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letter from the archbishop

Annual Christmas message from Archbishop William Skurla Page 3

Special Christmas issue!

VOL. 65 NO. 13

christmas memories Clergy and religious of the Archeparchy take a look back at Christmases past Page 4 to 5

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feast of st. nicholas St. Nicholas visits parishes Dec. 6 Page 6 to 7

christ is born! glorify him!

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Winter wonderland UPS 081500 ISSN 07442289 Official publication of the Byzantine Catholic Archeparchy of Pittsburgh Serving parish communities in central and western Pennsylvania, Louisiana, eastern Ohio, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas and West Virginia Published monthly (12 issues) plus two seasonal special issues Byzantine Catholic Press Associates 66 Riverview Avenue Pittsburgh, PA 15214 Tel: 412.231.4000 Fax: 412.231.1697 E-mail: bcw@archpitt.org Web site: www.archpitt.org Archbishop William C. Skurla President David Mayernik Jr. Editor Sister Elaine Kisinko, OSBM Copy Editor Donna Obsincs Subscription/Circulation Manager Deacon Robert J. Shalhoub Business Manager Annual Subscription Rates US $14 Canadian $17 International $20 Periodicals Postage PAID at Pittsburgh, PA

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Bulletin Board Carpatho-Rusyn Society 25th anniversary DVD

“Who are the Rusyns?” is a DVD presented by John Righetti, President Emeritus of the Carpatho-Rusyn Society.

It was released in 2019 for the 25th anniversary of the Carpatho-Rusyn Society.

This professional presentation clarifies the confusion and complicated history of the Rusyns and how they almost became extinct.

Not only will it be watched more than once, it is great to share with family and friends.

The DVD can be ordered by making a check payable to: Carpatho-Rusyn Society for $25 which includes postage and handling.

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Orders will be processed immediately upon receipt. The information can also be found on www.c-rs.org at the bottom of the homepage. Visit Carpatho-Rusyn Society YouTube for our most recent educational videos. n

Mount St. Macrina House of Prayer announces online programs

Mount Saint Macrina House of Prayer, 510 W. Main St., Uniontown Pa. has announced upcoming virtual online programs on Zoom.

For more information or to register, call 724-438-7149 or email hpmsm@verizon.net.

Provide your email address to receive a link, as programs will be conducted through Zoom. n 6:30-8 p.m. Feb. 18, 25; March 4, 11, 2021, Tuesday Evening Reading Series.

“Crossing the Desert: Learning to Let Go, See Clearly, and Live Simply” with Sister Barbara Jean Mihalchick, OSBM. Offering: $5 per session or $15 for all four sessions. Register by Feb. 11. n

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Archeparchy of Pittsburgh,

Luella Bantley’s name was misspelled as the author of the “Remembrance” story for Father Julian Gnall in the December issue.

The Byzantine Catholic World regrets the error.

throughout the Metropolitan Church in America, and around the world.

From the Sisters of St. Basil the Great’s Facebook page at https://www.facebook. com/sistersofstbasil.uniontown: “On Tuesday (Dec. 1) at Mount St. Macrina, we experienced the first snowfall of the winter. Our grounds look just beautiful with the fresh, white blanket of snow.”

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CHRISTMAS GREETINGS 2020 Christ is Born! Glorify Him! Dear People, We are called to celebrate the Birth of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ during 2020, the year of the worldwide pandemic of the Covid 19 virus. God has given us his Child born in the manger as the greatest gift of all time. It is through the gift of his son that we are given strength and hope to survive the losses and overcome all evil and darkness of the past year.

During the past year, we have become painfully aware of the most important parts of life that we often take for granted. The 1946 “It’s a Wonderful Life” Christmas classic movie with Jimmy Stewart captures the way he was made aware of the importance of his life, something he took for granted. It was filmed when Jimmy Stewart and the world were returning to normal after the dark time of the Second World War. Besides being on television, it is showing in theaters again.

In the movie, Jimmy Stewart a banker in despair over being falsely accused, considers taking his own life.

