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Schedule for Week

May 26, 2019 Special points of interest:

Epistle Reading: Acts 11:19-30 Gospel Reading: St. John 4:5-42 Liturgical Color: White Tone #4

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Parish Contact Information Rev. Father Daniel Mahler Presiding Priest

Rectory: 607-962-5285 Father’s Cell: 607-377-0587 Father’s Office:: 607-936-0689

Cantor: Chuck Coons 607-368-1309

61 Canada Road Painted Post, NY 14870

May 26 9:30am Divine Liturgy Panachida in memory of +Paul Rodrigues (First Anniversary of his falling asleep in the Lord) offered by wife Diane Coffee Social 12NOON Panachida and blessing of graves at our Parish Cemetery June 1 4pm Vespers/Confessions June 2 9:30am Divine Liturgy Sunday of the Man born blind Panachida memory of +Ann Bohoy-Snearly offered by Helen Molson Coffee Social/Birthdays June 5 5pm Vesperal Liturgy Feast of the Ascension of our Lord June 6 FEAST OF THE ASCENSION OF OUR LORD NO LITURGY TODAY June 8 4pm Vespers/Confessions June 9 9:30am Divine Liturgy

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THE THEOTOKIAN

EPISTLE READING Reading from Book of Acts of the Apostles 11:19-30 In Those days, Those apostles who were scattered because of the persecution that arose over Stephen traveled as far as Phoenicia and Cy-prus and Antioch, speaking the word to none except Jews. But there were some of them, men of Cyprus and Cyrene, who on coming to Antioch spoke to the Greeks also, preaching the Lord Jesus. And the hand of the Lord was with them, and a great number that believed turned to the Lord. News of this came to the ears of the church in Jerusalem, and they sent Barnabas to Antioch. When he came and saw the grace of God, he was glad; and he exhorted them all to remain faithful to the Lord with steadfast purpose; for he was a good man, full of the Holy Spirit and of faith. And a large company was added to the Lord. So Barnabas went to Tarsus to look for Saul; and when he had found him, he brought him to Antioch. For a whole year they met with the church, and taught a large company of people; and in Antioch the disciples were for the first time called Chris-tians. Now in these days prophets came down from Jerusalem to Anticoh. And one of them named Agabos stood up and foretold by the Spirit that there would be a great famine over all the world; and this took place in the days of Claudius. And the disciples determined, every one according to his ability, to send relief to the brethren who lived in Judea, and they did so, sending it to the elders by the hand of Barnabas and Saul.

GOSPEL READING Reading is from St. John 4:5-42 Let us attend, At that time, Jesus came to a city of Sa-maria, called Sychar, near the field that Jacob gave to his son Joseph. Jacob’s well was there, and so Jesus, wearied as he was with his jour-ney, sat down beside the well. It was about the sixth hour. There came a woman of Samaria to draw water. Jesus said to her, “Give me a drink.” For his disciples had gone away into the city to buy food. The Samaritan woman said to him, “How is it that you a Jew, ask a drink of me, a woman of Samaria?” For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans. Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is that is saying to you, ‘Give me a drink,’ you would have asked him and he would have given you living water.” The woman said to him, “Sir, you have nothing to draw with, and the well is deep; where do you get that living water? Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well, and drank from it himself, and his sons, and his cattle? Jesus said to her, “Everyone who drinks of this water will thirst again, but whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him will never thirst; the water that I shall give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to external life.” The woman said to him, “I have no husband.” Jesus said to her, “You are right in saying, ‘I have no husband’; for you have had five husbands, and he whom you now have is not your husband; this you said truly.” The woman said to him, “Sir, I perceive that you are a prophet. Our fathers worshiped on this moun-tain; and you say that Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship.” Jesus said to her, “Woman, believe me, the hour is coming when neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem will you worship the Father. You worship whay you do not know; we worship what we know, for salvation is from the Jews. But the hour is com-ing, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for such

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The fifth Sunday of Pascha is observed in the Ortho-dox Church as the Sunday of the Samaritan Woman. The day commemorates the encounter of Christ with the Samaritan woman at Jacob’s well. The biblical story of this event and the dialog between Christ and the woman is found in the Gospel of Saint John 4:5-42. One of the most ancient cities of the Promised Land was Shechem, also called Sikima, located at the foot of Mount Gerazim. There the Israelites had heard the blessings in the days of Moses and Jesus of Navi. Near to this town, Jacob, who had come from Mesopotamia in the nineteenth century before Christ, bought a piece of land where there was a well. This well, preserved even until the time of Christ, was known as Jacob’s Well. Later, be-fore he died in Egypt, he left that piece of land as a spe-cial inheritance to his son Joseph (Gen 49:22). This town, before it was taken into possession by Samaria, was also the leading city of the Kingdom of the ten tribes. In the time of the Romans it was called Nea-polis, and at present Nablus. It was the first city in Ca-naan visited by the Patriarch Abraham. Here also, Jesus of Navi (Joshua) addressed the tribes of Israel for the last time. Almost three hundred years later, all Israel assembled there to make Roboam (Rehoboam) king. When our Lord Jesus Christ, then, came at mid-day to this city, which is also called Sychar (John

