LITURGICAL SCHEDULE
Sat. 25: 4:00 pm @ St. Nicholas
+Julia Fabian from
Bernadette Demochko
Sun. 26: 11:00 am @ St. Nicholas
3rd Sunday after Pentecost
For the parishioners
Mon. 27: NO LITURGY
Tues. 28: 6:00 pm @ Infant Jesus
Vigil of Peter & Paul
Preeminent Apostles
For the parishioners
Wed. 29: 10:00 am @ St. Nicholas
Peter & Paul Preeminent
Apostles
For the parishioners
Thurs. 30: NO LITURGY
Fri. July 1: 8:30 am @ Infant Jesus
For the people killed in the
Ukraine War from the
Sacred Heart Society
Sat. 2: 4:00 pm @ St. Nicholas
For the parishioners
Sun. 3: 11:00 am @ St. Nicholas
4th Sunday after Pentecost
Health & well-being of
Marage Sekerak from Greg
& Mary Lou Shirilla.
Collection Report
Week of 6/19/2022
$ 1162.00 Offertory
$ 52.00 Holy Day/Thanksgiving
$ 50.00 Renovation
$ 15.00 Peter’s Pence
$ 25.00 Garage Rent
$ 90.00 Candles
$ 1394.00 TOTAL
Attendance from last week’s Liturgies:
Saturday: 24
Sunday: 23
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, Roseanne Glaspel 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 $100,927.77 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.
SCHOOL OF DIACONAL STUDIES:
School for diaconal studies are now accepting new applicants for 2023. Any man who are discerning a call to the diaconal service for the church are encouraged to apply. Deadline to register is July 1, 2022. Classes for the first year of the 4 year program will be held June 18-July 1, 2023 in the Seminary. A two week residency is required for each year. For further information, e-mail vocations@archpitt.org.
SACRED HEART SOCIETY:
June is the month of the most Sacred Heart of Jesus: feast days are June 16th-24th.
JESUS, I TRUST IN YOU!
CELEBRATION OF MARRIAGE:
Although it is uncertain if the actual celebration can be held, the diocese is still asking for all parishioners to submit their names who will be celebrating their wedding anniversary of 10,25,35,40, 45, 50 or additional years that are a multiple of 5 during 2021. Please notify Fr. Michael or Paula Slemons by July 29, 2022. If a celebration does occur, it will be held on September 11, 2021 at St. Elias Church in Pittsburgh. All jubilarians will receive a certificate.
SANCTUARY CANDLES:
The Sanctuary candles will be lit for the entire week for your intention. For the week of June 26-July 3 the left sanctuary candle is in memory of +Mary & +Nicholas Terlecky from Myron Terlecky. There is no request for the right sanctuary candle.
THE VALUE OF LIFE. CHRYSOSTOM:
Note the acceleration of images: just when the lilies are decked out, he no longer calls them lilies but “grass of the field.”13 He then points further to their vulnerable condition by saying “which are here today.” Then he does not merely say “and not tomorrow” but rather more callously “cast into the oven.” These creatures are not merely “clothed” but “so clothed” in this way as to be later brought to nothing. Do you see how Jesus everywhere abounds in amplifications and intensifications? And he does so in order to press his points home. So then he adds, “Will he not much more clothe you?” The force of the emphasis is on “you” to indicate covertly how great is the value set upon your personal existence and the concern God shows for you in particular. It is as though he were saying, “You, to whom he gave a soul, for whom he fashioned a body, for whose sake he made everything in creation, for whose sake he sent prophets, and gave the law, and wrought those innumerable good works, and for whose sake he gave up his only begotten Son.”
THE GOSPEL OF MATTHEW, HOMILY 22.1.14
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