He is stopped by an angel who shows him what would happen if he were not there. The effects on his wife, family, and town make him comprehend the importance of his life and the value of all the parts of life he took for granted. The angel succeeds in changing his mind to return to overcome what seemed impossible.

The reflection upon this year has revealed the many formerly taken for granted parts of life which are now restricted to us. For example, anyone in or in care of those in senior care facilities, hospitals, or prisons, it has been the most difficult year without seeing friends and loved ones. But for everyone, the inability to meet in person to celebrate holidays and anniversaries and to visit others has been painful. However, the time when we will be able to gather again is approaching, and we will forever value the precious time that we have together.

The lack of personal contact, to be unable to travel, to even be able to leave our homes, or to visit people outside our family bubble has been difficult. For me, it has been a time for more personal prayer and for those rainy day projects. Oddly, it seems that the year has been compressed with the sense that time is moving rapidly. There are not the usual breaks and events that help us mark the passage of time. The restricted schedule has made the passage of weeks seem like days or the passage of months seem like weeks. We look forward to returning to what we have missed.

Within a few months, we will lift the restrictions upon attendance to the Divine Liturgy, reinstate the Sunday and Holy Day obligations, and other activities. We thank all who cooperated with the restrictions to reduce the spread of the virus.

God’s gift this year is the vaccines and treatment which will save the lives of many people. We pray that God will show mercy and will bring this very difficult year of illness and isolation to an end. We pray that businesses and schools will be able to reopen and call their workers back. When it is safe, the Sunday and holy day obligations will be restored. Like the movie, we pray for the return to the wonderful joys of life in 2021.

Sincerely yours in Christ,

Most Reverend William C. Skurla, D.D. Metropolitan Archbishop of Pittsburgh

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Christmas memories clergy, relgious of the archeparchy of pittsburgh share their personal christmas memories TEXT MESSAGES

by David Mayernik Jr. Editor

Each year on Christmas Eve, I post one of my favorite “Calvin and Hobbes” comic strips on social media.

It was originally published in newspapers on Dec. 24, 1989, and features Calvin and his stuffed animal tiger — (Or is he an actual tiger? The question remains unresolved) — Hobbes sprawled out on the carpet in their living room in front of a roaring fireplace.

The accompanying poem explains how much Calvin loves his friend Hobbes.

The final lines are: Propped against him on a rug I give my friend a gentle hug Tomorrow’s what I’m waiting for But I can wait a little more That’s how I’ve always felt about the solitude of Christmas Eve. I fear I could type many words and still not capture that Christmas Eve “feeling,” which to me is a combination of stillness and melancholy.

Most of my special Christmas Eve memories revolve around those of my youth at my grandparents’ houses in Charleroi and Monessen, both along the Monongahela River in Pennsylvania.

There were the annual Christmas Eve Holy Suppers of pirohi at my grandma’s house on Ninth Street in Charleroi.

It was a full house and my aunt, uncles and cousins somehow fit around the dining room table.

In Monessen, my grandpap would take me downtown to the Torn Page book store to grab a comic book or a magazine.

(In retrospect, maybe I couldn’t wait for Christmas morning, either.)

One Christmas Eve I especially remember is coming home to the house on Allequippa Avenue following Midnight Mass at St Mary.

After getting out of the ga-

rage in the back yard, I looked up at the top of the house and saw a red bulb glowing brightly in the chilly night air.

To this day, you won’t convince me it wasn’t Rudolph the RedNosed Reindeer.

As I got older, my family’s Christmas Eve celebrations moved to my aunt and uncle’s house in Bethel Park, Pa. Following Christmas Eve Liturgy at St. Gregory, we would gather for hors d’oeuvres and a gift exchange.

I’d also watch at least one airing of “A Christmas Story” — which began its Christmas Day 24-hour continuous running on television around this time.

This Christmas Eve will be much different. I’m expecting to only see my parents and brother on Christmas Day. It’s yet another happy piece of life the virus has stolen from the 2020 jigsaw puzzle.

Scientists call it seasonal affective disorder and although I’m not a scientist, I fear it will be as bad as ever this year.

