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 Dec 7 Divine Liturgy @ 3 PM @ St. Philip Neri Ministry Center (building across from the main church). Potluck and St Nicholas celebration after Divine Liturgy
- Sat Dec 14 Divine Liturgy @ 3 PM @ St. Philip Neri Ministry Center.
- Sat Dec 21 Divine Liturgy @ 3 PM @ St. Philip Neri Ministry Center.
- Tue 12/24 Eve of the Feast of the Nativity of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ: Divine Liturgy @ 2PM
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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.
November 21
Entrance of the Theotokos
Mary was brought as a small child to the temple by her parents in order to be raised there in the service of the Lord. Mary was solemnly received by the temple community which was headed by the priest Zacharias, the father of John the Baptist. The main theme of the feast of Mary’s entrance to the Temple, is the fact that she enters the Temple to become herself the living temple of God. The feast celebrates the end of the physical temple in Jerusalem as the dwelling place of God. When the child Mary enters the temple, the time of the temple comes to an end and the path to salvation begins.
November 8
Synaxis of the Archangel Michael and the Other Bodiless Powers
The Synaxis of the Chief of the Heavenly Hosts, Archangel Michael and the Other Heavenly Bodiless Powers: Archangels Gabriel, Raphael, Uriel, Selaphiel, Jehudiel, Barachiel, and Jeremiel was established at the beginning of the fourth century at the Council of Laodicea, which met several years before the First Ecumenical Council. The Council condemned worship of angels as gods, but affirmed their proper veneration.
A Feastday was established in November, the ninth month after March (with which the year began in ancient times) since there are Nine Ranks of Angels. The eighth day of the month was chosen for the Synaxis of all the Bodiless Powers of Heaven since the Day of the Last Judgment is called the Eighth Day by the holy Fathers. After the end of this age (characterized by its seven days of Creation) will come the Eighth Day, and then “the Son of Man shall come in His Glory and all the holy Angels with Him” (Mt. 25:31).
September 14
Elevation of the Cross
The Elevation of the Cross, celebrated on the fourteenth of September, commemorates the finding of Christ’s Cross by Saint Helen, the mother of the Emperor Constantine in the fourth century; and, after it was taken by the Persians, of its recovery by the Emperor Heraclius in the seventh century at which time it was “elevated” in the Church of the Resurrection in Jerusalem. From this latter event the “universal elevation” of the Cross was celebrated annually in all of the churches of the Christian Empire
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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.
Come 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.