About Us
Formation
Our Divine Liturgy
Our Divine Liturgy
This community was formed in 2016 in Fort Mill South Carolina. Fort Mill is minutes from North Carolina and 25 minutes from Downtown Charlotte. Weekly celebration of Divine Liturgy began in 2018 and in 2024 the community became a mission church
Our Divine Liturgy
Our Divine Liturgy
Our Divine Liturgy
We Celebrate The Divine Liturgy of St John Chrysostom - Byzantine (Ruthenian) Rite.
Weekly on Saturdays
During the Great Fast we will celebrate the Divine Liturgy of St Basil.
Upcoming Services
Our Divine Liturgy
Upcoming Services
- Sat Aug 23 Divine Liturgy @ 4 PM @ St. Philip Neri Ministry Center. (building across from the main church).
- Sat Aug 30 Typika Liturgy with Holy Communion @ 4 PM @ St. Philip Neri Ministry Center.
- Sat Sep 6 Divine Liturgy @ 4 PM @ St. Philip Neri Ministry Center.
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News
Bishop Kurt Burnette, has granted our Byzantine community a proper name. We will now be known as the Venerable Petro Oros Mission. Father Oros was a Ukrainian priest martyred in 1953 and recently beatified by Pope Francis. Read about him here
More News - Our Mission in the press
Our community was featured in a recent publication by The Archeparchy of Pittsburgh in the Byzantine Catholic World.
https://archpitt.org/most-recent-issues-of-the-byzantine-catholic-world/
Our community was also featured in a recent publication by The Eparchy of Passaic in the Eastern Catholic Life
Our Seminarian
Our budding community has already produced one candidate for Seminary. Read more about his journey here.
Come Join Us
We invite you to come and see who we are and what we are all about as part of the Eastern half of the Universal Church.
AUGUST 6
Transfiguration of Our Lord
The transfiguration of Christ is one of the central events recorded in the gospels. The Lord took Peter, James, and John “up to a high mountain”—by tradition Mount Tabor—and was “transfigured before them.”
. . . and His face shone like the sun, and His garments became white as snow and behold, there appeared to them Moses and Elijah, talking with Him. And Peter said to Jesus, “Lord, it is well that we are here; if you wish I will make three booths here, one for You and one for Moses and one for Elijah.” He was still speaking when lo, a bright cloud overshadowed them, and a voice from the cloud said, “This is My Beloved Son, with Whom I am well pleased; listen to Him.” When the disciples heard this, they fell on their faces with awe. But Jesus came and touched them, saying, “Rise, and have no fear.” And when they lifted up their eyes, they saw no one but Jesus only. And as they were coming down the mountain, Jesus commanded them, “Tell no one the vision, until the Son of Man is raised from the dead” (Mt 17.1–92, see also Mk 9.1–9; Lk 9.28–36; 2 Pet 1.16–18).
The Jewish Festival of Booths was a feast of the dwelling of God with men, and the transfiguration of Christ reveals how this dwelling takes place in and through the Messiah, the Son of God in human flesh. Christ’s transfiguration took place at the time of the Festival of Booths, and became the New Testamental fulfillment of the Old Testamental feast in a way similar to the feasts of Passover and Pentecost.In the Transfiguration, the apostles see Who it is Who has suffered for them, and what it is that this one, Who is God, has prepared for those who love Him. This is what the Church celebrates in the feast of the Transfiguration.
The feast of the Transfiguration is presently celebrated on the sixth of August. The summer celebration of the feast has lent itself very well to the theme of transfiguration. The blessing of grapes, as well as other fruits and vegetables on this day is the sign of the transfiguration of all things in Christ.
50 Days after Pascha
Pentecost: The Descent of the Holy Spirit
In the Old Testament Pentecost was the feast which occurred fifty days after Passover. As the passover feast celebrated the exodus of the Israelites from the slavery of Egypt, so Pentecost celebrated God’s gift of the ten commandments to Moses on Mount Sinai.
In the new covenant of the Messiah, the passover event takes on its new meaning as the celebration of Christ’s death and resurrection, the “exodus” of men from this sinful world to the Kingdom of God. And in the New Testament as well, the pentecostal feast is fulfilled and made new by the coming of the “new law,” the descent of the Holy Spirit upon the disciples of Christ.
When the day of Pentecost had come they were all together in one place. And suddenly a sound came from heaven like the rush of a mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting. And there appeared to them tongues as of fire, distributed as resting upon each one of them. And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit . . . (Acts 2.1–4).
The Holy Spirit that Christ had promised to his disciples came on the day of Pentecost (Jn 14.26, 15.26; Lk 24.49; Acts 1.5). The apostles received “the power from on high,” and they began to preach and bear witness to Jesus as the risen Christ, the King and the Lord. This moment has traditionally been called the birthday of the Church.
40 Days After Pascha
Ascension of Our Lord
Jesus did not live with His disciples after His resurrection as He had before His death. Filled with the glory of His divinity, He appeared at different times and places to His people, assuring them that it was He, truly alive in His risen and glorified body.
To them He presented Himself alive after His passion by many proofs, appearing to them during forty days, and speaking of the Kingdom of God (Acts 1.3).
On the fortieth day after His passover, Jesus ascended into heaven to be glorified on the right hand of God (Acts 1.9–11; Mk 16.19; Lk 24.51). The ascension of Christ is His final physical departure from this world after the resurrection. It is the formal completion of His mission in this world as the Messianic Saviour. It is His glorious return to the Father Who had sent Him into the world to accomplish the work that He had given him to do (Jn 17.4–5).
. . . and lifting His hands He blessed them. While blessing them, He parted from them and was carried up into heaven. And they returned to Jerusalem with great joy (Lk 24.51–52)
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Our Eparchy
This community is forming with the blessing of Bishop Kurt Burnette of the Byzantine Catholic Eparchy of Passaic, New Jersey
Clergy
Our Celebrant is Fr. Vasyl Sokolovych, Adminstrator of SS Cyril and Methodious church in Cary (Raleigh) North Carolina.
Our Patron Saint
Blessed Peter Oros (1917-1953) was murdered by the Soviet police for his Greek Catholic faith. He was a young priest who cared deeply for his flock and his Church, and may have been secretly consecrated a bishop.
About the Byzantine Catholic Church
The Byzantine Catholic Church is an Eastern Church in union with Rome; Carpatho-Rusyn in background and is an American Eastern Church. Our Liturgy blends the colors of our many icons with congregational chant and our fragrant incense in prayer.
The big news
Check out the Eparchial Newsletter. Available online, or in print for only $15 per year.
https://www.eparchyofpassaic.com/suscribetoeasterncatholiclife
Come Join Us
We invite you to come and see who we are and what we are all about as part of the Eastern half of the Universal Church.
Member of another church? - Come Join Us
All people are welcome to join us. If you are a visiting Roman rite or Latin Rite Catholic, We invite you to come and see who we are and invite you to participate fully with us in Our Liturgy. Attending weekend Divine Liturgy with us does satisfy your weekly obligation to attend Mass, even a Vigil Divine Liturgy will satisfy regardless of the time of the service. For More information about this you may consult your parish priest or see this letter from a local Roman Catholic Priest for cannon law justification of attendance on Saturday.