A worldwide pandemic combined with holidays such as Christmas and New Year’s Day, miserable weather and the sun setting before 5 p.m. is a lousy cocktail.

So, let’s remember the good times.

I reached out to others in the Archeparchy asking them to write a personal, special memory of Christmas.

What they wrote back is on these pages. n

Annual St. Nicholas Celebration at Holy Trinity, Sykesville, Pa. in 2015 Deacon George Fatula, Father Jim Ragan, Father Bob Karl, Deacon Paul Boboige, a.k.a. Saint Nicholas, and Deacon Luke Crawford.

A very long time ago during the 1930s, before extensive, creative and extravagant Christmas decorating of house and lawn, our family home got a lot of attention.

It was high off the street, complete with a wall, many winding steps, and a sun-porch.

My father was a machinist, and one year he decided to improvise something different for the ceiling tall, decorated all around Christmas tree in the sun-porch.

He managed to create the mechanism for a revolving Christmas tree.

Because it was surrounded by windows, it could be seen far and wide.

People actually stopped cars and walkers stood to watch it. Their amazement was, “Why don’t the wires get tangled?’ (Remember, this was almost 100 years ago.)

Actually, my dad removed the motor from the washing machine in the basement to power it.

Needless to say, my mother was relieved when the holiday was over, and she could do the laundry again.

Sister Elaine Kisinko, OSBM Secretary to the Archbishop n The well-attended and memorable Holy Trinity parish in Sykesville, Pa. has been celebrating St. Nicholas Day for decades. Hundreds of children have sat on St. Nick's lap and received treats and look forward to the celebration which follows the Moleben to St. Nicholas.

In the photo from 2015 (above) from left to right are Deacon George Fatula, Father Jim Ragan, Father Bob Karl, Deacon Paul Boboige, a.k.a.

Saint Nicholas, and Deacon Luke Crawford.

Deacon Paul Boboige Holy Trinity, Sykesville, Pa. n

A 1980s Christmas at my grandma’s house in Charleroi, Pa.

I am a native of Cleveland, Ohio.

While growing up, my parents and I attended Saint Gregory the Theologian Byzantine Catholic Church, Lakewood, Ohio.

Several memories stick in my mind: I am of Polish, Slovak and Ukrainian heritage. On the Eve of the Nativity my parents exposed me to the traditional foods from both my mother and father’s ethnicity.

On the Day of Christmas, we would attend the 7 a.m. Divine Liturgy. In those days the Church was filled as we sat in our normal pew. The Pastor at the time, The Reverend Father Nicholas J. Pavlik, OSB always distributed Mirovanje from the rear of the church to the front.

Reverend John Kapitan Jr. OFM St. John the Baptist, Mingo Junction, Ohio; St. Joseph, Toronto, Ohio n In the mid-1960s, I was a young Sister teaching at St. John the Baptist Byzantine Catholic School in Bridgeport, Conn. Although some details remain fuzzy, I vividly recall a rare opportunity arising for several of us to venture a day trip to New York City during Christmas break.

We were excited and looked forward to this unexpected “get-away.”

Once we arrived, we set our sights on Rockefeller Center with its majestic tree holding court over the ice rink.

We watched skaters gliding to Christmas carols echoing from the great organ. Next came the Creche at St. Patrick Cathedral, and finally a visit to the magical Christmas windows of Macy’s.

The day was frigid, the snow was churning, and the sights and sounds of these New York favorites did not disappoint!

We “checked out” all the enchanting Christmas displays, and with long robes, mantles, and veils swirling in a winter snow squall, we headed toward Macy’s revolving doors.

Out of the corner of my eye, and within earshot, several young college-age fellows were chuckling and one commented, “Look, there go the Flying Nuns.”

Well, let’s just say, I couldn’t let this one go! I made a swift U-turn away from the moving door, and quickly came face-to face with the “perpetrators.”

Feeling impish, I smiled sweetly and said, “I can’t believe that you guys watch that show at your age?”

They were a little embarrassed and stumbling for words as I quickly swung around and disappeared into the wonderful sights and sounds of Christmas at Macy’s!

