09/05/2026
SUNDAY BULLETIN: September 6, 2026
UPCOMING EVENTS
August 29th Beheading of John the Baptist
September 1 : Beginning of New Liturgical Year
7:30PM Divine Liturgy : All are welcome
Knights of Columbus Installation of Officers
September 2, 16, & 30 Pierogie Making
September 13, Women’s Guild Meeting : 11:15AM
September 13: WAR DOCTORS: A film exerpt of the War Doctors at the front in
Ukraine : Ako K
October 3 Parish Flea market & Food festival and Pop up Bakery
October 4 11:15AM CHILDREN’s CLASSES BEGIN
EPISTLE READER SCHEDULE
September 5 Myron Shegda 6 Connor Campbell
12th : Dan Shegda 13 Eugene Storozynski
19th Terri Weist 20th: Garrett Forss
26th Kathy Shegda 26th: Dermot Curtin
Anyone wishing to join our Lectors in reading the Epistle for Saturday or Sunday please see Fr Dan or Marilyn Kurman after Liturgy. Thank you
RENOVATION PLEDGES
We thank all who have made their pledges and continue to help us meet our goal.
We are continuing to ask for your help in meeting our financial goal, God bless all of you for your continued support of our parish mission. We have reached 108,500 out of $115,000. We are coming closer and closer to our goal.
CHRISTMAS BASKET RAFFLE TIME:Deadline for collections 9/3
The ladies have begun collecting items and baskets for our Basket Raffle in December. Even though it is summer we are preparing our baskets to begin selling tickets at our October flea market and festival.Special thanks to all those who have already donated. We are still in need of gift cards, tickets for sports events, shows or stores, lottery tickets, themed baskets, or cash donations. Your support in the past years has been tremendous, and we hope we can count on your support again. For further information see Kathy Shegda or Terri Weist. 484-645-4700
Special thanks to all those who have already stepped up and donated. God bless you
PARISH FLEA MARKET : FOOD FESTIVAL : POP UP BAKERY
Our Fall festival will be held on October 3, 2026 from 9:00AM -3:00PM. Anyone wishing to participate in the flea market please contact Myron Shegda at 610-328-4731.
We will be having a meeting to prepare for the festival on September 14 at 6:00PM in the social hall. We will need volunteers to help at the various posts. Please sign up in the vestibule of the church. We can’t do this without your support.
Opening Hymn:
Hosts of angels sing your glory O most holy Trinity
Holy, holy, holy God, Holy , holy , holy Christ Holy, holy ,Holy Spirit
Lord of might.
We your people as we gather, give your praise and worship
Holy, holy, holy God….
FIFTEENTH SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST
Troparion and Kontakion:
Troparion (6): Angelic powers were upon Your tomb and the guards became like dead men; Mary stood before Your tomb seeking Your most pure body. You captured Hades without being overcome by it. You met the Virgin and granted life. O Lord risen from the dead, glory be to You!
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit. Now and for ever and ever: Amen.
Kontakion (6): With His life-giving hand, Christ our God, the Giver of life, raised all the dead from the murky abyss and bestowed resurrection upon humanity. He is for all, the Savior, the Resurrection and the Life, and the God of all..
Prokimenon: (6): Save, Your people, O Lord, and bless Your inheritance.
Verse: Unto You I will cry, O Lord, my God, lest You turn from me in silence. Prokimenon (3): Great is our Lord, vast in power, with wisdom beyond measure.
Epistle: Reading of the Second Epistle of St. Paul to the Corinthians. (2Cor 4,6-15) Brothers and sisters For God, who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,”[a] made his light shine in our hearts to give us the light of the knowledge of God’s glory displayed in the face of Christ.7 But we have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this all-surpassing power is from God and not from us. 8 We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in
despair; 9 persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed. 10 We always carry around in our body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body. 11 For we who are alive are always being given over to death for Jesus’ sake, so that his life may also be revealed in our mortal body. 12 So then, death is at work in us, but life is at work in you.13 It is written: “I believed; therefore I have spoken.”[b] Since we have that same spirit of[c] faith, we also believe and therefore speak, 14 because we know that the one who raised the Lord Jesus from the dead will also raise us with Jesus and present us with you to himself. 15 All this is for your benefit, so that the grace that is reaching more and more people may cause thanksgiving to overflow to the glory of God.
