Holy Ghost Orthodox Church is a
multi-ethnic, English-speaking Orthodox parish
in rural Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania. We
are located approximately halfway between
Delmont and Saltsburg, off of State Route 819
(five miles north of US Route 22 East of
Murrysville). Under the Omophorion of HisEminence,
Archbishop Daniel, Ruling Hierarch of
the Western Eparchy of the Ukrainian
Orthodox Church of the USA. Holy Ghost has been
serving Our Lord since its founding by Galician
Immigrants in 1923.
Although Holy Ghost is a small parish by today's
standards, the people of our parish pride
themselves on their hospitality and love towards
our visitors. Please plan to stay
after Divine Liturgy for our Coffee Hour
Social Time.
Please feel free to contact Father Robert
Popichak if you have any questions or are
interested in learning about the Orthodox
Church. Father Bob has served at Holy Ghost
since January of 1998.
All Services are in English.
Holy Day Services are announced in the weekly
bulletin (see below).
Announcements:
We are open
again...please observe CDC and PA
Department of Health guidelines--including
mask usage!
Please PRAY
for our parish family, all first
responders, all front-line
workers, and all those impacted by
the COVID-19 pandemic.
Slickville
celebrated its Centennial in August of
2017...check out the celebration website at www.slickville100.com
!!!
Please remember all those on our parish Prayer List in
your prayers, especially His Eminence,
Metropolitan Antony, His Eminence,
Archbishop Daniel, Father Paul Bigelow,
Father Joe Cervo, Father Paisius
McGrath, Father George Livanos, Liz
Obradovich, Mary Ann Kuznik, Bonnie
Blair, Martha Nezolyk, S0nia Luciow,
Pani-Matka Sonia Diakiw, and Judy
Previc. May our Lord
Himself be a source of recovery and
comfort to them.
There is now a
"clearing house" for Orthodox events in
the Greater Pittsburgh region: www.pittsburghorthodox.com
is up and running with lots of new
information--check it out!
A VERY SPECIAL
THANK YOU TO THE ESTATE OF FRANCES M. GEBET
and the kind and very generous donation to
our humble parish in her memory by her son,
mother of Subdeacon Gary
& Natalie Gebet. May God grant
her the Kingdom of Heaven and Life
Everlasting! Vechnaya Pam'yat!
Memory Eternal! Thank you, Subdeacon
Gary and Natalie!
THANK YOU to Reader Alexander Popichak,
who revised and modified this web page to
be both beautiful and Much More Functional
than my rudimentary one. Thanks
Alex, and God Bless you for your work for
His Church!
Please continue to
pray for the guests and staff of the Eastern
Orthodox Foundation!
Please
remember in your
prayers His
Eminence,
Metropolitan
Paul, and His
Eminence, Mar
Gregorios, who
were kidnapped
in
April.
Media coverage
continues to
be
minimal to
non-existent!
“Metropolitan
Paul Yazigi of the
Greek Orthodox
Archdiocese of Aleppo
(brother of His
Beatitude Patriarch
John X of the Great
City-of-God Antioch
and all the East), and
Mar Gregorios Yohanna
Ibrahim of the Syriac
Orthodox Archdiocese
of Aleppo, were both
abducted this morning,
Monday, April 22nd,
while they were
traveling together on
the road between
Antioch (Antakya,
Turkey) and the north
Syrian city of
Aleppo. The
driver of the vehicle
in which they were
traveling was killed
in the attack.
Your prayers are
requested.”
Icon
of the 21 New Coptic Martyrs
of Libya
Please remember in your prayers
the departed Handmaiden of God
Helen McNally, who remembered
our parish with a very generous
gift from her estate. May
God grant her the Kingdom of
Heaven and Life
Everlasting! Vechnaya
Pam'yat! Memory
Eternal! God Bless her
family...
A very special THANK YOU
to Darlene D. for her very kind
donation to our church.
May God reward her a
thousand-fold for her
generosity. God Bless you!
SUNDAY OF THE PRODIGAL SON;
APOSTLE ONESIMUS OF THE 70;
VENERABLE PAPHNUTIUS-MONK
& DAUGHTER SAINT
EUPHROSYNE-NUN OF
ALEXANDRIA; VENERABLE
EUSEBIUS-HERMIT OF SYRIA;
VENERABLE PAPHNUTIUS-RECLUSE
OF PERCHEVSKY LAVRA Tone 5
1 Corinthians 6:12-20
Luke 15:11-32
Litany in Blessed Memory of
Milton G. Chicka, Daniel
Pysh, Sara Chicka, Nickolai
Pivtoraiko, Evelyn Burlack,
Anne Cherepko Mazock, Roy
Wyke, Katherine Debick,
William Boretsky, & Mary
Pelino—Fr. Bob Please Note:
Holy Ghost follows the "Old" or Julian
Calendar for fixed feasts--meaning that we
celebrate the Nativity
of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ on 07
January on the Gregorian or "civil"
calendar.