Petro Oros Byzantine Catholic Mission, Fort Mill South Carolina

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Petro Oros Byzantine Catholic Mission, Fort Mill South Carolina

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Seminarian ordained to the Deaconate

 Exciting News: Mark LeRoy, our seminarian, will be ordained a deacon on Sunday May 25th! Please continue to pray for Mark and his family as he takes his next step towards the priesthood.  See the full announcement here.

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 Jun 14 Divine Liturgy @ 4 PM @ St. Philip Neri Ministry Center.  (building across from the main church). 
  • Sat Jun 21 Divine Liturgy @ 4 PM @ St. Philip Neri Ministry Center. 
  • Sat Jun 28 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

https://eparchyofpassaic.com/files/ECL-6003-WEB.pdf

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.  

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)

Pascha

Easter Sunday: The Holy Pascha

The feast of Easter is officially called Pascha, the word which means the Passover. It is the new Passover of the new and everlasting covenant foretold by the prophets of old. It is the eternal Passover from death to life and from earth to heaven. It is the Day of the Lord proclaimed by God’s holy prophets, “the day which the Lord has made” for His judgment over all creation, the day of His final and everlasting victory. It is the Day of the Kingdom of God, the day “which has no night” for “its light is the Lamb” (Rev 21.22–25). 

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Byzantine Catholic Mission

292 Munn Rd Fort Mill SC

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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.  

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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.

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