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Glory to Jesus Christ!
Glory forever!

Welcome to our site!  We are a fellowship of Eastern Catholics in East-Central Iowa.  We strive to live the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ handed down to us through his apostles, and articulated and lived in and through eastern and oriental Christian spirituality and ways of life.  We are Catholic, united to the successor of St Peter the Apostle in Rome, Pope Francis, and an outreach of the Eparchy of Parma for the Ruthenians.  The Very Reverend Thomas Loya is our administrator.  We welcome and encourage any and all to come pray with us and help spread the Gospel of Christ, to the comfort, aide, and healing of those around us, and to the glory of God.

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We have a new location! Join us at:
1506 Isett Ave.
Muscatine, IA


Saturday Evening: Reader's Vespers 6PM
Sunday: Sunday School/Adult Catechesis: 2PM
              Reader's Hours OR Confession and Divine Liturgy 3:30PM (as announced). Fellowship afterwards.
Wednesday: Paraklesis and Adult Education 6PM
Feast days: as announced.




Upcoming services:
May 14th    Vespers     6PM
May 15th    Sunday School/Adult Catechesis 2PM. 
                   Reader's Hours 3:30 PM. Fellowship. Vespers
May 18th    Vespers     6PM
May 21st    Vespers     6PM
May 22nd   Sunday School/Adult Catechesis 2PM. 
                   Reader's Hours 3:30 PM. Fellowship. Vespers
May 25th    Vespers/Vigil for the Ascension     6PM
May 28th    Vespers     6PM
May 29th    Sunday School/Adult Catechesis 2PM. 
                   Divine Liturgy 3:30 PM. Fellowship. Vespers
   


Services are held at our new location:
1506 Isett Ave.
Muscatine, IA 52761

Update on the Synodal Process in the Eparchy of Parma
On February 6, we kicked off the synodal process in the Eparchy of Parma.  Beginning on this date, you met with your parish facilitators, priests, and fellow parishioners to pray and share with each other after meditating on the Beatitudes, the theme that Bishop Milan chose for the synodal process in our Eparchy.  Later on in March, you took the anonymous survey for your parish.  Right now, the notes from the meetings and the results of the surveys are being collected and analyzed to assist Bishop Milan, your priests, and those people from your parish assisting your priest, in identifying goals for the parishes and the Eparchy as a whole.  This information will also be shared with Metropolitan Archbishop William Skurla of Pittsburgh, who will be representing us at the Synod of Bishops in October of 2023 in Rome.  Thank you for your participation in the meetings and the surveys; your help is allowing our Church to grow and flourish here in the Eparchy of Parma.  Stay tuned for more information from your priests as we identify Eparchial and parish goals.



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