Evening Akafist . . .. . ..6:00 PM
29th Saturday Great Vespers .. 3:00 PM
30th Sunday -. Third of the Great Fast. Cross Veneration! Tone 3. Heb. 4:14-5:6/Mark 8:34-9:1.
Divine Liturgy . .. 10:00 AM
Patriarchal Parishs Lenten Mission Service Location to be determined .. 4:00 PM
Blessing of Homes!
If anyone wishes to have their homes Blessed please tell the Pastor, and he will be most happy to visit your home!
Annual 2007 Church Council Meeting!
On Sunday the 23rd of December 2007 the incumbent Church Council Members were unanimously re-elected for the year 2008. They will be Installed into Office on Sunday the 13th of January. The event will be celebrated with a Potluck Xmas Party! Everybody is invited to attend!
Shop Rite Gift Cards!
Holy Cross Church has purchased, from Shop Rite Supper-Market Stores discounted GIFT CARDS, in the amounts of Twenty-Five ($25.00), Fifty ($50.00) and One Hundred ($100.00) Dollars value! Holy Cross Church purchases the cards at a 5% discount, and sells them to you at full value. If you normally shop at Shop Rite, (by purchasing a Gift Card from Holy Cross Church) you use the Gift Card as Cash, and Holy Cross Church benefits and realizes a 5% refund from Shop Rite! If you are interested in this program, please see Matushka Maxine Kassatkin!
Perogi Sales!
The Sisterhood has resumed making homemade Perogi! Potato and Cheese are available at $5.00 a dozen (after Divine Liturgy (12:00 Noon to 1:00 PM))!
The word Liturgy means Common Work or Common Action! The Divine Liturgy is the Common Work of the Orthodox Church! It is the Official Action the Church Formally Gathered Together, as the Chosen People of God!
Good Health!
"Grant O Lord ..a peaceful life, good health and salvation To Thy Servants: Protopresbyter Father Matthew Stadniouk, Archpriests: Father Sergius Suzdaltsev, Father Alexander Krenicki, Matushka Natalie Kosich, Matushka Nina Stroyen. Thy Servants: Fouad Roufaiel, (the child) Donald, Alexandra, (Vladimir) Walter Kasperowitz, George and Elaine Moran, Sarah Brady, Adel, Thomas Dunn, Michael, Sophia Dubik, Lydia Burriak, Vacheslav ., (Child) Daniel Nicholas Rupert, Gordon and Kathleen Vreeland, Olga Dziamba, Steven and Anna Plaskon, and Carolyn, (the children) Alexis, Matthew, and Anna Kaznika, Eugenia Good, Peter and Anastasia Popichak, Rose Mushalla, Anna Sobel, Joseph and Lea Brozina, Michael, and Irene, and Tanya Gozick, Agnes Derco, and many other, and all of the parishioners, benefactors, and friends of Holy Cross Parish.
Rest in Peace!
Galena Denysenko entered into Eternal Rest on the 3rd of July 2007!
Julianna Daniels - entered into Eternal Rest on the 27th of August 2007!
Mary Behumiak entered into Eternal Rest on the 4th of November 2007!
May Their Memories Be Eternal from generation to generations!
2 0 0 8 Religious Church Calendars
Free Courtesy of Cochran Funeral Home. The 2008 Church Calendars are available at the Candle counter! Please take only as many as you need!