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, 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).
"Orthodoxy
proposes and does not impose itself: there
is individual human freedom to work with the
Holy Spirit in a personal and communal way "
+Metropolitan Constantine
PLEASE, PLEASE,
PLEASE! PRAY FOR PEACE IN THE WORLD AND
IN OUR LIVES!
Please PRAY for
our parish family, all first responders,
all front-line workers, and all
those who have no one to pray for them--prayers
are ALWAYS FREE!!!
Please remember all those on our parish Prayer List in
your prayers, especially His Eminence,
Metropolitan Antony, His Eminence,
Archbishop Daniel, Father John
Haluszczak, Father Paul Bigelow, Father
Joe Cervo, Father Paisius McGrath, Liz
Obradovich, Mary Anne Kuznik, Bonnie
Blair, Judy Previc, Laura Dickson, and
Father Bob. 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!
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.
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 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.
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of the 21 New Coptic Martyrs
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Weekly Bulletin
08
December 2024 ***** SERVICE
UPSTAIRS 10:30 AM***** FR. BOB
CELL: 412-956-6626
24TH SUNDAY
AFTER
PENTECOST;
LEAVE-TAKING
OF THE ENTRY
OF THE
THEOTOKOS;
HIEROMARTYR
CLEMENT-POPE
OF ROME;
HIEROMARTYR
PETER-ARCHBISHOP
OF ALEXANDRIA;
VENERABLE
PETER THE
SILENT OF
GALATA-SYRIA
Tone 7
Ephesians
2:14-22;
Hebrews 9:1-7
Luke 13:10-17;
Luke 10:38-42,
11:27-38
Litany in
Blessed Memory
of Thomas
Bryan, Pearl
Hanczar, John
Hanczar, Helen
Pytlak, Mary
Blitskan,
Marjorie
Yarmeak, Mary
Sharon, Rose
Pyrch, Cynthia
Mycyk, Frank
Barankovich,
Mary
Krevanich,
Katherine
Holowaty,
& Robert
Vetosky—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.
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