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O ye incorporeal angels who stand before the throne of God, luminous with the brilliance thereof and everlastingly shining with radiance. As secondary luminaries, entreat Christ, that He grant unto our souls peace and great mercy. O immortal messengers of the truly incorruptible Life, ye most blessed ones who received life from the first Life, ye have become holy beholders of the eternal Wisdom, full of light, and reflecting lamps shown forth as is meet. O ye archangels and angels, principalities, thrones, dominions, six-winged seraphim, and divine, many-eyed cherubim, instruments of wisdom, virtues and powers most divine. Pray ye to Christ, that He grant our souls peace and great mercy. Archives:
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HOLY RESURRECTION BYZANTINE CATHOLIC MISSION
Slava Isusu Chrisu! Slava Na Viky!
Divine Liturgy begins at 4 p.m. Every Sunday
Every Third Sunday of the Month is Food Sunday
Fifth Sunday after Pentecost
Divine Liturgy Intention:
Our Offerings
Our Lady of Kazan
Among the Russian people, the icon of Our Lady of Kazan is one of the most famous and highly venerated images of our Blessed
Mother. The Russian Church commemorates two special feasts in honor of this icon: July 8, the Feast of the Apparition,
and October 22, the Feast of the Liberation. The original icon is presently enshrined in the Byzantine-Russian Catholic
Chapel in Fatima, Portugal.
Remember — No Divine Liturgy next Sunday — July 11
Gospel Thought
The Holy Gospel of today tells us the story of how Jesus liberated two men who were possessed by the Devil. From time to time
when some of the angels, God’s perfect spiritual creatures, abused their free will and refused to serve God —
there has always been an enmity between God’s faithful and bad angels. The bad angels or devils try to destroy all that
God has created; they especially strive to destroy the most beautiful work of God’s hands: human beings. The Devil
whispers very sweet, deceptive words into the ear of a credulous person. Lust he calls love, theft he calls privilege,
disobedience he calls liberty. He instigates killings and instructs how to kill secretly; he whispers to the ear: “Do
not be afraid, there will be only one man less in this world.” In short, the Great Deceiver, the Devil, tries to
convince us to abandon the will of God, and follow him to perdition. He tells us whatever we want to hear, for in the end,
every sin can be justified by the Devil. He stirs unrest among the nations and among families, for he is the god of disharmony
and darkness. It is difficult in today’s world to wrestle with him because it is hard to discern right and wrong. In
order to insure ourselves against the Devil, we must cling to Christ and His morals and teachings. We must put on the armor of
faith: read the Word of God, combat the Devil with prayer, receive often and worthily the sacraments. When the evil spirit
entices us with evil thoughts and tempts us to sin, call for Christ’s assistance. Let us look at the Ten Commandments,
let us pray in time of temptation and remember that Christ and His Church are the only armor against evil. Let us stay with
Jesus and the Devil will never approach us.
—Father James Melnic
Independence Day
Today, July 4, our nation celebrates Independence Day. In commemorating this historical day, we need to include a
reaffirmation and rededication to those basic God-given principles on which the Declarartion of Independence was based. This
was a declaration not only of independence from tyranny and injustice, but was a declaration of dependence as well, a reliance
upon God, or, as our Pledge of Allegiance indicates, “one nation under God.”
The Founding Fathers believed in the existence of God, they professed dependence upon His bountiful graces, and they sought
His mercy because they acknowledged an accountability to Him for their actions. Belief in God and responsibility to Him was
the cornerstone and foundation upon which they built our nation.
This is especially evident in the concluding words of the Declaration of Independence, which reaffirms their faith and trust
in the all-knowing and all-powerful God: “And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the
protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor.” These
words need to be emphasized and put into practice.
Pastoral Ponderings: News Briefs
— Father O’Connell
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