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Our priest Fr. Frank, also Melkite, is in the hospital for the same thing. He went in for his knee Thursday, and they found out he has two cloged arteries and one that had by-passed the heart itself. So he is in the hospital until Monday also.

Then for Fr. Mike who has come down from his studies in Washington, to Birmingham, to fill in for him the next few weeks while he recovers. May God guide his footsteps.

I shall keep Fr. Frank Mileniewicz in my prayers also.

My American roots (where many of my European ancestors settled) stem from Worcester, MA, where Fr. Frank was once pastor of Our Lady of Perpetual Help Melkite Church. It was Pascha many years ago, and we were unable to be at our Byzantine-Ruthenian church 80+ miles away to have our Paschal food basket blessed, but Fr. Frank kindly aquiesced after the midnight Paschal Liturgy (to the wonderment of his Melkite parishioners).

I remember Fr. Frank as a kind, pastoral-minded priest on this and other occasions when my family and I traveled to Worcester to join my wife's and my parents for important holidays and attended the Melkite church there together (several years before our conversion, or rather, "adjustment," to Eastern Orthodoxy).

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My prayers are with Father Frank, he's a great guy and a wonderful priest

God grant him many years

Neil

Wasn't Fr. Mike pastor at ST. Ann's before beginning studies for his doctorate. He is filling in for Fr. Frank. The teens, many young adults always get so ecited when he visits. He always brings many good memories with him.

I will tell Fr. Frank. Yes, he is a wonderful preist, never hesitates to speak the truth. And we have a large contingency now in the parrish who bring baskets for Pascha. The Slavonic/Ukranian, etc. tradition has taken hold in a very active Melkite parrish. He loves having a basket ready for him after Divine Liturgy on Pascha.

It is interesting to note, and this may help someone else. He had been complaining about the pain and swelling in his knee which came about after a three hour drive one day. The doctors could not seem to find anything, so when he went in for atrhoscopic(sp) surgery, they found the heart problem.

Praise God!

Rose,

what's Father Mike's last name? and to which St. Ann's are you referring?

Many years,

Neil

Humm, I can't remember his last name, but I will find out. I thought it was one in MA, but I could be wrong. He has a slight stutter, which you don't really recoginize right away. He is over NAMY, the teens love him.

Prayers for Father Frank...

Rose,

It clicked. Father Mike Skrocki; he used to be at St Ann's in Waterford, CT. Thanks.

How is Father Frank doing?

Many years,

Neil

May the Lord grant good health and long life in His service to Fr. Frank. May He sustain Fr. Mike's ministry.

Fr. Frank says thank you for the prayers. He was sent home today. They had done his knee as out patient last Thursday and put him in the hospital right after that. The cartledge in his knee was croked, so they straightened it up. But you know it allows us to see God's hand so clearly in someone's life. One artery in his heart is 90% blocked, one a 100%. The one that was a 100% had bypassed itself naturally, so they decided to leave him alone with just some medication.

Our secretary said to him that God was looking out after him and he told her of course, he was God's servant.

I guess it just stikes me as how one thing in our life allows God to do something else in our lives and how he takes care of so many unknowns that we are just totally unaware of. God is so Good!

May the Holy Spirit be with Fr Frank and guide the doctors in his treatment

Fr. Frank is ready to take over the duties of Celebration of the Divine Liturgy this coming weekend. He still can't put his full weight on his knee, but is doing well. Thanks, so much for your prayers.