Sister Seraphim Olsafsky, OSBM n

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Christmas memories Christmas is a time of remembering. I usually don’t share my personal memories, because they are personal…and I think maybe no one will be able to relate to them.

But I am going to take a chance on that and tell you about a very special memory of mine.

I remember a Christmas time, it was probably 1997 or 1998. It was my first or second year of my six years in the seminary in Uzhorod.

My teacher of the Slavonic language said to me: "You got lucky, boy! We need your help on Christmas Eve day. Get ready for adventures!"

When that day came, the six or seven of us were dressed in a very unusual way as we left our Holy Cross Cathedral around 3 or 4 p.m.

Three guys wore their jackets turned inside out so the sherpa lining looked like they were wearing sheep skin. On their heads they wore old style hats like granddads would wear.

This was no way to vest a shepherd!

And without a staff!

Two of the guys wore white sticharions on top of their jackets with fake wings on the back. They were carrying the small wooden church. Angels of course should do something useful!

I remember that day the street was noisy…cars with horns honking and people bustling around.

We walked along greeting the people, “Christ is born!,” but nobody seemed to notice us and greet us back with "Glorify Him!". But we did not get discouraged.

We had a small bell, rang it, and paid attention to everyone. I forgot all about how silly I felt wearing that costume because nobody else seemed to care. I didn't even worry about forgetting the text of my part because nobody really knew what I should say.

Now we just were carefree, running around along the street from store to store.

"I am a shepherd on my long way.

I have brought good news for you about the Bethlehem Star. Would you like me to come over and tell you my story?", begins one shepherd at the first store.

"No,” replies the cashier, "because I am busy working and don't have time for you guys, and anyway that star did not show up yet". No means no. So, we continued on our way and kept singing carols and ringing the bell.

We met the manager at the next store down and he is saying “Yes” and our short performance begins.

Customers are happy and are singing with us…some of them even drop small donations for us.

The next manager gives us a donation but does not let us in. It was getting dark and the business district was about ready to close for the night.

We walked on to the neighborhood of private households where our faithful live. We didn't even have to ring their door bells…they hear our bell. They open their doors for us and kindly invite us in.

We began singing a cheerful song: "We have heard here is the very good household master "gazda" and his wife as well. So let us wish for them health, prosperity and many blessings in the New Year!”

We sing "Wondrous News" following the short speech from the shepherds and the Devil got his part in there as well. He discourages shepherds and angels from proclaiming the Good

News and singing the carols.

We keep going from house to house. Many others invite and welcome us as well.

"Please don't pass us by,” they are saying, “sing for us as well.”

Sometimes there are 15 or 20 individuals at the house, and we take the time for our longest performance.

The angels even have speaking parts and sing with us. The Devil keeps on joking: "I am caroling, I am caroling.

But I smell keilbasy coming from your ceiling. So if I won’t get your keilbasy, I'll steal your chicken then…hahaha.”

The Christmas troparion usually concluded the long performance, or else the Irmos from the Christmas Canon from Matins.

People shared sweets with us, some of them donated money. After the performance, many guys who were not our parishioners ask who we are…they ask about our church, history, liturgical schedules, hours for confession.

Many who don't believe in God as they said, still kept singing the carols with us because they felt like their grandmas, who already passed away, were singing it with them. Some of them cry.

Many people expected some guests and did not receive them. The tables were set and were not touched, and they were sad. But with our performance they smiled and appreciated our visitation.

One older man asked us to let him join us as we continued from house to house singing carols. He cried at the end and said the last time he did that was over 35 years ago.

I think it is important to remember this part of our spiritual heritage. It has always been with our ancestors, the founders of our Archeparchy of Pittsburgh.

We can hear the word "Jasličari" from our senior priests like Rev. Robert Karl or from video recordings, like the one posted on the website of Byzantine Catholic Church in Philadelphia, Eparchy of Passaic.

It is good for us to remember this traditional reenactment of “Jaslicari – The Bethlehem Carolers.” The Christ himself comes over to the houses and heals the hearts through that Christmas visitation of a few young kids. That is why his name is Emanuel: God is With Us! (Is 7,14; Mt 1,23).

