Saint Nicholas Ukrainian Greek Catholic Mission in Raleigh, North Carolina is an Eastern Catholic church of the Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of Saint Josaphat in Parma, OH under His Excellency, the Most Reverend Bishop John Bura. Our Church is in full communion with the Church and Pope Francis of Rome. All faithful Catholics of whatever ritual tradition can receive the Holy Eucharist and fulfill their Sunday obligation by attending Lord’s Day services with us. All of our services are in English and all are invited and welcome to attend and celebrate the joy of the Resurrection of Our Lord God and Savior Jesus Christ! † Fully Eastern and Fully Catholic Our Temporary Location: 2510 Piney Plains Rd Cary, NC 27518 LORD’S DAY SERVICES SATURDAY 4:00pm Great Vespers followed by Confessions SUNDAY 8:30am Divine Liturgy Sunday liturgy is followed by a fellowship coffee hour. WEEKDAY SERVICES During the Great Fast Presanctified Liturgies will be help on Tuesdays and Thursdays at 6:00pm with Bible Study on Thursday after Liturgy. During the Holiday’s our schedule can be quite fluid, up-to-date information can be found on our website. O UR C LERGY Very Rev. Fr. Mark Shuey, Pastor Fr. Deacon Stephen Dozier, Deacon Fr. Deacon Buenaventura Yupanqui, Deacon Fr. Deacon Joseph Kibbe Subdeacon Michael Tyndall For up-to-date schedule changes please visit our calendar on our website www.saintnicholasraleigh.org March 17, 2013 Schedule of Services St. Nicholas Ukrainian Greek Catholic Mission St. Nicholas Messenger www.saintnicholasraleigh.org COME CELEBRATE THE ANCIENT FAITH OF THE APOSTLES AND MARTYRS WITH US ! Contact us at: [email protected]
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Saint Nicholas Ukrainian Greek Catholic Mission in Raleigh, North Carolina is an Eastern Catholic church of the Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of Saint Josaphat in Parma, OH under His Excellency, the Most Reverend Bishop John Bura. Our Church is in full communion with the Church and Pope Francis of Rome. All faithful Catholics of whatever ritual tradition can receive the Holy Eucharist and fulfill their Sunday obligation by attending Lord’s Day services with us. All of our services are in English and all are invited and welcome to attend and celebrate the joy of the Resurrection of Our Lord God and
“The saying is sure and worthy of full acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners. And I am the foremost of sinners; but I received mercy for this reason, that in
me, as the foremost, Jesus Christ might display his perfect patience for an example to those who were to believe in him for eternal life.”
Donate to our food drive to support the Brown Bag Ministry!
Don’t forget!
Today is the last day to get your orders in
for our Pieroghi and Kielbasa Sale!
[In United for Religious Freedom] the bishops explained that the “HHS mandate creates still a third class, those with no conscience protection at all: individuals who, in their daily lives, strive constantly to act in accordance with their faith and moral values.” This includes employers sponsoring and subsidizing the coverage, insurers writing it, and beneficiaries paying individual premiums for it. Friday's action [HHS’s issuing a new Notice of Proposed Rulemaking concerning the “contraceptive mandate”] confirms that HHS has no intention to provide any exemption or accommodation at all to this “third class.” In obedience to our Judeo-Christian heritage, we have consistently taught our people to live their lives during the week to reflect the same beliefs that they proclaim on the Sabbath. We cannot now abandon them to be forced to violate their morally well-informed consciences.
~His Eminence Cardinal Timothy Dolan, Archbishop of New York, President of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, Statement Responding to Feb. 1 Proposal from HHS (February 7, 2013)
40 Days for Life continues at Planned Parenthood in Chapel Hill and Crist Clinic For Women in Jacksonville
Please prayerfully consider setting aside some prayer time on the sidewalk in front of these faciliites during the second half of the vigil. If you can't make it there, pray or fast from home.
According to the National Leaders of this campaign, there have been 319 babies saved from abortion this Lent -- that we know of. This means that since 40 Days for Life began as a coordinated campaign in 2007, we are now aware of ... MORE THAN 7 THOUSAND BABIES that God has spared in answer to all of your many hours of prayer.
Visit the Chapel Hill website here and the Jacksonville campaign here.
Golf for Life to Benefit Birthchoice
Enjoy a round of golf for a good cause on Friday April 26th at Lochmere Golf Club in Cary.
Birthchoice is currently looking for sponsors to help make this event a success! Sponsorships from Title Sponsor to Beverage Cart Sponsor are available. For more information about sponsors, or to register as participant, please call (919) 781-LIFE (5433), email Betty Rogosich at [email protected] or visit www.golf-for-life-nc.com.
The North Carolina legislature is about to consider a bill that will increase awareness of the sanctity of all life through education in our schools.
Senate Bill 132 is an amendment to the School Health Education program that
is already in place. This bill will require educators to explain to age appropriate children the connection between having an abortion and a miscarriage later in
life.
The connection between abortion and later miscarriages has been established
by scientific studies for more than a decade. Explaining this risk to our children will help them make decisions that recognize the sanctity of all life.
We support Senate bill 132 and urge you to write to your state Senator and
Representative explaining your support. Click on the link at the bottom of the page to contact your legislators.
