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Mount Saint Macrina pilgrimage highlights
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Horizons: 40 Years Campaign
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HORIZONS News
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CHICAGO — Horizons has turned 40 and is celebrating its growing communications apostolate with a one-month fundraising campaign. The campaign began Sept. 1 and will run until Sept. 30. In early 2018, Horizons was informed that there were not sufficient chancery funds to support the apostolate, due to general financial constraints. READ MORE. -
PARMA, Ohio — The total funds collected in the Eparchy of Parma’s 2017-2018 Annual Stewardship Appeal came up about $25,000 short of its $190,000 goal, due to the parish rebate system. The campaign collected a total of $188,886 before rebates. However, once the $22,139 in rebates were deducted from the funds collected, the campaign total for eparchial programming was only $166,747. READ MORE. -
WARREN, Ohio — Byzantine Catholic Benedictine Sister Barbara Pavlik was appointed administrator of Queen of Heaven Monastery this past spring. Sister Mary Bratrovsky, prioress at Sacred Heart Monastery in Lisle, Illinois, made the appointment May 29. Sister Pavlik succeeds Sister Agnes Knapik, who served as administrator for five years. READ MORE. -
PARMA, Ohio — The start of the new pastoral year, Sept. 1, also means the start of Eastern Christian Formation programs for children in the parishes of the Eparchy of Parma. The catechetical year is launched with Catechetical Sunday. The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has set Catechetical Sunday for Sept. 16, when catechists are called forth in their parishes across the country to be commissioned for this service to the community of faith. READ MORE. -
OXFORD, England (CNS) — A 16-year-old peasant girl was beatified as a martyr in Slovakia, seven decades after she was shot in front of her family for resisting rape by a drunken Soviet soldier. Anna Kolaserova “embodies the faithful layperson living in their family, regularly receiving sacraments, praying the rosary and approaching God through good works,” Archbishop Bernard Bober of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Kosice, Slovakia, told Catholic News Service Aug. 21. READ MORE. -
UNIONTOWN, Pa. — The 84th annual pilgrimage to the Shrine of Our Lady of Perpetual Help took place Sept. 1-2 at Mount St. Macrina drew a large number of young families. Saturday’s activities began with matins, a procession with the Our Lady of Perpetual Help icon, Divine Liturgy celebrated by Bishop Kurt Burnette of Passaic, and a welcome by the Basilian provincial, Sister Ruth Plante. READ MORE.
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Contact us
Byzantine Catholic Eparchy of Parma
5000 Rockside Rd. Suite 310
Independence, OH 44131Phone: 216-741-8773 Email: chancery@parma.org Hours: Mon-Fri., 9 a.m.-3 p.m.
The Chancery is closed on all major holy days and civil holidays.
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Bishop Milan's Calendar
Bishop Milan Lach, SJ
Sept. 1-2 84th Annual Pilgrimage of Our Lady of Perpetual Help
Mount St. Macrina
Uniontown, PennsylvaniaSept. 6 Meeting of the Eparchial Youth Commission
Independence, OhioSept. 8-9 Pastoral Visit of St. Basil Parish
Sterling Heights, MISept. 15 Pilgrimage to Basilica of Our Lady of Sorrows
Sastin, SlovakiaSept. 16 Patronal feast day celebration
Eparchy of Bratislava
SlovakiaSept. 17-28 "From Mariapoch to Mariapoch"
Horizons' pilgrimage to the roots of the Ruthenian Byzantine Catholic Church in
Austria, Hungary, Slovakia, and Ukraine
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upcoming eparchial events
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September 28 - September 30St. Nicholas Parish, 23300 King Drive, will hold a three-day iconography workshop, Sept. 28-30, with accomplished iconographer Marylyn Barone, open to people of all ages and abilities. The cost is $135, which includes all supplies. Participants must be present for all three days. Register: www.stnicksdetroit.com. Info: Father Joseph Repko, frrepko@ameritech.net or (586) 791-1052, or Marylyn Barone, mwbarone@comcast.net or (412) 678-9453.
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Saturday, September 29, 5:30 PM - 7:00 PMA clambake fundraiser, sponsored by GCU Lodge #302 for “Special Spaces Cleveland,” will be held in the parish hall of St. Joseph Byzantine Catholic church, 8111 Brecksville Road, Sept. 29, 5:30 p.m.-7. The cost for a dozen clams and a half-chicken is $30; chicken dinner, $23; children’s meal, $4; extra clams, $9. The meal includes roll, broth, coleslaw, sweet potato or baked potato and corn on the cob. Cash bar. Presale tickets only. Purchase before Sept. 23. For tickets: Jean Karaffa, (216) 513-3854 or jmk0724@aol.com; Judy Weitzel, (440) 526-8395 or jw1049@aol.com; Bonnie Ciresi, (330) 221-7001 or bjc2@att.net.
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Monday, October 1, 7:00 PMSt. Nicholas Parish, 1051 Robinson Ave., has begun a book study group that will meet Mondays, 7 p.m. The group started Feb. 5, with the book “The Field: Cultivating Salvation,” by the late Russian Orthodox Bishop Ignatius Brianchaninov, which teaches how to live the spiritual life. Register or info: Father Miron Kerul-Kmec, (330) 753-2031.
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October 5 - October 7The Eparchy of Parma will hold its annual women’s retreat Oct. 5-7, at the Lial Renewal Center, 5908 David Road. The theme of the silent retreat is, “Listen, O daughter, and see and incline your ear.” During the weekend, participants will learn to cultivate silence and enter into a more profound relationship with God. Registration fee, $120, includes six meals and accommodations. Priests will be available during the retreat for spiritual guidance and confession. Complete the registration, found at https://parma.org/womens-retreat-2018, by Sept. 17. Financial assistance available. Make checks payable to “Byzantine Catholic Cultural Center” and mail to 5000 Rockside Road, Suite 310, Independence, OH 44131. Info: John Popp, jpopp@parma.org or (216) 741-8773, ext. 2.
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October 6 - October 7St. Mary Parish, 2011 Clark St., will host the first Midwest Marian Pilgrimage Oct. 6-7. Bishop Milan Lach, SJ, of Parma, Bishop Donald Hying of Gary, and Father Marek Visnovsky, also of Parma, will be the guest speakers, preachers and celebrants for the various liturgical celebrations. The pilgrimage will include prayer, fellowship, and a candlelight procession to a Marian shrine nearby. Volunteers needed. For the full schedule of events: stmarywhiting@parma.org or (219) 659-0277.
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Catholic News Service
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