LITURGICAL SCHEDULE
Sat. 18: 4:00 pm @ St. Nicholas
4th All Souls Saturday
Loving memory of
+Margaret Hawkins from
Robert & Helen Marie
Vaclav
Sun. 19: 11:00 am @ St. Nicholas
4th Sunday of Great Lent
St. John Climacus
For the parishioners
Mon. 20: NO LITURGY
Tues. 21: 10AM at Infant Jesus
Canon of Andrew of Crete
Wed. 22: 6:00 pm @ Infant Jesus
Pre-Sanctified Liturgy
Lenten Education Class to
Follow
Thurs. 23: NO LITURGY
Fri. 24: 6:00 pm @ Infant Jesus
Eve of Annunciation of the Theotokos
For the Parishioners
Sat. 25: 4:00 pm @ St. Nicholas
Annunciation of the Theotokos
+Sister Leocadia Sevachko
From Mr. & Mrs. Stephen
Stanislav
Sun. 26: 11:00 am @ St. Nicholas
5th Sunday of Great Lent
Synaxis of the Archangel
Gabriel
For the parishioners
Collection Report
Week of 03/12/2023
$ 1207.00 Offertory
$ 221.00 Candles
$ 15.00 Renovation
$ 50.00 Charity
$ 276.00 Garage rent
$ 12.00 Easter Candles
$ 150.00 Easter
$ 45.00 Easter Flowers
$ 1976.00 TOTAL
Attendance from last week’s Liturgies:
Saturday: 38
Sunday: 22
PLEASE PRAY FOR THE HEALTH AND WELL-BEING OF OUR PARISHIONERS:
Michael Kisak- Inn at Glenellen, Kevin Ulrich Ivywoods Manor, Mary Dubos and Minerva Zepeda at Oasis, Fr. Nicholas Kraynak at Shepherd of the Valley on Western Reserve Rd. and Margaret and William Zigarevich 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 $110,480.10 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.
SANCTUARY CANDLE:
The 2023 Sanctuary request sheet is available on the vestibule table.
LENTEN EDUCATION CLASS:
This year, following all Wednesday Pre-Sanctified liturgies at Infant Jesus of Prague there will be again, a Lenten adult education class. All parishioners, family and friends are welcomed to learn about our Byzantine faith.
SPAGHETTI DINNER:
St. Michael Byzantine Catholic Church, 405 Robinson Road in Campbell, is having a Dine-In or Take-Out Spaghetti Dinner on Palm Sunday, April 2, 2023 from 12:00 (noon)-2:30 pm. Tickets are $12.00 per dinner and children under 10 are $6.00. Please call (330) 770-9213 for guaranteed dinner tickets, walk-ins are also available.
KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS:
The Knights of Columbus are selling charity (raffle) tickets. Tickets are $5.00/ticket with total winnings over $108,000. 100% of all profits will be used for their council’s charities. Please see Fr. Michael for tickets.
DONATION BOX:
There is a yellow donation box in the parking lot by the pavilion at Infant Jesus of Prague for new/slightly used coats, clothing and shoes. These donations will be sent to the Ukraine to those affected by the war. Your donations are truly appreciated.
SANCTUARY CANDLE:
The Sanctuary candles will be lit for the entire week for your intentions.
For the week of March 19-25, there are no requests for the sanctuary candles.
Collegeville Bible Commentary
9:14-29 “I do believe! Help my unbelief!” The healing of the possessed boy is one of the longest miracle stories in Mark’s Gospel (only the expulsion of the demons in 5:1-20 is longer). It is also one of the more detailed stories, becoming a bit complicated in the repetition of some of those details (e.g., in v. 22 the father of the boy tells Jesus what he has already told him in v. 18; the crowd gathers twice within the same story in vv. 15 and 25). Despite its length and detail, there is a very clear and simple message that Mark wishes to convey: Anything is possible to one who trusts (v. 23), and trust is deepened by prayer (v. 29)! Although Jesus is the one who heals the boy (vv. 25-27), it is the father’s profession of faith that Mark holds up for his readers to imitate. Even in the most desperate moments, when prayer and trust seem useless, Jesus invites his followers to go one step further and pray like the boy’s father: “I do believe! Help my unbelief!” (v. 24). Perhaps the alert reader of the Gospel will hear the echoes of Jesus’ message all along (e.g., “Do not be afraid; just have faith” in 5:36; “Please, Lord, even the dogs under the table eat the children’s scraps” in 7:28), calling for a persistent and ever more radical trust in him. The same theme will carry over into the following passages, in which the total trust of little children becomes the model of what is needed to take part in the kingdom of God (9:35-37 and 10:13-16).
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