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Last Day to order Halupki is Wednesday November 28th

Healing Service November 21, 2017 Divine Liturgy at 6:00pm, Healing Service to follow. Everyone is welcome

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Raffle tickets now available ! Christmas tree lottery raffle . $150.00 in scratch off's tickets $2.00 each or 3 for $5.00 for info/tickets call 570-462-0809

Join us for our Holiday Bingo next weekend ! Holiday Bingo Sunday, October 15th, 2017 Doors open at 12 noon Early Bird at 1:15pm Bingo starts at 1:30pm Admission $25.00 (20 games) Five additional “special” games available. Door Prizes! Lunch Provided ! Valuable themed Holiday Spectacular prizes include: fall & winter décor, lawn decorations, holiday baking and entertaining items, giftwrap & trim essentials, toys, themed baskets, and more. *All Players must purchase an admission ticket Advanced tickets to be entered into a special drawing St. Michael’s Church Hall 300 W Oak St , Shenandoah, PA tickets / info 570-462-0809

Christmas Bingo Date Change ! Now November 13th ! Join us for a great day or Christmas Fun !

We had to change the date for our Christmas Bingo. Please join us on Sunday , November 6th . For Tickets call 570-462-0809

Don't forget American Girl Doll Bingo is this week ! Come to this fun family event !

The Shroud of Turin Exhibit only goes till Sunday August 28th ! Don't miss it ! No Charge !

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Join us at the Shroud of Turin Exhibit. Don't Forget the Healing Service tomorrow Night at 7:00pm

Raffle tickets still available- Drawing May 15th ! Call 570-462-0809

The beginning of Lent is the time when we focus on taking up our daily cross in imitation of Christ. The cross we bear is about more than suffering a serious disease or the death of a loved one or living without enough income to cover expenses. It means sacrificing our own will to that of the Father’s—doing what He wants, not what we want. It’s a paradox, though, that in sacrificing our own will, we find true freedom. This is what Jesus meant when he said, “My yoke is easy, my burden light.” It was yet another manifestation of his divine mercy. If life’s purpose lies in getting what we want, as our culture insists, then freedom becomes a very big deal. Freedom, we think, is what allows us to exercise our “inalienable right” to the pursuit of happiness. With this view of freedom, it’s easy to feel threatened by constraint of any kind. Our instinct is to resist it with all our might, for it impedes our ability to live the life we think we want. For the more we rely on others or others rely on us, the less free we are to go wherever we wish to go, pursue whatever we wish to pursue and do whatever we wish to do. Love constrains us. And in a society devoted to personal self-fulfillment, the cost of love often seems too high. For followers of Jesus, the “free” person is the one no longer plagued by the burdensome quest for money, pleasure, possessions, social status or political power—the very things that our culture says will satisfy our deepest wants and make us happy. Our prayer today: We thank you today, Lord, that in your merciful cross we find true freedom. Prepared by Mr. Peter Yaremko.

Soup Sale this Sunday ! From 12pm to sell out at the Church Hall ! $7.00 Qt. Lots of Varieties!

God's gifts are never loans, they are deposits.

Check out our new website - it's still under-construction...but it looks great ! http://www.first-ukrainian.com

Come in and pray today. Beat the Christmas rush!

American Girl Raffle tickets .. get them while their hot !

Hierarchical Divine Liturgy Celebrated by His Beatitude Sviatoslav Shevchuk to be broadcast Live on EWTN Please share this announcement with all on your facebook and other social media pages. Thanks. EWTN-TV will televise the Hierarchical Divine Liturgy with Patriarch Sviatoslav live from the Ukrainian Catholic Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception on Sunday, November 15, 2015 beginning at 2:15 ET on your local EWTN-TV Channel. The program will also be available by live-streaming at the website of the Ukrainian Catholic Archeparchy of Philadelphia website: http://ukrarcheparchy.us/