Holy Ghost Orthodox Church

Announcements: We will hold services downstairs on selected Sundays of each month to accommodate those parishioners and guests who are unable to climb the church stairs. Please share this information with others who do not have internet access! 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, Cindy Mycyk, 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 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 kind 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!
Welcome! 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 His Eminence, 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).
Weekly Bulletin 24 May 2020 NO SERVICE IN SLICKVILLE From our Council of Bishops: "However, we do direct that ALL our faithful over the age of 65 completely refrain from visiting their parish churches because they are the most vulnerable and susceptible to the pandemic virus." See this link for the entire letter. 05-02-2020 Updated Letter from our Council of Bishops Active Now! links to on-line services Link to BLESSING OF PALMS video Link to Paschal Obednitza Video SIXTH SUNDAY OF PASCHA; SUNDAY OF THE BLIND MAN; HEIROMARTYR MOCIUS; HOLY EQUALS-T0-THE-APOSTLES METHODIUS & CYRIL, TEACHERS OF THE SLAVS; VENERABLE SOPHRONIUS-RECLUSE OF PERCHEVSKY LAVRA Tone 5 Acts 16:16-34; Hebrews 7:26-8:2 John 9:1-38; Matthew 5:14-19 Litany in Blessed Memory of Gary Drapcho—Reader Alexander’s coworker, and Anastasia Kalistchuck, Metropolitan Yurij of Canada’s mother THURSDAY, MAY 28 THE GLORIOUS ASCENSION OF OUR LORD AND SAVIOR 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.*
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Holy Ghost Ukrainian Orthodox Church

714 Westmoreland Avenue
P.O. Box 3
Slickville, PA 15684-0003

For a map to our church, click here

Divine Liturgy:
Sundays at 10:30 AM

Very Rev. Father Robert Popichak
Pastor Father Robert
Popichak

Home:
412-279-5640
Cell:
412-956-6626
e-mail Father Bob

Featured Images:

Sunday of the Man Born Blind--Icon
Descent into Hades Icon
Pokrova--Theotokos Protector of Pittsburgh

PRAYER CHALLENGE
Pray for those who have no one
to pray for them!!!

A little bit of Slickville is
everywhere!

Slickville is everywhere!

Bishop Daniel Visits Slickville
03-20-2016

Special Thanks to Vladyka Daniel and the seminarians who visited our parish for Divine Liturgy and coffee hour!
Eis Polla, Eti Despota, Vladyka Daniel!

Click here to see Alex's article and some Slickville photos on the UOCofUSA Website!

CHRISTIAN
ORTHODOXY:
Proclaiming the Truth
since 33 AD!

Welcome!

Announcements:

Weekly Bulletin

Holy Ghost Ukrainian Orthodox Church