{"id":268694,"date":"2026-08-20T07:06:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T07:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/268694\/"},"modified":"2026-08-20T07:06:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T07:06:09","slug":"ss-cyril-and-methodius-church-celebrates-pentecost-memorial-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/268694\/","title":{"rendered":"SS. Cyril and Methodius Church celebrates Pentecost, Memorial Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Traditionally, SS. Cyril and Methodius Ukrainian Catholic Church, Olyphant, celebrated Pentecost and Memorial Day with the Divine Liturgy at the church\u2019s cemetery chapel in Peckville. Due to the inclement weather, the Divine Liturgy was held back at the church at River Street in Olyphant.<\/p>\n<p>At the church, the Rev. Nestor Iwasiw, pastor, officiated, wearing green and gold vestments for the holidays.\u00a0The choir sang\u00a0 \u201cGod Bless America,\u201d followed by Panakhyda (a short prayer service for the dead and used on Memorial Day).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Traditionally, SS. Cyril and Methodius Ukrainian Catholic Church, Olyphant, celebrated Pentecost and Memorial Day with the Divine Liturgy&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":268695,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[201,3052,2120,28,178,180,179,3053,13567],"class_list":["post-268694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-lackawanna-county","tag-midvalley","tag-olyphant","tag-pennsylvania","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news","tag-valley-advantage","tag-valley-advantage-around-town"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=268694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268694\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/268695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}