Marine Colonel to Address 2016 theme ‘Service: Love in Action’ by Chris Singel This year, the annual St.Nicholas Charity Banquet, benefiting the Byzantine Catholic Seminary of Saints Cyril and Methodius, celebrates its 60th anniversary with the theme “Service: Love in … Continue reading
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Through the Doors of Mercy
Dear Clergy, Religious, and Faithful of the Archeparchy,
A group representing the Byzantine Catholic Metropolitan Church is going to visit our Holy Father Francis on October 26, 2016. The Metropolitan and Bishops get a chance to meet with Pope Francis and on the following day to visit the Congregation for the Eastern Churches.
Both the Holy Father and those at the Congregation are always willing to listen to the needs and requests of our Church. And yes, we will remind them of the need for a new Bishop for Parma.
Our tour will visit the cities which are significant to Byzantine history and spirituality along the east coast of Italy. We will send you updates from Italy as we visit the holy sites in October.
One of the highlights will be the visit to the city of Bari where the relics of Saint Nicholas are located in a tomb in the crypt of the Basilica of San Nicola. They have rested there since 1087. Saint Nicholas is the patron saint of the Byzantine Catholic Church in the United States.
It is a special blessing during the Year of Mercy to pass through Jubilee Doors of Mercy at Saint Peter’s Basilica. Over 14 million have passed through this Door at Saint Peter’s. Many of us have passed through the Doors of Mercy in the Archeparchy. Hundreds of millions of faithful have received blessings this year.
If you or those in your parish have not passed through the Doors, plan a trip to complete your entrance and prayers to receive the special blessing before the end of the Year of Mercy The Year of Mercy ends with closing of Doors on Sunday November 20, 2016.
A prime opportunity to both pass through the Doors of Mercy and to pray for the canonization and beatification of our four martyred Ruthenian hierarchs is available to the faithful at 3 p.m. Sunday, October 30 at the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist in Munhall.
I encourage all to participate this prayerful event in the life of our Church, if not able in person, then in spirit via the Internet on the Cathedral’s web site.
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82nd Annual Pilgrimage has new prayerful feature
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] ‘Festal Icon Walk’ aims to inspire prayer, contemplation of Feasts The 82nd Annual Pilgrimage in Honor of Our Lady of Perpetual Help will be held on September 3 & 4 at Mount St. Macrina, Uniontown, Pa. A new feature … Continue reading
Pontifical Acts Announced
May 7, 2016
The Holy Father has made the following appointments which are announced today:
Has accepted the resignation of Most Reverend Gerald N. Dino from the pastoral governance of the Holy Protection of Mary Eparchy of Phoenix;
Has appointed as his successor Most Reverend John S Pazak C.S.s.R., bishop of the Eparchy of SS. Cyril and Methodius, Toronto, Canada; He remains the temporary administrator of the Eparchy of SS. Cyril and Methodius.
Has accepted the resignation of Most Reverend John M. Kudrick from the pastoral governance of the Eparchy of Parma;
And has appointed Metropolitan Archbishop William C. Skurla Apostolic Administrator of the Eparchy until a new bishop is appointed.
Bishop Gerald retirement feature in Phoenix Catholic Sun
Bishop John’s letter to the faithful of the Eparchy of Parma
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‘Jubilee Year of Mercy’ begins December 8
Announced at the Vatican by His Holiness Pope Francis March 13, 2015 during the Great Fast (Lent), the Jubilee Year of Mercy will commence on the feast of the Maternity of Holy Anna (Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception) and will conclude on Sunday Nov. 20, 2016. Following are excerpts from the Holy Father’s announcement:
“Dear brothers and sisters, I have often thought of how the Church may render more clear her mission to be a witness to mercy; and we have to make this journey. It is a journey which begins with spiritual conversion. Therefore, I have decided to announce an Extraordinary Jubilee which has at its centre the mercy of God. It will be a Holy Year of Mercy. We want to live in the light of the word of the Lord: “Be merciful, even as your Father is merciful” (cf. Lk 6:36). And this especially applies to confessors! So much mercy! “I am confident that the whole Church, which is in such need of mercy for we are sinners, will be able to find in this Jubilee the joy of rediscovering and rendering fruitful God’s mercy, with which we are all called to give comfort to every man and every woman of our time. Do not forget that God forgives all, and God forgives always.Let us never tire of asking forgiveness. Let us henceforth entrust this Year to the Mother of Mercy, that she turn her gaze upon us and watch over our journey: our penitential journey, our year-long journey with an open heart, to receive the indulgence of God, to receive the mercy of God.”
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April 13, 2014 – vol. 59 – no. 05
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Announced August 18, 2014: Effective August 14, 2014: Very Reverend Archpriest Eugene P. Yackanich has tendered his resignation as Protosyncellus, which was accepted by Archbishop William Skurla; along with the protosyncellate, he is relieved of the following: Archieparchial Finance Council; … Continue reading
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