Alleluia Verses: Verse (6): He who lives in the aid of the Most High, shall dwell under the protection of the God of heaven. Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia.
Verse (6): He says to the Lord: You are my protector and my refuge, my God; in Whom I hope. Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia.
Gospel: (Mt 22,35-46) At that time, a scholar of the law tested Jesus by asking, “Teacher, which commandment in the law is the greatest?” He said to him, “You shall love the Lord, your God, with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the greatest and the first commandment. The second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. The whole law and the prophets depend on these two commandments.” While the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus questioned them, saying, “What is your opinion about the Messiah? Whose son is he?” They replied, “David's.” He said to them, “How, then, does David, inspired by the Spirit, call him ‘lord,’ saying, ‘The Lord said to my lord, “Sit at my right hand until I place your enemies under your feet?”’ If David calls him ‘lord’, how can he be his son?” No one was able to answer him a word, nor from that day on did anyone dare to ask him any more questions. Communion Verse: Praise the Lord from the heavens; praise Him in the highest. You adorn the year with Your bounty, O Lord
Communion Hymn
Blessed Virgin Mary hear our cry and plea.
Hearken to our voices calling out to thee:
Help us Mary Blessed Mary Help us go they way,
Help us Mary Blessed Mary , pray for us this day
Blessed Lady Queen and Mother from thy holy place
Come to us now be with us now Mother full of Grace (2)
WAR DOCTORS
A Ukrainian film maker Ako K. is working on a documentary: War Doctors about the doctors who are working at the front lines in Ukraine. It is a brutal reminder of the human toll war takes on those men and women on the front line and those working to help and heal them. The director is collecting funds to be able to complete his documentary and get it produced and distributed..
There will be a brief exerpt from the film and a presentation by the film maker on September 13 at 11:30AM in the Social hall. All are welcome.
SEPTEMBER 13: WOMEN’S GUILD MEETING
The members of our HMB Women’s Guild will be meeting on September 13, 2026 at 11:15AM in the conference room. There will be a meeting concerning up coming events. All are invited and welcome!
PROMETHEUS CHOIR TO SING THE DIVINE LITURY
The oldest world renowned Ukrainian Male Chorus of Philadelphia will be singing the responses to the 10:00AM Divine Liturgy in Ukrainian on September 27. For those of you who love that good old time religion, this will be a very powerful glimpse into the four part harmony choirs of our church tradition. There will be a covered dish social after the Divine Liturgy. Please save the date! We thank Andrew Leskiw, President of the choir for offering to come and pray with us!
CHURCH CHOIR
We thank our cantor Connor Campbell for his time and talent in learning our Ukrainian tones and music and leading us so beautifully in the responses to the Divine Liturgy. He is looking for a few good voices to join him in singing in the church choir. Please see him after the Divine Liturgy if you are interested. Thank you
BIBLE CLASSES TO BEGIN OCTOBER 6th
We will be covering the letters of James, Peter 1 & 2 and John 1 & 2. Please join us in person or via zoom.
CHILDREN’s CCD will begin on October 4 at 11:15 AM in the conference room. Please share your faith with your children , it is the greatest inheritance you can give them.
PRIEST’S RETREAT : The annual priests retreat for our archeparchy will be held from September 26 –October 1st. 2026 at San Alphonso Retreat House. NJ
Please remember your priests in your daily prayers.
SPECIAL THANKS: PIEROGIE MAKING
Special t hanks to all those who came to help with our pierogie making this past week: Helen Gottschalk, Maryann Schloss, Kathy Mea, Rita Poslushnyj, Dan Alloway, Gloria Minchak, Toni McCarron Jackie Melvin, Roberta Ferris. Janie Murphy, Pat Simchock., Zorianna Malseed, Pat Inglesby, Fran Denkowycz, Marily Kurman, Terry Walter, Donna Girton, Lily Scheivert, Barbara Huddle, Pat Keevill, Olha Makodrai, , Myron Shegda, Allen Hladish, Irene Leichliter, Peggy Stuart Lesia Kurlowicz, Karen Sacks, Mary Boyko, Bernie Rhoades Judy Ferrara,
HALUPKY MAKING thank you
Special thanks to Maryann Schloss, Kathy Mea, Rita Poslushnyj, Helen Gottschalk, Chrystof and Valentina Falkowski, Irene Leichliter, Jackie Melvin, Carolyn Ondo, Dan Alloway, who came this past Friday to make holupky.
