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St. John the Baptist UGCC, Maizeville, PA
Here's the next installment of the "Coal Region Byzantium" series: St. John the Baptist Ukrainian Catholic Church in Maizeville, PA. This place is a gem!
This is a wonderful little church, located in the "patch town" of Maizeville which recently (June 2008) celebrated its 100th Anniversary.
It has also gone through a complete interior/exterior restoration: Air conditioning (I love it), regilding the domes, painting, some new icons, carpeting, restoration of the pews, etc.
I attended morning liturgy for Dormition after "deaconing" our 7a.m. Mass at my home parish. I live about 20 minutes away from this parish. These folks sing wonderfully - small but mighty.
If you're in the neighborhood, I recommend a visit.
If you didn't know any better, you would think that that you had entered a church somewhere in the Carpathians!
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Were the small altars against the iconastasis under each of the main icons ever used for offering the Liturgy, like side altars in Latin churches at one time? I saw these small altars in a Carpatho-Russian Orthodox Church once too.
Fr David Straut
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Beautiful Church! Beautiful Iconostas! Mnohaja Lita!
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I attended the centennial of this little slice of heaven in the Coal region. The icon of John the Baptist is absolutely unique! This is another successful joint venture between Ukrainians and Rusyns (from Spish and Sharish counties). The congregational singing during the Liturgy was downright celestial!
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Dear Father David,
Possibly, but it would have been a good fifty years ago - I remember seeing such celebrations on weekday mornings at the side altars of Saint George's, New York. On the other hand, from the size and the location, it is quite possible that they were simply a form of decoration.
Fr. Serge
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Dear Father David,
Possibly, but it would have been a good fifty years ago - I remember seeing such celebrations on weekday mornings at the side altars of Saint George's, New York. On the other hand, from the size and the location, it is quite possible that they were simply a form of decoration.
Fr. Serge Thanks, Fr Serge!
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It would be unkind of me to reveal where this happened, but in a certain large OCA parish there is an "upstairs" church and a "downstairs" church. The times being what they are, there is now only one choir, but on Pascha the place overflows with people. So someone came up with the notion that it would be possible to have a second service - simultaneously with the first service - with the singing "piped in" to the downstairs church from the upstairs church! Let us draw a veil over the details, and simply mention that this hair-brained scheme was not exactly an unmitigated success. They never tried it again.
Fr. Serge
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