Very Rev. Vasyl Polyak SS. Peter and Paul, Tarentum, Pa.

night watchman at, of all places, a casket warehouse in nearby Manchester, Pa. It was only a few blocks from what would become the sites of Heinz Field and PNC Park.

Before the day ended, we boarded our family autos and drove the short distance to the warehouse. There we gathered around Grandfather to sing Christmas carols for him.

After the last carol, Uncle Nick invoked the traditional blessing that was prelude to “Mnohaja L’ita.” It was sung in a majestic choral melody which I have never heard anywhere since that time.

And then in single file, the grandchildren approached Grandfather.

He gave us each a $1 bill. In the late 1950s and early 1960s, this was a treasure that sent our imaginations racing with how we would spend it.

Memory is enhanced and retained by a combination of some distinct circumstance blended with some emotional content.

The unusual situation of singing Christmas carols in a cavernous casket warehouse on Christmas evening.

The pathos of my Grandfather having to work on Christmas, standing watch for empty boxes waiting their eventual contents. And the satisfaction of knowing that, hopefully, our presence enlivened Grandfather’s Christmas with our carols of the Birth of Christ.

This, for me, has been a vivid memory that has endured through the decades.

Very Rev. James Spontak SS. Peter and Paul, Portage, Pa. n In my youth I took for granted the struggles of a single father raising two children on his own. My father’s upbringing was so very different from that of my sister and I. He was born in 1934 and raised in the village of Jerome in central Pennsylvania, the fifth of eight siblings. He and his three brothers shared an attic room and his family shared an outhouse in the backyard.

To this day, one of my fondest memories from adolescence is Christmas eve at our suburban home in Anaheim, Calif. Before going to church for Great Compline, my dad would prepare the Holy Supper for the three of us. I have grown to like the Slav dishes I struggled to eat at the time, and appreciate some of the conces-

Growing up, two things stand out in my Christmas memories. Christmas Eve Holy Supper preparation, the Holy Supper and services...and caroling at parishioners homes.

I was fortunate enough to learn from my mom, how to make all the foods that we had for our Holy Supper: the pirohi, bobalki, fish, etc...all prepared, following the strict fast regulations.

I am one of 10 children, and one year all of my brothers and sisters and their families were present, including all 22 grandchildren. I still have the photo of that memorable reunion.

During most of my religious life as a Benedictine Sister, I have prepared or helped to prepare the Holy Supper for our Community, and loved every minute of it.

My favorite part of the whole Christmas Eve was the Compline Service.

In my home parish, the Compline Service was celebrated on the eve of Christmas and the Divine Liturgy was celebrated Christmas morning. The message of Singing “S'nami Boh” (God is with us) really hit home for me.

In my home parish, caroling began Christmas afternoon. It started at our home. My mom “pecked out” the carols on an old typewriter (in Church Slavonic), made booklets and practiced with the carolers. It took several days, but every family in the parish was visited by the carolers. Those were very happy times!

Sister Barbara Pavlik, OSB SS. Peter and Paul, Warren, Ohio n

sions my dad made with the traditional menu. But what I recall most dearly is how he used the occasion of that meal each year to tell my sister and I how he loved us and how pleased he was to see the adults we were becoming — of course never betraying the fact that we were simply growing into likenesses of his Godly love and fatherly devotion.

Indeed, “train the young in the way they should go, even when old, they will not swerve from it” (Proverbs 22:6).

Very Rev. Robert Pipta Rector, Byzantine Catholic Seminary of SS. Cyril and Methodius

n Every Christmas, and Pascha (Easter Sunday), our family gathered at my maternal grandparents’ house. From when I was a small child through high school and beyond, nearly a dozen cousins, aunts and uncles would be there.

Grandmother seemed to spend most of the day slicing more ham for her guests seated around the table in their modest home.

The day would be highlighted with a session of Christmas carols. Our voices were enhanced by former members of the Holy Ghost North Side Pittsburgh choir of the 1930s and 1940s: my parents, aunts and my uncle.

