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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 X’mas 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’ Club’s 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)!

M A R C H   2 0 0 8

 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’ Club’s – 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 Parish’s 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 Parish’s 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 Parish’s 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 X’mas 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!