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PA: Johnstown

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Metro Area: Johnstown (PA)

Patronage of Our Lady Byzantine (Ruthenian) Church

St Mary Pokrov

411 Power St

Johnstown

15906-2732

USA

Phone: 814-535-4132

Fax: 814-536-9017

Semi-official Website

Rite: Byzantine

Church sui iuris: Byzantine Ruthenian Catholic

Canonical Jurisdiction(s):

Metropolitan Archeparchy: Pittsburgh of the Ruthenians

Archeparchy: Pittsburgh of the Ruthenians

Cemetery: This parish has a cemetery


Always call ahead to verify times
Day	Service	Time
Sunday	Divine Liturgy	9:30am
Saturday	Divine Liturgy (Sunday Vigil)	4:00pm


Mystery of Reconciliation

Mailing Address: As Above

Semi-official Website links to a page maintained by the Archeparchy

The interior and exterior photographs are by the liturgical artists of New Guild Studio of Braddock PA, which designed and executed the interior art and iconography for Our Lady of the Patronage Church. The photographs appear on New Guild Studio's website, http://newguildstudio.com, and are used here with its kind permission.

Status & Location Changes:

Formed in: 1895, meeting at its present site

Parish erected in: 1895, under the patronage of Our Lady

Status: ACTIVE CHURCH

This Entry Last Updated: 04/27/2010

Latitude: 40.3409165

Longitude: -78.9269184

Located in: All Active | Pennsylvania | Show All | Pennsylvania

Teachings of Christ

“I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live, and everyone who lives and believes in me shall never die. Do you believe this?” (John 11:25-26 ESV)

Resurrection

Christ is risen from the dead * trampling down Death by death, * and upon those in the tombs bestowing life! (Troparion)

Glory to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, now and ever, and to the ages of ages. Amen.

Although You descended into the tomb, O Immortal One, * You destroyed the power of Hades; * You arose as the victor, O Christ God, * proclaiming to the myrrh-bearing women: “Rejoice!” * And granting peace to Your Apostles, * O, You, Who gives resurrection to the fallen. (Kontakion)

Random Proverb

For the Lord gives wisdom; from his mouth come knowledge and understanding. (Proverbs 2:6 ESV)

Pray Without Ceasing

Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me, a sinner.

Wisdom from the Church Fathers

"And when his eyes were opened, he saw nothing. And for three days he could not see." (Acts 9:9)

By no means would he [Saul] have been able to see well again unless he had first been fully blinded. Also, when he had rejected his own wisdom, which was confusing him, he could commit himself totally to faith. Since he had not believed that the Lord had conquered death by rising on the third day, he was now taught by his own experience of the replacement of three days of darkness by the return of the light.

Commentary on the Acts of the Apostles from the Venerable Bede