St.

Philip the Apostle Byzantine (Ruthenian) Catholic

Church
3866 65 th street
Sacramento, CA 95820
Phone: (916) 452-1888 E-mail: feromurin@hotmail.com
http://www.stphilipofsacramento.com/ Mobile: (916) 539-1534

Christ is Risen! Indeed, He is Risen!

Christos Voskres! Voistinu Voskres!

From the Fathers

St. Gregory the Great
One blow falls on the sinner for punishment only, not conversion. Another occurs
for correction; still another happens not in order to correct past sins but for the
prevention of future sins. Another blow happens neither for correcting past nor
preventing future sins. Rather, the unexpected deliverance following the blow
serves to excite a love more focused on the Savior’s goodness.
Announcements
• Last Sunday’s attendance was 31 souls, collection was 1115.00 total (tithes: 828,
Bishop’s Appeal: 220, gift shop: 60, candles: 7). May our Lord God reward you
abundantly for your generosity.
• Thank you to Aggie Ward for providing meal for hospitality after church last Sunday.
• Happy Mothers’ Day! To all mothers in our parish and in our families, may good God
grant many happy years. I pray that you fulfill your great vocation , and that His grace
molds you every day into the perfection of motherhood, a fuller image of Mary, the
Mother of the Son of God, our Lord Jesus Christ, and our Mother.
• Hospitality sign-up sheet: Gene Ford (May 16), Ted & Darlene Janson (May30).
Please sign up.
• On Thursday, May 13th, we celebrate the feast of the Ascension to heaven of our Lord.
It is marked as holy day of obligation in our liturgical calendar.
• Please remember in your prayers the sick and suffering members of our parish family:
Steve Klinkovsky, Metropolitan Basil Schott.
• Thank you to all who came to pray Moleben to the Holy Theotokos at Christ the King
Retreat Center last Sunday. We will meet again next Sunday, May 16th, at 3:30 PM.
Please invite friends and family.
• For Moleben service in May, we would like to offer to those who come, bottled water
and cookies. If you can help to purchase/make some or know someone who can help, it
would be greatly appreciated.
• Bishop’s Appeal 2010 ends soon (May 31)! We are still a long way from reaching our
goal this year. Please, consider donating.
Liturgical schedule
Tue May 11th 6.30 AM Divine Liturgy. (p. 189)
Thu May 6.00 PM Divine Liturgy The Ascension of Our
13th Lord. Holy Day of
Obligation. (p. 191)

Sun May 9.00 AM Confessions. Sunday of the Fathers of

16th 9.40 AM Canon of Matins. the First Ecumenical
10.00 AM Divine Liturgy. Council. (p. 196)
Fridays in general are marked as days of simple abstinence or
equivalent penance. Let us remember each other as we offer prayers and sacrifices
to God, in union with the Cross of Christ.

A Mother Dies many Deaths (by St. John Chrysostom)

It is difficult to avoid sufferings in married life. The wife, even though she will
only have to die once herself, is still afraid of many deaths. Though she has only
one soul of her own, she is deeply concerned for many souls. She is afraid for her
husband; she is afraid for her children. The more the family tree has blossomed,
the more the fears increase. If one of her family suffers misfortune, such as the
loss of money or an illness, she is desolated, and more agonized than the victim
himself. If all the rest of the family leaves this life before she does, this is an
intolerable suffering for her. If death has not taken its toll of them all, the fact that
any one of them is left is certainly a consolation to her, but a consolation imbued
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with anxiety. The fear that troubles her for those still alive is no less than her grief
for those who have departed this life. Indeed, although it may surprise you, her
case is even more desperate. For time softens the grief caused by the death of her
loved ones, but anxiety for the living never ceases.