{"id":93297,"date":"2026-01-22T05:50:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T05:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/93297\/"},"modified":"2026-01-22T05:50:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T05:50:08","slug":"ss-cyril-methodius-church-celebrates-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/93297\/","title":{"rendered":"Ss. Cyril & Methodius Church celebrates Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Rev. Nestor Iwasiw, pastor of SS. Cyril & Methodius Ukrainian Catholic Church, distributes Holy Communion to parishioners as seen from the view of the choir loft. (Courtesy of Lauren Telep)\n<\/p>\n

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SS. Cyril & Methodius Church choir sings Ukrainian traditional Christmas songs under the direction of Patrick Marcinko III. (Courtesy of Lauren Telep)\n<\/p>\n

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From left, Lauren Telep, opera singer Rosemary Martynuck and Broadway actress Judy McLane gather at Christmas to enjoy the holy season at SS. Cyril & Methodius Church. (Courtesy of Lauren Telep)\n<\/p>\n

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The Rev. Nestor Iwasiw, pastor of SS. Cyril & Methodius Ukrainian Catholic Church, distributes Holy Communion to parishioners as seen from the view of the choir loft. (Courtesy of Lauren Telep)\n<\/p>\n

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SS. Cyril & Methodius Ukrainian Catholic Church in Olyphant celebrated Christmas on Dec. 25. The Divine Liturgy was officiated by the Rev. Nestor Iwasiw, pastor, in Church Slavonic.<\/p>\n

The choir, under the direction of Patrick Marcinko III, sang traditional Ukrainian Christmas songs. Parishioners and their families from near and far attended the Christmas Day Divine Liturgy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Rev. Nestor Iwasiw, pastor of SS. Cyril & Methodius Ukrainian Catholic Church, distributes Holy Communion to parishioners…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":93298,"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-93297","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\/93297","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=93297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93297\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}