4:5). He was wearied from the journey and the heat. He sat down at this well. After a little while the Samaritan woman mentioned in today’s Gospel passage came to draw water. As she conversed at some length with the Lord and heard from Him secret things concerning her-self, she believed in Him; through her many other Sa-maritans also believed. Concerning the Samaritans we know the follow-ing: In the year 721 before Christ, Salmanasar (Shalmaneser), the King of the Assyrians, took the ten tribes of the kingdom of Israel into captivity, and relo-cated all these people to Babylon and the land of the Medes. From there he gathered various nations and sent them to Samaria. These nations had been idolaters from before. Although they were later instructed in the Jewish faith and believed in the one God, they wor-shipped the idols also. Furthermore, they accepted only the Pentateuch of Moses, and rejected the other books of Holy Scripture. Nonetheless, they thought them-selves to be descendants of Abraham and Jacob. There-fore, the pious Jews named these Judaizing and idola-trous peoples Samaritans, since they lived in Samaria, the former leading city of the Israelites, as well as in the towns thereabout. The Jews rejected them as heathen and foreigners, and had no communion with them at all, as the Samaritan woman observed, “the Jews have no dealings with the Samaritans” (John 4:9). Therefore, the name Samaritan is used derisively many times in the Gospel narrations. After the Ascension of the Lord, and the de-scent of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost, the woman of Samaria was baptized by the holy Apostles and became a great preacher and Martyr of Christ; she was called Photini, and her feast is kept on February 26.

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His Eminence, Metropolitan GREGORY; Protopresbyter Frank Miloro; Protopresbyter John Duranko; Protopresbyter Jim Dutko; Protopresbyter Luke Mihaly; Protopresbyter Lawrence Barriger; Protopresbyter Kenneth Bachofsky; Protopresbyter Michael Polanichka; V. Rev. Thomas Kadlek; Very Rev. John Baranik; Father Jonathan Tobias; V. Rev. Michael Psenechnuk; Rev. James Gleason; V. Rev. Robert Lucas; V. Rev. Jason Kappanadze; Deacon Charles

Ellis; Deacon Donald Koch; Mother Ralphaela; Pani Joan; Pani Kathleen Dutko; Pani Patricia Duranko; Pani-Matka Julia Romanchak; Sally Ellis; Judy Koch; Michael Banik; Helen Verno; Eleanor Adzima; Michael & Delores Kundrat; Vasyl & Lyudmyla Hayova; Helen Coons; Mary Benyo; Anna Chudanic; Michael Matzkevich; Marlene Wheet; Helen Molson; Donna Blazosky; Nancy Murphy-Teed; Joyce Nissen; Chelsea Roman; Gloria Ewsuk; Andrew Chudanic; Tammy Pierson; Jeanne Zimmer; John Cowherd; Sylvia Serdula; Stephen Brancho; Carole Herrlich; Gary Herrlich; Daniel Donnelly; Jean Cox; Dimitri Wallick; John Chach; Andrew Havalchak; Basil Havalchak; Diane Rodrigues; Kathy Snearly-Mahr; Bella; James Hulme; Isaac Glosser; Jeff Kerrick; Rachel Corey; Kristine Garner; Robert & Ellen Zobbi; Helen Nekelek; Julio Falcon; Mildred Sosonka To Jonathan Share who is serving in the United States Navy; and for all of our military personnel serving at home and throughout the world.

Birthdays May 25 Helen Revelas May 26 David Benyo May 28 Kyson Benyo Anniversaries May 27 Dan & Katerina H. O God, grant to your servants who are celebrating their special day good health, happiness, & salvation for many blessed years! Christ is Risen! Mnohaja I Blahaja L'ita! Christos Voskrese!

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“OLD “ SHOE

DRIVE CONTINUES

We are still collecting your “OLD” shoes to benefit the

Rainbow of Hope Animal Rescue in Big Flats.

It’s easy to help, giving your “OLD” shoes a “NEW” life and at the same time help-

ing “Man’s” best friend a better life. Bring your “OLD” shoes to Church and

give them to Pani Joan!

The joyful message of the Resurrection was heard by the faithful women from the angel. Having been freed from the ancestral curse they boasted to the Apostles; “Triumphantly death has been overcome! Christ our God has risen, granting great mercy to the world” When the Paschal Feast is half completed, quench my thirsty soul with the waters of devotion; for You, O Savior, have announced to all: “let him who is thirsty come to Me and drink. O Christ our God, Source of Our Live, glory to You. Glory to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit. When the Samaritan woman came to the well with faith, she beheld You, O Water of Wisdom. You allowed her to drink in abundance and glorified her eternally, for she inherited the heavenly kingdom. Now and ever and forever. Amen O Christ God, Creator and Lord of All, when the Paschal Feast was falf completed, You told those present, “Come and draw the water of immortality. Let us, therefore, adore You and cry out with faith: Grant us Your goodness, for You are the Source of Our Life.”

Tropar & Kondak Sunday of the Samaritan Women; Mid-Pentecost;

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Science and Nature Camp @

Camp Nazareth Sunday, August 4 – Saturday, August 10

Camp Nazareth is pleased to announce its THIRD ANNUAL Science and Nature Camp which will take place August 4-10, 2019!!! Camp participants will learn all about Astronomy, Biology, Earth Science, Geology, Meteorology and SO MUCH MORE! Participants will have the opportunity to use telescopes, microscopes, and other equipment used to study and learn about nature. But most importantly, they will explore the trails, waterfalls, streams and geography of the Camp. Special emphasis will be placed on appreciat-ing the beauty of nature and the wonder of the fields of science they will study. The Science and Nature Camp is a resident (sleepaway) Camp with a Day Camp option for ages 8-18. It will take place on the 289 beautiful acres of Camp Nazareth property located at 339 Pew Road, Mercer, PA. Online Registration is now open. Visit campnazareth.org to register for the Science and Nature Camp. Email campnazareth@acrod.org or call 724-662-4840 for more information. In addition to the Science and Nature program, participants will enjoy the many amenities Camp Nazareth has to offer including a Junior Olympic-size swimming pool, the High and Low Ropes Course including a 750 foot Zip Line, climate-controlled cabins, sports fields and basketball courts, a large Rec Room, a volleyball court, and more.