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Services at St. John the Baptist Cathedral in Munhall, Pa. Page 3
VOL. 66 NO. 3 MARCH 2021
a joyful kenosis
fish fry season
Sister Barbara Jean Mihalchick reflects on Palm Sunday Pages 4
St. Elias in Munhall, Pa. opens its Lenten Kitchen for 2021 Page 5
Sunday of Orthodoxy
“The Liturgy of Jerusalem”
father deacon daniel galadza guest speaker at 21st annual ss. cyril and methodius lecture Press release by the Byzantine Catholic Seminary of SS. Cyril and Methodius
Father Vasyl Banyk (left) blesses icons on the First Sunday of the Great Fast, the Sunday of Orthodoxy, Feb. 21 at Holy Trinity in Sykesville, Pa. At right is Deacon Lucas Crawford. For more photos, see page 5.
Lent is time to grow in faith, hope, love, pope says
“Love rejoices in seeing others grow...,” pope francis writes in lenten message that demean, sadden, anger or by Cindy Wooden Francis emphasized how the show scorn,'” a quote from the Catholic News Service Lenten practices not only promote encyclical. individual conversion, but also VATICAN CITY — As “In order to give hope to others, should have an impact on others. Christians pray, fast and give it is sometimes enough simply “By receiving forgiveness in the alms during Lent, they also to be kind, to be ‘willing to set sacrament that lies at the heart should consider giving a smile everything else aside in order of our process of conversion, we and offering a kind word to to show interest, to give the gift in turn can spread forgiveness to people feeling alone or frightened of a smile, to speak a word of others,” he said. “Having received because of the coronavirus encouragement, to listen amid forgiveness ourselves, we can offer pandemic, Pope Francis said. general indifference,'” he said, it through our willingness to enter “Love rejoices in seeing others again quoting the document. into attentive dialogue with others grow. Hence it suffers when The Lenten practices of fasting, and to give comfort to those others are anguished, lonely, sick, almsgiving and prayer were experiencing sorrow and pain.” homeless, despised or in need,” preached by Jesus and continue The pope’s message contained the pope wrote in his message for to help believers experience and several references to his encyclical Lent 2021. express conversion, the pope “Fratelli Tutti, on Fraternity and The message, released by the wrote. Social Friendship.” Vatican Feb. 12, focuses on Lent “The path of poverty and For example, he prayed that as “a time for renewing faith, hope self-denial” through fasting, during Lent Catholics would and love” through the traditional “concern and loving care for be “increasingly concerned with practices of prayer, fasting and the poor” through almsgiving ‘speaking words of comfort, almsgiving. And, by going to and “childlike dialogue with the strength, consolation and confession. encouragement, and not words Throughout the message, Pope Story continued on page 10
Father Deacon Daniel Galadza will deliver both in person and through livestream the 21st annual SS. Cyril and Methodius Lecture of the Byzantine Catholic Seminary entitled "The Liturgy of Jerusalem: History, Theology, and Lessons for Today." The Church of Jerusalem was the cradle of Christianity, influencing when and how Christendom celebrated the conception, birth, life, death, resurrection, and ascension of Christ and the memorials of the Theotokos, apostles, and martyrs. For the Byzantine Catholic Seminary’s annual SS. Cyril and Methodius Lecture, the Rev. Deacon Daniel Galadza presents Jerusalem’s liturgical year, its historical sources, and theology. His lecture will illustrate connections between the “Byzantinization” of the Eastern Patriarchates at the end of the first millennium and the Latinization of the Eastern Catholic Churches from the middle of the second millennium onward. Father Deacon Daniel Galadza completed studies at the University of Toronto and the Sheptytsky Institute before defending his doctorate in Byzantine liturgy at the Pontifical Oriental Institute in Rome in 2013. He has been a junior fellow at the Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection in Washington, D.C., assistant professor at the University of Vienna, visiting professor at the Story continued on page 3