LITURGICAL SCHEDULE
Sat. 27: 4:00 pm @ St. Nicholas
+Mary Jane Guidos from
Sacred Heart Society of
St. Nicholas
Sun. 28: 11:00 am @ St. Nicholas
27th Sunday after Pentecost
+Margaret Biros from
Joseph Bednar
Mon. 29: NO LITURGY
+Sophie & Victor “Vito”
Tues. 30: NO LITURGY
Wed. Dec. 1: NO LITURGY
Thurs. 2: NO LITURGY
Fri. 3: 8:15 am @ Infant Jesus
For the Living & Deceased
Members of the Sacred
Heart Society of St. Nicholas
Sat. 4: 4:00 pm @ St. Nicholas
+Julia Fabian from
Bernadette Demechko
Sun. 5: 11:00 am @ St. Nicholas
28th Sunday after Pentecost
+Jeanette Kulifay from Rick
& Annette Hamilton
Collection Report
Week of 11/21/2021
$ 738.00 Offertory
$ 85.00 Holy Day/Thanksgiving
$ 4.00 Children
$ 50.00 Renovation
$ 92.00 Candles
$ 979.00 TOTAL
Attendance from last week’s Liturgies:
Saturday: 25
Sunday: 21
PLEASE PRAY FOR THE HEALTH AND WELL-BEING OF OUR PARISHIONERS:
Kevin Ulrich Ivywoods Manor, Paul Fabian -Windsor House, Mary and Nicholas Dobus, Minerva Zepeda at Oasis, Fr. Nicholas Kraynak at Shepherd of the Valley on Western Reserve Rd. Catherine Ulrich at home. May God grant to all the sick and homebound of our parish many blessed, happy and healthy years.
UPDATE-CAPITAL CAMPAIGN:
The NEW total we have collected is $66,676.11 for the Capital Campaign. We continue to work towards our goal of $200, 000. Thank you for your generous donations and continued support to our Church.
PHONE NUMBER REQUEST:
There is a sign-up sheet for parishioners to give their phone numbers in order to receive phone information/updates on our church if interested.
GCU:
THIS IS THE LAST WEEKEND for the GCU Lodge 442 Community Project in 2021 to the Second Harvest Food Bank of the Mahoning Valley. All parishioners are welcome to participate. All non-perishable food items are welcomed. Most needed items: cereal, peanut butter, canned vegetables, canned fruit, dry pasta, canned soup, tuna fish and macaroni & cheese. GCU Lodge 442 is matching all donations.
SAVE THE DATE:
The 9th Annual Women’s Retreat “The Gift of Prayer” will be held on March 18, 2022 at Our Lady of the Pines Retreat Center in Freemont, Ohio. Father Cyril Pinchak, SJ will be retreat master. Contact Joan Washburn @ (865) 696-7809 for further information.
SANCTUARY CANDLES:
The Sanctuary candles will be lit for the entire week for your intention. For the week of November 28-Dec. 4, 2021, the left sanctuary candle is for the special intentions from Kevin & Karen Vrabel family. There is no request for the right sanctuary candle.
THE INFIRM WOMAN LIKE A VINE.
AMBROSE: The members of the church are similar to this vine. They are planted with the root of faith and held in check by the shoots of humility…, He placed in the church a tower of apostles, prophets and doctors who are ready to defend the peace of the church. He dug around it when he had freed it from the burden of earthly anxieties. Nothing burdens the mind more than concern for the world and lust for either wealth or power.
An example of this is in the Gospel. We can read the story of the woman “who had sickness caused by a spirit, and she was bent over so that she was unable to look upwards.” In fact, her soul was bent over. It inclined to earthly rewards and did not possess heavenly grace. Jesus saw her and addressed her. She immediately laid aside her earthly burdens. These people also were burdened with lusts. He addressed them in these words, “Come to me, all you who labor and are burdened, and I will give you rest.” The soul of that woman breathed once more and stood up like a vine around which the soil has been dug and cleared. SIX DAYS OF CREATION 3.50.
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