The members of our parish pray collectively and individually this week for those who are ill, those in the Armed Forces currently serving our country with bravery and distinction here and throughout the world:  His Holiness ALEXEI, Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia, THEODORA, JENNIFER, JULIE Koske, Steve Reinhardt, HASMIK Barth, Ludmila & Norbert, Nina, Mike Bojcik, Donna Miller, ANNA Turow, KARISSA Douglas, baby LAINEY Madeline Santaella, MARINA Troshina, NATALIA, ALEXANDER Hnatkow, MARY Schack, ANNA Slivka, Archpriest ALEXANDER Kreniki, Irina Kostina, EMIL Overmere, ANDREW Miketzuk, DAVID, ANNA & FELIX Semtak, ANN Koropchak, MARY Monchak, NINA Borisewich, Sgt. ALIAKSEI Kovaleuski, private TIMOPHEI Koval, Rev. MICHAEL Sydek, PAULINE Petrochko, MARY Rascher,  LYDIA Budd, youth LUKE, youth DANIEL, SOPHIE Datz, MICHAEL Anisimov, OLGA Sidlar, ANNE Holowach, DORIS Vanish, WILLIAM Popernik, STEVE Pinchak, MARY Slowik, MARY Gambal, MARY Speckhardt, SAMUEL Nosal, HELEN & YURI Metelow, LeROY Knowles.

 

By the decision of our Church Committee our mortgage statistics will be published every week. As of April 1, 2008 we have $138,659.33 principle outstanding. Please continue to give generously.

 

FYI - Sunday School schedule: Today - May 4; August 31 - First meeting for the 2008/2009 School Year Mark your calendars and please plan to attend!

 

A MOTION WAS PASSED AT THE RECENT PARISH MEETING TO HAVE ALL ENGLISH DIVINE LITGURY SERVICE ON THE FIRST SUNDAY OF EACH MONTH.  PLEASE PASS THE WORD TO YOUR FAMILY AND FRIENDS AND HAVE THEM JOIN US.  THIS IS A PERFECT OPPORTUNITY TO HAVE YOUR FAMILY COME TOGETHER AND PRAY.

 

It is a practice of the Orthodox Church to extend our celebration of the Resurrection of Jesus Christ by visiting and praying at the graves of loved ones beginning on St. Thomas Sunday:  Sun. 4th 3:00 pm - George Wash. Memorial Park;  Tue.   6th at 6:30 pm - George Wash. Memorial Park,  Sat. 10th at 10:00 am - St. Peter’s Cemetery in Lodi;  Sun. 11th at 11:45 am - SS. Peter & Paul in Saddle Brook,  4:00 pm at Rova Farm Cemetery in Jackson;  Sat.  17th at 11:00 am - East Ridgelawn in Clifton, Sun. 18th at 2:00 pm - Cedarlawn Cemetery, Paterson, NJ

 

Interfax - Patriarch Alexy II of Moscow and All Russia has called for the development of relations between Orthodox and Catholics at a meeting with Salzburg Archbishop Alois Kothgasser, the Moscow Patriarchate Department for External Church Relations told Interfax-Religion last Monday.   "This relationship is particularly important for the promotion of traditional moral values, Christian ideas of social and family relations, human rights and dignity in modern Europe," Alexy II said.

 

Radonitsa ("Day of Rejoicing") is a holiday in the Eastern Orthodox Church which falls on the Monday or (more commonly) Tuesday of Saint Thomas Week—eight or nine days, respectively, after Pascha (Easter). The day is a general memorial for the departed. The Slavs, like many ancient peoples, had a tradition of visiting family members' graves during the springtime and feasting together with them. After their conversion to Christianity, this custom transferred into the Russian Orthodox Church as the festival of Radonitsa, the name of which comes from the Slavic word radost, meaning "joy." In Kievan Rus the local name is 'Krasnaya Gorka, and has the same meaning.  It may seem strange call a memorial for the departed "joyful," but the Christian belief that lies behind this joy is the remembrance of Jesus' Resurrection and the joy and hope it brings to all. 

 

Christ is Risen from the dead, trampling down death by death, and on those in the tombs bestowing life!

ХРИСТОС ВОСКРЕСЕ ИЗ МЕРТВЫХ, СМЕРТИЮ СМЕРТЬ ПОПРАВ, И СУЩИМ ВО ГРОБЕХ ЖИВОТ ДАРОВАВ!