FOOT BALL RAFFLE TICKETS
KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS
Raffle tickets are available to support the Knights of Columbus activities. Tickets are available in the social hall after liturgy at $10. Your ticket has different teams each week, the team with the most or least score for that game is the winner!
Holy Myrrh-Bearers
Ukrainian Catholic Church
900 Fairview Rd, Swarthmore PA 19081
Church Office : 610-544-1215
Pierogie Orders: 610-544-1216
[email protected] [email protected]
Rev. Archpriest Daniel Troyan: Pastor
Cell: 717-554-2994
CONFESSIONS: Confession is available every Saturday
from 3:30PM- 4:30PM
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SATURDAY 5:00PM (English) For the People
+Assunta Mastriani – Fr Dan15th Sunday After Pentecost : September 6, 2026
10:00AM (English/Ukrainian) +Yarema Rudakevich – Helen Gottschalk
MONDAY St Sozon
TU ESDAY FEAST OF THE BIRTH OF THE MOTHER OF GOD
5:00PM Special Intention: Linda Szuler - family
WEDNESDAY Synaxis of Sts Joachim & Anne
12:00 noon : ROSARY FOR PEACE
THURSDAY St Menodora
FRIDAY St Theodora
9:00AM Special Intention: Sr Theodora OSBM
SATURDAY BEFORE THE EXALTATION OF THE HOLY CROSS
5:00PM (English) FOR THE PEOPLE
SUNDAY BEFORE THE EXALTATION OF THE HOLY CROSS
10:00AM (English/Ukrainian) +Van Leichliter – HMB Women ‘s Guild
Sunday Collection $ 2246.00
Collection $1309 Candles $ 67 Food Sales $ 812 Hospitality $ 33
Flea Market $ 25
Eternal Light and Altar Candles Intention
In memory of +Van Leighliter – Anna Budiwsky
LIVESTREAMED LITURGIES
The Divine Liturgy on Sunday Mornings 10:00AM is Livestreamed on our page:
LOGIN on Holy Myrrhbearers page for Live Feed
UKRAINIAN RELIEF FUND. Financial donations are being accepted at our church: please
make your checks payable to HMB Church, in the bottom notation please write: Ukrainian
Relief Fund.
Please remember to pray for the sick and homebound of our parish and those who have requested our prayers: Msgr Peter Waslo Fr Wayne Ruchgy ,,Robert & Pat Keevill, ,Olena Horbowyj , Fr Paul Wolensky Fr Robert Hitchens , Millie Kozak, Joseph Felix Stella Matyszczak, Michael Kowal, Kathleen Trautz Michael Ferraro , Stephen Stafford, , Diane Waskiewicz,, Delores Clark, ,Kelly Moore, George & Charlotte Piasecki, Darlene Day, Anne Duffy, Diane Gaffney, Steve Rothermich. Dawn McElwee, Jay Dennis Barbara Huddle Barbara Doherty, Bill Heiden Mark Lojewski, Bill Lessig Carol Moore, Helen Tymochko, Bohdan Horbowyj Donna Federle, Barbara Bater Michael McCormick Ginny Schad, Bette Diedriech ,Fran Denkowycz,,Will Kolavage, Krystof and Valentina Falkowski,
VISITATION OF THE SICK If you would like your family member to be visited please give
Fr Dan a call and arrange for a time for visitation
RENOVATIONS TO BEGIN THIS FALL
Our church renovations have been pushed forward a bit.more . She is currently finishing another project which had unexpected delays. Thank you for your patience.
Scaffolding and work to begin at the beginning of October.
SAVE THE DATE:October 17th Reporting and Benefit Soiree for the support of the Ukrainian Catholic Archeparchy.
FEAST OF THE NATIVITY OF THE MOTHER OF GOD
On Tuesday at 5:00PM we will celebrate the birth of Mary, the Mother of God. It starts the liturgical cycle of our new year with the plan of God being realized in the birth of Mary, who as the new Eve would say “yes” to God’s love and become of the Mother of our Savior. Please join us in honoring our greatest intercessor before God.
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