www.byzcath.org Forums General Discussions Town Hall Trip to Pittsburgh area - any churches with Chruch Slavonic please advise

I am going to Pittsburgh for an overnight on August 27 and coming home Sunday August 28. I would like to go to a Byzantine church in the Pittsburgh area that uses the most Church Slavonic. (hopefully the whole liturgy)

Any recommendations?

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The reason I am going is tht I am taking my three year old to see the Wiggles in Pittsburgh. He better appreciate this some day!

Michael,
There are two that I know of. One is Holy Trinity Ukrainian Catholic Church in Carnegie. Divine Liturgy in Church Slovonic is at 11:00a.m. with Msgr. George Appleyard. Their phone is 412-279-4652. The other is in Beaver County, outside of the city at Sts. Peter and Paul Ukrainian Catholic Church in Ambridge. Divine Liturgy is at 8:00a.m. in Church Slovonic with Father Michael Polosky. There phone is 724-266-2262. Hope this of help. Enjoy "Wiggling"!! Tari

Try Holy Ghost in McKees Rocks. They broadcast their 9 a.m. liturgy on WEDO-AM (810), and it used to be in Church Slavonic, or at least mostly in Church Slavonic.

I'm not sure of their current practice.

Telephone: 412-771-3324
FAX: 412-331-1870
Email: contactus@holyghost-byzantinecatholic.org
Website Address: http://www.holyghostbyzantinecatholic.org

--tim

To which are you referring, the Divine Liturgy in Slavonic or the Wiggles?

I was referring to the Wiggles. However, you make a good point. I do hope that he and my one month old (who will be staying behind at home) will appreciate Church Slavonic.

Sadly, I may have a better chance of hearing Slavonic at a Wiggles concert than I do at a Byzantine Catholic Church.

Michael Cerularius

Unfortunately, Holy Ghost in McKees Rocks only has a limited amount of Church Slavonic in its 9:00 am. Liturgy.

I grew up there as an Altar Boy with the complete Slavonic Liturgy with Fr. Bob Karl, Msgr. Duker, Bishops Billock and Kudrick.

After the passing of Bishop Billock in 1995 we started to incorporate more and more English into the Liturgy and today only have sporatic Slavonic parts...

Dean Poloka

Thanks for your advice.

It looks like I'll go to the Ukie Catholic Church in Ambridge. They have a complete Slavonic liturgy with only the Gospel, Epistle, and sermon in English.

I really can't find a Ruthenian Greek Catholic Church that has a majority of Slavonic. The modernists have pretty much swept it out.

Thanks to others who have written both on the board and in private messages.

Michael Cerularius

The Sunday 9:00am liturgy at Holy Trinity BC Church in Wall, PA (appox. 15 miles east of downtown Pgh.) is 75% church slavonic.