Weekly Bulletin

His Eminence Metropolitan Nicholas

120 W. Seneca St. Ithaca, NY 14850 http://www.stcatherine.ny.goarch.org

TEL. 607-273-2767 e-mail: stcatherinegoc@gmail.com

Fr. Zenoviy Zharsky /607/ 245-9988

 

Sunday, October 12, 2025

 

Welcome all visitors, please come again.

 

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"By changing ourselves in Christ, we are able to change the world around us"

 

Please let Father know who is in need of visiting and prayers. 

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Daily reading of the holy scripture, Saints for the day, liturgical schedule, news from the parish life, announcements and more, please read the Sunday Bulletin on the parish websitewww.stcatherine.ny.goarch.org 

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Scripture Reading: 

Matins: Gospel Reading: John 20:1-10. Divine Liturgy Epistle: Titus 3:8-15. Gospel: Luke 8:5-15.

When you write your will, won't you please remember St. Catherine's Church? Such a gift will live forever as our church minister to our spiritual needs and others It's an investment in the Gospel of our Lord and life eternal. 

We pray for those who celebrate their birthday. Хρόνια πολλά & ευλογημενα! God grant you many years!  October: 11 Katherine Karakantas, 11 Angela Teeter, 12 Paul Lambrou, 14 Sidney Wolff. 

October 26 We will honor the memory of Martyr Demetrios. Following the Divine Liturgy you will be anointed with holy oil consecrated on his relics. Also on this day we will be able to venerate the relic of Martyr Zenovios.

If any of your loved ones served in the armed forces in Greece during the OXI Day era please let us know. We will pray and remember them on Sunday, October 26.

Memory Eternal! October 10 Athena Andritsakis, 11 Catherine Preston, 13 Aleksandar Bradic, 17 Anthoula Eptimiatos.

Those who build a house of God on earth build for themselves a house in heaven. Please support St. Catherine church.

Philoptochos: Today, our monthly Philoptochos meeting. Please join us! Our proposed 2026 budget is the main topic of this meeting along with updates on projects we hope to undertake soon.

Save the date: St. Catherine General Assembly scheduled for Sunday, October 26 following Divine Liturgy in the Parish Hall. Please plan to attend 

Please mark your calendar. December 19 and 20 Philoptochos Bake Sale.  

On Wednesday, October 15^th students from OCF (Orthodox Christians Fellowship) will be visiting the miraculous icon of the Theotokos, Kardiotisa in Taylor, PA. We are asking for volunteers who may be able to drive them that day or assist with arranging a rental car. Thank you. 

Announcement: If you didn't give names and date of your birthdays and your families birthdays please provide them. Also please give the names and dates of your family members who fell asleep in the Lord. We will pray for them. The list of the names located near the Sundays Bulletins. Thank you.

Tomorrow, Monday, October 13 - 10:00 AM Divine Liturgy. Translation of the relics of St. Savas the Sanctified from Venice to Jerusalem.

 

Liturgical Schedule:  Daily 3:00 PM. Let's pray Jesus Prayer for 10 minutes straight saying,"Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me a sinner." 

 

Monday, October 13 - 10:00 AM Divine Liturgy. 3:00 PM. Jesus Prayer: "Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me a sinner"

 

Tuesday, October 14 - 3:00 PM. Jesus Prayer: "Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me a sinner"

 

Wednesday, October 15 - 3:00 PM. Jesus Prayer: "Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercyon me a sinner" Day of Fasting.  Every Wednesday we remember when Judas betrayed Christ. 6:00 PM. Prayers near Miraculous Icon Mother of God "The Tender Heart" St. George's Orthodox Church in Taylor, PA. 

 

Thursday, October 16 - 3:00 PM. Jesus Prayer: "Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me a sinner" 

 

Friday, October 17 - 3:00 PM.Jesus Prayer: "Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me a sinner." Every Friday we commemorate Christ's Crucifixion. Day of Fasting. 

 

Saturday, October 18 - 3:00 PM. JesusPrayer: "Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me a sinner" 6:00 PM. Great Vespers/Confession. Reading the life of the Saints. Catechism classes following the Vespers.

 

Sunday, October 19 - 8:45 AM Orthros/Confession. 10:00 AM Divine Liturgy. Every Sunday we commemorate Christ's resurrection.