But Grandfather would not be there. At least for many of these years, he had to work on Christmas Day and evening. His job was as a

Cantor-emeritus Robert P. Pipta with children Cindy and Father Robert M. Pipta iduring a 2012 family reunion.

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st. gregory in upper st. clair, pa.

st. elias in munhall, pa.

Jolly ol’ St. Nick

Decorating St. Elias

by Father Valerian Michlik St. Gregory, Upper St. Clair, Pa.

On Sunday, Dec. 6, St. Nicholas arrived at St. Gregory to celebrate this special day with the faithful.

At the conclusion of the Divine Liturgy, St. Nicholas entered the church during the singing of the hymn “O who loves Nicholas the

Saintly — O kto kto Nikolaja l'ubit”.

Following the welcome, St. Nicholas exited the church to greet the faithful. Afterwards, in a drive through manner, St. Nicholas greeted our children in the front of our Church with a small gift from St. Gregory’s and the GCU. n

Parishioners decorated St. Elias in Mundall, Pa. inside and out Dec. 13 for the Feast of the Nativity. Father Vitalii Stashkevych is pastor. n

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ss. peter and paul in braddock, pa.

st. john the baptist in avella, pa.

Preparing for Christmas

Welcoming St. Nicholas

Parishioners at SS. Peter and Paul in Braddock, Pa. prepared the church for Christmas earlier this month. Father Vitalii Stashkevych is pastor. n

Saint Nichiolas greeted the congregation Dec. 6 at St. John the Baptist in Avella, Pa. Father Vasyl Symyon is pastor. n

st. michael in campbell, ohio

Helping those in need

by Father Kevin Marks St. Michael, Campbell, Ohio

A very special THANK YOU to ALL who gave towards the "Fall Food & Personal Care Items Drive." More than $1,300 in groceries, items, and donations were

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GCU Lodge 360 matched the total donation cost as well. All items will be delivered to Our Community Kitchen on Mahoning Avenue. n

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The Archeparchy of Pittsburgh Chancery will be CLOSED

on Dec. 24 to 25 for Christmas and

Cathedral of St. John the Baptist

Schedule of Services - Christmas 2020 Very Reverend Andrew Deskevich, Rector

Dec. 31 to Jan. 1 for New Year’s Day The Chancery’s regular hours: 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

66 Riverview Avenue | Pittsburgh, PA 15214 | 412-231-4000

Reindeer tracks!

following ol’ saint nick

Thursday, Dec. 24 Vigil, Feast of the Nativity of Our Lord

PETERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Colo. — The North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) is getting ready to track Santa’s yuletide journey! The NORAD Tracks Santa website, www. noradsanta.org features a Countdown Calendar, a Kid’s Countdown Village complete with games and activities that change daily, and video messages from students and troops from around the world. The web site is available in eight languages: English, French, Spanish, German, Italian, Japanese, Brazilian Portuguese and Chinese.

9 a.m.

8 p.m.

Friday, Dec. 25 Feast of the Nativity of Our Lord - Christmas Day

9 a.m.

Divine Liturgy

BYZANTINE DIVINE LITURGY Sundays 9:00 a.m. • WEDO Radio • 810 AM Broadcast live from Holy Ghost Church, McKees Rocks

Also view liturgical services (various times) at: www.holyghost-byzantinecatholic.org www.stjohnsbyzantinecathedral.com www.sjcbcc.com

Royal Hours Vigil Liturgy

Cathedral of St. John the Baptist 210 Greentree Road | Munhall, Pa. 15120 | 412-461-0944 View services LIVE on the web at

www.stjohnsbyzantinecathedral.com

dates to remember DEC. 25 Feast of the Nativity of Our Lord Jesus Christ DEC. 26 Feast of the Synaxis of the Holy Theotokos DEC. 27 Feast of the Holy Protomartyr Stephen DEC. 31 Vigil of the Feast of the Circumcision of our Lord Vigil of the Feast of St. Basil the Great New Year’s Eve JAN. 1 Feast of the Circumcision of our Lord Feast of St. Basil the Great New Year’s Day

See more upcoming events at www.archpitt.org

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