2025

You are Invited to Join Us!
Our Celebration of the Nativity of Our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ

• St. Michael the Archangel Byzantine Catholic Church
  205 North Main Street, Pittston, Pennsylvania
• St. Nicholas of Myra Byzantine Catholic Church
  271 Tripp Street, Swoyersville, Pennsylvania

CHRISTMAS EVE – VIGIL
DECEMBER 24   Wednesday evening
St. Michael Church, Pittston only

7:00 pm  Christmas Eve Great Compline ¹ and Carols
7:30 pm  Christmas Eve Vigil Divine Liturgy

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NATIVITY / BIRTH OF JESUS, OUR LORD
DECEMBER 25, Thursday morning
St. Nicholas Church, Swoyersville only                 
10:30 am  Divine Liturgy

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Anointing with Blessed Oil &
distribution of Blessed Bread
Mirovanje (Festal anointing)
follows all Christmas Liturgies

Everyone present invited and
encouraged to receive this blessing!

Customary greeting:
Christ is Born!   Glorify Him!
Christos Razdajetsja!  Slavite Jeho!

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SYNAXIS OF THE THEOTOKOS
December 26

9:00 am   St. Michael’s, Pittston
11:00 am  St. Nicholas, Swoyersville

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2025  CHRISTMAS CONCERT
December 28, Sunday
St. Michael Church, Pittston
5:00 pm
Free to Attend
Light Social afterwards
Details CLICK HERE

Carols sung acapella in traditional Ukrainian and
Carpatho-Rusyn styles prevalent in the Carpathian Region
of Eastern Europe (Eastern Slovakia and Transcarpathia Western Ukraine)

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WEEKEND AFTER CHRISTMAS –  DIVINE LITURGIES

December 27, Saturday
5:00 pm, Pittston

December 28, Sunday
8:30 am, Pittston

December 28, Sunday
11:00 am, Swoyersville

JANUARY 1
CIRCUMCISION of OUR LORD &
Feast Day of St. Basil the Great

9:00 am   Liturgy of St. Basil at  St. Michael’s, Pittston
TBA*        Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom, St. Nicholas, Swoyersville

* (Time to be announced)

¹For more information and an explanation of the Great Compline and other Christmas services in the Byzantine Catholic Church,  click here:   Christmas, The Feast of the Nativity  (website link to The Metropolitan Cantor Institute)

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