 

Yesturday, October 11 - We remembered the miracle from an Icon of our Lord Jesus Christ in Beirut: At the fourth session of the Seventh Ecumenical Council (year 787) Sainted Peter, Bishop of Nicomedia, in evidence of the necessity of icon-veneration, presented an account of Saint Athanasias and about a miracle, which occurred in the city of Berit (now Beirut).
In this city lived a Christian near the Jewish synagogue. Having moved off to another place, he left behind at the house an icon of the Lord Jesus Christ. The Jew, who moved into the house, paid no attention to the icon. One time his friend took note of the image of Jesus Christ on the wall, and said to the home-owner: "Why dost thou, a Jew, have in thy house an icon?" He then went to the synagogue and reported about this transgression of Jewish law. The Jews cast out from the synagogue the owner of the house, and they took the icon from the wall and began to scoff over it: "As once our fathers mocked at Him, so we also mock at Him". They spit at the face of the Lord, lashed at the icon, hurling abuses, they thrust thorns about the head, and put a sponge with vinegar to the mouth. Finally, they took a spear, and one of the Jews thrust with it into the side of the Saviour. Suddenly from the opening, pierced by the spear in the icon, flowed blood and water. The Jewish rabbis, seeing the miracle, decided: "The followers of Jesus Christ affirm, that He could heal the sick. We shall take this blood and water into the synagogue and we shall anoint those afflicted with infirmities, and then we shall see, whether this be spoken truly of Him".

A vessel with the blood was put in the synagogue. Having learned about the miracle, the inhabitants of Beirut began to bring and to lead into the synagogue those suffering from various illnesses, and they all were healed, having been anointed with the blood from the icon of the Saviour. All the people believed in Christ and exclaimed: "Glory to Thee, O Christ, Whom our fathers crucified, Whom we also crucified in the guise of Thine icon. Glory to Thee, O Son of God, for having worked such a miracle! We believe in Thee, wherefore be Thou merciful to us and receive us!" The Jews went to the bishop of Berit and, having shown him the wonderworking icon, the blood and water having flowed from it, they told about their misdeed. The bishop, seeing their sincere repentance, accepted them, catechised them for many days and then baptised them, and then consecrated the synagogue into the church of our Saviour Jesus Christ. At the request of the Jews, he consecrated also other synagogues into churches, dedicated to the holy martyrs. And "there became great joy in that city, not only that many people were healed and quickened, but that many souls passed from the kingdom of the dead unto life eternal". 

 

Today, October 12 - We commemorate the Seventh Ecumenical Council, convoked by the Empress Irene and met at Nicaea from September 24 to October 13, 787. Patriarch Tarasios presided. The council ended almost fifty years of iconoclast persecution and established the veneration of the holy icons as basic to the belief and spirituality of Christ's Church. As the Synaxarion says, "It was not simply the veneration of the holy images that the Fathers defended in these terms but, in fact, the very reality of the Incarnation of the Son of God." Although, in holding the seventh place, the Council of Nicaea has taken to itself the symbol of perfection and completion represented by this number in Holy Scripture (Gen. 2:1-3). It closes the era of the great dogmatic disputes which enabled the Church to describe, in definitions excluding all ambiguity, the bounds of the holy Orthodox Faith. From that time, every heresy that appears can be related to one or other of the errors that the Church, assembled in universal Councils, has anathematized.                                                           

In Greek Orthodox practice, the holy Fathers of the Seventh Ecumenical Council are commemorated on the Sunday which follows October 11. 

 

Wisdom of the Saints. 

"The study of spiritual virtue when it is not in accord to one's way of living leads to daydreaming and brings one to a false spiritual condition."

"Come let us make an effort; come let us fall down before God, let us steadfastly lament and shed tears before Him, that He might grant us spiritual enlightenment."

"We must therefore submit to the Lord's will thankfully; for then our frequent illnesses and our fight against demonic thoughts will be counted a second martyrdom."

"Similarly, until a man lives among other men and experiences the misfortunes arising in the world and as a result of his own fall, God cannot lead him to a calm and safe harbor."

"Human pride also manifests itself to a greats extent when an ordinary mortal dares to compare himself with; God's saints, and does not see their great and wonderful per fections acquired by their own exploits, with the assistance of the grace of God."  / St. Ephraim the Syrian/

The Apostle Paul says, "Pray without ceasing." He teaches men to have the remembrance of God in all times and places. If you are making something you must call to mind the Creator of all things; if you see the light, remember the Giver of it, if you see the heavens and the earth and the sea and all that is in them, wonder and praise the Maker of them. In short, let every action be a cause of your remembering and praising God, and will be praying without ceasing and therein your soul will always rejoice. 

Οκτωβρίου 12 - Τω αυτώ μηνί ΙΒ', μνήμη των Αγίων Μαρτύρων Πρόβου, Ταράχου και Ανδρονίκου.  Ξίφει Τάραχος Ανδρόνικος και Πρόβος,

 

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Methods of Giving:

Cash and checks can be brought to the church and put in the donation baskets.

 

Checks made out to Saint Catherine Greek Orthodox Church can also be mailed to:

St. Catherine Greek Orthodox Church

120 W. Seneca St Ithaca, NY 14850

 

When you write your will, won't you please remember St. Catherine's Church? Such a gift will live forever as our church minister to our spiritual needs and others. It's an investment in the Gospel of our Lord and life eternal.

 

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