Sincerely in Christ,
The Most Reverend Peter J. Jugis
Bishop of Charlotte
The Most Reverend Michael F. Burbidge
Bishop of Raleigh
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The Congregation of Eastern Churches reminds us of the Holy Father's Annual Appeal for the Holy Land. We
will join with all the churches on Good Friday, March 29, 2013 in taking up a special collection for the Holy
Land. Thank you!
Pysanky Sale Hello. My name is Ksenia Koltusky. I will be attending a mission trip to Ukraine in June with the Ukrainian sisters of St. Basil. We will be working in orphanages all across Ukraine. For fundraising and to help defer the costs I am selling pysanky. Suggested donation is $30 ea. I will come to the church on March 17 to sell and deliver the eggs. Thanks.
Ksenia Koltusky
919 803 2813
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Sunday of St. Mary of Egypt St. Mary of Egypt was a desert ascetic who repented of a life of prostitution. She lived during the sixth century, and passed away in a remarkable manner in 522. The Church celebrates her feast day on the day of her repose, April 1; additionally, she is commemorated on the Sunday of St. Mary of Egypt, the fifth Sunday in Great Lent.
She began her life as a young woman who followed the passions of the
body, running away from her parents at age twelve for Alexandria. There
she lived as a harlot for seventeen years, refusing money from the men
that she copulated with, instead living by begging and spinning flax.
One day, however, she met a group of young men heading toward the sea
to sail to Jerusalem for the veneration of the Holy Cross. Mary went
along for the ride, seducing the men as they traveled for the fun of it. But
when the group reached Jerusalem and actually went towards the church,
Mary was prohibited from entering by an unseen force. After three such
attempts, she remained outside on the church patio, where she looked up and saw an icon of the Theotokos. She
began to weep and prayed with all her might that the Theotokos might allow her to see the True Cross;
afterwards, she promised, she would renounce her worldly desires and go wherever the Theotokos may lead her.
After this heart-felt conversion at the doors of the church, she fled into the desert to live as an ascetic. She
survived for years on only three loaves of bread and thereafter on scarce herbs of the land. For another
seventeen years, Mary was tormented by "wild beasts—mad desires and passions." After these years of
temptation, however, she overcame the passions and was led by the Theotokos in all things.
Following 47 years in solitude, she met the priest St. Zosima in the desert, who pleaded with her to tell him of
her life. She recounted her story with great humility while also demonstrating her gift of clairvoyance; she knew
who Zosima was and his life story despite never having met him before. Finally, she asked Zosima to meet her
again the following year at sunset on Holy Thursday by the banks of the Jordan.
Zosima did exactly this, though he began to doubt his experience as the sun began to go that night. Then Mary
appeared on the opposite side of the Jordan; crossing herself, she miraculously walked across the water and met
Zosima. When he attempted to bow, she rebuked him, saying that as a priest he was far superior, and
furthermore, he was holding the Holy Mysteries. Mary then received communion and walked back across the
Jordan after giving Zosima instructions about his monastery and that he should return to where they first met
exactly a year later. When he did so, he found Mary's body with a message written on the sand asking him for
burial and revealing that she had died immediately after receiving the Holy Mysteries the year before (and thus
had been miraculously transported to the spot where she now lay). So Zosima, amazed, began to dig, but soon
tired; then a lion approached and began to help him, that is, after Zosima had recovered from his fear of the
creature. Thus St. Mary of Egypt was buried. Zosima returned to the monastery, told all he had seen, and
improved the faults of the monks and abbot there. He died at almost a hundred years old in the same monastery.
Later, the story of Mary's life was written down by St. Sophronius, Patriarch of Jerusalem.
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Fifth Sunday of Great Fast
Commemoration of St. Mary of Egypt
March 17, 2013
All Tones- Tone 1
Troparion- Resurrectional Tone -1
Troparion of the Feast
In you the image of God was preserved faithfully, mother Mary* for you took up your cross
and followed the Lord.*By your own example you taught us to care not so much for our flesh
which passes away,* but rather for our immortal souls.*So now your spirit, venerable Mary,*
rejoices with the angels.
Glory Be…
Kontakion of the Feast -1
Even though you once were defiled by all sorts of sin,* because you repented, you now shine
radiantly as the bride of Christ.* In her pursuit of an angelic life, she overcomes demons with
the cross as her weapon.* And so Mary has become a highly revered bride of the kingdom.
Now and ever…
Theotokion- Tone 1
Prokeimenon for the Week- Tone 1 Prokeimenon of the Saint –O how wondrous is God in his sanctuary, the God of Israel.
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Alleluia for the Week- Tone 1
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Instead of: It is Truly Right
All creation rejoices in you, O full of grace;* the assembly of angels and the human race.*
O sanctified temple and spiritual paradise,* O boast of Virgins.* God became incarnate from
you.* Being our God before all ages, he became a child.* By making your womb his throne,*
you became more spacious than all the skies.* All creation rejoices in you,* O full of grace,
Glory to you.
Kinonikon
Praise the Lord from the heavens;* praise Him in the highest.
The righteous shall be remembered forever.* They have no fear of evil reports.
