Tenth Sunday after Pentecost; Octoechos Tone 1; 🕃 The Transfer of the Holy Relics of the First-martyr and Archdeacon Stephen. Dormition Fast. 1 Corinthians 4:9-16; Matthew 17:14-23.

1 Corinthians 4:9-16 

For I think that God has exhibited us apostles as last of all, like men sentenced to death; because we have become a spectacle to the world, to angels and to men. We are fools for Christ’s sake, but you are wise in Christ. We are weak, but you are strong. You are held in honor, but we in disrepute. To the present hour we hunger and thirst, we are ill-clad and buffeted and homeless, and we labor, working with our own hands. When reviled, we bless; when persecuted, we endure; when slandered, we try to conciliate; we have become, and are now, as the refuse of the world, the offscouring of all things.
I do not write this to make you ashamed, but to admonish you as my beloved children. For though you have countless guides in Christ, you do not have many fathers. For I became your father in Christ Jesus through the gospel. I urge you, then, be imitators of me. 

Matthew 17:14-23

And when they came to the crowd, a man came up to him and kneeling before him said, “Lord, have mercy on my son, for he is an epileptic and he suffers terribly; for often he falls into the fire, and often into the water. And I brought him to your disciples, and they could not heal him.” And Jesus answered, “O faithless and perverse generation, how long am I to be with you? How long am I to bear with you? Bring him here to me.” And Jesus rebuked him, and the demon came out of him, and the boy was cured instantly. Then the disciples came to Jesus privately and said, “Why could we not cast it out?” He said to them, “Because of your little faith. For truly, I say to you, if you have faith as a grain of mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, ‘Move from hence to yonder place,’ and it will move; and nothing will be impossible to you.”
As they were gathering in Galilee, Jesus said to them, “The Son of man is to be delivered into the hands of men, and they will kill him, and he will be raised on the third day.” And they were greatly distressed.

Next Class: Nov 13 at 6pm.

Eparchial News

• Most Rev. Michael Kwiatkowski will be enthroned as the 4^th Archbishop of the Archeparchy of Winnipeg and Metropolitan of Ukrainian Catholics in Canada on Sunday, November 8, at a Hierarchical Divine Liturgy presided over by His Beatitude Patriarch Sviatoslav, and in the presence of His Excellency Ivan Jurkovic, Apostolic Nuncio to Canada, at Saints Volodymyr and Olha Cathedral, Winnipeg.
  
  
• At the same time, the Ukrainian Catholic Church in Canada celebrates the 70^thAnniversary of the establishment of the Ukrainian Catholic Metropolitan See of Winnipeg on November 3. Rev. Dr. Athanasius McVay, Church Historian, provides a brief overview of the events leading up to the anniversary, as well as highlighting the enthronement of the fourth Metropolitan-Archbishop Michael Kwiatkowski.
  
  
• The Annual Bishop’s Appeal Collection “What Gift Have I, Worthy of a King?” takes place on Sunday, December 8.
     Today is our Annual Bishop’s Appeal. It coincides with the Feast of Saint Nicholas, one of the saints most beloved by Christians. Saint Nicholas is best known for his focus on love, generosity, and caring for families and children. 
      Help Bishop David spread the Gospel Message of Jesus Christ by giving generously in support of caring for children and families and providing for their spiritual growth and well-being through our various eparchial ministries.
  With Christmas on our doorstep, one of the holiest times of the year, and in the spirit of Saint Nicholas, what gift do you bring now to the infant Jesus, who lays quietly and peacefully in a manger?
         Thank you for your generosity!  May God bless you and your families!